Tag Archives: Census of Hallucinations

Understanding Ghosts: thoughts before Uncanny 2

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Chris Jensen Romer

I just had a thought: unusual I know! It’s about ghost (or any anomaly) investigation though so I will pop it here. As you probably know I regard the basis of all research to be listening to the witnesses recount … Continue reading →

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A 5 million dollar question: Is Life after Death real? The Immortality Project.

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Chris Jensen Romer

Today I should be working, but about the time I’m writing this my Becky is finally submitting her PhD thesis at Coventry University, entitled something like A Century of Apparitions: The Census of Hallucinations in the 21st Century. I have … Continue reading →

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Strange Survey – have you had an unusual experience?

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Long term readers of this blog will recall that I have mentioned a few times Becky Smith’s PhD research (based at Coventry Uni) in to anomalous experiences – ghosts, poltergeists, hallucinations, hauntings, call them what you will. Well she has started the mail data colletion phase now, and is trying to get as many accounts as possible from people who would answer positively to this main question

Have you ever (when fully awake and unaffected by illness, alcohol or drugs) had an experience of seeing something or someone, or of hearing a voice, when there was no ordinary cause for it that you could find? Continue reading →

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Are Ghosts Hallucinations?

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Over at http://www.rationalskepticism.org I’m debating the poster known as Campermon, an excellent chap. So far we are just really getting started, but I thought I’d share one of my posts, just in case anyone interested… Continue reading →

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Age and Anomalous Experience

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Please note all this is a work in progress: little more than a series of memo’s in which Becky and I are developing ideas we want to explore… OK last night I posted on a topic that interested me, and … Continue reading →

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Charting the Unknown: Ghosts, Memory & the Progress of Time

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

OK something mildly interesting tonight – very much a preliminary set of thoughts on something Becky and I are still working on. Before she started her PhD we undertook some simple research on reports of “paranormal experiences” together, using a novel new methodology which is actually quite close to that used by the SPR in the 1894 Census of Hallucinations. And something has already come up that I find fascinating! Continue reading →

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