hallucinations

The scenario is this: I do a practice that is intended to "open" my third eye. The practice is chanting the sound OM for 10 minutes a day, twice a day. I do the practice for a couple of weeks, and eventually something happens, you can call it my third eye opening just for the sake of argument...

By definition in modern psychology, hallucinations are perceptions that occur in the absence of external objective stimulation, namely, perceptions by internal false stimulation. According to this definition, perceptions can occur in two ways. One is that external objective stimulation affects...

...can trigger hallucinations. This is based on a study in Psychiatry Research on the research of Giovanni Caputo, who gathered 40 people in a poorly lit room and had half of them do the eye-stare while the other half stared at walls while sitting back-to-back. Afterwards those staring...

Hi. A somewhat stupid question just came into my mind: Many people who try to rationally explain 'ghost' sightings say that most of them are due to misperception or hallucinations. Undoubtly there are many sightings who could be explained as misperceptions, but there are also many cases where...

Who else has had hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations? I'm curious who else has experienced them and perhaps the conditions (fatigue, sick, etc). If you happened to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol withdrawal - please don't post unless you note it. I've only experienced...

Don't recall seeing this on the forum; NPR is running a 5-part series on the relationship between brain chemistry and dysfunction and "spirituality". Today's segment: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104291534&ft=1&f=1012 Discusses temporal-lobe epilepsy and the...

So I've been studying the phenomena of Out of Body Experiences for quite a few years and I've experienced a couple. I am of course entirely skeptical of the "Out of Body" explanation, since all of my OBEs have had the basic qualities of a Lucid Dream (meaning, the room I see is not exactly my...

I once saw a "ghost in the room next door to me. It was actually a Lon Chaney type werewolf looking thing. I wasn't on dope and I wasn't drinking. Some people have suggested that there was carbon monoxide present but I lived there and it never happened again. What could have caused me to see...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14894187/ I found this very interesting. With more research perhaps we can finally start to understand why people claim to have the experiences that they do. It makes a lot of sense, no?

There often seems to be a correlation between what people believe and their reported hallucinations. For instance the alien abduction scene with the small men with big heads and huge black eyes that so many different people seem to experience. People who experience religious visions is another...

What's going on? I keep trying to post a poll, which I've done a zillion times, and somehow it keeps going wrong. Would the moderators remove the last two threads I've started? Thanks.

My nephew is nearly twenty-one, six feet seven inches tall, and a sensible, intelligent chap. Not long ago, he was staying at his grandfather's house (his grandfather is a widower). During the night he had the feeling of being touched, of there being someone else in the room with him. He saw a...

Anybody have any ideas what causes the hallucinations experienced during slepp deprivation?

Well, this here's my first thread. I dunno if anyone has stumbled across this page before, but its really amazing (at least I think so) : Spirit of Prophecy. Apparently the author has some serious undiagnosed schizophrenia, but it really paints an amazing picture of the kinds of hallucinations...