Sleep Patterns, Personality, and Subjective Anomalous Experiences

Simmonds-Moore, Christine

doi:10.2190/ic.29.1.e

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“…As noted previously, the possibility exists that self-selection biases produced a sample that overrepresented individuals with active interests in ExEs. Descriptive statistics for the AES were slightly higher in our study ( M = 10.23) than in a prior survey based on a general population sample ( M = 7.5; Simmonds-Moore, 2009), and therefore may have overrepresented the frequencies of synesthetic experiences. Our findings thus require replication in more representative random samples.…”

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A survey exploring synesthetic experiences: Exceptional experiences, schizotypy, and psychological well-being.

Simmonds-Moore¹,

Alvarado²,

Zingrone³

2019

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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We used an online survey to investigate the relations among synesthesia, schizotypy, exceptional experiences (ExEs), and well-being. Participants (N ϭ 1,628 [listwise N ϭ 767]; male ϭ 619, female ϭ 1,064) completed a Synesthesia Experience Questionnaire (SEQ), a general question about synesthetic experiences (Hartmann, 1991), the Anomalous Experience Subscale (AES) of the Anomalous Experience Inventory (Gallagher, Kumar, & Pekala, 1994), questions about parapsychological experiences, a multidimensional measure of schizotypy (Oxford-Liverpool Inventory for Feelings and Experiences Short [O-LIFE Short]; Mason, Linney, & Claridge, 2005), and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985). Cronbach's alphas for these measures ranged from .63 to .90 in our data set. Approximately half (54.4%) of the sample reported 1 or more synesthetic experiences, although the rate was much lower for synesthesias experienced on a consistent basis (3.1%). The SEQ was highly internally reliable and correlated positively with the AES, number of parapsychological experiences, and unusual experiences, and negatively with introvertive anhedonia. The SEQ was not directly related to the SWLS. Unusual experiences and synesthesia were the strongest predictors of the AES and parapsychological experiences in multiple regression models. A cluster analysis of schizotypy found 4 clusters of schizotypy, including 1 cluster reflecting healthy schizotypy, 1 reflecting high schizotypy, 1 reflecting low schizotypy, and 1 reflecting negative schizotypy. We compared clusters in terms of the SWLS, ExEs, and the SEQ and found significant differences for all variables and higher scores for healthy compared with high schizotypy on all variables. We discuss the complex relations among synesthesia, schizotypy, and well-being.

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A survey exploring synesthetic experiences: Exceptional experiences, schizotypy, and psychological well-being.

Simmonds-Moore¹,

Alvarado²,

Zingrone³

2019

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…De todos modos, futuros estudios deberían examinar cómo exactamente funciona esta hiperconectividad o sensibilidad ambiental para producir tales experiencias. El concepto de límite fi no podría refl ejar un sistema holárquico (Simmonds-Moore, 2009, 2016. El aspecto biológico del límite fi no permite diferentes propiedades de la sensibilidad en niveles cada vez más altos (o integrados), y, como tal, la mente es dependiente de procesos físicos más que la suma de partes (Fleck et al, 2008).…”

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Límite fino y transliminalidad en relación con experiencias aparicionales y sensación de presencia

Parra¹

2017

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Objetivo. Comparar la transliminalidad y el límite fi no en personas que tienen experiencias de apariciones y sensación de presencia con un grupo control. Se plantea como hipótesis que las personas que reportan experiencias aparicionales y sensación de presencia tienen: (a) mayor propensión a tener experiencias anómalas, (b) mayor transliminalidad y (c) límites más fi nos en comparación con un grupo control. Método.Se administraron cuatro medidas, la Escala Cardiff de Percepciones Anómalas, la Escala de Transliminalidad (revisada), el Inventario de Experiencias Anómalo/Paranormales y el Cuestionario de Límites, a una muestra compuesta por 203 participantes interesados en experiencias paranormales (151 mujeres y 52 hombres). Resultados. Se confi rmaron las tres hipótesis, esto es, mayor nivel de experiencias anómalas, transliminalidad y límite más fi no en individuos que reportan la experiencia en comparación con quienes no las reportan.Conclusión. Estos resultados indican que, particularmente, el constructo de límite fi no refl eja unos procesos atencionales o hiperestesia particular para la detección del entorno en aquellos involucrados en presuntas experiencias aparicionales.

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“…In terms of diurnal hypnagogic experiences, one study found that hypnagogic experiences peak in the late afternoon (3:11 p.m. and 4:02 p.m.; Nielsen, 1995). We suggest that if an experiment is run in the afternoon or evening, the likelihood of experiencing a shift in consciousness (hypnagogia) and potentially an ExE could be increased anyway because of circadian and ultradian rhythms (Simmonds-Moore, 2009). For example, 4 p.m. falls within the circasemidian nadir , which reflects a period in the biological rhythm when it is more likely that a person will fall asleep (Nielsen, 1991–1992).…”

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Exceptional Experiences Following Exposure to a Sham “God Helmet”: Evidence for Placebo, Individual Difference, and Time of Day Influences

Simmonds-Moore

Rice

O'Gwin

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Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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It has been claimed that applying weak complex electromagnetic patterns to the temporal lobes in a “God Helmet” stimulates the intrusion of right-hemispheric processes to awareness, resulting in exceptional experiences (ExEs). We explored the roles of wearing a sham helmet, time of day, and individual differences (paranormal belief, synesthesia, locus of control, hyperesthesia, and prior anomalous experiences) in alterations in consciousness and ExEs in the absence of neural stimulation. Thirty-two skeptics and 35 paranormal believers completed baseline, sham (morning), and sham (afternoon) conditions. Participants relaxed in a Faraday chamber for 30 minutes. Exit interviews explored subjective experiences and participants completed the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI). A mixed-model analysis of covariance found that believers scored higher than skeptics on some PCI dimensions, there was no influence of study conditions on PCI scores, and there was no interaction between belief and study conditions. An inductive thematic analysis identified a coding scheme for ExE. Believers reported more ExEs than skeptics. Regression models supported roles for hyperesthesia in alterations in consciousness and synesthesia in ExEs.

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Sleep Patterns, Personality, and Subjective Anomalous Experiences

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

A survey exploring synesthetic experiences: Exceptional experiences, schizotypy, and psychological well-being.

A survey exploring synesthetic experiences: Exceptional experiences, schizotypy, and psychological well-being.

Límite fino y transliminalidad en relación con experiencias aparicionales y sensación de presencia

Exceptional Experiences Following Exposure to a Sham “God Helmet”: Evidence for Placebo, Individual Difference, and Time of Day Influences

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