When I was a kid swimming in the neighbor’s pool, I loved to float on my back, eyes closed, with ears submerged so that I could only hear the muted sounds of the water around me. Though I found the experience relaxing, I also felt profoundly strange. We are constantly bombarded with sensory information from […]
Tag Archives: hallucinations
January
19
Through the Looking-Glass, and What the Brain Sees There
posted by Barbara Spencer
She complained of recurrent attacks during which she feels that her body is growing larger and larger until it seems to occupy the whole room. “I feel,” she said, “that I have got so big that if I put out my hand I could touch the far wall.’ Less frequently, she feels that she […]
July
21
NeuWrite reads: Brain on Fire
posted by elena vicario
As author William F. Allman puts it in his book Apprentices of Wonder: “the brain is a monstrous beautiful mess.” Thanks to the brain, we are who we are and we do what we do. Now can you imagine your brain failing you, turning against you and becoming your worst enemy? That is exactly what […]
August
14
Let’s Talk About Sleep
posted by kkiritah
Oh no. It’s 4am, and I’ve done it again. Ugh. I’ve waited until the last minute to write my NeuWriteSD post, and now it’s 4am. And I haven’t slept since 5am yesterday morning. Ugh. As you might imagine, I’m feeling pretty terrible. Not only because of the guilt (since I was supposed to have this […]
April
03
Talkin’ 2 Myself: Eminem and the Science of Inner Speech
posted by kkiritah
The other day, I was listening to Eminem’s “Talkin’ 2 Myself,” and I started thinking about the therapeutic effects of talking to oneself (coincidentally, Eminem briefly discussed the song with Big Boy on Power 106 this Monday! Seriously random, considering Recovery was released in 2010…). Specifically, I was curious about the fine line between […]
March
06
Hallucinating without drugs, the profundity of silence, and the thalamocortical circuit
posted by Matt Boisvert
I’m lying on my bed, with waves of pulsating light coming in and out, changing color, with shapes occasionally manifesting themselves, turning sometimes into people, sometimes into objects, and, more often than not, strange bunnymen, a la Donny Darko (albeit significantly less creepy). After ten minutes of this, I’ve had enough; taking the halved Ping-Pong […]
June
10
Impaired interval timing and Free Willy (not really)
posted by kkiritah
This is really about: The role of interval timing dysfunction in the formation of first-rank symptoms in patients with schizophrenia? Note 1: This is the first in a “series” of posts by the second- (or third-?) year students to tell you a little about our minor prop topics. We all Some of us worked very hard on our […]
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