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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