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Tag: reality

Whats Does The Placebo Effect Indicate About The Mind’s Influence Over Reality?

What can be observed from these tests is the influence the mind has over the outcome of trials; when people are able to internally ensure themselves of something occurring somehow their body sets in motion a process of restoration, drawing added contingency towards their favoured outcome.

Reading time: 7 mins

attention, intention, Mind, Placebo, reality

The Mind And Time Distortion: How Consciousness Interacts With The Enigmatic Dimension

Just because humans have been able to quantify time doesn’t mean it’s perceived analogously or even that we explicitly know what it is, rather than being fixed it appears it alters according to mental stimulation.

Reading time: 7 mins

eternity, memories, memory, Mind, past, perception, present, reality, Time

Travelling Allows One To Escape The Illusion of What Reality Should Be

Passengers may arrive at the same location but their experience will be completely opposing, the only way to shatter one’s societal lens is to submerge into the novel environment.

Reading Time: 6 mins

adventure, backpacking, illusion, reality, Society, Travel

Holding The Same Opinion After It’s Been Debunked Highlights Incompetence In Adjusting To Reality

When people have built their life around certain assumptions it predicates their value, to admit the validity of a contrary theory is like euthanizing an adored brainchild.

Reading time: 5 mins

belief, opinion, perception, reality, value

Social Media, The Catalyst Converting Reality Into Artificiality

With obsessive tendencies towards online status many lose touch with the tangible world, reality is repeatedly misconstrued when popularity holds primacy.

Reading time: 6 mins

comparision, facebook, instagram, reality, socialmedia, twitter

By Introducing Novelties to The World, Everyday People Can Change Reality

Art is the adrenaline needle needed to pierce the mind and destabilize established ideas of what constitutes right and wrong, real and fiction.

Reading time: 4 mins

Art, create, imagination, paint, reality

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