How the Brain Creates Ghosts
Buck Rogers – Are ghosts merely creations of the brain, or do some people have more developed perception than others?
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5 of the Best Brain Foods
Infographic – Give your brain a boost each day by eating at least one of the following foods daily.
Newly Discovered Neuron Adds to the Mystery of the Mind
Anna Hunt – A new type of neuron has been identified in the brain that appears to be more effective in transmitting information than a regular brain cell.
Best Vitamins for Memory, Mood, and Stress
Deane Alban – If a bad memory is troubling you, it’s possible your brain simply isn’t getting the basic nutrients it needs to function the way it should.
New Research Suggests Humans Can Sense Future Events Without Clues
April McCarthy, Prevent Disease Waking Times Wouldn’t it be nice to predict future events, even if they are just ten seconds ahead? According to researchers at Northwestern University, we can do just that. Researchers already know that our subconscious minds sometimes know more than our conscious minds. Physiological measures of subconscious arousal, for instance, tend …
The Brain’s Capacity to Shield Us from True Reality
Video – Exploring how our brains use time and space as a way of making sense of our surroundings.
What Will Make You Think More Like Einstein?
Video – Here are some hints on what activities will help you use both hemispheres of the brain and think more like Einstein.
Inducing Higher Intelligence and Heightened Senses with Gamma Brain Waves
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Brainwave entrainment is a way to train the brain to synchronize to a certain frequency, such as gamma, beta, delta, theta and alpha. Each frequency matches a certain state of consciousness. For example, delta is the brainwave dominant while in an unconscious state such as sleeping; while theta and …
New Brain Tech Reveals Past Thoughts and Memories
Nicholas West, Guest Waking Times An alarming new study (posted in full below) illustrates how fast neuroscience is developing in its attempt to uncover every aspect of the human brain. A specific brain wave called P300 has been identified by researchers as a marker that essentially encodes what we observe as we go about our …
Consciousness: The Beginning and the End
Michael Grosso, New Dawn Waking Times Nothing is more certain than the fact that we are conscious. And yet there is something very puzzling, even uncanny, about being conscious; and the learned talk of the mystery of consciousness. The mystery centres around the origin of consciousness; the prevailing scientific view is that consciousness is a …
Fats Found In Coconut Oil Boost Brain Function In Only One Dose
Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Waking Times Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs), the primary type of fat found within coconut oil, have been found to boost cognitive performance in older adults suffering from memory disorders as serious as Alzheimer’s — and not after months or even days of treatment, but after a single 40 ml dose! A groundbreaking 2004 study …
How Your Intuition Reveals Your Brain’s Best Decisions
Louis R. Valadez, Guest Waking Times There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. ~Albert Einstein We often hear a lot about the great strength of the human intuition, but rarely …
Thought Implants – Is This the Future of the Mind?
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times With incredible technology at our fingertips, scientists are now more than ever before striving to understand the mind, looking to answers questions such as: “How quickly can the brain think?” and “How does the mind work?” Are we getting any closer to having these questions answered? The basic structure …
Feed Your Head: Harnessing Neurogenesis
Sam Gandy, Guest Waking Times The human brain contains around 86 billion neurons, and 86 trillion connections between these neurons. That is more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy, or galaxies in the known universe. The human brain is one of the most complex and wondrous things we know of, and …
Consciousness and Technology – 3 Mind Expanding Comparisons
Dylan Charles Waking Times Of all the pursuits of human kind, the understanding and exploration of consciousness offers the most likely opportunity for us to realize a civilization oriented towards cooperation, compassion, sustainability, and respect for life. Awakening to higher states of consciousness is the process by which a person, or a collective, can re-organize …
How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
Katrin Geist, Wakeup-World Waking Times Breaking the habit of being yourself requires – dare I say it? – discipline. Daily discipline. And once you embark on it, it’s the most wonderful process in the making. It is exciting and fun, and it becomes easier and easier with every time you practice, just like training a muscle. You do indeed …
Toke Up and Focus – How Cannabis Can Help With ADHD
Kevin Sterne, Contributor Waking Times Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder () use cannabis more than most of us, according to a Brown University study. But, they probably are not toking up for the reasons one may think. Far from lazing around, suggestive new research offers, they might be doing it to write a college …
Have Mind Control Scientists Found the ‘Switch’ To Turn Off Consciousness?
Nicholas West, Guest Waking Times A vast array of direct mind control techniques are being announced in the wake of investment from government via the U.S. BRAIN project and Europe’s counterpart the Human Brain Project – all told, billions of dollars are being spent to decode what makes us tick and how to change it. …
You Are Not Your Brain – Exploring the Nature of Mind and our Holographic Brain
Brandon West, Contributor Waking Times What is the true nature of mind, and what is the real function of our brains? The purpose of this article is to provide evidence that strongly indicates that you are not your brain, or your body for that matter, and that the nature of mind, of memory, and of our …
Protect Your Brain from the Perils of Polypharmacy
Deane Alban, Guest Waking Times Prescription drugs cause over 100,000 deaths per year and cause another 1.5 million people to experience side effects so severe they must be hospitalized. You may be shocked to learn that according to the FDA, adverse drug reactions are now the fourth leading cause of death in the US. (1) This is in …