@BLimitless:
Sorry, but I cannot relate to your views or your experience. To me, its just a question of whether or not the human nervous system offers or could offer (in some people) facilities that enable sensing neuronal activity or other brain activity which would result in the phenomenon I experience. To me, it has nothing whatsoever to do with meditation, consciousness, self-control, fourth dimension, etc. My conclusion to it is overall: "it is likely, but entirely unresearched and unheard of". In my subjective experiences it is not so strange, since I otherwise seem to have a very good and elaborate sensory connection to my body, which includes detailed information given by my organs, esp. digestive system, but also sort of crude status reports from liver, kidney, gallbladder, etc. That would be somewhat a whole new topic though.
However, its important to remember that we are all different. Not all people are born with e.g. a (sufficiently developed) vomeronasal organ, hence not all people can smell pheromones. Just like that, not all people might have the neurological facilities to query organ information. I don't think its something you can really achieve or strive for, but rather something you are plainly born with. Its like seeing visual noise, some day you just become aware of it because it is just there.
I do not believe in any real benefits by increasing/decreasing activity by external means and exclusively spatial criteria, and not doing it indirectly though internal mechanisms which result in the usage of functional neurological routes, in specific regions of the brain (except if those regions are damaged or were otherwise impaired, which could possibly jump-start them again).
So, if you want to know more details about what I sense, basically I experience two different sensations:
1. Dilation/Contraction of blood vessels and cerebrospinal fluid channels inside the brain - that feels almost exactly like it feels when blood vessels dilate in your extremities because it gets warmer (I don't know if you feel those blood vessels either though, I don't mean the heat itself)
2. Sort of tactile, weak tickle/prickle/"pins and needles" below/on the scalp - not exactly like, but very similar in type to how nerves feel when your legs/arms fall asleep. There is some meaning to how the individual "prickes" occur, it is not random, but whatever it means exactly I can not decypher. It is probably like the harddrive noise will never tell you whats on the drive.
I don't really know much about cerebrospinal fluid channels, but this indicator is pretty inaccurate. If I switch from entirely mentally inactive to intensive concentration it is most noticeable, but otherwise its not very distinguishable. I sense it in forehead mostly, sometimes at the back.
Sensation #2 is sort of two dimensional, since it basically overlaps sensory-wise with the mappings of the tactile nerves for the scalp skin. But sometimes it is also more inside of the brain, especially if the sensation is more intense it is easier to tell. Its accurate maybe from 3cm*cm to 0.75cm*cm (most intense).
Overall, I guess both things only tell me that there is prominently less or more activity, than usual. But I have several spots where I can almost always sense it. Maybe though, it tells me that there is "something active in a way its not supposed to be" or that stuff is overtuned, I don't know. Just a thought I had when it started 10 years ago, which was after I had a seizure induced by a combination of risperidone and GHB withdrawal (I was given the wrong medication, because of incompetence of the clinic's doctors). If I think about it, maybe its a freak-accident. Something got wired differently, pathways just go into the "wrong" place. Who knows?
Edited by Aolministrator, 18 May 2013 - 03:52 PM.
