who do you think you are?

If you thought Deja-vu was weird, chech out this story. It looks as though your perception of physical "self" can be over-ridden by the application of a simple video VR style helmet, which replaces what you see with what another entity sees while wearing a stereoscopic camera.

This adds to a whole host of strange but simple tricks one can do with the human body and a few minutes with some volunteers. Go and check out the story!

On a related note, have you ever done the levitation trick? Get together yourself and 4 friends and ask someone (anyone) to sit in a chair. Gather around the person in the following configuration - two stood by the knees, two stood by the arm pits. To test your strength (as a control), each of you clasp your hands together to make a finger gun, with both index fingers touching together and pointing outwards. Now, put the fingers under both armpits and both knees, and try to lift the person. Can't do it, right? 

Now, each of you remove your hands. Now, you all have to stand around behind the person sitting in the chair. One person needs to place their hand floating above the subjects head, then another person place their hand, then another etc. Until all eight hands are stacked in a column above the subjects head. The hands should not be touching, and no one person's two hands should be adjacent (i.e. someone else's hand must be in between). Stand here for between 1 or two minutes, and whenever I've done this we've always hummed while the hands were stacked. I don't know if it actually helps this work any better, but it certainly adds to the atmosphere!

Once the time is nearly up, someone should count down the last 5 seconds, and on "one" everyone should unstack their hands, make the finger gun, shove the "barrell" into the arm pit/knee crook and LIFT! You'll be amazed how strong you've become....

Another weird effect is to do the following experiment. Facing someone you know, ask them to put their hand against yours, palms touching. Then, fold down and interlink all of your fingers together, except for the index fingers, which should remain pointing. Now (weird bit), take your opposite hand and stroke the two fingers between the index finger and thumb of your free hand. This should feel weird, and if you do it long enough, you'll start to feel yourself touching the underside of your finger (even though it is pressed against the inside of you compatriots finger).