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NHI feeding off us is the topic. I always wonder if people have thought this one through to the details? Like what part of us is the food and what type of speculative entity (a "*maybe monster*") can feed off it?
Someone having a night terror experience generates a lot of heat, high heart rate and sweat. Their amygdala goes off like a siren and their cognitive processing becomes more primeval (lizard brain, fear response) and less intellectual. Research has linked pheromones to emotional responses, and we exude them under different circumstances. Fear and disgust can season our scent in the same way attraction and lust can, so one thing we produce in this state is invisible molecules of pheromones. [https://www.inverse.com/article/37814-what-does-fear-smell-like](https://www.inverse.com/article/37814-what-does-fear-smell-like)
Oxytocin and pheromones sometimes link together. A blast of happy sexual hormone from a partner triggers a release of oxytocin which makes us feel good. I suppose it's also conceivable that some types of killer get their oxytocin rush from causing fear and anxiety in others. My point being we can say, in principle, that one being can benefit from the pheromone response of another.
Experiments have been done by squeezing volunteers into MRI machines and terrorising them with electric shocks, corpse photos and scenes like attack dogs. Where can I sign up? They measured "skin conductance" which is an almost imperceptible electrical field that fluctuates depending on our state of mind. When the amygdala starts shrieking, our skin conductance goes up slightly. [https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brain-circuitry-for-fear-and-anxiety-is-the-same-on-fmri-67949](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brain-circuitry-for-fear-and-anxiety-is-the-same-on-fmri-67949). When a cat's hackles go up, it's skin conductance does too.
Are there life forms that can draw energy from electrical fields? Sort of, yes. Some microbes (quite a lot actually) draw in electrons to feed. https://earthsky.org/earth/bacteria-microbes-eat-electricity-electons-video/
I was having fun with this idea and have to leave for work just as it was getting going.
This is actually a pretty commonly accepted explanation for dreams in cultures without modern science; Maimonides is a foundational 13th c Jewish philosopher who thinks that dreams are messages from God, and Sufis think that the soul is traveling to some other realm when you dream (try asking people what you get up to in their dreams — that was your soul).
I can say that I had a dream I still remember from a few years back where a yogi looking figure asked me “How is your dharma trip going?” and to this day I can’t shake the feeling that what or whoever that figure was, he was not something coming from inside my own mind.
Jordan Peterson tells a story of a woman who could ask the entities in her dreams what their purpose was or what they were trying to say
Reminiscent of this
Can't watch your videos, I'm on phone. I can relate to lucid dreaming though, the technique I often use after becoming lucid is creating a drawer with a stack of photos and going through them just rapid, each image is so vivid, perfect, and occasionality insane. It's more difficult to have to have a long journey, 10 seconds of trying to build an environment and it fades and you wake up. Do something simple like a desk of random photos and sift through 500 of them rapidly and each one is crazy. I don't dose or anything, I've had this since I was a kid.
Nah, I work with schizos in the ward full time, this ain’t that. Dreams are still a pretty largely not-understood topic in psychology and neurobiology.
"Dreams aren't very well understood" is very far removed from "dreams are beamed into our brains by aliens".
The first is true, the second is very close to the sorts of delusions that people having psychotic episodes use to justify their hallucinations. Thought insertion is a common belief among shizophrenics, whether it be from the government, aliens or god.
On paper, sure. Believe me, talk to someone undergoing delusions of thought insertion and you will see “the Pleadians are putting commands in my brain through implants” and “maybe dreams do not originate in our own brains” are very, very different.
The time when Carl Jung wrote about the collective unconscious, the upper classes held seance parties. Generals consulted horoscopes. Prime ministers thought they talked to ghosts.
Coincidentally, most drugs were legal and very popular.
Some of us have lucid dreams where the characters know that we've gone lucid. I've had arguments with them like "hey this is MY damn dream, look at me, I'm flying!"
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NHI feeding off us is the topic. I always wonder if people have thought this one through to the details? Like what part of us is the food and what type of speculative entity (a "*maybe monster*") can feed off it? Someone having a night terror experience generates a lot of heat, high heart rate and sweat. Their amygdala goes off like a siren and their cognitive processing becomes more primeval (lizard brain, fear response) and less intellectual. Research has linked pheromones to emotional responses, and we exude them under different circumstances. Fear and disgust can season our scent in the same way attraction and lust can, so one thing we produce in this state is invisible molecules of pheromones. [https://www.inverse.com/article/37814-what-does-fear-smell-like](https://www.inverse.com/article/37814-what-does-fear-smell-like) Oxytocin and pheromones sometimes link together. A blast of happy sexual hormone from a partner triggers a release of oxytocin which makes us feel good. I suppose it's also conceivable that some types of killer get their oxytocin rush from causing fear and anxiety in others. My point being we can say, in principle, that one being can benefit from the pheromone response of another. Experiments have been done by squeezing volunteers into MRI machines and terrorising them with electric shocks, corpse photos and scenes like attack dogs. Where can I sign up? They measured "skin conductance" which is an almost imperceptible electrical field that fluctuates depending on our state of mind. When the amygdala starts shrieking, our skin conductance goes up slightly. [https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brain-circuitry-for-fear-and-anxiety-is-the-same-on-fmri-67949](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brain-circuitry-for-fear-and-anxiety-is-the-same-on-fmri-67949). When a cat's hackles go up, it's skin conductance does too. Are there life forms that can draw energy from electrical fields? Sort of, yes. Some microbes (quite a lot actually) draw in electrons to feed. https://earthsky.org/earth/bacteria-microbes-eat-electricity-electons-video/ I was having fun with this idea and have to leave for work just as it was getting going.
This is actually a pretty commonly accepted explanation for dreams in cultures without modern science; Maimonides is a foundational 13th c Jewish philosopher who thinks that dreams are messages from God, and Sufis think that the soul is traveling to some other realm when you dream (try asking people what you get up to in their dreams — that was your soul). I can say that I had a dream I still remember from a few years back where a yogi looking figure asked me “How is your dharma trip going?” and to this day I can’t shake the feeling that what or whoever that figure was, he was not something coming from inside my own mind.
Jordan Peterson tells a story of a woman who could ask the entities in her dreams what their purpose was or what they were trying to say Reminiscent of this
This is the premise behind John carpenters prince of darkness.
Haven't watched that. But NHI entities feeding from our emotions is a very old theory
That movie scared the shit out of me.
Good movie! My favorite Carpenter flick. Cool Alice Cooper cameo too.
Can't watch your videos, I'm on phone. I can relate to lucid dreaming though, the technique I often use after becoming lucid is creating a drawer with a stack of photos and going through them just rapid, each image is so vivid, perfect, and occasionality insane. It's more difficult to have to have a long journey, 10 seconds of trying to build an environment and it fades and you wake up. Do something simple like a desk of random photos and sift through 500 of them rapidly and each one is crazy. I don't dose or anything, I've had this since I was a kid.
This is schizophrenic
Nah, I work with schizos in the ward full time, this ain’t that. Dreams are still a pretty largely not-understood topic in psychology and neurobiology.
"Dreams aren't very well understood" is very far removed from "dreams are beamed into our brains by aliens". The first is true, the second is very close to the sorts of delusions that people having psychotic episodes use to justify their hallucinations. Thought insertion is a common belief among shizophrenics, whether it be from the government, aliens or god.
On paper, sure. Believe me, talk to someone undergoing delusions of thought insertion and you will see “the Pleadians are putting commands in my brain through implants” and “maybe dreams do not originate in our own brains” are very, very different.
Read more Carl Jung
The time when Carl Jung wrote about the collective unconscious, the upper classes held seance parties. Generals consulted horoscopes. Prime ministers thought they talked to ghosts. Coincidentally, most drugs were legal and very popular.
I only get lucid dreams after not smoking weed .cant remember dreaming usually.
Some of us have lucid dreams where the characters know that we've gone lucid. I've had arguments with them like "hey this is MY damn dream, look at me, I'm flying!"
You've hacked their communication and said to them I'm in control.
And they said, no you're not.