And what I mean by the psychic ability, I mean like seeing the dead or spirits and other stuff like that. You know what I mean? How can you determine if someone is just hallucinating or actually has psychic abilities?
What is the difference between hallucinating and psychic ability?
Posted by Dreamer
January 20th, 2010 - 1:25 am
If someone has abilities, they would most likely be very hush hush about it. A good way to find out is to see if the person has done anything that would give them hallucinations. Drugs? Mental Illness? Lack of sleep? History of mental illness in the family?
January 20th, 2010 - 1:40 am
In my opinion no one has psychic abilities, since such an ability has never been shown to be real when tested under controlled conditions on the other hand I don’t think the majority of people that claim to be psychic are hallucinating either. To me it seems more like wishful thinking, imagining things, and bending the data.
People make a few general guesses, remember the things they get right and mentally discard the things they get wrong so in the end they are left with the idea that they are getting a load of magical messages from the beyond.
There’s plenty of people who claim to be psychics or mediums but watch how they wiggle away when you ask for something to prove what they say.
January 20th, 2010 - 2:18 am
hallucinating usually comes from some form of brain mis-function or something else to cause the brain to hallucinate or the other possibility is the use of different drugs. psychic ability is something that i don’t put much stock in. most people that claim this ability are either seriously deceived or living in a constant state of hallucination.
January 20th, 2010 - 2:37 am
Psi abilities according to the scientific experimental evidence are normal human abilities that appear to be normally distributed in the population just like musical or athletic ability. Thus, everyone has some level of psychic ability. If one has exceptional psi abilities would require scientific experimental testing in order to determine just like basketball players stats have to be examined to determine if they have abilities. Any single basketball game may not demonstrate a players exceptional abilities.
In regards to your question one decides by applying a simple test which is does the spirit provide information that the person can not possibly know by normal means. While not providing this information would not provide evidence that the ghost wasn’t real, providing the information would provide some evidence for the reality of the event.
In fact one theory of ghosts is that the person is acquiring information (via ESP) and that they do indeed hallucinate a ghost in order to present that information to their conscious awareness.
While mental disorders ranging from normal grief to schizophrenia can cause hallucinations there are other criteria besides hallucinations that must be met for these diagnoses and the described experiences are exceptionally different.
Psiexploration
January 20th, 2010 - 3:06 am
A hallucination is:
“1. a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images. ”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hallucination
There have been many tests for psychic abilities, but no one has ever been shown to possess such an ability. There is zero proper evidence for the existence of psychic ability.
Hallucination is just one component that contributes to some people’s belief that they are psychic, or see “paranormal” things. There are other factors like dreams, sleep paralysis, etc.
There is absolutely no evidence for the existence of spirits, ghosts etc, either.
And there is not, as suggested, any scientific evidence that psychic abilities are normal human abilities that are distributed in the population just like musical or athletic ability. Only psuedoscientific. Bad science such as this does not conform to the normal rigors of scientific method or survive peer review. I can assure you if this were the case, A Nobel prize would have been awarded for it by now. All such research has been clearly exposed as either fraudulent, biased or seriously flawed in methodology.
January 20th, 2010 - 3:30 am
You either have the psychic abilities normally or you don’t. Even some of the people that hallucinate, perhaps do experience at times some real paranormal experiences, though due to their back ground, who is going to believe in them.
If your an skeptic you believe that no one has Psychic abilities and that everyone is nuts because they see things that the skeptic never experienced, therefore if it didn’t happen to them it’s not true.
January 20th, 2010 - 3:45 am
there’s nothing such as psychic ability
January 20th, 2010 - 4:42 am
when you see somebody who doesnt exist, you’re hallucinating.
when people pay $20 to hear about this, you have psychic ability.
January 20th, 2010 - 4:43 am
A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space. These definitions distinguish hallucinations from the related phenomena of dreaming, which does not involve consciousness; illusion, which involves distorted or misinterpreted real perception; imagery, which does not mimic real perception and is under voluntary control; and pseudohallucination, which does not mimic real perception, but is not under voluntary control.[1] Hallucinations also differ from “delusional perceptions”, in which a correctly sensed and interpreted genuine perception is given some additional (and typically bizarre) significance.
Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method. Laboratory and field research is conducted by privately funded laboratories and some universities around the world,[1] although there are fewer universities actively sponsoring parapsychological research today than in years past. Such research is usually published in parapsychological publications, and some articles have appeared in more mainstream journals. Experiments have included the use of random number generators to test for evidence of precognition and psychokinesis with both human and animal subjects,[2][3][4] sensory-deprivation and Ganzfeld experiments to test for extrasensory perception, and research trials conducted under contract to the United States government to investigate whether remote viewing would provide useful intelligence information.
January 20th, 2010 - 4:56 am
Hallucinations actually happen. Psychic abilities do not.
January 20th, 2010 - 5:53 am
To be honest with you, it can be really difficult to tell, because sometimes people can see things others cannot. You can’t put yourself in someone’s shoes, it’s just not possible for most people to look through someone else’s eyes and see exactly what they’re seeing.
But to be honest, Psiexploration is right…. things schizoprenia and other mental illnesses have a lot more to them then just hallucinations or hearing voices. I actually know a woman whose a paranoid schizophrenic and believe me, you can see it in everything about her.
So, I say, before you automatically assume your friend is nuts, do a little research… ask him what he’s seeing or hearing…. and look with him for rational things that could be it. Look at it from his point of view and help him to see all sides of it.
but just because someone has a parnormal experience doesn’t mean they have psychic abilities. Psychic abilities is something you usually know you have. People who have them are very aware that they experience the world in a way different from everyone else. You know what I mean?
January 20th, 2010 - 6:13 am
Well, if you see ghosts everyday, everywhere you go, you might be hallucinating.
I’m under the impression that if someone suffers from hallucinations, they wouldn’t just see ghosts, they would also be seeing other things…like purple elephants with pink spots….or the ghost would be singing a show tune…dancing around or something.
I can’t really say for sure, because I hear them more than I see them and words provide proof if someone who knows the spirit is around to confirm for you. It is much easier. I think it’s more difficult to prove it’s real if you are only seeing them.
January 20th, 2010 - 7:05 am
When you are truly communicating with a spirit
you will typically feel the exchange in the form
of hearing, seeing or sensing them. Sometimes,
you can even receive a particular smell. For
example, it is said when someone smells
roses that means the Virgin Mother is in your
presence.
When you are hallucinating things are muddied,
unclear, or confusing. There isn’t a sense of
peace.