#143 - Meet the World's Greatest Imagination Neuroscientist You’ve Never Heard Of

Upgrade Your Shaving Experience With Henson (100 FREE BLADES): https://hensonshaving.com/thegiantsshoulderWant a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutDr. Reshanne Reeder is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Liverpool and creator of the Ganzflicker — a flickering screen that makes most people hallucinate complex scenes within a minute, no drugs required. Her research suggests hallucinations themselves are just disordered mental imagery, and that the most vividly imaginative among us may be the closest normal-range group to a psychotic break.Expect to learn why a simple red-and-black flicker makes most people hallucinate faces and landscapes within a minute, the accidental lab discovery that led to the Ganzflicker experiment, why she believes hallucinations are simply "disordered mental imagery," why psychedelic and clinical hallucinations come from entirely different brain mechanisms, the 1960s art device built to replace the television, why almost nobody hallucinates their own phone, how aphantasia may carry a hidden cost to face recognition, how she's trying to predict psychosis risk years before it ever develops, and much more…Timestamps0:00:00 Trailer0:02:29 How She Discovered Imagery Isn't One Thing0:08:43 Can You Decode Images in an Aphantasic's Brain?0:10:37 The Truth About "Unconscious" Mental Imagery0:16:01 Imagery vs Imagination: Why They Aren't the Same Word0:18:55 Imagery, Perception, Hallucination, Dreaming: Where's the Line?0:20:36 The Hyperphantasics Who Project Images Into the Real World0:22:23 Her Bold Claim: Hallucinations Are Disordered Imagery0:23:37 Can Aphantasics Hallucinate on Psychedelics?0:27:55 The DMT Study Where 90% Said It Felt More Real Than Reality0:29:39 Why Mental Imagery Breaks the Predictive Brain Theory0:32:21 The Irish Castle Test: Are Mental Images Just Priors?0:38:58 She Made People See Faces in Pure Random Noise0:42:04 The Illusion That Turns Faces Into Monsters0:45:48 Why Aphantasia Might Come With a Face-Recognition Cost0:47:35 His Sister Went 31 Years Without Knowing She Had Aphantasia0:49:59 The Accidental Origin Story of Ganzflicker0:51:26 The 1700s Origin of the "Whole Field" Hallucination Effect0:57:41 "I See a Lighthouse": The Moment Ganzflicker Was Born1:00:28 Why Aphantasics Barely Hallucinate on Ganzflicker1:05:31 The Sharp Cliff Between Zero and Weak Mental Imagery1:12:30 Why Nobody Hallucinates Their Phone1:19:45 The Hypnosis Session That Left His Arm Frozen in the Air1:22:13 The 1960s "Dream Machine" That Was Supposed to Replace TV1:35:59 Can This Predict Psychosis Before It Happens?...... Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] Episodes MentionedAdam Zeman — The Blind Mind's Eye: How Aphantasia Is Rewriting Consciousness ! Dr Adam Zeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgA2up6-BokAlfredo Spagna — Meet The Neuroscientist Proving We Got Imagination & Aphantasia WRONG!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8SBHefDnEkDavid Luke — Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKD1gt1X5oKarl Friston — Meet The Neuroscientist Who Created The Best Universal Theory Of Brain Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IZOFs4qmYAnil Seth — No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSA06K0l1oGuest LinksUniversity of Liverpool Faculty Page: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/reshanne-reederPersonal Website (Ganzflicker Demo): https://www.reshannereeder.com/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/kerblooee.bsky.socialGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=DfdUB3UAAAAJLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/reshanne-reeder-53182123b