(09-15-2012, 02:19 AM)Shannon Wrote: By the way, if you have access to some resources I can use to do formal testing of these programs, by all means, do share them. I look forward to testing them with EEGs and PET scans and various other testing methods and devices. I have lots of ideas. Just not the funds to pull the testing off yet.
Hey Shannon.
About that part I can tell something.
I've saw a documentary about hypnosis on BBC and they had this test where someone was hypnotized while doing the PET scan.
At the test, the person hypnotized was asked to see a specific color (that was not present at the room and stimulates a very specific area of the brain). It was the red color.
What the scans showed is that the area that responds for red color indeed got active. But the activity was very focused on that area. When we see or think about red, not only the area, but small surrounding areas are stimulated. Also there were different areas of the brain when the person received only suggestion.
What that means, they couldn't tell.
But what I think is that maybe the areas stimulated by suggestion alone would be either related to imagination or even resistance to the suggestions. While the area stimulated while in hypnosis is the actual area that processes the color. Since the difference between hypnosis and suggestion is the trance, wich is a way to bypass the conscious mind, I believe subs will have the same effect, since it leaves the conscious out of the game.
And at that documentary, there were also a dentist who used hypnosis instead of anesthesy to do surgical procedures. At that, a woman was hypnotized while the doctor did what looked like a very painful surgery and the woman didn't feel a thing.
It doesn't look the pain relief subs are one of the most popular, but I believe they could be used to the same purpose.
Here is a link for the documentary if you got interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q7CoqFud...re=related