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All four of them fell into the room and the Lieutenant wrestled the door closed after them with a firm “whump.” The sound of the storm abruptly faded to a distant whine. The dust and sand that had blown in gently settled a fine grit on every surface, including the skin. The men s...
When watching videos, our sense of reality is continuously challenged. How much can a fundamental dimension of experience such as visual flow be modified before breaking the perception of realtime? Here we found a remarkable indifference to speed manipulations applied to a popular video content, a...
“Of course! I feel like there must be something, or someone else, out there. Maybe we’ll even be able to see it…” she trailed off and turned her face up towards the horizon in front of them. Sure enough, what looked like a roiling bank of fog was curling out into the desert...
These principles form a stark contrast to the reality of the majority of high school environments. The purpose of this article can be considered twofold. Firstly, it proposes a solution to a gap that was highlighted by Kanwar et al. (2013). In short, they stated that the National ...
Unitary consciousness dictates that reality/the world we live in is an extension of the mind/self. The world is simply what the mind projects. While this definition may seem separate from that of an altered state of consciousness, unitary consciousness is a state of altered consciousness. In ...
silicon valley boomed, so did transhumanism. millionaire investors have poured endless cash into anti-aging research, machine intelligence companies, and virtual reality; meanwhile, the possibility of extended or superhuman life has veered even further into becoming the exclusive purview of the extremely...
Physical and physiological.One the most common ways to achieve an altered state of consciousness is sleep, where we dream and dissociate from reality. Two others are fasting and sex. Deprivation from food and drinks over an extended period of time can lead to a perceived dissociation from realit...
found that, unlike neurotypical participants, people with autism do not experience the 'full body illusion'. This is a test that causes people to experience their self as being located outside of their body and to identify with their own virtual 'avatar' viewed through virtual reality goggles....
“But they know the First Language,” Cole countered. “I’d say that’s a bit more impressive.” He knelt and picked a sprig of wild onion, nibbling on a stem as he passed another to Eleanor. Ahead, the trees thinned out into an open hillside meadow where the forest had ...