This might be the straight jacket for me if I don’t get it right. Thinking is reflected in your breath. Your breath carries your thoughts like the air around you carries sound waves from your brain through your breath and to the listener. Think of your breath and the air that carries the sound external to you as the same thing. But then how is thinking translated into sound? I think I ‘speak’. What I am saying is that even if I don’t speak my thinking can be heard in my chest cavity and then through my breathing. It is difficult to prove that it resonates in your chest cavity but it can be heard in your breathing. Extra sensory perception is not necessary to know what you are thinking. Thinking and speaking same as thinking and not speaking – I can still hear you. The process is the same whether you speak or not.
This is one way you can listen in by getting right into the chest cavity and vocal cords.
speak thinking in ear recording
Here I must point out that when the mystics of the past had emphasised the importance of breathing
they did not go into the science or the specifics of the process. They had the big picture through practice. They knew that certain things happened and they knew how it was all connected and they knew the benefits of the practice and they went about their thing. So at times when we mortals look at what they had to say, we say: crazy. Lets see what one mystics said about breathing and the breath:
From:
The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Vol. 4 – HEALING AND THE MIND WORLD
PART III
MENTAL PURIFICATION
Chapter XV
The Secret of Breath
Breathing is a great secret’, the reaction is, ‘Why, I have never thought about it. What is it really?
In reality the breathing itself is voice, and the whole voice-construction depends upon breathing.
For the mystic breath is that current which carries the air out and brings the air in.
Naturally, breath being the self, it is not only the air which one exhales but it is a current which, according to mystics, runs from the physical plane into the innermost plane; a current which runs through the body, mind, and soul, touching the innermost part of life and also coming back; a continual current perpetually moving in and out.
breath runs through all three: body, mind, and soul.
http://www.sufimessage.com/mental-purification/The%20Secret%20of%20Breath.html
Ok so enough of this: mysticism still jingle jangle for some. We want to find some facts to see if thinking is connected to breathing because if thinking is really reflected in breathing then I can know what you are thinking, right? I can listen in to your breathing and it will tell me what you are thinking. I can record it, tape it and play it back. Imagine a life time of thinking saved on tape for family and friends. E-mail hacking and privacy who cares. I know what you are thinking because you are breathing and thinking is carried along with your breathing. I can see the straight jacket partially on me already. But lets stop here with the mysticism and look at facts.
Above are a set of PET scans on the parts of the brain that are affected by speaking and thinking.
Hence today scientist have the means to locate parts of the brain that control speaking or even thinking (and language)
There were experiments that were carried out to confirm the areas that controlled speaking.
The area that controls speaking was discovered by Paul Broca a French neurologist, who had a patient who could not speak. After the patient died an autopsy showed “that an area of the frontal lobe, just ahead of the motor cortex controlling the mouth, had been seriously damaged. He correctly hypothesized that this area was responsible for speech production.” This part of the brain was then called the
“Broca’s area” This part controlled the muscles of the mouth.
(http://webspace.ship.edu/c/speechbrain.html)
Now thinking:
When we want to speak, we formulate what we are going to say in Wernicke’s area, which then transmits our plan of speech to Broca’s area, where the plan of speech is carried out. (http://en.wiki.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia)
The diagram above shows these areas clearly.
So in the brain there is that area that formulates language before you speak. It is formulated in the Wernicke’s area in the brain. The signals are then sent to the Broca’s area in the brain to get ready to create sound and hence speech.
So now you have to see how the larynx and the muscles in the mouth are controlled to create speech. Breathing sits on top of this. This is important that you keep in mind that breathing runs simultaneously with this process of first thinking then speaking. Just to remind you that what I am trying to do here is to show you that thinking is also ‘heard’ in breathing. Extra sensory perception is not the only way that you can read a persons mind. You can also do this by listening to his breathing.
So how is sound controlled by the larynx and what is the function of the tongue in all of this.
The larynx which houses the vocal cords only controls the pitch of sound. To keep it all concise from here. The pitch is like the from high pitch Michael Jackson to low pitch Louis Armstrong. That is all the vocal cords can do.
Your language is created by your tongue, lips and palate on the back of this. Speaking itself is made by the muscles of the mouth: tongue, back of your palate and lips.
“Some consonants are called labials (Latin labia, lip) because they are formed by the lips; it is impossible to say b, p, f, m, or v with your mouth alone. Others (d, t, l, n, r, s, z, ch, j) are lingua, requiring the use of the tongue (Latin lingua, tongue). G, q, and k are gutterals, made with the back of the palate (Latin gutter, throat).”
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/larynx.html
Your chest cavity, your breathing tubes, your diaphragm all help to make the sound louder: “amplifies the sound just as the body of a violin does.”
It is more difficult to prove to a reader that the chest cavity is another source to listen to thinking. The chest cavity amplifies the sound and with careful listening can ‘hear’ thinking. But as the sound is ‘carried out’ by breathing it is proof that it happens in the chest cavity too as muscles in the larynx and cavity resonate to the stimulus from the brain to create sound. This is probably a better source to listen into and with a better quality sound.
It takes observation on your part to know that thinking only (with no speaking) is carried along from your brain right up to your mouth whether you speak or not. Try this: your are at your ATM. You want some money. Just think it out: pin number: 1,2,3,4: now watch your tongue movements while you key these numbers in your mind: can you feel your tongue move like you are speaking? Yes. While you are writing an essay, silently, your tongue moves quietly with every word. The only anatomical part of speech that is silent are your lips. But the lips create the clear word. Without your lips words are still clear enough to understand what is being thought. You can try this by opening your mouth (or keeping it shut), keeping your lips still and talk what you are thinking: you can still be understood. What you hear is what can be heard with your breath. The tongue and your back palate and other muscles in the mouth that is involved in speech move with thinking and the movement of the air of breathing over the tongue and the shape of the space it creates inside your mouth creates words that can still be understood. You can also try this: pull your thermals over your face and place both palms on your face to keep the thermals in place and listen to your breathing while you think. The modulation of sound/language heard through the process of breathing is your thinking. And another experiment: put a finger spatula in your mouth and keep your tongue down and from moving: you can see that the words are less clear. The process of thinking and speaking is separated only by the use of the lips.
So you know that if you are reading a letter silently, or writing an e-mail (watch your tongue while you do this) somebody might be listening.
The latest research on this (31 january 2012) to listen to brain recordings see link below:
http://www.nature.com/news/voicegrams-transform-brain-activity-into-words-1.9945
It is only language that is carried in the breath. Image making and pictorial thinking that are not translated into words do still remains safe in the brain or maybe not…….
“This is so cool it’s almost creepy: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, reconstructed movies that test subjects had watched, using functional MRI scans to convert brain activity into fuzzy but eerily accurate moving images.” The future is here today. (http://www.radiologydaily.com/daily/neuroradiology/brain-mri-can-picture-what-youre-thinking/)
UPDATE: 29 May 2012
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I cannot be far wrong if the New Scientist magazine things that this can be done. But it is done in not exactly the same way as i had suggested. Observation can be a really powertool to bring out the Truth in the inner self. That is why thinkers like J. Krishnamurti had seen the power of critical self-awareness as the tool to decipher the real from the unreal. In the link below you can see that in 2008 thinking can be used to make a voiceless phone call. But in this case you notice that the controller of thought can edit his stream of thoughts to allow the sentences that he wants to ‘pass’ through to his mobile phone. That is because in this case the process is interceppted at the junction where editing is possible and then he silently ‘speaks’ what he wants to ‘pass’ to his mobile phone. But remember all thinking is carried out by the breath – all: no editing is possible when it has crossed that line and IF YOU MONITOR YOUR BREATHING YOU WILL KNOW WHAT YOU ARE THINKING – or the person standing next to you: to know what he is thinking by listening to his breathing.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13449
So with the above you need to get really close to your vocal cords to get it to work.
There are applications for 1-phone mobile to record what people are saying through speech as in ‘Isaidwhat’ as in the link below. Have fun recording the speech of people in buses etc and you can then play it back to them to confuse them – so funny?!! ha ha. nice one.
http://www.tapparatus.com/isaidwhat/
But remember if you want to know what your friend is thinking you got to get closer with a more sensitive application and if with a portable device like a mobile phone then the better as then you can get anybody as target like ‘on the buses’. So if you see this guy or gal sitting behind you in the bus getting real close to you with his mobile phone and aiming it at your neck area then he/she might be using an application that is supersensitive like an Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) application. EVP’s are supersensitive recording gadgets or software applications that are use to detect ‘ghost sounds’. You know how it works from the above and if he can listen to the modulation of your breathing and the gadget or software has been programmed to understand the ‘formants’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant) that is ‘in speech science and phonetics, formant is also used to mean an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract’ (wiki). If the gadget can interpret the ‘formants’, that resonates inside the vocal cords and the chest cavity of the individual, when the individual is not speaking: then he can hear you thinking. EVP software: You can try this one all ready for you as an application.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/paranormal-recorder/id330027247?mt=8
or if you have a laptop, easy enough to get it on a buses for some recording, but with double super sensitivity microphone try this one:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/MatrixVir/
And of course if you also like to listen to his heartbeat and know if his blood pressure is up and if he is going to have a heart attack etc:
Update 31st May 2012
All the above is tracking activity on the move but can also be used in an enclosed environment. But what is important is that all the above can be made more sensitive or supper sensitive to get to the level where you can start to record voice that is first formed inside your body cavity/vocal cords (Formants) before your lips, tongue and mouth muscles can form the words that we can understand as speech. So you need a recorder that can understand ‘formants’ – the first stage of voice production that is created in the vocal cords and the chest cavity. You get a gadget that can interpret this and then convert it to speech that you can understand. It is like having the gadget to do the work of the lips, tongue and mouth muscles.
Remember that we are now looking into if it is possible to record what people are thinking in a self contained environment. Recording ‘formants’ that reflect thinking. With speech recognition software the process of recording your voice becomes a lot easier with background noise not that much of a problem anymore. This is because the software is first trained to recocognise the kind of voice/sound that the perpetrator wants to record. So there can be jingle jangle happening about the target but they will only record the sound of the person they want to monitor. This can be easily done in a controlled environment like a recording studio and the process evolves to the environment outside: a bus, a taxi, the underground, a plane, a cinema, a conferance room, at home:daughter spying on father, neighbour on neighbour, etc. You get the idea. All easily done with todays technology.
And if you look at this link below you can see how the laser microphone you can use can get right into your chest cavity and vocal chords to listen to what you are thinking. This is easily done especially in self-contained open spaces where there is not much movement in the individual. Like in an aeroplane, in a park reading your newspaper, like when you are stationary for a while, like in a bus etc. But a plane is best to get all the business secrets of an individual on his way to a business meeting. Can be done, i think.
So i am thinking this with you. I don’t want you to think that i am telling you how this is done. But i am saying that it is/might be possible now. I say might only because one can be deceived to belief that it might be possible and it really is fraud. Remember that this is recording of thinking not using a collar as above but direct recording of ‘formants’ before it is translated to speech and hence recording of thinking.
I did all the searches on the net and then some thinking and lots of realtime reflection i noticed that when i typed the keyword what came up was mostly the music industry, films, singing, voice control etc.: the music recording studio. So here was the answer i think to where all the equipment for supersensitive voice recordings came from. Voice recording and playbacks and voice throwing, long distance recording with telescopic recorders and throw back of voice would come from the film industry. I think todays best recording equipments for whispers and especially ‘formants’ would come out of the recording studio. The vacoder could be used to record low level noise or other top end recorders: http://www.onlineinstrumentation.co.uk/controllers-and-recorders/videographic-recorder-sm3000.html. But i am sure there are others out there that are manufactured in labs and are not out for sale. There are those to capture audible speech, or the whisper or the ‘formant’, that sound that is related to thinking before the process of editing that is then allowed to be spoken.
Below are examples of spectrograms of speech, whisper and the ‘formant’. You could see ‘formant’ noise as raw data, unprocessed yet it can be a very powerful subliminal signal. This article does not end with the present possibility of recording your thinking. Through the recording of the ‘formant’ it ia now capable of
telling you what to think.
“Noise with these sort of characteristics is called ‘formant noise’ and it can sound uncannily like real speech. It can be good enough to trip the brain into ‘speech mode’. Though the apparent formants may make no sense (as they are noise, not words), our brains will work hard to turn the result into recognisable words. That’s because they use a ‘top-down’ process to processing speech, trying to fit likely words to the apparent formants present. It explains why, with formant noise, you never ‘hear’ partial words. The words come from your brain, not the sound, and are made to fit the noise. In the same way, whole phrases can emerge. You may need to listen to formant noise several times to fix the phrase as your brain tries various likely alternatives. If someone tells you beforehand what the ‘words’ are meant to be, you will often hear it straight away.” (http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/articles/Formant%20noise.html)
So if you hear a sound come past you: ‘formants’ are hardly words but they contain meaning. you give it some time and the mind makes a sentence out of that sound. At times it does not even have to be a sound but just a muffle of a something. But the brain picks it up through your sensors and it is programmed to make something out of it and it comes up with a sentence or an idea perhaps. How do you know that it was not sent to you. And if it was sent to you via a ‘formant’, now you have lost all control of your free will: you work on that idea as if it was yours and now you are doing the work of others.
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and also http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qUioNg_Yw-A on how to control a wheelchair with thought. Notice here that you have to be a ventriloquist for this system to work. The process of thinking and silently speaking -speak thinking- is a simultaneous natural process – they function together and you cannot stop it.
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ps: About listening devices in use today to do the job? Firstly i must point out to you that if there is any such devices that is in existence you are not going to know about it. Also the scientist in ‘Palermo’ is going to know about this new technology before you do.
But if you troll the net you might see that it is not impossible.
i will leave you with the best of wiki: http://www.en.wiki.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device on listening devices and how they are used.
And you might be interested in this one if you live in a newly built apartment: The United States Embassy in Moscow was bugged during its construction in the 1970s by Soviet agents posing as laborers. When discovered in the early 1980s, it was found that even the concrete columns were so riddled with bugs that the building eventually had to be torn down and replaced with a new one, built with U.S. materials and labor.[12] For a time, until the new building was completed, embassy workers had to communicate in conference rooms in writing, using children’s “Mystic Writing Tablets”.
Also look at ‘Array Microphones’ if you are interested. These are 360 degree directional microphones that follow you around your home for covert listening – http://www.en.wiki.org/wiki/Microphone_array
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pps:
some new research on brain activity:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137178/Teenagers-binge-drinking-drug-abuse-linked-way-brain-wired.html