Topic: Brain Hemisphere Vibrations

I think this might belong under Aliens & Matrix rather than General Discussion....

I was just going about my daily stuff here, when suddenly, I felt a physical energy vibration between the left and right hemispheres of my temporal lobes.  It only lasted about 5 seconds, but when something's rattling your melon, it feels like a lot longer.  And this isn't the first time it's happened, either.  About two weekends ago, I was sitting up late one night (yeah, I've always had that urge to stay up for no reason, too), and I was watching the movie Alien Tracker, flipping through channels, being a couch potato... when out of the blue (no forewarning), I had the most intense vibrations in the front of my brain, and I actually felt the energy boucing between the left and right halves of my brain.  This one was pretty intense, and lasted about 10 seconds.  My first thoughts were, "whoa! that hasn't happened in a long time.... hey, that's right... I remember that feeling from a few years ago... next time that happens, I'm going to have to try to focus the energy and "do" something with it... wonder what it all means?"

There's no pain at all when this happens, and the only precursor is that I've been feeling extremely unable to focus on anything that requires multi-tasking.  I keep telling myself, "oh, it's just PMS or allergies or you should take some vitamins", but I know it's none of those things.  No matter how hard I try, I can't break the "spacey" feeling.  And I know it's not a warning for abduction. (those have a different feeling to them)  I don't feel like it's any sort of psychic attack, as there are no "events" immediately following them, and no pain.  It's like someone would hit the "degauss" button on a monitor, only in the temporal lobes.  Retuning frequencies??

ahh...holy shite, batman... I just did a quick Google of "degauss monitor"... and I found information about the process your computer monitor goes through that was very insightful:

Degaussing removes permanent magnetization by introducing an alternating magnetic field that is stronger than the offending permanent magnetization.
This field will energize the magnetic domains of the material and induce an alternating magnetic field.  Then, if the amplitude of the the alternating
magnetic field is gradually reduced to zero, the material will be demagnetized.

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced these strange brain vibrations too, and if so, have you noticed an increase in frequency lately?  How is it affecting you?  Now that I've found the above info about magnetic fields, I'm actually feeling a struggle beginning inside my brain... this is weird... I've got a pain the right side of my head, behind my left ear, and I'm having to concentrate really hard as I'm writing this, this pain is travelling through my brain and to the front, where the degaussing took place, and I feel as though somehow it's

Okay... now I'm CONVINCED.... my cell phone just rang... and it was an unknown 800 number, (and only a handful of people have my cell phone number to begin with), but I thought it might be a wrong number or survey or something.... anyway, I answered, and I hear like a man in the backround (sounded like a boardroom meeting was going on, not your typical telemarketing background noise), and I said "Hello?"... silence.... me: "HELLO?".... silence, then an inhale... again, me: "Hel-" TWO LOUD BURSTS OF INTENSE "STATIC", like someone held something up to the phone, because there was a breif pause between the static, and I heard the guy still droning on in the background.  And then, click, disconnected.

This kind of direct approach had never happened to me before, not this clearly or obviously... Even when I saw the two suspected MILABS a few years ago, there was never direct contact before.  I'm pretty damned freaked.  Yet, at the same time, I'm kind of glad, because I must have "touched a nerve" with their little "programming" by trying to fight it.

I'm sorry this post sounds so schizophrenic, but I thought it was best to write it as it was happening.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

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Hi, Pink

I've loved your posts so far; hopefully this can help you.

In addition to "the turning of the tide" (big movements in the energy - referenced in  "Sprituality & Metaphysics) that's been happening since '02 (that's when I started feeling them), there are now also increasingly these little bursts of energy flying around. The earth has entered a region of space that has a much higher concentration of "highly charged particles"; we're going to B getting this more and more.

The 4/5 D beings of strong negative charge cannot truly create, remember, they can only invade and hijack; therefore, I think your initial experience may have been natural, then the phone call a reaction to your attempt to make "use" of your experience.

"You noticed them, and they noticed you noticing them"
- The Mothman Prophecies

"They are the means by which the universe tests us."
-Juan Matus (Carlos Castaneda)

Regarding your 'degaussing", although the Cassiopaea.org people are weird and I stopped interacting with them, I learned a lot from them. If you haven't read it yet, I recommend you read Magnetite by KAH. (On a related note, dairy products - milk, cheese - inhibit absorption of iron, so should be avoided at the same meal as beef, if looking to absorb the iron.)

Also, I put some of what I learned about that in an article at my blog, Alchemy 4 Dummies.

and last but not least:
Brain: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but how are we going to fit that much mayonaisse in the bathtub?

We are all Kosh.

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I know exactly the feelings you're describing, Pinky.  I used to get it more often back in my chanelling days, and I still have it when I attempt to project.  I wish I knew what to tell you, but I don't know what it is, either.  I've always felt that it was benign when it happened.

The only thing I can relate it to is once when I was taking Wellbutrin in order to stop smoking.  It caused a feeling similar to that in my brain, and it was because it was adversely affecting my dopamine levels.  But the feeling you're describing (and what i've experienced naturally) is more of an energetic thing, I think.

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I have been experiencing intense energy in my head for a couple of years now. But it keeps getting more and more intense, especially when I eat mushrooms, which I don't do very often. It feels like there are blockages in my brain dissolving. This intense energy is often accompanied by sharp pains (not very painful though) inside my head. I sometimes meditate on my brain, trying to focus as much energy in it, trying to break up the blockages. I've noticed though that when I do this I neglect the awareness of my body, so it throws me out of balance and I start thinking to much. I have had so much energy in my head lately that I can actually feel my brain stretching and my skull cracking. When I do headstands my skull cracks alot. Not sure if this is good or not. Cranial expansion is such a weird thing. I also noticed that when I have a lot of energy in my head it makes people around me yawn alot.

I have also noticed an enormous increase in syncs happening. For example, three days ago I was philosophizing with one of my friends. I used a hypothetical statement that involve me saying "Say I jumped off the roof..." I don't remember the whole statement, but the next morning I found out that one of the guys in my building I live in ( I live in a dorm building at my college with 24 people) fell off the media theatre roof when he was getting drunk and high with his friends on top of it. This is just one of many syncs happening all the time.

With all this energy in my head it has also been affecting my teeth as well. It feels like there is a magnetic field or something actually pulling on my teeth. I once had a dream too during the middle of the day when I took a nap where there was a string of magnetic particles in a line in front of one of my teeth. Then in the dream I felt that magnetic field sort of snap then the particles fell. I have heard theories of humans growing new teeth during this mutation process. My teeth also feel stressed out kind of.

5 (edited by Auendove 2006-06-01 15:49:15)

Re: Brain Hemisphere Vibrations

While I will have just a bit more to write here within the next day or two, I'm for the time being going to refer youse guys to this post of mine on the Pineal Gland thread (in the Spirituality and Metaphysics forum) found here--

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=2015

It's post #6. It's a long post, but if you haven't yet read it you may find it applicatory to this thread's material. We all may very well have something in common here.

Bounce wrote:

With all this energy in my head it has also been affecting my teeth as well. It feels like there is a magnetic field or something actually pulling on my teeth.

WOW! Bounce, me too...hmmm, but maybe a little different. I don't feel like they're being pulled out, like a dentist will pull teeth, if that's what you're referring to, rather it feels like my mouth/jaw is being stretched...almost like something non-physical is ahold of the last molars in my mouth and stretching/pulling the row of teeth wider. Surprisingly, this doesn't hurt at all, but, yikes yeah-buddy, it sure does feel reeeeally strange.

I'm so happy to hear y'all talking about this...finally, there's some others I can rap with about this major high-strangeness happening in our heads!!!

Yipee!! cool

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

lol

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Yeah, you explained it perfectly Auendove about the whole mouth/jaw stretching along with the rows of teeth widening. I could be wrong, but I actually think my face has widened a bit because of it. Its good to know others are going through this also. I heard a girl talking on the bus  to a friend saying it feels like someone is poking her inside her head. Looks like the symptoms are spreading to more and more people whether or not they are aware of the process.

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I just had this happen to me for the first time in years this weekend. "Degaussing" is the perfect word for it. It is disorienting and odd. I was driving when it happened, and as it happened I mentioned it to my girlfriend, who was sitting in the passenger seat. She experienced nothing out of the ordinary. I was worried if it lasted too long I'd have to pull over and let her drive, but after a few seconds it went away. I explained it to her as a head-splitting tone, but without the actual audible tone. Nothing strange preceeded or followed this experience at all. The only recent change I can think of is that I was carrying a cell phone in my pocket which I was given a few weeks ago. I haven't had a cellphone in over five years.

The last time I remember something like this happening was when I was about nineteen years old, working at McDonald's. That time it also appeared out of the blue. The only similarities I can find is that both times it happened in the presence of a girl for whom I had romantic feelings, and both times I told the girl about it immediately. The first time, I could only describe it as feeling "high" for a few moments, but this time I described it as a disorienting yet inaudible tone.

There's a .pdf file here, at the official US Air Force Academy website, which talks about non-lethal weapons, including one classification of weapon which seems to have the capability to induce such a state.

In "Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References", Robert J. Bunker wrote:

Acoustic, Infrasound. Very low-frequency sound which can travel long distances and easily penetrate most buildings and vehicles. Transmission of long wavelength sound creates biophysical effects; nausea, loss of bowels, disorientation, vomiting, potential internal organ damage or death may occur. Superior to ultrasound because it is "in band" meaning that its does not lose its properties when it changes mediums such as from air to tissue. By 1972 an infrasound generator had been built in France which generated waves at 7 hertz. When activated it made the people in range sick for hours [23,302,546].

--Justin

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I don't know exactly what your case may be, Pinkrlyq and Czyx, but degaussing or hemispherical desynchronization does sound like a possibility. Not sure if it's an energy thing, a weapon of some type, or a variation of the ear tone/ear ringing phenomenon.

Maybe this is related, most likely not, but I get this 8 Hz pulsation in the visual phosphene noise overlaying my field of vision sometimes...the pulsation is slightly different in my left eye compared to right eye, so it creates a desynchronization between my hemispheres and is both aggravating and a little disorienting. Curiously, yesterday I awoke from a nap into a trance state and saw hanging from the ceiling an etheric scaffold structure with a bottom tip pointed at my head wiggling rhythmically in synch with that pulsation. Yesterday I also got a psychic attack coinciding with my biorhythms crossing, which included a throbbing headache, nausea, the phosphene pulsations, and clips from negative songs looping endlessly when I wasn't fighting it off by concentrating on other things.

Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.

9 (edited by Pinkrlyq 2006-06-01 23:06:32)

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Jeffrey of Troy wrote:

I think your initial experience may have been natural, then the phone call a reaction to your attempt to make "use" of your experience.

Hi Jeffrey!  Thanks for your post.  It really helped to ease my "freak", so to speak.  That phone call nearly sent me into a panic before I realized I was being stupid... incidentally, I did a reverse phone number look-up and the number is registered to a company called LifeTime Fitness in a town about an hour away from me.  It definitely didn't sound like a "fitness center" kind of background noise, and if a company would call, (even if they'd realized it was the wrong number) I'd think they'd ask for whoever they were calling for or say something, anything... Maybe I'm just being paranoid, though. 

Jeffrey of Troy wrote:

"You noticed them, and they noticed you noticing them"

That's seems about right! When I read that sentence, my little internal voice said, "YUP!".

Jeffrey of Troy wrote:

Regarding your 'degaussing", although the Cassiopaea.org people are weird and I stopped interacting with them, I learned a lot from them. If you haven't read it yet, I recommend you read Magnetite by KAH.

Thanks for the link... I read most of it, and I see what you mean, but I did find the information fascinating... I never knew that we had magnetite connections, similar to birds!  Makes sense, though, and with the energy and earth changing right now, I can see how it all ties in to create seemingly "random" disturbances in certain people. 

Jeffrey of Troy wrote:

and last but not least:
Brain: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but how are we going to fit that much mayonaisse in the bathtub?

lol Thanks for that!! lol

Lono wrote:

The only thing I can relate it to is once when I was taking Wellbutrin in order to stop smoking.  It caused a feeling similar to that in my brain, and it was because it was adversely affecting my dopamine levels.  But the feeling you're describing (and what i've experienced naturally) is more of an energetic thing, I think.

THAT's where I remember that feeling from!!  I "had" to take Wellbutrin about 9 years ago (my employer to me to that I had to see a psychiatrist after my mother passed away, or get fired... so I gave in, thinking "what could it hurt?")  Those f*cking pills nearly drove me insane inside of two days of taking them. It felt like my mind was overloading, stuck on a meaningless cycle of awareness (of every minute detail of my surroundings), and outwardly, I looked and moved like a zombie.  It was like being trapped in my own mind, stuck in hyperspeed mode.  My mind was so overloaded, that occassionally, I'd get that "buzz" in the front of my mind, which only disorientated me more.  Needless to say, on the third day, I threw the remaining pills (with force, I might add) into the garbage can and cursed their existence.  I agree with you, that the natural occurrence of this vibration/degaussing is more intense or focused.  Also, it seems to happen when my mind is not overloaded, quite the opposite.

Bounce wrote:

I have also noticed an enormous increase in syncs happening.

You can say THAT again!

Auendove wrote:

While I will have just a bit more to write here within the next day or two, I'm for the time being going to refer youse guys to this post of mine on the Pineal Gland thread (in the Spirituality and Metaphysics forum) found here--

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=2015

It's post #6. It's a long post, but if you haven't yet read it you may find it applicatory to this thread's material. We all may very well have something in common here.

WoW, Auendove!!  You really have had some major physical "manifestations" of energy working on/in/through you!  Just yesterday, I was reading the thread about implants, and I found myself nodding constantly while reading what you and Lyra were saying.  I'd read lots of books about abductees, and I never quite fit "the profile", so to speak.  But when I started reading posts here at NR, I thought, "yeah... that's what happened to me!" or "Oh wow... so that explains why _____".  Not all the "real nitty gritty" stuff ever gets published in most of the books about alien abductions.  Either the author finds it not relevant or just too fantastic and thinks it may be a figment of the abductees imagination?  But I think those "little things" are extremely relevant (especially when they happen to more than just one or two people), and may just be keys to unlocking deeper truths.  I can't wait to read more of your posts big_smile

czyx wrote:

I just had this happen to me for the first time in years this weekend. "Degaussing" is the perfect word for it. It is disorienting and odd. I was driving when it happened, and as it happened I mentioned it to my girlfriend, who was sitting in the passenger seat. She experienced nothing out of the ordinary. I was worried if it lasted too long I'd have to pull over and let her drive, but after a few seconds it went away.

Holy cow!  Yeah, I'd bet it'd would be disorienting while driving!!  My eyes felt like they were slightly vibrating... or more like the optic nerve was vibrating slightly from the intensity of the source.  Glad to hear it didn't last too long.  That's the weird part...it seems like forever when it's happening (almost like time stops inside your head for a tic), and then when it's over, you realize that it was only a few seconds.

montalk wrote:

I don't know exactly what your case may be, Pinkrlyq and Czyx, but degaussing or hemispherical desynchronization does sound like a possibility. Not sure if it's an energy thing, a weapon of some type, or a variation of the ear tone/ear ringing phenomenon.

It's definitely not the ear rining thing... I get those too.  I was reading the thread about the ear ringings (think it was under the "implants" thread), and again, I was nodding the whole way through.  I've had the various ringing tones since I can remember (in either and both ears, various tones, muffled pre-post, lasting as long as 2 hours one time) ... Actually everyone in my family has always had it, so I thought everyone had that happen.  It wasn't until I was reading about it here that I realized it's not a "normal" thing.

montalk wrote:

Curiously, yesterday I awoke from a nap into a trance state and saw hanging from the ceiling an etheric scaffold structure with a bottom tip pointed at my head wiggling rhythmically in synch with that pulsation. Yesterday I also got a psychic attack coinciding with my biorhythms crossing, which included a throbbing headache, nausea, the phosphene pulsations, and clips from negative songs looping endlessly when I wasn't fighting it off by concentrating on other things.

I popped into IRC last night was told that you had gone to rest because of psychic attacks, but I had no idea it was that intense!  Something is definitely "going on" at the present, and I'm still trying to figure out if it's all from negative sources, or if part of it is a reaction to the changing of the planet, or if some other 'higher' realm(s) is/are trying to establish communications and we're not all quite "synched-up" yet... or "D: All of the Above". 

montalk wrote:

Maybe this is related, most likely not, but I get this 8 Hz pulsation in the visual phosphene noise overlaying my field of vision sometimes...the pulsation is slightly different in my left eye compared to right eye, so it creates a desynchronization between my hemispheres and is both aggravating and a little disorienting.

I'd never seen that term "visual phosphene" before, so I just looked it up, and again...another synch.  That finally explains what I've been seeing since I was a kid, although mine are not the pulsating kind, like yours.  I can imagine that would be extremely disorienting with it being different for left and right eyes.  Almost sounds like an ocular migraine of sorts.  Actually, that makes me wonder how many people that are diagnosed with migraines might really have more going on than they may think.

When I'm outside without sunglasses, I've always seen those tiny pinpoints of light (like if you ever sneeze too hard and you see "shooting stars")... only, I see the sky filled with them, flying to and fro, right into and through objects... I used to think I was seeing some sort of tiny molecules, but now I realize it must just be a sensitivity within my iris (too much phosphene?).  Whenever I'd try and explain what I was seeing to anyone, they never knew what I was talking about.  'Nother mystery solved.  Thanks, montalk smile

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

10 (edited by Pamelajean 2006-06-01 23:33:45)

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Pinkrlyq...did you call the 800 number back?  The number should be stored in your message box.

Just wondering.

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Pamelajean wrote:

Pinkrlyq...did you call the 800 number back?  The number should be stored in your message box.

Just wondering.

Nope... I "whimped-out", a little shaken-up by the whole thing, and when I looked back at the number, I saw that it wasn't an 800, it was an 847, which is the area code for many northern suburbs here.  I must have not seen the number correctly when I first picked-up the phone?  I did do the on-line trace, though, but I bet if I called the number back, I'd probably get the fitness center and they wouldn't know what I'd be talking about.  I'll call the number tomorrow and see who answers.

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

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Pinkrlyq wrote:

When I'm outside without sunglasses, I've always seen those tiny pinpoints of light (like if you ever sneeze too hard and you see "shooting stars")... only, I see the sky filled with them, flying to and fro, right into and through objects... I used to think I was seeing some sort of tiny molecules, but now I realize it must just be a sensitivity within my iris (too much phosphene?).  Whenever I'd try and explain what I was seeing to anyone, they never knew what I was talking about.  'Nother mystery solved.  Thanks, montalk smile

You see the bubbles?!  I've seen them for years, and have finally come to the conclusion that I may be seeing prana or some sort of energy.  You're right that they're always flying too and fro, and they're more apparent in sunlight.  I see them well (but more dimly) in the twilight hours, too.  They seem to emanate from trees and shrubs at that time.  I even asked an eye doctor once about them, and he was perplexed.  He said that maybe I was seeing blood cells microscopically.  That didn't jibe, though, because these are crystal clear and small, not blurry-looking like blood cells under a microscope, and certainly not like "floaters," which I also have.

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Pinkrlyq wrote:
Lono wrote:

The only thing I can relate it to is once when I was taking Wellbutrin in order to stop smoking.  It caused a feeling similar to that in my brain, and it was because it was adversely affecting my dopamine levels.  But the feeling you're describing (and what i've experienced naturally) is more of an energetic thing, I think.

THAT's where I remember that feeling from!!  I "had" to take Wellbutrin about 9 years ago (my employer to me to that I had to see a psychiatrist after my mother passed away, or get fired... so I gave in, thinking "what could it hurt?")

Now that I think about it, when I was nineteen and had my first disorientation experience, I was probably on the antidepressant Serzone (which I just discovered was removed from the market in 2004 due to safety concerns, although the manufacturer claimed poor sales was the reason) or Effexor.

--Justin

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Pinkrlyq wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out if it's all from negative sources, or if part of it is a reaction to the changing of the planet, or if some other 'higher' realm(s) is/are trying to establish communications and we're not all quite "synched-up" yet... or "D: All of the Above".

It's hard to tell sometimes "down here" so best to start with "all of the Above" and keep track of observations, intuitions, and insight until some possibilities are eliminated while others grow.

( Like with ear ringing / ear tone - I figured they could be anything at first. First I thought it was normal, then learned it wasn't and was a sign of hearing damage but I had them since a toddler and wasn't exposed to loud noises. Then I thought they might be "information downloads" but not anymore new ideas came to mind in the weeks afterward as before. Then maybe they were government harassment, but they didn't happen frequently or long enough to do a good job of harassing. Finally I gave up and thought they were just random, until a pattern emerged that they only happened (for me) when I was thinking something, or about to undergo something, that was of special interest to "them" - maybe I was reading something that would open a new path they found threatening (like when I started reading my quantum mechanics textbook again in 2002) or maybe within three days I was about to undergo an emotionally disturbing experience they either engineered, saw in advance and sought to capitalize from, or wanted observe for study. That's the one explanation that grew while the others shrank, and (for me - 'cause this may not be true for everyone) it's held up ever since. Then I came across the Ra Material suggesting similar, and the C's material too...it's the only question I asked them, what were ear ringings and they said it was a coded signal from the brain to you, often signifying you're being monitored. So over time, while things might get more confusing with increasing possibilities, I do think that eventually they shrink back down into a more coherent picture)

Pinkrlyq wrote:

I'd never seen that term "visual phosphene" before, so I just looked it up, and again...another synch.  That finally explains what I've been seeing since I was a kid, although mine are not the pulsating kind, like yours.

Maybe this is what you looked up, but there is another Wikipedia article on phosphenes here.

Also there are magneto-phosphenes and electro-phosphenes - same thing but artificially stimulated through magnetic fields or electric currents injected through electrodes on the skin or implants.

Magnetostimulation of Vision

link (8mb)

Abstract
The history of magnetophosphenes and their closely
related predecessor, electrophosphenes, is described
from the mid-18th century to the present time. The
current era of magnetic stimulation started in 1985 with
the development of a practical capacitor-discharge
electromagnetic stimulator by Barker and his col-
leagues at the University of Sheffield, and their appli-
cation of it to the brain with Merton and Morton at the
National Hospital, London. The safety of magnetostim-
ulation of the brain is discussed as well as the advan-
tages of magnetostimulation over electrostimulation.
Principles of magnetostimulation of nerves and mag-
netic measurement are considered. Effects on motor
and sensory systems of the brain are described includ-
ing magnetic perceptual suppression in the visual cor-
tex and other pioneering work of Amassian, Cracco and
Maccabee at SUNY Health, Brooklyn. Magnetophos-
phenes from retinal and cortical magnetostimulation
are distinguished. Now that visual cortical stimulation
is possible with the strong magnetic pulses generated
by capacitor-discharge instruments, the functional vi-
ability of the visual cortex may be tested directly and
noninvasively.


[...]
The most effective frequency was between 20 and
30 Hz. Below 15 Hz the light pulsates as a succession
of flashes but at 20 to 35 Hz the light was seen
as patterns superimposed on a quivering, flickering
effect. The effect was graded within the temporal
field. Above 40 Hz the light became more uniform
and the flicker much more rapid. The magnetic
field caused in some but not all subjects a twitching
of the orbicularis oculi muscle which they characterized
as winking. The phosphenes were not affected
by afterimages from a bright light.

At about the same time, Magnusson and Stevens
investigated the effects of magnetic stimulation of
the head with direct and alternating current in four
subjects."~ Using direct current, they saw nothing
except upon closing or opening the circuit which
actions, of course, produced a change in the magnetic
field. They reported that the intensity of
visual sensation seemed to depend on the intensity
and rate of change of the magnetic field. With the
alternating current they varied the frequency from
8 to 66 Hz, also varying the current so that they
manent-magnet electric generator) and varying the
frequency from 10 to 90 Hz, were able to obtain
0.09 T (tesla = 10 Gauss) with 20 amps. A laminated
core was put in the center of the coil of 400
turns which had inside and outside diameters of
10.5 and 20.3 cm, respectively. The end of the core
was pointed close to the temple so that it tended to
concentrate the magnetic field in the eye. A threshold
phosphene could be seen when the tip of the
core was several centimeters from the eye. Phosphenes
were generally colorless and in the peripheral
visual field.

The authors confirmed that phosphenes lasted
longer with movement, of the eye or lids. They also
confirmed that the phosphene was difficult to detect
in intense illumination but could be seen with
the eyes opened or shut, and lasted only a few
seconds. The phosphenes filled a large part of the
visual field, approaching the central field from the
peripheral. If the two poles are placed at the temporal
orbits, one on each side of' the head, the
phosphenes are in the middle of the visual field. If
the poles are brought down to the lower head (stimulating
the lower retina), the phosphene appears in
the upper visual field.

The literature on magnetophosphenes was reviewed
up to 1955 by Valentinuzzi, who then
theorized on their origin by assuming certain retinal
circuitry. He summarized that the frequency for
maximum intensity of magnetophosphenes was between
20 and 30 Hz. At less than 20 Hz, the
individual pulses can be counted. At higher frequencies
there is a confused mixture of wavy luminance
effects which are more intense in the temporal
retina. One should avoid very intense fields,
he related, that is, greater than that produced by
14,000 ampere-turns because of possible undesired
reactions (about which he did not elaborate). Beer'"
considered diamagnetic properties of organic tissues
to be involved in the origin of the phosphenes
but Valentinuzzi thought that Beer was wrong because
stimulation must be based on magnetic induction
of an electric current. It is generally accepted
today that the stimulation is from a magnetically
induced electric current, not the magnetic
field per se.

The above talks about huge currents put through magnetic coils to induce electric currents within the retina. There are other methods to do this remotely, more effectively, with less current, and undetectable to magnetic field meters. Weird stuff...

Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.

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Lono wrote:
Pinkrlyq wrote:

When I'm outside without sunglasses, I've always seen those tiny pinpoints of light (like if you ever sneeze too hard and you see "shooting stars")... only, I see the sky filled with them, flying to and fro, right into and through objects... I used to think I was seeing some sort of tiny molecules, but now I realize it must just be a sensitivity within my iris (too much phosphene?).  Whenever I'd try and explain what I was seeing to anyone, they never knew what I was talking about.  'Nother mystery solved.  Thanks, montalk smile

You see the bubbles?!  I've seen them for years, and have finally come to the conclusion that I may be seeing prana or some sort of energy.  You're right that they're always flying too and fro, and they're more apparent in sunlight.  I see them well (but more dimly) in the twilight hours, too.  They seem to emanate from trees and shrubs at that time.  I even asked an eye doctor once about them, and he was perplexed.  He said that maybe I was seeing blood cells microscopically.  That didn't jibe, though, because these are crystal clear and small, not blurry-looking like blood cells under a microscope, and certainly not like "floaters," which I also have.

I don't see bubbles, exactly.  They're more of tiny pinpoints of light that zoom around very quickly, leaving short "trails" behind them.  I just went outside to be better able to describe it, and my eyes watered so badly, it was almost painful.  Some days it's easier to see them than others.  I'm wondering if the UV (or other radiation levels) has a direct affect on it.  Today, I really had to focus on seeing it, and I realized, I was dialating my pupils (thus the pain and watering eyes... fighting the natural pupil contraction in direct sunlight).  Most likely, what I'm seeing is some sort of chemical reaction in my eyes, and not anything in the outside environment.  I also see the "floaters" (if that's what it is), like looking under a microscope at little organisms, only I can occassionally see them in perfect focus, floating across my visual field.  None of these things has ever negatively affected my vision, either.... always had 20/20. 

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I just saw SiriArc's wonderful thread about Sun Gazing, and that "clicked" about the eye squigglies! (and other things) It's a great thread!
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montalk wrote:

There is a Wikipedia article on phosphenes here

That's the page I looked up and read after reading your earlier reply.

montalk wrote:

Magnetostimulation of Vision

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They reported that the intensity of
visual sensation seemed to depend on the intensity
and rate of change of the magnetic field.
[....]

This makes sense, and is an interesting point, when also considering that the planet's natural magnetic field is constantly in a state of flux, as well.  I'm wondering if one of those "latent" abilities in humans might be an ability to influence intensities and rates of change of magnetic fields, also.   
That's a fascinating experiment that I'm going to have to think on for a while (especially after reading the whole text later). Thank you for the link. I'll have to print it the whole thing out for later reading.

One other thing that may or may not be related is an individual's natural ability to conduct electricity.  Something that may have an effect on my visual anomolies is the fact that I'm always getting "zapped" with static electricity (much more so than is normal).  When at the grocery store, any time I reach for a metal can off the shelf, I get zapped, and often you can see the visual blue/white arc when my hand's about 3 inches away from the object I'm reaching for, accompanied by the loud 'crack' sound (it's earned me more than a few frightened stares while shopping).  I've even gotten "zapped" off of running water, under the faucet before (scared the hell out of me).  I've been struck in the eardrum countless times when answering a phone that has the old-fashioned metal plates in the earpiece (that really f-ing hurts, but oddly enough, it hasn't damaged my hearing)  Doesn't matter if I'm wearing thich rubber soled shoes or not (just arc right through the material of the top of the shoe!).  Of course, in dryer weather, it's more intense, but still happens sometimes in humidity, too.  My friends actually started calling me Powder at one point. roll

On a more juvenile note, the experiment, as described, left me with a humorous "visual".  I wonder if they conducted these tests on unwitting "volunteers", as is usually the case.  Just trying to imagine if any of the vounteers just up and freaks out when they realize what's in store for them. lol

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain