The mystery of the pen fairy

Introduction to mysterious hallucination

first episode

There is a very popular game among young people called "Ask the spirits". It is said that as long as two people hold pens together, they can invite ghosts and gods to write some symbols on paper. Some people say that this is superstition without any scientific basis, while others think that this is just magic. However, in the time we witnessed, the so-called ask the spirits to ask the spirits really came. What is hidden behind all kinds of mysterious phenomena?

Sun, a professor of psychology at Fudan University, will solve the mystery for us. ...

first part

In Europe from 65438 to 1980s, many intractable diseases were still difficult to be cured by conventional methods.

At that time, all kinds of medical skills prevailed. In Austria, a doctor named Max Mai used a unique technique to treat patients.

This seems to be an unusual method, which requires neither diagnosis nor medicine. However, it is puzzling that many people have recovered after such treatment.

One night in June 2005, a strange game was being played in the girl's apartment of a university in Beijing.

They are saying something silently, as if some mysterious ceremony is being held.

As time goes by, they still keep their arms and bodies in posture.

Suddenly, they seem to notice something.

As if driven by some force, the pen in his hand moved uncontrollably.

Finally, messy lines were left on the paper.

Xiaohua: I'm afraid. I don't know what happened.

Xiao Lu: Ask the spirits, I feel that the legendary ask the spirits is coming.

The so-called "ask the spirits to ask the spirits" is what they hope to invite through this mysterious game.

Xiao Lu: At that time, everyone was silent, which was very serious. Peacetime is very different.

Xiaohua: At that time, everyone was silent and very serious. It's nothing like usual. I didn't take this seriously at first, but then I turned off the lights and lit some candles. It was very dark. It was already past twelve o'clock, and then I became more and more afraid and particularly nervous.

Xiao Lu: I reached out and took her hand. I think her palms are sweaty.

My classmate told me that we must be sincere if we want to show the spirits of the spirits, so we should always say silently: Ask the spirits to come out.

Xiaohua: While chanting ask the spirits to come out, we think that ask the spirits will definitely come out, which will be effective.

Xiao Lu: I heard from my classmates that if you want to ask about the ghost's soul, you must be sincere. So I have been silently saying: ask the spirits to ask the spirits to come out.

Xiaohua: After a long time, the pen seems to move, but later I don't know why it is getting faster and faster. I can't feel it.

Xiao Lu: I didn't move. I just feel someone holding my hand.

Xiaohua: I used to be curious, but now I feel terrible.

Xiao Lu: I don't know what happened, but I think there must be some reason.

The popular game of inviting ghosts and gods to invite ghosts and gods, among young people, it is said that as long as two people hold pens together, ghosts and gods can be invited to invite ghosts and gods to write some symbols on paper with pious meditation.

Some people say that this is superstition without any scientific basis, while others think that this is just magic.

However, in this night's "Please ask the spirits", the so-called ghosts and gods really came.

Sun, a professor of psychology at Fudan University in Shanghai, has long devoted himself to the study of psychological suggestion. In his research, he became interested in the mysterious activities popular among the people. It is said that there are many unexplained phenomena in these activities.

Sun: In the process of doing psychological research, I saw and consulted some folk activities, such as inviting ghosts and gods.

In the process of studying Bi Xian, some special links attracted Sun's attention.

Sun: I think in the process of evoking spirits and asking ghosts, an atmosphere is usually created first, mysterious or dark and quiet around.

At midnight, the noise faded away and everything fell into darkness. The faint candlelight lit up the limited field of vision slightly. Silence makes everyone's nerves extremely sensitive.

Xiao Lu: We wait until twelve o'clock, turn off all the lights and light the candles. The room was very quiet, as if we could hear our own breathing. Besides, when the light is turned off, nothing can be seen except the table in front of me.

Xiao Lu: Before playing ask the spirits, I heard from my classmates that you must ask the spirits sincerely.

Xiaohua: Only sincere spirit will appear. I believe this sentence very much, and I have been telling myself that ask the spirits will definitely appear, so I dare not be distracted at all, and I am quite focused.

Sun: The surroundings are quiet and the light is dim, and then everyone is very focused. In this process, they first enter a very focused atmosphere, silently looking forward to the arrival of ask the spirits, and in the process of constant expectation, they are highly focused.

Dim environment, pious expectation. They are highly concentrated in the unconscious.

Sun: In this case, both of them are in a highly concentrated state, and the atmosphere of this environment is the easiest to make hints work.

In a state of high concentration, it is easiest to make hints work, so how effective will hints be?

In order to verify the effect of suggestion, Sun usually does such a simple pendulum experiment.

First, Sun took out a rope and tied an iron ring at the end of the rope. There is also a ruler and two pieces of silver metal between him and the subject Xiao Zhao.

He told Xiao Zhao that these were two magnets.

At Sun's request, he stared at the iron ring and poked it from side to side, and deeply recorded the scene in front of him.

Then, he asked Xiao Zhao to pick up the rope and close his eyes. After the iron ring is suspended and stopped, put it in the center of the ruler.

Meanwhile: Can you feel the attraction of the magnet now? Ok, then take your time.

Do you feel the attraction of magnets now? Okay, I feel it. Now you feel the iron ring slowly swinging under the attraction of the magnet. The amplitude of the swing is getting bigger and bigger.

At the same time: when the two magnets get closer, you will feel that the magnets are more and more attractive to the iron ring, and the swing range of the iron ring is also increasing.

It is normal for the iron ring to swing left and right under the attraction of the magnet.

Why is Sun so excited? What is the purpose of this experiment?

Sun: In the simple pendulum experiment, they are two iron blocks with no magnetism. Because of the attraction of magnets, they do not exist.

There is no magnetism, that is to say, the iron ring will not be attracted to swing left and right at all, but it does swing, and even as the two pieces of metal get closer, the amplitude of the iron ring swing is getting bigger and bigger. What's going on here?

Sun: In the middle of the experiment, I told you that these are two magnets, which is very important.

At the same time: OK, do you feel the attraction of the magnet now? Okay, I feel it.

Sun: I asked him to swing the clock, and then I asked him to write down the picture, so that a more vivid and intuitive picture could be formed in his mind.

At the same time: OK, now close your eyes gently. Feeling.

At the same time: now you feel the iron ring swinging slowly under the attraction of the magnet.

At the same time: when the two magnets get closer, you will feel that the magnets are more and more attractive to the iron ring, and the swing range of the iron ring is also increasing.

This is the problem! We found that Sun did not let the iron ring swing, but only suggested that the iron ring was in a strong magnetic field and was strongly attracted by the magnet.

Sun: In psychology, the concept of suggestion is often mentioned. Broadly speaking, we receive all kinds of information all the time in our daily life. Some information is what we consciously notice and accept; Some information is inadvertently accepted and reacted, which is a broad hint.

However, the so-called magnet is just an ordinary iron block, so the existence of a strong magnetic field is only an illusion.

Can the hoop move only through Xiao Zhao's imagination?

When the prompt appears, the information will sneak into our brain inadvertently, and in our unconscious, it will constantly affect our behavior.

In fact, when Sun's hint was gradually accepted, his hand moved slightly. This force is transmitted to the ring through the rope.

With the deepening of the hint, Xiao Zhao's hand is moving more and more, which drives the hoop to make a big move.

If you don't witness the experiment with your own eyes, it's hard to imagine such an incredible reaction after being hinted.

The silence in the middle of the night, the faint candlelight, the pious expectation and the high concentration of spirit are undoubtedly the best environment for suggesting a great effect. So is there a secret connection between asking ghosts and gods and hints?

In the simple pendulum experiment, Sun constantly used language to stimulate the imagination of the iron ring swinging.

In this case, it is not difficult to understand how powerful the suggestion is.

However, in the process of asking ghosts and gods, no one gave them a hint signal.

There is no direct force to drive their hands.

Then why does the pen in your hand move uncontrollably?

From the beginning, I kept still. I really didn't move. I asked her, and she said she didn't move either.

I feel the pen moving, not my strength and hers. There seems to be a particularly strange force beyond our control.

Sun: People sometimes say that autonomous movement can't keep up with autonomous movement. For example, when I pick up my hand, it is a conscious action. But if you look closely, you will find, for example, my little finger is shaking slightly. This tremor is beyond my conscious control. The action of this little finger should refer to random action.

Sun once did an experiment to prove the existence of this spontaneous movement. He first asked the subjects to hold a pen tightly, then touched the paper with the tip of the pen, and the whole arm was completely suspended.

At his request, the subjects closed their eyes and tried to keep their hands still.

Although Sun kept warning the subjects not to move their arms, a minute later, he found that the subjects' hands still moved, because the trajectory left on the white paper was not a point!

Sun: In the activities of worshipping teachers, we can see such a scene: ask the spirits to ask the spirits to ask the spirits to ask the spirits to ask the spirits to ask the spirits to ask the spirits to ask the spirits.

As we have seen in the experiment of voluntary movement, a person tries to keep his arm still while concentrating. However, it turns out that consciousness can't make the hand absolutely still, so it is understandable that muscle voluntary movement occurs in the process of asking questions.

But, no, voluntary movement is often just a slight movement of his limbs.

But in the process of asking ghosts, ask ghosts, ask ghosts, ask ghosts, ask ghosts, ask ghosts, ask ghosts. Just don't need active exercise to explain.

If there are other reasons, what will it be?

Xiao Lu: At that time, I felt the pen move. At that time, I was particularly focused and quiet, and I could feel the pen moving slightly.

After waiting for a long time, finally one hand has a slightly random movement, so how will the other person react after feeling it?

Sun: If one of two people has a random movement of muscles, the other person is very sensitive to this little movement when he is in high altitude.

Judging from the existing handwriting, this pen must have experienced great movement. How did the little action before evolve into this big action later?

Xiaohua: I heard that as long as you are sincere, ask the spirits will definitely appear. So when the pen moved, I kept saying to myself that it should be ask the spirits to ask the spirits.

Xiao Lu: I think the gods are asking the gods. I feel my heart beating faster. Then my hands stopped working.

In the simple pendulum experiment, Sun constantly hinted that the iron ring was in a strong magnetic field. Under the strong influence of this hint, the picture of the hoop swinging kept appearing in Xiao Zhao's mind, and as a result, his hand moved unconsciously under the hint.

Then, in the process of asking ghosts and gods, I sincerely believe that ghosts and gods will definitely appear. And they know that once the spirits ask the spirits come, their pens will definitely move. Under this strong self-suggestion, although it is only because it is not a voluntary action, it seems to them that there is only one reason-ask the spirits to ask the spirits.

In this way, the signal of self-suggestion sneaked into their hearts and hit sensitive nerves. The signal was amplified and strengthened until their hands moved uncontrollably.

Psychologists' exploration dispelled the heavy fog hanging over the phenomenon of asking for spirits.

Ask the spirits may not be manipulated by supernatural forces as many people imagine, but come from some unknown psychological and physiological connections of our own human beings.

However, not all these games are successful. For some people who are sensitive to hints, the chances of success are greater.

Nevertheless, these phenomena at present are enough to show that psychological suggestion has great potential power.

So can we make use of the powerful function of psychological suggestion to bring the possibility of curing some strange mental diseases?

/kloc-in the 0/8th century, a treatment method called Maxim technique caused a sensation in Austria.

At that time, Dr. Max Mai had a bucket full of iron filings in his treatment room, and some metal rods were drawn from the iron filings. Maxim asked the patients to hold metal rods and told them that the magnetic gas in the barrel can be conducted to the human body through metal, thus treating diseases.

Max's treatment seems strange. However, it is puzzling that many people have recovered after such treatment.

Later, he went to Paris and successfully treated some patients in the same way, winning a high reputation. But it is also opposed by the scientific community, especially the medical community. Many people accuse Max Mai of being a liar.

This argument reached the palace and attracted the attention of Louis XVI. So he commissioned an investigation team, including scientist Franklin, to investigate the strange treatment of Max Mai. As a result, Franklin declared that Max Mai's magnetic theory was just a scam.

This judgment declared the tragic fate of Max Mai,

In the end, Max Max had to leave Paris and spend the rest of his life in Switzerland.

No one knew the secret until Max Mai died. In fact, even he didn't really understand what was going on. Many years have passed, but the Maxim technique is still quietly circulating in Europe. As time goes on, the mystery becomes more and more confusing.

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