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Boosting Your Brain With Batteries
Bifurcati writes "Running a tiny current acrosss your head increases your verbal skills reports Nature News. 103 nervous volunteers received 2 thousandths of an amp and showed a 20% improval in a simple verbal test, compared to a control group (same setup, just no current in the wires). Somebody better buy the politicians a couple of car batteries..."
I should imagine running an electric current accross ones brain would certainly increase verbosity, though coherency might take a back seat to a drooling babble.
I cannot wait to overclock my brain.
Canthros
and all I got was this lousy erection that won't go away!
Easy guys, I put my pants on one leg at a time. The difference is after I put on my pants I make gold records!
And now we know what Bush had strapped to his back during the debates.
You need more even brain coverage by the current. Perhaps by using a tinfoil hat as one of the electrodes. Other posts have mentioned where to stick the other electrode, so I won't go into that.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
now all I have to do is plug a battery on my tinfoil hat, and I'll have 20% more brainpower to fight the aliens!
"They're givin' me 10,000 watts a day you know, and I'm hot to trot. The next woman that takes me out is gonna light up like a pinball machine, and pay off in silver dollars. " (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
This is NOT a safe technique to apply in combination with a tinfoil hat. That's what THEY want you to think.
All the while if you really apply current to your hat they will use specially crafted rays to go through that current to your brain, or the higher tech greys can even wirelessly ride in via the magnetic field which will now surround the hat when current is applied.
I'm warning you, don't do it or YOU could end up being the next president or some other puppetlike official!
Would these be the same people who are day-in-day-out jamming an external current across their brains?
Thought not. :-P
You know you've been IMing too long when you almost say 'lol' out loud to a non-geeky friend...
I do that now. That's why I need the overclocking.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
If the effect is psychological, having a physically detectable (by the subject) component is likely to reinforce it.
Hmm, so maybe to increase my verbal skills I should rub poison ivy on my skalp replicate the ichy sensation.
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Here's how they got results.
(**ZAP**)
"Owww. Sorry, I'll do better, I promise, stop zapping me"
(**ZAP**)
"Sorry, sorry, I'll go faster"
(**ZAP**)
Previous tests tried several thousand volts, and had the opposite impact on verbal skills, with most saying either "gnnnnh!" or nothing at all. On the other hand, the effect was permanent.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
You misspelled "nucular".