I tend to think as far as telepathy goes, that its likely to be more along the lines of a super-receptive hightened cognitive state allowing easier pickup of micro-cues in bodylanguage, and other such areas, and putting them together on the receiving end than a direct exchange of thoughts.

Not sure what to make of it, but the brain does have filters of a sort, to block out all sorts of extraneous crap that comes flooding in, just imagine what it would be like if one were to have to remember every visual frame of every action one ever did, or witnessed, or be unable to filter out every last auditory frequency walking down the street, from one cars slightly badly tuned engine, to the birds in the background?

For life.

Your head would explode.

Some of us, come closer to this, than many people do, and yes, sensory overloading is a royal pain in the arse. I am lucky really that I can deal with it via medication as effectively as I do, alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonists seem effectively to squelch all the unpleasantness that comes of it physically, and neatly remove that sort of issue. Dark wraparound shades and tight clothing are found most agreeable also, no eye contact issues when I'm the only one making contact....

(Although I have no problem when it is with somebody close to me, direct eye contact with loved ones doesn't incur the same sort of skin-crawling unpleasantness that having to look at one's generic meat unit picked out at random from the sheeple herd does)


I have often wondered weather consciousness is actually located within cellular electrochemical events taking place, protein conformation states etc, or weather, that all those synchronised nerve impulses might be responsible in another way entirely. All that firing has to create an electromagnetic field, of considerable complexity localised in and around the physical brain...what is to say that consciousness might not reside within the EM field produced by nerve firing. It has already been demonstrated that electromanetic fields can interact with the brain to produce effects upon consciousness and bodily activity, look at transcranial EM stimulation, and see what results pop up.

And damn...doesn't that open the door for some far out thinking...if consciousness were to be manifested in the EM fields produced by firing of the brain, if the brain were to be hardware, using EM fields as the medium..life as we know it, so to speak, could conceivably occur in non-biological systems if the architecture were present to generate dynamically changing EM fields of sufficient integrity and complexity.

If you are ever around the northwest of england Sedit, we ought to hook up and get a few beers, no?

Synesthesia is an in teresting "disorder". I would like to learn more about it but the issue with synthesia people is that they do not report the same things from person to person which I would expect. Im sure at times I experience Synesthesia. Letters on the screen always are varied from green to blue to red to yellow but were as some people suggest only vowels are a certine color or this or that I see no real patern there. What I do see is capital letters stand out as red and the other colors show little standards other then to group areas into specific groups. 

I will tell you what, im going to relax and let it happen then color the above the way it appears. Mind you these are only gental tinges of color simular to how when you look at a light bulb the color remains......

Its  very hard to do this and I really can not finish, as I attempt to do this the colors change as the groupings changes making it hard to do this experiment. The green is the only one that is represented with accuracy here. The red and blue are much more subtle. The yellow is more of a glow around the letters. Its such a complex disorder I would love to speak with someone who experiences clinical Synesthesia to see if there experiences are simular. There seems to be a standard that Synesthesia makes you creative where as im under the impression that its the creativity that makes Synesthesia. Its not a true cross linking of the brain but more of the brain calling on another area when its creative part tells you so. Its like looking at the clouds and seeing pictures. Or when morning time comes after taking MDMA and suddenly all the trees look like happy little faces and each has its own soul. Its the creative center of the brain making things up for you.



PS:Hey Tsathoggua, careful what you wish for, it may be sooner then you think. I have to make a pitstop in Indonesia for a few weeks first then its off to england... Somewhere in England that is not sure where.

Howcome when we dream its vital for the brain to destroy these memorys or convert them to a more user freindly form.

My guess is because we don't have enough space to store all the data, so dreaming is a way to compress it so that we remember only the important shit. Kinda like if you try to close your eyes and picture someone's face, you see a blurry black and white image or outline with emphasis on the important features, instead of a high definition image with color.

An interesting video about why we dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teJvG2Kr-us

My hunch is that dreaming acts either to flush out the buffers, so to speak, of short-term/working memory, or as part of the mnemonic consolidation and or learning processes, helping to integrate what has been learned or experiences.

Working memory is known to only be able to hold a few items at a time before a 'buffer overflow' occurs, and capacity is used up, it wouldn't surprise me at all if short term memory has a similar limitation, and needs a periodic cycle of sifting through, sorting, and disposing of what is in essence, crap.

Interesting is the fact that melatonin powerfully inhibits hippocampal LTP, yet at the same time, appears vital for it to occur, suggesting differential regulation by melatonergic neurotransmission of mnemonic function depending on what prescisely, or perhaps when (or both) is occuring. Reminds me of BDNF in that aspect, where functioning is incredibly complex, BDNF being neuroprotective, and TrkB signalling capable of dramatically enhancing survival, growth and differentiation of new synapses and neurons, yet also negatively modulates the alpha7 type CNS nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (activation of which is nootropic, and enhances memory retention, as evinced by the difference in activity/efficacy between galantamine, an agonist at the alpha7 NAChR, and other cholinesterase inhibitors), and decreases LTP, depending on where it is realeased.

Interesting theory Vesp, never thought of that before.

Sedit, if you are going to by anywhere near manchester/northwest england, PM me when you are thinking of travelling, could make for an interesting encounter. PM if your going to be around that area.

May 14 comming up, give or take a day or so either way will be a hell storm......

The natural sleep cycle plays a vital role in integrating short-term experiences and emotions into long-term memory. Studies have found that sleep deprivation following a profoundly unpleasant, tragic, or angering experience prevents the afflicted person from being fully able to cope with what has happened and let it go rationally.

The sleep has to be good, full, uninterrupted REM sleep. It must be a full sleep cycle carried out in a dark environment.

Short naps, drunkenness, certain drugs, and the presence of light counter the integrating effect.

This is why people who have been denied rest become emotional, agitated, and operating outside the realm of reason.

This is why sleep deprivation is such an effective coercive technique, especially applied to anyone going through a very difficult experience (as is usually the case, when a captor, legal or otherwise, has the power to deprive sleep).

This is why people go fucking bonkers several days into a MA binge. I've seen some normally very intelligent and rational people smoke crystal for days straight - not a single one of them can properly handle emotion within the bounds of reason.

This lack of sleep is responsible for so much of what plagues our societies and manifests similarly to mental illness. When people are short, rude, prone to outbursts, full of anger, thinking with their emotions, and unable to find balance - chances are that person has a shitty sleep experience. They may not be getting enough sleep, they may not stay asleep, they may go to sleep with the television on, they may have a disruptive partner nearby, among other things.

There was a time when I shrugged it off. There was a time when I could afford to be haphazard about sleep. Slowly things changed, and I've come to see its importance, both on a regular basis, and following exceptionally negative circumstances.

Nothing takes that raw pain away like 6mg melatonin, 300mg methaqualone, 8 hours of darkness, and a mind which has previously practiced letting go.

Define "feel like shit"?

What happens on a mental/psychological level can be worlds apart from what happens on a physiological level.

Sleep disturbances do bring out in healthy people dealing with negativity some of the sort of thoughts, behaviors, and triggers we normally associate with mental illness.

Chemically, it is certainly an interesting question.

Heh, since you mention it....that flat-affect icy look right through you autie stare..

Drives me nuts in a lady, fuck, is that ever hot. My girl has grey eyes, that look right inside you like that.

Good test I found, it explains they have identified higher density of up to 45% of Mono amines receptors in the Thalamus and Ventral brain stem.

Evidence of Brain Chemistry Abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/menu_science/a/press_umich0210.htm