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This would be very interesting to read about. Slight tangent: I also remember seeing some stuff about how the brain is influenced by sociocultural things - like
by makmanalp 12y ago
This would be very interesting to read about. Slight tangent: I also remember seeing some stuff about how the brain is influenced by sociocultural things - like how people from christian-majority nations see heaven / hell / god imagery during psychosis but people from other, dissimilar cultures see different things. Or: how come people ingesting hallucinogens consistently report being one with god or being god? What's so special about the concept of god that triggers that kind of hallucination? Why isn't it as common to think that you're any other object, like a toaster?
- sogen 12y agoThere's an old 1900's illustration of UFOs, saw it in a Ripley's Magazine way back in the late 90's - early 2000's. They looked like stuff from that era: Cigars, Hats, Zeppelins, etc.
- joshontheweb 12y agoIt isn't uncommon to hear modern sighting described using these words as well. That doesn't really mean much since these are still common objects today.
- blackbagboys 12y agoAdditionally, manifestations of paranoid schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders change with culture; during the Cold War, it was a common delusion that one was being monitored by the CIA or the KGB; nowadays many sufferers report that they're on a 24/7 reality TV show they can't escape from