completely took over his life. then he was given the chance to take part in a study he was told that research was being done on your feedback a special kind of pain management therapy for him it was a real medical treatment that gave him hope. really concentrated on looking at the circle to see if i could somehow influence this through certain breathing techniques or visual focus techniques really deeply into it as he. didn't realise was that the experimenters were just pretending that he was controlling his brain activity in actual fact his brain was not linked up with the computer at all. the video was being played on the monitor it was a placebo a fake therapy. and i had the feeling a hundred fifty percent that i was influencing the image through my movement my