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What we see and hear can be reshaped by our imagination

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philavi	06:09 (1 hour ago)
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Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:50:16 +0530
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From as young as 6 years up to 50 years, I recall just three such short instances lasting a few seconds. If it gets more frequent I shall be meeting the head-shrinkers.

As my esteemed colleague in psychiatry once stated, all are mad on a scale of 1 to 100. He did give me a better sane score than on himself.  Flattery?

jksw  

Perceptions of the attributes of one's 'first love', or for that matter one's 'first car' are largely shaped by imagination and not reality.

Philip G V

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Imagination Can Change Perceptions of Reality

What we see and hear can be reshaped by our imagination.

Published on June 28, 2013 by Christopher Bergland in The Athlete's Way

Researchers in Sweden have found that our imagination can change our perceptions of reality. Your mind can literally play tricks on you by changing illusions of what you think you hear and see into what seems like reality. The new study from the Karolinska Institutet is published in the scientific journal Current Biology. The findings offer new clues on how the human braincombines information from the different senses and how imagination can alter mind-brain function.

"We often think about the things we imagine and the things we perceive as being clearly dissociable," says Christopher Berger, doctoral student at the Department of Neuroscience and lead author of the study. "However, what this study shows is that our imagination of a sound or a shape changes how we perceive the world around us in the same way actually hearing that sound or seeing that shape does. Specifically, we found that what we imagine hearing can change what we actually see, and what we imagine seeing can change what we actually hear."