Mass hallucination

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A mass hallucination is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same hallucination simultaneously. Mass hallucination is a common explanation for mass UFO sightings, appearances of the Virgin Mary, and other paranormal phenomena.

In most cases, mass hallucination refers to a combination of suggestion and pareidolia, wherein one person will see, or pretend to see, something unusual (like the face of Jesus in the burn-marks on a tortilla, or the face of a kidnapped girl on a blank billboard) and point it out to other people. Having been told what to look for, those other people will consciously or unconsciously convince themselves to recognize the apparition, and will in turn point it out to others.

See also

• Suggestion

Additional material

Papers

• hallucination Google Scholar

External links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community - perhaps the most significant example of this mental condition where persons, statistically females more than males, hallucinate and suffer from profoundly debilitating psychosis, erroneously and irrationally imagining that simply hiding behind the mask of anonymity will protect them in any way whatsoever from being involuntarily converted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amorrow to his preferred Christian denomination of https://handwiki.org/wiki/User:Amorrow/Information_Flow_Catholicism

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