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Shared Delusions
#11
RE: Shared Delusions
I think, like what other people have said, it's the mind seeing what it wants to see. Especially so called "religious sightings" like the Virgin Mary and such. The mind is a very powerful tool and can easily project it's fantasy into reality.
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#12
RE: Shared Delusions
(June 8, 2009 at 8:27 pm)Matt85 Wrote: How do you guys explain events where people have shared the same delusion? my room mate was telling me about her whole family seeing "spirits" .

It is like the founding of Mormonism. One person lies and 5 people swear to it.
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#13
RE: Shared Delusions
Hey,

I am the devils advocate these days...

There is a very slight possibility that there are things we cannot fully sense around us (UV light, vlf sounds) and so the stimulus of a "supernatural experiance" or "shared delusion" just might be a real event.

Likewise, when I hear all the repetition of how groups of people can make you believe there is something there when there is not (or vice versa) can apply as well to atheism as to faith. How are we not sure there are ghosts and disbelief is a shared delusion, inasmuch as it could possibly be not true.

There, I went there.
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#14
RE: Shared Delusions
I agree with the mass hysteria. I have faked seeing ghosts and hearing things in my house before, and after a while, everyone started to hear and see things. Call it hysteria or placebo effect, it happens to everyone.
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#15
RE: Shared Delusions
have you heard of these experiments in the 70's when people were given some inert powder (flour for ex.) and they were told it was LSD? well a substantial number of them had hallucinations!
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#16
RE: Shared Delusions
(June 29, 2009 at 5:29 pm)meowmeow Wrote: have you heard of these experiments in the 70's when people were given some inert powder (flour for ex.) and they were told it was LSD? well a substantial number of them had hallucinations!

i want some of that flour!!

anyway my room mate IS delusional so that explains away most of it, I just find it strange how the human mind can work sometimes, especially in groups.
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#17
RE: Shared Delusions
(June 29, 2009 at 5:29 pm)meowmeow Wrote: have you heard of these experiments in the 70's when people were given some inert powder (flour for ex.) and they were told it was LSD? well a substantial number of them had hallucinations!


I hadn't heard that. However,once on campus I got hit by a water bomb during Prosh. Everyone laughed ,except me.I think that was the year a group of engineering students assembled an Austin A30 in the Vice Chancellor's office--on the 4th floor. Considered OK,but not up to the standard of the 1973 stunt.(see link)





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosh_(Univ..._Adelaide)
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