The mind is an amazing organ of the body. Since the mind is a functioning process of the brain, the brain is extraordinary. We pick up facets of information and readily store them. We go through life picking up signals, processing them but only remember those that we think matter. It is said that we only use 10 percent of our brain. Some people exhort that the 90 percent isn’t necessarily dormant and that it works; only we don’t actually employ it.
The fascination of the mind game has brought about numerous inventions, theories and movies. The movie Limitless (2011) is a particularly interesting movie. Its synopsis is about a drug, NZT, which provides astonishing mental focus. NZT enables Eddie Morray to break away from his writers block and tap into his full potentials. As soon as he takes the drug, he sees in numbers and can write a whole book before the drug weans off. Once he could tell the title of a book by seeing its edge in a girl’s bag, he realizes that the drug gives him access to the tiny bit of information stored in his brain that he doesn’t realize is there and has never triggered into consciousness.
How many times have you experienced déjà vu? I do all the time. Gone are the days when people believe that it had to do with one’s past life. Presently, there are two explanations for it. One, that there are two planes of world: spiritual and physical. Things always happen in the spiritual world before they manifest in the physical world. Much you may feel like it has happened before, because it did. The second explanation, which may or may not correlate with the first explanation depending on your belief, is that the brain takes certain elements of what we experience daily and in a speed of lighting, crosschecks new information to trigger a sense of familiarity. Tada!
Perhaps there is a third example, sands of time. Although I must say it is all fiction but the Persian Prince: Sands of Time proposes that man is able to go back through time by pressing the hilt of a special dagger. Only the person who presses the dagger realizes that time has passed. And so, the other participants in the journey may or may not recognize that they had made the journey before, hence déjà vu. But it’s all fiction and it doesn’t happen.
What is real though, is the workings of an optical illusion exercise. The first time I saw the optical illusion below, it was at night. My room was dark and I didn’t get anything from the exercise. A lot of people see a certain female singer and for others it is someone else. In all, the amazement of it folks is notable. Many viewers jump to the conclusion that it has something to do with the Illuminati. They may be right since the illuminati is all about illuminating a hidden truth through science, hence the all seeing eye. The perfect symmetry of the three dots, forming a triangle and the primary colors of the dots is the key. The triangle has always been seen as a sign of perfection, God, unity and balance. One is supposed to stare at perfection in the midst of a logical imperfection for a couple of seconds. In that stare, one’s brain registers the tiny dots and the entire picture. The hairlines projects vividly and imprints itself into one’s memory.
The central nervous system is a connection of nerves that break down, transmit and assemble messages to be interpreted by the brain. The picture starts as an incomplete message that the sight receptor doesn’t understand and ends up as an incomplete message. A memory is then triggered, that has been hidden before. So you don’t necessarily need to move your eyes to the wall before your brain replaces the picture with the image you triggered. However, it would be there for a split second before you make the conclusion that it isn’t the same. However, if you set your eyes on the wall or ceiling, the mirage will stay a little longer ebbing out slowly.
This shows how the mind is a powerful organ, one that its entirety confounds humans. Do not undermine your brain and mind. Once again, take the optical illusion.