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  2. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    An example of the peripheral drift illusion: alternating lines appear to be moving horizontally left or right. An example of the hollow face illusion which makes concave masks appear to be jutting out (or convex) An example of motion induced blindness : while fixating on the flashing dot, the stationary dots may disappear due to the brain ...

  3. Vision (spirituality) - Wikipedia

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    Vision of Thomas Aquinas in the Vatican Museum. Evelyn Underhill distinguishes and categorizes three types of visions: [3]. Intellectual Visions – The Catholic dictionary defines these as supernatural knowledge in which the mind receives an extraordinary grasp of some revealed truth without the aid of sensible impressions, and mystics describe them as intuitions that leave a deep impression.

  4. Deathbed phenomena - Wikipedia

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    The physician William Barrett, author of the book Death-Bed Visions (1926), collected anecdotes of people who had claimed to have experienced visions of deceased friends and relatives, the sound of music and other deathbed phenomena. [8] Barrett was a Christian spiritualist and believed the visions were evidence for spirit communication. [9]

  5. Psychological projection - Wikipedia

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    Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. [1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. [1]

  6. Clairvoyance - Wikipedia

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    Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance [1]. Clairvoyance (/ k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ. ə n s /; from French clair 'clear' and voyance 'vision') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".

  7. Visual perception - Wikipedia

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    The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system, and are the focus of much research in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and molecular biology, collectively referred to as vision science.

  8. Dreams in analytical psychology - Wikipedia

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    This is the case of dreams announcing the death of a loved one. Jung notes that these cases are close to a "situational instinct". [E 8] In his latest work, the Swiss psychiatrist sees this category of dreams as examples of synchronicity, i.e. acausal relationships between a real event on the one hand and a psychic and emotional state on the ...

  9. Social vision - Wikipedia

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    Social vision was developed as a research field in the early 2000s. The Science of Social Vision, an amalgamation of social vision research, was released in 2010, [2] followed by a special edition issue of Social Cognition in 2013 that focused on social vision. The field developed at the intersection of social psychology and vision science ...