Posted : July 2010
Author : the admin
Mind is the aspect
of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought,
perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious
cognitive processes. Mind manifests itself subjectively as a stream of
consciousness. Neuroanatomists usually consider the brain to be the pivotal
unit of what we refer to as mind. The Human Brain tricks us whenever
it can. You don’t actually see what it is in real or you don’t even actually
hear or smell the way it should be. Here is the time to play trick with the
human brain. I assure here, trying them is completely safe.
At first this might
sound like a bad practical joke. Begin by tuning a radio to a station playing
static. Then lie down on a couch and tape a pair of halved ping pong ballsover
your eyes. Within minutes you should begin to experience a bizzare set of
sensory distortions. Some people see horses prancing in the clouds or hear the voice of a dead
relative. It turns out that the mind is addicted to sensation so that when
there’s little to sense (that’s the purpose of ping pong balls and static) your
brain ends up inventing its own.
9. Shrink your Pain
In case you
experience an injury, then see the injured part with an inverted binoculars,
soon your pain will seem to be decreasing in its magnitude. Recently, a
reasearch at Oxford
University has lead to
the discovery of a new pain killer – the inverted binoculars. The scientists
demonstrated that the subjects who looked at their wounded hands through wrong
end of the binoculars, making the hand appear smaller, experienced
significantly less pain and decreased swelling. According to the researchers,
this demonstrates that even basic bodily sensations such as pain are modulated
by what we see. So next time if you stub your toe or cut a finger, do
yourself a favour, look away!
8. Confuse your
Proprioreception
This requires two
chairs and a blind fold. The person wearing the blindfold should sit in the
rear chair, staring at the back of the person sitting in the front. The
blindfolded person then reach around and place his hand on the nose of the
other person. At the same time he should place his other hand on his own nose
and begin gently stroking both noses. After about 1 minute, more than 50% of
the subjects report their nose as incredibly long. Therefore this is called
Pinocchio’s Effect. The
Pinocchio effect is an illusion that ones nose is growing longer, as
happened to the literary character, Pinocchio when he told a lie. It is an
illusion of proprioception, reviewed by Lackner (1988).
To explain
the effect the other way, a vibrator is applied to the biceps tendon while
one holds one’s nose with the hand of that arm. The vibrator stimulates muscle
spindles in the biceps that would normally be stimulated by the muscle’s
stretching, creating a kinesthetic illusion that the arm is moving away from
the face. Because the fingers holding the nose are still giving tactile
information of being in contact with the nose, it appears that the nose is
moving away from the face too, in a form of perceptual capture. Similar
phenomenon happens using the blindfolded method.
7. Confuse your Mindedness
Lift your right
foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise
direction. While you’re doing this, use a finger your right index finger to
draw a number 6 in the air. Your foot will turn in an anticlockwise direction
and there’s nothing you can do about it! The left side of
your brain, which controls the right side of your body, is responsible for
rhythm and timing. The left side of your brain cannot deal with operating two
opposite movements at the same time and so it combines them into a single
motion.
6. Confuse your
Hearing
This can be
performed with three people, one being subject and other two objects/
observers and we also need a headset connected to routine plastic pipes on
the either side. Ask the subject to sit on a chair
equidisant between you and the second observer. Now each one of you hold
the pipes from the headset on the corresponding sides and one by one speak into
the pipes. The subject will rightly tell the direction of the sound. Now exchange
the pipes and repeat voicing into the pipes. The subject’s brain will get
confused and he’ll point in the opposite direction of sound.
Sound localization
is a listener’s ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound
in direction and distance or the methods in acoustical engineering to simulate
the placement of an auditory cue in a virtual 3D space. The human auditory
system has only limited possibilities to determine the distance of a sound
source, mainly based on inter-aural time differences, exchanging the pipes
would cause perception by the opposite sided neurons in the brain only and thus
the subject will not be able to localize the sound.
5. Confuse your
Depth Perception
Depth perception is
the visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions (3D). Looking at a
sight that you have not seen before or entering into a 3d cinema with one eyes
closed will alter the way your mind perceives things. This would not
happen for most already seen things because your brain is tuned to judge the time
and space accurately. However, your brain will not be able to fill the gap if
you use one eye. Depth perception arises from a variety of depth cues. These
are typically classified into binocular cues that require input from both eyes
and monocular cues that require the input from just one eye. Binocular cues
include stereopsis, yielding depth from binocular vision through exploitation
of parallax. Since (by definition), binocular depth perception requires two
functioning eyes, a person with only one functioning eye has no binocular depth
perception. And hence stepping into a 3d cinema will not be an amazing
phenomenon as it used to be. This is more so in people who are blinded with one
eye by birth.
4. Feel a Phantom
Sensation
Phantom sensations
are described as perceptions that an individual experiences relating to a limb
or an organ that is not physically part of the body. Sensations are recorded
most frequently following the amputation of an arm or a leg, but may also occur
following the removal of a breast or an internal organ.
3. 18000
Hz Sine Wave
Download Wave Here:
18000Hz Sinewave (under 20s)
Try hearing this
sound. It is called “under 20s” sound as the elder’s can’t perceive it. It
is a sine wave at 18,000 Hz (by comparison, a dog whistle sounds at 16,000 –
22,000 HZ – meaning a dog can hear this sound as well). This sound is used
by some teenagers as a ring tone on their cellphone so that only they (and
others of their age group ofcourse) can tell when the phone is ringing. It is
also occasionally used in England
to play very loud in areas that authorities don’t want teens to congregate in,
as the noise annoys them.
The inner ear of the
humans have a functional design to hear sounds in a range of a frequency.
Hearing is not merely a function of ears but the oscillation amplitude is
conducted to the brain. As people get older they lose the ability to hear
higher pitched sounds. As people get older they lose the ability to hear higher
pitched sounds – that is the reason that only young people can hear this sound
– it is too high for most people over the age of 20.
2. Confuse your
photoreception
Stare at the
central point (plus sign) of the black and white picture for at least
30 seconds and then look at a wall near you, you will see a bright spot,
twinkle a few times, what do you see? or even who do you see?
Stare at the eye of the red parrot while you slowly count to 20, then immediately
look at one spot in the empty birdcage. The faint, ghostly image of a
blue-green bird should appear in the cage. Try the same thing with the green
cardinal, and a faint magenta bird should appear.
When an image is
looked at for a length of time (usually around 30 seconds) and then replaced
with a white field, one type pf an effect called an afterimage can be seen. The
common explanation given for an afterimage is that the photoreceptors (rods and
cones) in the eye become “fatigued”, and do not work as well as the those
photoreceptors that were not affected (the “fatigue” is actually caused by the
temporary bleaching of the light sensitive pigments contained within the
photoreceptors) This results in the information that is provided by the
photoreceptors not being in balance, causing the afterimages to appear. As the
photoreceptors become less “fatigued”, which takes between ten and thirty
seconds, the balance is recovered, resulting in the afterimage disappearing.
Now do another
trick to confuse your photoreceptors. This will temporarily blind you from one
eye (for around 30 seconds and don’t worry it is of no harm) Go into a room,
shut the door and turn out the lights so that the room is mostly dark. Wait
until your eyes adapt to the darkness. You should be able to make out the basic
shapes of the room from the tiny bit of light coming in from under the door.
Next, close your right eye and cover it with your hand. Turn the light on,
keeping your eye closed and covered. Leave the light on for about a minute or
until your left eye has adapted to the light. Uncover your eye and look around
the darkened room.
What do you see?
What you might experience is an illusion discovered by researcher Uta Wolfe in
which it seems that your left eye is closed, even though it is open. The explanation to
this is the visual cycle that takes time to be adapted, when it is not adapted
as for the left eye, the eye will send wrong signals to the brain thus image
would be darkened for the left eye until it adapts.
1. Confuse your
Cognition
Take a look at the
spinning girl. Do you see it spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? I see it
spinning counter-clockwise, but i was able to switch it in the other direction,
its hard for many people. Give it a try. The spinning girl
is a form of the more general spinning silhouette illusion. The image is not
objectively “spinning” in one direction or the other. It is a two-dimensional
image that is simply shifting back and forth. But our brains did not evolve to
interpret two-dimensional representations of the world but the actual
three-dimensional world. So our visual processing assumes we are looking at a
3-D image and is uses clues to interpret it as such. Or, without adequate clues
it may just arbitrarily decide a best fit – spinning clockwise or
counterclockwise. And once this fit is chosen, the illusion is complete – we
see a 3-D spinning image.
By looking around
the image, focusing on the shadow or some other part, you may force your visual
system to reconstruct the image and it may choose the opposite direction, and
suddenly the image will spin in the opposite direction.
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