Hi James, >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 iincorporated into your body >schema. it has become part of 'you'."
Woah... Do you think that matters what gender one is? I have this strange idea inside my mind that the male feels more closer to objects... marc > 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 > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
