Mind control???

History of ''mind control''

People have always wanted to know if mind control was possible (especially the united states government when they got all happy when they thought that Lysergic acid diethylamide could be the answer to mind control sometime back in the 50's and 60's). The closest the human race has gotten to mind control is hypnotism (unless I missed something in the news today), but then again that would only take you so far as subjecting someone to hypnotism would only make them do something that they are already willing to do. I don't have the answer. And if I did I wouldn't be posting it on here. But I did have a brainwave that in theory would work but then brings up some difficulties.

May I add this post is  in the name of scientific interest only :)

My really crappy theory...

I remember being in school in ICT in year 9 and the class was being very disruptive, as per usual, and so to get the classes attention our teacher from her one computer blanked everyone's computer screen in our classroom. I had read somewhere that the human brain is like an 'organic computer' and so I then made the assumption that it can be hijacked and blanked just like our ICT teacher had done that day to our computer's. 

Here's a little biology lesson for you quickly...

Little arrow pointing to the Thalamus

The Thalamus is the part of the brain that regulates sleep cycles. And the Thalamus is connected to the Cerebral Cortex which controls motor function. Now say you wanted to control someone's mind and get them to go and pick up a magazine off of the coffee table, I hypotheses hat for you to be able to do that, you would have to amplified your own neurotransmitters and brainwaves (as our brain waves are made up of electrical charge and can be amplified like that of any electrical equipment) by using some type of medication such as Adderall or Ritalin (assuming of course you dont have ADHD or ADD)and your brainwaves would have to pick up on the Thalamus activities of the poor soul you are subjecting this onto.

But,

And that's a big but. One question that continues to bug me (well not really as I am not that worried as to how I am going to control someone's mind) is that if you were to theoretically 'control' someone else's mind by 'accessing' there Thalamus then wouldn't that create a sort of waking dream like trance or sleep paralysis for the subjected? Another worry is a psychotic episode. As the Thalamus, as previously mentioned, is responsible for sleep cycles and when there is abnormal activities in this part of the brain during waking periods it makes the host of the brain see or hear things that aren't there even if they are perfectly sane, which is what a psychotic episode is. Although many psychotic episodes are usually a result of stress and fatigue in a sane person and not by someone else trying to control there mind, so I cannot be too sure as too whether if mind control would make someone break into a psychotic episode, although I would not put it pass it.

Another thing, 

I also hypothise that to be able to control someone's mind you would have to be on the same wavelength, which is harder done then said, as everyone has unique electrical thumbprint, if you will, which basically means that you would have a different withstantion of electrical charge than I would. (Hopefully that made sense to you as I forgot all my smart words) And this is relevant to our theory of 'mind control' because you could possible kill the other person if your brain has too much 'power' and vice versa.

Then again, I am just a teenager that has an interest in pseudoscience and have no background in a scientific field other than what I have learnt from lecters on TEDtalks (a good site you should go on) and from books and my incrediably talented teachers at school. But one thing is for sure about mind control.... *see picture below*

Good thing I read books

Barefoot running

Heya,

Do you remember back in 10,000BC when everyone was running about with their new Nike trainers’ listening to their iStone’s on a Sunday morning? No I don’t either, but I know that if I did I wouldn't remember cavemen wearing Nike trainers, or trainers of any sort to be honest with you. Its from this thought that made me first start barefoot running when I was 13 in the comfort of my bedroom (on the spot, I wasn't running around my room otherwise I would have been very dizzy as my room is very small) and now two years later after documenting each day in my journal I have found a couple of things;

Medial longitudinal arch above

• ·         My feet are smaller.
• ·         I always run on the balls of my feet
• ·         My feet do not feel as sore when running for hours compared to when I wear trainers
• ·         I feel a more springy step in my running when barefoot compared to when I wear trainers

Why are my feet smaller?

I have grown from 5 ft 1 inches to 5ft 3 inches (my height vertically, not my feet) in the past two years and my original shoe size was a UK size 4 but is now a UK size 3. My first thoughts when I first realized that my feet had shrunk was now I need to go and get some new shoe’s, but not for a minute did I think that it may be due to barefoot running that my feet were suddenly smaller. Well, after researching, I found that barefoot running could be the cause of my sudden smaller feet. My medial longitudinal arch (as depicted above)has decreased in length, only by a matter of mm, but still. The reason of this I believe is because I am actually using muscles in my foot that I would otherwise not be using if I wore trainers or any other type of shoewear whilst running. Now,( if you are not in public) I want you to do the same as this young lady is doing with her arms and then compare the length of your arms for me…

The science behind how this young lady was able to achieve one arm to become shorter than the other was  by exercising one arm, as you saw, and not the other. The muscular contraction of the exercised arm was what made it shorter. I predict that this thing this girl is doing with her arm to make one shorter than the other is similar (although not exactly the same as we are talking about comparing an arm to feet) to how my medial longitudinal arch decreased in length. From running barefoot it caused the activation of foot musculature that is usually inactive when shod. This explains the physiological changes that my feet have underwent despite me actually growing taller by two inches in the past two years. 

Why do I run on the balls of my feet now?

I also said one of the changes I found was that I run on the balls of my feet when barefoot which is not something that I do when I am in trainers or any type of shoe wear. And this technique of running also ties in with why I feel I have a more springy step in my run and the decrease in length of my medial longitudinal arch as when feet are shod it does not allow you to run in a more natural way (although it is debatable whether it is more natural to use the heel-toe technique of running, but this is just an explanation of my experience's, so please take information with a pinch of salt) and thus is extremely difficult to run on the balls of your feet. It is from this technique that is used by many barefoot runners that allows you to have more of a springy step in your run as the structure of the human foot and lower leg is very efficient at absorbing the shock of landing (when you stomp your foot sown when running) into forward motion through the springy action of the foot natural arch. This is why to most barefoot runners it feels more comfortable running on the balls of there feet instead of slamming there heel down onto the ground when running.

Why do my feet not feel as sore when running for hours now?

As mentioned before the lower leg and and foot structure of humans is very effective in absorbing the shock of landing and turning the energy into a forward motion when running on the balls of the feet (although I'm sure just as many people feel more comfortable running heel-toe).  It has been suggested that running barefoot avoids the heavy and painful impact that you would otherwise not be able to avoid whilst wearing foot wear, and this is my hypothesis as to why my feet do not ache as much now then compared to when they did on the days I was wearing footwear whilst running because my feet's natural arch is enabling me to avoid the shock and heavy impact of my body (and its a big body at that).

Well,

Thanks for reading this entire post about my feet. I don't think I've ever written so much about them. Of course everything in this post will not apply to everyone and if you are thinking of joining us barefoot runners then I would recommend that you first consult a podiatrist. If your thinking what the hell is a podiatrist, it is a physician devoted to the study of disorders of the foot, just to be on the safe side.