Illusion Delusion

When Passive Feels Active - Delusion-Proneness Alters Self-Recognition in the Moving Rubber Hand Illusion

Psychotic patients have problems with bodily self-recognition such as the experience of self-produced actions (sense of agency) and the perception of the body as their own (sense of ownership). While it has been shown that such impairments in psychotic patients can be explained by hypersalient processing of external sensory input it has also been suggested that they lack normal efference copy i...

Libido and Delusion

Human’s Delusion of Time

Time intrigued humankind for thousands of years. From the beginning of its consciousness, mankind has some ―idea‖, ―feeling‖ or ―vision‖ of Time. Something ever happens around a man. The Sun rises and falls to/from the horizon. The Moon moves through the stars. The rivers run to the oceans, and a falling leafs followed a river streams to disappear forever; and even human lives follow the flow o...

Hope, optimism and delusion

Optimism is generally accepted by psychiatrists, psychologists and other caring professionals as a feature of mental health. Interventions typically rely on cognitive-behavioural tools to encourage individuals to 'stop negative thought cycles' and to 'challenge unhelpful thoughts'. However, evidence suggests that most individuals have persistent biases of optimism and that excessive optimism is...

The medical miracles delusion.

Humans are not ants, but we often trudge together along the same trail, neglecting to look around for alternatives. Mass delusions involve large groups holding false or exaggerated beliefs for sustained periods. Humanity has a long, sorry list of these shadow-the-leader epidemics of collective consciousness which appear obviously wrong only in hindsight. Some last for centuries: early alchemist...