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Human brain may be designed to give us hallucinations, scientists say
omnifeed.com ^ | 10/13/2015 | JOHN VON RADOWITZ

Posted on 10/14/2015 7:09:15 AM PDT by rktman

Hallucinations, often associated with psychotic disorders, may result from a natural process used by the brain to make sense of the world, say scientists.

Visions and sounds that do not exist can be generated by the brain’s habit of predicting what it expects to experience, filling in missing gaps in reality, the research shows. It is this ability that allows you to recognise a fast-moving black shape in your living room as the cat, even though it was little more than a blur.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nutbags; wackadoodle
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To: Ghost of SVR4
"Yeah, that or Roku’s Basilik...We won’t know until the dirt nap."

You don't have to wait for that. There's as much evidence for God as there is for gravity.

21 posted on 10/14/2015 7:40:39 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: HarleyLady27

WAIT A MINUTE! Give me some of that hallucination Hallucinate me out of the mad house and into saner pastures.

This is apparently not working here. Sleeping thru so wake me when it’s over.


22 posted on 10/14/2015 7:41:16 AM PDT by V K Lee (from TRUMP to triumph follow the step!! TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP MAKING AMERICA GREAT)
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To: V K Lee

LMAO...if I wasn’t so afraid of any type of drug I probably would join you....

This world is so totally insane right now...the only place I find peace is reading and talking about Trump and how great America is going to be and how much I can have fun again and laugh....

Come join me!!!


23 posted on 10/14/2015 7:44:43 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: rktman

Like seeing “that face”...or hearing a “cackle”....


24 posted on 10/14/2015 7:49:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rktman

I used to do R&D with a guy who had had a sever head injury. He was a wiz at Autocad, something I was just getting up to speed on. He told me that he had lost a great deal of his ability to mentally visualize what he was designing and used the computer as a substitute.


25 posted on 10/14/2015 7:51:18 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: rktman

Speaking of crazy and hallucinating, what checks and balances are there to keep Obama from launching nukes? Do we have the people in place that would stop a crazy launch or a launch against a country like Israel?

I know that a lot of Strategic Defense personnel have been “washed out” in testing whether they would follow orders and procedures.

Also, what about our response to being attacked? Is it automatic, or does bozo have to approve it? How weakened has our response become.

I wish I could hallucinate that we had a good president that cares for our country.


26 posted on 10/14/2015 7:58:56 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: C210N

Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” William Dement


27 posted on 10/14/2015 8:01:13 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Also, what about our response to being attacked? Is it automatic, or does bozo have to approve it? How weakened has our response become.

Obama has already announced that we would "absorb" a nuclear strike from a rogue nation like N. Korea, and would not retaliate with a nuclear strike. Have to assume he'd sit back and let Iran nuke us, too.

28 posted on 10/14/2015 8:02:03 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: circlecity
I see cats. Keep staring and you will too....

29 posted on 10/14/2015 8:25:31 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rktman

Well done sir. You get a cookie.

Blast from the past...white blotter and Alice Cooper....oh man!!!!


30 posted on 10/14/2015 9:18:26 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: C210N
Professor Paul Fletcher, from the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University, said: “Having a predictive brain makes us efficient and adept at creating a coherent picture of an ambiguous and complex world. But it also means we are not very far away from perceiving things that aren’t actually there...

OK, here's the truth: we're robots.

31 posted on 10/14/2015 9:21:05 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: GOPJ

Scientists say “designed”? By whom?


32 posted on 10/14/2015 9:28:06 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: HarleyLady27

During the Carter years sleep was my escape. Most of the time he was in office it was either work or in bed with my head on the pillow. Some of the despondent feelings might have been due to health but the peanut was part of the reason as well. And then Reagan and light. Overnight relief seeing the sunshine once again. Could WTP be so fortunate to have lightening strike for US more than once? I’d love to join you. Choice of Drink? Should Donald be Triumphant in his quest we should have an all out block party, traveling to the inauguration to kick up our heels.
I’ll bring the beer!


33 posted on 10/14/2015 9:59:52 AM PDT by V K Lee (from TRUMP to triumph follow the step!! TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP MAKING AMERICA GREAT)
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To: FreeAtlanta

“Speaking of crazy and hallucinating, what checks and balances are there to keep Obama from launching nukes? Do we have the people in place that would stop a crazy launch or a launch against a country like Israel?”

Here’s a “bad trip” to ponder: Hillary having access to the football.


34 posted on 10/14/2015 10:53:48 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: minnesota_bound

My eyes!


35 posted on 10/14/2015 11:09:39 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Kommodor

You have received a cat scan.


36 posted on 10/14/2015 11:49:14 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: hal ogen

The master programmer - - AKA God...


37 posted on 10/14/2015 2:55:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: GOPJ

Somewhat ironic...no?


38 posted on 10/14/2015 3:45:50 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: rktman

Maybe the last seven years have only been a mass hallucination, and we really don’t have a Muslim president.


39 posted on 10/14/2015 3:48:23 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yeah, in your dreams...


40 posted on 10/14/2015 5:55:10 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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