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Often, people starting to engage new to the sport, learns that he has a muscle, the existence of which he had no idea. Such exercises also applies to the ability of our brain.

In the seventies, a British psychologist Lawrence Veykrants conducted the following experiment. There was a patient with a blind spot in the vision - there was a spot due to a violation of brain function. This patient Lawrence Veykrants showed pictures of bands, having them in the blind spot area, and asked to say whether the horizontal are shown in these bands or vertical. The patient, of course, objected that he could not know. He was asked to guess, no matter what. He guessed right in 90% of cases.




This "blindness" is not hard to identify and expose - isolated cases of deviation from the norm. But if the "blind spot" in the perception inherent in the majority (if not all) if it is "blind", not because it is a violation, but because it usually, it does not register at all, especially if you do not fit into the dogmas of science and you need to have well-known intelligence and courage to be, firstly, to find, and secondly - check

. Few people will go for it. Dean Radin - one of those people. His premonition interested or, as he calls it, predoschuschenie (presentiments). Here is a short interview with the Dean (in English).



His trial took place as follows: participant sat in front of TV and press the button. After a few seconds the computer will show randomly selected picture. Pictures were either emotional, sad, sweet, aggressive, and so forth, or neutral. On the emotional provocation body responds, regardless of our wishes, at a chemical level. This answer and tracked.

It turned out that the body begins to react to the emotional image even before the picture was shown - or even a selected computer. It was an anticipation, foretaste, though not strong, but steady - it is significant is the fact that all present. How, pray tell, can not even respond to a selected computer image? Nevertheless, we are capable of it.

Another scientist, another experiment. Rupert Sheldrake believes that much of what is considered to be supernatural, in fact, of course. We know when they think about us; we have an inkling of the future. It was suggested to guess, looking at whether you or your picture or not the second party; guess who of the four friends calling you.

In another case, it offered to guess which of four pictures or music reproduce the computer. In general, each experiment true guesses was significantly greater than in guessing randomly.

And here is an experiment that can be done yourself. Take a few dice and try to throw as much as possible the ordered values ​​- the same number, the serial number. Usually it turns out. What these results say? We, as the Scarecrow, believe that the brains - is something like a small pillow with pins

. We think if we just brain gray balls, or the nature of it is not limited consciousness - an open question. The same Sheldrake, for example, believes that the brain may not be a generator and receiver of consciousness - as the TV is not the generator and the receiver talk shows and movies. But anyway, we like the Scarecrow, to underestimate their abilities.

And this is understandable. Prejudices, chance, bias, and quackery something real mixed everything together, and not just in her climb, although it gradually induced order.

On the other hand, the hypothesis of the "naturally supernatural" hurt scientific taboos and dogmas and the scientific community there is cool, as happens at the intersection of worldviews. However, it is worth to take the issue more seriously - and at the same time, less seriously, studying the little everyday oddities rather than extraordinary claim - and a simple, reliable test methods are, experiments are reproducible and statistically significant

. Strange is the usual and customary -. Strange

What to do with the results, and how to explain them, if they do not fit into the picture of the world? Scientifically - to change the picture of the world in accordance with the new information. As always - ignore the strangeness, while the holes in the officially-scientific world does not become apparent. Strange - it is something that does not agree with this view of the world. Since any picture of the world - just a guess, a working hypothesis, that strangeness is always there, and our business - not to discard them, but rather focus on them

. In particular, if the discovery pertaining to our direct relationship with the world. Expanding the picture of the world, and we are expanding the possibilities. How many more "blind spots" in our minds, we can only guess. Galaxy float before our eyes, but we do not allow ourselves to see them. But yet, we see. And someday myself to admit it.

Author: Margarita Shcheglova