Originally posted by jritzmann
As far as physical manifestation of mental projections, I dont know about any of that. I know that when I say to you, "the more attention you pay the
more it pays to you", I know what that implies, that "well he's seeing because he expects to."
I was more or less thinking about subconscious excitation.
The reason I am bringing this up is because I have recently, personally, learned about the role of repressed emotions that we cannot feel. I have some
chronic pain problems that are greatly exacerbated by emotional stress, even when I cannot 'feel' the emotional stress (other than in pain.)
I'm wondering if speaking about these phenomena isn't exciting your subconscious in some way, even if you can't directly feel it.
Beyond that mind-body connection, I could only speculate.
Incidentally, I looked into the logarithm of the retinal image
You can see the general concept behind the mapping in the following animation:
Polar Exponential Grid (Round is your vision from one eye, square is the layout of neurons in
your brain)
Now, the question is, if there is a white square in your vision, spinning, and growing, what would that look like in your brain.
The answer:
It would look like a ripple-like flood sweeping across* across your visual cortex. What do I mean by that?
Imagine your visual cortex is a flat piece of black paper at the back of your head. Imagine a kid has drawn waves on the ocean on this piece of paper,
the way a kid would draw them. Now, the kid took a white crayon and colored in the ocean all white(The sky is left black). Now if this kid di this,
what you would see in your vision would be a square at a particular orientation.
Now imagine the kid's crayon is magic, and he can move the waves (animation) across your brain's piece of paper. This causes the square in your
vision to rotate.
Finally, imagine that the kid animates the water getting higher and higher, like in a flood. This process causes the square at the center of your
vision to grow larger and larger. When the flood waters in the visual cortexes paper hit the top of the piece of paper, all of your vision is filled
with the square.
To visualize, this is what the square looks like in your visual cortex at any given time
Figure 1: A 'four-pronged wave' induced in your visual cortex
Figure 2: The above wave appears as a square in your vision
[edit on 4-4-2006 by Ectoterrestrial]
[edit on 4-4-2006 by Ectoterrestrial]
It's the comic relief in what I also
recognize to be a terrifying, dreadful-beyond-words experience. It appears that one of the earlier questions is now being answered, i.e. new and
strange occurrences seem to be taking place. If they are not a physical or psychological threat to you or your family, I say let them come, and do
tell us more!