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What Hallutinations Reveal

Oliver Sacks on TED talk talks about hallucinations that persons with impaired vision have.

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Vizreel : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

Vizreel

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63 days 15 hours ago...

On a slightly different note, there are some rare cases of completely blind people that don`t know they`re blind. The eye-occipital lobe pathway passes through the temporal lobe and this is rewired in such a way that the occipital lobe still receives signals but not from the eyes. Funny thing about it is that most cases don`t really realize that they`re blind up until somebody convinces them of this.

Red Heaven : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Red Heaven

21 votes NegativePositive

63 days 14 hours ago...

Fucking fascinating.

Replikant : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

Replikant

3 votes NegativePositive

63 days 10 hours ago...

when to be sure, what is real and what is not...ur own brain cant be trusted. Perception is just an ilusion.

Flynn_2006 : LVL 47: VP 5: said:

Flynn_2006

1 votes NegativePositive

61 days 13 hours ago...

Sometimes I could pick up clues during the day from my night terrors.

Verh544 : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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61 days 12 hours ago...

interesting but this guys voice is ANNOYING

Rejeckted : LVL 4: VP 1.3: said:

Rejeckted

18 votes NegativePositive

61 days 11 hours ago...

5/5. Fuckin amazing. I would love to go see one of these talks in person.

And......How the HELL is his voice annoying?

Neruo_ : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Neruo_

8 votes NegativePositive

61 days 11 hours ago...

Nice upload. This kind of stuff is the reason I go to spiked. This and video`s of japanse people doing silly stuff, and videos of shit blowing up.

imjac : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

imjac

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61 days 8 hours ago...

Hallucination*
Awesome upload, thanks man, I sometimes forget to check on TED, I would miss so many videos if it werent for spikedhumor users.

idoubtit : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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61 days 8 hours ago...

There is a way to actually emulate these hallucinations. You need anything that can produce a constant static sound and can be attached to a pair of headphones (a portable radio with headphones attached is ideal), a red lamp, and some sort of eye cover that is opaque but semipermeable to light (a ping pong ball cut in half works well).

What you do is (make sure you`re seated or lying down):

Turn the red light on and face it towards you
Tape the two halves of the ping pon balls over your eyes
Turn the radio to a channel that has a constant static sound
Place the headphones in your ears and relax
After a certain period of time (it`s pretty person specific), you`ll start to hallucinate.

What happens is your brain becomes "used to" the constant sound and red light and inhibits the signals coming from your eyes and ears (similar to when you smell a certain scent for a prolonged period of time and begin to lose it). At this point, your brain begins to create signals of its own and translates them as if they were coming from your eyes and ears.

I haven`t tried this myself, but I hear it can be pretty intense.

anonymous_ : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

anonymous_

5 votes NegativePositive

61 days 7 hours ago...

This makes me want to have induced hallucinations with shrooms and acid. 5/5

Presto : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

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1 votes NegativePositive

61 days 2 hours ago...

If you are interested in this subject I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Meetings-Ancient-Teachers-Manki
nd/dp/1932857842

Its a very good read, he talks about the similarities between hallucinogenic drug visions, ancient cave paintings, religious visions and alien abductions.

Skiba : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Skiba

1 votes NegativePositive

60 days 21 hours ago...

@idoubit
Thats called the Ganzfeld experiment.

Parapsychologists have used this to induse a state where allegedly the mind becomes more open to telepathic messages.

"Parapsychologists such as Dean Radin and Daryl J. Bem say that ganzfeld experiments have yielded results that deviate from randomness to a significant degree, and that these results present some of the strongest quantifiable evidence for telepathy to date"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_experiment

Groove Musheen : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

Groove Musheen

0 votes NegativePositive

60 days 16 hours ago...

I commonly get a strange sensation just as I`m slipping into sleep where I consciously know that my eyes are shut, but I can "see" the blanket or pillow or whatever my eyes are pointed at.
It`s really weird, like looking through my eyelids.

Enigma90 : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

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60 days 15 hours ago...

Wow, thats pretty fascinating its pretty amazing that the brain keeps generating images even when the eyes stop working..
The brain is an amazing piece of flesh and fatty-acid.

flip550 : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

flip550

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60 days 9 hours ago...

how bout adding `ted` to the tags?

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