I'm not quite sure what exactly to title this....

[indigobringloid]

Last night as I was getting ready for bed I was feeling strange- pensive. Instead of just getting into bed I was rumagging (not sure how to spell that) my room. Now, it's not messy- it just has piles of "stuff" (for lack of a better word). A pile of German, French, Portuguese, Greek, and Latin (as in Ecce Romani) dictionaries. A pile of sketch

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[l33tspike]

Richard Feynman (that physicist who won the Nobel prize) talks about his hands seeming mechanical while having out of body experiences while in a sensory deprivation chamber (basically a soundproof saltwater pod). He found when observing his breathing that he felt like he was off to the side a bit. Like the center of his consciousness was somehow shifted. He started trying to slowly move that consciousness and eventually started moving it outside of himself. He thought the movements of his hands looked very mechanical while he was in this state. He also found that he was able to "look" very accurately at his hands when he placed them on the back of his head. He too worried that he might be asleep when those things happened so he'd always be fiddling with his hands, hoping that would keep him awake (even though if he fell asleep he might just be dreaming that he was moving them). He also talks about how when he blazed beforehand he got these experiences much quicker than when he didn't (even though he didn't really care how

[indigobringloid]

Wowza....

[indigobringloid]

Wait- Some guy who blazed for science won the Nobel prize?!?

[l33tspike]

As far as I know he didn't smoke very often (he mentioned it only once in the book and said that most drugs made him nervous). He won the Nobel prize for work in physics rather than whatever thinking he did about out of body experiences.