Posted on 10/14/2019 10:45:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In the 1950s, researchers stumbled upon a new class of drugs that provided relief for those suffering from schizophrenia. These drugs were known as antipsychotics and, as the name suggests, they reduced symptoms like hallucinations and delusions — primarily by reducing the levels of dopamine in the brain. This led clinicians and scientists to argue that dopamine was linked to the experiences of psychotic symptoms, and a concerted research effort ensued, seeking to solve the puzzle of why excess dopamine might produce hallucinations.
Although it was later shown that increasing dopamine could produce hallucinations, establishing a consistent link between them, it has not been clear why.
They achieved this by taking advantage of a simple fact: Your brain is lazy. It makes shortcuts to understand the deluge of information that bombards it daily. If you’re presented with consistent information, consistently, your brain adjust its expectations of reality in turn. This is the basis of Bayesian theories of how we perceive the world – that is, the brain makes inferences about the world around us based on statistics and probabilities on what is likely to occur.
[I]ncreasing dopamine made it more difficult for participants to adjust their perception — an effect comparable to how the hallucinators had struggled. Moreover, the extent to which participants struggled was strongly associated with the severity of hallucinations — but not with any diagnosis of schizophrenia. In other words, the difficulty appeared to be associated with a symptom, not a diagnosis.
Using brain imaging, the researchers also showed that an increased capacity for dopamine release, from a part of the brain known as the striatum (an area involved in schizophrenia), was associated with the severity of hallucinations. Together, these experiments showed that excess dopamine was associated with difficulty in accurately predicting reality.
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Well played!
Any hallucination with Morgan Fairchild is a good hallucination......
I had a high white blood cell count in the hospital and boy did I hallucinate! Very strange!
I think this explains at least some incidents of precognition. If I live near the train tracks, and everyday at 1:00 p.m. a train rolls by that makes the whole house rumble, I subconsciously log that. Suppose a friend drops by at 12:45 p.m. and I offer him a glass of water while we're sitting down visiting. At 12:57 p.m. I note that he sets the glass near the edge of a table. I warn him that he needs to move it.
I did so, because I "foresaw" the glass being rattled off the table with the impending passage of the train, but there really was nothing mystical or supernatural about it. Somewhere between my conscious and subconscious mind, my knowledge and past experience simply connected a few easy dots that allowed me to make the logical conclusion that the glass would be shaken off the table with the impending passage of the train.
I suspect some, if not many people with so-called precognitive abilities simply have a combination of experiences, knowledge and subconscious abilities that allow them to connect more dots than the "average" person and make logical extrapolations a bit farther out than the rest of us.
More bogus crap from the Psychiatry/Pharma conflomerate. They intend to label everyone as mentally ill and in need of drugs that make you kill your families and coworkers.
“I’m about to saddle and ride my Unicorn upstairs to check on them.......”
Does your unicorn poop skittles? Wait, what?
You don’t believe that brain science and neuropsychology are legitimate fields with objective research goals? I’d better tell my alma mater.
I usually have several hallucinations every night.
They’re called dreams.
That explains it. I thought I heard Liz Warren tell the truth the other day.
“These dreams go on when I close my eyes
Every second of the night I live another life”
She was there with her lawyer demanding child support. There’s your bad hallucination.
If I didn’t, I wasted some darn good money.
Indeed, some can connect the dots, say attendance at Trump rallies + buffoon Dem candidates + lying media and fake polls + media panic = Trump re-election
That stupid headline is a hallucination.
“I usually have several hallucinations every night. They’re called dreams.”
Actually, reversing that, so hallucination are considered dreams occurring during wakefulness, with an inability to differentiate the reality of each, is right on the mark.
MSG might have done that to me.
So that explains mohammed
I hallucinated that the Gators beat LSU.
LSU looked pretty good.
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