RE: open minded to opinions
September 30, 2020 at 9:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2020 at 9:27 pm by possibletarian.)
When we say 'It's your imagination' we don't mean that you made it up just for fun.
I believe people have experiences that seem real to them, they can be very vivid, sometimes frightening. But what I don't believe is that they are real in the sense that something happened outside your head, at least not the way people see them. Our minds sometimes add information that isn't being received through our senses sometimes making a real experience seem very different to our brains.
I carried an experiment out at my home group one week (i was a Christian at the time, and wanted to see how reliable information transfer was, so i devised a kind of Chinese whispers experiment), before we started the group i asked if we could watch the news as i had not seen it that day. then the next weeks I asked them to what they had seen on the news the week previously, I was shocked at how wrong they got it, even down to some remembering the sex of the newsreader wrong. I played it back the recording i had made, no one had got the details right (including myself)
Our minds had simply added information that was not there.
Just added : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
Have a read of that, see what you think.
I believe people have experiences that seem real to them, they can be very vivid, sometimes frightening. But what I don't believe is that they are real in the sense that something happened outside your head, at least not the way people see them. Our minds sometimes add information that isn't being received through our senses sometimes making a real experience seem very different to our brains.
I carried an experiment out at my home group one week (i was a Christian at the time, and wanted to see how reliable information transfer was, so i devised a kind of Chinese whispers experiment), before we started the group i asked if we could watch the news as i had not seen it that day. then the next weeks I asked them to what they had seen on the news the week previously, I was shocked at how wrong they got it, even down to some remembering the sex of the newsreader wrong. I played it back the recording i had made, no one had got the details right (including myself)
Our minds had simply added information that was not there.
Just added : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
Have a read of that, see what you think.
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'
