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The feeling-connection system, nightly integration and the hypothesis of human gravitational waves

A coherent and researchable framework around a basal human feeling-connection system, the nightly transfer from intellect to feeling, the role of error detection in upbringing and leadership, and the hypothesis that feeling-to-feeling communication is carried by a physical channel — provisionally named human gravitational waves. Not summarising an existing theory, but formulating a direction for research.

June 2026 · by Jacobus van Merksteijn · Malta

Aim and scope

This document assembles a research direction around a basal human feeling-connection system, the nightly transfer from intellect to feeling, the role of error detection in upbringing and leadership, and the hypothesis that feeling-to-feeling communication is carried by a physical channel provisionally named here as human gravitational waves. The aim is not to summarise an existing theory, but to formulate a coherent and researchable framework that connects to recognisable human experience, to parts of the existing literature, and to a number of focused new hypotheses.

This direction is attractive for further research because it connects multiple fields: intuition and decision-making, sleep and integration, upbringing and error correction, non-verbal and animal communication, and a possible new physical carrier for feeling-to-feeling transfer.

Core proposition

The central proposition is that humans possess a basal feeling-connection system that predates language, that integrates new day-knowledge into the full feeling-network during the night, that on waking often yields a remarkably clear resolution phase, and that in relations between people may be supported by a direct physical channel. The existing literature recognises parts of this pattern under terms such as intuition, non-verbal attunement, social intuition, attachment, emotional processing in REM sleep, and the practical wisdom of "sleeping on it" — but has not yet described a fully unified model.

Why this research is relevant now

The literature on leadership and decision-making shows that intuition plays a role in practice, even when it is not openly named in organisations; there are signals that leaders often value intuitive decisions highly, yet culturally still legitimise them primarily in the language of reasoning. At the same time, the literature on upbringing and child development shows that clear limits, outdoor play, social friction and physical presence matter for development, while screen time rises and outdoor play declines.

That makes this line of research timely: if the feeling layer truly is a fundamental human function, then the current screen-and-language-dominant culture may be not only socially or pedagogically problematic, but also disruptive to a deeper human learning and communication system.

Conceptual framework

Day consciousness

Day consciousness, designated here as D, encompasses language, linear reasoning, conscious knowledge, explicit memories and the questions posed during the day. This is the layer on which people argue, plan and position their thinking.

Feeling-network

The feeling-network, designated here as F, encompasses the parallel, embodied, and life-wide integrated knowledge layer of a person: experiences, relational patterns, valuations, body-knowledge and the non-linguistic totality of prior learning cycles.

Primal feeling

Primal feeling is the first conscious projection of F into current awareness. The literature on intuition describes this phenomenon as direct knowing or understanding without conscious reasoning.

G-system

The G-system is the working name in this document for the basal feeling-connection system by which internal state may act on or be attuned to other living systems. The existing literature describes mainly the phenomenon of non-verbal and intuitive attunement; the hypothesis of a separate physical carrier is here an explicit extension.

Error detection

Error detection is the learning function that determines during nightly integration which patterns are to be retained, weakened or strengthened. The analogy with neural networks is guiding here: without error detection no real learning change; with wrong calibration either undercorrection or resonance results.

Existing validation in the literature

Intuition in decision-making

Intuition is recognised in management and psychological literature as a relevant factor in decision-making, especially under conditions of complexity and incomplete information. Various sources emphasise that stepping back, reflection and "sleeping on it" can support better decisions.

Sleep, processing and morning clarity

REM sleep and sleep more broadly are linked in the literature to emotional processing, memory integration and improved problem-solving. This does not automatically validate the full feeling model, but does support the notion that the night is a special integration phase during which day-information is processed and restructured.

Limits and upbringing

Pedagogical literature emphasises that clear limits are essential for development. Children who receive too few limits are described as more impulsive, less secure and less stable in their self-regulation. This supports the hypothesis that early upbringing partly calibrates the error detection and correction capacity of the later system.

Outdoor play and physical/social training

There is growing attention to the decline of outdoor play, the rise of screen time and the effects thereof on executive functions, self-regulation and development. The decline of free street play can be read in this model as the loss of a natural training environment for social attunement, rules, conflict, winning and losing, and physical feedback.

Non-verbal and animal communication

Existing sources describe broadly that both humans and animals rely heavily on non-verbal signals such as posture, gaze, voice, touch and proximity. Animal behaviour points to a relatively limited but highly effective repertoire of feelings and intentions that is conveyed without linguistic symbolism.

Research direction — five questions

The research direction can be broken down into five interrelated questions:

1. Does a recognisable difference exist between day consciousness and a deeper feeling-network that integrates new knowledge during the night?
2. Is the moment of waking truly a phase of heightened solution quality, as folk wisdom suggests and as much experiential knowledge reports?
3. Are error detection and the stability of this system partly modelled in early childhood through limits, play, friction and physical presence?
4. Does the feeling-connection system carry only a few basic functions — such as fear/safety and love/rejection — as animal behaviour and attachment literature suggest?
5. Is a physical channel conceivable that supports feeling-to-feeling transfer and that is in principle indirectly or directly detectable?

Process model — four phases

Phase 1: day input

During the day the system collects facts, problems, tensions and impressions in D. The explicit questions of the day are formulated here.

Phase 2: nightly integration

During the night, D is iteratively offered to F. F integrates the new information with the existing life-matrix. Error detection and feedback correct and reweight the connections.

Phase 3: morning verdict

On waking, D is not yet fully active, but F has already completed the nightly integration. As a result an early feeling-conclusion appears, which in this model represents the most complete decision the system is capable of at that moment.

Phase 4: day overwriting

After waking, language, social pressure, external stimuli and rational reformulation increase rapidly. The morning feeling-verdict can thereby be weakened or overwritten.

Error detection as key variable

The quality of this system depends not only on the amount of input, but above all on the calibration of error detection.

• With too-low error detection insufficient learning occurs; the morning verdict is incomplete.
• With too-high error detection resonance arises; the system keeps correcting without reaching certainty.
• With correct error detection the feeling-network converges toward a stable and usable resolution state.

In this logic, leadership is not primarily a matter of IQ or linguistic ability, but of a feeling-network that learns correctly across nights and can reliably arrive at an integrated conclusion.

Upbringing and early calibration

In this direction, upbringing is seen as the first calibration process of error detection, boundary-setting and feeling perception. The combination of clear limits, physical play, winning and losing, conflict and repair forms the natural practice ground in which the child learns what "too much", "enough", "safe" and "not safe" mean.

The current shift toward more screen time and less outdoor play suggests that precisely this natural calibration is declining. That makes it plausible to investigate whether the contemporary living environment affects not only executive functions and social skills, but also the still-hypothetical feeling-connection system.

The limited feeling alphabet

An important hypothesis in this line of research is that the G-system does not transmit all possible feelings or thoughts, but only a limited feeling alphabet. Fear/safety and love/rejection are the most obvious core axes. This aligns with attachment, animal behaviour and intuitive assessment of others, in which safety, trust, threat and attraction are central.

This makes the system evolutionarily logical: a direct channel does not need to carry a rich language, but only the most fundamental social and survival-relevant dimensions. Language could therefore later take over the complex content, while the basal feeling layer remained active in the background.

The core axes can be supplemented with possible additional axes — dominance, openness, calm — but the central dichotomy remains the evolutionary basis: approach versus distance, safe versus unsafe.

Hypothesis of a physical carrier

The existing literature explains intuition, social attunement and animal signalling primarily via body language, physiology, unconscious processing and context. This document adds as a working hypothesis that there may be an additional physical carrier for direct feeling-to-feeling transfer.

The proposed working name for this is human gravitational waves in the giga- to terahertz domain. That hypothesis is not confirmed in current gravitational physics, in which measurable gravitational waves are linked to extremely massive cosmic sources. As a hypothesis it is intended here as an explicit broadening of the model, not as a claim of existing consensus.

The brain as array — hypothesis

A further line of thought is that large nerve tracts in the brain, particularly in the frontal-posterior direction, together form a kind of array. Very small but high-frequency changes in the length, tension or spatial configuration of many parallel elements could collectively build a directed field pattern at a distance.

The analogy with loudspeaker arrays or beamforming systems is guiding here: many small excursions can, through phase alignment, form a strong beam at a distance. A brain that could "transmit" in that manner — directed, phased — would be no mystery. It would be an application of a principle the technical world has long known.

Guiding detector concepts

The aim of a detector is in the first instance not immediately to prove "the" gravitational wave, but to find a series of signals or correlations that are consistent with the existence of a directed feeling-to-feeling transfer.

Detector concept 1: direction-sensitive sensor array

A first idea is an array of sensor elements that attends not only to amplitude, but above all to phase differences and directional coherence. If a strong transmitter works in a directed manner at a target, a suitable array should in principle be able to register a coherent directional structure.

Detector concept 2: bio-resonance setup

A second idea uses sensitive people as a biological part of the detector. While a transmitter directs attention, heart-rate variability, skin conductance, breathing rhythm and possibly EEG are measured in a receiver. If a repeatable pattern occurs in blinded conditions, that is no direct proof of gravitational waves, but it is a strong indication of a non-linguistic and possibly non-classical coupling.

Detector concept 3: neuro-array correlation

A third idea first searches within the brain itself for a repeatable "beamforming mode": a spatial and temporal pattern in brain activity that correlates with conscious directing, feelings of intensification and purposeful transmitting. Only then is a search made for external correlates.

Proposal for a first measurement method in principle

A practical first research trajectory could combine detector concepts 2 and 3:

1. Select a small group of people who report being able to "transmit" strongly or to experience an intense primal feeling.
2. Let them, in standardised sessions, direct attention, loving focus or aversive focus at a receiver.
3. Simultaneously measure simple brain signals in the transmitter and physiological and subjective responses in the receiver.
4. Use blinded blocks so the receiver does not know when directing is or is not occurring.
5. Do not search for a single signal, but for a pattern of repeatable coherence across time, direction and response.

If such patterns were to prove reproducible, a basis arises to take the step toward more directly physical arrays.

Research hypotheses

Main hypothesis

A basal human feeling-connection system exists that receives problems during the day, integrates them at night into a full feeling-network, and on waking yields a relatively optimal feeling-conclusion.

Secondary hypotheses

• Correct error detection is necessary for stable and usable morning verdicts.
• Early upbringing and physical/social play context calibrate that error detection.
• The system uses a limited feeling alphabet, with fear/safety and love/rejection as core axes.
• There may exist a physical channel for feeling-to-feeling transfer.
• Large nerve tracts in the brain can function as a collective array in the generation or formation of that channel.

Why this research is attractive

This direction is attractive because it attempts to place in one framework a large number of phenomena currently discussed in scattered disciplines: intuition in leadership, the value of "sleeping on it", attachment and safety, limits and upbringing, outdoor play and social calibration, animal communication, non-verbal attunement, and the boundary between human and artificial intelligence.

If the hypothesis proves false, this still yields valuable insights about intuition, upbringing, sleep and decision-making. If the hypothesis proves partially or more fully correct, it opens a new field at the intersection of neuroscience, behaviour, upbringing, communication theory and physics.

Phases for follow-up research

Phase A: concept definition

• Definition of D, F, primal feeling, error detection and G-system.
• Delineation of what does and does not fall within the model.

Phase B: experiential and literature mapping

• Cataloguing cases in which intuition, morning clarity and direct feeling-attunement are reported.
• Systematically connecting those cases with sleep, leadership, upbringing and animal behaviour.

Phase C: first hybrid measurements

• Simple physiological and neuro-electric correlation measurements with directed attention and primal feeling.

Phase D: detector development

• Design of spatial arrays and phase-sensitive systems that can test coherence directions.

Phase E: neuro-anatomical modelling

• Studying which large nerve tracts or networks in the brain are most plausible as the source of a directed field pattern.

Closing position

This plan describes a coherent and research-worthy direction in which human intuition, nightly integration, upbringing, leadership, animal communication and a possibly new physical channel are investigated within one framework. The existing literature validates parts of this account: intuition exists as a practical phenomenon, sleep processes emotional and cognitive content, limits are formative, outdoor play is developmentally relevant, and non-verbal communication carries fundamental meaning.

The real leap of this plan lies in the combination of these elements and in the hypothesis that a feeling-to-feeling system may be physically carried and in principle detectable. This formulates a research programme that is at once concrete enough to give direction and open enough to be further documented, refined and step by step tested.