Hi Marc, I've just finished reading Paul Broks "Into the Silent Land - travels in neuropsychology", there was a couple of pages describing the pinocchio trick, and a less dramatic variant of the rubber-hand trick:
Place your hand under a table, and a second person taps/strokes your hand - it's vital this cannot be seen. At the same time, the person also taps/strokes the top of the table. Eventually, if it works, you feel the taps/strokes as if they come from the table itself. Described in the book: "the table has been temporarily incorporated into your body schema. it has become part of 'you'." Now, I've gotta go look for ping-pong balls... :) ..and find the 'the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde' which apparently has an appendix 'a chapter on dreams' where r.l.stevenson describes the little people he dreams about who create the stories he writes. i think they'd be useful... On 13/1/2009, "marc garrett" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hack your brain. > >How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio >Text by Johan Lehrer, graphics by Javier Zarracina > >DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun >to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such >phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling >open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic >understanding of how the mind works. > >The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a >passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there >actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain >processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a >number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that >we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to >produce something uncannily like hallucinations. Perhaps we hear the >voice of someone who is no longer alive, or feel as if our nose is >suddenly 3 feet long. > >more... >http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/ >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
