A few years ago I read a paper about the neurons in the brain. In the visual area they form like a surface where each neuron is slightly connected to the nearby neurons. When they fire, the nearby neurons get slightly exited, but each neuron will not fire again for a short time.
Usually the connection with the nearby neurons is small, and most of the signal goes to the neurons in the next processing step, not sideways.
But if you magically increase the connection factor, they start to produce waves. The wave avance and rotate and create nice patters. Somewhat like the patterns in some chemical reactions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3kVtc-4vY
In the paper I read a long time ago, they claim that LSD increase the connection and in simulations they get waves that are similar to the hallucinations produced by LSD.
Back to the miracle ...
Is it possible that with the correct amount of light the eyes don't get hurt but part of visual part of the brain is overloaded, somewhat the connection increase, and start to produce these waves that look like LSD hallucinations?
Perhaps they didn't see a rotating sun, just rotating waves over the sun area.
Perhaps it was not a mass delusion, but real hallucinations inside each head, so the camera couldn't take a photo of them.
Experiment proposal...
Apparently in some locations there is the correct amount of light and clouds and soar inclination to produce this effect every few years. Is it possible that someone that usually takes a safe dosis of LSD to go there and compare?
gus_massa•4mo ago
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A few years ago I read a paper about the neurons in the brain. In the visual area they form like a surface where each neuron is slightly connected to the nearby neurons. When they fire, the nearby neurons get slightly exited, but each neuron will not fire again for a short time.
Usually the connection with the nearby neurons is small, and most of the signal goes to the neurons in the next processing step, not sideways.
But if you magically increase the connection factor, they start to produce waves. The wave avance and rotate and create nice patters. Somewhat like the patterns in some chemical reactions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3kVtc-4vY
In the paper I read a long time ago, they claim that LSD increase the connection and in simulations they get waves that are similar to the hallucinations produced by LSD.
Back to the miracle ...
Is it possible that with the correct amount of light the eyes don't get hurt but part of visual part of the brain is overloaded, somewhat the connection increase, and start to produce these waves that look like LSD hallucinations?
Perhaps they didn't see a rotating sun, just rotating waves over the sun area.
Perhaps it was not a mass delusion, but real hallucinations inside each head, so the camera couldn't take a photo of them.
Experiment proposal...
Apparently in some locations there is the correct amount of light and clouds and soar inclination to produce this effect every few years. Is it possible that someone that usually takes a safe dosis of LSD to go there and compare?
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