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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Young people laughing.
Young. From ten to twenty-two.
For this moment in their lives when being together and on an adventure for fun enables them to forget the stresses.
Despite stresses running rampant: parents, school, achievement, sexuality, peer-acceptance, self-esteem, emerging interests, life-demands, physical changes.
How do we ever get through?
For some of us, not very well.
When we see groups of these young people having a good time at a mall or on the streets, we fill with joy for them.
For this moment in their lives when being together and on an adventure for fun enables them to forget the stresses.
Some of us are positioned that we can contribute to their joy.
And how lucky we are.
Making people happy is more important than making money.
Our society in the balance.
From ten to twenty-two.
Young people laughing.
Let’s enjoy this fine day,
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Our 398th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 398 posts we’re at the 7.96 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 12.01am.
On Wednesday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 61* with a feels-like of 59* with mainly sunny skies. A lovely spring day,
Dinner for tonight will be Roast Turkey.
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Question of the Day:
What are some theories of out-of-body experiences?
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Chuckle for Wednesday, May 8, 2019
A couple, sixteen years married, in family counselling, attended a group session.
When asked for an idea of theirs that has helped their marriage last the wife offered this.
“Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, act sociably with others, have a little wine and good food. He goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
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Answer to the Question of the Day: Wednesday, May 8, 2019
What are some theories of OBE?
In the fields of cognitive science and psychology OBEs are considered dissociative experiences arising from different psychological and neurological factors.
Scientists consider the OBE to be an experience from a mental state, like a dream or an altered state of consciousness without recourse to the paranormal.
Charles Richet (1887) held that OBEs are created by the subject's memory and imagination processes and are no different from dreams.
James H. Hyslop (1912) wrote that OBEs occur when the activity of the subconscious mind dramatizes certain images to give the impression the subject is in a different physical location.
Eugéne Osty (1930) considered OBEs to be nothing more than the product of imagination.
Other early researchers (such as Schmeing, 1938) supported psychophysiological theories.[46] G. N. M. Tyrrell interpreted OBEs as hallucinatory constructs relating to subconscious levels of personality.
Donovan Rawcliffe (1959) connected the OBE experience with psychosis and hysteria.
Other researchers have discussed the phenomena of the OBE in terms of a distortion of the body image (Horowitz, 1970) and depersonalization (Whitlock, 1978).
The psychologists Nandor Fodor (1959) and Jan Ehrenwald (1974) proposed that an OBE is a defense mechanism designed to deal with the threat of death.
According to (Irin and Watt, 2007) Jan Ehrenwald had described the out-of-body experience (OBE) "as an imaginal confirmation of the question for immortality, a delusory attempt to assure ourselves that we possess a soul that exists independently of the physical body.[53] The psychologists Donald Hebb (1960) and Cyril Burt (1968) wrote on the psychological interpretation of the OBE involving body image and visual imagery.
Graham Reed (1974) suggested that the OBE is a stress reaction to a painful situation, such as the loss of love.
John Palmer (1978) wrote that the OBE is a response to a body image change causing a threat to personal identity.
Carl Sagan (1977) and Barbara Honegger (1983) wrote that the OBE experience may be based on a rebirth fantasy or reliving of the birth process based on reports of tunnel-like passageways and a cord-like connection by some OBErs which they compared to an umbilical cord.
Susan Blackmore (1978) came to the conclusion that the OBE is a hallucinatory fantasy as it has the characteristics of imaginary perceptions, perceptual distortions and fantasy-like perceptions of the self (such as having no body).
Ronald Siegel (1980) also wrote that OBEs are hallucinatory fantasies.
Harvey Irwin (1985) presented a theory of the OBE involving attentional cognitive processes and somatic sensory activity. His theory involved a cognitive personality construct known as psychological absorption and gave instances of the classification of an OBE as examples of autoscopy, depersonalization and mental dissociation.
The psychophysiologist Stephen Laberge (1985) has written that the explanation for OBEs can be found in lucid dreaming.
David Hufford (1989) linked the OBE experience with a phenomenon he described as a nightmare waking experience, a type of sleep paralysis.
Other scientists have also linked OBEs to cases of hypnagogia and sleep paralysis (cataplexy).
In case studies fantasy proneness has been shown to be higher among OBErs than those who have not had an OBE.
The data has shown a link between the OBE experience in some cases to fantasy prone personality (FPP).
In a case study involving 167 participants the findings revealed that those who claimed to have experienced the OBE were "more fantasy prone, higher in their belief in the paranormal and displayed greater somatoform dissociation."
Research from studies has also suggested that OBEs are related to cognitive-perceptual schizotypy.
Terence Hines (2003) has written that spontaneous out-of-body experiences can be generated by artificial stimulation of the brain and this strongly suggests that the OBE experience is caused from "temporary, minor brain malfunctions, not by the person's spirit (or whatever) actually leaving the body."
In a study review of neurological and neurocognitive data (Bünning and Blanke, 2005) wrote that OBEs are due to "functional disintegration of lower-level multisensory processing and abnormal higher-level self-processing at the temporoparietal junction."
Some scientists suspect that OBEs are the result of a mismatch between visual and tactile signals.
Richard Wiseman (2011) has noted that OBE research has focused on finding a psychological explanation and "out-of-body experiences are not paranormal and do not provide evidence for the soul. Instead, they reveal something far more remarkable about the everyday workings of your brain and body."
A study conducted by Jason Braithwaite and colleagues (2011) linked the OBE to "neural instabilities in the brain's temporal lobes and to errors in the body's sense of itself".
Braithwaite et al. (2013) reported that the "current and dominant view is that the OBE occurs due to a temporary disruption in multi-sensory integration processes."
I’m gonna study the list of theories on a lovely day sitting on a park bench.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the eighth day of May, 2019
Our homily posits that for the good of society we must make people happy, especially younger
people who have so many pressures on them.
We posted the weather and date and the number of postings.
And the question and answer taught us more about out-of-body experiences, listing, thanks to Wikipedia, many of the theories developed about OBEs.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.