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define "meditade" first, faggot

>>9047486
I'm pretty sure the question here is why do /you/ see visuals when you meditate.

Meditation is clearing your mind and quite literally focusing on nothing, to allow for a brief sense of peace and allowing you to concentrate on either your next tasks or more complex tasks as there's less going on inside your head that would affect your mood. You're not supposed to see anything, because anything and everything should be gone. At the very most, you should be focusing on a single basic stimulus, like breathing.

And why is this on /sci/?

You guys are idiots and obviously know nothing about meditation

A complex apparatus with a lot of room for uncharacterized systematic behavior should be treated as experimental error first and foremost.

>>9047026
If it works, it would seem to me that current theories of gravity are not only wrong, but WAY wrong.

Just invent Cavorite and use that, would seem easier.

>>9047050
what is cavorite?

>>9044163
Well, Melanoma has a 98 or 99% survival rate, but that's generally due to it being topical so early detection is common. Early detection being the most important factor of cancer survival (especially if surgery is needed). That being said, it's extremely unlikely it has metastasized, as it would have to make its way through your subcutaneous tissue, basement membrane, and into the bloodstream or lymphatic system. I feel this would be more identifiable in a melanoma, also would probably lead to pain while it is occurring. When people say they "don't know what it is", that's not nearly as scary as you think it is, as there are hundreds of types of cancers and they are just unable to fit it into a neat category that already exists.

I really wouldnt be worried, mainly because melanoma isnt a big deal anymore, and you have been aware of it and taken steps to identifying its risk.
Overall, i highly doubt this will lower your lifespan, may just be an annoying inconvenience for you

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>>9044183
Ill add my knowledge of cancer is very elementary, having just taken 1 upper level class on cancer biology

>>9044183
>>9044187
Alright, that helps a bit. I really don't care if they come to me and say something like "hey, we're gonna need to lop your entire ear off". Good! Do it!

I just worry a little because it's on my ear. That's got a pretty good blood flow and is close to shit like my CNS, brain, etc etc.

I haven't felt any pain anywhere else and there's been no real medical issues that would make me think "hm, that's not usual." So I guess that's good. I just keep jumping to that 18% survival rate if the melanoma has metastasized and my life starts to fucking flash before my eyes. Their reluctance to tell me anything more than the fact that they don't know what it is also has me on edge.

>>9022373
>square up makes him 3D
into the trash it goes

These mensa "quizes" are made to be impossibly hard in order to incentive you to pay for their "training".

So yes, you are a fucking retard if you couldn't discern that LOL.

Shit man that's bad, I scored 62nd percentile by choosing at random and writing bullshit answers on the ones with the text box

I got 99th percentile. Holy fuck. Why am I wasting my time with you utter subhumans?

how about checking for job opportunities BEFORE choosing field of study you brainlet

Engineering fags don't need to apply, enjoy your dwindling job market.

>>9050350
Every single pharmacy school in the nation still memes the pharmacist shortage.
And every single university has advisors that tell you how "in demand" stem and IT jobs are, meanwhile the entire job market is saturated as fuck.

>>9050248
perception of time is a neuronal function. there are some circuits inside your cortex, hippocampus, thalamus, whatever that mediate it. during sleep, they get falsely activated, or falsely synchronized, giving you that illusion.

>>9050248
Bimp

>>9050267
I wish I could explain it better than this but I think it hits the mark (not that I really have studied neurology).

How many folks here have also spend a year in the dreamworld? I actually haven't, but I know at least one friend who claimed he was back in high school for a full goddamn year.

My own experiences differ in that I typically only run around for minutes at a time, but somehow I get fooled into thinking I was *always* in the dream world, no matter how absurd my surroundings are, relative to waking life.

The only time the spell is broken is when I ask myself "How did I get here?" and it becomes so obvious I'm asleep, and I'll basically wake up on the spot. Infrequently occurs to ask the question, though.

not this thread again

OP from a personal perspective I can say that after discusing way too much the subject you are proposing I believe that reading philosophy may be the only way to satisfy that curiosity.

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>>9049892
>disproving facts

I have yet to hear an explanation for how a direct flight from Sydney, Australia to Santiago, Chile only takes 14 hours. On a flat Earth model that would require the airplane to travel over 1000 miles per hour.

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After all these years, the brainlets still don't get the joke. Hint hint, the surface of every three dimensional object is two dimensional.

Nobody cares you fucking pathetic piece of shit, your mother should have aborted you.

>>9049761
All you really need to do is put your IQ scores on your resume. Once your employers know that you're well above 180, they will hire you immediately. Degrees are a meme for sub-180 IQ brainlets.

Whaddya mean? Because most schools that offer online degrees make no distinction between them and their regular degrees.

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I don't want him to have the currupted and rotten way of thinking this board and other people have.

I want him to do what he loves. I want him to be passionate. In art, science, or whatever the fuck makes him feel good.

>>9049677
I want my wife's son to follow his dreams and become a pro NBA player.

>>9049677
>raising a child to be something
I hope you're not a father and if you are not a father I hope you will never be one because that thinking will get your son anywhere between school shooter and suicidal lunatic.

>>9049593
God is real.

Your mind = blown

>>9049593
what's that pic from, roald dahl autobiography?

>>9049606
Yes. Yes it is. I used to read it fairly often as a kid.
Did you read Roald Dhal too?

knowledge you never use is by definition useless

>>9049499
What if those topics you don't study are indeed relevant to your field? Suppose you will one day use all knowledge of the aforementioned subjects

>>9049497
Personal knowledge has it limitations. You are subject to your own delusions and misunderstandings.

>>>/wg/

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>>9049365

>>9049373
> math related wallpaper

Yes, and not even tiny. For example many neurodevelopmental disorders come with distinct facial features. Your brain and face do develop together and there happens some kind of interaction between the genes coding those two. Also certain racial features can hint about neuropsychological traits of that said race. Hormones like testosterone also affect both your face and brain.

>>9048649
Yeah, that's exactly it. But how do you conceive it's not more widely accepted? I mean the collective unconscious hasn't really processed this concept yet, at least from my point of view. You can't yet assume people's traits by looking at them and be taken seriously at that. The natural reaction is to dismiss these kind of thoughts by thinking it's prejudice against a person - even though you could say everyone does it all the time, in seduction, in job interviews where you know what to expect from the first look at the person...

How? Why do we restrain from thinking that if a man looks dangerous, or looks dumb, he actually is? This can't be just a social construct. Spirituality maybe? Are there proper counter-arguments to this kind of thinking?

The race thing could be a bit more cautious though, connotation and all. But I'm not picky.

Another question: do you think it could be valuable as a research subject? If not outright scientifical, at least philosophical or sociological?

Or has it been researched already?