Saturday, August 4, 2012
Apophnia
Apophenia is
the experience of seeing meaningful patter or connections in random or
meaningless data. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia. Apophenia could be considered
the lining up of the stars and the moon. Some people find that the stars alignment
with the moon has an effect on something as simple as a haircut. I have heard
old superstitious ladies tell young girls that if they want their hair to grow thick
and fast to get their haircut when the stars and moon aligned in a particular arraignment.
Giving meaning to that particular pattern, something that in reality has no
meaning at all. Another sever case example that I had known of, was when a
patient in a facility I had clinical at stated that his chin was attracted to
stairs. That whenever he would walk by stairs his chin had a magnetic force
that was pulling him to the stairs and he had to climb up those stairs. It
wouldn’t happen when he would drive past stairs because he would be going too
fast, but when he walked it gave the magnetism in his chin time to become attracted
to the stairs. I was weird, he looked and sounded perfectly fine until he made
that statement. In his mind he gave his chin and stairs a meaning and forces
that were not there in reality. Just like the older ladies telling the younger
ones sky readings to look out for, for a better head of hair.
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