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[Week 8] ASMR - Orgasm of brain

      At the beginning I want to present a movie, which will help you experience the feeling of ASMR while reading this text.            Have   you ever felt   similar pleasant chills, flowing from top of the head to the back? Sometimes it appears while brushing hair   or suddenly when someone is speaking with a specific tone of voice and even during simple paper scrape. This phenomenon is so pleasant and relaxing that it has gained a large group of fans and recently have appeared many   movies like that. Using 3D microphone they record whispers, rustles, scrapings and many different activities which are considered to cause ASMR. Of course, to listen to them you must wear   stereo headphones . What is ASMR? But maybe I'll start from the beginning and I will tell you what this psycho-physician experience is. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response known as ASMR, is a neologism for a perceptual phenomeno...

[Week 8] Is my perception the same as yours?

Illusion     Did you know that   all colors are simply an illusion? Colors   don't exist, but we can also experience them, such as gravitation or space radiation. Every color is created in our brain, which converts electromagnetic spectrum into a visible color. We could observe and measure different waves, even invisible for us like ultraviolet or gamma but it's impossible to see how the other person perceives colors. http://9-4fordham.wikispaces.com/file/view/em_spectrum.jpg/244287321/em_spectrum.jpg My red is not the same as yours red      For example, I'll present three colors, red, blue and yellow. From my point of view they look something like this:     When, for you they may look like this:     The problem is that we all learned how to name   them, but we never wondered if does we see the same color. Thinking about it we could get little crazy,   couldn't we?   ...