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Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by schiffern on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:41AM (#50412063)

  >Are you a person who feels bloodflow/tension in brain parts
You're not 'feeling' your brain. That's biologically impossible, since the brain has no nerve endings.

What you're actually feeling is muscle tension tighten and release in your head/face/neck.

Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by 44mkultra69 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:30AM (#50412345)
> is biologically impossible

But there are nerve endings all around the scalp, everywhere in the face and neck, ears, that organ that picks up sound, eye nerves? So some hypersensitivity might create some cerebral geolocationish triangulation of where vessels dilate and constrict? Or are blocked by clots, which gives the flow and dilation a different shape and timing, which also changes clock sync of what usually fires together at much more specific rates than during the blockade.

I'm asking. I'm curious and have not done a preliminary consultation with AI, yet ( why do I feel the need to say this? Probably the sustained increased oxygen supply. Lot's of additional neurogenesis going on in my head atm--19 months on nose plasters )

I used to have annoying TLE attacks which changed thinking patterns and nudged inner dialogues in and out of conversations with people. Even when I was super smooth after weeks of continuous stretching and mobility exercises ( hold two minutes, don't be a noob ) ... but that's about the only somewhat relatable example which I mentioned elsewhere some time in the past.

Some people report tensions on the inside of their forehead even though the particular and surrounding facial nerves are quantifyably ( there's probably a correct term for that ) chill, when taking certain medications.

Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by schiffern on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:58PM (#50415487)
All kidding aside, a good face and head massage is genuinely life-changing. :)

The brain's mental mapping of nerves in 3D space is highly fluid and adaptive, which is awesome, but it's also why we get things like referred pain and phantom limb syndrome.