The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

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Our default waking mode (and also during dreaming phases of sleep) is not a brain at rest, but what is known as mind wandering.