Our mind - it#39;s not a mirror of what#39;s going on. Much of what we see in the outside world comes from within and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. Scientists have found many ways that reveal the fallacy of our senses, and here are some of them.
1. The procedure Gantsfelda
Gantsfelda procedure is a soft touch isolation technique, which was first proposed in experimental psychology in 1930. For this experiment, you need to tune the radio interference, lie down on the sofa and using adhesive tape to attach the eye on the half of the table tennis balls. Within a minute, the person begins to experience hallucinations. Some people see the horses running in the clouds, others hear the voice of a dead relative.
The fact is that our mind is dependent on the feelings and when they become very small, the brain begins to invent your own.
2. Reducing pain
If you ever get injured slightly, look at the damaged part with an inverted binoculars - the pain should decrease.
Scientists from the University of Oxford in the experiment showed that if you look at the injured arm through the far end of the binoculars, it is visually reduces the size of your hands, as well as pain and swelling. It is said that even the basic sensations such as pain, depend on our vision.
3. Pinocchio illusion
For this experiment you need two chairs and a blindfold. A man with a bandage sits in the back seat, sending a look at the front of a seated person. Then the one who is blindfolded, holds out his hand and places it on the nose of the one who sits in front.
At the same time, with the other hand he touches his nose and starts gently stroking both the nose. After about a minute more than 50% of people say their nose lengthened.
4. Cheating thinking
Raise your right leg a few inches off the floor and start moving it in a clockwise direction. While you do this, use the index finger of his right hand to draw the number 6 in the air. Your foot will rotate counter-clockwise, and there is nothing you can do about it.
The left half of the brain controls the right side of the body, is responsible for rhythm and timing. She can not cope with the work of two opposite movements in the same time and combines them into a single movement.
5. Cheating hearing
This trick can be done with three people, one of whom will be a guinea, and the other two - the observers. Also, you will need headphones that are attached to two plastic tubes from both sides. Ask the subject to sit down on a chair at an equal distance between the two observers. Each observer in turn says into the phone on the appropriate side. The listener in this case correctly determines the direction of the sound. If the swap tubes and begin to speak, the listener gets confused and will indicate the opposite direction of the sound.
6. Rubber hand illusion
More than ten years ago, psychologists have found an illusion that allows people to convince that the rubber hand is his own. For this experiment needs a rubber hand or inflated rubber glove, a piece of cardboard and two brushes. Put a rubber hand on the table in front of him, and his hand hide behind cardboard. Ask someone at the same time stroking the real and the rubber hand, using the same motion tassels.
In a few minutes you will feel as if your hand was artificial flesh. If you ask the other person to hit the rubber hand, a person feels anxiety and pain, because the brain is convinced that the rubber hand is real.
