Saturday, September 23, 2006

Brain stimulation produces creepy shadow feeling





Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said on Wednesday.


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"Our findings may be a step toward understanding the mechanisms behind psychiatric manifestations such as paranoia, persecution and alien control," said Olaf Blanke, of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in the journal Nature.

1 comment:

The Odd Emperor said...

There have been several studies of this kind, all of them seem to agree on the basic points, Much of the so-called abduction experience could have been electrically stimulated (by what is still an open question.)

What’s really fascinating is looking forward to when marketers get hold of this apparatus. Can you imagine a bio-electric stimulator mounted in a church?

Brrrrr!