The brain on 'hunches' ...

sufi

lala
yeh i find i often get a feeling in the back of my brain when i'm about to say something i shouldn't, but most times i'm not tuned enough to the reptile bit to pay any attention
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nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
That 'cold' feeling of danger.
Best overview of what that feeling is - and that emotions are not only what we think they are ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/health/research/28brain.html?pagewanted=1&hp

Some of this sounds like it would roll right into an ad for Katherine Bigalow's new movie "The Hurt Locker"

Really cool...we're apparently very good at sensing people behind us without really seeing them, and that's a function that the amygdala regulates...I read an article about how doctors (I think Oliver Sachs was involved) had shown that if a person's amydala was continuously stimulated with electrical impulses, that person would feel the sensation of a person just behind them "attacking" them when there was nothing there.

Here's a blog post with links to articles about research that links people's experiences with ghosts or otherwordly presences with the amygdala.
 
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