Mind Filter (26)

1 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-18 20:25 ID:Po5IfTPD

Our senses receive a HUGE amount of information from the environment……and filters out the majority of it. Estimates vary, but depending on the source, our senses receive 200-400 THOSAND bits a second of information, and we end up with about 2000 that is actually used by the brain.

Here is a quick little experiment that you can try to see some of this “lost” information. Go in a room with dim lighting, the light source MUST be behind you or at least to the side. An overcast day with the shades half drawn works great. The walls should be a light shade, white works best for most people, but other shades will do.

Now get comfy, and hold your arms up at arms length and point both index fingers at each other. Bring them together until they touch. Now slowly move them apart while looking at the space between them. Well shit, you can see a whitish colored string of electro-magnetic energy still connecting them as they move apart. Now move one up and the other down. See the energy move? If you can’t see it, stop trying so hard and just let it happen. People that try too hard have problems with this. People that do it with an open mind and no worries or expectations about the outcome can generally see it quite clearly. Now hold all your fingers out. See the energy field surrounding them. DAMN THAT WAS EASY. I’ll tell you how to see a bit more of the stuff that is normally filtered later. Post your results if you are not worried about people thinking you are crazy.

2 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-19 00:15 ID:T29ZMnEk

>you can see a whitish colored string of electro-magnetic energy still connecting them as they move apart.

Your mother guzzles down my electromagnetic energy every night and always begs for more.

3 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-19 01:30 ID:Heaven

Welcome to the human visual system, which is very adept at seeing things which are not actually there.

4 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-19 02:47 ID:Heaven

Did you catch the electro-magnetic energy pass by as I saged your thread?

5 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-19 03:30 ID:Heaven

SCIENCE!

6 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-20 04:43 ID:bcEPXgb3

No dim rooms at the moment, but i've always found it extremely easy to spot the energy around my hands.
But for me, that's one of the more mundane kinds of things I can look at if i feel like letting myself. I don't know how many other people are able to notice some of the things i can, or to what extent, but i'm pretty sure that i'm well above average. Probably abnormal.
If i relax my vision, almost in daydream mode, and look at the air without focusing, i can see little 'particles', they tend to be little, clear, ovular/circular shaped things. I have no idea wtf they are- my eye cells or something, somehow? It's easier to do in filtered light, or sometimes bright sunlight.
Sometimes, usualy under filtered lighting conditions, i can see 'energy' flowing around the room/area. It looks like the energy you can see surounding your hands, but less defined and noticable. But if i pay attention to it, I can sort of watch it flow around, like a twisting river that fills up the entire space. wtf?
Patterns. I saw them much more when i was a little kid. Most commonly, and available for me to see at just about any time i look for them, are groups of see through, day-glo orange little dots that dissapear if i focus on them. Usualy easiest to see at night. When i was a kid, i saw various patterns, even eleborate little pictures repeated over and over again all across my vision. Seen most frequently at night, behind my eyelids when my eyes were closed, but also when they are open. I could even change to different little images if i wanted, though i could never control what they were of. Sometimes at night they were so clear and vivid i would reach out my hand to see if i could feel anything. My cousin once talked to me about seeing 'fireworks' when she closed her eyes at night.
Micro-hallucinations. Mostly only happens when i'm very tired... i have severe insomnia, so i guess this kind of thing is to be expected. Little, tiny, brilliant white lights will apear, flying around for about half a second, before disspaearing. Usualy only one or two at a time, and it happens usualy a couple of times within a few minutes. Happens at random time,s in various kinds of lighting and settings, but most frequently right about my computer.
What do you make of this, anons? Am I in need of some psych drugs?

7 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-20 15:26 ID:Heaven

> easy to spot the energy around my hands.

You should stop dragging your wool-socked feet over carpeted floors.

> i can see little 'particles', they tend to be little, clear, ovular/circular shaped things.

Most everyone has floaters and it's not magic to be able to see them.

> i can see 'energy' flowing around the room/area.

Get an air filtration system, that dust could be harming your lungs.

> are groups of see through, day-glo orange little dots that dissapear if i focus on them.

Staring at the sun tends to do this.

> What do you make of this, anons?

At best, you're just an idiot. At worst, you have a retinal detachment.

> Am I in need of some psych drugs?

Just stop watching that Avatar shit.

8 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-20 15:31 ID:S5wLBM25

>What do you make of this?

It just means that your third eye/pineal gland is healthy. No problem. It's considered as a myth in the West, and as a reality by those who have the ability.

9 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-03-22 13:54 ID:Heaven

> Most everyone has floaters and it's not magic to be able to see them.

But dude, usually we flush a couple more times until it goes down.

10 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-07-30 03:23 ID:yV8tV3hU

>>7

>Staring at the sun tends to do this.

I beg to differ, I've been staring at the sun since I was 5, and I've got perfect vision. Although I'm also schizophrenic, but I'm pretty sure those two aren't connected.

11 Name: wat : 2008-07-31 18:24 ID:Heaven

>I beg to differ, I've been staring at the sun since I was 5

wat

12 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-01 20:22 ID:aH82ORIh

>>10

> I'm pretty sure those two aren't connected.

Perhaps if your reverse the causation, there may be some kind of correlation.

13 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-03 20:16 ID:Heaven

>>12

He can't possibly be the son of the sun!

14 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-03 21:08 ID:Heaven

>>10 is a solarian, >>1,6 are infected with the cure virus and >>8 is blick winkel

15 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-13 00:50 ID:RHmbSE9a

>>1
Sounds like an optical phenomenon. You might be unfocusing your eyes when you "just relax and let it happen" which could help. There's a demonstration in school physics that does something similar...

>>8

> When i was a kid, i saw various patterns, even eleborate little pictures repeated over and over again all across my vision. Seen most frequently at night, behind my eyelids when my eyes were closed, but also when they are open.

Like >>3 said, welcome to the human visual system.

I remember seeing that as a kid too, and I can still force that sort of patterns (usually checkerboard-ish) to appear by squeezing my eyes shut tight or using my hands to push lightly on the eyeballs. In that case, I believe the patterns are because the light receptors / neurons in the eye / whatever also respond to pressure and start firing randomly; and the brain is trying to make sense of the nonsense coming in.

16 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-13 10:56 ID:Heaven

4-ch need a /paranormal/ board so we can get this shit out of /science/

17 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-13 13:56 ID:v6fucwMB

>>16
Maybe I should ask Squeeks for that...

18 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-17 02:19 ID:Heaven

>>16
To get this shit out of /science/ you should get better shit into /science/. There's nothing particularly more worthy of discussion posted here.

19 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-25 14:17 ID:RLWFMpgd

>>15

>I remember seeing that as a kid too, and I can still force that sort of patterns (usually checkerboard-ish) to appear by squeezing my eyes shut tight or using my hands to push lightly on the eyeballs. In that case, I believe the patterns are because the light receptors / neurons in the eye / whatever also respond to pressure and start firing randomly; and the brain is trying to make sense of the nonsense coming in.

Hey, I remember seeing that when I shut my eyes too. Have you any idea why we only saw it so easily when we were kids? Perhaps some sort of gradual change in the shape of the eye socket or something.

20 Name: Dr Oetker : 2008-08-26 01:35 ID:kRfNAnR8

>>19

people's senses get number and number as you get older + the child's mind has more imagination because it isn't "trained" yet (imagination is replaced by knowledge of how things can be expected)

21 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2008-08-26 05:32 ID:m+MqXjU9

>>10

I've been staring at the sun since I was five, and all I got was terrible migraines and math powers.

22 Name: 15 : 2008-08-26 23:19 ID:RHmbSE9a

>>19
I'm not sure that I actually saw it easier as a kid, probably it's just from not doing stupid things to soft body parts any longer. shrug

23 Name: sage : 2008-08-30 16:09 ID:w78Fl1cH

>>21

Put down the power drill, Max.

24 Name: Dr Oetker : 2008-08-31 23:33 ID:kRfNAnR8

>>22

explain, what "things" to "what" bodyparts?

25 Name: 15 : 2008-09-01 11:15 ID:Heaven

Eyeballs were the subject of the discussion. Pushing on them was what I did. But you are expecting me to say "penis", aren't you?

(And what's "with" the randomly "inserted" quotes?)

26 Name: 15 : 2008-09-12 15:58 ID:RHmbSE9a

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