domingo, 20 de marzo de 2011

Sleep and Dreams

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Sleeping is very important for every human being, but dreaming is as important as sleeping. In the video you could notice that dreams have been the explanation for the creation of some drugs and novel prices awards. What is very interesting and unique is when we enter a stage called REM (rapid eye movement) in which your eyes start to move and your body becomes functionally paralyzed. In the video they mention a condition named REM sleep disorder that is caused by a gradual destruction in the brain stem. With the gradual destruction of the brain stem an individual will start to develop an incomplete or absent paralysis. A very interesting part of our sleeping is that we are always dreaming whether we are in REM sleep or in non-REM sleep. I totally agree when the say that our dreams are like anticipation for every day problems. In my opinion dreams are the reason for the development of our society because they've been the reason for many scientific discoveries. Another interesting part of our dreaming is that your dreams are central to the way we learn because when your dreaming you bring up new experiences that will help you to solve any problem of yours. Dreams are also a type of training because the dreams are practically preparing you for every day situations. Our life is a dream, so be prepared because everything can happen. Remember to always sleep and dream, who knows maybe you create the first time machine.

domingo, 6 de marzo de 2011

Sensory Deprivation


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The experiment that was held on sensory deprivation revealed the reactions of people's brain after taking stimuli out of their life for two days. Before the experiment took place, scientists tested the abilities of the brain of each person that was going to take the experiment. After watching there brain performance my thoughts were that they would do horrible in their brain performances after the experiment took over. During the experiment you could notice that people lost the track of time pretty fast and each of them had their own method of treating this thrilling experience. One of the woman completely lost control in just a couple of hours and was horrified throughout the hole experiment. The other woman managed to control be just sleeping throughout the entire experiment. Just like the first woman, one of the men lost their control and started to make chaos in the room. The other man managed to take over the experiment by meditating and singing. Everyone showed their unique way of reaction towards sensory depravation but after the experiment ended and they had to take again the brain test, astonishingly men did awful in the test while the women did much better than them. They found hardly difficult to answer most of the questions, but after all they were all glad when they finally got outside and saw the natural world. In conclusion, sensory deprivation could harm your brain in many ways to make you think things that don't exist and people should not use this to harm anyone.

sábado, 5 de marzo de 2011

Synthesia

1. Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a condition in which a type of sensory stimulation evokes the insight of another sense. The most common types of synesthesia are grapheme-color synesthesia and when colors are associated with the days of the week.

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2. grapheme-color synesthesia

This is a form of synesthesia in which an individual experiences colors after a perception of letters and numbers.



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3. ordinal-linguistic personification

This is another form of synesthesia, in which ordered sequences, just like months, days, letters or ordinal numbers are associated with different types of personalities.



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4. number-form synesthesia

This synesthesia is a mental map of numbers, in which involuntarily and automatically appears when someone with this conditions is experiencing or thinks of numbers.



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5. sound-color synesthesia

This type of synesthesia is when individuals would experience colors as a response to any type of music or sounds.




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6. lexical-gustatory synesthesia

Lexical-gustatory synesthesia is recorded as one of the most rare forms of synesthesia, in which vivid sensations of taste are evoked after spoken or written words and in some cases it includes temperature and texture


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