Though I no longer suffer life-altering symptoms from EMF Sensitivity I continue to research with a passion for research through the lens of physics.
I’ve had a passion for physics – one nurtured by my physics and calc teachers – since high school.
When I came across an article in BBC Science Focus Magazine today I felt it important to offer an opinion if not a warning – put through the lens of EMF Sensitivity consequences.
The article is titled “I Let Scientists Hack My Brain to Prove Reality Is a Hallucination. It Worked.“
Normally I would provide a direct link to the article but it is not available on their website as of this writing.
I get it through my Apple News Service.
It’s a well-written article about the author’s experience in a sound booth with music and strobe lighting and how it affected him.
Do NOT Try This At Home!
My personal advice.
My relationship with strobe lighting goes back to the weeks and months after brain surgery necessary to repair a subdural hematoma.
I was 10.
I would sit in a chair in the basement of a hospital – in the dark – with EEG electrodes glued to my scalp.
At least they’d moved beyond needles.
Several times a month month after month.**
Not a good time.
At various points during the test the tech would flash a strobe light in my eyes, sometimes having me add the stress of breathing rapidly, as if I was running a race.
They were trying to make me have a seizure.
Fortunately this didn’t happen and in the years since if I was at a concert or out dancing – where I was exposed to strobe lighting – have never had an issue.
I’ve written blog posts about this including photos from the concert with the lights.
Here’s the thing.
Inducing seizures in children.
As I write in Riding the Waves: Diagnosing, Treating, and Living with EMF Sensitivity, Japanese families experienced a health emergency when a cartoon with a character whose eyes flashed caused a number of children watching the episode on TV to have seizures.
It’s one thing to undergo something in a lab but exposing yourself to various pulsing light frequencies is nothing to mess with. It truly has serious health implications.
Be well.
** Every time I was referred to another specialist who wanted to have a peek inside my brain I had to have the test redone because they only trusted “their” techs. Make no mistake – it was hell.
Elizabeth Maxim 
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