{"id":1752,"date":"2023-03-14T18:09:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T18:09:52","slug":"dizzy-apes-provide-clues-on-human-need-for-mind-altering-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"Dizzy apes provide clues on human need for mind altering experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1753\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31.png 800w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31-770x510.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31-293x194.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-31-390x258.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great apes deliberately spin themselves in order make themselves dizzy, academics at the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham have discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The findings could provide clues about the role of altered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mental+states\/\">mental states<\/a>&nbsp;for origins of the human mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Adriano Lameira, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Warwick who co-led the study said, &#8220;Every culture has found a way of evading reality through dedicated and special rituals, practices, or ceremonies. This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+trait\/\">human trait<\/a>\u00a0of seeking altered states is so universal, historically, and culturally, that it raises the intriguing possibility that this is something that has been potentially inherited from our evolutionary ancestors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-dizzy-apes-clues-human-mind.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-dizzy-apes-clues-human-mind.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great apes deliberately spin themselves in order make themselves dizzy, academics at the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham have discovered. The findings could provide clues about the role of altered&nbsp;mental states&nbsp;for origins of the human mind. Dr. Adriano Lameira, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Warwick who co-led the study said, &#8220;Every culture has found a way of evading reality through dedicated and special rituals, practices, or ceremonies. This\u00a0human trait\u00a0of seeking altered states is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}