Ask HN: Mental Games (?)

8 points·grownseed··3 comments

I was going to write everything here but it quickly became too much, so here's the link https://gist.github.com/grownseed/5384323. I would like to know if other people have come up with other personal mental games, just out of sheer curiosity.

Thanks!

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For more deliberate practice with possible intelligence-increasing side-effects, check out:

* http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ -DNB for improving working memory

* Lumosity ( http://www.lumosity.com/ ) -for improving other cognitive functions using simple games

* I've been doing literature review on operational techniques for mental enhancement methods ( https://plus.google.com/118216908575347364043 ) which you might intersting

* And for a better-suited community for the topic, you might want to cross-post this to http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/new/

Hope this helps!

Clickable: https://gist.github.com/grownseed/5384323

Actually found these really interesting and started playing around with the selective sight, although I used to do that when I was younger with my fingers, making them disappear. I think that's more of a physical action to do with your retinas, but still. Regarding the "illusions," how detailed of an object can you perceive? Is it actually tangible in your vision or just a projection of your imagination onto a location in your sight?

Glad you liked it. As far as the "illusions" go, as a rule of thumb I'd say anything smaller than my fist looks pretty much real, anything too big or too complex looks like a transparent layer in photoshop :) It gets better the more you do it, but I also find I need to concentrate considerably harder.

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