John Jackson
7th May 2006, 05:52 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4981720.stm
<blockquote>People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced." </blockquote>The work Dr. B. has done indicates that complex magnetic fields may also have a role to play in ghost sightings and haunting experiences.
The article does point out that people who have these experiences can be hard to convince that what they have seen is not real. The trouble is, everything we perceive we do so internally so we can't actually tell whether an experience was external or induced internally.
I have first-hand experience with this. My sister, whilst in the maternity ward, saw a ghostly monk walking back and forth at the bottom of her bed. When her room mate came back down the corridor and back into the room the ghost went away!
I've explained what the hypnagogic state is, but she cannot accept that it wasn't really there. ???
<blockquote>People who claim to have had a "close encounter" are often difficult to persuade that they did not really see what they thought they saw. The report offers a possible medical explanation.
"The close proximity of plasma related fields can adversely affect a vehicle or person," states the report.
"Local fields of this type have been medically proven to cause responses in the temporal lobes of the human brain. These result in the observer sustaining (and later describing and retaining) his or her own vivid, but mainly incorrect, description of what is experienced." </blockquote>The work Dr. B. has done indicates that complex magnetic fields may also have a role to play in ghost sightings and haunting experiences.
The article does point out that people who have these experiences can be hard to convince that what they have seen is not real. The trouble is, everything we perceive we do so internally so we can't actually tell whether an experience was external or induced internally.
I have first-hand experience with this. My sister, whilst in the maternity ward, saw a ghostly monk walking back and forth at the bottom of her bed. When her room mate came back down the corridor and back into the room the ghost went away!
I've explained what the hypnagogic state is, but she cannot accept that it wasn't really there. ???