Irish Sammie
07-15-2014, 10:37 AM
I used to, and in some cases I still do. I stumbled across this article today and I found it very interesting with it's relevancy to anxiety. In response to a part of the article as to why people see hallucinations when sensory deprived, it states...
"Why does the perceptually deprived brain play such tricks? Cognitive psychologists believe that the part of the brain that deals with ongoing tasks, such as sensory perception, is accustomed to dealing with a large quantity of information, such as visual, auditory and other environmental cues. But when there is a dearth of information, says Robbins, “the various nerve systems feeding in to the brain’s central processor are still firing off, but in a way that doesn’t make sense. So after a while the brain starts to make sense of them, to make them into a pattern.” It creates whole images out of partial ones. In other words, it tries to construct a reality from the scant signals available to it, yet it ends up building a fantasy world." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130913-why-we-hate-hearing-our-own-voice
I found this quite interesting as I believe, over time, the longer you're away from human contact even though you may prefer the company of one's self, it slowly but surely is deteriorating your mind's constitution. Many of the tests featured in the article were done over one or two days, and the results were alarming. Now, if you compare that to someone who likes to be alone and away from noise and busy situations with minimal stimulation, I can see how that would eventually conjure up the growth of anxiety.
On personal reflection, I often did spend a lot of time by myself because I was often scared and felt uncomfortable engaging with people on nights out as I had very low self esteem. I preferred the entertainment one could get whilst alone, whether that's design (which I do), reading, TV, movies, gaming etc. I just found the correlation quite interesting.
Thoughts?
"Why does the perceptually deprived brain play such tricks? Cognitive psychologists believe that the part of the brain that deals with ongoing tasks, such as sensory perception, is accustomed to dealing with a large quantity of information, such as visual, auditory and other environmental cues. But when there is a dearth of information, says Robbins, “the various nerve systems feeding in to the brain’s central processor are still firing off, but in a way that doesn’t make sense. So after a while the brain starts to make sense of them, to make them into a pattern.” It creates whole images out of partial ones. In other words, it tries to construct a reality from the scant signals available to it, yet it ends up building a fantasy world." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130913-why-we-hate-hearing-our-own-voice
I found this quite interesting as I believe, over time, the longer you're away from human contact even though you may prefer the company of one's self, it slowly but surely is deteriorating your mind's constitution. Many of the tests featured in the article were done over one or two days, and the results were alarming. Now, if you compare that to someone who likes to be alone and away from noise and busy situations with minimal stimulation, I can see how that would eventually conjure up the growth of anxiety.
On personal reflection, I often did spend a lot of time by myself because I was often scared and felt uncomfortable engaging with people on nights out as I had very low self esteem. I preferred the entertainment one could get whilst alone, whether that's design (which I do), reading, TV, movies, gaming etc. I just found the correlation quite interesting.
Thoughts?