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In 2001, Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India, won an IgNobel prize for their research into nose-picking. They reported that almost the entire sample of 200 adolescents from four Bangalore schools admitted they engaged in the habit, at an average of four times a day. However, only nine pupils - 4.5 per cent - owned up to eating their nasal debris :writing:
I will be going to Buffalo next week. You want to met for drinks :kissing:
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I can answer the dream one: studies have suggested that dreams are our way of "rehearsing" life in general. In other words, if we have a dream about encountering a bully on a bus, it gives us an idea of how to deal with it and possible ramifications.
A really interesting bit of information is that when scanned during an actual event, and scanned during a memory of the event, our brains react the same way in either case. For example: they hooked up someone to a scanner, and had them ride a roller coaster. Then they put them in the lab and had them concentrate on reliving the event. When compared, the two scans looked identical.
The scientists hypothecized that to us, the imaginary world and the real world are not that much different to us. They went on to say that the world we see as "real" may be totally different than how we see it. This gave seed to the idea that there could actually be numerous forms of reality.
They gave an example of this. (I forget the exact details) Some spanish explorers travelled across the ocean and found an island and anchored in a harbour. They saw natives living in a village on a hill overlooking the harbour. They remained on board for about a week before going ashore to investigate. They wondered why the natives didn't approach them or even pay them any attention when they launched their canoes to go out fishing. They paddled right by the ships as if they weren't even there.
Eventually the natives finally did in fact go out and meet the ships. After months of forming a communication bond, the captain finally asked the chief why they waited so long. The chief explained that they simply didn't see the ships. It was the witch doctor who finally noticed the ships and when questioned, the doctor said he didn't actually see the ships, he saw the waves reacting strangely and after hours of study and observation he concluded that there had to be something in the water. He finally saw the ships.
This is an example of how there could be things around us that are so outside our realm of understanding that we just don't see them.
A really interesting bit of information is that when scanned during an actual event, and scanned during a memory of the event, our brains react the same way in either case. For example: they hooked up someone to a scanner, and had them ride a roller coaster. Then they put them in the lab and had them concentrate on reliving the event. When compared, the two scans looked identical.
The scientists hypothecized that to us, the imaginary world and the real world are not that much different to us. They went on to say that the world we see as "real" may be totally different than how we see it. This gave seed to the idea that there could actually be numerous forms of reality.
They gave an example of this. (I forget the exact details) Some spanish explorers travelled across the ocean and found an island and anchored in a harbour. They saw natives living in a village on a hill overlooking the harbour. They remained on board for about a week before going ashore to investigate. They wondered why the natives didn't approach them or even pay them any attention when they launched their canoes to go out fishing. They paddled right by the ships as if they weren't even there.
Eventually the natives finally did in fact go out and meet the ships. After months of forming a communication bond, the captain finally asked the chief why they waited so long. The chief explained that they simply didn't see the ships. It was the witch doctor who finally noticed the ships and when questioned, the doctor said he didn't actually see the ships, he saw the waves reacting strangely and after hours of study and observation he concluded that there had to be something in the water. He finally saw the ships.
This is an example of how there could be things around us that are so outside our realm of understanding that we just don't see them.
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Couldn't agree more with #3!
Get rid of it! :biggrin:
Get rid of it! :biggrin:
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