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Originally posted by Skyfloating
As an atheist you probably dont believe in the semi-psychic mental capabilities I do, but I want to add that I think you can - by neutral examination - "intuit" where something is coming from and get "impressions" and "hints" to causes and sources.
Originally posted by MemoryShock
Rather, it is a reframing of the interpretation of the memory(ies)/time period as well as creating an inclination for the "not remembering" of a memory
Main Entry:
con·fab·u·late
Etymology:
Latin confabulatus, past participle of confabulari, from com- + fabulari to talk, from fabula story — more at fable
1 : to talk informally : chat
2 : to hold a discussion : confer
3 : to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication
The constructivist hypothesis evolved from Bartlett's work in social psychology and characterized Piaget's later views on memory-reasoning relations. Here, the core idea was that memory traces are not bedrocks for accurate reasoning but, rather, are themselves modified ('constructed') by reasoning operations. In other words, "The schemata of the memory are borrowed from the intelligence".
Turning from necessity to constructivism, Reyna and Kiernan pointed out that constructivism made key predictions that went beyond predictions about relations between children's performance on memory tests versus reasoning problems. Specifically, memory for experience is supposedly based on a unitary semantic code that preserves the meanings of individual events but not their surface details. If so, performance on different memory tests that are consistent with the meaning of experience are all based on the same memory code.
Opportunities to acquire the gist memories and heuristic operations that support intuitive reasoning... are available much earlier in life than opportunities to acquire the logico-mathematical operations that process the precise content of problem information. The result is what might be called an illusion of replacement in which intuitive solutions appear to be supplanted by analytical ones because the requisite specific knowledge for the latter was previously unavailable. If this confound were eliminated, intuitive reasoning might not be found to wane with age, on the contrary.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
5. Any odd childhood memory of doctor-visits? What was your childhood attitude towards doctors?
Originally posted by Skyfloating
1. Have there been issues with nose-bleeding?
2. When asking "Where does the voice come from?" where does your attention naturally go (without having to imagine anything). Does your "intuition" or "psychic sense" perceive some kind of location, city or building from which the voice emanates, some kind of device being used? If you havent done this observation yet maybe you´ll do it before answering here.
3. What was your involvement in Ren Faire, your role?
4. Could you try the following: Next time the voice comes up, imitate it by copying the exact thing it says in the exact voice it says it by means of your imagination. Do this for about 3 minutes. Does anything unusual happen?
5. Any odd childhood memory of doctor-visits? What was your childhood attitude towards doctors?
Originally posted by MemoryShock
Besides, my communication is for the most part satisfied by ATS...
Originally posted by interestedalways
Only one person ever gave me any kind of validation and she said it is called the "Game" and people in one circle would enlist people from another circle, etc until there was a wide variety of people involved.
Some of it I believed was to lesson one's credibility because of the kind of things that would happen if you described them to a "reasonable" person they would more or less write you off as a kook.
Originally posted by interestedalways
Well I had no sinus problems that I knew of but since the doc touted how much I needed the meds I tried them for about a week and they just made me cough from my chest so I stopped taking them. Still no sinus problems.
Originally posted by interestedalways
The only thing at this point that really concerns me and most want to write it of as tinitus is the high pitch whine in the center of my head. It really is obnoxious and what makes it unique to me is it gets really loud if I am reading some information or studying something that is off the beaten track, you know, like MIND Control or something like that!
Originally posted by Skyfloating
reply to post by MemoryShock
You´ve stopped associating with these people and they dont call you back anymore either?
Originally posted by MemoryShock
But this to has me kind of perplexed. I can't even begin to imagine the range. I traveled from California (I rarely leave this state) to Chicago for two weeks and there was no interruption of the voices. Weird...or "Wired"...
Originally posted by Ian McLean
But most people who report these things report them as being dynamic, and responsive. Very responsive -- such that some kind of low-latency transmission technology would be necessary.
1) Electromagnetic (radio frequency) transmission, such as used by cell phones, broadcast television, etc. This would have to be covert, robust, and capable of multiplexing (since I assume it would be prohibitive to design and implement such a system for just one individual). But there's things that attenuate electromagnetic signals -- large amount of metal, distance, Faraday cages (anyone ever tried this?), etc. Reports aren't consistent with this implementation.
And, on a second note (and feel free to ignore the previous and only respond to this, or not): Why? It seems an awful lot of trouble to go though just to mess with someone's head. Any theories, other than "that's just what these twisted sickos do"?
I agree. There are too many occurances and situations and people. I really can go on for many pages describing events and experiences that only come up in my memory on occasion and after I have been thinking about things like this specifically for days on end.
Like the time, I was sitting on my bed playing guitar (trying). I was ~twenty and living in Gardena. Well, my then girlfriends ex stormed into the room with a friend. His friend grabbed the guitar from me and I jumped onto the bed and so did her ex.
He then started to hit me several times and I was so shocked that I didn't fight back. He stopped while we were still standing on the bed, leaned in until we were eye to eye and said something like, "This is what fear is."
His friend was on the ground wielding my guitar as a weapon should I try and go in that direction ('away').
They then left and here is the kicker...he locked the door. He hadn't been living with her for quite a long time and when I questioned the girl about whether or not he had a key, she said, "No."
Situations like that are my personal experience and for some reason it seems normal to me.
In a study of 115 combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, the majority (65%) reported hearing voices. These dissociative voices included command hallucinations to which the individuals responded with a feeling of automatic obedience. Source
Voices are heard by many individuals otherwise meeting criteria for DID, and have been argued to be the prime cause for the apparently frequent misdiagnosis of DID as schizophrenia. Indeed, the two ‘pathognomic’ voice symptoms of schizophrenia (voices commenting and voices conversing) are quite common in DID1. While there is an entrenched clinical belief that ‘dissociative’ voices differ from ‘psychotic’ voices (primarily by being perceived ‘inside’ the head) there is no compelling evidence that this is so. At least 50% of persons meeting diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia hear internal voices, a third exclusively so (Copolov, Trauer & Mackinnon, 2004). These percentages do not significantly differ from those found in DID (or for that matter from non-patients, Honig et al, 1998) Source