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Magnetism and Hallucinations on Sean Kearney's blog Bionic Brain

Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists on the Technology Review blog

Sean Kearny sites a post in a blog post which suggests that magnetism may be responsible for people seeing ball lightening in storms. The basis of the speculation is a paper by a physicist on the effects of transcranial stimulation Transcranial stimulation in plain English means that someone's brain is a repeated series of magmatic pulses.

Transcranial stimulation is something I have read a bit about but would certainly not be up for Read more »