Technological Breakthrough Allows Scientists to Read Your Mind By Melissa Knowles

Most of us have heard the old adage, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." In other words, keep your negative thoughts to yourself. But what if someone could read your thoughts?

A new technological breakthrough allows scientists to see what people are imagining; they can even decipher what number a person has just seen, what video the person has just watched, or what particular memory the person is recalling.

Imaging has become so sophisticated that researchers at Cornell University were able to deduce the mental picture of imaginary people that brain scan subjects were inventing in their heads. Neuroscientist Nathan Spreng said of the study, "We are trying to understand the physical mechanisms that allow us to have an inner world, and a part of that is how we represent other people in our mind."

Here's how the experiment went: Researchers gave 19 volunteers descriptions of four imaginary people, whose personalities had certain positive and negative attributes. The scientists gave names and genders to the imaginary people and asked those participating in the study to imagine how the fictitious people might behave in various situations. Then the scientists scanned each volunteer's brain, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which analyzed the blood flow to different parts. They discovered that the volunteers' thinking about each fake person yielded a different pattern of activity. Therefore, the researchers could determine which person the volunteers were thinking about each time, without the volunteers' saying a word.

Spreng said, "this is the first study to show that we can decode what people are imagining."

So while this scientific breakthrough allows scientists to read your thoughts, it's comforting to know that you would have to have your brain scanned in order for them to do so -- they're not just using telepathy.

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*Comment from the blogger. 

The part of this article that really caught my eye was, "or what particular memory the person is recalling".

Could this be a way in the future to prove that a person has been sexually molested?  

I Was Not Acting Up, I Was Reacting

Acting up, having a panic attack, acting crazy.  Loopy, not all there, touched in the head.  There are many ways to label a person if they are not acting within the means of basic social standards.

The clever part of my relatives is that over the years when more and more people turned away from and and refused to communicate back to me i.e. answering a letter, an email or returning a phone call, no one will tell me how they view this situation.  No one will say to my face that they think that I am mentally impaired.   I can not get a answer from anyone about the debate of whether I am a survivor of child sexual abuse or am I just mentally not all there.


From the time I moved away from the unsafe house I grew up in to this moment now there has been a fairly steady healing.  There were times where I did have panic attacks but the length of them and the severity of them have decreased greatly.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  For all the sexual abuse I survived, if you look at how severe my panic attacks were, could you not see that the sexual molestation was that severe as well.

I was not acting up, I was reacting.

Prison Sentence Without Bars

If it is a prison sentence without bars, [surviving child sexual abuse] I know I have chosen it as I am a Gnostic Christian.

There are so many flip-flopping parallels in my life story.  When I was very young morning the loss of my childhood I was forced to stop crying, as I apparently had nothing to cry about.

When I remembered what I was trying to cry about I confronted my father/pedophile about all the sexual activity he involved me in and it made him cry uncontrollably for a long time.    I am deemed the bad seed and banished.  Siblings will not friend me on Face book, some cousins are the same.  Siblings will not answer emails and the family Matriarch placates, pacifies and dismisses anything about her brother sexually molesting his own child.

As of late my mother will not answer any of the letters or phone calls I have made to her.   I have written her and called and visited over a period of 5 years.  It is passive aggressiveness at it's best.  I have said it before and I will say it again, Passive Aggressive is the new Bully.

Because I did not bond with my family because of dealing with all the sexual activity being thrust upon me, while I do have the need for family, I doubt it will ever be with the relatives who now refuse to answer any and all forms of communication I have tried thus far.  I refuse to play the game.

It always comes down to the debate of, it's either child sexual abuse or mental impairment.

As I have stated before, I will agree to any and all testing to prove I am sane.  Would my father/pedophile agree to the same?  Chances are No, he would not.

SO.........The judge and jury in my case have already decided.  I was not present for the trial.  I did not have my say.  They in turn did not say anything to me at all.  They just, "Talked amongst themselves".

Many years ago my parents taught me to feel empathy for people who are "not all there" as they would say.  There are people who had limitations in what they could decide and what they would say.  What they said didn't always make sense.  We must pray for them and feel sad for them.   My parents think this way about me and I am forced to feel this way about my parents and all the people who are lied to about my mental capacity.  But guess what.....     Actions that I have been involved with and the fact my parents chose to put me in the psych ward at the hospital in my home town "prove" that I need to be there in the first place!

But if there were a graph from the testimony of all the people who witnessed me acting up and acting strangely and if you put it up against the details of all the sexual abuse I survived, it would be a perfect match.

I chose a prison without bars.  I only hope my spirituality holds out.  I have every belief that it will.

Peace.

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No "Tag" or Evidence Left After A Near Death Experience

I was recently at a doctors office to get help with a case of bronchitis and/or walking pneumonia.
In the questionnaire at the doctors office they ask if you have survived sexual abuse.  At the end of the visit they ask if I had any questions.  I did.  It was a question I had thought of years ago but only now had the opportunity to ask.

I explained my situation about my survival of sexual abuse and part of that survival was my near death experience that occurred when I was 4 years old.

The way I posed the question is this.

If a tree is in a forest fire and lives, many years later if someone should cut down that tree you can clearly see at what time of the trees life that that forest fire took place.   My question is, "If a person experiences a dear-death experience, is there a way to investigate and is there some kind of "tag" or evidence that there Was a near death experience.


The wonderful female doctor was somewhat taken aback by my question and was surprised that I actually remembered something that happened so many years ago.  She also told me that her own mother lived through a near death experience as well but not due to sexual abuse but by a medical procedure.   She explained because of her mothers memories of the near death experience made her not be afraid of death.  It was a comfort to her mother and to the doctor herself.

The answer from this wonderful doctor was, "No, there is not a way to investigate or find any "tag" of any kind due to the survival of a near death experience that could be found in the body.

Kind of a pity.

The outline of my personal survival is on this blog titled, Each Survivors Story Is Important.  This was my second posting and it was from 2/4/10.

I believe there are some people who could verify this this but I hold out little hope that they would ever come forward.   It's not that I am a very negative person, it's just that the pattern of non support speaks for itself.

Dark Humor (?)

What If some manufacturer combined these two products?!? 

Would THAT protect children from being used as sex objects?