Science and the paranormal - SCI-ART LAB2024-03-29T01:06:33Zhttps://kkartlab.in/forum/topics/science-and-the-paranormal?groupUrl=some-science&%3BcommentId=2816864%3AComment%3A89876&%3BgroupId=2816864%3AGroup%3A80038&feed=yes&xn_auth=noEven Healthy People Can Be Tr…tag:kkartlab.in,2023-11-01:2816864:Comment:2502862023-11-01T08:37:28.627ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<h1 class="text-h2 sm:text-h1 font-source-sans font-semibold text-legibility block mb-4">Even Healthy People Can Be Tricked Into Hearing Voices That Aren't There</h1>
<p><span>We might automatically associate </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-are-figuring-out-why-some-people-can-hear-voices-of-the-dead">hearing voices</a><span> with neurological conditions like …</span></p>
<h1 class="text-h2 sm:text-h1 font-source-sans font-semibold text-legibility block mb-4">Even Healthy People Can Be Tricked Into Hearing Voices That Aren't There</h1>
<p><span>We might automatically associate </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-are-figuring-out-why-some-people-can-hear-voices-of-the-dead">hearing voices</a><span> with neurological conditions like </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/schizophrenia" class="lar_link lar_link_outgoing" rel="nofollow" target="_self">schizophrenia</a><span>. It now turns out most brains can be tricked into hearing voices that aren't there, given the right conditions.</span></p>
<p>Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the University Savoie Mont Blanc in France wanted to investigate how<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_hallucination">auditory-verbal hallucinations</a><span> </span>(AVH) might be triggered in the mind: that's where we hear a voice, but there's no speaker present.</p>
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<p>Previous studies suggest these hallucinations are caused either by an inability to correctly<span> </span><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7569931">distinguish the self</a><span> </span>from its surroundings, or by strongly held beliefs or prior assumptions that outweigh whatever is<span> </span><a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30004-6">actually happening</a><span> </span>in an environment. The team wanted to put both hypotheses to the test.</p>
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While hearing a static-hiss of pink noise, volunteers poked a button that delivered a poke their back after a random delay. (Orepic et al.,<span> </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/roboticallyinduced-auditoryverbal-hallucinations-combining-selfmonitoring-and-strong-perceptual-priors/1C33D245D2ED30F9E8CAFCAE88E07681"><em>Psychological Medicine</em></a>, 2023)<br />
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<p>"Here, we developed a new method of inducing AVH in a controlled laboratory environment by integrating methods from voice perception with sensorimotor stimulation, allowing us to investigate the contribution of both major AVH accounts,"<span> </span><span>the researchers</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/roboticallyinduced-auditoryverbal-hallucinations-combining-selfmonitoring-and-strong-perceptual-priors/1C33D245D2ED30F9E8CAFCAE88E07681">write</a><span> in their published paper.</span></p>
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<p>The team adapted a technique<span> </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-022-00737-z">they'd used before</a><span> </span>where when participants poked a button in front of them, a robotic arm poked them in the back. In this new experiment involving 48 participants, the poke delay was variable, and the volunteers wore headphones playing a mix of waterfall-like '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise">pink noise</a>', and occassionally snippets of voices – both their own and other people's.</p>
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<p>As with the previous push-button test, the participants reported<span> </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/feel-like-youre-not-alone-but-you-are-science-can-explain-that-creepy-feeling">feeling a presence</a><span> </span>behind them because of the poking – but some of them also reported hearing voices that weren't there through the headphones.</p>
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<p>The phenomenon of hearing voices was more common if the volunteers heard someone else's voice before their own, and if there was a lag between the button pushing and arm poking. It was as if those involved in the test were<span> </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/most-authors-can-hear-their-characters-voices-in-their-head-and-some-can-talk-with-them-survey-reveals">making up a voice</a><span> </span>to go with the sensation of someone standing behind them.</p>
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<p><span>These outcomes, the researchers think, are</span><span> </span>enough to suggest both hallucination-trigger theories are correct: participants were failing to correctly self-monitor their surroundings,<span> </span><em>and</em><span> </span>were being influenced by strong beliefs about what was going on around them.</p>
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<p>Notably, the frequency of hallucinated voices increased with the length of the tests, so participants were more likely to hear the phantom sounds towards the end of the experimental session.</p>
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<p>Ultimately, knowing how these hallucinations can be triggered is important in understanding how they relate to conditions<span> </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/auditory-and-visual-hallucination-prevalence-in-parkinsons-disease-and-dementia-with-lewy-bodies-a-systematic-review-and-metaanalysis/AC48EB9F94A7655A509584DAB09BDD34">such as Parkinson's disease</a>.<span> </span><span>It's also an indication that if you do hear a voice in your head, it might not be immediate cause for alarm (though if you are concerned, best to see a doctor).</span></p>
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<p>"Besides the novelty and the important methodological impact, these results shed new light on AVH phenomenology, providing experimental support for both prominent albeit seemingly opposing accounts – portraying AVH as a hybrid between deficits in self-monitoring and hyper-precise priors,"<span> </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/roboticallyinduced-auditoryverbal-hallucinations-combining-selfmonitoring-and-strong-perceptual-priors/1C33D245D2ED30F9E8CAFCAE88E07681">write</a><span> </span>the researchers.</p>
<p>The research has been published in<span> </span><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/roboticallyinduced-auditoryverbal-hallucinations-combining-selfmonitoring-and-strong-perceptual-priors/1C33D245D2ED30F9E8CAFCAE88E07681"><em>Psychological Medicine</em></a>.</p>
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<h1>Feel Like You're Not Alone, But You Are? Science Can Explain That Creepy Feeling</h1>
<div><span>4 October 2023</span><div><span>By</span><span>BEN ALDERSON-DAY, THE CONVERSATION</span></div>
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<p>If you've ever had the eerie sensation there's a presence in the room when you were sure you were alone, you may be reluctant to admit it.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was a profound experience that you are happy to share with others.…</p>
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<h1>Feel Like You're Not Alone, But You Are? Science Can Explain That Creepy Feeling</h1>
<div><span>4 October 2023</span><div><span>By</span><span>BEN ALDERSON-DAY, THE CONVERSATION</span></div>
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<p>If you've ever had the eerie sensation there's a presence in the room when you were sure you were alone, you may be reluctant to admit it.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was a profound experience that you are happy to share with others.</p>
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<p>Or – more likely – it was something in between the two.</p>
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<p>Unless you had an explanation to help you process the experience, most people will struggle to grasp what happened to them.</p>
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<p>But now research is showing this ethereal experience is something we can understand, using scientific models of the mind, the body, and the relationship between the two.</p>
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<p>One of the largest studies on the topic was carried out as long ago as 1894. The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) published their <a href="https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/630399" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Census of Hallucinations</a>, a survey of more than 17,000 people in the UK, US, and Europe. The survey aimed to understand how common it was for people to have seemingly impossible visitations that foretold death.</p>
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<p>The SPR concluded that such experiences happened too often to be down to chance (one in every 43 people that were surveyed).</p>
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<p>In 1886, the SPR (which numbered former UK prime minister William Gladstone and poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson among its patrons) published <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/phantasms-of-the-living/9F0A0E709528D2C0EAC348FF83065921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phantasms of the Living</a>. This collection included 701 cases of telepathy, premonitions, and other unusual phenomena.</p>
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<p>For instance, the Reverend P H Newnham, of Devonport in Plymouth, told the story of a visit to New Zealand, where a night-time presence warned him away from joining a boat trip at dawn the next morning. He later learned that all on the voyage had drowned.</p>
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<p>At the time, phantasms was criticized for being unscientific. The census was received with less skepticism, but it still suffered from response bias (who would bother responding to such a survey except those with something to say).</p>
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<p>But such experiences live on in homes across the world, and contemporary science offers ideas for understanding them.</p>
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<h2>Not such sweet dreams</h2>
<p>Many of the accounts SPR collected sound like hypnagogia: hallucinatory experiences that happen on the boundaries of sleep. It has <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30138-X/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been suggested that</a> several religious experiences recorded in the 19th century have a basis in hypnagogia.</p>
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<p>Presences have a particularly strong link with sleep paralysis, experienced by <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156892/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">around 7 percent of adults</a> at least once in their life. In sleep paralysis, our muscles remain frozen as a hangover from REM sleep, but our mind is active and awake. Studies <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17574867/&ust=1678277280000000&usg=AOvVaw15x6rBEx6rOlY61uhbMcC6&hl=en&source=gmail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have suggested</a> more than 50 percent of people with sleep paralysis report encountering a presence.</p>
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<p>While the Victorian presences documented by the SPR were often benign or comforting, modern examples of presence triggered by sleep paralysis tend to exude malevolence.</p>
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<p>Societies around the world have their own stories about nighttime presences – from the Portuguese "little friar with the pierced hand" (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013036/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fradinho da Mao Furada</a>) who could infiltrate people's dreams, to the <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17379609/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ogun Oru</a> of the Yoruba people in Nigeria, which was believed to be a product of victims being bewitched.</p>
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<p>But why would an experience such as paralysis create a feeling of presence? Some researchers have focused on the specific characteristics of waking up in such an unusual situation. Most people find sleep paralysis scary, even without hallucinations.</p>
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<p>In 2007, sleep researchers <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17337212/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J. Allen Cheyne and Todd Girard</a> argued that if we wake paralyzed and vulnerable, our instincts would make us feel threatened and our mind fills in the gap. If we are prey, there must be a predator.</p>
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<p>Another approach is to look at the commonalities between visitations in sleep paralysis and other types of felt presence. Research over the past 25 years has shown presences are not only a regular part of the hypnagogic landscape, but also reported in <a href="https://psyarxiv.com/qykhd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parkinson's disease, psychosis, near-death experiences, and bereavement</a>. This suggests that it's unlikely to be a sleep-specific phenomenon.</p>
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<h2>Mind-body connection</h2>
<p>We know from <a href="https://journals.lww.com/cogbehavneurol/abstract/1996/04000/unilaterally_felt__presences___the_neuropsychiatry.5.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neurological case studies</a> and <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16988702/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brain stimulation experiments</a> that presences can be provoked by bodily cues.</p>
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<p>For example, in 2006 neurologist Shahar Arzy and colleagues were able to create a "shadow figure" that was experienced by a woman whose brain was being electrically stimulated in the left temporoparietal junction (TPJ). The figure seemed to mirror the woman's body position – and the TPJ combines information about our senses and our bodies.</p>
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<p>A series of experiments in 2014 also showed that disrupting people's sensory expectations seems to <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25447995/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">induce a feeling of presence</a> in some healthy people. The way the procedure the researchers used works is to trick you into feeling as if you are touching your own back, by synchronizing your movements with a robot directly behind you.</p>
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<p>Our brains make sense of the synchronization by inferring that we are producing that sensation. Then, when that synchronization is disrupted – by making the robot touches slightly out of sync – people can suddenly feel like another person is present: a ghost in the machine. Changing the sensory expectations of the situation induces something like a hallucination.</p>
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<p>That logic could also apply to a situation like sleep paralysis. All our usual information about our bodies and senses is disrupted in that context, so it's perhaps no surprise that we may feel like there is something "other" there with us. We might feel like it's another presence, but really, it's us.</p>
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<p>In my <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/varieties-of-felt-presence-three-surveys-of-presence-phenomena-and-their-relations-to-psychopathology/C7DD60644076559D5685D51226693E5D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">own research</a> in 2022, I tried to trace the similarities in presences from clinical accounts, spiritual practice, and endurance sports (which are well known for <a href="https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/whats-different-about-u-s-deportation-policy-now/badwater-ultramarathon-sleepwalking-hallucinations-and-the-magic-of-death-valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">producing a range of hallucinatory phenomena</a>, including presence).</p>
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<p>In all of these situations, many aspects of the feeling of a presence were very similar: For example, the subject felt that the presence was directly behind them. Sleep-related presences were described by all three groups, but so were presences driven by emotional factors, such as grief and bereavement.</p>
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<p>Despite its century-old origins, the science of felt presence has really only just begun. In the end, scientific research may give us one over-arching explanation, or we may need several theories to account for all these examples of presence.</p>
<p>But the encounters people described in Phantasms of the Living aren't phantoms of a bygone age. If you're yet to have this unsettling experience, you probably know someone who has.<img src="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/S7XwcsGo_6MdQMVTQOaYA_PzBx0Wr3zVJaCuRyv7JubkCpiiRIp8vafAdE6kuVtjvzt4z9OFJ08-jtfF8aGfpYKd7jiCo9HmbhVJwcx3kWHkgqWQPs_cwNnCeKAzC6chV9F7HOmoCAHYIH83YSwbG4sCf5M=s0-d-e1-ft#<a href="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/201323/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" target="_blank">https://counter.theconversation.com/content/201323/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic</a>" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" class="CToWUd"/></p>
<p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ben-alderson-day-1421799" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Alderson-Day</a>, Associate Professor of Psychology, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/durham-university-867" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Durham University</a></em></p>
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<p><span>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/what-science-can-tell-us-about-the-experience-of-unexplainable-presence-201323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">original article</a>.</span></p> Haunted house researchers in…tag:kkartlab.in,2020-10-28:2816864:Comment:1804542020-10-28T08:54:56.423ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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<p><span>what makes fearsome experiences so compelling, and why do we actively seek them out in frightful recreational settings?</span></p>
<p><span>New research reveals that horror entertains us most effectively when it triggers a distinct physical response—measured by changes in heart rate—but is not so scary that we become overwhelmed. That fine line between fun…</span></p>
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<h1 class="text-extra-large line-low mb-2">Haunted house researchers investigate the mystery of playing with fear</h1>
<p><span>what makes fearsome experiences so compelling, and why do we actively seek them out in frightful recreational settings?</span></p>
<p><span>New research reveals that horror entertains us most effectively when it triggers a distinct physical response—measured by changes in heart rate—but is not so scary that we become overwhelmed. That fine line between fun and an unpleasant experience can vary from person to person.</span></p>
<p><span>By investigating how humans derive pleasure from fear, researchers find that there seems to be a 'sweet spot' where enjoyment is maximized. This study provides some of the first empirical evidence on the relationship between fear, enjoyment, and physical arousal in recreational forms of fear.</span></p>
<p>For years, researchers have suspected that physiological arousal, such as a quickening pulse and a release of hormones in the brain, may play a key role in explaining why so many people find horror movies and haunted houses so attractive.</p>
<p>Until now, however, a<span> direct relationship</span><span> </span>between arousal and enjoyment from these types of activities has not been established.<span> </span><span>Recreational fear refers to the mixed emotional experience of feeling fear and enjoyment at the same time. Fear is generally considered to be an unpleasant emotion that evolved to protect people from harm. Paradoxically, humans sometimes seek out frightening experiences for purely recreational purposes. "Past studies on recreational fear.</span></p>
<p><span>when horror fans are watching Freddy Krueger on TV, reading a Stephen King novel, or screaming their way through a haunted attraction, they are essentially playing with fear.</span></p>
<div class="article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none"><a class="text-medium text-info mt-2 d-inline-block" href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-people-subject-immense-gain-social.html">People will subject themselves to immense fear to gain social status, says researcher</a></div>
<div class="article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none"><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-house-mystery.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter" target="_blank">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-house-mystery.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter</a></div>
<hr class="mb-4"/><div class="article-main__more p-4"><div class="mt-3"><strong>Journal information:</strong><span> </span><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/journals/psychological-science/"><cite>Psychological Science</cite></a></div>
</div> World Cup Prediction Mathemat…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-06-20:2816864:Comment:1178712014-06-20T01:42:02.514ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>World Cup Prediction Mathematics Explained World Cup Prediction Mathematics Explained /</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/06/11/world-cup-prediction-mathematics-explained/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/06/11/world-c...…</a></p>
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<p>World Cup Prediction Mathematics Explained World Cup Prediction Mathematics Explained /</p>
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<p class="ui_qtext_para u-ltr u-text-align--start"><span class="qlink_container"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_for_evidence_of_the_paranormal" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" class="external_link">List of prizes for evidence of the paranormal - Wikipedia</a></span></p> Math Explains Likely Long Sho…tag:kkartlab.in,2014-02-15:2816864:Comment:1140132014-02-15T03:10:03.104ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
<p>Math Explains Likely Long Shots, Miracles and Winning the Lottery <br></br> Why you should not be surprised when long shots, miracles and other extraordinary events occur—even when the same six winning lottery numbers come up in two successive drawings</p>
<p>What we think of as extremely unlikely events actually happen around us all the time. The mathematical law of truly large numbers as well as the law of combinations help to explain why.<br></br> With only 23 people in a room, the probability…</p>
<p>Math Explains Likely Long Shots, Miracles and Winning the Lottery <br/> Why you should not be surprised when long shots, miracles and other extraordinary events occur—even when the same six winning lottery numbers come up in two successive drawings</p>
<p>What we think of as extremely unlikely events actually happen around us all the time. The mathematical law of truly large numbers as well as the law of combinations help to explain why.<br/> With only 23 people in a room, the probability that two of them share the same birthday is 0.51—greater than 50 percent.<br/>
The Bulgarian lottery randomly selected the winning numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35, 42 on September 6, 2009. Four days later it selected the same numbers again. The North Carolina Cash 5 lottery produced the same winning numbers on July 9 and 11, 2007. Strange? Not according to probability.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/math-explains-likely-long-shots-miracles-and-winning-the-lottery/" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/math-explains-likely-long-shots-miracles-and-winning-the-lottery/</a></p> :) :)tag:kkartlab.in,2013-10-20:2816864:Comment:1111412013-10-20T05:36:17.989ZAnand G.V.https://kkartlab.in/profile/AnandGV
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<p><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/09/10/perception-and-the-paranormal-the-tea-box-ghost/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130910" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/09/10/perc...…</a></p>
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Krishna: According to science, there is no evidence of ghosts. But people can hallucinate* or imagine* ghosts. So if you can imagine one thing, you can imagine the same thing in several ways. Is there an end to this process? Or are there any rules governing imagination?</div>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span>Any one of these reasons I listed could have made me ‘imagine’ a ghost.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span>No, there are no ghosts. I know there are no ghosts. There is no evidence of ghosts. So there is no chance of me seeing a real ghost. Forget it!</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start"><span>Ghosts can’t fool me. Period!</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-near-death-experience-isnt-proof-heaven&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_MB_20130417" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-near-death-exp...</a><br></br> Why a Near-Death Experience Isn’t Proof of Heaven</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.livescience.com/33237-6-paranormal-video-hoaxes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.livescience.com/33237-6-paranormal-video-hoaxes.html</a></p>
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<div><h1>Can you really tell if you’re being watched? The bizarre science of psychic intuition, explained</h1>
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<div><p>The experience of turning around to find someone staring at you, almost as if you had ‘felt’ their stare, is common.</p>
<p>Research into the phenomenon goes back to the early days of scientific psychology at the end of the 19th Century. More recently, the ‘sense of being stared at’ has been studied extensively by parapsychology researchers such as Rupert Sheldrake (a believer) and Richard Wiseman (a sceptic).</p>
<p>Researchers like Sheldrake believe the effect is real and that we really can feel when someone is looking at us. In his experiments, Sheldrake found a tiny but statistically significant effect in support of the staring phenomenon – his volunteers could <a href="https://www.sheldrake.org/research/sense-of-being-stared-at" rel="noopener" target="_blank">judge whether they were being stared</a> at slightly better than if they had just guessed at random.</p>
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<p>But in similar studies, sceptical researchers such as Wiseman have turned up <a href="http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/staring1.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">negative results</a>. What’s more, he and others have noted numerous problems with the studies conducted by ‘believers’. For instance, issues with randomisation of the trials mean that volunteers might have detected a pattern and used this to guide their judgments.</p>
<p>Rather than rewriting everything we know about the nature of the human mind and brain, there is a less exciting explanation for the sense of being stared at. It is that whenever we turn and find someone staring at us, we remember it, but all those times we turn and no one is looking, we don’t.</p>
<p>It’s a similar story for feeling like you can predict when someone is about to text or call you – any time that you’re thinking of someone and they ring, it feels uncanny, as though you foresaw the future. But more likely, it was just a coincidence, and you’ve probably forgotten all the times you were thinking of that person and they didn’t get in touch.</p>
</div> http://www.kkartfromscience.c…tag:kkartlab.in,2012-07-29:2816864:Comment:898762012-07-29T01:35:40.497ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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<p class="qtext_para">Never experienced any supernatural thing. For every ‘experience’ in our lives there will be one natural and rational explanation and this can be done only by a scientifically inclined mind that can think critically.</p>
<p class="qtext_para">Others can give hundreds of interpretations - each one based on the perception of their mind limitations conditioned by various things like culture, religion, emotion etc. Only when you overcome these limitations, you can see the facts and reality in its true form.</p>
<p class="qtext_para">My world is different. It doesn’t have any thing that can’t be explained by Science. So I don’t believe in these things.</p>
<p class="qtext_para">You must read this article to know the truth: <span class="qlink_container"><a href="http://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum/topics/science-and-the-paranormal" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" class="external_link">Science and the paranormal</a></span></p>
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<div class="u-serif-font-main--regular"><div class="ui_qtext_expanded">Q: Is it true that people travelling along national highways experience paranormal activities?<p class="ui_qtext_para">Any combination of exhaustion, drugs, alcohol, and tricks of the light could contribute to single, isolated sightings, like that reported by several people here. It is easy for some people to imagine strange happenings when they feel unsettled.</p>
<p class="ui_qtext_para">Long distance travel on national highways exhaust most people. Some might even face motion sickness making their brains go dizzy sometimes. Highways are usually dark and creepy. All these factors combine to make some people to ‘imagine or hallucinate’ things. Fear of the dark, forests, bushy areas along the highways with no human activity, crimes along the highways, because they are isolated places to easily commit them, heightens brain’s ability to “spot” illusory patterns.</p>
<p class="ui_qtext_para">Research has found that<span> </span><span class="qlink_container"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?citation_for_view=4IysLYEAAAAJ%3A2osOgNQ5qMEC&hl=tr&user=4IysLYEAAAAJ&view_op=view_citation" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank" class="external_link">believers may have weaker cognitive “inhibition”</a></span>, compared to sceptics. That’s the skill that allows you to quash unwanted thoughts, so perhaps we are all spooked by strange coincidences and patterns from time to time, but sceptics are better at pushing them aside, not believers and resolving the issues with critical thinking.</p>
<p class="ui_qtext_para">And people who believe in them created the myth of “Haunted Highways”.</p>
<p class="ui_qtext_para">We once saw a dead body while travelling on the Vijayawada- Hyderabad national highway. We reported it to the police. Next day the news papers reported that a ghost killed a person on the road. Later police investigation revealed that a chilli merchant was killed for his money by a driver and cleaner while travelling by a lorry and his body was thrown on the highway. We wondered why he didn’t choose a state road transport corporation bus while carrying lakhs of rupees and travelled by a lorry only to get killed.</p>
<p class="ui_qtext_para">Mistakes people make! And false reports the media propagates. No wonder, we get into an illusionary world.</p>
<p class="ui_qtext_para">Q: How do ghosts keep up with technology? To an 18th century ghost, a car would appear as a carriage drawn by ghost horses.</p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>That ‘s what happened in a ‘story’ I read sometime back. It seems a car was possessed by a ghost and it started moving on it s own. Hmmm.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>If you park a car on a slope and don’t take care of it, doesn’t it move on its own?</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Self-driving cars are run by ghosts too. Tech ghosts! :)</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Funny imaginations and funny explanations.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>So you can imagine a male ghost driving a Rolls-Royce Ghost, with his girl friend sitting beside him. You can imagine, the ghost talking into a cell phone and his girl friend warning him.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>And you can imagine .... now let me see how many stories you can come up with.</span></p>
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