Catalog of Anomalies (Subjects)
Strange reports * Bizarre biology * Anomalous archaeology
Archaeology Astronomy Biology Geology Geophysics Mathematics Psychology Physics
From New Scientist, Nature, Scientific American, etc
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Science Frontiers Catalog of Anomalies (Subjects)
Strange reports * Bizarre biology * Anomalous archaeology
Archaeology Astronomy Biology Geology Geophysics Mathematics Psychology Physics
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| P | PSYCHOLOGY |
Within each of these fields, catalog sections that are already in print are given alphanumerical labels. For example, BHB1 = B (Biology) + H (Humans) + B (Behavior) + 1 (first anomaly in Chapter BHB). Some anomalies and curiosities that are listed below have not yet been cataloged and published in catalog format. These do not have the alphanumerical labels.
| PB | DISSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOR |
PBA AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATION
- Automatic Writing
- Automatic Drawing
- Glossalalia or "Speaking in Tongues"
- Planchette and Ouija-Board Phenomena
- Channeling
- Table-Tilting
- Xenoglossy [PHR]
PBD COMMUNICATED HYSTERIA AND DELUSIONS
- Mass Hysteria and Psychogenic Illnesses
- Folie a Deux: Communication of Abnormal Mental States
- Self-Induced Delusions
- "Jumping" and Other Triggered Explosive Activities
- Abnormal Mass Delusions
- The Latah Phenomenon
PBH HYPNOTIC BEHAVIOR (GENERAL FEATURES)
- General Features of So-Called "Hypnotic Behavior"
- Supposed Hypnosis by Telepathy
- Fascination by Inert Objects ("Spontaneous Hypnosis")
- Posthypnotic Behavior
- Effects of Magnetism on Hypnotically Induced Images
- Self-Hypnosis
- Drum Phenomena [BHB7, BHH8]
- Collective Hypnosis
PBJ DEJA VU
- Deja Vu
PBM MULTIPLE PERSONALITY
- Multiple-Personality Phenomena
- Hypnotic Probing of Secondary Personalities
- Possible Duality of Consciousness under Anesthesia
PBP POSSESSION
- Going Berserk and Running Amok
- Spirit Possession
- Possession by Devils and Demons
- Vampirism
- The Windigo Psychosis
- Animal Possession (Lycanthropy)
- Witchcraft
PBS ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- The Ultraconscious
- Transcendental/Mystical Phenomena
- Sensory Deprivation
- Break-off Phenomenon
- Peak Experiences, Ecstasy
- Trances (Mediumship)
- Conversion (Religious, Political)
- Meditation
- Spiritualism
PBZ ANOMALOUS DREAM BEHAVIOR AND DREAM CONTENT
- Hypnotically Induced Dreams
- The Need to Dream
- Somnabulism
- Lucid Dreaming
- Dreams and Biological States
- Dream Inventions
- Group Dreaming
- Recurring Dreams
- Precognitive Dreams [PHP]
- Telepathic Dreams [PHT]
- Dreaming Consciousness
| PH | HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE |
PHD DIVINING HIDDEN MATERIALS AND OBJECTS
- Locating Concealed, But Known, Objects
- Locating Concealed, But Known, People
- Locating Water, Oil, and Other Minerals
- Sensing the Presence and/or Attention (Staring) of Other People
- Divining the Identity and/or Nature of Objects (Zener Cards)
- Divining the Identity and/or Nature of People and Animals
- Psychic Archeology
- Psychic Sleuthing
- Sensations Reported by Diviners
- ESP/PSI (General)
- Dermo-Optical Perception (BHT8]
- Remote Viewing
- Clairvoyance
- Clairaudience
- Clairsentience
- Object Reading (Psychometry)
- Scrying [PLS]
PHP VISIONS OF THE PAST AND FUTURE
- Precognition
- Prophecy
- Augury (Precognition Using Props)
- Precognition during Trances
- Precognition during Hypnosis
- Precognition during Dreams
- Pre-Disaster Syndromes
- Precognition Affected by Geomagnetism
- Premonitions of Death
- Prediction of Random Processes
- Retrocognition
- Hypnotic Regression
- Scrying [PLS]
PHR REINCARNATION PHENOMENA
- Memories of Previous Lives
- Hypnotic Regression
- Xenoglossy
- Birthmarks As Proofs of Reincarnation
- Life after Death
PHT ANOMALOUS INFORMATION TRANSFER
- Ordinary Telepathy
- Twin Telepathy
- Long-Distance Mass Telepathy Experiments
- Transfer of Physical Sensations
- Transfer of Emotions (Not Folie a Deux or Mass Hysteria)
- Dream Telepathy
- Remote Viewing
- Telepathy Affected by Magnetic Fields
- Role of Quantum Mechanics in Telepathy
- Ganzfield Experiments
- Animal Telepathy
- Telepathy under Hypnosis
- Atavistic Nature of Telepathy
- Geomagnetic Enhancement of Telepathy
- Psychic Odor/Taste
| PI | INFORMATION PROCESSING |
PIB INPUT/OUTPUT ANOMALIES
- Word Blindness
- Dyslexia
- Autism
- Typing Skills
- Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon
- Mirror Script
- Braille and the Brain
- Optical Illusions
- Generation of Random Numbers
- Cocktail-party effect
- Stuttering
- Difficulty of Learning English
- Brain Modularity
- Attentional Blink
- Revelation
- Intuition
PIC ANOMALOUS INFORMATION PROCESSING
- Mathematical Savants
- Calendar Calculators
- Musical Prodigies
- Mechanical Savants
- Subconscious Time-Reckoning
- Mental Processing during Sleep
- Chess Prodigies
- Accelerated Mental Processes
- Mnemonists
PIG MYSTERIES OF GENIUS AND CREATIVITY
- Early Appearance of Genius
- Genius and Mental Illness
- Origin of "Strokes of Genius"
- Periodicity in Creativity
- Humor and Creativity
- Genius and Season of Birth
- Aesthetics and Creativity
- Dream Creativity
PII EIDETIC AND AFTER IMAGES
- Eidetic Imagery
- Vivid Afterimages
- Eidetic Imagery and Retardation
- Eidetic Imagery and Hallucinations
- Recovery of Eidetic Imagery through Hypnosis
PIK CONSCIOUSNESS
- Consciousness and Hypnosis
- Nature of Consciousness
- Free Will
- Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics [BHT22]
PIM ANOMALIES OF MEMORY
- Capacity of the Human Brain
- Emotional Enhancement of Memory
- Learning and Memory under Anesthesia
- Hypnosis and Memory
- Pseudomemory
- Hypnotic Misrecall
- Mnemonics
- Photographic Memory
- Prenatal Mental Life
- Inherited Memories
- False-Memory Syndrome
- Memory-Processing Bottlenecks
- Memory Regression [PHP]
- Cryptonesia
PIP ODDITIES OF PERCEPTION
- Synesthesia
- Optical Illusions [PIB]
| PL | HALLUCINATIONS AND ILLUSIONS |
PLD NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
- Near-Death Experiences
- NDEs in Non-Threatening Situations
- Involuntary Memories during Illness and Injury
PLF HYPNAGOGIC AND HYPNOPOMPIC ILLUSIONS
- Hypnagogic Illusions
- Hypnopompic Illusions
PLG HALLUCINATIONS, APPARITIONS, ILLUSIONS
- Migraine Hallucinations
- Epileptic Hallucinations
- Drug-Induced Hallucinations
- Hallucinations during Sensory Deprivation
- Conjurable and Manipulatible Hallucinations
- Spontaneous Hallucinations
- Fairies, Elementals, etc.
- Religious Hallucinations (Angels)
- Psychic Lights (Welsh Revival)
- UFOs and Their Occupants [X]
- Visions of Monsters
- Illusions of Desired Physical Phenomena (N-Rays)
- Psychic Doubles or Autoscopic Illusions
- Negative Hallucinations
- Collective Hallucinations
- Auditory Hallucinations
- Imaginary Companions ("Philip" Phenomenon)
- Nightmares
- Auras
- Hostage Hallucinations
- Geomagnetism and Hallucinations
- Hallucinations in Life-Threatening Situations
- Lilliputian Hallucinations
- Hypnotism and Color Blindness
- Illusions of Levitation [PSP]
- Seance Illusions [PSM, PBA]
- Indian Rope Trick and Related Magic Tricks
- Sex-Change Hallucination
- Ghosts
- Alien Abductions [X]
- Psychic Surgery
- Missing Time
- Hallucination Duplication in Time
- Men-in-Black
- Black helicopters [X]
- Pyramid Power
PLD OUT-OF-THE-BODY EXPERIENCES
- Out-of-the-Body Experiences (OBEs)
- OBEs under Morbid Conditions
PLS HALLUCINATIONS STIMULATED BY MECHANICAL DEVICES
- Visual Hallucinations Stimulated by Crystal Balls and Similar Devices
- Auditory Hallucinations Stimulated by Tape Recorders and Similar Devices
- Odd Perceptions
- Optical Illusions [PIB]
| PP | PSYCHIC BIOLOGY |
PPA ALLERGY AND ASTHMA
- Allergies
- Asthma
PPB BODILY PARAMETERS AFFECTED BY THE MIND
- Temperature
- Odor
- Heart Rate
- Physical Performance
- Reflexes
- Alpha-Rhythm
- Visual Perception
- Color Blindness
- Deafness
- Fatigue
- Sleep
- Physical Size (Breast Size)
- Luminosity
- Auras [PLG]
PPC CANCER AND THE MIND
- Cancer Onset
- Cancer Remission
PPD DEATH
- Willed Death
- Suicide
- Twin Effect
- Birthday Phenomenon
PPE PREGNANCY
- False Pregnancy
- Couvade
- Labor Onset
- Birth Defects
PPG GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS (PSYCHOLOGICAL "FORCES)
- Hypnotism
- Faith and Prayer Healing
- Charms, Snakestones, Elixirs
- Imaging and Visualization
- Touch Therapy (Laying-on-of-Hands
- Placebos
- Stress and Depression
- Will Power
- Media Suggestion
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Voodoo, Curses, Hexes
- Belief Systems (Christian Science)
- Prophecy
- Homeopathy
- Acupuncture
- Mental Exaltation
- Unknown ("Miracle" Cures)
- Dreams
- Telepathy
PPI IMMUNE SYSTEM
- Immune System
PPM MIGRAINE
- Migraine
PPP PAIN
- Pain Relief
- Phantom-Limb Phenomena
- Sympathetic Pain
- Fire-Walking
PPS SKIN DISEASES AND PHENOMENA
- Stigmata and Psychosomatic Bleeding
- Blister Raising through Hypnosis
- Wart Removal
- Skin Electrical Properties
- Skin-Writing/Autographism
- Allergy Tests
- Eczema
- Patch Tests and Hypnosis
PPT DENTAL HEALTH
- Caries and the Mind
PPW WOUND-HEALING AND BLEEDING
- Wound Healing
- Bleeding
PPX BODY CHEMISTRY
- Histamine Release
- Hemoglobin Response
- Poison Tolerance
| PS | PSYCHOKINESIS |
PSB MENTAL CONTROL OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
- Control over Microorganisms
- Control over Plants
PSC CONTROL OF CHEMICAL AND NUCLEAR PHENOMENA
- Influencing Light Diffraction
- Influencing Random-Event Generators
- Influencing Nuclear and Chemical Reactions
- Photographic Effects (Thought Pictures)
PSE MENTAL CONTROL OF THE ENVIRONMENT
- Control over Ambient Temperature
PSM CONTROL OF MACHINES AND MATERIALS
- Technojinx
- Computer Interference
- Influencing Dice, Cascades, and other (Supposedly) Random Processes
- Spoon-Bending
- PK Parties
- Focussed Group Energy
PSP POLTERGEIST PHENOMENA
- Seance Phenomena [PBA, PLG]
- Events Associated with Specific Individuals
- Apparently Spontaneous Unexplained Sounds, Object Movements, etc.
- Fire Poltergeists
- Direct Writing
- Levitation [PLG]
- Group PK
PST TRANSPORTATION THROUGH BARRIERS AND TIME
- Apports
- Time Warps
- SORRAT Experiments
Other Sites of Interest
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