Human Mind Phenomena

Your mind is an organized totality or system that incorporates all mental processes or psychic activities. Many philosophers have asserted that the mind is an inner state of consciousness. Attempts to comprehend the human mind roll back to the ancient Greeks. For instance, Plato believed that the mind assimilated knowledge through virtue, irrespective of the sense experience. On the other …

From Déjà vu to Presque Vu and Jamais Vu, there’s no understanding the conditions that can affect the human mind. Over the last 9 weeks, we have been focusing exclusively on the strange phenomena of the human mind. These are conditions that affect the mind in a significant way but that are not so well understood by researchers. In today’s …

Your mind is an incredible organ, perhaps because it is able to process information and coordinate in a way even scientists cannot fully explain. But the mind is not devoid it’s problems. Although there are dozens of known medical conditions that affect the human mind, there’s still a small number of conditions that haven’t been fully understood. In the last …

The human mind has never ceased to be amazing. At Mentalizer.com, we aim to increase your understanding of the human mind, together with all its conditions – good or bad. Although the mental fields of psychiatry and psychology have advanced immensely over the last one century, mysteries still exist that science hasn’t been able to fully explain. Déjà vu is …

The human brain is the only organ in the body that doesn’t have nerves despite the fact that it plays as the central station of the central nervous system. Simply put, this means that your brain doesn’t feel any pain. The human brain also takes up the lion’s share of energy generated in your body. To be rather specific, your …

In French, Déjà vu means ‘already seen’. It’s one of the top ten strange phenomena of the human mind. Although there are many other ‘deja’ conditions affecting the mind, Déjà vu is the most common, and almost all of us have experienced it multiple times. Causes of Déjà vu Psychologists have studied Déjà vu for many years, and there are …

Capgras delusion is a strange phenomenon of the human mind where a person tends to believe that a spouse, family member, friend or colleague has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. Just like Fregoli Delusion, Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome. It is one in a class of strange conditions that are related to misidentification of objects, …

In this second part of our 10 strange phenomena of the human mind series, we discuss Fregoli Delusion. This is a rare brain phenomenon in which the affected individual believes that different people are the same person, albeit in a variety of disguises. Can you imagine a situation where your mind believes that all your friends are the same person …

The human mind is truly an incredible thing. Despite being studied by top scientists and researchers for decades, there’s still a lot of mystery surrounding it. Science has been able to isolate strange phenomena of the mind but hasn’t been able to explain their origins. While most of us are familiar with Déjà vu, there are at least 9 other …