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Title: Hack your brain How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
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URL Source: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/i ... ics/011109_hacking_your_brain/
Published: Jan 12, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-01-12 12:25:54 by PSUSA
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Text by Johan Lehrer, graphics by Javier Zarracina DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works. The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations. Perhaps we hear the voice of someone who is no longer alive, or feel as if our nose is suddenly 3 feet long. 
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