How to Make Your Arm Go Pins and Needles

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One day, this sounds super weird, but one day I was just messing with what my mind could do to my body. If I thought about it in the right way, my arm would feel like it had pins and needles. We all most most people can visualize things in their mind. There are some people that actually can't do that at all. Some people have no mental imagery,. which is always surprising when someone who has mental imagery hears that.

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Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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