Since the publication of the novel "Invisible Man" by HG Wells science fiction world became fascinated by the idea that a body may disappear from view.
While scientists are trying to develop invisible cloaks, a team of researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden trying to figure out what would happen to people if they hold the "superpower". They learned by now that it is possible to fool the brain of a person and make him believe that the person is invisible by simply using virtual reality goggles.
The study has revealed them that people can more easily handle stressful social situations when creating the illusion invisible.
The research involved 125 people who were asked to wear virtual reality goggles while standing and looking at their bodies. Instead of seeing them, but researchers showed them be the body of a mannequin or a blank space where it should be.
A researcher has reached each participant with a body brush brush moving simultaneously in the corresponding body in empty space participant as a body would have reached invisible.
Touches were made in five different places on the body, abdomen, left and right arm and legs. The duration of each touch was second.
During the second experiment, touches were made in space delayed by 1.25 seconds after physical touch. Subsequently, brush touches made the participants bodies were applied in opposite directions and on different body parts visible through special glasses.
These experiments were repeated on mannequins to see make the study participants 'awarded' dummies bodies even if they look different from their own.
Subsequently, participants in the study received a number of questions about the perceptions they had during procedures.
"In less than a minute, most participants began to transfer the sensation of touch portion blank space where they saw moving brushes experiencing an invisible body in that position," says Arvid Guterstam, study author.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the illusion, scientists have made stabbing motions with a knife to the stomach empty space which was invisible body.
Participants began to sweat while seeing the knife raised experiencing the illusion, but not responded to him when there was no illusion, which shows that in the first case the danger brain interprets the empty space as a direct threat on their bodies.
Source: Daily Mail
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