THAT SHRINKING FEELING

Within seconds, they could actually feel their waists begin to shrink. It would have been a good advance in the world of wait loss ---if only it had been real. But the shrinking feeling was just an illusion, created by a scientist who wanted to study how the brain creates body impression, people’s perceptions of their own size and the shape. The researchers, led by Dr.H.Henrik Ehrsson of university college London, fooled 17 people into feeling as if they were getting skinner by outfitting them with gadgets that stimulated a tendon in the wrist to create the false sensation that both hands were moving