Describing the unusual case, a researcher from Lumière University Lyon 2 in France explains that the woman had lived her entire life with no mind’s eye, yet began thinking and dreaming in images following her psychedelic trip.
Psilocybin is known to influence the brain's visual processing centers.
The phenomenon in itself is associated with electrical storms similar to but completely unrelated to another peculiar phenomenon known as St. Elmo’s Fire. Balls of plasma have been created in the lab in multiple ways, which have strengthened the case for the existence of these events when all we had were witness accounts. But there is no reason to assume that any mechanism discovered in the lab is the one happening in nature.
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Luidia sarsi grow to approximately 20 cm (~7.8 in) across and are found in deeper water (20 m+ [~65 feet+]) from Norway to the Mediterranean but in deep colder water in the south. They are usually found on muddy sediment and are most active at night, burying themselves under the sand during the day.
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