Quite a few people believe in supernatural phenomena and think that they have actually encountered the incredible, ghosts and manifestations of supernatural powers that defy scientific explanation. Apparently, this question is connected not so much with the way of thinking of such people, but with the fact that the human brain is initially capable of seeing supernatural phenomena.
With fast work, the brain, without which the functioning of living beings is impossible, tries to give out a conclusion based on a limited amount of information, therefore it can mistakenly take non-existent things for real.
An illustrative example can be the vision of faces and images, reports "InoSMI". Facial recognition is a very important skill in human social life. You can get yourself in big trouble if you don't notice the hostile expression on your interlocutor's face in time.
Studies of brain recordings have shown that a fairly large part of the brain is involved in recognizing and processing faces.
Depending on the person, this system can work in excess of the need, and then he begins to see eyes and mouths everywhere. Thus, the photographs of ghosts can be explained in a reasonable way.
In addition, a person interacts with other people in his daily life, for which he needs to understand the intentions of the interlocutor. Establishing the causes of other people's actions is a domain of the brain, so many begin to see meaning in the actions of people where there is none. It is possible that this recognition system is precisely related to the belief in the existence of ghosts.
A neurophysiologist at the University of Zurich Brugger Hospital drew attention to the fact that in most patients who believe that they have experienced supernatural phenomena, the right hemisphere of the brain is dominant. It is it that is responsible for face recognition, certain types of creative thinking, visual images, music, and so on.
In the test for determining the dominant hemisphere of the brain, there is an item that asks which of the two suggested faces in the picture looks more joyful. The face in picture "A" smiles with the right side, the face in picture "B" with the left.
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A person reads visual information with his eyes and each eye sends it to the opposite hemisphere of the brain, where it is processed, so the left half of the picture goes to the right hemisphere, the right half to the left.
It is assumed that people with a predominant right hemisphere will perceive the left side of the face more strongly, so face "B" will seem more joyful to them than face "A".
Brugger conducted this type of testing on several hundred subjects, after which each of them described how strongly they believed in the paranormal. The test results showed a trend that people who had experienced the supernatural were with the dominant right brain hemisphere.