How Your Brain and Environment Create Ghosts

These sources explore the scientific and psychological foundations behind experiences often labeled as supernatural or paranormal. Researchers highlight how sleep paralysis can cause vivid hallucinations of threatening entities when the brain's dream state overlaps with wakefulness. Other environmental triggers, such as carbon monoxide poisoning, infrasound frequencies, and electromagnetic fluctuations, are shown to induce physical sensations of dread or visual illusions of ghosts. Culturally, humans tend to use supernatural explanations to bridge gaps in understanding when clear human or scientific causes are absent. Finally, the power of social suggestion and failed attempts to prove extraordinary claims under controlled testing further suggest that hauntings are products of the mind and environment rather than the occult.

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