This week in psych we read a very difficult chapter. There were many concepts and new trems but it all was interesting. I found the talk about the vestibular sense and pain to be the most interesting. The experiments we did will the vestibular sense would have been cool if they worked really well but they did not. Now the gate-control theory I found very strange. It explains many things about pain. Like when you look down at your finger and there is blood all over and you have no idea what you did. Now I'm not positive but I think this would be because the pain never passed through the "gate" in your spine. I have no idea why the signal would not pass through but it would make sense why you have a cut but never felt pain. That's really all my thoughts for the week so I leave you all with the ultimate question... Why does a rainbow? It just do.
Here is a interesting little video I found on chronic pain.
http://www.ted.com/talks/elliot_krane_the_mystery_of_chronic_pain.html
I agree the reading this chapter has been difficult and kind of hard to understand. Dreier mentioned to read the chapter twice to fully grasp its understanding. Although I do not think I can re-read that much material. I also found the gate theory to be interesting and if you are right about why we don't realize the pain, it would be pretty facinating. I actually have gotten cut on my finger several times and had no idea how it happened. Same thing with paper cuts. The reading is interesting although a bit confusing as Dreier stated.
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