
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Have you ever felt a "presence" - someone next to you, even speaking to you, when no one is there? Dr. Ben Alderson-Day, a psychologist at Durham University in the UK, studies the phenomena of felt presences, or what he calls "the unseen other."
These experiences are not always symptoms of mental illness - these are universally reported and not always distressing. Learn what's happening in the brain during these hallucinations - or should we call them visitations? Plus... how the Internet brings together groups of people who can conjure up invisible friends, seemingly on command.
Full transcripts and additional resources available at: www.thisisyourbrain.com
For more about Dr. Alderson-Day's book, "Presence; The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250278265/presence
By Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery4.7
141141 ratings
Have you ever felt a "presence" - someone next to you, even speaking to you, when no one is there? Dr. Ben Alderson-Day, a psychologist at Durham University in the UK, studies the phenomena of felt presences, or what he calls "the unseen other."
These experiences are not always symptoms of mental illness - these are universally reported and not always distressing. Learn what's happening in the brain during these hallucinations - or should we call them visitations? Plus... how the Internet brings together groups of people who can conjure up invisible friends, seemingly on command.
Full transcripts and additional resources available at: www.thisisyourbrain.com
For more about Dr. Alderson-Day's book, "Presence; The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250278265/presence

22,033 Listeners

32,129 Listeners

43,689 Listeners

815 Listeners

3,327 Listeners

10,187 Listeners

1,461 Listeners

1,376 Listeners

31,969 Listeners

3,047 Listeners

11,129 Listeners

8,186 Listeners

624 Listeners

10,673 Listeners

102 Listeners