The human body is capable of some pretty amazing things, but the human Brain takes the cake when it comes to performance. For being able to trick you into being physically stronger, being highly functional even when you sleep, your brain is incredible.

10 Brilliant things your mind actually do

Building Muscles through Thought

There are many instances where using visualization methods can help people achieve their goals. Research has shown that this works with physical goals as well. In a research study where participants thought about working our a certain part of their body over 12 weeks. The muscle in that part of the body was able to life 35% more weight with no exercise. That means their brains made them believe they were stronger from just thinking about exercise. Now, we don't advocate sticking to a strictly mental exercise program, but with these results, it proves the brain can do some pretty remarkable things.
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Sleep Paralysis

When we are sleeping, the brain is able to turn off our motor skills. This allows us to have vivid dreams, without reacting to them in reality. Sometimes, the brain forgets to turn our motor skills back on while we are waking up, and what occurs can be terrifying! If you have ever laid in bed and been consciously awake, but you weren't able to move, then you have experienced sleep paralysis. This is a result from the brain overlooking the need to send signals to regions of itself that control our muscles. Though it is scary at the time, sleep paralysis is normal and pretty common.

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Yeah sleep Paralysis makes Nigerians believe they are actually pressed down\ choked by witches when they experience SP