Phasmo-Phobia

BRAIN - The most complicated organ in a human body and that is the reason the last century is know as the brain century since medical science is behind understanding and decoding the working of the BRAIN. 
*How can so much information be stored/retrieved at the correct time?
*Why is that someone is fearful about a thing and other is not?
*How is fear induced and transferred across the body?

Quite interesting to know that the actual fear is resided inside some part of the brain and as in scientists decode the events they are categorized under different PHOBIA's

The most common phobia apart from the fear of death that haunts a person is Phasmo-Phobia i.e the fear of ghosts.
95 out of 100 people can be diagnosed with this phobia.

Most of us feel excited hearing to the ghost stories and even discuss on the topic but then why is that some section has a quite lot of fear about this subject. Is this something to do with our belief system or something to do with our religion or the way we are brought up?

The other point that could be considered is that the people suffering from Phasmophobia might have the capacity of MAGICAL THINKING(visualizing any event so strong that it appears to be true).

Checking about this aspect i something think that are all the victims who says are haunted by ghosts are actual victims or its the play of the brain that is happening. Does the society take them properly or are seen with just one angle.

We need to break the shackles of the past and the upbringing to come to the light and out of fear to see that the society is a good place and there is nothing to worry about a handful of people who make you believe that you are paranormally affected.

Pareidolia

What do you see in the picture about?

* Clouds

* Animals

* Dinosaurs

* Demons

* Angels

* Fighting Bear

Seeing figures and faces in normal objects or things due to their placement or pattern is called as PAREIDOLIA. It is made of of two words

PARA - Above or Beyond

EIDOLIA - Image or Form

Seeing the image of God and Goddess in Clouds/Tree/Toasts/sand etc is the most common form of pareidolia.

Initially it was thought to be symptoms of psychosis but now it is considered as a normal human tendency where the brain plays a scene which matches patterns in the objects that we see.

The simplest test for this is to splatter ink on the table and let people come up with the images that they see in that pattern, it is really surprising that how the brains plays such a trick. The brain matches the patter of the ink splattered on the table with something that you have seen and remembered in the past. A FACE :)

Pareidolia is a type of Apophenia(unmotivational seen of pattern in unwanted data)

This is the main phenomenon that people get excited and term a place or image as paranormal. For example a person visits a place for the first time and in the dark shade of light he sees a curtain folded in a certain pattern and his brain decodes that pattern to be a face of an old bald man. Over and above this when he finds that the place was actually owned by an old bald man his brain stamps that place as haunted.

The place is haunted with the soul of the owner of the house who does not want to leave the house and would harm the people coming near that place. ( this is how many of the stories are formed.... what was the base.... a curtain seen in dark)

People out there who are troubled with paranormal activities and who see faces and objects out in thin air should sit, relax and train their mind to distinguish between real and patterned data. The day they are able to clear this, i am 100% sure they would come to realize it was PAREIDOLIA which played tricks ....

In the coming posts we would see and discuss some more of these kind of habits which produces false alarm of being HAUNTED.