Riddles of man 2024, November
Magic happened to me yesterday)) I want to share, and maybe you can tell me who the wizard is) I sometimes have terrible migraines, when I vomited from pain and lost consciousness, but for several months it was not, and I stopped wearing potent
You better not know this from your own experience, because all the conditions that we are talking about here you will not wish on anyone. Let's start with a picture of a beautiful girl walking in a summer garden
A person's perception of the world around him has a number of mysterious features, for example, it is no secret to anyone that artificially created optical illusions are capable of misleading any person due to their “apparent” reality
Have you ever wondered why different people behave differently in the same situation? Why can someone with less feel happier and more fulfilled than their more successful / wealthy counterpart?
Have you ever heard of the McCall Effect? This is a strange feature of our brain - looking at alternating lines of different colors, we begin to see some shade of a completely different color
I bet you heard the story of a woman who for about thirty years pretended to be blind so as not to communicate with people. And she really could be the perfect illustration of an extreme form of sociopathy if was not fiction
Optical illusions are created through color, contrast, shape, size, patterns and perspective and trick our brains. But how exactly does this happen? Why do straight lines seem to be oblique, and the same line segments - different in length?
Each of us experiences feelings of anxiety from time to time for completely different reasons. After all, you had such that you were worried about the health of a loved one or worried about the lack of money? This is completely normal, but there are a huge number of people in the world who are in an anxious state for most of their lives
A very popular topic on the Internet - optical illusion. You've probably already seen many, but let's once again be surprised at how our vision deceives us
If you look into the eyes of another person for a very long time, then after 10 minutes really strange things can happen.Can a long look in the eyes be dangerous? As a result of a psychological experiment conducted by the Italian scientist Giovanni Caputto, half of the subjects noted that it was amazing, and the other that it was scary
Why are our eyes not located on the sides of the head, but looking forward? This is partly due to the need to perceive 3D images, but BBC Future found other reasons as well
New evidence suggests that in the process of dying, we become aware that we are dying because the brain continues to function for a while after the heart has stopped beating
From childhood, we are taught that in no case should we look at the sparks from welding - harmful to the eyes. Why is it harmful? To understand this, you need to have an understanding of the welding process
Modern technologies have presented people with many gadgets, without which a normal life can no longer be imagined
Despite the fact that we can orient ourselves at dusk and in poor lighting conditions, we, unfortunately, do not have full-fledged night vision. However, it is quite possible that this possibility is nevertheless "built into" our retina
Bright light radiation in the blue part of the spectrum is dangerous for retinal cells - scientists have known this for a long time, but the details of the underlying biochemical mechanism have only now been explained - writes Scientific Reports
Conchetta Antico - an artist from San Diego and her paintings - juicy, bright, multicolored - it is a real symphony of the beauty of life. However, Concetta is a very unusual artist, she is a tetrachromat
For some primitive peoples, the entire color palette is limited to "light" and "dark", while Europeans have dozens of different words to describe the finest shades of the sky or greenery. Language affects the perception of the world around, scientists say
The eyes transmit information to the brain about what kind of light is falling on them. If the eyes are tightly closed, no light enters the retina and we should not see anything
Anyone who has experienced outbursts of anger or a romantic overture knows that eyes can be very expressive
A team of scientists from Canada and the United States found that perception of weight is associated with context, and distractions prevent conscious formation of memories
What are visual hallucinations? Experts from psychiatry believe that this is an imaginary perception of the surrounding reality. In other words, a sick person sees something that does not really exist
Experts from the United States set out to find out whether a person, being in complete darkness and, moreover, with an opaque blindfold over his eyes, is capable of seeing his own hands without using real vision and relying only on unconscious activity
In the book of sentences of the Toulouse Inquisition for 1308 - 1323 there is a record about the case of the girl Claire Michelet, who "saw with her hands." The case itself and other details have not survived
The man, who has completely lost his sight, overcame the obstacle course. And never stumbled
The average level of intelligence is declining around the world - this is confirmed by a number of studies. Are we getting stupid? Different studies of scientists give different answers to this question. The article lists some of them. In particular, the decline in global IQ is attributed to genetic reasons, since smart people focus on their careers, and less intelligent people have children
According to experts, this is due to the high noise level in cities and the frequent use of headphones.Scientists at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences have noted a tendency towards a decrease in the sensitivity of hearing in young people to low frequencies due to the high noise level in cities and the constant use of headphones for listening to music
The human body is sometimes capable of amazing things. For example, the liver of some people, under certain conditions, can produce alcohol on its own, and in rather large quantities. Also, some people are able to move the muscles inside their ears and independently create low, somewhat reminiscent of thunder, sounds
Recent studies have shown that age is the cause of changes in sound perception. It turns out that the older a person becomes, the more he is guided by the visual picture of what is happening in understanding what he has heard
If a person at a very young age falls into the wild forest and is lucky enough to be accepted into a pack of wolves or monkeys, then if people do not find him, in just a few years he will already be no different from an animal in his behavior
Noise is all over the place now, but that's okay. The brain can still maintain a conversation, even if it doesn't really hear the cues. He predicts what he hears and fills in the blanks
It is believed that of all the human senses, hearing is the most studied, in comparison with other
What would you think of yourself if, being in an empty room, you heard very real voices belonging to strangers? Probably would have thought that they were crazy? However, do not rush to conclusions
The activity of the human body is largely determined by its characteristic chronotype - the most comfortable cycles of sleep and wakefulness for it. Two chronotypes are usually distinguished: "owls" and "larks". The first ones get up early and go to bed early
If you hear any sounds that others do not hear, and the doctor in the clinic is throwing up his hands in surprise, do not rush to contact a psychiatrist. Perhaps you are just one of the so-called "hamers"
Scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland reveal a previously unknown effect of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on the human brain
Our five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste - are rather conservative and limited. This is manifested in the fact that the human ear hears sounds in the range from 20 to 20,000 hertz and is incapable of receiving visual images, the skin detects tactile sensations, but does not smell, and so on
Scientists from the University of Basel have shown for the first time that taking a medium dose of LSD modulates the activity of the emotional centers of the brain, raising the threshold of fear
In encyclopedias on psychology, the name of Stanislav Grof comes third, after Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, among the largest innovators of the science of the mysteries of the human soul
Some people are able to “see” sounds and numbers in color and even taste them. We are talking about a special way of perceiving reality - synesthesia.A warm sound, flashy colors, a brilliant idea, a cold look - such images are often found in our speech. How