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Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System?
the_newsbeagle writes: That's what one neuroscientist is aiming to find out. He wants to put patients with a type of amblyopia, the vision problem commonly called lazy eye, into the dark for 5 days. His hypothesis: When they emerge, their brains' visual cortices will be temporarily "plastic" and changeable, and may begin to process the visual signals from their bad eyes correctly. Before he could do this study, though, he had to do a test run to figure out logistics. So he himself lived in a pitch black room for 5 days. One finding: Eating ravioli in the dark is hard.
>> Eating ravioli in the dark is hard.
Isn't this what grad students were invented for?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
... And what can you do? ...
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That seems like a really bad idea for people who still need their visual cortex for vision. If you want to jack up the wiring in your brain, just abuse dangerous drugs. It'll save you a lot of time.
How can you tell if you are done wiping?
Yes, but eating the grad students in the dark is really no easier, and the ravioli tends to taste better.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I don't know what you mean by "jack up the wiring" but mushrooms will probably get you there and they're not dangerous.
And they grow in the dark!
I'm sensing an opportunity for synergy here.