{"id":20625,"date":"2016-10-25T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=20625"},"modified":"2016-10-25T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:25:03","slug":"plants-feel-pain-research-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/plants-feel-pain-research-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Plants Feel Pain? New Research Reveals the Unexpected Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do plants feel pain and emotion<\/em>? Is it possible that they can bond and communicate?<\/p>\n Is it possible that plants are able to experience pain and feel other human-like sensations? Prince Charles always believed they did. For years the public has laughed at the British Royal for talking to his plants.<\/p>\n He was ridiculed for years after being filmed making the following statement on a 1986 documentary filmed about him in the UK.<\/p>\n \u2018I just come and talk to the plants, really \u2013 very important to talk to them. They respond.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n New research, however, suggests that the heir to the English throne might not be so crazy after all.<\/p>\n It seems that plants really can hear. Researchers have tested<\/a>\u00a0this by playing a recording of a caterpillar munching on a leaf, and the plants reacted. Since this was a recording, there is\u00a0no possibility that the plants were sensing something other than the threatening sound.<\/p>\n The hearing is not the only sense that plants<\/a>\u00a0share with humans. Indeed, it seems that they may have all of the senses we have, plus some others that we don\u2019t share with them. Plants can sense that an obstacle is before them before they come into contact with it.<\/p>\n They\u00a0can change the direction in which they grow to avoid obstacles. They can also sense gravity and whether or not water is present in a place.<\/p>\n A biologist called Monica Gagliano discovered that a plant called Mimosa Pudica gives evidence of having a memory. Her experiments<\/a> showed that the plant\u00a0could learn from experience.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the mere suggestion that plants could have memory meant that scientific journals rejected her study several times.<\/p>\n These experiments were\u00a0strictly scientific research that was\u00a0conducted by plant and animal biologists. Others go even further, suggesting that plants are capable of feeling emotions and bonding with each other as animals and humans do.<\/p>\n German forester Peter Wohlleben<\/a> claims that trees can and do both form bonds with each other. He has claimed that trees that are \u2018friends\u2019 will purposefully grow in such a way as not to be an obstacle to the growth of the tree that they have formed a friendship bond with.<\/p>\n In 1966 a CIA polygraph expert called Clive Backster recorded the astonishing findings of an experiment he conducted on a dracaena plant in his office. He connected one if its leaves to a galvanometer.<\/p>\n He then\u00a0found that by simply thinking about the dracaena being set on fire, he could make it react enough to make the needle on the polygraph move. This was shocking. He seemed to have discovered not only that plants can think, but that they can read minds.<\/p>\n Following this experiment, Backster and his colleagues performed a number of experiments on different plants. \u00a0They\u00a0discovered that they were capable of reacting to the positive and negative thoughts of the humans near\u00a0to them.<\/p>\n Even stranger, he claimed that if plants\u00a0witnessed the \u2018murder\u2019 of another plant by stomping, they could pick out the perpetrator from a line of suspects.<\/p>\n All of this is recorded\u00a0in a book<\/a>\u00a0by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird called The Secret Life of Plants<\/a><\/em>. The conclusions from such\u00a0experiments, we should note, are highly controversial. Conventional science does not accept them at present.<\/p>\nScientists have also found that anesthetics work on plants. This suggests that plants do indeed feel pain<\/em>.<\/h2>\n
All this could suggest that plants are in fact conscious and that the line between animal and plant life may be finer than we have been used to believing.<\/h4>\n
If that sent shivers up your spine, hold on. It gets even weirder.<\/h3>\n