Are you able to see it strike the strings? Optimological research says it isnt possible.....
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F.E.C. Fanatical Eye Concentration. It's what makes a player great. Be it baseball, tennis, soccer or any sport that involves a ball....keep your eye on the ball is an understatement. When playing tennis you definately should watch /focus on the ball all the way into your strings. Try hitting a golf ball and picking your head up at the last second....bet you don't hit it as well.
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It is possible. Ask your doctor.
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I'm writing a novel too. Good luck with yours. You are in luck I am a nurse. Yes if you hit the back of your head there are nerves over there that have to do with sight. Not sure if it is temporary or not though.
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I have gotten it before. My eyes were open but I couldn't move a muscle. didn't experience buzzing/rushing noises. I did what you suggest and turned it around. Great experience. I'd love for it to happen again.
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Your question sounds simple, but it in fact opens a whole can of worms!\n\n What is it to see, feel or taste? We have reflex actions and conscious decisions. Our "conscious world" is in fact a clever trick by our brain and we always lag slightly behind what is really happening. I'll try and explain:\n\nIn 1976, a team of researchers led by the German neurologist Hans Kornhuber set up an experiment to measure the time delay between the brain activity required to move a finger and actually making the movement. The speed of nerve impulses suggested the time delay would be around 200 milliseconds similar to that of reflex actions. Yet the researchers found the delay was much longer. This was at least consistent with the idea that anything involving the conscious mind involves a lot of processing. The researchers found something else, however: the brain activity began around 800 ms before people finally got around to moving their finger. This was a startling discovery, with disturbing implications for the long- cherished notion of free will. For the sheer size of the delay hinted that our actions are not initiated by our conscious mind at all, but by the non- conscious brain activity taking place out of our perception. \n\nAn even more perplexing discovery was made in 1979 by Libet and his colleagues during studies of the effect of applying direct stimuli to the brain. Again, common sense suggested just a short delay between applying the stimulus and conscious detection - but again the researchers found a substantial delay, of around 500 ms. They also found something else: that the brain appears to "back-date'' the conscious response, thus creating the impression there was hardly any delay at all. \n\nThese two findings not only cast new light on the link between brain activity and consciousness, but also gave some hints about what consciousness is actually for. \n\nFirst although our actions are not initiated by our conscious mind at all our consciousness can at least veto any actions generated by our non-conscious brain that we deem unacceptable. Free will is thus not about consciously choosing to act in certain ways, but about consciously choosing not to act. \n\nSecond, Libet’s experiments point towards a reason why the brain expends so much effort to create consciousness: it binds together sensory inputs from the outside world to produce a consistent and reliable model of what is happening “out there”.
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Hmmm...Magnet Therapy??\n\nSome people say this helps, but I don't think it has been proven.
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It 'can' happen, but it's very unlikely.  It's mostly due to the pain.
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As a personal opinion I think it is entirely possible but I do not know of any studies which can confirm this scientifically..;
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Hi Maddy, I am taking a few moments this morning to reduce stress, pre-wedding jitters, not really nerves, just the usual worries of everything going correctly, as planned. lol \n\nSo, here I am anwering one of your great questions! ;-)  I too have often mused on how the blind or others who have lost a sense, manage to do things, normal everyday things those who have all five senses take for granted on a daily basis. I have mused on what it would be like to be blind. You see, one of my daughters had a knife put out her left eye when she was six. It was a horrific experiance for her and also her father and I. While she has not been completely blind sense birth, we have always been very worried, and sensitive of the worry she may lose sight in her one remaining eye. She was able to 'keep' her damaged eye, but she is basically 90% blind, only able to see shadows and blurred color in it. So, you can imagine this is something I have thought about a great deal. \n\nI read the answers you received when I first clicked here. Bonacua B is as close to an honest interpretation, or considered response than any other. Now, imagination does not require sight. They 'way' they imagine things will be different than those with sight, but they still will have dreams and imagination. Blind folks are as capable of those with sight of being able to be imaginative, innovative, creative and otherwise intuitive. They are in a unique position to provide an alternate view, which can be very impressive. When we are in a 'think tank' it is of best interest to implement as diverse a group as possible. When we keep the group diverse we are able to obtain a uniquely cohesive thought process which can produce great innovative and creative 'out of the box' thinking. This will enable the group to come up with a tremendously increased measure of ideas and concepts. When we place a group of non diverse members into a position of requiring innovative and creative ideas, they are limited to only simular processes as they all have the same abilities and therefor are limited. \n\nThe blind may not be able to see 'color' but color has more than a visual affect. Color is uniquely viewed by each individual with sight. Men and women see colors differently. There are scientific studies which demonstrate these differences between the sexes when it comes to seeing color. The blind are able to imagine colors by using verbal stimuli to create a visual concept. Colors also create emotions, blue is calming, red is stimulating, yellow is comforting, black can be either rage, or blankness, grey is dismal, etc. By utilizing all the elements of color the blind are able to concepulize these and form their own unique 'vision' of color. \n\nEmotions are very strong elements, and they are created from many differing sourses. When we are able to utilize all of our resourses we are then able to acheive our highest potentials. The blind are not any different in this as those who see. \n\nThose who are born blind do NOT increase other senses to 'compensate' for the lost sense. Studies have shown that the other senses which are seeminly increased, are available for the sighted to acheive those inhanced heighths. We ALL have the capasity to use our senses to a maximine capasite, the same as the blind, we just don't do it. When we are trained to use our senses to the highest levels we are able to acheive seeminly spiritual elements within our abilities to minipulate them. Most people just do not work on increasing their senses to the degree of their full capasity. The blind are trained to do so. So, it is not an ability to obtain any higher degree of use in remaining senses, above the ability of any seeing person, it is just they work at acheiving these 'high' degree of developed senses. \n\nI firmly believe the born blind are as able as any other to imagine and dream. The way this is manifested may be different, of course it
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Well, maybe it's not so great.  Does it bore you?  Mayeb your subconscious is telling you something.  Listen to it.
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i do it all the time!  \n\nthe people who think it's impossible are uniformed. \n\nclosing your eyes is the natural involuntary response, but when i was young i realised that i could voluntarily keep my eyes open. \n\nIt is possible, and i have had no ill effects from doing it.  I think it is a fun way to impress my friends.  They all think I'm weird, and i like it like that!
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It works on some people and it does not work the others. It depends on people's "biofield". Even hynotists can sense a person that has a weak field and  then they will ask that person to  volunteer. Some hypothitosts ask a group of ppl to put their hand together behind their back and whoever's hands do not untie to voluneeer.
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Technically, it would be possible, but likely very delicate.  Experiments are underway to assists people with disabilities, and look promising, but the control is done with very coarse setting like "thinking about talking" and "thinking about moving the foot", so that very distinct area of the brain are involved, so that they are easily distinguished in operation. To go beyond that, and be able to control very delicate instrument with high precision like it was one own limb would probably require going in and tapping the nerves directly; picking up the signal though the thickness of the skull and homing to an area that is measured in millimeter -- let alone singling out one neuron -- is asking too much.
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Should we try it and see???
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it is possible but unlikely
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Not yet.\n\nThis is an incredibly active area of research in theoretical physics.  String theory is the most popular path of investigation right now, and is being worked on intensely.
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I've done it with my therapist before. And yes, it does work. Slowly but surely. It takes time. But it trains your unconscience mind to think in ways you never thought possible. It is worth a try. seriously. What have you got to lose. I am doing much better in my therapy because of it. I've been doing it for about a year now. You'll see results too i'm sure, but you just need to be patient. if you want to talk to me about it i'm here to listen. you can email me or IM me if you want. I can tell you about my experience with it.