Your brain, the device that processes all pain, doesn't feel pain, if you had your brain outside of your head and poked it, you would feel nothink, if you hit it with a mallet, nothing (perhaps the blackness of death) your brain has no sensory nerves of it's own, headaches are from the inside of your skiull and the membrane around your brain, not your brain itself Tweaked huh?
well you would feel the drilling through wour head ... but yeah, it's really creepy, biological irony
Not especially weird or ironic if you really consider it. What would be the point of having sensory nerves in your brain? They would be at best useless, and at worst a constant source of pain and discomfort.
phew thank god for that. i've always had this lingering fear that one day my brain would be itchy, and i wouldnt know what to do.
OoooooOO you guys gotta see the movie "Pi" but the mathematical Pi, you know the 3.14 neverending #, it was directed by Darren Aronofsky the guy who made the Requiem for a Dream. Well "Pi" is about this genius who tries to use the mathematical # to try and predict the stock market. But it ends up driving him crazy and he ends up drilling a hole in his head into his brain!! this forum reminded me of it.
If my brain could feel itself that would be far out. It would be like a living entity inside my head. It exists without needing the rest of me since it can feel and think and do everything. wow. I would have a pet brain.
there are pictures of "cavemen" drilling holes in eachothers skulls to relieve headaches New age? maybe not
Well, not pictures...they found some skulls with half-healed, manmade holes in them. Even today, it's often used to relive pressure from blood after a head trauma.
Pi was a good movie. Drilling a hole in your head has a long tradition in some cultures. The procedure is refered to as trapanation and is an illegal surgery in the US. The theory is you increase your creativity and open the third-eye by releasing pressure on your brain. Check out www.trepan.com. I've never had this done to me, BTW, but its a little bit tempting. People do other strange body modifcations that are usually for appearance only, so why not get some enlightment out of it?
Smoking weed is a much easier way to increase creativity. Meditation and spiritual discipline/practices are even better, though not instant. But at least both are non-invasive and don't require drilling holes in your head. I mean, come on, you don't need a hole in your skull to be enlightened or a complete human being, otherwise, we would naturally have such holes. I just don't buy it...
I swear I had heard something about petraglyphs but I'm not 100% sure about my source let alone my memory so there we are
If the prehistoric humans made petraglyphs of it, and we found skulls with holes in them, it could have been for any reason, not necessarily for relieving headaches. It might just as well have had a ritualistic function. For instance, maybe shamans used it to make the "fact" that they had contact with ancestral spirits etc. visible to the non-magical community. Or maybe it was part of a rite of passage, an initiation from boyhood to manhood. Or maybe they just liked it.
