Paranormal Powers :: My Big List of Biofeedback (reply)

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Rayzorblades wrote at 01 Sep 2011 01:48 PM GMT: </span> Quote: THAT said, I've never touched this topic for just this reason. I would have assumed that increased adrenaline would lead to high blood pressure, an unerring hyperness, and most of all, increased aggressiveness.
If you remember some of the other work we did, aggressiveness was one of the things that we didn't want. On that note I haven't succeeded at all, and my various experiments have lead to vastly increased aggressiveness. With increased adrenal output, how would we limit or eliminate these negative side effects? Did you even come across them? Not that they don't have their benefits, but considering digestion happens all the time, I wouldn't want to feel one or more of the side effects all the time.

Well like I said, that's why I stopped working with adrenaline itself for this purpose. I started directly tinkering with my body's own peristalsis and my pyloric sphincter muscles; releasing food into my duodenum in smaller amounts periodically.

Quote: Now you say that its sensation NOT resistance. So is it then, a mental attitude you adopted? Perhaps of simply letting the temperature 'be'? As you explain it, I can understand, in part, a possible perspective for success. BUT it would be entirely tied into how you thought about 'coldness/heat' in the particular situation.
I need a little more verification as to what you mean, my picture ain't clear. But it seems to me that this one is all in your mind(which would be very, very good). Essentially it is. It first began when I started relaxing my involuntary shivering response, to the point when no cold made me shiver at all it was so instinctive. With that my body just kind of followed suit, I stopped getting goosebumps and then stopped registering the sensation of "cold" at all. Likely through hacking my reticular formation's filtering abilities since the whole act began as a meditative relaxation.

Heat is a little trickier. Heat perception and pain are not the same thing, but the former can quickly lead to the latter. For heat it was sort of like forcing my body to instantly adapt itself to any level of heat that I could tolerate without injury.

If I meditate deeply, even in this ridiculous summer heat, I can get myself into a shivering goosebump chill as long as the humidity isn't too high. If the humidity is over 60 or so, it gets exponentially more difficult.

Quote: Ah, I'd misunderstood. You may or may not remember, but I have a talent for going to bed, ordaining a specific time(hour and minute), then going to sleep and waking up at precisely the time I specified before going to bed(more experiments have verified my accuracy, to the exact minute). But the concept your mentioning is a little different. But I shall comment all the same.

In this task, I usually get within 2 or 3 minutes of the time in question. HOWEVER, there is every possibility(and I'd say, a good degree of likelihood) that this a trait common to all humanity. Based on the idea that such accuracy is common to all of us, I propose to you two ideas/proposals:

A. First, the proposal, which is that rather then restrict testing to yourself on the subject pertaining to biofeedback, test it on many people! To clarify, arrange for an individual to be in a room with no clocks or time telling devices, and without informing them of the time of the experiment, ask them the time at various stages over the course of whatever activity you are doing. Of course record what the activity is, and their various scores contrasting with the actual time(should they ask you, ask them what they think it is, and tell them it is correct to encourage trust in their time-telling ability and thus, more sincere and unbiased answers).
While the idea of enhancing your own sense of time through observing the effectiveness of such time-sense in others might seem illogical, it is not at all. Rather it would give us a good view on the effectiveness of such a sense in others of our species as well as insight into the nature of the time-sense in human beings. Depending on the results it may or may not be necessary to improve the time-sense in yourself. For example, if it was found that individuals who were affirmed in their time-sense ability had steadily increasing accuracy, then we could conclude that their is a correlation between confidence in time telling ability and accuracy.

B. My second idea/proposal is that time is not something you will be able to quantify effectively, but is rather a fluid construct. If you decide to experiment with part A I am confident you will come to see this as well. The time telling ability of the individual will seem to vary, as specific circumstances and situations will feel 'short' and 'long'. This is why even the most accurate time teller will not always be right: because time itself is fluid. Aspects of this idea came to me as I read opposing viewpoints on how the brain understands what time is(since we really have no idea HOW we tell time, it makes this subject somewhat challenging).

I hope I wasn't too confusing there. I found it a difficult concept to explain.

Yes I remember, and that ability is exactly what I want to achieve and expand upon.

As to proposal A, it's not a bad experimental protocol, but currently outside my ability to perform on a any kind of representative sample.

With regards to B, interestingly a few of the people I have been able to experiment with in this situation, they have contradictively said things like “Wow, this game is so awesome the time flies, I feel like I just started” to which I'd question “And what time do you think it is?” and they'd give a fairly accurate description of the time (within say 10-15 minutes or less), and then I'd say “Good, now what time did you start?” and they'd say a time that was say 4 hours before, so I'd reply “Okay that means then that according to you, you've been at this for 4 hours” and the usual reaction is disbelief despite me showing them the time. Consensus is that “It just feels like X pm”. So when we stop and think about it, no matter how fast or slow the time seems to have passed, it does seem like we do have internally objective clocks. Likely assisted by a vast subconscious calculation of variables i.e. “How tired am I? How hungry am I? What does the sky look like outside? How hot do I feel? How do I smell? What do the people around me look like?” and on and on.

Quote: "How do you influence your own level of hormones? For example, how do you increase your own level of serotonin via biofeedback?"

I'll get to that in its individual tutorial.

Speaking of, it's interesting, I've been working a lot on charity (volunteering and donating) and building things to actually aid in changing the world. Everything from free energy tech, to free clean water, cheap food, medicine etc. I have a collection of journals the size of the print version of the encyclopedia Brittanica with schematics, notes etc. Ideas, inventions, philosophies and on and on. A friend who lurks on here recently told me that I should start a charity, run it like a business, and start capitalizing on everything I do in order to expand and help more people the world over.

I thought about it a bit and asked where I should start, he told me (I think half jokingly) to start with my tutorials on here. I laughed, but man, with all the things I am currently doing, they really seem like wheel spinning in the face of a bigger picture. Sorry, off topic, just musing out loud so to speak.

I dunno, would anyone be willing to pay 10 bucks for a 10 or so page pdf tutorial on any of these subjects, which you could write off on your taxes as a donation? Just kicking it around.

Quote: Your totally right, overlap is immense and emotional control is a must have, definitely number 1 on the list. Do you agree that the easiest way to attain such control is through reflection, meditation, or general body and mind stillness/focus? This is more for other newbies then I, but I attained my emotional control(or rather, awareness, sometimes I do enjoy indulging in certain emotions) via meditation. It sounds to me that you attained yours through biofeedback and hence, reflection/focus of mind.

If that was the case it would appear that learning that skill is a matter of discipline through stilled focus. What do you think about this conclusion?

That's fairly spot on. My techs themselves are more varied and specific depending on what I'm trying to achieve, but yeah that's basically it.

Quote: If I may bug you with two more questions. Firstly.
"Increased Skeletal Muscle Motor Unit Activity"
I may know what this is in practice, but I'm not sure I understand here. Could you explain?

Like adrenaline priming the motor units without the need for adrenaline. I just tell them to “switch on” essentially and they do. My max bench went from 234 to 300 in 36 hours to the utter shock and amazement of my friends. However I could barely move my arms the following day.

I did prove that I could effortlessly push passed the “safety limiters” on my body though so that was cool. It felt effortless too and I know I could've done probably 500 lbs, but possibly at the cost of major muscular destruction.

Quote: Second. Lucid dreaming. I've had off and off success, but I have not been able to repeat it consistently, and it bugs me. If I may pry, how did you succeed in this concept? <span class="postbody">

This is getting way too long and I'll cover it elsewhere, promise.
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