Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?

Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus. For more, see ve42.co/magneto
Huge thanks to:
Prof. Shinsuke Shimojo, Connie Wang, and Isaac Hilburn, plus Prof. Joe Kirschvink. Their lab: ve42.co/maglab
Special thanks to Patreon supporters:
Donal Botkin, James M Nicholson, Michael Krugman, Nathan Hansen, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd
Additional filming by Whitney Clavin

[@Eudomac99]

Do you just wander into research facilities at universities and go, "yoooooo, wassup, what've y'all got for me today"?

[@qwiglydee]

Most likely, it's research facilities call Veritassium (along with vsauce and smartereveryday, via secret mailing list) and like "hey, we have cool stuff to share".

[@SlimThrull]

@@qwiglydee I very much doubt it. But, that is WAY more entertaining than what really happens. So that's what I'm going to tell everyone.

[@qwiglydee]

@@SlimThrull well, at least that's how things go with other "youtube influencers" on sponsorship/merch basis :-)

[@gambleKap]

Maxim Vasiliev wishful thinking. they probably reach out when discovering new research or get a video idea

[@UsmanUrRehmanAhmed]

Probably a large part hidden from us viewers is the amount of research papers and articles these channels or their research teams dig into every day just to present us with 'high quality' esteemed content.

[@mr.feghouli403]

When you were sleeping in the car as a kid and you could feel that one turn that meant you were home

[@childofgod4614]

Yep!!!

[@gregknipe8772]

@@childofgod4614 not the guy he was hoping to get and answer from. you name emoji resembles a fresh dog turd.

[@raspberryjam]

I think what you pick up on there is the divot between the road and the driveway, and then the driveway's incline

[@unemployedgringo]

Remember they said it is impressed in the subconscious? That's why you only knew when you were trying to sleep, you had access to that ability because you were in a low brainwave

[@shamsports1644]

@@unemployedgringo some people on youtube are in a perpetual state of low brain wave.

[@TangoCharlieWhiskey96]

It’s 3 years later, I’d really like a follow up to this to see if the research has produced anything significant.

[@juuldaddy]

Me too

[@yahiaaymen7876]

me too

[@JudgedMentalMusic]

It hasn’t

[@gytoser801]

@@JudgedMentalMusic rip

[@kibby3164]

I have been through many metal detectors that use a magnetic field and everytime I go through one I feel a "buzz" through my body. Its weird and haven't found anyone else who has experienced this

[@msamberhunter]

While undergoing a brain MRI at Steinberg Diagnostic in Las Vegas I experienced unusual perceptions such as a sharp bank turn and others. Afterwards needing to check my sanity I was assured that, while not common, what I experienced was not uncommon either. This was certainly induced by the shifting of a powerful magnetic field slicing through each part of my brain. I felt as if I had been moving forward and then sharply banking right and continuing in a different direction entirely.

[@sixuzu9679]

Ik exactly what you mean, a lot of people need other measures to properly undergo one 😮

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

That's not surprising, a lot of the activity that goes on in the brain involves charged particles moving around. As they move, they themselves generate tiny magnetic fields that can interact with other magnetic fields.

[@codyfreeman2556]

Glad to know I'm not the only one!

[@Olivia-W]

I just got unpleasantly nauseous, and that was before the contrast.

[@alittlebitintellectual7361]

Glad to know im not the only one/ im nit hallucinating. I can feel slight pressure sensations on my skin when in the MRI even when forcefully held in place by a cushion.

[@hendersonlamar]

"And you're sure that this isn't just to make people look stupid?" "No, no, no. That's just a bonus."

[@the_real_jar]

Lamar, you have a beautiful profile picture.

[@davemarx7856]

Beat me by 4 hours

[@ozakrw]

I believe the scientific term is: "Added benefit!"

[@sadakotube]

I hope that they can find an outlier. A human that can really sense magnetosphere and still have that ability retained from ancestors

[@frankschneider6156]

"You don't need a cap for that" would have been the proper answer.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I feel a disturbance in the force like a billion dads just cried out: "we've been telling people about the compass in our heads for years!"

[@NitroJonScience]

Hahahaha I can totally relate to my Dad ;)

[@cryingwater]

why you here? I better not find a magnet video in your channel next time or else...

[@5amiam813]

My dad can hear what song is on his station before he gets in the car in the morning.

[@Odood19]

​@@cryingwater "In todays episode, we will take a look at how I achieved telepathic abilities using only a few magnets, a power drill, and some homemade twine. Though this design is by no means optimized, I was able to achieve fairly good results; for instance, you're thinking about..."

[@cryingwater]

@@Odood19 oh no

[@gordoncouger9648]

We may have lost the ability to sense magnetic fields from not navigating in ways that needed their use. Very few of us have ever needed that. If there are any Polynesian navigators that navigate the Pacific without instruments still alive it would be interesting to see how they did in the test.

[@bendingwarrior1]

I think we can gain skills like this one during one's lifetime. We as humans can accomplish incredible things that we have not been taught in school. The Monroe Institute is a place teaching people these skills and im sure there is more places like it. I would recommend Sean Ryan's interviews with remote viewers and to look into the Monroe Institute if you're interested. It's kind of mind blowing after you review the evidence.

[@billschlafly4107]

It's my understanding that Polynesians navigated by watching the ocean waves.

[@OfficialGOTCHA33]

It was by the stars wasn’t it?

[@Chaos_Nova]

@@billschlafly4107 were you there? so much of human knowledge has been lost to time we don't even know what we don't know abuout the ancient world. If anything, compared to our ancestors we may be more ignorant in terms of earthly connections.

[@enthurian100]

Seems unlikely, as evolutions takes places on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years, not mere centuries.

[@joshm3342]

I once had a friend with an amazing sense of direction. When traveling by car to places neither of us had previously visited, she always gave the correct directions (while I was ready to puzzle over a map). Best navigator I ever had.

[@davosholdos1253]

Sun rises in the East, sets in the West, moss grows on the North side of tree. Most tree branches face South.

[@saqibmudabbar]

I love how they are crouching at the entrance explaining neuroscience. 😆

[@miguelrivas4649]

Hahahahahaha i really laughed hard there

[@darkdevil905]

Planes & Planes looks like the premise to half life 3

[@corywarshaw4100]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Neuroscience

[@JorgetePanete]

@@disconneck1363 it's* there's*

[@JorgetePanete]

@@disconneck1363 some* place

[@dreska255]

"It's Joe's reclining chair, not used for this purpose but it's very relaxing."

[@DaneGilCabrales]

😂

[@vitruvianman7170]

Got it on council pick up day

[@JoeBissell]

can i have my chair back pls

[@turencmpressor4152]

@@adriantcullysover4640 so who polices the youtube police

[@abuslinky]

and a spectacularly ugly bit of kitsch. Possibly the ugliest chair I've ever seen.

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

After my car accident, I sustained a traumatic brain injury. Now, whenever there's a significant change in the atmosphere, I can feel it without knowing a thing about it. I was in a partial day hospital program and all of us would get headaches and fall asleep during eclipses. I was so frustrated I kept missing planetary phenomena. I'm convinced that our brain being forced to rewire itself after trauma heightens our sensitivity and perception- for better or for worse. What's even crazier is that sometimes the changes can't be captured with our current level of technology, so some are suffering with so many symptoms without knowing the root cause. I hope that we're able to continue more to science and research to advance society in the future. Have a great day everyone. :)

[@edieboudreau9637]

Ditto

[@fuocogeneroso]

Thanks for showing this. This is hard to prove, but in the early 2000s with the old bar and flip cellphones I used to be able to sense when the phone was going to ring a half a second before it rang. It was a very strong and confident sensation. I became convinced it had to do with the pre-ring handshake the cellphone tower and the cellphone make. Back then stereos weren’t as well EM shielded and you could hear a ticking sound sometimes before the cellphone rang. But I would know even before that or This would also happen if there wasn’t an active speaker around. However, I stopped getting the sensation after newer phones in the late 2000s started to come out. So, I’m not sure what changed but perhaps it was some kind of subconscious sound related phenomenon after all with the stereos or some EM sensation I perceived, or I just got old haha. Anyways, I don’t have a way to prove this so purely anecdotal. Thanks for listening.

[@bitemeat7509]

You're psychic, develop your skills

[@ManoelNunesOSan]

I have this too. Before it rings there's like a chill in the upper back of my head.

[@Guiboard]

Nice, I like your part about the stereos and the shielding. I had some cheap speakers that I would click or tick when an sms was coming (about 10 years ago). I fully believe in your story.

[@randomrandomizer]

There are lots of people who could do this. However I think it has to do with the high frequency audio noise caused by electronic drives at that time. I could hear when electronic equipment was switched on even when most others couldn’t.

[@taaskeprins]

@@randomrandomizer That should be easy to test. The same thing is thinking of someone who rings afterwards. Explanation of latter case is that you only became aware of the thinking of that person, because he/she phoned. So probably you think of a lot of persons all the time. Same could be true for all the other "just in time precognitions".

[@veritasium]

So the most common question seems to be: how do we know the magnetic field isn't creating this result by interacting with the electrodes and wires in the cap? The truth is that *while the magnetic field is changing* there is induction in the cap and you can see this as an orange blob 10:12 - However after the field stops changing, there is no more induction and this is the time when the response is measured for decreases in alpha power.

[@federic2577]

i think the blue screen depends also with your strong site of the brain (if you are left or right handed) thats because your brain is blue screen CW and no in CCW...it could be :)

[@tiberiu_nicolae]

@Mike Oxlong dude... this is exactly how science works lol.

[@1boobtube]

@Mike Oxlong , why shouldn't it be funded?

[@jonathangiesbrecht5584]

They should definitely try this on blind people, because they maneuver around partly by memorizing their surroundings and maybe relating it to magnetic fields? Animals should be tested as well. 😅

[@marzipancutter8144]

I would be interested to hear how the control group would have reacted, where subjects undergo the same setup without actually recieving any electromagnetic stimulus.

[@HarmonHeat]

Super high tech testing.... in a 1970's recliner. That's balance

[@MisterRorschach90]

perfectly balanced. as all things should be.

[@TWX1138]

I think that design is older than the 1970s. If you look at visible architecture in the video, the structure is clearly old, and this chair might simply have been present in the building. Alternately it may well be assembled without any fasteners, just tongue-and-groove with wood glue. That might be preferential for a magnetic field test.

[@DeathFrankCore]

399

[@Survivaurbatchev]

The tech present here existed in the 1970's

[@bberllam]

@@TWX1138 exactly my train of thought. It is not easy finding a piece of furniture with out it changing the field

[@angelhelp]

My father had what I always felt was a nearly infallible sense of direction, meaning that he could accurately identify north despite being indoors and following a convoluted path through subway tunnels, buildings, caves, etc. As one of five siblings with the same father, I am the only one who did not inherit this ability; I had a different mother and my four siblings all shared the same mother. Her sense of direction wasn’t as acute as our father’s; my own mother’s sense of direction was as nonexistent as my own. One of my brothers is fond of telling folks that I can’t even find my way out of a doctor’s office after having been seen at an appointment. I poke fun at myself saying that I grabbed the “music chips” but forgot to grab any “direction chips”, so that part remains a gaping hole/socket. All of us have some music abilities but I was the one who inherited perfect pitch from my paternal grandmother. Obviously there’s no connection between musical ability and the sense of direction, but I find it interesting to note the extremes. Not having been raised with my siblings, I don’t know how well any but one sibling can identify direction, and suffice it to say that that sibling seems as infallible as my father was. I have always wondered if it had something to do with them both being able to sense the magnetic fields…

[@sigmamale4147]

Real

[@nilebrixton8436]

also have perfect pitch but poor sense of directions. would love to put people like us in this magnetic sense of direction experiment!

[@richardswaby6339]

I find it interesting that yesterday I was watching videos on perfect pitch and now today I have watched a video on magnetic sensing and you have both in your family. My magnetic sensing is so bad that I can just about find my way out of a room with only one door and I am totally baffled as to how someone can identify a note as 'A'. Moreover I don't get images in my brain when reading books and I can't remember jokes or lyrics to songs. Am I even alive?

[@nilebrixton8436]

@@richardswaby6339 you made this coherent comment therefore I see you as very alive

[@mollyhoffman7313]

You are not alone. That is the important thing. Not everybody has superhuman abilities--I know I sure don't. It's foolish to compare yourself to others for being "better" than you just because they can do things like sense magnetic fields or pitch. You are still a 100% valid human being. And kudos on being brave enough to confess that you don't have this ability--many people who watch a video like this but don't see themselves experiencing this would be too afraid to admit it to anyone, much less in a KZbin comment on that very video. You are enough. YOU ARE ENOUGH. 😊😇 💖💝♥💞💕💘

[@bigfoottoo2841]

I am a Amateur Radio operator. Years ago I was transmitting at around 4 Mhz with 1800 watts into my antenna. Whenever I keyed down, I felt a change in my mind very similar to getting up quickly or a moment of quick movement. It only happen that one time. I figured it was RF messing with the fluid in my inner ear.

[@ernestsmith3581]

It's radiation sickness (just like exposure to radium). The higher in frequency and the greater the field strength, the more intense. I first felt it when a tech on 10 m, but most intensely at a tower site where a cellular antenna was leaking RF. My eyes watered, and I got sick to my stomach - classic signs of radiation exposure - until I got out of and away from that building. I don't know of many people aware of it when it happens, but I'm one.

[@rogerpieces7503]

I'm not sure it's the same kind of perception showed in the video. I think your feeling is related to the power involved.

[@badgermcbadger1968]

Nah you just microwaved yourself lol

[@jean-pierrecampbell7880]

What if they check a blind person's reaction to the magnetic fields? Particularly someone born blind.

[@mikemondano3624]

They have brains, too, so, the same.

[@iisgray]

@@mikemondano3624 I think what JP is hypothesizing is: might it be stronger, which could be in line with other senses also being stronger for those born blind. Not "do they have it at all" but "to what degree is there a difference, if any" So, no, not necessarily the same.. though of course, if it's looked into, maybe it is.

[@mikemondano3624]

@@iisgray Senses are exactly the same in the blind (born or otherwise). The storied increased acuity is a myth. Those who can't see simply use their other senses more and become more discerning in their use with the practice that comes with that use.

[@iisgray]

Replace the second use of the word "stronger" with "more attuned." Happy? Coming from a pedant: you're obviously just being pedantic, his/her idea doesn't deserve the condescension you gave it, calm down, and try not to be a dick.

[@sirzebra]

@@mikemondano3624 Increased acuity is not a myth, it's been researched and shown to exist in various cases of sensory-disabled humans. You're not born with a better hearing because you're blind, but as you grow older, your hearing acuity gets much more develloped and much faster compared to a non-sensory impaired human. Having worked with blind and poly-disabled (blind+any other condiditon) i can tell you with certainty that they get to a fully develloped and very precise hearing about 3 times faster than any other kids, and keep developping it for much longer. Their sonic spatial awareness is beyond impressive compared to adults or normal kids, and they also easily measure the distances the sounds are coming from, are often talk about what sound has hit on its way to their ears. We ran a test once dropping random curtains along a long corridor at different moments, and play music at the far end of the corridor. all kids (aged 3->19) were tested one by one, and all of them could tell us if a curtain was present, how far it was down the corridor, with 80% accuracy. Remember, none of them could see. All adults present that day tried the test and none of us could really hear a difference, even one with perfect ear and trained as a musician. They explained to us they didnt really hear the curtains, but "felt" less reverberation coming from the adjacent windows along the corridor, and thus could deduce where the sound was dampened. More training = better acuity, you say it yourself, why do you say it's not real and then contradict yourself ? It would be very interesting to see this experiment done on them. We got blind kids going to normal Judo classes and we all had to admit that the vision has barely any role in balance and other vestibular/brain functions, they adapt to the lack of it naturally and never need visual points of references to "stand" or lean with balance. It's impressive to see in a fight, and some judo members tried to fight them blindfolded "for fairness and curiosity" with very mixed results. Most fell twice as easily while blindfolded, just because they didnt have time to adapt to the lacking sense. A full life of adaptation and mastery of different senses makes your brain wiring and function very different than someone else, even if the "hardware" is the same. lay off the attitude and admit it would be interesting, even only to prove that more discerning humans dont necesarily have a more powerfull "compass-response".

[@MrBlitzpunk]

> super high tech instrument > Uses stool to hold the door closes Gotta love these guys

[@Jefferson-ly5qe]

You'd be amazed how much sticky tape physics labs go through

[@IMindiffernt]

At Caltech no less

[@Muonium1]

it's really not that high tech at all. eeg has been around for a century and Helmholtz coils another half century before that.

[@ZioStalin]

That's how science is done. Million dollar instrumentation, but no toilet paper in the restrooms because "budget"

[@Gryffon3]

There is nothing high tech about this study, anybody can easily make a magnetic field, all you need is metal coils rotating and current. And really this looks a bit too pseudo scientific for my taste : there are no numbers or averages to see if the effect better than random chance. And the worst part is they will say averages don't work as humans have different "potentials" (like their "gifted" individual). All I can see is that the data from Derek doesn't look better than random chance, and their other exemple was hand picked and not different from what you could get from someone randomly focusing their attention with even an average study group. Not convinced.

[@herbieowen3348]

I didnt really know what it was before now, but i personally have an incredibly potent sense of direction. In the past i have been in many situations, both on my own and with others, where i am "lost" yet i still have a distinct idea of "this way is back home" and it is always right.

[@anarchycoww9019]

Ive discovered recently that I must be quite sensitive to electromagnetic frequencies through my study of solar flares. I get this nervousness in my stomach and can somehow “feel” a change in my environment. My cat will normally come to me when this happens and start meowing. From this feeling I’d check my space weather app and find that a solar flare or cme would have impacted earth exactly around the time that I felt weird. I can’t explain it but this video certainly helps!

[@TiredMomma]

The recent one we had, which was during the night before the massive cell service outage, I could barely get any sleep that night. After I got my kids up, at times I kept saying I felt like a storm was on us. During the late night/early morn, I thought it was storming outside, because I had that feeling I only get when there's a bad storm with a lot of lightning going on, but our weather was clear, so I was getting confused. Had that solar flare been any closer, I probably would've headed to our basement. I get a feeling that I should be underground or try to hide underneath something.

[@CIubDuck]

The 70's flower chair really tied this experiment together

[@TheGoupil19]

Dellluminati, did you listen to the dudes story?

[@fernando.ascensao]

Jesus that guy can roll man

[@wirelesmike73]

Where's the magnetic field, Libowski!?!?

[@sdfkjgh]

It's-a, it's down there in that gravity well, lemme just take another look.

[@isaachilburn5515]

The chair was purchased at the OSH hardware store in Pasadena. We then replaced all the ferromagnetic metal parts (screws, nuts, bolts, etc.) in the chair with nonmagnetic brass parts. I blame the floral pattern on the chair cushions on Joe. However, the chair is quite comfortable.

[@Athaeus]

Their findings will be published in the next issue of Psychology, titled "Manipulation of intelligence: Getting academics excited to wear silly hats and sit in lounge chairs".

[@NathanY0ung]

I read it. It was a good read :)

[@efoxxok7478]

Not everyone has lost this ability. Since I was very small I had this feel for direction that was quite strong. I have been through several “experiments to test this. Among these tests I have been blindfolded on an airplane for an hour while turns of varying times, banks, and coordination then while still blindfolded asked to point in a specific direction. When I was in my teens I could find north within a few degrees every time. Now I’m in my 60’s and it’s a bit weaker with my sense of direction down to about 15-20 degrees. Twice in my life I have lost this unexpectedly and felt almost motion sick from it. I often have deteriorated senses when I’m sick or under the influence of something, and over the years it has gotten weaker, but I still do reasonably well.

[@tomaszprzetacznik7802]

This is actually something new to me, and very interesting. I have always thought that as species we lost natural ability to interact with magnetic fields.

[@danielthecake8617]

It's less gone, but more like our appendix. Useless, tiny, and just needs to go away.

[@nohandlebars35]

7:24 When your parents come check out the giant pillow and blanket fort you built

[@ecicce6749]

This perspective is so funny. I mean he is talking about brain alpha waves and stuff while on his knees looking through that metal thing from below like he is in some cage... Its so perfect hahaha. Imagine seeing only this scene without any context. 😂

[@hat_maker]

nohandlebars35 hahahahahhaha

[@Pinedal]

@@ecicce6749 No way to look dignified when you are on your knees, haha.

[@eac-ox2ly]

lmao

[@Sturzfaktor2]

@@Pinedal Unless you have such an elegant and stylish cap.

[@dank6617]

TL;DR: we got the hardware, we lost the firmware

[@steeljawX]

Yay, for Windows Vista. . . I mean 8. . . I mean 10. . . I mean Skynet.

[@Drestanto]

Nice comment

[@amalnarang652]

Well, it should be TL;DS S for see

[@KagoK]

hold up, gotta install the drivers for my magnets

[@waseemyousafzai1150]

Haha.

[@Italliving]

when i was in the Army and we did an orientation cross every few months and in the beginning nobody followed me until they found out i always was first and i always was running in a straight line without a compass, ever since they followed me, this internal direction guide for me works all the time even when they dropped me in an unknown place in pitch dark i still run in the right direction and i still have that ability , so good to see you are looking deeper in this for me this is a natural sense of awareness where I'm i don't need compass or gps to find my way home, never did and never will

[@OmarnSamisDad]

Seeing this reminded me of something I heard in the past couple years (maybe on one of your videos) about people such as Hawaiians and other island cultures and how they have a better sense of direction than most people who come from big continents.

[@nagoshi01]

I love all of these consistent uploads, Derek

[@50off78]

Use his name to surprise people who don't know it and personally connect with the creator

[@bayareajokester9456]

The transition from 1:25 to 1:30 is simple but it makes me feel as if I am watching a high quality KZbin TV show, like a discovery channel for KZbin. God I love KZbin.

[@nagoshi01]

@@50off78 I just wanted him to personally feel good about making his audience happy.

[@50off78]

@@nagoshi01 Oh ya I wasn't saying it was a bad thing if it came across that way I apologise

[@TheMuslimMan1337]

Unlike Vsauce :(

[@lydiadewberry7328]

My dad could tell what way he was facing inside a mine. His co-workers constantly tested him and he was always correct

[@egomaniac7230]

Sensing magnetic field has no proven correlation to internal compass of someone. This is how pseudoscience is made.

[@Antimateria97]

@@egomaniac7230 Thank you.

[@paideepak30]

My mom could always say which way is north. I tested her in India, in the US and in Switzerland. Always got it right.

[@CleopatraKing]

@@paideepak30 itsnot hard to know where north is.

[@ServantofBaal]

@@paideepak30 Anyone who knows the time of day can tell you where north is if they can feel the sun on their skin

[@Toon444]

Lol it's so cute seeing the scientists crouching down to speak into the camera because the entrance is so low, it's so silly I love it!

[@topherthe11th23]

My brother once suffered from a belief (which I reject) that the Earth's magnetic field enhances or reduces the quality of sleep you get depending on which compass-direction a line approximately from your feet to your head points. But he didn't want our mother to know that, so when she asked why he didn't turned the bed a right-angle to better fit his bedroom he said "I've tried that, but all the sheets I own are aligned the other way, so then they won't fit on the bed if the bed is turned a right-angle.".

[@MaxIzrin]

My grandmother could feel wires in walls, up until her forties, then she lost the ability. She can still tell where north is, no matter where she is.

[@hughmann1927]

WITCH!!!

[@MaxIzrin]

@@hughmann1927 Not at all. We checked, she weighs more than a duck.

[@wildbill7756]

@@MaxIzrin you are so wise in the ways of science

[@noname-bt9ky]

Black magic, let’s do the drowning test.

[@deankruse2891]

We know where north is because of the sun/stars.

[@JD3Gamer]

I love how janky their setup was for the experiment. Makes me feel a lot better about my own projects

[@unesco2433]

KingOfGames they have to be the economical because these researches are not guaranteed to succeed a 100% the first time. Hence why they would have to think about how they can make quick changes to improve the experiment and get the wanted result

[@S_Carol]

Most research work looks like this 🤣 for very nearly all the labs I've been in, the real work happens in areas and setups looking like this.

[@HarshRajAlwaysfree]

these are fairly average or even better in my opinion

[@armadillotoe]

Always remember the difference between science and fooling around, is writing everything down.

[@thatguyalex2835]

What are your own science projects KingOfGames? We'd like to hear about them as a KZbin community who are dedicated/devoted to the fields of science.

[@LeeXiaoMei]

When I was mentally ill, cognitively impaired and dissociated from reality, I would go on about flow fields that I could feel around me. My body was not functioning right, I had lost peristalsis, but I figured out using flow fields to help me recover toilet patterns and sleep patterns. I can’t explain this and I wish I had a means of showing anyone what I was talking about, but maybe this was it.

[@TheKevlar]

Magneto sensitivity might be trainable. I was trained at an early age to always know North. However, on a cloudy foggy day, I can sometimes get disorientated which likely means it is terrain-driven recognition. Interestingly once I mentally fix on a location it does not matter what happens after that; even when driving, turning, being distracted, losing sight, or focusing on traffic on busy windy streets the fixed location is always known precisely...

[@39peevedturtles19]

what business do bacteria have being magnetically active.

[@WraithlingRavenchild]

Input is input, what one does with it shapes one. You should look into Himbas of Namibian. They see colors we don't because of the words they use to describe them.

[@Antimateria97]

There is a particular specie which has a magnetic-sensitive protein used in order to track down food. Live in extreme conditions (Extremophilous) where the nutrients are poor and they can locate their resources by binding it to a paramagnetic molecule, later used to reach the food back

[@madkirk7431]

@@WraithlingRavenchild hmm, yes, the floor is made out of floor.

[@wesleydamen2018]

@@WraithlingRavenchild they dont see diffrent colours because they descibe them diffrent colour and perception of colour is a very interesting thing like yellow for me could be very diffrent from yellow for you but its still yellow because light works the same our perception doesnt you see something as red for example because the surface takes in all light (white light is all colours) except red light because it bounces off to you . There are colours you cant see normally ,like stygian blue or self-luminous red these are only seeable under certain circumstances

[@bryn494]

@@WraithlingRavenchild Gurkhas have a reputation for seeing in the dark. Could this be a similar phenomena as they live at high altitudes and so their photoreceptors may have evolved slightly differently?

[@joannot6706]

3:32 We will never know what she was about to say, damn you!

[@kartoffelwaffel]

probably something along the lines of "magnetic isolation chamber"

[@SomeoneCommenting]

He starts explaining it at 4:03 and see how she regrettably 'smiles' in the back like "Crap, that was supposed to be my line, you just stole the spotlight from me..."

[@1987joey1987]

@@SomeoneCommenting it was a little mean of Derek

[@SomeoneCommenting]

@@1987joey1987 He didn't do it on purpose, he was very excited about looking inside. But the other guy still keeps interrupting her every time that she is trying to talk.

[@1987joey1987]

@@SomeoneCommenting okey maybe not mean but not very sensitive

[@13amplifiers]

I was an NMR spectroscopist for 30 years and worked beside and sometimes under magnets with field strengths that you wouldn't believe. I can't say that I ever had any feeling that I was entering a magnetic field, however. I must not be very sensitive. Cool study, BTW. :)

[@codymarshall3602]

I noticed thru hiking the Appalachian trail that I got a stronger sense of direction. Love your videos.

[@mrfarmer1991]

Okay. This is so amazing. My mom & husband (my husband especially) know their directions inherently. I’ve always thought it was so weird & unexplainable to me. We just had a conversation the other day about how amazing of a phenomenon it was & I just can’t believe it. We actually did an experiment where I had my husband close his eyes in a pitch dark bathroom, spin around a few times & then tell me what direction was which & he was correct. Anytime we go out of town, we can be in a TOTALLY foreign place in the middle of nowhere downtown & he’ll know exactly what direction is which. Anyway... you get the point. It’s just seriously unbelievable to me. I can’t even comprehend how incredible it is.

[@thecalendarninja]

I'm skeptical. I can do that too if you don't blindfold me. I doubt they can do that under strict controls. Nobody has ever proven successfully that they can do that.

[@javiercmh]

It makes sense!! I remember I did the same at school and I could always point North. However I can't do that anymore :(

[@JohnDoe-zl6qw]

I mean no disrespect with the following comment; merely counterpoint and corroboration. Those of us who *_do_* have the ability to inherently know direction can’t even comprehend what it would be like to *_not_* have the ability. It is as natural and as easy for us as breathing, seeing, or hearing. I've had it since...well...forever; even as a young child I had an unerring sense of direction that predated being educated on cardinal directions, map reading, and the use of a compass. I can't get lost or turned around; believe me, people have tried. I just assumed everyone had this ability. It's only as I grew into adulthood that I came to realize that not everyone has it. None of this is to be construed as claiming the existence of a sixth sensitivity to magnetic fields. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It could be multi-sensorial relying on sight, sound, kinesthesia, orientation awareness, and perhaps even a magneto sensitivity; more research is required. Perhaps the mechanism is different for different people. In my case I largely attribute it to having near-photographic recall of the spaces through which I pass. Without conscious effort, I'm constantly aware of and updating a three-dimensional map of my surroundings in my head. Combined with an understanding of cardinal direction and environmental cues, I always know where I've come from and how to plot a route back to that starting point; even after hiking miles away without bothering to use a map or compass. Outside of needing to pinpoint a specific location within a few meters accuracy in a wilderness I've never visited before, I have no need of them. Regardless of the mechanics of _how_ the sense works, it _does_ work. I would consider the loss of that sense as devastating as losing my hearing; that's how intrinsic and essential I consider it.

[@jasong9502]

News flash, your husband looks at the sun, I use to pull the finger trick on girls and surprise them how long before the sun goes down lol

[@kashyap4245]

The experiments of Dr. Robin Baker of Manchester University suggest that humans are also sensitive to changes in Earth's magnetic field. Dr. Robin Baker first placed people inside a darkened room and asked them to locate North. Most of the time people got it right. But when Baker then fitted these same subjects with a little magnetic skullcap, they lost their ability to find North. This strongly suggests the presence of an internal compass or biological clock. Scientists have discovered Magnetic particles in Cerebellum.

[@S147]

If people have different sensitivity to magnetic fields, could this perhaps be one of the reasons some people have great sense of direction while others do not?

[@HES9]

Nah some people just have a higher spatial awareness.

[@Michelrs]

no, if you move around a city or a forest you don't need to know the magnetic field at all. it's just good awareness in general

[@mohdnazimrosli8535]

tell that to roronoa zorro from one piece franchise Hahaha

[@Tumbolisu]

This wouldn't explain why some people have a great sense of direction in virtual environments.

[@logancatron2239]

@Jake Watson thats not sociopathic behavior at all 😒

[@mcgarvey1986]

Wow excellent video and experiment! Thanks for covering this!

[@begotubeful]

It would have been interesting to test sherpas, sailors and suchlike to see if their ability to detect the fields is better than for normal people. In theory it should be. Nice video thankyou so much for bringing the latest knowledge!!

[@VanerTheogus]

I would be especially curious about the Polynesians here

[@anikdey2100]

That's how things go wrong in Hollywood movies and Derek turns into magneto 🤣

[@Lambda_Ovine]

"He used to be a regular man, but a tragic accident that was supposed to test the influence of a magnetic field on the human brain changed his life for ever. Now, he can harness the power of the Earth's magnetic field with his mind. He became... Magnet-man!" *music starts playing*

[@SyeedAli]

A freak power surge, and the other experiment is turned on simultaneously.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@Lambda_Ovine ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅

[@Jamato-sUn]

@@SyeedAli now that is some fan fiction!

[@mbraun777]

Would be interesting to know if people with a really good sense of direction also have the ability to sense magnetic field changes.

[@martinlehtonen]

i was wondering the same

[@wranglerboi]

Good question. Since I seem to have a fairly intuitive sense of where I am (and rarely get lost), it would be wonderful to find out if that's why.

[@YUE3899]

That would be great to know. Until now I just though I had a very good photografic memory.

[@Irene-gq4jr]

@@wranglerboi Likewise, although I've always put my sense of direction down to being aware of and navigating by the position of the sun or moon/stars.

[@cf453]

@@wranglerboi I've read that direction sense is related to iron particles that build up in specific areas of the body, so spending a long time in the same geodetic orientation would make them always line up the same way. For 13 years as a kid, I always slept in the same position, facing the same way, and my direction sense was very good. Do you have a set sleeping direction?

[@jamesjames1364]

Great information. I'd love to see more on it. Thanks.

[@johnblount6341]

After moving from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere my sense of north and south, east and west,, was completely reversed. Even after living here for years this still affects me.

[@GamePlague]

Maybe you take subtle cues from the shape of the earth. North is still north no matter where you are so it can't be a magnetic field issue.

[@wingfootmcnova9130]

Despite the extremely low strength of the earth's magnetic field, humans having the ability to sense it isn't as crazy as many would have you believe. Consider our other senses. The air pressure around us is about 100 thousand pascals yet our ears during normal conversation volume are picking up 0.01 pascals of air pressure changes. The quietest sound we can hear is a 20 micropascals of change in air pressure which equates to 0.0000002 of one percent change in relative atmospheric pressure. So basically our seneses are hella sensitive and the tiny magnetic field of the earth could certainly be sensed by even a far less specialized group of human cells. Given the clear survival advantages of such an ability it wouldn't be surprising at all if humans inherited magnetic detection.

[@Submersed24]

There was also a guy who got stabbed in the neck and didn't realize until he got home tho

[@Trip_mania]

The ear senses a differential pressure. It can be sensed whatever the atmospheric pressure is. It is totally unrelated. It is not like the ear was sensing the absolute pressure and could sense tiny variations in that pressure. It just doesn't sense the atmospheric pressure at all, because it is designed so that the pressures are balanced in both sides. It senses only changes. Just like measuring a curent through a capacitor will measure only the AC component of the current and not the DC part. This has nothing to do with sensitivity.

[@sakuseihuoshen]

@@Submersed24 Well there's also something in our bodies that suppresses our ability to feel pain for a few hours

[@omnirhythm]

@@Submersed24 I love this bloody one-liner riposte :D

[@Yabois_]

Except magnetic fields arent sensed my our ears. Also cuz one sense is sensitive doesnt mean others are. Its all just relative tho, 0.0000002 percent of change in the atmosphere might be a LOT compared to what other species can hear, and just cuz the number is really low doesnt mean that its value is, relative to other

[@maruftim]

"Who's chair is this?" "Joe's chair." *"Joe who?"*

[@wolfiewoo3371]

JOEMAMA!!! :D

[@imaok4721]

He's stuck in the 1965

[@AJ5]

Joe's dead, baby. Joe's dead.

[@raspberryjam]

ligma balls

[@LextechLighting]

Jo-lean

[@LindysEpiphany]

After being a tour guide for 7 years at the Oregon Vortex I will guarantee that we are indeed sensitive to electromagnetic fields. The Vortex has a shifting magnetic field that can cause compasses to spin or bob, or work perfectly fine, you just don't know which it will be. The Flux in energy is felt differently day to day but also changes the degree of the visual optical illusions witnessed. Sometimes the height changes appear minimal while other times they appear extreme. As with most everything not everybody is affected equally. Each individual is just that individual in their sensitivities and reactions.

[@leethax100]

Another explanation as to why this ability was lost/reduced in humans could be that prehistoric man learned to rely on more conscious and visual means for navigation. We know that early civilizations used things like stars and advanced math to track time, navigation, and even our place in the cosmos. And we are continuing to discover they may have had these technologies and skills earlier in history than previously thought. It's not impossible to think that if humans have been using a combination of visual and recorded means for navigation for tens of thousands of years, then this ability to navigate magnetically would become lost or vestigial.

[@KuroHebi]

"And then we just do this with a stool.". Their budget must have been slightly limited.

[@koibubbles3302]

Why pay for some super advanced tech when you can just close with a stool for free

[@KuroHebi]

@@koibubbles3302 okay, but a stool?

[@koibubbles3302]

@@KuroHebi it’s whatever they had around, if it works, it works

[@bryn494]

They had to get a larger stool, the Beagle stool didn't work too well... ba-dum... :}

[@KuroHebi]

@@koibubbles3302 I guess. Whatever works, works.

[@nejx8711]

0:25 "I'll keep my head perfectly straight, facing forward" *literally immediately afterwards* Looks to the right

[@ashwins-k2429]

He was explaining to us what the method for the experiment was... it wasn't the actual test

[@HoutarouOrekiOsu]

Not like the person you're responding to didn't know that..

[@Ad-Hoc43]

@@ashwins-k2429 Great,now some idiot is gonna "woosh" you

[@harryxiro]

I'll means "I will". That's future tense for when the experiment happens, and it hadn't had happened yet when he turned his head to the right.

[@TumpaTalapatra]

Yap

[@i008253]

I think it is also important to mention how sun position affects orientation when it comes to navigation as well. I live in the southern hemisphere and before navigation helps were there, I used to confuse east and west when driving in the northern hemisphere.

[@DD-dx6uo]

I work at a TMS clinic. We use electromagnetic brain stimulation with the goal of treating mental illness. The machine (Brainsway 102 and 104) triggers involuntary muscle contractions that are sometimes painful or violent and can even trigger seizures. We supply mouthguards and pillows. I don't understand the science of how / if it works. But electromagnetism is clearly affecting the body. It's not like sight or smell but you can feel it. People usually play with their phones during treatment to pass time. I'm constantly picking up phones that go flying across the room during stimulation bursts. They're not startled. Specific muscles twitch at the same freq as the stim bursts - 1-20hz at various intervals.

[@koin799]

A project that can enchance humans forever One of the project materials: Joe's chair lol

[@ELbabotas1]

And The Stool

[@themuug8600]

Hol horse

[@magl33to]

The way professor Shimojo spoke was really interesting to me. He had a very strong grasp of English language while retaining an equally strong Japanese accent. Usually by the time a non-native speaker has attained that level of skill in English, they've also adopted much more of a English-speaking regional accent. Not a criticism, just an observation that was interesting to me.

[@spicyd2]

Not really but ok

[@nickc3657]

It interested me too. It’s common that people who learn a language as an adult can’t erase their “accent” fully. They can make conscious efforts, but maybe just like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at accents.

[@MrWizardjr9]

i dont really have much of an accent in day to day conversation but when im nervous i have an accent

[@coffee115]

Hint: we do that because it grabs attention.

[@electronresonator8882]

for me it's a common thing, I knew so many people who grew up to adulthood with tribe language, still retain their accents even after they they speak fluently in national language for so many years

[@realphillipcarter]

I once 'sniffed out' my dad's lost camera battery on a beach by following what I percieved as green waves of light coming from under a rock. It was as if the battery was calling out. I had not been to the beach on the day he lost it Our entire family was in a line combing the beach, but I ran ahead to where I thought the battery would be because the green waves were bothering me My dad was not happy about me finding it, and til the last day I knew him, was convinced I was following him that day and watched him drop the battery Now I don't care if people believe this story or not. I am putting it out there in case anyone else has similar. I have synaesthesia, meaning some senses are translated to others. My theory is that this turned the magnetic sense into a visual sense and that this could explain some 'clairvoyance' in humans The battery was the only piece of electronic equipment for a decent distance, given we were on a beach. I don't think I'd have found it so easily elsewhere. I think a lot of what people deem 'ESP' is actually this sense for electromagnetism.

[@kobieventer9497]

Never mentioned this to anyone, but we had a student in our engineering class in uni that could read random thoughts. he would hypnotize himself and then talk about the thoughts he was receiving. he was always correct with somebody in the class! we speculated that the person being decoded was the one sending out the strongest thoughts through maybe electromagnetic waves, since our brains work with electrons. strange! we never talked about it afterwards.

[@ebisuhotel]

Love how the whole team kneels before lord Veritasium 7:23 as the professor talks about alpha wave.

[@goat6354]

If you wan't to find your way home, always bring a pooping dog with you as compass. Like seriously, its genius.

[@Aladato]

And lots of treats to "refuel" it.

[@era7928]

just see the sun movement, duh!

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

My dog is called "compass" so it's ok for me ^^

[@vez3834]

@Kyaru Momochi Where am I going to get one of those? Don't be silly!

[@ECHOSIDE56301]

I'll be sure to inform the adoption agency that this is my most important criteria when selecting a companion.

[@jussiantikainen]

When I was 15 years old I bought my first 15" subwoofer. I installed under comfy seat at home and played it like crazy. One time, after my rave listenings season, I noticed a tinning sound when I was outside. First I thought I was a result of playing too loud, but no. It only occurred at certain orientation of my head at open areas of urban city. The tinning sound was perfect alignment with north and south when my ears were facing , the effect lasted about 15 minutes.

[@carlgrove8793]

One of the findings that seems very relevant is that dowsers have proven to be incredibly good at detecting very small magnetic fields. It may be that (in view of the Russian research and Reddish's work) that they are actually detecting torsion, which has a magnetic component.

[@KergarinAerospace]

So... Did the brain react to the magnetic field, or does it just affect the sensors? Was there a calibration and test of the sensors in the field without a brain between them?

[@mrkitty777]

Yeah

[@janeymers7154]

Yeah was thinking about that too. The electrodes should react to a rotating magnetic field. He linked the paper, im sure its explained in it. Edit: yup they did, just ctrl+f "induction" or "current loop"

[@KergarinAerospace]

So let's hope someone with more time reads it and tells us :)

[@KergarinAerospace]

@@janeymers7154 ok thanks! so I said nothing ;)

[@Paskaloth]

for sure, It's one of the questions I had watching the video. That and the brain is a blood filled meat computer, it doesn't seem that shocking, that at least on a physical level the brain has a reaction to sitting you in a small box and running strong magnetic fields right next to your head. The brain reacted, cool alright but did he "sense" it? He didn't seem to. Fair enough if this is answered in the paper but I clicked on the video for the answer to the question it posed and maybe I just missed it.

[@mikeclark3045]

I don't know how many times I've read a white paper and wished I could have been there just to watch the experiment and hear what the folks in lab coats have to say about it apart from what makes it into the paper. This is the next best thing. Please make more!

[@anotherfreediver3639]

Thanks for name-checking Robin Baker's paper - I remember reading it in the 1980s. I've always suspected that I still have a weak magnetic sense, because on some of the many occasions when I've got lost, I generally have a rough idea of where 'home' is, and often I'm reasonably accurate. On a few occasions I've tried to think consciously about it ... and found it doesn't work that way! A great video anyway.

[@MrCmon113]

"On some occasions". Ie it works when it works. It stands to reason that you generally know where home is if you can observe celestial bodies or have landmarks or roughly remember your movements.

[@bryn494]

Given our evolution has resulted in behavior differences between the sexes perhaps women, who generally existed in familiar surrounding, shed the ability while men, who travelled farther afield retained it?

[@anotherfreediver3639]

@@bryn494 Evolutionary pressure, if the capability did exist, would certainly be in that direction.

[@anotherfreediver3639]

@@MrCmon113 Well it's more than that. It certainly doesn't 'stand to reason' if you're in a confusing environment such as a forest or a town, and on a dull day, when you can't see the sun/moon/stars or whatever. (If I have a better guide, I don't bother thinking about my intuition.) Without going into the stats, what I meant was, "more often right than by random chance". If you want to understand it, I'd recommend Robin Baker's original paper, and the book on circular statistics by Edward Batschelet, then we might be able to have a meaningful debate.

[@tinymonster9762]

My lecturer in electronic principles (1990ish) worked in military radar before going into teaching. He told us that one day during maintenance he pulled out a transmitter shelf in the radar room unfortunately whilst the magnetron was pulsing. He said the first inkling of trouble was the fluorescent strip lights in the room lighting up. An open waveguide was pointing at his face. He said as he turned his face away the RF field felt like cobwebs being pulled off his skin.

[@bryn494]

That may have been an 'interpretation' once he became aware of the RF field when the lights flickered. The matter raises interesting conundrums :)

[@HanBurritoz]

"And I will keep my head perfectly still, facing forward" *Turns head

[@samykamkar]

Awesome video! I'd be curious to see the reading of the EEG without any human attached to understand how the EM field affects the readings in the first place -- specifically if those long cables attached to each electrode produce current from the EM field via Faraday's law. Can't tell if there are twisted pairs with grounds or not to prevent pickup. Very interesting!

[@kaiwagner9375]

I think along the lines 518ff in the paper, you may find additional info about that

[@luckysingh-lh4hf]

@@kaiwagner9375 and @Samy Kamkar are u guys working on EEG?

[@prakharmishra3000]

Found Samy again :D

[@stefangodfrey1301]

@@prakharmishra3000. Ggsvzd nah ta

[@markokriegel5787]

Its described in the methods section that the induced current in the wirering was accounted: In Active runs, an electromagnetic induction artifact occurred as a 10- 20 microvolt fluctuation in the EEG signal during the 100 ms magnetic field rotation (line 133f). U can also have a look at chapter 4 and 7 of the extended methods if interested, where details about induction (prevention) are discussed :)

[@baruhleib]

As a kid before I had a phone I used this subconciasly to navigate in the wilderness, was just normal for me, when grew up and got a phone i forgot about this thing, I'll start practicing this again now, thank you !

[@dawsie]

Okay that explains how I’m able to navigate so easy. As a teenager in the girl guides we were taken out and dropped in groups of 4 in the middle of nowhere in the UK about half days walk from our campsite. We had been blind folded so we could not see any land marks of any kind. We had to figure out where we were, we had a survey map only with 10 points to find, each check point once found we had to take notes or sketch’s. We were given 6 hours to make it back to camp. My group was the first one back. We did in under 3 hours. I have always had a great sense of direction all my life. Just to note it was an overcast day so we could not use the sun for direction. There were no trees where we had been dropped off so we could not check the moss growth. We had to pick a direction in hopes that it was correct to get to the first checkpoint. I just have always known which direction is north and which is south. I don’t know if it’s because I was born far north in the Shetlands. For the first 6 months in Australia I did have problems figuring it out, I don’t know if it was because I suffered from really really bad jet lag, I found I can not lay flat on my back in Australia I get really dizzy lol, I suffered the jet lag for months, I could not eat solid food for 6 months, yuck, then one day it just started working as it always had done when we lived in the UK, it’s also when I was finally able to eat solid food again as well. That was almost 50 years ago and I still cannot lay down flat like I use to in the UK, it just makes me dizzy as hell. I am not looking forward to the next lot of solar waves from the sun this year, they recon it’s going to be massive this year😔 I always get sick when the waves hit the vertigo really messes with your head.

[@--Voltz--]

man that pooping dog had a stream going boy LOL

[@manictiger]

It's a metaphor for EA Games.

[@munendersingh5631]

Ea

[@pndrsb]

My dog walks in a circle when she poops. She once made a scale model of Stonehenge(aligned with the autumnal equinox)

[@paulperez3013]

I see the moon when I look at stonehenge, particular the side view

[@ELbabotas1]

Proof aliens weren't needed, only druidoggos

[@earlgray3925]

Bahahahaha

[@justing1810]

Mine too!

[@rubenverheij4770]

. Stonehenge made with help of a dog. Funny thought. 🤭 No high civilization. No aliens. No! Just some local dog ow- ners.😃 .

[@SteelWolf13]

"And i'll keep my head perfectly still facing forwards." Immediately moves head to the right while taking a breath after saying "forward".

[@Imbatmn57]

I think its simular to sensing if youre near a wall without seeing it, or when you can sense someone behind you, atleast when the magnetic field is that close.

[@GabyHache]

“And we just do this with a stool” 😂😂😂😂

[@julepalmero3382]

i feel like im watching a Half Life 2 "cutscene" before the action starts lol

[@nihabkhan9184]

We're the only species that knows of Magnetic Fields We're also one that can't feel them... Are you laughing now Nature?

[@jollyjokress3852]

@@nihabkhan9184 Maybe Intelligence comes with shortcomings in other departments? But I rather feel like our stupid institutions cripple a lot within us.

[@TheAdwatson]

@@nihabkhan9184 When I worked as a lab technician in a UK college in the early 1970s, I found an old Air Ministry chart of the electromagnetic spectrum. There was an intriguing label at around 8 GHz, if I remember correctly, that said, "Human brain detects EM radiation". I would love to see this chart again

[@williammoroz769]

I would like to see this study over different age groups. We know the mind changes with age and with age we lose certain abilities. Is this something that we can hone in on as child and then forget about as an adult due to basic technology like a compass and maps. Very Interesting. Thanks for another great video.

[@canonaler]

What if it's something that can be sharpened...

[@AlejandroMarin.design]

There you go, an interesting research question (or intentionality) based on this video 👍

[@rjgarnett]

Speak for yourself. My brain works better now I'm older. It's had a lot of new software upgrades over the years, it's packed full of useful information and it has the internet. That's how I do my upgrades these days, no floppy disks or thumb drives for this little black duck.

[@thedarkdragon1437]

it is highly probable this is the case. if you look at the age cohorts of two previous studies it does not support this but does indicate it.

[@indegruv]

"we know..." no ya don't

[@AUSTRALIANBBQandSALADS]

I love these education videos, keep up the good work

[@lukehowland6282]

I find it interesting, when I was growing up, my dad would randomly ask "which way is north?" Now, he did after hours of hiking. Or driving around for hours at night even in completely unfamiliar places. I'm not saying I've got super powers or anything but my sense of direction is pretty dang good

[@Not.Your.Business]

I loved the end disclaimer for the quacks, but I strongly believe they'll just ignore it...

[@isaacvongurtberg7341]

@Roman Hauksson-Neill 😂

[@benjaminchance3311]

i absolutely will ignore it, for the sake of being a jackass pseudoscientist!!

[@sophiacristina]

Not defending quacks, but, the study don't says those can/can't happen, just that the study is not about this and the results are not focused on those standards, so, a quack can still maintain their belief.

[@Choucheeeenn]

Yeah but when you see that kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoPRomSEpa2Xo9k (the whole episode worth it, I have just selected the "fart" bit), you also understand that people are not necessarily 100% responsible for their weird beliefs...

[@zsanterre]

I mean a good scientist wouldn't ignore anything. For one, the watts involved in this facility. For two, the difference between an electric current generating a magnetic field, and an electromagnetic wave like radar -> gamma rays, These waves also produce Magnetic fields. That's not pseudo science, my friend. It's awesome science. It's the reason why we could both watch this video in the 1st place

[@nolestrono]

A friend of mine can always tell which direction is north, to the point where we can close his eyes, spin him around for a while and then ask him which direction is north, and he gets it right straight away. It was one of those things where you know it's real but it's just so strange you still question it. Good to know he's actually just hypersensitive to magnetic fields and isn't a wizard.

[@BULLTRONHERO]

If he can do it with his eyes closed, that would be impressive. If he gets it after opening his eyes, then not so much. I have known several people who can easily do the same at all times, simply because they have long practiced the habit of orienting themselves at all times; it is very easy to do once it's ingrained in your register of passive mental sub-processes.

[@nolestrono]

BULLTRONHERO Well yeah like I said we covered his eyes and spun him around and he still got it. It’s really weird.

[@blissbrain]

"The heart generates bioelectromagnetic fields that induce heart-brain coupling (HBC), which is associated with various perceptual, cognitive, and emotional functions. The amplitude of the heart’s cyclical electrocardiography (ECG) potential varies within each heartbeat for different phases of the heart’s contraction, affecting the HBC. " - HEARTMATH Institute paper reference. (For those who dare to question telepathy)

[@PeterLawton]

I was driving along listening to public radio when a researcher was interviewed. She said there are something like 7,000 natural languages on Earth, and she studied an obscure one where the people greeted each other, not with "Hello" or "How are you?", but "where are you going?" or "which way are you taking to get there?". I.e., the language was extremely based on navigation. She added that she began to have doubts about learning anything useful from this around two weeks into it when she was walking along a path and suddenly, without her even trying, a map of the area appeared in her mind's eye. Previously, she found her way around based on rote memorization. Now, it was visual and it startled her. Based on this, I wonder if the lab result in this video would be more pronounced if the subject were to "practice" for two or three weeks first.

[@SlyPearTree]

Does a higher sensitivity to clockwise or counterclockwise field rotation has any correlation to being left or right handed?

[@JsoProductionChannel]

whould be very interresting if so

[@getledinyourhead]

That would be interesting. Perhaps it's a way to get a binary signal, like a way to count the turns one took to get to where you are on a winding path. This would make returning the way you came easier, for example.

[@mikemondano3624]

That would be "East-" or "West-" handed, thank you.

[@rashidisw]

or perhaps have something to do with tendency of one's decision, when someone need to turn left or right when they encounter a branching path.

[@quirenciatala437]

No

[@wolfhound113]

A powerful MRI machine generates a 1.5 tesla field (although there are now 3 tesla machines). By comparison, the Earth's magnetic field is a puny 32 microtesla at the planet's surface, on the equator. What effect would a medical MRI machine have on, say, a pigeon?

[@hersheytate8304]

If the pigeon happened to have braces or eat some BBs it would be cruel and ugly.

[@Rhannmah]

I'm surprised by this result, mainly because my premise was exactly that: a MRI machine generates a field at least half a million times stronger than Earth, and no one's reporting anything about that. Seems to me that the effect would be stronger under a stronger field. That said, I think they should test what happens when the field is stronger. Does the brain react more to it or does it not matter?

[@MarcelinoDeseo]

Imagine a pigeon flying on a hospital when a MRI was activated. I wonder if the machine will disorient the bird 😊

[@bcubed72]

How could a pigeon have braces?! They don't have any teeth!

[@mduckernz]

@@Rhannmah Yes, an MRI has a very powerful field but it is not used in the way they are here at all, they fluctuate the field very quickly to induce response in hydrogen atoms. Also the field cannot be finely oriented like this room is designed to do

[@goldenbuglab]

나는 북반구인 한국에 살고 있습니다. 내가 남아메리카에 여행을 갔을 때, 한 도시에서 몇 일 묵어서 길이 익숙해진 뒤에 방향에 집중하지 않고 원하는 곳으로 가려고 시도하면, 이상하게도 가려던 곳과 반대방향으로 가곤 했습니다. 이런 경향은 2 달 반이 될 때까지 지속됐습니다. 3 달이 돼서 집에 돌아올 때는 그냥 무의식적으로 걸어도 원하는 곳에 잘 도착하게 됐죠. 그래서 나중에 원인이 뭘까 고심하다가 자기장 때문이구나 생각했습니다. 영상을 보니, 여행했던 경험이 떠오르면서 흥미가 느껴지네요.

[@twotreasurehunters]

ive always had unexplainable navigation skills. im a big hiker and love trailblazing. I have never been lost. always knew what direction home was even in the dark in unfamiliar places. ive had multiple instances where I knew where I was and gps had wrong info. I could give a dozen storys of night time navigation alone. y oldest son said he thought I was like a bird.

[@azysgaming8410]

Hey I wanna hear more!

[@camerongraves8149]

Could growing up in the northern/southern hemisphere affect whether the brain reacts to CW/CCW magnetic field changes?

[@Dragrath1]

Ohh good question it would be interesting to check and certainly seems like a decent as part of future research question given you could get results from comparative studies the control would be the hard part....

[@iisgray]

@@Dragrath1 Not all studies require a control

[@marschma]

@@iisgray Especially with studies that some people will try to use as support for their esoteric believes like electrosensitivty, its important to have a control group. Its always good to have a control group to be sure that you dont artificially create wanted results. Its not a study if you tell people "Do you feel the magnetic field i created" and people say "yes". Especially if people WANT to feel that. Bunch of studies with people claiming to be electrosensitve have been debunked through control groups

[@iisgray]

@@marschma Sure, I'm not saying control groups are dumb or something, but it's a fact that not all studies require them, in fact, not all studies can possibly support them. Like.. y'know, does left handedness vs right handedness effect which direction of magnetic change someone notices? Like, it's impossible to have a control for that. Does eating a certain food make someone healthier? The "control" would be not feeding someone, and that's unethical. My statement was, "Not all studies require a control" nothing more, nothing less.

[@jacksonayres6326]

The hypothesis of the paper was that the sensitivity would reverse in the southern hemisphere (the theory was that the brain rejected and ignored fields that it knew couldn't align with the Earth's magnetic field), but the experiment was ran in the northern hemisphere and they weren't able to test it in their experiment.

[@Trevktaves]

If he developes super powers, It is definently because of that chair

[@tom-kz9pb]

Once I was standing in a bathroom in my house and discovered that I could turn a radio on and off in a bedroom diagonally across the hall, at will, just by making a tiny movement like a twist of my hand. I experimented repeatedly with different durations of on/off cycles, and delays in between, to make sure that it was not a coincidence of random fading out. It was exact control. I mentioned it to a hardware engineer at the communications company where I worked, and he said it sounded a bit strange, but supposed that our body could act like an antenna. So it seems like our bodies certainly interact with electromagnetic radiation. I think that extends to occasional direct interaction of human brains, as well, but that is another set of long ghost stories. It is too bad that science is not aware of the reality of the phenomenon, so that they could do a better job of studying it,

[@bryn494]

Yes, when tuning a faint station you hear changes as you move your hand around.

[@marcvray2332]

Hi there, Im Marc. Born and raised just outside of Boston. After 38 yerars living in MA. I moved to Hawaii Island. More spicifically in Mountain View. Way bask in the ratn forest within less thsn one Kilometer fron the east ridge of Kilauea volcano at aprox 1400 feet elevation. Stayed years there for years. There were nights meself and friends could clearly see the glow of the volcano crator. I will testify that living over a clear defined "hole" in the earths crust amplifies the magnetic flux feom the planet. The best analogy is feling centered. As if to say beibg inside the iron core if an electromagnet. It was very apparent to me. Even carefully observing the sun and moon, knowing the cardnial directions, it was at still confusing at times. Being in the center only goimg streight up felt as north.

[@GrandHighGamer]

I wonder how the brain scan would compare to a bird, or another animal that we know does have a strong sense of magnetism. Also whether you'd see a response difference with a farmer from a poor rural area over a citydweller, when it comes to the 'too much magnetic stimulus' hypothesis. Or even, accordingly, a difference with younger kids over older adults.

[@jamesbrown9306]

Gradius why do you have to be poor to live in rural areas?

[@phodon129]

@@jamesbrown9306 You don't have to, but a poor rural area would have the minimal amount of electric and electronic devices, even compared to a poor urban area, making it a more suitable example of one of the extremes.

[@tec738cafdikfac2]

Awesome video! I'd be curious to see the reading of the EEG without any human attached to understand how the EM field affects the readings in the first place -- specifically if those long cables attached to each electrode produce current from the EM field via Faraday's law. Can't tell if there are twisted pairs with grounds or not to prevent pickup. Very interesting!

[@woofiewill]

There is a device called North Sense in the body modification community which is implanted into your chest. I think the idea is that this device outputs a small vibration whenever you are facing north, and you wear it for some months before removing it. After removing it, your body has becoming attuned to identifying when you face north and people retain this ability indefinitely. Would be really fascinating to look into things of this nature and determine the amount of truth in that claim!

[@soheil527]

post us some links to check it out

[@keisi1574]

@@soheil527 He never could find the links...and eventually got lost.

[@julepalmero3382]

Do you just wander into research facilities at universities and go, "yoooooo, wassup, what've y'all got for me today"?

[@FectacularSpail]

There was also an experiment several years ago where a group of people wore these devices for a few weeks, I think it was a belt(?), with little buzzers on it, and it would faintly buzz in whichever direction was pointed north. So they had this constant indicator of which way they were facing, which they internalized, and developed this better sense of direction, but then they all got super disoriented once the experiment ended and they took off the devices. lol

[@DayDreamingDude]

@@FectacularSpail you might think of the FeelSpace belt. It was a project at the University of Osnabrück and is now a startup I think. They did some experiments on whether it is possible to learn where North is and also to use it as a navigation device.

[@VarunRamanathan28031999]

On one of Steven Strogatz's podcasts (Joy of Why? maybe), there was a researcher who talked about how our language changes the way we perceive and interact with the world. There are some aboriginals in Australia whose language doesn't have "left", "right", etc. They only have North, south, east, west, north-west, etc. And that's the way they refer to any direction at all. No relative references, just absolute directions (well, relative wrt to the Earth). So maybe by virtue of their language, these people hold on to or even amplify our ability to sense direction.

[@singalongwrudy8690]

Ever since I was little...there are certain parts of my town, when I visit make me feel like crying...make me feel exited... I hum the same song automatically when I go down this one road. Never fails...subconscience ? Another area makes me feel like going to sleep......I live within 4 miles of where I was born but I have briefly lived far away too. In Wisconsin I felt fear ALL the time. In Michigan I felt comfortable always...-maybe my imagination.the song thing is a little intense.

[@yeshey5443]

We're the only species that knows of Magnetic Fields We're also one that can't feel them... Are you laughing now Nature?

[@sunilkumar-bc5dz]

You my friend have an awesome thinking

[@yeshey5443]

@@sunilkumar-bc5dz Thank you good sir, you sure sound like an awesome pal.

[@trapd00rspider]

lol, writing nature as a proper noun just makes me imagine a panel of reviewers for the journal Nature reading the paper for this experiment and laughing.

[@lyxar777]

To be fair, it depends on the definition of "knowledge": Animals that use it practically obviously "realize" the effect... if they didn't notice anything, they couldn't use it, after all. But if you mean a conceptual understanding of where that effect comes from, and why it exists (in other words: "science"), then yeah: we're the only ones "knowing" about it. But the same goes for anything else. See, science ruins everything - even poetry :-)

[@Reissumies]

I can feel the difference between N and S poles of a small neodymium magnet.

[@cryingwater]

I don't know why but seeing so many lofty scientists crouching just looks so funny

[@MrTruehoustonian]

That's funny that's all I noticed and still sounding professional

[@myspacetimesaucegoog5632]

No need to think of scientists as lofty. They're merely folks who are xtra curious about something and love to examine and learn more to try and understand the thing. To do that they get educated, and my use strange terms and words, but they use that as a tool for their exploration not so as they can feel superior to any other folks. They're as happy as anyone to do odd things to get the exploration or experiment done.😉

[@cryingwater]

@@myspacetimesaucegoog5632 Normally scientists instinctively look down on the general public because of their high "knowledge"

[@brettito]

@@cryingwater Everyone is as scientist if you simply ask, "Why?"

[@AyVaZzZ4o0]

@@cryingwater Thats a pretty presumptuous assumption in fact most scientists are humble because they feel stupid since there is so many unanswered questions about the world they can't figure out for the life of them !

[@IM_MFKN_BANDZ]

Even when it's super cloudy outside or raining bad, and even when I'm in a place I've never been and its bad weather, I can 9.9 times out of ten be able to tell which way is north, my wife thinks it's crazy but I just tell her I can feel it in my bones

[@4DRC_]

An easy follow up experiment using the same equipment: Ask the subject to guess the direction of the field rotation and see if they are correct to a statistically significant degree.