Tag: eyes

• Forceful Gaze and Gator Tails

  Have you ever sensed that someone might be watching you? You get a prickly feeling at the back of your neck and turn to see a stranger staring at you across the room. It sometimes seems that we can feel a person’s gaze as a physical sensation. Anthony and Jeff discuss research into this very sensation, in an attempt to figure out what we are actually sensing. Then, scientists have found that young American alligators can regrow their tails up to nine inches, or around 18 percent of their body length. Jeff and Anthony ask whether this might eventually give us all powers like The Lizard from Spider-Man. [more]

  January 8, 2021Episodes

• Trip Down The Stares

  In 2015, a psychologist in Italy figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into each other's eyes for 10 minutes straight. Not only did the deceptively simple task bring on strange 'out of body' experiences for the volunteers, it also caused them to see hallucinations of monsters, their relatives, and themselves in their partner's face. Jeff and Anthony have been recording this podcast for years, facing each other. We finally have an explanation for some of the more unhinged episodes. [more]

  June 18, 2018Episodes