Lucid Light Machine update: the Right Angular Gyrus Ive been reading reports about abnormal activation of the Right Angular Gyrus... a region of the brain in the parietal lobe, that lies near the superior edge of the temporal lobe, and immediately posterior to the supramarginal gyrus; it is involved in a number of processes related to language, number processing and spatial cognition, memory retrieval, attention, and theory of mind. It is Brodmann area 39 of the human brain (Wikipedia). The Right Angular Gyrus is close to areas involved in vision, hearing, balance and touch. The researchers think it could be responsible for integrating sensory information about the body, and that a failure to perform this task correctly could account for out of body experiences (OBEs). One report is as follows... Activity in one region of the brain could explain out-of-body experiences. Researchers in Switzerland have triggered the phenomenon using electrodes. People describe out-of-body experiences as feeling that their consciousness becomes detached from their body, often floating above it. Because these lucid states are popularly linked to the paranormal, a lot of people are reluctant to talk about them, says neurologist Olaf Blanke of Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland. Blanke found that electrically stimulating one brain region — the right angular gyrus — repeatedly triggers out-of-body experiences. Blanke and his team were using electrodes to excite the brain of a woman being treated for epilepsy. With gentle stimulation, the woman, who could speak during the operation, felt she was falling or growing lighter. As the intensity increased she told them: I see myself lying in bed, from above. When asked to look at her raised arm, she thought it was coming to punch her. This observation suggests that alien hand syndrome — when people feel that a limb is foreign — or phantom limbs that people can feel after amputations could be related to out-of-body experiences, says Blanke. The article that references this report finishes off with this... Thrill-seekers will be hard-pushed to artificially create their own out-of-body experiences, adds Brugger. You cant stimulate that precisely without opening up the skull, he says. Haha, theyve never been in my bathroom lol ;-) Today Im gonna run some experiments with stimulating the Right Angular Gyrus with the light machine by angling the head of the lamp to point to the side of my head. Ill use a modulated 40Hz frequency while visualising this region of the brain being tickled. Ill report findings in the comments section of this post later today... Heres the article referencing this report: nature/news/2002/020916/full/news020916-8.html
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:51:20 +0000