A curious idea indeed. "Transcranial magnetic stimulation" (big
magnetic fields focused inside your head) focused on the visual cortex
can induce hallucination of floating discs or lines. Scientists at The
University of Innsbruck in Austria theorize that very close (~200m)
lightning strikes of a repeating nature (1%-5% of all strikes) can
cause this kind of hallucination. As such, they feel it's possible
that "ball lightning" may actually be a hallucination.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25166/
For some reason this combination struck me as having some kernels of
speculative fiction. I had heard of magnetic field stimulation before
-- generally in terms of inducing brain wave activity -- but the
combination of ideas just sparked something new.
--- Jason Olshefsky
http://JayceLand.com
http://JayceLand.com/blog
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