I am not a real life Truman Show. Shame.

Phew.  It seems the past few weeks, all manners of things have been fascinating me- things with no clear answers, things that cannot be proven, things which are reported widely and explained rarely...

For the sake of full comprehension- such 'weird things' my mind has been wrapping itself around have included-

• Astral Projection
• ASMR (Audio Sensory Meridan Response- or sound porn as I have happily referred to it as)
• Genetic sexual attraction (say whaaaaat?) 

Last night I was chatting to my friend who told me in no uncertain terms that he had not read my blog about astral projection, simply because he was 99.9999% sure it was utterly untrue.  (Astral projection...not my blog.)  Oh, and for anyone who has read previous blogs, my friend was Salzburg Boy, the one who called me quirky.  And since that last blog has continued to call me quirky, as know he knows it distresses me ;-)

What I then received from him was a deliciously rational and reasoned flow of proof of psychological hypotheses that showed that a metaphysical world is just...well....not there?

I have a a LOT of things to work through, not least some actual paid research I need to get going on today.  But before I do, one of the cognitive biases of judgement that Salzburg Boy sent was about 'confirmation bias'.  This has BLOWN my mind.

You know sometimes when you learn a new word.... or see/do/hear something for the first time?  Then, for a while after, it seems to crop up everywhere? The example given in this blog is a movie, but in my experience, it has always been with words.  When I discover a new word, suddenly I hear it everywhere.  Another example given in this blog is when you have a break up, and then suddenly, you can't listen to music anymore because, wow, every single song is about love.  Is this proof that you are, in fact, living the real life Truman Show?  That someone or something is controlling what you are exposed to?

Ehhhh... nah mate.  This is called the 'frequency illusion' and basically just means that when your attention is brought to something, all the times that it crops up in every day life that you might otherwise delete, ignore and forget, now suddenly have prominence.  And bam... your average Joe thinks its a message from the universe.

Frikkin' awesome.  Although, I am a bit saddened that I am not, in fact, a real life Truman.

So yeah, confirmation bias says that basically, once we have decided to figure something out, we will edit out any information that doesn't fit our agenda.  We will read books and magazines and articles that back up our opinion.  If we want to prove that astral projection exists?  Jeez well, we certainly could, but...why believe the most difficult thing?!  (That's actually another 'thing'- Occam's razor- a law that states we really should believe the option which has the least assumptions.... we rarely do though..)

Anyway.  Best go work, but yeah.  Sorry I am geeking out at the minute guys, I will return to embarrassing reality in due course I am sure....