Mental Power

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

What is the capacity of the human brain?

 

Some potential topics regarding mental power.

 

• Tulpas. 
• Lucid Dreaming. 

 

Tulpas. I dont have one of my own yet, but I think the concept is rather interesting. From what I know of them, they're just basically imaginary friends that are extremely realistic. They can even think for themselves. 

 

Lucid Dreaming. I'm getting better at it as time goes on. I can think "Make it hot" and my body will get warmer. I can move my arms freely to swim when I'm in water. 

Edited March 20, 2014 by Mikami

[Noire Panzer 3,526]

Tulpas I have heard about before and they seem interesting. I am tempted to make one but pretty unsure if I should attempt it.

 

Lucid Dreaming I have gotten to the point where if I snap out of sleep I can just back into the dream if wanted or literally will another dream to happen and run around in that. I think it requires a large imagination or at least really active one

 

I don't think I have seen "stuff" before but I would really love the chance to interact with a spirit. Talk with it and learn about what it's like and what not. Personally I think everyone has seen a spirit before but they may not realize it, Not to sure you have to be "open-minded" but probably to have more occurrences, I assume you gotta be more accepting to things that can't really be explained.

[Ribbonfree 2,383]

Apparently, we only use 3% of our brain power.

 

This is a common misconception. Humans use their brains to full capacity, as much as is possible in context.

 

The mind is very powerful but it's still fallible by all manner of natural phenomenon as a result of it's biological nature, which is where most reports of the paranormal probably come from. I don't have the ability to do tulpas or lucid dreaming, I'm not especially interested, but the ramifications for humans as individuals is fascinating. You can shape your reality to a greater degree than ever before if you master those techniques.

Edited March 20, 2014 by Little Black Dress

[Noire Panzer 3,526]

. You can shape your reality to a greater degree than ever before if you master those techniques.

I heard quite a bit about people being able to bend their reality. It sounds interesting but I think the closest I got to that is hitting a day dream like state and just sit in that reality for a bit until I am snapped out of it for some reason.

[Discordian 6,015]

This is a common misconception. Humans use their brains to full capacity, as much as is possible in context.

Indeed. I've yet to fully research how this rumor came about in the first place but I'm inclined to believe that we do use the full potential of our brains, people with more knowledge (note: DIFFERENT FROM INTELLIGENCE) will see things in an entirely different and informed manner than others. Those with less information are more prone to suspension of belief. Those with more power will see and understand something on a completely different level and that's when it goes from magical to just reality.

 

"Magic is science we don't understand yet."

 

This applies to everything in our universe. Even if we never have the mental capacity to fully understand the universe it won't change the fact that the universe works a specific way and it's always 100% reality.

 

I'm getting off-topic though. The whole "using only x% of your brain" thing seems pretty unlikely. If that were true then brain scans wouldn't light up when responding to certain stimuli. Every part of the brain works in one form or another, it's just complex.

[PinkiePieJr 122]

Tulpas. I dont have one of my own yet, but I think the concept is rather interesting. From what I know of them, they're just basically imaginary friends that are extremely realistic. They can even think for themselves. 

Wait. Wouldn't that be schizophrenia?

[Blaze Bronson 343]

Indeed. I've yet to fully research how this rumor came about in the first place but I'm inclined to believe that we do use the full potential of our brains, people with more knowledge (note: DIFFERENT FROM INTELLIGENCE) will see things in an entirely different and informed manner than others. Those with less information are more prone to suspension of belief. Those with more power will see and understand something on a completely different level and that's when it goes from magical to just reality.

 

"Magic is science we don't understand yet."

 

This applies to everything in our universe. Even if we never have the mental capacity to fully understand the universe it won't change the fact that the universe works a specific way and it's always 100% reality.

 

I'm getting off-topic though. The whole "using only x% of your brain" thing seems pretty unlikely. If that were true then brain scans wouldn't light up when responding to certain stimuli. Every part of the brain works in one form or another, it's just complex.

 

We actually only use around 10% of our brain AT A GIVEN TIME. It's only a quote to provoke reactions.

We do use our full brain, nothing is in there and just hanging around. But on a certain task only parts of the brain is being used, simply because different parts of the brain specify in different tasks. Therefore you only spend around 10% of your brains trying to solve a puzzle for instance. Because your philosophy, taste, hearing and a lot of other parts doesn't have anything to contribute to the task.

 

 

Tulpas are simply put a way to communicate with your subconsciousness. You perform self-hypnotizing tasks to give a voice and form as a communication method between your consciousness and unconsciousness.

 

Lucid dreaming is actually quite similar. When you sleep, your conscious brain is turned off, while the rest of the brain goes wild (put simply).

When you are lucid dreaming your conscious part of the brain wakes up, and you become aware that you are dreaming. Again, a different communication between the two occurs.

[Discordian 6,015]

We actually only use around 10% of our brain AT A GIVEN TIME. It's only a quote to provoke reactions.

We do use our full brain, nothing is in there and just hanging around. But on a certain task only parts of the brain is being used, simply because different parts of the brain specify in different tasks. Therefore you only spend around 10% of your brains trying to solve a puzzle for instance. Because your philosophy, taste, hearing and a lot of other parts doesn't have anything to contribute to the task.

 

 

Tulpas are simply put a way to communicate with your subconsciousness. You perform self-hypnotizing tasks to give a voice and form as a communication method between your consciousness and unconsciousness.

 

Lucid dreaming is actually quite similar. When you sleep, your conscious brain is turned off, while the rest of the brain goes wild (put simply).

When you are lucid dreaming your conscious part of the brain wakes up, and you become aware that you are dreaming. Again, a different communication between the two occurs.

Ah, that makes much more sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Evilshy 5,090]

We actually only use around 10% of our brain AT A GIVEN TIME. It's only a quote to provoke reactions.

We do use our full brain, nothing is in there and just hanging around. But on a certain task only parts of the brain is being used, simply because different parts of the brain specify in different tasks. Therefore you only spend around 10% of your brains trying to solve a puzzle for instance. Because your philosophy, taste, hearing and a lot of other parts doesn't have anything to contribute to the task.

Also false. Around half is the minimum a healthy brain is active. It's usually a lot more.

All parts of your brain are pretty much always active, but at different levels. It's true that at a given time, A SINGLE PART of your brain may only be 10% active, but the brain as a whole is usually lit up like a Christmas tree.

 

People with brain damage can obviously have different numbers.

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth

[Blaze Bronson 343]

Also false. Around half is the minimum a healthy brain is active. It's usually a lot more.

All parts of your brain are pretty much always active, but at different levels. It's true that at a given time, A SINGLE PART of your brain may only be 10% active, but the brain as a whole is usually lit up like a Christmas tree.

 

People with brain damage can obviously have different numbers.

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth

 

I see. So the brain is idling at around 45% activity. Still you can't use your whole brain on one task, because of the way the brain is given tasks.

So there is some truth to it. But it's more like "you only use about 60% of your brain". Because when focusing on one task, one part is fully active, while the other idle at 45%.

 

But the main point here is that your brain works optimally. It's not like smarter people use more brain ^^

[PsychedelicPony 440]

It's safe to say mental power is huge. You process about 2000 bits of information every second that you are conscious of and thousands more you aren't. An interesting thing about dreaming and lucid dreaming is that there is a hypothesis they are testing that seems plausible that your entire dream is mapped out in the first few seconds of your dream and everything following it is a script. This means that you are never actually lucid dreaming, your body is tricking you into thinking you are controlling it, but in actuality it is part of the script that was written in the first few seconds of that dream.

[Treble Bolt 1,122]

Something I can do (although I don't know what it's called) is direct "energy" to different parts of my body. I don't know how to describe it really.  I most often do it when I give back messages because I think about what would feel good for my own back. I picture energy going through my body, siphon some of the energy from my legs and and torso, and direct it towards my hands. It really heats my hands up so you get a nice warm, very relaxing feeling coming from my hands as I message. If I feel "knots" in your muscles, I direct more warmth and relaxing feelings to those specific areas to help the muscles unwind.

I often do this same thing in colder weather naturally, so I don't often need gloves in fall/spring and I am able to keep my fingers and toes much warmer in subzero weather when outside with gloves on. If it's really cold (like -60 F as it was at times this winter, which is very rare), I had to really focus on most of my body, especially my fingers and face, and it really helped me endure the elements a lot longer than my firends and husband.

 

Something else I also do with "energy" is when I am very depressed or angry, and consciously want to NOT feel these feelings, I imagine the darkness of my emotions, and channel them into my hands where I create a imaginary sphere of this darker energy, and release it by throwing it, or pushing it into the ground.  There have been a few times where I was very, VERY angry at someone, and I do this technique with one hand, then "push" that energy into that person who angered just by gently touching them. One person, who I later apologized to after the fact, said that they felt extreme coldness and malice coming from that touch and couldn't figure out why or how.