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I found a CIA medical investigator talking about how someone was able to implant a disgust response to someone subliminally using emotional contagion and a convincing story. https://t.co/Aqnynt2ldT
This isn't a neg against @naval. That quoted tweet is very wise. The story you tell yourself matters a lot, and can help to insulate you against these manipulations.https://t.co/Pxktzl9wBh
Former* CIAand the disgust was implanted in* someone, not about someone.The whole bit about creating false memories was really freaky to watch. https://t.co/xfE7gU3vpr https://t.co/8eZLPLzLtG
I have a pretty good autobiographical memory due to some kind of spatial mind palace effect, but I also am quite aware of my own memory failings. Part of the reason why I write so much on twitter is I use this space as journal to help me see thru the fog.https://t.co/tu0qXqkZsP
I find if I fix my nose, I can suddenly remember things better. And its not just hippocampus shifts driven by serotonin, but literally can place myself in time due to scent.I find it interesting how 5 sense synesthetes are often super-memory athletes.https://t.co/cO3j0TlkAJ
I suspect that the better able you are at sensing your environment, the harder it is for a story to impact your memory.E.g. If you can't remember what the eggs smelled like, then maybe the memory of eating a bad egg was an implanted one?
I've been noticing that when I detect an implanted misrepresented idea (say from a dream or watching a TV show), it has a shimmer similar to the sensation of word-color synesthesia.It's very slight, but I can pick up on it better the more I notice.
I suspect that what I'm effectively doing is a sort of self-hypnosis effect. https://t.co/YMJhR7kCWt
But more interesting is I suspect my synesthetic experiences are driven by serotonin+gaba+glutamate producing gut bacteria. The kind of chemicals that help boost neuronal firing similar to psilocybin; Reported to give people synesthetic like experiences.https://t.co/24tePxWoVD
TL;DR; I'm accidentally an entire MKULTRAhttps://t.co/73SB9a0upk
@literalbanana @warm_horizons @alicemazzy @liminal_warmth The method of action of L Reuteri bacteria on autism is supposedly via sertonin->vagus nerve->brain oxytocin, which might be happening with SSRIs to improve talk therapy (similar to MDMA's impact on trust).But these other findings with the spray don't make sense yet.
In other news, I've been trying to find my twitter thread that unlocks my repressed memories. Does anyone happen to know where it is? I wanna tell a story to myself.https://t.co/ohDWkgn7pS
It's not 'repressed memories'It's stress induced reductions in serotonin in the gut leading to poor signaling in the hippocampus causing place/grid cells to not fire correctly. Fix the stress and the memories come back. Freud's got the model backwards!https://t.co/JoRagRV4GB
It's super annoying that twitter search doesn't correctly on my tweets anymore.https://t.co/zbjVIqXyhp