Brain tests reveal what really happens when your mind becomes empty

If you have your mind empty while you are in the middle of something, you are far from alone. In research published this week, scientists explain that the mind is a real phenomenon in the brain.

Researchers from Belgium, France and Australia conducted the study, a review of the current data that weakens in the mind. They argue that the mutation should be seen and studied as a special consciousness, similar but separate from things like wandering your mind.

Authors are all experts in awareness research, and they were a source of inspiration for cooperation after related Annual conference About three years ago. According to Athens Demarti, Director of Physiology, Liege University, the subject of space space is not new to some scientists, especially those who study meditation. But caring for it was also steep steam steadily among researchers who study perception and sleep in recent years.

“Scientists have begun to realize that individuals may also suffer from moments of emptiness while vigilance in their daily lives,” she told Gizmodo in an email. “Meanwhile, in the field of sleep and dreaming, special categories of dreams, such as what is called” white dreams “, where the individuals who dreamed but can not recover any content, have caught an increasing interest.”

Demarte and her colleagues reviewed data from about 80 research papers related to mental metaphors, which included studies on their devices as they measured brain activity for people during the reported moments of volunteers who have nothing in their minds. They reached a simple conclusion.

She said: “The mind is real, it is not just a matter of forgetting or not reporting. “In our review, we appear that the cooking of the mind is not just a personal impression or an illusion. It corresponds to a distinctive brain condition, differs from those associated with the experience of specific mental content.”

According to researchers, the mind of the mind is associated with its unique patterns of brain activity. In the studies in which people were asked to remove their opinion explicitly from any ideas, for example, brain tests revealed a decrease in activity in certain areas such as complementary kinetic cortex and hippocampus. Data from the EEG (EEG) also indicates that parts of the brain may enter a sleep -like state when we empty.

Team results, Published On Thursday in the Journal of Cognitive Sciences, it also indicates that people suffer from their minds ranging from 5 % and 20 % of the average time. Some people appear to be more likely to go to others, such as those who suffer from attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD). However, more research is needed to confirm these results and help to answer more open questions about the nature of the mind.

“For example, we do not yet know how much time the rings of the mind usually last, or whether there are different types. Can some cases be voluntary? Can the mind of weakness occur during high -performance situations, such as flow?” Note Demarti. “There is also a deeper understanding of its nervous mechanisms. Does the mind put the result of failure to generate mental content, or does it fail to reach (where there is content but does not reach awareness of consciousness)?”

The authors ultimately hope to inspire their other work in this field to start paying more attention to the bombing. Meanwhile, I just want scientists to reveal one day as all my intrusive thoughts come around my cat.