Average diurnal changes in melatonin levels are associated with hourly incidence of bereavement apparitions: support for the hypothesis of temporal (limbic) lobe microseizuring.
Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1993 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1993.76.2.444 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational study (correlational analysis of hourly experience reports against published melatonin indices) Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Temporal lobe Humans Seizures Death Melatonin Bereavement Parapsychology Telepathy Circadian rhythm Female Adrenocorticotropic hormone |
| Key findings | Argues that melatonin suppression from geomagnetic activity may precipitate bereavement apparitions in grief-sensitized brains. Hourly telepathy, precognition, and apparition reports each correlated significantly with melatonin indices, but only the melatonin-apparition association survived controlling for the other two psi experience classes. |
Abstract
Transient suppressions of nocturnal melatonin levels due to enhanced geomagnetic activity have been suggested as the precipitating source of experiences of postmortem (bereavement) apparitions when the brain has been sensitized (grief) by elevations of the epileptogenic neuropeptide, corticotrophin-releasing factor. Although the hourly incidence of subjective experiences of telepathy, precognition, and bereavement apparitions were all significantly correlated with published indices of hourly melatonin levels, only the significant association between melatonin levels and apparitions was not changed when the other two classes of psi experiences were held constant.