This brings us one step closer to Bene Gesserit prana-bindu nerve and muscle control
https://dunescholar.com/2020/08/28/the-bene-gesserits-nerve-...
Man can change his pupil size on command
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Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any actual differece to a muscle if you think about it and it happens?
I'd consider "controlling" something to be more direct, but that's semantics I guess. If I heard "control heartbeat", I'd think more like breathing, where one could "hold their heart" like they "hold their breath". If meditation lowers heartbeat and temperature, I imagine that it's "control" in the strictest sense, but I'd use "influence" or some other term if I was personally describing it.
You can actually up your heartbeat and temperature too, but you are right, it's more influencing that direct control.
A muscle is instant and precise.
Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#23Wonder if he is just going into a lucid dream state (day dreaming) and recalling being in the pitch black (enlarging the eye's via muscle memory) or looking at the sun to contract them.
Maybe something folks could try - set your phone to selfie - think of looking at the sun/really bright light vivid memory recall event and then do the same recalling an event of your memory in which you was in the total dark (camping trip perhaps).
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#24Since we now know that some people can change their heart beat at will, their body temperature or their immune system response, and that it's something you can train, I don't think anybody find that very surprising. But good to know.
I don't think anyone can control their heart muscle directly, but rather through meditation calm themselves and then their heart slows down. And body temperature is not controlled by a muscle so that is probably meditative as well. No comment on the immune system part.
Huh? Meditation? It is way easier than that. You can raise heart rate almost instantaneously by imagining that you are doing a rigorous exercise. Slowing it down might be more tricky because you actually need oxygen, but pausing breath with a long slow exhale will probably do the trick.
Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#25Dupe from a week ago:
Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#26I didn't think this was special? I've done this in the mirrior? Not fast or anything, but it is "on demand".
If you're interested, the article mentions that they're looking for more people with the ability. Theres some contact email address shown near the end.
That's just a trick to find the aliens hiding in the population.
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#27And some can see a fappilion more colors than the rest (terrachromats), and now COVID has caused some people to lose their sense of smell.. :( Maybe in the future we’ll have to target products and services for wildly different human hardware just as we have to do now for age, sex, computers etc. “This product is only for people with Level 2 Eyes”
This comment is only available for people with Level 9000 Brains ;-)
Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#28Wonder if he is just going into a lucid dream state (day dreaming) and recalling being in the pitch black (enlarging the eye's via muscle memory) or looking at the sun to contract them. Maybe something folks could try - set your phone to selfie - think of looking at the sun/really bright light vivid memory recall event and then do the same recalling an event of your memory in which you was in the total dark (camping…
It says in the article that he's not doing that.
Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#29I didn't think this was special? I've done this in the mirrior? Not fast or anything, but it is "on demand".
Ditto, I can do it as well. I can best describe it as looking at an object and shifting it in/out of focus.
Re: Man can change his pupil size on command
#30Yes but can he lower or raise his cholesterol at will?