along the same lines, I had a conversation recently about the brain filling in facts. Then I remembered 'the dress'. this is an interesting approach, imo, and if I were his attorney, I'd maybe shoot for the sweet spot of her being scared and filling in the blanks with most common things - like 5' 10", male, mask, bushy eyebrows, something along these lines, borrowing from the article about 'the dress' below.
The brain cannot be accused of epistemic modesty. It is well-known that in situations like this—where it faces profound uncertainty—it confidently fills in the gaps in knowledge by making assumptions. Usually, its assumptions are based on what it has most frequently encountered in the past. For instance, if the sensory information is more uncertain, observers will estimate object speeds to be slower than they actually are, presumably because slow objects are much more common in the environment than fast ones. (Indeed, most objects in any given field of view don’t move at all.) Color and lighting are no exception.
The science behind why people saw different colors.
slate.com