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 Post subject: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:53 pm 
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Induces an altered state of consciousness
Volunteers ended up hallucinating and saw deformed facial traits and monsters.

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A psychologist in Italy has figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into each other’s eyes for 10 minutes straight in a dimly lit room. Not only did the deceptively simple task bring on strange ‘out of body’ experiences for the volunteers, it also caused them to see hallucinations of monsters, their relatives, and themselves in their partner’s face.

The experiment, run by Giovanni Caputo from the University of Urbino, involved having 20 young adult (15 of which were women) pair off, sit in a dimly lit room 1 metre away from each other, and stare into their partner’s eyes for 10 minutes. The lighting in the room was bright enough for the volunteers to easily make out the facial features of their partner, but low enough to diminish their overall colour perception.

A control group of 20 more volunteers were asked to sit and stare for 10 minutes in another dimly lit room in pairs, but their chairs were facing a blank wall. The volunteers were told very little about the purpose of the study, only that it had to do with a "meditative experience with eyes open".

Once the 10 minutes were up, the volunteers were asked to complete questionnaires related to what they experienced during and after the experiment. One questionnaire focussed on any dissociative symptoms that the volunteers might have experienced, and another questioned them on what they saw in their partner’s face (eye-staring group) or their own face (control group).

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 Post subject: Re: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 11:16 pm 
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Staring into a person eyes for 10 min straight sounds kinda creepy....

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The only person I could stare at for 10 minutes is Tasdik.

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 Post subject: Re: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
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Crowley wrote:
The only person I could stare at for 10 minutes is Tasdik.

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 Post subject: Re: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:30 pm 
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Godlike wrote:
Crowley wrote:
The only person I could stare at for 10 minutes is Tasdik.

YOU SLUT.

Haha

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 Post subject: Re: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
PostPosted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:54 am 
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Crowley wrote:
The only person I could stare at for 10 minutes is Tasdik.

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So, has anyone tried it yet? :sohappy:

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 Post subject: Re: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
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Crowley wrote:
The only person I could stare at for 10 minutes is Tasdik.
so you are the one he was whoring himself with :soosad:

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ShaDeVi wrote:
Crowley wrote:
The only person I could stare at for 10 minutes is Tasdik.
so you are the one he was whoring himself with :soosad:

It has always been Crowley, really...

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 Post subject: Re: Staring into someone’s eyes for 10 minutes..
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Damn.. No one?
Why are most of us scared of staring... into someone’s eyes?

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