How to Hack Your Body
 

i came across an article saying that if you wrap you fingers on your left hand around the thumb (like making a retarded fist), you no longer have a gag reflex. i about shat myself when i realized that it works. this has always been a huge problem for me because brushing my tongue can be the worst part of my day.

so how about it TFP? who knows some other cool things that you can trick your body into doing? (lucid dreaming, gleeking, rubbing head and patting tummy, etc.)

I've never heard that one, EH, and I have just checked - it doesn't work for me.

Anyone know how to get sick off a laptop?

If you get brain freeze, stick your tongue to the top of your mouth. Its that part that actually gets cold and sends messages that your "freezing".

Zeraph,

That never works for me!! AH, the sweet agony of ice cream!

right, so we now know that eventhorizon can hack our bodies, cause we all just made a retard fist and stuck some part of our right hand down our throats...

:thumbsup:

Smiling also inhibits the gag reflex, notice that when you grimace at a bad smell you're flexing most of the same muscles.

If you deprive yourself of external stimuli by putting something opaque that lets some light through over your eyes (halves of ping pong balls work,) plug heaphones into a radio set to static or a white noise generator, and lie still with your eyes open for a while, your brain will respond by making some stimuli and you'll start hallucinating.

Always breathe through your nose to avoid gag reflex.

Put your car remote by your chin to amplify the remote signal.

Taking notes by hand over computer will help you remember better.

Put your tongue to roof of the mouth and use your finger between your eyes to loosen congestion.

rub ice on the back of the hand between the thumb and index finger to ease toothache

You listen and retain better with your right ear, so try to have your right side facing the conversation.

Put your hand flat on something flat to stop being dizzy.

I once saw an episode of Star Trek: Voyager in which lucid dreaming was achieved with a trigger image. When awake, one learns to associate an image of something, for example Earth's moon, with being aware of dreaming. When actually dreaming, if you see the moon, you become lucid. I've tried this to mixed results, but it's worked better than any other method to achieve lucid dreaming.