From an early age, we learn that we have five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. However, we often hear about the existence of the so-called sixth sense. What is it about?
Is there a sixth sense?
A lot of research has been carried out to define if there really exists a sixth sense, and it seems that in reality there are well over six. The first sixth sense that we will talk about in this sense is based on a research carried out by Caltech, Institute of Technology of California, which emphasizes the ability of humans to read the magnetic field . But later we will also deepen the data that emerged from the research of what we most commonly associate with the sixth sense, that is intuition, and of how a perception actually seems to exist that can sometimes guide us to predict events or to decipher the environment without being aware of what is really happening or making us run into coincidences.
The sixth magnetoreceptive sense
According to a group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, humans are also able to perceive the magnetic field. Research, published in the journal Science, seems to confirm the existence of this ability already present in other animal species also in humans. In fact, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have described the sixth sense as the ability to perceive the Earth’s magnetic field. This perception would allow animals to orient themselves, for example, during migrations. Like turtles, birds, fish and other mammals, in fact, humans too would be able to orient themselves thanks to this perception. It would not, therefore, be a “magical” sense but a characteristic naturally present in all human beings: a sort of internal compass.
An innovative research
The scientific team of the California Institute of Technology, led by geophysicist Joe Kirschvink, despite having carried out the study on a small sample of only 34 volunteers, said that these results could be replicable and, for this reason, insists on the need to continue studying the existence and functioning of the sixth sense, indispensable in human evolutionary history. In fact, in an interview Kirschvink himself explained the intuition at the basis of his research with a simple affirmation: the five senses have been described and studied since the time of Aristotle, but other variables have never been considered as gravity, temperature, balance, and other internal stimuli that are known to form part of the nervous system.
In short, hypothetically, there could be much more than the classic 5 senses (touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing) and this study aims to study a new one, the geomagnetic sense . The author then leaves open the hypothesis that it could not be the sixth sense, but the tenth or eleventh given precisely the many variables that can affect our nervous system. Also Men these days are looking for Escorts in Athens. This is a fact.
But let’s go back to the experiment. The volunteers were placed in a Faraday cage, a sort of aluminum box, and subjected to a pure magnetic field, ie without the presence of other stimuli. The researchers studied the sample’s brain waves using electroencephalograms.
The results of the experiment
The results of the sixth sense experiment showed that when the magnetic field rotated counterclockwise there was a drop in alpha waves indicating a neural response and therefore processing by the brain. That is, this would seem to show that the brain is sensitive to the magnetic field and that it tends to actively process geomagnetic information that it does not consider natural.
For example, by pointing the magnetic field upwards, the brain did not react because it “knew” that in the northern hemisphere (ie in California where the experiment was carried out) the magnetic field points downwards and therefore considered this information irrelevant . In short, it would seem that the brain deliberately ignores the information it deems wrong in favor of those most relevant to the situation it is experiencing. These days Escorts Athens are very famous. Especially on summer days.
The conclusion that researchers have reached by studying magnetoreception, in particular Alpha waves, is that there is sensory sensing by the brain and a consequent shift in attention when there is magnetic stimulation . This type of sense certainly helped our ancestors to orient and evolve: in fact there are very advanced geomagnetic navigation systems in the animal kingdom and it could be that humans too, especially in response to the nomadic and hunter lifestyle of our ancestors, have something similar developed at the neuronal level and which has bequeathed it to posterity.
