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I've no idea what this means but found it interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27680436
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27680436
It's a medical disorder like retinitis pigmentosa; it has no meaning.I've no idea what this means but found it interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27680436
Implications for what?But it might have some implications ...
~~ Paul
Well, I wasn't trying to attach esoteric or mystical meaning.It's a disease; it has no meaning.
I gotcha. It is a curious medical disorder that's for sure.Well, I wasn't trying to attach esoteric or mystical meaning.
I was merely curious as to how a disease could have those particular effects. If you find the word 'meaning' a distraction, replace it with something else.
I've no idea what this means but found it interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27680436
...he was suffering from macular degeneration. I had never heard of the condition, so we found a place to sit and talk, and he set about repairing my ignorance— and in the process he introduced me to a weird area of human experience that I had no idea existed.
The research reveals that the hallucinations can last from a few seconds to several hours and can be of many things, both familiar and unfamiliar to the person viewing them. Hallucinatory content can include inanimate objects, people, animals, plants and bunches of flowers, trees, and complete scenes. Some people see strange things such as monsters, shining angels, or transparent figures floating in a ghostly manner through rooms and hallways...
The Charles Bonnet Syndrome is merely an observation, not an explanation, so what exactly causes these hallucinations?
For how people interpret hallucinations caused by disease, especially when they don't know they have the disease.Implications for what?
I've no idea what this means but found it interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27680436
That article seems to suggest that the visions might be caused by sensory deprivation - which made me think of Ganzfeld experiments. But I don't know whether there's any connection.Reminds me of another situation involving a vision problem -> macular degeneration:
Eye Spirits: Visions of The Blind
I met a lady a few years ago who said she saw "little faces" sometimes on the surface of objects.
I'm sure you're trying to tell us that you do live in a Tibetan monastery with lots of tapestries.You mean this isn't normal?
Hows about we go with a simple explanation of pattern recognition. This is an exampleIf a tumor can displace the eye just enough to cause hallucinations, then theoretically a spirit entity could induce an image in someone's eye in the following way: the eye has a quantum field; the spirit is itself a quantum field. The two quantum fields interact in some very orderly way. The result is that someone sees a ghost, spirit, angel, Jesus, or some event or vision. Tumors merely trigger imagery accidentally.
you can go with the simple explanation if you want to, but rarely does anything happen that is actually simple. There are times when someone sees a ghost/alien/etc., they know it was a real event, and they are correct.Hows about we go with a simple explanation of pattern recognition. This is an example
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What you see is a face. Yet there is no face. What is actually presented is two dots, a short line and a curved line. That humans excel a pattern recognition has been demonstrated time and time again.
Just note your conjectural idea is overly complicated. That is what I was replying to.you can go with the simple explanation if you want to, but rarely does anything happen that is actually simple. There are times when someone sees a ghost/alien/etc., they know it was a real event, and they are correct.
Reality can be as complicated as necessary. Wanting a simple answer incurs a hazard of guessing wrong. :) I think some parts of reality can be extremely complicated and invisible and are therefore beyond the reach of the scientific community at this time. I'm afraid that spirits and spirit communication is in fact too complicated and beyond our ability to measure. But that doesn't mean it can't be true. In contrast, time travel cannot be true because of the paradoxes; furthermore, lot's of people are witnessing God/ghosts/grey aliens, but nobody is witnessing time travel.Just note your conjectural idea is overly complicated. That is what I was replying to.
In contrast, time travel cannot be true because of the paradoxes; furthermore, lot's of people are witnessing God/ghosts/grey aliens, but nobody is witnessing time travel.