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Anomalistic Psychology
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This field of psychology focuses around the paranormal and its believers
Its defined as- The study of human behaviour and experience connected with
what is often called the paranormal, with the assumption that there is nothing
paranormal involved.
This was formed by a psychologist by the name of Henry Maudsley in the late
1830s.
It is still an active form of psychology used to simply, debunk the paranormal
Anomalistic cont.
- Throughout the years psychologist have been able to narrow
down what causes our beliefs.
- The factors can be anything from-
Cognitive biased
Personality factors
Developmental issues
The nature of your memory and much more
Ghosts
- Many researcher who have looked into ghosts have found
common traits within a few of them.
- Medical conditions such as sleep apnea and sleep paralysis,
which cause hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations.
(relating to drowsiness, or unconsciousness prior to waking
up)
- Sleep paralysis occurs when there is disconnect between the
body and mind during REM sleep. (this is the time when you
dream most vividly)
- During this time it causes your body to become paralyzed
momentarily, ultimately followed by your dreaming mind
state causing hallucinations
Ghosts cont.
- Happens when you wake up or when your going to bed
- It can also happen during the day day dreaming has been
known to trigger these hallucinations
- Other causes
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Carbon monoxide
Environmental
No matter what there is always an explanation
This causes dream like hypnosis and sights that more often than not are
nothing more then the mind playing tricks.
Brain cont.