Recently I got a magnetic implant, installed by Steve Haworth. It is a form of body modification which allows me to sense magnetic fields.
As a lesser feature, it also allows me to pick up metal objects like the safety pin pictured above.
Other people have had the surgery and they have written about it. But this is just my personal take on my little upgrade.
It’s like this;
When I first started playing the Google Augmented reality game called Ingress, it was hard.
I had to walk around in the REAL world while also walking around in game.
And my brain couldn’t do it! I could focus on the things around me, or the game. I could switch quickly from one to the other. But I couldn’t do both at once.
My brain could only comprehend my place in space and time in ONE universe at once while walking.
And then one day it learned.
I literally felt my mind expand.
Screen shot from Ingress
Suddenly; I could walk around in game AND in the real world simultaneously. I built new neural pathways and I felt it happen.
The magnet is the same.
At first it was a tingle whenever I was near a magnetic field.
And it took whole seconds for me to realize that the tingle I felt was caused by the magnet in my finger, and to make the connection.
“Oh yes! (Said my brain very slowly). We have a new sense!”
But little by little it is realizing what is happening faster and faster.
Someday, it will feel natural like processing visual data.
Everyone asks me why I did it. I can offer no explanation except to say, if it doesn’t sound cool to you yet, then I can’t explain it to you.
But I can assure you that I haven’t had any negative side effects worth mentioning, and that so far I think it’s an amazing experience!
I guess if there is any downside it was that the installation and healing was a bit of a pain.
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