October is upon us, which means Halloween, colorful leaves, cooling weather, and INKTOBER.
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"I don't want to love her. I don't like what that means for me." "What do you think it means?" "It means I have something to lose again, and I'm not strong enough for that anymore."
Learn the art of world-building in your sci-fi, fantasy or alt-history story with these 10 key elements of world-building!
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Cheating guy got a 'loyalty' tattoo, brother burst out laughing.
Every girl dreams of finding the right man in her life and settling down with him at some point and starting a family. She craves the goodness of life, her man's love and all his attention. Well, all those beautiful dreams and fantasies go down the drain when she finds out her date is nothing
You probably already know how much we love reading books, dear Pandas. However, there’s a lot of beauty, wisdom, and wit to be found on the internet, too—you just need to know where to look. Tumblr, for instance, can be a wonderful inspiration for all kinds of writers, no matter the genre.
Big companies and well-known corporations only mean business, they aren't really your well-wishers. They'll go above and beyond to get their product sold out on profit. They'll spend tons on marketing campaigns, sale promotions, and other offers just to attract customers. Now what happens behind the curtain is often unknown to most of us, that's
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Suddenly everything was a competition (that her kids always won).
October 12, 2016 Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering migraines. Credit: Shutterstock A new method for inducing, modelling and measuring visual hallucinations in healthy individuals suggests these complex experiences share a common underlying mechanism with normal visual perception, UNSW researchers say. Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering migraines. These involuntary experiences are thought to arise when spontaneous changes in the brain temporarily hijack visual function, but the exact causes and underlying mechanisms aren't fully understood. "We have known for more than 100 years that flickering light can cause almost anyone to experience a hallucination," says UNSW Associate Professor Joel Pearson from the School of Psychology. "However, the unpredictability, complexity and personal nature of these hallucinations make them difficult to measure scientifically," he says. The content of these visions – including colours and forms that appear and how they move around – are constantly changing over time and are inherently subjective. "Previous studies have typically relied on drawings and verbal descriptions, but these don't provide us with a way to precisely identify the mechanisms in our brain that cause hallucinations," says Pearson. One of the grand challenges in the field has been inducing hallucinations in the lab that are stable and identical for all people. Now, thanks to Pearson and his team, this is possible. It means they can scientifically measure the strength of hallucinations without relying on subjective descriptions. Using a flickering white light against a black backdrop, the UNSW team was able to induce visual hallucinations in a number of healthy volunteers, causing them to 'see' pale grey blobs. It is recommended that anyone with a history of migraines, epilepsy or psychiatric disorders refrain from watching the video below. You should see pale grey blobs appear in the ring and rotate around it, first in one direction and then the other. "With our technique we get rid of the unpredictability. People don't see windmills, lines, or different colours; they just hallucinate grey blobs. Once the hallucination is stable like this, with just the blobs, we can start to objectively investigate the underlying mechanisms," says Pearson. "Nobody has been able to do this before, because they haven't been able to overcome this key challenge. Understanding how Parkinson’s patients experience visual mental imagery is providing hope that their uncontrolled hallucinations can be treated. Credit: defeatparkinsons.com Using new techniques, they were able to measure the strength of the hallucinations, and pinpoint that the hallucinations were arising inside the visual cortex – the region of the brain that processes visual information and allows us to see. "The induced hallucinations also seem to obey many of the same laws and properties as normal visual perception," says Pearson. The team's results are published today in the journal eLife and comes as Australia marks Mental Health Week. Pearson says the next step is to investigate whether the experimental methods can be used to model hallucinations produced by psychiatric disorders. The team has begun working with people with Parkinson's disease. "Not everyone who gets Parkinson's has hallucinations," says Pearson. "If we can use these models to study their hallucinations, we can find out what might be causing them, and hopefully learn more about other symptoms that accompany natural hallucinogenic states." Healthy volunteers reported seeing pale grey blobs appear in the ring and rotate around it, first in one direction and then the other. Credit: Joel Pearson "It will help inform us about what is happening pathologically in the brain during hallucinations, and ultimately help us develop new treatments." "As we mark Mental Health Week, this study highlights the urgent importance of translational science for understanding and developing new treatments for mental health. "The World Economic Forum has predicted mental health care will cost around six trillion a year by 2030, so we urgently need new methods and laboratory models to understand mental illness," says Pearson. Flickering lights and a pale grey blob – how the scientists induced and measured hallucinations The volunteers were university students with no history of migraines or psychiatric disorders. The students watched an image of a plain white ring flicker on and off up to around 130 times per second against a black background. To measure the hallucinations, the team placed a second ring marked with permanent grey blobs inside the white ring. By stating whether the hallucinated blobs were lighter or darker than the real blobs, the participants were able to communicate how strong the hallucination was. Credit: Joel Pearson All individuals reported seeing pale grey blobs appear in the ring and rotate around it, first in one direction and then the other. To measure the hallucinations, the team placed a second ring marked with permanent grey blobs inside the white ring. By stating whether the hallucinated blobs were lighter or darker than the real blobs, the participants were able to communicate how strong the hallucination was. Using behavioural science techniques, the team was able to demonstrate that the hallucinations were arising inside the visual cortex, without the need for MRI scans. They did this by showing volunteers two flickering-lights – one for each eye, displayed out of synchrony. These lights were flashing about 2.5 times per second – a relatively slow rate, which normally doesn't induce strong hallucinations, explains Pearson. But the volunteers were experiencing hallucinations consistent with lights flashing about 5 times per second. "They were combining the signals from the two eyes. This really only happens in the visual cortex, not in the eye, or other initial processing areas of the brain," says Pearson. Working with mathematicians from the University of Pittsburgh, the team developed neural models of the visual cortex to try to understand what was happening. Pearson likens these models to the vibrational phenomena known as cymatics, where sound frequencies can be seen pushing sand grains into geometric patterns. "Rather than a metal plate and sand, we're talking about the visual cortex, where we see these reverberating, self-organising patterns of activity. We think this could be how the brain is creating the hallucination, and it might also help to explain normal consciousness, and our experience of what's happening around us every day." Provided by: University of New South Wales Video:"http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-breakthrough-door-hallucinations-scientifically.html http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-10-breakthrough-door-hallucinations-scientifically.html
Accidentally Walking In On (character) Changing
You cannot help but wonder how this sense of entitlement is even legal.
As much as I love royals, witches, rebels and assassins, there are other jobs out there for your fantasy heroes!
America is not the whole world. Now I have nothing against Americans or even America as a whole but you have to admit, there are a lot of stories that make it a not so safe place for anyone who does not bleed red and blue. I am not saying all Americans are like this
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Presenting you a compilation of grossly inappropriate behaviors people exhibited in public transport Living in a city or a town, you must have to take public transport at every cost. As we thank public transport for making our lives easier as mass-transport system can carry many people at once and cause convenience travelling on cheaper
Sometimes, all it takes to make a friend is a chance meeting and a good old spraying from the garden hose.
This girl sure does have a crazy imagination. I can understand deciphering some hints and thinking someone likes you but you don't go telling it to everyone until you are perfectly sure. And if you are sure, why tell anyone else about it if they aren't acting in an uncomfortable way? However, this story is
Claude dipping Byleth in a dance, while Byleth stays as pokerface as ever, which makes Claude genuinely laugh... a thing that gives me life😭 #fe3h #ClaudeVonRiegan #byleth #claudeleth #byletheisner #fireemblemthreehouses #art
Some people don't take breakups lightly. These people are a great example of that. Breaking up with someone after you have loved them so deeply and without any division can be very hurtful and break you into pieces for a very long time, hence the name 'Breakup'. Some people take breakups to heart and drown
You never know what you're gonna see. Life is a continuous event that has one surprise after another. Even if you plan it perfectly, you never know what you're gonna get in the next moment. And that is what makes life so much fun. However, sometimes this means you will get to see or hear
This cute OC character sheet template is perfect for anyone who wants a quick and easy template to plan out their characters. It has space for design details, important information, and flags to represent your character's identity. It also has space for you to show or design your oc's hands, which can express a lot about your character and is a quick and easy way to convey personality. Don't worry if you have a furry oc or an oc of another species, as you can simply draw over the top of the provided hands to look however you please! Using this blank character sheet template is a simple and effective way to express your original character's design, as well as their personality and background information, in a convenient and legible way, without all the fuss of spreadsheets! When you purchase the sheet, you will receive a link to a high-res version of the sheet, for personal use only. Do not use for commercial gain. You can edit this sheet however you like to fit your character digitally (remember to save somewhere safe!), or as it's a printable you can also fill it in on paper! Thank you, and I hope you put it to good use! If you decide to use this template, I would love to see how you use it, so please tag me :)
Fed up with female villains that aren't scary or evil? I can help. Today's post is all about creating awesome female villains.