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  • Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
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    Science can't explain everything. Things like déjà vu, the placebo effect and many other phenomena still make scientists scratch their heads and wonder what’s going on.
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    Sources:
    The Nature Of Deja Vu:
    www.theparanorm...
    “The term déjà vu comes from the French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all."
    Placebos Work Even if You Know They’re Fake: But How?:
    healthland.time...
    “Physicians have long believed that some form of deception is essential to the placebo effect: after all, if you tell people that you’re giving them a fake drug, why would they respond by getting better?"
    The Dancing Plague of 1518:
    mentalfloss.com...
    “Perhaps the very first authentic rave, the Dancing Plague of 1518 is one of the most bizarre incidents you'll ever read about. It all started, well, back in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, France."
    Easter Island:
    travel.national...
    “Rapa Nui’s mysterious moai statues stand in silence but speak volumes about the achievements of their creators. The stone blocks, carved into head-and-torso figures, average 13 feet (4 meters) tall and 14 tons."
    The World’s Biggest Mysteries Scientists Still Can’t Solve:
    www.news.com.au...
    “While Harry Houdini prided himself on leaving audiences from around the world mystified at his illusions and escapes, modern science has revealed how he accomplished many of his spectacles of grandeur."
    Why Real-life Ghost Hunters Hate “Ghost Hunters”:
    www.salon.com/2...
    “In butchered Italian, Nick Groff tells the ghosts of Poveglia, a creepy island off the coast of Venice, Italy, to “use his energy.” A faint rap is heard. Zak Bagans, his fellow ghost hunter, hunches over and grabs his stomach."
    Do Scientists Fear the Paranormal?:
    news.discovery....
    “The question has been asked for decades: why haven’t psychic powers been proven yet? Psychics have been studied for decades, both in and out of the laboratory, yet the scientific community (and the public at large) remains unconvinced."
    What Skepticism Reveals About Science:
    www.scientifica...
    “The postmodernist belief in the relativism of truth, coupled to the clicker culture of mass media where attention spans are measured in New York minutes, leaves us with a bewildering array of truth claims packaged in infotainment units."
    Freeman Dyson, Global Warming, ESP And The Fun Of Being “Bunkrapt":
    blogs.scientifi...
    “Should a scientist who believes in extrasensory perception-the ability to read minds, intuit the future and so on-be taken seriously?"
    Lone Voices Special: Take Nobody’s Word For It:
    www.newscienti...
    “You don’t come across many Nobel prizewinners who believe in the paranormal, but Brian Josephson is one of them."
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 776

  • @wongoli
    @wongoli 8 років тому +199

    Trace, I simply refuse to ignore your fabulous face.

  • @SIMUL4CR4
    @SIMUL4CR4 8 років тому +137

    “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” -Nikola Tesla

    • @sanjeetsinghk
      @sanjeetsinghk 7 років тому +5

      SIMUL4CR4 did he really say that? Wow

    • @troynixon8497
      @troynixon8497 7 років тому

      Agreed. Dyson's sentiment was the same as many other scientists I have read about. we may never know the really interesting things Tesla was onto.

    • @parajacks4
      @parajacks4 6 років тому +6

      He was referring to the electromagnetic force

    • @smmm5559
      @smmm5559 6 років тому

      SIMUL4CR4
      that has nothing to do with t you dummy 😂
      read the book
      the un natural war

    • @michaell.445
      @michaell.445 6 років тому

      Smart he was; but also thought he received information telepathically from aliens.

  • @Swidhelm
    @Swidhelm 8 років тому +28

    The weirdest deja vu, or premonition maybe? that I ever experienced, was as a teenager. Sitting at home alone in the living room, drawing. A friend, Ryan, was over earlier, and forgot his hat. His mother's van pulls up in the driveway, Ryan get's out, comes to the door. Tells me he forgot his hat, can he go down stairs and get it. I said sure, let him run down stairs, and sat back down to draw.
    After a few minutes, I noticed the van was gone, but I didn't see Ryan leave. So I went to the top of the stairs, called down to him. Nothing, no answer. So I go down into the basement. No one there. Okay, figured he left, and I didn't notice. Whatever.
    So, back to drawing. A few moments later, Ryan's mother's van pulls into the driveway, and Ryan comes to the door. He tells me he forgot his hat, and asked if he could go down stairs and get it. I was a little stunned, and asked if he wasn't just there a not long ago. He tells me no. I let him go get his hat, this time went with him, and tell him about what just happened.
    What the fuck? That experience is burned in my brain. It was the first time anything like that happened, and nothing like it has happened since.

    • @Tarudox
      @Tarudox 8 років тому

      +Swidhelm that's so weird and interesting

    • @Swidhelm
      @Swidhelm 8 років тому

      Tarudox I have never really come up with an explanation for it. I assume I was sleep deprived or something. Maybe a combination of that, and what normally causes deja vu? No idea, heh.

    • @tomsallstartreetreecare7804
      @tomsallstartreetreecare7804 6 років тому

      Swidhelm very intriguing indeed. Time shift? Alternate realty? Pre-conceived notion of you knowing his dilemma with his hat had given to your expectations of his aforementioned actions...most plausible. Interesting, none-the - less.

    • @l337r0cX3r
      @l337r0cX3r 6 років тому +1

      Dude glitch in the matrix much?

    • @benjaminkcirdloh5220
      @benjaminkcirdloh5220 6 років тому

      need to take time with the weed m8 ;;00

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 8 років тому +77

    Refusal to study something you don't understand is basically openly admitting you are ignorant and do not care about understanding things. We understand so very little of our reality, anyone who tells you otherwise is not doing so based on facts, logic, or reason. It should be our job as humans, scientist, and inhabitants of this universe to specifically seek out that which we do not understand and study it, even if fruitlessly. If we do no study the unknown, how do we expect to discover it?

    • @jasonsmith-lv5my
      @jasonsmith-lv5my 8 років тому +1

      +1

    • @DrDeathAribertHeimHk47
      @DrDeathAribertHeimHk47 8 років тому

      +Throttle Kitty It's okay, the tv & news will inform us & take care of us.

    • @mommadrama8956
      @mommadrama8956 8 років тому +1

      +DrDeathAribertHeim lol

    • @cortster12
      @cortster12 8 років тому +1

      +Throttle Kitty Well, to most people it's the same as refusing to study unicorns or leprechauns. They think it's a waste of time, and I agree. Well, with most aspects of supernatural. Some would be easy to prove/disprove. And I mean true supernatural, not some of the stuff he talks about here where they do actually study.

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 8 років тому +1

      cortster12 No, that is not an appropriate comparison at all. If there is no evidence of something's existence, and no one believe's it exists, it is clearly a waste of effort researching it. Anyone with proper comprehension skills should realize that.

  • @Storebrand_
    @Storebrand_ 8 років тому +20

    I don't think we can dismiss deja vu at all. It's quite the amazing experience. I've had Deja Vu where I actually remember the words people are about to say or a topic somebody will bring up.
    Say I'm talking to a person and suddenly I feel deja vu, in my mind I'm recalling this conversation and in my head I'm predicting what the person is going to say word-for-word perfectly... Lucky guess? Maybe. However this has happened many times. I don't think it could be anything as simple as a misfiring neuron or some mental illness, especially when I'm correctly predicting words/topics.
    I've even had dreams where I was watching movies that haven't even been released and I find myself predicting the next scene accurately when I finally do watch.

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 6 років тому

      StoreBrand
      I don't think these examples are standard deja-vu experiences, you may want to Google "clear seeing", "clear knowing" and/or "scientific descriptions of the psychic modalities"
      Clearly symptoms of the potential for higher evolution leveling.
      "Meditate" - release negative energy, negative learned info/opinions, and allow for soul consciousness to emerge. Embrace your "you" and All of your potentials.
      "Get a guru"
      ☮⚖⚛❤🔆

    • @alexyap4686
      @alexyap4686 6 років тому +3

      perhaps us humans are capable of foresight, some more adept than others, but are all still unaware of how to control it

    • @sumimaind
      @sumimaind 6 років тому +2

      Good to know I’m not the only one that dreams about situations that didn’t happen yet but end up happening later on in real life...

    • @amazingsupergirl7125
      @amazingsupergirl7125 5 років тому

      That’s amazing. I wonder how you became that in tuned to that sense. That’s something that hasn’t developed for me.

  • @win5128
    @win5128 8 років тому +30

    If science wasn't limited by money I'm sure we would already have a long going research on these things...

    • @ronintdsm4861
      @ronintdsm4861 8 років тому +4

      the world isn't as simple as u think

    • @axisaligned9799
      @axisaligned9799 7 років тому

      Ronin TDSM it can be once the idiots die and can't pass on lifetime wasting ideas

    • @ITILII
      @ITILII 7 років тому +5

      Science and technology aren't limited by money; they're controlled by the people who HAVE the money

  • @neoslayerpw8230
    @neoslayerpw8230 7 років тому +13

    He was right, this channel doesn't answer our question, it just leaves us with more questions

    • @waso-suwi
      @waso-suwi 5 років тому

      @yahya s5230 like "Why did I watch this video? I didn't even learn anything. I'm not even paying attention to it." Or _"What am I doing?"_ "Why are fish fish?" _Why can we sometimes see/remember something happening then later on said thing happends?"_ "Why am I asking so much questions?" _"How are words words?"_ Why are things things?" _"How are things things?"_ And many other questions.

    • @waso-suwi
      @waso-suwi 5 років тому

      @yahya s5230 that's pretty cool. And hopefully someone will reply.

  • @wickedwu22
    @wickedwu22 7 років тому +48

    I think the dancing plague was the discovery of ecstasy, lol.

  • @calvinbrady9944
    @calvinbrady9944 8 років тому +8

    Life may not be real. We are actually all cats wearing frog hats.

    • @curator643164
      @curator643164 8 років тому +1

      +Calvin Brady But... Im afraid of frogs...

  • @mcofficial3785
    @mcofficial3785 7 років тому +5

    @5:38 "Some argue that it's just called Coachella" LOL THE SHADEEEE

  • @Felhek
    @Felhek 8 років тому +13

    What about consciousness?
    Do they really know what it is? how can you build one? how many neurons do you need to create a consiousness??
    Does anybody know that?

    • @tonobalboa7385
      @tonobalboa7385 8 років тому +1

      +Felhek Lehrian well, that blew my mind... or my consciousness?

    • @lionelbulgin1739
      @lionelbulgin1739 8 років тому

      This is a cool idea. There must be a study on this already

    • @epicbronyl2395
      @epicbronyl2395 7 років тому +6

      There are a lot of ideas, and very little truth. Try reading "The Origins of Consciousness in the Bicameral Mind." It may be a bit old, but it shows very well how little we know.

  • @MsDanceDiva234
    @MsDanceDiva234 7 років тому +4

    Damn it, I need the scientists to prove ghosts exists, I know I'm not crazy. Well, maybe a little.

  • @wratched
    @wratched 8 років тому +9

    I've always been more interested in jamais vu, when you walk into a place you've been in hundreds of times and yet feel like you've never been there before in your life.

    • @Slades73
      @Slades73 8 років тому

      +wratched That's gonna be the next thing, and it sounds cool, freaky, and scary at the same time

    • @RaheemD
      @RaheemD 8 років тому

      +wratched Ooh I've never heard of that before

    • @RaheemD
      @RaheemD 8 років тому +2

      ***** I just looked at the definition, it's also like when you look at a word for a long time and say it out loud for a while and it randomly looks unfamiliar to you

    • @maximosantdebarrondo3322
      @maximosantdebarrondo3322 8 років тому +1

      +Superficially Steph Because sometimes happens in places where you go regularly. For example you go to school everyday and one day you feel as you never been there.

    • @retak4110
      @retak4110 8 років тому

      +Máximo Sant De Barrondo That would be a good place to have a jamais vu.
      Teacher says "whez ya homework jimmeh!?"
      Jimmie replies "What homework? It's the first day! We've never been here before, teacher. Have you taken ya pills?"

  • @dananicole1071
    @dananicole1071 7 років тому +1

    Love how Trace basically translated the scientists "we have no idea what's happening, but here's a cool part of the brain that makes me sound smart"! Trace is awesome!

  • @Taterhead-wh3im
    @Taterhead-wh3im 6 років тому +2

    Wi-Fi was made by aliens and Donald Trump is a orange alien.

  • @HiddenThicket
    @HiddenThicket 8 років тому +47

    There is nothing that is undeserving of study.

    • @DustinRodriguez1_0
      @DustinRodriguez1_0 8 років тому +1

      +Hidden Thicket Would you support re-assigning researchers who are currently investigating ways to develop a vaccine against influenza to studying what ways we can best please Lord Chemosh? There are only a limited number of people, a smaller number of them capable of doing productive research, and a limited number of hours in their days. If things which have no evidence to support even the possibility of their existence are deserving of study, what method can we use to determine where we spend these limited resources? People are dying of influenza now, but clearly if we could please Lord Chemosh he could end world hunger. It seems like a difficult choice to make.

    • @HiddenThicket
      @HiddenThicket 8 років тому +1

      Dustin Rodriguez
      I never said anything about reassigning anyone away from anything. Only that there is nothing undeserving of study. Some things are more deserving, but nothing is inherently undeserving. I suppose there is eventually a time to give up and study something else, though. Has Lord Chemosh ended world hunger despite our attempts to please him? No. That's why we largely moved along from that sort of thing and changed focus to agriculture and genetics instead.

    • @DustinRodriguez1_0
      @DustinRodriguez1_0 8 років тому

      Hidden Thicket You have to reassign people. There are only a limited number of researchers, and if everything is worthy of study, great swathes of things will be ignored as we concentrate on the things that have evidence to support them. As for Chemosh, we don't know much about him. According to the Christian Bible, he did repel the Israelites and their god when they were trying to invade a city he protected because the leader crushed his own sons head against a rock in sacrifice to him. We haven't studied what benefits we could get from trying to please him in millenia, so we have no way of knowing what benefits there might be. Studying agriculture is all well and good, but if studying Chemosh has value, as you say all things do, we should reassign some people or redirect some of the kids in college studying plant biology to studying Chemosh and other abandoned gods.

    • @nervozaur
      @nervozaur 6 років тому

      Sure, are you gonna fund it?

    • @nervozaur
      @nervozaur 6 років тому

      Also, Dustin, I get Hidden Thicket's point, you don't necessarily have to reassign researchers. But there simply are no funds to incentivise pointless woowoo research. Sponsor Loch Ness monster expeditions with $10 mil and there will be people willing to spend their time proving or disproving its existence (and no, you wouldn't have to reassign anyone trying to develop the next vaccine against influenza if they don't care about the Loch Ness monster).

  • @aubreymacleod2618
    @aubreymacleod2618 6 років тому +1

    It's absolutely necessary for us to study the paranormal! Over man's entire history, he has been met with things that at first seemed "paranormal" or seemed like "magic". It was only when man put on his "thinking cap", that we began to pick things apart, delving into the realm of the unknown, in a bid to understand all of the incredible processes around him. Can u imagine giving Neanderthals one of our smartphones, or one of those INCREDIBLE massage chairs you'd be willing to refinance your house for? Neanderthals wouldn't have been capable of comprehending what they were looking at, let alone what it did or how to use it. And to us, they're such an integral and interwoven part of our daily lives, that we can't go back now. Point being, our phones would've appeared magical or paranormal to them. A final note, one of my most favorite quotes relating to all things paranormal is: "The absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence"

  • @ForumArcade
    @ForumArcade 8 років тому

    I actually have a friend who is a university mathematician studying metaphysics and the nature of the existence of things beyond what is generally scientifically accepted. Those fields seem almost unreconcilable to hear them spoken on alongside the other, and yet he feels he can definitively prove that the things about which we spend time debating the very existence of are in fact as real, if not more so, than our very flesh and blood. So it's a very interesting topic to me.

  • @uzairsaqib9298
    @uzairsaqib9298 7 років тому

    You are the most logical and open minded person I have ever seen . The way you admit that science cannot understand each and everything and that it requires controlled conditions to work is so considerate of you.

  • @JohnMarston-wd7tv
    @JohnMarston-wd7tv 5 років тому +1

    1880: We will have flying trains in the future!
    2016: Déjá vu

  • @TheOneAndOnlyLewis
    @TheOneAndOnlyLewis 8 років тому +23

    Its never a true party until someone dies, or at least collapses from exhaustion...

  • @ayamejoy
    @ayamejoy 8 років тому +13

    I think deja vu is related to whatever makes someone else start humming a song you were thinking of. Something to do with frequencies we detect and aren't aware of that connect us Or that memory being stored immediately and remembered immediately. or both.

    • @brandonmiller9155
      @brandonmiller9155 7 років тому +2

      I legitimately believe it's a psychic ability. I've had déjà vu so often that my dreams, more often than not, are all déjà vu

    • @eiderglast
      @eiderglast 7 років тому +2

      you've got something there, there was a writer or songwriter who said he didn't write the song, he was fishing them out from other streams of ideas. which is why there are times we get certain ideas that seem to be similar from others but we've not seen their work. or have heard a song and you feel you've heard it before...

    • @eiderglast
      @eiderglast 7 років тому +1

      can also be like a transmission? and we somehow were able to glance the moment that was ahead of us? sort of like pseudo- time traveling.

    • @ayamejoy
      @ayamejoy 7 років тому

      Brandon Miller that would be pretty cool is so

    • @ayamejoy
      @ayamejoy 7 років тому +1

      Z Queen dream Javu is creepy to me. rarely happens but it's always something normal, like waking up in a bed I don't recognize with hats on the wall. then years later it happens

  • @domsau2
    @domsau2 6 років тому +1

    Paranormal, magic, supernatural, means not "strange" or "not understood", but "impossible".

  • @kyle4338
    @kyle4338 7 років тому +12

    I yawned when he mentioned yawning.

  • @cerebrumexcrement
    @cerebrumexcrement 8 років тому

    my four year old nephews thought they could fool us adults by blaming a ghost for pooping on the floor.

  • @WetDoggo
    @WetDoggo 7 років тому +2

    I think a deja Vu is just a brain error, where what you see and hear is directly written into memory, so you think this exact thing happened while it just gets written.
    This is the most logical explanation that I just came up with.

    • @WetDoggo
      @WetDoggo 6 років тому

      Steve Johnson you were thinking that you knew it before it happened, as I said your brain stored that information while you're thinking.
      A bit of a positive feedback loop.
      Nobody can really know what happens in the future, even if it feels like that, senses are not the best way to experience reality, but they aren't the worst either.

    • @WetDoggo
      @WetDoggo 6 років тому

      Steve Johnson what's supernatural in this exact setting?
      I can tell you that your brain missfired signals, most likely because you have been frightened of dropping her, I can't know that.
      But that would be a reason to create that effect of writing the memory while experiencing a moment. (thinking about it is equal to experiencing)
      I don't expect anyone to understand that phenomenon, but that's the most logical explanation.
      Also I didn't want to attack you with missfired signals, that's natural, it happens to most of humanity at some point.
      Friendly? ;D

    • @WetDoggo
      @WetDoggo 6 років тому

      Steve Johnson how do you want to know if you had a dream about it after that deja Vu moment?
      What makes you believe something "supernatural" happened?
      Sorry to disappoint you, in reality is nothing, absolutely nothing supernatural, only our minds can trick us into believing that.
      I tested my deja Vu theory on some friends, and asked them to describe their experience and I came to this conclusion too.
      Actually I came to this theory while studying my last deja Vu, it was very recent back then, I tracked that feeling back to a part of my brain, where memory is written, that experience started by positive feedback loop and then corrupts the memory writing and accessing ability.
      Since then I haven't had a deja Vu moment anymore, normally I had such an experience about every month.
      I think by tracking this signal back by forcing this experience I either disconnected that process or just made it stable, only time will tell, if I won't get this deja Vu moment again I know for sure that I "cured" it for myself... I really don't hope so, because that experience is kinda fun sometimes and it feels weird.

  • @amDanishAhmed
    @amDanishAhmed 8 років тому

    'Science can't even explain yawning' ... I yawned within seconds after hearing that

  • @SkibaFelix
    @SkibaFelix 8 років тому +1

    Déjà vu is a warning for the imminent seizure disorder.

  • @Blaarg987
    @Blaarg987 8 років тому +1

    I feel like many paranormal phenomenon are actually within the realm of science, but at a level that we do not understand yet. I mean have you ever been talking to a friend or family member and you think the same thing or say the same thing. Or have you ever just knew a family member was in trouble? I think all of it is explainable, with the right amount of legitimate research, and the advancement of technology.

  • @HypnoPantsOnline
    @HypnoPantsOnline 7 років тому

    love how trace said "aliens" while making the hand gestures XD

  • @kilbeboy
    @kilbeboy 8 років тому

    Its true about the placebo effect. Ive stopped smoking a few while back. But whenever i feel stressed or full of anxiety. I close my eyes, breath in a pattern of smoking and i instantly feel calm as what people who smoke feel.

  • @PranavGogwekar
    @PranavGogwekar 8 років тому +3

    is it available on some other audio app?

    • @DNewsPlus
      @DNewsPlus  8 років тому +11

      soundcloud.com/dnewsplus

  • @captainredbeard261
    @captainredbeard261 8 років тому

    First of all, this is definitely in my top five series you guys have done just because it's so clever, skirting the razor edge of the boundaries of science to peek at what else is out there through a scientific lens. Well done.
    That being said, I think what's important to remember here is that science is a tool, and while it's an extremely powerful tool, a chainsaw works great as a chainsaw but not so great as a clamp. The objective world -- which is what science focuses on by definition -- is arguably the *primary* aspect of reality, but it's an extreme oversimplification to say that it's the only thing that makes up human experience.
    For example, what purely objective motivation do we have to do science? Because things will get better? We're just one of an incomprehensible number of tiny dots in a vast expanse of nothingness with no clear purpose. What *is* "better" in an objective sense? Global warming? Nuclear fallout?
    It doesn't matter if you believe that there isn't anything "else" out there independent of matter and the universe as we know it interacting with us. The "secondary" subjective experiences may or may not be based purely in hard matter, no pun intended but it doesn't *matter* because they're just as important to *us* as the things we can all agree are the same, and in a sense we *make* them real.

  • @alveolate
    @alveolate 8 років тому +1

    you can't just casually toss a statement like "the scientific method is flawed" without further elaboration, and then barrel into an implied accusation of censorship on TED's part...
    there are statistical shortcomings in most scientific studies, and the anthropic principle is always looming, which along with groupthink may threaten to throw undetected bias into methodology and approach.
    being "open-minded" here could simply mean being more critical in our thinking and question even some of the more established principles if there is room to grow our understanding.

  • @gabney
    @gabney 8 років тому

    Buzzfeed Blue does a great segment on unexplained phenomena or "ghost stories" that are pretty persuasive for the paranormal to an extent

  • @Kyle-dj2gv
    @Kyle-dj2gv 7 років тому +1

    Hey Trace, awesome show. Very interesting topics and your unique analysis and wit is really good. New subscriber. Rock on

  • @Nikolai18A
    @Nikolai18A 6 років тому +1

    +Science Plus This was an awesome video, but there is an error in the underlying theme of the video; Science doesn't need to even address these claims. Positive assertions require evidence before belief is justified, the burden of proof lies with the claimant. Also, Science does not make proclamations of Truth, but rather methodically considers the best, most accurate evidence available and then demonstrates what is most likely true.
    The reason Supernatural hypothesis are less valid than their Natural counter-parts in claims of causation, is that things that do not exist cannot effect those that do. *This is not a claim that Supernature does not exist,* it's a statement asserting that in order for anything, including Supernature, to be put forward as a valid cause, that thing must be at the very least, existent.
    The things that are in the category of _Things that Might Exist_ are, at this point, no different as far as our capacity to gauge them than the things in the _Non-Existent_ category. Existence cannot be asserted without first being demonstrated. Nature is known to exist. If one wishes to posit Supernatural explanations, we then compound a problem, by putting forward an explanation that requires demonstration.
    Until we can evaluate, or indeed determine the existence of, Supernature, it is not rational to assign attributes or capabilities to it. When one puts Supernature as the cause, one says that an effect we can't explain, was produced by a cause we know nothing about, and for all we know, doesn't exist. So, "Mysterious Event" "X," is caused by unknown, possibly non-existent "Cause" "Y," which isn't really saying much.

  • @abjklmrsakagamiali1651
    @abjklmrsakagamiali1651 8 років тому +1

    Actually, when I have Deja Vu I just don't find it familiar, I actually REMEMBER it.
    When I was 6 I had a dream about something. then I started writing about it and telling my parents about it and then 10 minutes later it ACTUALLY happened?
    Is this Deja Vu?

  • @SkibaFelix
    @SkibaFelix 8 років тому +1

    Even Von "Hotelier" did concede that they can be walked by humans; the statutes.

  • @jimmythekiller8148
    @jimmythekiller8148 6 років тому

    I always thought that deja vu was when your brain mistakenly wrote the experience to your long term and short term memory banks at the same time.

  • @devinleifer7460
    @devinleifer7460 6 років тому +1

    My guy gave the best description of bigfoot ever
    Keep goin dud love ya vids

  • @hitchhikemike1
    @hitchhikemike1 6 років тому

    I'm a devout atheist but I believe ESP is possible this way, emotional ESP, animals know when you're frightened, I live in the woods, they also know when you're not, they seem to also know when you're happy, and possibly whales have visited me because I was eager to see them, a personal accidental study, maybe ten out of thirteen attempts, they came! Best sightings ever!

  • @circular17
    @circular17 8 років тому

    There is something to understand a "paranormal" phenomenon: most of the time, it relies on some form of "cheating": guessing something using clues you're not supposed to have, relying on people's reaction to know what they are thinking (cold reading and mentalism), using a clever trick (that's the job of magicians), etc. For example the Loch Ness monster and big foot are human creations: people have admitted creating them, but that did not stop the believers. It is also possible to trace back the story of the UFO's and the guy that made the first "photos" of UFO's using pots and pans. So of course, don't dismiss too quickly claims that contradict your beliefs, but in the explanations, don't forget to consider the social elements: humans fabricate stories and there is business in deceiving other people, or even ourselves.

  • @ElectrixHeart
    @ElectrixHeart 8 років тому

    I seriously love this channel!!

  • @flyesouisi
    @flyesouisi 8 років тому +1

    I would love someone to explain an experience I had 43 years ago. While having a deja vu moment in class, my mind went forward and for a few minutes I clearly saw (as if looking at a re-run), what was about to happen. I told a class mate at the time what the teacher would do and everything occurred exactly as I fore saw. I soooo wish i could enter this state on demand.

  • @kailyssia
    @kailyssia 8 років тому

    The Easter Island Heads are actually 70 foot tall statues that weigh tons. They are being studied right now but don't know why they were partially buried.

  • @BACzero
    @BACzero 7 років тому

    In the PLOS One IBS placebo study, the report says the placebo pills were administered with the description that even though they were placebo, they had been shown to help IBS symptoms in clinical studies. That claim would be enough to trigger the placebo affect. They should have administered the placebo with no indication that it would help. For a fair test, they should have just told them they were getting a placebo, and then defined what a placebo is, not what the placebo has been shown to do. I'll bet if you did the same test but described the placebo as having no measurable effect... they would have gotten a very different result. The power of suggestion is... powerful. Also would have been nice to see a slightly larger test group.
    The power of the mind should never be underestimated.

  • @j0d13xxx
    @j0d13xxx 6 років тому +1

    Hmm.. Every single time I have experienced Deja Vu, I immediately feel an overwhelming nausea in the pit of my stomach, like i'm physically about to be sick. So very interesting to hear the notion of it being linked to the neuronal chemical model for disgust.

  • @mister8r00k5
    @mister8r00k5 8 років тому

    the irony that I yawned literally right before he said yawning...

  • @MidWitPride
    @MidWitPride 8 років тому +2

    Tide goes in, tide goes out. Can't explain that.

    • @Alexiel87Lei
      @Alexiel87Lei 8 років тому

      +VP um actually tides are completely explainable

    • @MidWitPride
      @MidWitPride 8 років тому

      +David Moro
      What about magnets?

    • @quadsbrah1232
      @quadsbrah1232 8 років тому

      +David Moro he's quoting Bill O'Riley

    • @Alexiel87Lei
      @Alexiel87Lei 8 років тому

      first off that's racist, second i'm white, third of all if you think how the tides go in and out cannot be explained then you are a dumb fuck not me.

    • @naruyashan
      @naruyashan 8 років тому

      +David Moro He was making a joke, dude. It's an old Bill O'Reily quote made while Bill was trying to discredit science.

  • @jefblamor74
    @jefblamor74 5 років тому +1

    I had Deja vu that I’d end this early and I did wow it is strange!

  • @XXXPEACEXXX7
    @XXXPEACEXXX7 8 років тому

    The Science dillusion part with the banned ted talk has got me thinking

  • @nintindofandarklink
    @nintindofandarklink 8 років тому +8

    this video feels so familiar

    • @mythixchannel5098
      @mythixchannel5098 6 років тому

      basically dead true i just had Deja Vu about this video, the irony 😂

  • @epicbronyl2395
    @epicbronyl2395 7 років тому +1

    I saw a video of that banned TEDx Talk. It was probably banned because the speaker, while he had some good points, also had some idiotic ideas. He didn't have a very good understanding of biology, but he seemed to think that what little he knew was enough to make him an expert.

  • @grey7603
    @grey7603 6 років тому +1

    Perhaps our brain performs operations at the quantum level that has yet to be uncovered.

  • @Raw_naq
    @Raw_naq 8 років тому +1

    "some argue that that's happened again, it's called coachella"
    😹😹😹

    • @chuongdo8257
      @chuongdo8257 8 років тому

      +Adi Malhotra i actually laughed out loud at that one. Good job, Trace!

  • @thetrippymushroom
    @thetrippymushroom 7 років тому

    Claiming "paranormal" is not possible is like blind man saying ball is not round.

  • @Floninjalo
    @Floninjalo 6 років тому

    Why is there only one of your podcasts in Google Music's library, though??

  • @pineberry212
    @pineberry212 8 років тому

    I only remember a few experiences of esp like things.
    I recall being able to tell if a friend of mine was emotionally stressed, who lived over two thousand miles away. I had gone a few weeks of little contact because she was busy with drama class. I called her and she was ether sick or quite sad. Of course I attribute this to my faith, with the spirit and all that. (I'm one of those Mormon boys)
    The other time in middle school, was a dream I had of math class, taking down notes. The school i was going to at the time had a block schedule, so odd period classes one day, even on the other. So I come into class, and I realize I had already learned it, with a deja vu feel to it. I was going to ask if we had already learned it yesterday, but I remembered the schedule, and tried to think back to what i had done before first learning it, but I had no memory of even entering the class in that memory.

  • @senshi01
    @senshi01 8 років тому

    Moai "heads" actually have bodies. One easy technique to make them move is with ropes, they attached the rope around the shoulders of the statue and by pulling on each sides, at an interval, they could make the statue "walk".

  • @juaffle
    @juaffle 8 років тому

    The paranormal is only worth studying if you built a team of scientists, from all around the world, dedicated to doing just that .

  • @alaskaguyd963
    @alaskaguyd963 8 років тому +1

    Usually when you take in information it goes into your short term memory and your brain considers it something you are experiencing in that moment. If the brain deems it important enough it then sends the information to your long term memory for storage. When you experience deja vu your brain misfires and bypasses short term memory and goes straight into long term memory. Since you process it first from long term memory your brain sees it as a past memory instead of something you are experiencing in that moment. So basically it's your brain working backwards sending information from long term to short term memory instead of the other way around.

    • @Felhek
      @Felhek 8 років тому

      +Alaskaguyd why doesn't happen all the time? everyday? at least 1 per month?

    • @alaskaguyd963
      @alaskaguyd963 8 років тому

      That's why it's called a misfire. If it happened all the time it would be called "the way your brain works".

  • @FreeRsGuides
    @FreeRsGuides 8 років тому

    It's crazy when you talk about IBS and the placebo pill, I feel IBS is affect by stress and for me it's something that happens overnight and it's the worst in the morning and fades throughout the day. So i'd guess it's deffinetly affecting the subconsious

  • @Sladen70
    @Sladen70 8 років тому

    Anywhere to find that TED talk that was mentioned toward the end?
    or did it ever go public?

  • @jeppeforsberg
    @jeppeforsberg 8 років тому +1

    Let's start a Kickstarter campaign to prove the existence of Loch Ness with a team of scientists!

    • @RodrigoWaxen
      @RodrigoWaxen 8 років тому

      +Jesper Forsberg I'm pretty sure nobody ever denied the existance of the lake

    • @jeppeforsberg
      @jeppeforsberg 8 років тому

      +RodrigoWaxen ha-ha very funny

  • @MageOfNorthWood
    @MageOfNorthWood 8 років тому

    Everything is worth studying. It's up to the researcher to keep pushing the boundary of the unknown as far as it can go, and then figure out how to go a little bit further.

  • @asrnyigit4040
    @asrnyigit4040 7 років тому +1

    Can you answer in sometimes, I remember trpile or even quadruple dejavus. Double dejavu means that this happenned before and I thought it was dejavu. This is strange.

  • @alchemiasecreta
    @alchemiasecreta 8 років тому

    The Heads at the Easter Island are not only heads - they're entire bodies that are inside the earth. Archeologists found that last year, btw.

  • @kaleidojess
    @kaleidojess 8 років тому +1

    This was pretty interesting. Great episode.

  • @zacklight5622
    @zacklight5622 8 років тому +1

    I think It's valuable to study everything. We aren't doing a trillionth of a percent of the research we should be doing. Ideally, everyone would have to participate in scientific research as part of their tax obligation.

  • @michaeldaugustine9249
    @michaeldaugustine9249 7 років тому

    People with epilepsy sometimes experience deja vu or jamais vu when they have simple partial seizures and right before a generalized seizure. I personally experience Jamais Vu quite frequently and it has been linked to epileptiform activity in my brain.

  • @softball5one7
    @softball5one7 8 років тому

    I really love this new layout, but I think it would be cool if there were some pictures

  • @ParijatWarbeast
    @ParijatWarbeast 6 років тому

    love how you immediately moved on from the cochella joke

  • @MythicalWolf
    @MythicalWolf 7 років тому +1

    I legit always get deja vu. Pretty crazy stuff, people will say or do something and it's like I've seen it before.

  • @1patrickov
    @1patrickov 8 років тому

    One thing that wasn't mentioned is how human thoughts can influence random number generators.

  • @petlover1235
    @petlover1235 7 років тому +1

    i think dejavu has something to do with our similar lives in the parallel universe

  • @dee5298
    @dee5298 7 років тому

    It makes sense that ibs could be helped with placebos. The diseases is greatly influenced by emotions and is very inconsistent. Any small comfort can influence it's inconsistent symptoms. I had a job I hated and I would get sick every day before work. After calling in I would feel a little better.

  • @renancensi
    @renancensi 8 років тому

    Very nice podcast, it's very useful for who is studying english

  • @DamianReloaded
    @DamianReloaded 8 років тому

    It's happened to me to think about something, stop thinking about it for some seconds and when I think about it again it feels like deja vu. So I kinda agree with the hypothesis of it being a connection that goes broken (to a memory) and re-established so it feels like the first time the second time you experience but you think you kinda experienced it before (because you just did).

  • @YouAreKimBlix
    @YouAreKimBlix 6 років тому

    I thought yawning ( 8:44 ) was to get more oxygen to stay more alert in case anything happens until you can find a safe spot to sleep :o

  • @HarcusCGTV
    @HarcusCGTV 5 років тому

    Ive saw Loch Ness... just never saw any monster :) ... Great channel by the way, loving it :)

  • @ricktheexplorer
    @ricktheexplorer 8 років тому

    It is worth studying the paranormal, but they have yet to publish a peer reviewed paper on anything credible.

  • @REgamesplayer
    @REgamesplayer 8 років тому

    If scientists would be less arrogant, they would not need to waste time finding out such primitive concepts as placebo. It was already known to occult and this power to heal is used widely. I love how people like this can deny this power despite all the evidence right in front of them.

  • @Schmaratul
    @Schmaratul 7 років тому

    I know that everyone on here has probably heard that several times but: Science doesn't has to disprove Nessie, for example, it has to be proved. Until it is not proved, it doesn't exist. But you don't need to know how it came to be - it just has to be there. But you need to be able to prove that. And the Scientific Method in itself is pretty useful for what it is intended to be for. Unless something isn't repeatable and all the little factors are known, you can't claim to know whats causing something, because it could be any of those factors.

  • @addict7301
    @addict7301 5 років тому +1

    What happens when your dreaming of something that you want to come true and happens to come true

  • @poodtang1
    @poodtang1 8 років тому

    Some scientists have proposed a way giving more validity to the out of body experience. It involves having a picture suspended from the ceiling facing the ceiling so none of the doctors or patient know what the picture is of.
    If the patient can describe the picture after the out of body experience try and explain that one.

  • @Mari-Yama
    @Mari-Yama 8 років тому

    There is a documentary on the Moai and they reconstructed how they made them and moved them. It would be awesome to think it was some great mystery and such, but they were able to move them by using ropes and rocking them back and forth... thus walking them to their spots. Took a while to do it, but they were able to do it fairly easily. Kinda took the magic out of it, but it's still pretty cool ;)

  • @Slurm_Daddy92
    @Slurm_Daddy92 8 років тому

    my subscription has become successful, enjoyable video like always!

  • @calebvillari269
    @calebvillari269 7 років тому

    I've experienced de ja vu many times it used to drive me insane but now when it happens I try to embrace it for i usually go thru de Ja va for multiple hours

  • @IllusiveSerb
    @IllusiveSerb 8 років тому

    I thought Deja-vu was explained? Your brain stores the memory. Sequence A happens. Then sequence B, followed by the sequence C. That is your memory. Then you encounter the similar situation where sequence A and sequence B happen in succession, and the brain automatically assumes the sequence C should follow and you are like: "Wait, what? This happened already?"
    On a side note, I often had these deja-vu effects and sometimes they would last a good amount of time. Where I am aware that the dejavu is happening and I deliberately turn to the thing that I "know" is going to happen next. Sometimes, even me saying: "Oh man dejavu" is a part of the dejavu and I'm completely aware of it. It's a bizarre thing.
    Also, I don't see why paranormal is so "outrageous". Science can not and will not explain everything. Ever. And just because we don't have a gizmo to measure the paranormal, doesn't mean it's not there. Took a long time for scientists to build equipment to detect gravitational waves. Doesn't mean they didn't exist before that point.

  • @carmencapa6945
    @carmencapa6945 6 років тому

    My brother sometimes dreams of what is going to happen the next day and only remembers he dreamed it when it happens

  • @Kloudkaya
    @Kloudkaya 7 років тому

    Some argue that it's just Coachella 😂😂

  • @garthhepburn7788
    @garthhepburn7788 8 років тому

    love these videos man

  • @Aconitum_napellus
    @Aconitum_napellus 8 років тому

    An interesting hypothesis for what the Moai may have meant is that they were chieftains or prominent figures, I can't recall all the details but I think its posited that they were some kind of memorial.

  • @yigiter007
    @yigiter007 8 років тому

    Can you do a series about the maker movement and DIY and makerspaces and people with hobbies? I'm part of a makerspace called Fubarlabs and I would be glad to help and give information for the series.

  • @clickcalis1835
    @clickcalis1835 8 років тому

    I really liked your video and the topics are really interesting... i found myself speeding the video up but that's just me...i would love to see you use the space behind yourself to show some illustrations or pictures of the topics your discussing i'm easily distracted...i genially think if you done that you could land yourself on mainstream TV if you chose to.

  • @Hoopfan83
    @Hoopfan83 8 років тому

    wierd; I was yawning right before he said "scientists can't explain yawning"

  • @widji987
    @widji987 8 років тому

    So thats why scientists is so smart they just read minds?

  • @eklera
    @eklera 8 років тому

    There is a good theory on how the Rapanui moved the mo'ai. They "walked" the statues.

  • @kevindondrea144
    @kevindondrea144 6 років тому

    I thought we know about yawning. It's your body needing more oxygen. The reason why you yawn when someone else does is because it's in our DNA and you see them yawn so your body thinks, "If they need oxygen then I must need oxygen too"