Hallucinations may actually be caused by folds in the brain

Imagine hearing a voice that screams, “You’re no good at this and you’re going to fail every exam” but not knowing where it came from. Or suddenly seeing a poisonous snake slithering towards you. Even if you’ve never had a hallucination – a sensory event that is experienced as real, despite having no material world cause – it’s easy to imagine how frightening they can be.
Despite advances in brain imaging technology, we still have a limited understanding of the biological processes behind hallucinations. But new research has discovered that a key region of the brain, the paracingulate sulcus, may underlie the experience. This delivers a glimmer of insight into why some people are more likely to hallucinate and provides a neural target for treatments that aim to tackle such terrifying experiences.
When someone has a hallucination, the basic problem is that they fail to distinguish between real events and those created by the imagination. As a result, hallucinations have been described as an impairment in “reality 
monitoring”.

How does the brain retain information?

5 Logic problems to put your brain in work.

Below are listed several problems that need some logic to be solved.

1. MILK JUGS

A milkman has two empty jugs: a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug.

How van he measure exactly one gallon without wasting any milk?

2.SOCKS AND SHOES

You are in the dark and in the floor there are six shoes of three colors, and a heap of twenty four socks, black and brown. How many socks and shoes must you take into the light to be certain that you have a matching pair of socks and a matching pair of shoes?

3.TWIN BROTHERS

Suppose there are twin brothers; one which always tells the truth and one which always lies.

What single yes/no question could you ask to either brother to figure out which is which?

4.CUT THE CAKE

How is it possible to cut a traditional circular cake into 8 equal size pieces, with only 3 cuts?

5.FOUR DIGIT NUMBER

What is the four digit number in which the first digit is one third the second, the third is the sum of the first and the second, and the last is three times the second.

The Science of Storytelling

The hidden star. Find it if you can!

The shadow people mystery.

Have you seen the shadow people?

They creep into our world from the peripheral darkness, often with the malicious intent. For ages, their origins were shrouded in mystery. Some believed they hailed from the immaterial Plane of Shadow, an alien planet or even the future.

The shadow people remain just out of sight, following our movements and even seeking to envelop us. But just who are these dark beings so intent on invading out extrapersonal space?