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i concluded that this was a proof that there is still so much that we don't know, especially concerning our brains.

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budsicle said:

kinda scary if the thing was messin with ur brains

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If you're describing what I think you're describing, I'm pretty sure it's the result of your head (and thus eyes) being vibrated. What you were seeing was some sort of harmonic interference between the display frequency of the TV (the picture being refreshed 60 times a second) and your field of vision vibrating because of the chair. You can also see this effect by humming a very low note and looking at a digital clock. If you do it just right the digits will rise and fall like they're doing the wave.

kotik said:

here is my theory:

the "massage" chair was plugged into the same outlet / circuit as the 5 tvs you saw messing up. When you had your whole body against all the sensors, the massage chair was requiring more power, and drawing a little bit of power from the tvs, as you could see.

then, when you sat forward to avoid the sensors for your neck + shoulders, the tvs went back to normal.

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If you're describing what I think you're describing, I'm pretty sure it's the result of your head (and thus eyes) being vibrated. What you were seeing was some sort of harmonic interference between the display frequency of the TV (the picture being refreshed 60 times a second) and your field of vision vibrating because of the chair. You can also see this effect by humming a very low note and looking at a digital clock. If you do it just right the digits will rise and fall like they're doing the wave.

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Veritas said:

Your skull is probably a more effective shield from the electrical pulses, thus causing the pulses to bounce off & effect the TV's.

Try it with your remote-control at home.  If you bounce the signal off your hand or leg, it won't turn the TV off.  A wall or your head will bounce it back towards the TV.

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ya that remote control thing worked.

but since the electrical pulses were coming from behind my skull and since the TVs were in front of me, I don't see how this could work.





I think I should just stop thinking! 

exclusive58 said:

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If you're describing what I think you're describing, I'm pretty sure it's the result of your head (and thus eyes) being vibrated. What you were seeing was some sort of harmonic interference between the display frequency of the TV (the picture being refreshed 60 times a second) and your field of vision vibrating because of the chair. You can also see this effect by humming a very low note and looking at a digital clock. If you do it just right the digits will rise and fall like they're doing the wave.

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hmmm, interesting. but shouldn't all TVs be vibrating in that case?

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Nope, just CRT tech . The new LCD and plasma TV's don't use refreshing rates like older CRT's do, thus they won't seem to tremble.

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and i tried humming while looking at a digital clock but it didn't work.

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It doesn't work that way. The resonance has to be strong enough to propagate through out the whole scull, which was what the massage chair was doing when your skull was resting on it. Try placing your chin on some table and try again.

MAIA