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65:, although in this case a stimulus is minimized rather than unstructured. Hallucinations that appear under prolonged sensory deprivation are similar to elementary percepts caused by luminous ganzfeld, and include transient sensations of light flashes or colours. Hallucinations caused by sensory deprivation can, like ganzfeld-induced hallucinations, turn into complex scenes. 46:
It has been most studied with vision by staring at an undifferentiated and uniform field of color. The visual effect is described as the loss of vision as the brain cuts off the unchanging signal from the eyes. The result is "seeing black", an apparent sense of blindness. A flickering ganzfeld
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Ganzfeld induction in multiple senses is called multi-modal ganzfeld. This is usually done by wearing ganzfeld goggles in addition to headphones with a uniform stimulus.
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Wolfgang Metzger, "Optische Untersuchungen am Ganzfeld." Psychologische Forschung 13 (1930) : 6-29. (the first psychophysiological study with regard to Ganzfelds)
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Dunning, Alan, and Paul Woodrow. "ColourBlind: Machine Imagination, Closed Eye Hallucination and the Ganzfeld Effect."2010. Web. 3 Dec. 2013. <
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Wackermann, J.; Putz, P.; Allefeld, C. (2008). "Ganzfeld-induced hallucinatory experience, its phenomenology and cerebral electrophysiology".
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caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field. The effect is the result of the brain amplifying
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were the first to modify the ganzfeld procedure for parapsychological use. The effect is a component of the
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established that when subjects gazed into a featureless field of vision they consistently
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Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth
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in order to look for the missing visual signals. The noise is interpreted in the higher
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causes geometrical patterns and colors to appear, and this is the working principle for
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Does psi exist? Replicable evidence for an anamolous process of information transfer.
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retreated to pitch-black caves to receive wisdom through their visions, known as the
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The Ganzfeld effect has been reported since ancient times. The adepts of
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Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy
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Eva Schindling "Amplify the Neural Noise" Web. 13 Oct. 2010 <
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Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
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Index

German
perception
neural noise
visual cortex
mind machines
dream machine
sensory deprivation
William G. Braud
Charles Honorton
Ganzfeld experiment
parapsychology
Wolfgang Metzger
hallucinated
electroencephalograms
Pythagoras
prisoner's cinema
Ganzfeld experiment
Visual release hallucinations
Closed-eye hallucination
Dark retreat
Hypnagogia
Isolation tank
Nucleus basalis
Sensory deprivation
Third Man factor
James Turrell
http://www.evsc.net/research/amplify-the-neural-noise
https://www.academia.edu/455637/ColourBlind_Machine_Imagination_Closed_Eye_Hallucination_and_the_Ganzfeld_Effect
doi
10.1016/j.cortex.2007.05.003

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