Wierd question, I know...
2006-08-16 18:16:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Seeing things can cause chemical changes to take place within our brains...
2006-08-16 18:29:56 · update #1
I think so, but the person would probably have to be willing to let these things affect them to get nearly the same effect as drugs. For example, when you take a snort of cocaine or such, you are going to be influenced whether you want to or not. I think that the person would have to be very willing to let a visual item have the same magnitude of effect. Surely it could have some effect, but probably not as much and for not as long.
I think many pieces of art more or less elicit emotional reactions. I don't think that the museums would be in business if they had a bunch of people wandering around as if they had just had marijuana. Ha ha!
However, food, yumm, food is a different story! But only if it is McDonald's or Jell-O snack packs fresh out of the microwave!
2006-08-20 14:38:03 · answer #1 · answered by aanstalokaniskiodov_nikolai 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so, coz the effects of drugs are chemical and we don't have any control about it, while on the other hand, a visual stimuli alone will all be mental, and will vary from person to person, and we have some sort of control of it, should we choose to believe and undergo a hallucination or not.
2006-08-16 18:26:09 · answer #2 · answered by megalomanya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly, if the state of mind is oriented right. Lack of food may help get you there as well as extreme temperatures.
Also, hypnotism may be a solution for your experiment (just a thought).
It would also depend on the effect you are going for.
I would guess that lightning effects may be useful as well.
2006-08-17 17:41:14 · answer #3 · answered by whoevermeam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋