Thursday, 15 January 2009

Hack Your brain


Do you ever want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break?

Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works.

Researchers at Oxford University announced the discovery of a powerful new painkiller. They found that subjects who looked at a wounded hand through the wrong end of binoculars, makeing the hand appear smaller, felt significantly less pain and even experienced decreased swelling.

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