What You See in This Salvador Dali Painting Could Reveal How Your Brain Works

The optical illusion in this Salvador Dali painting could say a lot about how your brain works. Art isn’t always about painting a “pretty” picture. Sometimes art can be horrifying and speak with loud accusations. Art can also be riveting in emotion and cause the viewer to stop and stare…

10 Symbols in Dreams That Reveal Important Things about You and Your Life

Have you ever thought about the dreaming process in a detailed manner? If not, then maybe it's a good idea to start to because dreams have a huge role to play and can reveal many important things about yourself. In fact, every person on earth experiences a phenomenon of dreaming…

The Nature of Human Consciousness: Are We Quantum Beings?

The nature of human consciousness is one of the most challenging yet less understood problems in cognitive science. As Ken Palmer, the psychology professor, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern once remarked: The debate about the neural basis of consciousness rages because there is no widely accepted…

New Study Reveals What a Brain on LSD Actually Looks Like and This Is Eye-Opening

Have you ever wondered what a brain on LSD looks like? Last April, crowdfunding started on the science website Walacea. The fund was set up for research looking into the psychological effects of LSD on the brain through an MRI scanner. The research was conducted by Prof. David Nutt, Robin…

Can Psychedelics Expand Your Mind? This Is What Neuroscientist Sam Harris Has to Say

Do psychedelics have the potential to expand your mind, or even your consciousness? When humans first encountered psychedelics just over a million years ago (or thereabouts), we were not fully conscious as beings, we were also not on the top of the food chain, which I guess is hard to…