Can trees hear when spoken to? Kind of. Of course, trees don't have ears as we do, but tree spirits can pick up the message of our words when we talk to them. This means that when you talk to a tree, it can understand the message of what you're telling it.
They communicate with each other, and other species, using chemicals. And, in a series of experiments, some plants even seem to listen, growing toward the sound of a dripping drainpipe, and learn, remembering and responding to signals from humans.
At the spiritual level, trees help us become more aware of our connections with something larger than ourselves. In mythology, trees are sometimes portrayed as the abodes of nature spirits. We even have a special word — dendrolatry — in reference to the way we worship trees.
The idea of talking to plants might be deemed crazy and nonsense for many people. Plants don't have brains and are not capable of communicating in any form. However, recent studies reveal that they actually “communicate” with each other and can even respond when humans communicate with them.
In short, plants possess a highly developed, conscious root brain that works much as ours does to analyze incoming data and generate sophisticated responses.
Humans can talk to trees verbally (out loud), or we can talk to them silently (in our minds). Both ways work, and it's just a matter of preference regarding how you want to talk to trees.
Plants do not. Plants may exhibit reactions to stimuli, and we sometimes interpret these responses as defensive behavior, but we're really talking about successful adaptations to their environment. Plants have neither nervous systems nor neuro-transmitting pain receptors.
Plants respond to the vibrations of nearby sound which turns on two key genes inside of them that influence their growth. Plants also increase photosynthesis production in response to carbon dioxide, which is a by-product of human speech.
Do Plants React to Human Voices? Here's the good news: plants do respond to the sound of your voice. In a study conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society, research demonstrated that plants did respond to human voices. In this study, there were 10 tomato plants, 8 of which had headphones placed around their pots.
Unlike humans, plants can not feel pain, but they still react strongly to mechanical stimuli from human touch, hungry animals, wind and rain, for example.
While connecting with a tree, cultivate a quiet and receptive state. Tune into the tree, listen deeply, and see what comes. Or guide the communication by holding an intention, asking a question, or speaking directly to the tree.
A tree deity or tree spirit is a nature deity related to a tree. Such deities are present in many cultures. They are usually represented as a young woman, often connected to ancient fertility and tree worship lore.
Trees are the most spiritually advanced living beings on the Earth who are constantly in a meditative state and subtle energy is what they speak as a language. Trees can help open your energy channel and help them reciprocate with healing their blockages.
People have a trunk; trees have arms. And so we innately feel a deep connection to them. Many people say they can feel a tree's vibrational energy when placing their hand upon its bark. With their deep roots, trees carry significant grounding energy.
Just as each bird species has its own sound and voice, and humans do, so do trees.”
This is how it works: the wind causes the leaves and branches to vibrate naturally. These vibrations are picked up and their frequency exploited in such a way that genuinely usable energy is produced.
“But some research shows that speaking nicely to plants will support their growth, whereas yelling at them won't. Rather than the meaning of words, however, this may have more to do with vibrations and volume. Plants react favourably to low levels of vibrations, around 115-250hz being ideal.”
In a Mythbusters experiment involving seven plants — two received positive speech, two received negative speech, one listened to classical music, another to death metal and the last was left in silence — the plant left in silence fared the worst. Surprisingly, the one to flourish the most was the death metal plant.
Your plants really dislike when you touch them, apparently. A new study out of the La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food has found that most plants are extremely sensitive to touch, and even a light touch can significantly stunt their growth, reports Phys.org.
And since plants do not have brains, nor a central nervous system (which is how intelligence is defined), it is said to be impossible for them to have emotions and the ability to reason or feel.
While flowers and other members of the plant kingdom seem not to complain when we pinch their buds or step on them, they are fully aware of what's happening and rapidly respond to the way they're treated, scientists have discovered.
Plants thrive when they listen to music that sits between 115Hz and 250Hz, as the vibrations emitted by such music emulate similar sounds in nature. Plants don't like being exposed to music more than one to three hours per day. Jazz and classical music seems to be the music of choice for ultimate plant stimulation.
Trees are a lot like people: they experience stress and they get infected with bugs or diseases and they can be attacked by fire, windstorms, floods, and droughts. We call these things that attack or infect trees disturbances.
No, plants cannot become attached to people in the way that animals might. From a scientific standpoint, plants cannot form emotional attachments to people since they do not have the brain capacity to do so. However, some research studies have suggested that plants may respond to human emotions and touch.
The answer is yes. In a sense, plants are able to think by perceiving their environment and making decided changes in order to thrive. But when it comes to whether plants can think, plant thought is not at the level of sentience, or self-awareness, like it is for humans and animals.