Mapping the sixth sense

Most of us have felt it before -- that sinking feeling that something is about to happen, that something is not quite right. It's the stuff of scary movies, X-Files episodes and psychic visits.

But according to a new study by Ron Rensink, an associate professor in both psychology and computer science at UBC, the "sixth sense" is a distinct mode of visual perception and may be something all of us can learn to employ.

He calls it "mindsight" -- the phenomenon where people can sense a change but do not see it (i.e. have a visual experience of it) for several seconds.

The research parallels other research where people were asked to watch a slide show of random pictures in which every once in a while a horrific picture would show up on the screen. The viewers' physiological changes registered just before the horror pictures actually appeared.

Okay, this is not exactly political. But, peripherally it is. Because the military/government has been using remote viewers, relying on alternate modes of vision, for quite some time - and let's don't even start on the subject of remote influencing. If you're interested in this sort of stuff, read the rest of this report, and here's some stuff on remote viewing and some other related sites (I particularly like Flatland). If not, well, forget about it. With the exception of a few hints here and there, YWA will stay on the ground level.

....but you do what you want....you will anyway.