Have you ever had a paranormal experience?

[7redorbs]

Have you ever had a paranormal experience? Think it could be scientifically explained? Otherwise? Had any other strange seemingly unrelated experience? Maybe your psychic! Or so some research suggests.

I've seen odd things from time to time, like unexplained shadows. It's my opinions it's some sort of glitch in human perception that allows you to see normally invisible stuff, or a genuine 'glitch' or error in a more literral sense.

I know which one i'm inclined to believe, on a purely experience based intuitive basis, but that's not good enough, I don't see any reason why this can't be a science, at least if science is willing to take a more active role in psychology, psychic, rv ability etc.

Have you had an experience ? Why not share it?! CONSPIRACY.CO is completely anonymous.

[Mr X]

I saw a lot of strange stuff in the 80s and 90s... but then I was an ounce a week toker. Combine that with Oms and various blotters, and I think I have an explanation!

[7redorbs]

hey Smith W, thanks for your reply I can't help but admire your honesty. I agree with your conclusion, but i'm not sure about the interpretation, you leave out one last possibility. The altered mind state caused by the interaction of the drug on your physiology allows your filters in your usual perception to become less isolated, and thus allow realities unbefore known considered or seen to become possible and 'real' - relativistically speaking of course.

and yes, you've guessed it, I somewhat subscribe to that possibility of inquiry. It doesn't require a revamping of the premise, but a re-interpretation. Rather than the drug causing the apparition, maybe the drug causes the mind state (as is supported by neurologists and biochemists), and the mind state is which 'sees' the apparition, this does not mean it is not real, it means it is not the same reality as we know it, even if the mind state is triggered by something like a drug, the facilitating process is already 'hard wired' to the body, some people are not affected at all by cannabis and lack these receptors, if this is the case then perhaps there is the very real possibility that it is not the intoxication of the toxin, but the intoxication of the mind state being a sort of expressable abstract reality depending upon the number and significance of reception and change in the brain.

food for thought i suppose.



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[Mr X]

Ok, back in 1978, i my hometown, there was a big deal about people having seen a UFO. This predates my dalliance with drugs. So a few of us went out in the middle of nowhere, laying on our backs in a field watching the sky for something. To this day I swear I saw a 'star' move across the sky and then move back to where it was. Was I hallucinating? I don't know, but it's the only experience in my life I'm not sure what I saw or what happened. I could even draw the constellation for you, I remember it that clearly.

[Cynar]

I don't see any reason why this can't be a science, at least if science is willing to take a more active role in psychology, psychic, rv ability etc.

First off, I take umbrage at that! Science looks into quite a lot of paranormal events. The problem is evidence gathering and repeatability.

Beyond that, you have to remember the human brain is a pattern matching engine. Back in pre-history, if you saw some random shadows and interpreted it is a leopard about to attack and ran, you just got a little tired. Interpreting a leopard about to attack as some random shadows got you killed. Because of this, we are HEAVELY biased to see the leopard over the shadows.

Another classic case of this of this is the canals on Mars. When seen from a distance most people trying to draw Mars include straight lines creating a network around the planet. It's only when seen at higher resolution that the brain starts to see them as simply random 'spots' etc. rather than nodes of canals.

Combined with the interesting effects of magnetic fields on the human brain, and the propensity of people to see what they have been told to 'expect' to see, and you can understand why science takes personal accounts with a pinch of salt in cases like this.