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A psychologist sets out to understand the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence.
We all know the feeling: you're alone but it's like there's someone there with you - a mysterious presence lurking just out of sight. Throughout history this experience has been the subject of religious and supernatural speculation. But does science have the answer?
In Presence, psychologist Ben Alderson-Day digs into historical accounts and contemporary cases of 'felt presence', hunting for the key to unlock this strange phenomenon. He interviews ultrarunners and ocean rowers, who often report the sensation of being accompanied on their journeys, and examines the latest work on sleep paralysis, dementia and Parkinson's, conditions closely associated with feeling the presence of someone or something that isn't there.
His findings, built on cutting-edge research from psychology and neuroscience, provide remarkable new insights into this longstanding mystery of the human mind.
Contents
Preface: what is there?
Part I: Phantom others
1 A thickness in the air
2 'Things which never can be spoken of'
3 The double
4 Luke
5 The presence robot
6 'I'll set the table for three people when it's just me and my wife'
Part II: Fellow travelers
7 The walnut of reality
8 The marathon monk of Billingham
9 Seeing darkness
10 Spirit
11 In two minds
12 You never asked
Index
