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In Bizarre Experiment, Scientists Put Subjects in Dark Room With a Large Mirror and Instructed Them to Think of the Dead
Futurism • • science
Key Points:
- Researchers conducted an experiment using a psychomanteum, a dark room with an upward-facing mirror, to study how rituals for communing with the dead affect the mind and perceptions of paranormal experiences.
- Thirty participants, half with prior ghost experiences and half with synesthesia, were asked to think of a deceased loved one before sitting in the psychomanteum for 45 minutes while researchers monitored physiological and environmental data.
- Participants with higher creativity levels reported more intense and vivid ghostly experiences, while synesthesia did not increase the frequency or intensity of perceived presences.
- A correlation was found between geomagnetic fluctuations and ghostly perceptions, but only in synesthetic participants, though the study's reliance on statistical comparisons suggests caution in interpreting this result.
- Overall, the study indicates that individual psychological traits, sensory perception differences, and environmental factors collectively influence the experience and perceived reality of supernatural encounters.
