You think you know your brain? Well, think again. It is our most important organ, no doubt! But it can indeed trick you & give you quite the scare sometimes. Here’s why:

1. Your neurons are cannibals
Your brain, as they say, occupies hardly 2% of your body weight but still consumes almost 25% of the body energy. The tens of billions of neurons in our brain require constant energy input. Keep them devoid of energy and they will start eating themselves, spreading a ruckus around your brain. When your stomach is rumbling with hunger, your neurons are hungry too & this is when they begin to eat parts of themselves for energy.
This very cannibalism is a part of the communication process urging you to eat. So dieting, my friends, is a bad idea for a healthy brain.

2. Your brain gets stuck in an endless loop if you don’t deal with unfinished thoughts
All of us, sometime or the other, have been a victim of some catchy song or tune being stuck in our head for days. Scientist have named this phenomenon as ‘Earworm’. They say that basically the brain hates unfinished thoughts & has a constant urge to do something about it. So if you might have noticed the earworms that get stuck in your head, it is mainly a repetition of the same verse/stanza.
The brain wouldn’t know the complete song or you wouldn’t give it a chance to finish the song. As per its natural instinct of finishing the unfinished business, it would start the song over & over again in an effort to finish it. This way urging you to listen to the song again so that it can finish its business.
This also raises the point of semantic satiation wherein if you feed too much of one word or song to your brain, it ultimately ends up losing the meaning & significance of it. It is marked as a finished thought & is the brain’s way to ask you to move on and not be over-obsessed with one thing. However, semantic satiation is generally a temporary phenomenon & so is Earworm. If you know this & condition your brain accordingly, you can in fact play around & have some fun.

3. Too much sleep will rot your brain
Too much of sleep is as bad as lack of sleep. As per various researches, your brain can age more if you sleep too much as there is more activity going on in your brain while asleep. This does not however mean that you should sleep as less as possible.
Right amount of sleep of 6 to 8 hours every day is the key. We tend to feel unsteady & bleary after having too much of sleep. This is because your mind gets confused as if it is drunk or satiated and leaves you in an intermediate state between sleeping & waking. Sleep-drunk people could really be dangerous to themselves & to others, especially on the road.

4. Your brain is wired for hallucinations
If you think only drugs can induce hallucinations, well think again. Various phenomena have been
Discovered occurring in the brain inducing hallucinations as well as synesthesia. Use of psychedelics just triggers this neuronal wiring that we already have in our brains. The most common phenomenon that we experience is Hypnagogia.
Hypnagogic hallucinations occur to us in the short time span when we are falling asleep but are not actually asleep. They are clearly vivid & extremely lucid generally. Same way, hypnopompic hallucinations occur when we are just waking up but are not actually awake.
I have successfully tried lucid dreaming & I strongly believe that hypnagogia is the gateway to a lucid dream and a lucid dream is so much like an extended state of hypnagogia. Lucid dreaming is yet another unexplained hallucinatory singularity within our brains. And it further substantiates that ‘inception’ is real too.
Yet another way your brain can induce hallucinations has to do with sensory deprivation. Scientists put subjects in what is called an ‘anechoic room’ which blocks noise & light. Such an environment distinctly arises hallucinations as the mind gets confused & it has the compulsion of creating something to fill the void. This leads to auditory as well as visual hallucinations. So meditation, my friends, is just a way for us to first create the void & then enjoy the hallucinations induced by the void.
At the Orfield Laboratory in Minnesota, scientists have developed an ‘anechoic room’ with a rating of -9.4 decibels sound pressure level. Also known as the quietest room on Earth, no one has been able to resist hallucinatory effects here where you can clearly listen the sound of your heart valves pumping blood or the sound that ear produces itself to fill the void. Sounds scary, eh?!
This video explains how the anechoic chamber is designed & how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa_1Galj3nI
 
5. What you see with your eyes is not real
Yes, however discomforting this thought might be, but it’s a reality. The light actually falls on our retina in a two-dimensional fashion but in the three-dimensional world we live in, our brain has to take the best guess and convert that into a three-dimensional form. So all that we see is just an approximated viewable image produced by our own brain.
Visual sense might be the most powerful sense that we have as humans but it can still trick you in believing what is not real. And this happens as our most powerful sense trumps other senses in to believing what is not true by dominating or over-powering the information captured by the other senses. Check out the video for one such effect called the McGurk effect!

6. Pain is a myth
There are no pain receptors in the brain. This is the reason doctors perform brain surgery while the patient is wide awake & conscious. Pain is just a process of communication which the brain thinks is effective & imminent for survival. The moment it realizes that the pain is no more a survival threat, it would stop sending pain signals even if there actually is body damage. The brain creates pain but has smartly kept itself aloof from that sensation.
You can in fact condition your mind to believe everything is normal and survive through great amounts of pain.
Or you can just divert your mind from a state of pain by feeding it with some other extreme state of emotion or excitement. As they say, pain is just a state of mind, after all.
Following video explains the greatest irony of neuroscience: “All pain is in the brain yet no pain is felt by the brain”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8y04SrkEZU

By: Writopedia

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Cc RobinHez

Intriguing

Lol. Too much of sleep will rot your brain and too less sleep will kill it ! How nature hates extremity !!! Wonderful!

Watched a clip on discovery channel...about the viewing angles of some beasts, and I was wowed!

Something always tells me we might just be living in a virtual reality world lol. Everything we sense are electrical purse sight, sounds smell, pain etc. Until recently quantum physics suggest nothing is seems as it, that is the concept of reality can redefine all together.
Do you also know that the brain can receive coded information that can not seen with the naked eye?

RobinHez:
Watched a clip on discovery channel...about the viewing angles of some beasts, and I was wowed!

what is this one saying.

Teempakguy:
what is this one saying.

If u're able to see through the eye of one of dem wild animals e.g. Cheetah, u'd knw how blind humans are..!

RobinHez:



If u're able to see through the eye of one of dem wild animals e.g. Cheetah, u'd knw how blind humans are..!

all Na wash.

With all the eyes wey dem get. Dem no fit open thread for nl to yab us.

Or would you prefer to become a cheetah?

Teempakguy:
all Na wash.

With all the eyes wey dem get. Dem no fit open thread for nl to yab us.

Or would you prefer to become a cheetah?

lol...u have no idea what u're saying

RobinHez:

lol...u have no idea what u're saying

I'm saying we're superior to them because we have better brains.

But it's totally fine if you prefer their eyesight to our minds. If you want to become a cheetah, I can arrange it.

Teempakguy:
I'm saying we're superior to them because we have better brains.

But it's totally fine if you prefer their eyesight to our minds. If you want to become a cheetah, I can arrange it.

lool...have u sign the diagram of a mice's brain?

besides, its not only their eyesight...i'm writting an article on this topic, u'll see

RobinHez:
lool...have u sign the diagram of a mice's brain?

besides, its not only their eyesight...i'm writting an article on this topic, u'll see

hahahaha. for where I go dey sign mice brain? Na autograph?

You, write an article on a science topic? You no fit. You think it is easy to be active in the romance section and the science section simultaneously? Yimu.

Anyway, my fingers are crossed.

Teempakguy:
hahahaha. for where I go dey sign mice brain? Na autograph?

You, write an article on a science topic? You no fit. You think it is easy to be active in the romance section and the science section simultaneously? Yimu.

Anyway, my fingers are crossed.

Sorry..I meant seen

Romance kwa? I don't visit there unless I'm needed, and maybe because I'm not too learned that's why I'm not into the science section 100%

On your article, Robinhez, that's great, trust it will be educative, feel free to publish when complete.

The only thing that makes humans unique is their brain nd mind. Compared to other animals, we have limitations.

I was here™

RobinHez:



If u're able to see through the eye of one of dem wild animals e.g. Cheetah, u'd knw how blind humans are..!

true talk

intriguing

Wow