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veggie
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How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
#9587254 - 01/11/09 01:10 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Interesting article from the today's Boston Globe ...
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.
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DaVinci
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: veggie]
#9587287 - 01/11/09 01:19 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm going to do these on drugs.
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Groomies
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: veggie]
#9587327 - 01/11/09 01:29 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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AWESOME!
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LSDan
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: Groomies]
#9587443 - 01/11/09 02:03 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow, tomorrow morning I'm testing that ping pong procedure out. Sounds interesting.
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iateshaggy
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: Groomies]
#9587452 - 01/11/09 02:04 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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lol, my nose is really long. reminds me of the touch a dead finger trick.
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: DaVinci]
#9587679 - 01/11/09 03:28 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
DaVinci said: I'm going to do these on drugs.
im tripping now and i would try them
if i had the required stuff and if all these blocks of text made more god damned sense
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
#9587764 - 01/11/09 03:54 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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the closest thing i have to a fake hand is this, do you think it would work?
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: Artnotwar]
#9588278 - 01/11/09 08:50 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Why call it hallucination? Why not just visualization/dreaming?
Nikola Tesla was able to close his eyes and dream whatever he wanted, he used his dreams to create the technology that lit up our entire globe. And Albert Einstein used this same technique to discover general relativity theory.
Anyway, I can also confirm from personal experience it's perfectly possible to dream on command. If you're interested in this, you should get into lucid dreaming or into meditation... why not discover all these hacks of the mind yourself?
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: Diaboleros]
#9588310 - 01/11/09 09:02 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is pretty cool! But, I think it would work better with drugs than without.
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: Diaboleros]
#9588353 - 01/11/09 09:13 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Diaboleros said: Why call it hallucination? Why not just visualization/dreaming?
Nikola Tesla was able to close his eyes and dream whatever he wanted, he used his dreams to create the technology that lit up our entire globe. And Albert Einstein used this same technique to discover general relativity theory.
Anyway, I can also confirm from personal experience it's perfectly possible to dream on command. If you're interested in this, you should get into lucid dreaming or into meditation... why not discover all these hacks of the mind yourself?
Technically speaking a hallucination is any perception; visual, auditory ect, with no external stimuli.
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: THEBats]
#9590276 - 01/11/09 04:17 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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wow thats pretty cool, gotta give them a try.
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: GetTheFuckOut]
#9593387 - 01/12/09 05:48 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
GTFO said:
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DaVinci said: I'm going to do these on drugs.
im tripping now and i would try them
if i had the required stuff and if all these blocks of text made more god damned sense
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Re: How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio [Re: THEBats]
#9593716 - 01/12/09 08:01 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
THEBats said:
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Diaboleros said: Why call it hallucination? Why not just visualization/dreaming?
Nikola Tesla was able to close his eyes and dream whatever he wanted, he used his dreams to create the technology that lit up our entire globe. And Albert Einstein used this same technique to discover general relativity theory.
Anyway, I can also confirm from personal experience it's perfectly possible to dream on command. If you're interested in this, you should get into lucid dreaming or into meditation... why not discover all these hacks of the mind yourself?
Technically speaking a hallucination is any perception; visual, auditory ect, with no external stimuli.
I believe clinically its supposed to be a perception you percieve as real that isn't- thus lsd induced hallucinations really aren't.
Don't know how much the distinction is actually observed though.
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