Hmmm that is the way how I work anyway.I never knew it was 'placebo' or something. If I am nervous about something I just tell myself that I am not and 'I am not'.
Or if I am in pain , I simply 'tell it' to go away.
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Hmmm that is the way how I work anyway.I never knew it was 'placebo' or something. If I am nervous about something I just tell myself that I am not and 'I am not'.
Or if I am in pain , I simply 'tell it' to go away.
Well, then, you're a natural. I've been able to do it since the fifth grade, when my friend told me about it. Back then, we lived on a half acre of land surrounded by woods. I found a tick on my stomach and had my dad remove it. And I told myself that I would feel no pain if I believed. I didn't even notice he had pulled it out, and since then, I've been hooked.
Hm this is very interesting. I will have to try this out. :)
By the way, your post about saltines tasting like chocolate reminded me about something I read in a book for my cognitive science class, Oliver Sack's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, which talks about people with various disorders and brain injuries. This one man lost his sense of smell due to a head injury. A few months later, he started to smell again, the scent of coffee, his pipe, etc, with the same vividness as he had before the injury. He went to the doctor and had himself tested, using a double blind technique, and it turned out he had simply been imagining the scents rather than his olfactory tracts returning to normal, a sort of 'controlled hallucinosis' as Sacks called it.
Also, one thing I learned in my class that directly relates to this idea of autosuggestion is that expectations of pain alter activity in the anterior cingulate cortex. During an experiment, patients were told to expect high discomfort, and there was high activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, when told to expect low discomfort, there was low activity in the anterior cingulate cortex. Basically a similar thing to your idea of autosuggestion, this is likely the science behind it.
Regarding the adrenaline and bungee jumping, I googled it and came across this article: http://www.livescience.com/health/071211-time-slow.html It's interesting, it basically says that time slowing down due to adrenaline is likely an illusion, caused by your amygdala becoming more active and laying down more memories. More memories causes you feel like time was longer, when looking back at it.
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If the brain sped up when in danger, the researchers theorized numbers on the perceptual chronometers would appear slow enough to read while volunteers fell. Instead, the scientists found that volunteers could not read the numbers at faster-than-normal speeds.
I was actually pondering this myself , I once had a lucid dream and I decided to ask my subconscious what would be the best way for me to easily induce LDs ?
And the answer was the following vision :
I find a man with a cart full of capsules of the same (Red & white) , and he gave me one of them. And that was it .
Since then I've been trying to understand if this is the case !
Wow , I think I actually just got it now!
I think that the idea of the vision was to get empty capsules , put something in them like Sugar or what not , and then label it whatever and then take them every night for LD induction , in the beginning it might seem silly and you already know that it's a placebo , yet with enough time and taking it daily , it might lead to something , I think I might give this a shot myself !
For headaches, I imagine the pain looks white on the part of my head that feels pain. every other, painless, healthy area of the brain is gray. I imagine myself taking an eraser to all of the white areas of the brain/head and visualize them becoming gray. It usually works. Also, you can command your pain or sickness to go away in Jesus Christ's name.
Please don't necro-post in 6 year old threads. The members who posted in here are no longer active on the board. It would be much better to start a fresh thread.
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