"Send them to hell..."

Chen Yi kept repeating this sentence to himself, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

Of course he doesn't have Ksitigarbha's abilities.

However, it may not be impossible for him to "go to hell".

It is entirely possible to achieve his goal indirectly through psychological means.

Medical psychology is a complex branch of psychology.

His main field of study is clinical psychology, but he is also involved in other branches.

For example, neuropsychology.

It is different from neurophysiology, which simply explains the physiological activities of the brain itself, and also different from psychology, which simply analyzes human behavior or psychological activities themselves.

Instead, we study psychological issues from a neuroscience perspective.

It establishes a quantitative relationship between human perception, memory, speech, thinking, intelligence, behavior and the functional structure of the brain.

Based on this subject, there are many psychologists and neuroscientists who have such views:

“Color exists in the brain, not the world”;

"The world we know is what our brain tells us";

"What I perceive is not the world itself, but the model of the world in my mind."

If these views are correct, then is the world we see real?

Maybe not at all.

Because the brain can "lie".

A very common example of the brain "lying" is "memory hallucination".

Most ordinary people should have a similar experience in their lives.

For example, a certain scene, a certain person, or a certain thing may seem familiar to you. You may have seen it somewhere before or encountered it before.

This is a kind of optical illusion that occurs when the brain's "visual memory" is stored in confusion.

That is, the brain is "lying".

Some people have done relevant research experiments.

Observe the experimental subjects in the brain-damaged state and the experimental subjects in the brain-sound state respectively. They have wrong perceptions of information in the material world, that is, they produce "hallucinations."

In that experiment, the former was conducted on patients with epilepsy.

Brain disorders are the root cause of epileptic seizures or spasms, in which the electrical activity of a large number of nerve cells sometimes goes out of control.

Usually, the activity of a specific brain area spreads from a small damaged brain area to other brain areas.

In experiments, epilepsy is a state of brain damage.

Patients do not need to exert external influence. Before the onset of epileptic seizures, many patients begin to have strange experiences called "premonitions."

They know quickly and accurately what their premonition is and when it starts, they know a seizure is coming.

The accuracy of this experience varies from person to person.

Some people smell a certain smell, others may hear a certain noise.

This sensory experience is related to the location in the brain where the epilepsy occurs.

The final result was that some patients were found to have attacks in the visual cortex and experience related complex visual hallucinations.

A small number of cases occur in the auditory cortex, and you will hear various sounds, such as singing, music, and human voices, which may be sounds you have heard in the past.

Part of it is a complex experience of reliving old things.

There was an observation subject in the experiment, a little girl.

She had her first epileptic seizure when she was 11 years old.

Every time she had an attack, she would "transform" into a 7-year-old girl walking on a grassy field. Suddenly, she felt as if someone was attacking her head from behind and trying to strangle her, which made her very frightened.

And this scene is what happened to her when she was 7 years old.

But it became an illusion that she "experienced personally" when her illness broke out.

This part of the experiment reached a clear conclusion: brain damage can cause hallucinations in people.

The latter, experiments in a healthy brain state, mainly use some drugs to cause some hallucinations in people.

This kind of example is actually not uncommon, and there is no need to say more.

Chen Yi also knew that there were some shady experiments that used strong electrical stimulation and certain drugs that would cause irreversible damage to people, causing them to produce some strong and real hallucinations.

Anyway, the conclusion is that the brain can "lie".

The "lies" told by the brain are often people's "illusions".

This kind of illusion is not just about "seeing", it is also possible to "hear", "touch", or even simply fall into an illusory world.

It is a complex world model built by the brain based on people's past cognition.

Chen Yi wants people to "go to hell" without opening the real door to hell.

All it takes is for people's brains to "lie".

By stimulating appropriate areas of the brain, it can cause people to misunderstand the material world and make the brain "lie".

This was the glimmer of inspiration that Chen Yi caught.

It's just that it's easy to say. It's almost impossible to make a person's brain "lie" and make the person believe that he is in "hell".

Without the use of external objects, people can have hallucinations, artificially create a specific hallucination, and let people feel a specific experience, such as directly feeling sadness, fear and other emotions, and even allowing people to return to their own place.

There are still some psychologists and hypnotists who can handle a specific scene you experience.

Not much though.

However, if he wants to create an illusory scene that is just like the real world but has never been experienced before, Chen Yi has not heard of anyone in this world who can do it.

However, there are many studies on this aspect in the academic world.

For example, myth.

Myths are mostly seen as products of human imagination.

Chen Yi knew that since the last century, many scholars' theories on mythology have gradually become more focused on the study of human spiritual psychology.

Regarding mythology, there is a very interesting phenomenon.

In the myths spread by various ethnic groups in the world, the faces of the mythical heroes vary greatly, but the stories of these heroes are surprisingly similar.

Many speculations have been derived from this, and some people believe that this phenomenon is related to people's "illusions".

Based on this speculation, many questions were born.

Questions such as: "What is the secret of this eternal vision? Where in the depths of the mind does this vision originate? Why is it that beneath the diverse costumes, the myth is the same everywhere?"

In order to illustrate this speculation, some people used a certain religion as the subject of investigation and experiment and proposed a neuropsychological model called "abnormal consciousness", or ASC for short.

This refers to a trance state in which the religion that is the object of investigation is performing a ritual to communicate with the gods.

In their "theosophy" passed down from generation to generation, through some external stimulation, special methods passed down from generation to generation, or drugs, etc., people's consciousness can be put into an altered and abnormal state, and some real visions can be produced.

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This is the so-called "perversion of consciousness".

In specific experiments, this effect is achieved through many means and methods such as: electric stimulation, flashing fire, drugs, excessive fatigue, sensory deprivation, energy concentration, manipulation of hearing, hyperventilation, rhythmic movement, etc.

As a result of the experiment, the "consciousness metamorphosis" model was divided into three stages according to the degree of consciousness metamorphosis.

The first stage is the shallowest stage. People can see various geometric images such as points, zigzags, grids, groups of equal lines, ovary-shaped curves, and rotation-shaped curves. These images are called "endoscopic phenomena".

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In the second stage, subjective consciousness will connect these geometric images with specific objects related to human cognition.

For example, for a person, when he is thirsty, a cup may appear in front of his eyes. When he is afraid, an image that frightens him may appear. A zigzag pattern may become a snake.

The third stage is the deepest stage of hallucination.

The people who were the subjects of the experiment all described a specific scene.

They experienced a vortex or a tunnel, and at the end of the tunnel was a bright light.

There will also be a checkered pattern on the inner surface of the vortex, and in different intervals of the squares there will be images of people, animals, monsters, half-humans and half-animals related to their subjective consciousness or cultural background.

When these scenes emerge, people will find themselves in a strange world.

As time goes by, humans and monsters become more clear and real.

The geometric pattern is still there, but it's been pushed to the edges.

They feel that they can fly or have turned into some kind of bird.

This kind of description, the people, animals, monsters, half-man, half-animal, etc. that appear in it, this religion, and many relics left around the world, such as murals, tattoos, utensils, etc., all have patterns about beliefs and myths.

Very consistent.

Therefore, they believe that myths may be similar hallucinations produced by human beings under various similar conditions.

The specific experiments and arguments are of course not that simple.

Chen Yi didn't quite agree with the final experimental conclusion, especially after traveling through time...

However, the religious "theosophy" method mentioned during the experiment, that is, "consciousness abnormality", is of great interest to many psychologists and hypnotists, including himself.
Chapter completed!