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Going on a tangent but upon reading about vestibular reflexes I recalled something I used to do as a kid: When in bed, ready to sleep, I could condition myself
by phn 6y ago
Going on a tangent but upon reading about vestibular reflexes I recalled something I used to do as a kid:
When in bed, ready to sleep, I could condition myself to believe the bed was tipping over to the side, up to the point where I would have the reflex of grabbing the sheets to keep myself from falling, similar to jolting awake up after falling in a dream.
I wonder if something could be done to manipulate these perceptions without actually zapping the brain.
- Jeff_Brown 6y agoI'd love to understand the brain's capacity to fool itself. Sometime in my 30s I discovered I could "make my ears retract involuntarily". I'll think about pulling them back without actually trying to do so, and at some time in the near future that I can't anticipate, they'll retract.