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Description: A substantial amount of research has demonstrated that humans can accurately judge whether an individual perceptual decision is correct. However, it remains unclear whether humans have more general insight into the functioning of their perceptual system. Intuitively, our massive day-to-day visual experience should have provided us with immense knowledge about how our perception functions. Yet, empirical findings from research in visual cognition are usually counterintuitive, which implies our poor insights. To address this issue, we sampled a wide range of perceptual phenomena from the literature in visual perception and created a 46-question survey to test humans’ insight into these phenomena. Here, we are preregistering for a large-scale online survey aimed at assessing individuals' metacognitive insights about various perceptual processes such as multisensory perception, visual search, face perception, and abilities in judging motion, color, contrast, etc.