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Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or mental body, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one's consciousness is felt to separate from the physical body temporarily. [1] [page needed] Atmokinesis – The ability to control the weather by calling for rainfall or storms.
A list of 'effects' that have been noticed in the field of psychology. [clarification needed] Ambiguity effect;
Audience effect (psychology) (social psychology) Auger effect (atomic physics) (foundational quantum physics) Aureole effect (atmospheric optical phenomena) (scientific terminology) Autler–Townes effect (atomic, molecular, and optical physics) (atomic physics) (quantum optics) Autokinetic effect (vision) Avalanche effect (cryptography)
The NDE would represent evidence of the immaterial existence of a soul or mind, which leaves the body upon death, and provides information about an immaterial world where the soul journeys after death. [49] According to Greyson, [11] some NDE phenomena cannot be easily explained with our current knowledge of human physiology and psychology. For ...
When the body is injured, or if the heart stops, even if only for a short period, the brain is deprived of oxygen. A short period of cerebral hypoxia can result in the impairment of neuronal function. It is theorized that this neuronal impairment accounts for deathbed visions. [17] [18]
Lack of sleep appears to negatively affect one's ability to appreciate and respond to increasing complexity, as was found in performance deficits after 1 night of sleep deprivation on a simulated marketing game. [27] The game involved subjects promoting a fictional product while getting feedback on the financial effects of their decisions.
[47] For example, when working towards and trying to achieve a goal the fear of failing can help push the desire to succeed even harder or can lead one to failure - depending on the mindset of the individual. MMT predicts that the increased motivation to live and die well is coupled with one avoiding death while creating goals to have a happy ...
MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost three-quarters of an ounce (21.3 grams).