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If you went blind, you?d still be able to unconsciously make your way across a cluttered room without bumping into anything. You’ve experienced this kind of blindsight if you’ve ever reflexively reached for a ball suddenly thrown at you. It?s made possible by a primitive visual pathway that controls behavior without conscious vision.

In Discover magazine, Eric Haseltine has created a way you can discover your blindsight. Click on the link below to see a picture of a group of coins. When you open your hand as if you were about to pick up one of the silver dollars, you automatically open your fingers wider than when you had reach for one of the dimes.
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Our most popular Dreamland guest, William Henry, will be speaking at the Mystery School Weekend at the Beverly Garland Hotel at Universal Studios in Hollywood on June 15-16. He will be speaking to us on Dreamland June 15, live from the conference. The conference costs $37.50 per day, $75.00 for both days.
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A strict religious upbringing may cause obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was discovered by Claudio Sica at the University of Parma in Italy who surveyed devout Catholics and found they were more likely to have symptoms of this disease than less religious people.

Patients with OCD become caught up in repetitive mental cycles. They have to have to wash the dishes thoroughly before putting them in the diswasher. They may be convinced that everything around them is filthy, and spend eight hours a day cleaning. They may obsessively wash their hands, like Lady MacBeth.
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And they aren’t even human! – A beach resort in the U.K. has warned swimmers to stay away from Georges, a bottlenose dolphin who arrived there two months ago, after following a ship across the English Channel, because he keeps trying to lure swimmers out to sea and mate with them.

“This dolphin does get very sexually aggressive. He has already attempted to mate with some divers,” says marine mammal expert Ric O’Barry. “When dolphins get sexually excited, they try to isolate a swimmer, normally female. They do this by circling around the individual and gradually move them away from the beach, boat or crowd of people.”
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