The human mind is an enormously powerful instrument which we use within our daily lives, yet the sheer power of the human mind is hugely underestimated by most people which tends to then put limitations on their beliefs. Our own mind can cause us to experience seemingly paranormal events by playing tricks on us, causing us to have negative hallucinations and look around all over the place for something, to find that it was there right in front of us all along and in the very first place that we looked. When placed in unusual circumstances, such as staying in a haunted castle for a night, our own beliefs and expectations inevitably lead us into experiencing events as paranormal that would, in any other circumstance, seem completely normal. When placed in this kind of situation our perception of normal every day dormant sounds, such as background creaking, become stronger and more pronounced and we represent them to ourselves in a much stronger way leading ourselves into our own illusory experience. When we begin to question our beliefs about the seemingly paranormal event that occurs, we then lead ourselves further down the path. We may experience the feeling of touch on the back of our head or neck. This is a completely normal physiological response. When questioning our beliefs we may also experience what appears to be the sound of a voice. Bear in mind that human speech patterns are made up of a series of several smaller sounds, click and pops which all exist outside of human speech. This can cause us to misperceive external sounds as human speech and is actually very common. How many times have you been sitting with your partner in silence, when suddenly they turn around and ask 'What did you say?'

We spend most of our lives on autopilot, remaining in our own suggestible frame of mind. We continue to listen to our own interior dialog without even being aware of it and subconsciously following the suggestions that it throws at us. What exactly is a frame of mind? A frame of mind is the way in which you represent a certain situation or memory to yourself. In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) there is a technique called 'reframing' which leads you into viewing these representations from a different angle in order to help you see the bigger picture. Our conscious mind and our subconscious mind are constantly feeding each other with information. The information fed into your conscious throughout each day is stored in your subconscious mind, which then analyzes and processes it and stores it away in the necessary places. This information is then fed back into our conscious mind. For example, you smoke every day for several years. At first, you are consciously making the choice for yourself and you are aware of exactly what you are doing. Over time, performing this routinely is constantly embedding in stronger and stronger in your subconscious. After so many days, months or years you find yourself automatically lighting up a cigarette without thinking about it. It has become a habit because you have repeatedly embedded this into your subconscious and it is now working of its own accord. Starting a new job in production can cause a similar effect. Working in production can be an extremely repetitive job and at first, you may find yourself lying down to go to sleep and the constant pattern of what you have been doing throughout the day starts to run constantly through your mind.

Everything we experience is translated by our brain, then turned into a metaphorical representation and stored away. The way we represent these experiences to ourselves determines the way that we emotionally react to them. We also view, analyze and sort these representations every night whilst we are asleep, in the form of dreams. When we are awake our dreams seem to make no sense or have no meaning. This is because they are strictly metaphorical. Whilst under hypnosis it is possible to remain awake and to fully understand what these representations mean. This is a natural function carried out by our subconscious. We don't have to think about doing it, we do it naturally because our subconscious mind is pre-programmed to do so. In the same way that it is pre-programmed to keep us breathing, our heart pumping and control our natural bodily functions. We also have brainwaves which can be measured by frequency, similar to a radio signal, which can be measured in Hertz (Hz). These brainwaves alter when we experience different levels of communication - alpha, beta, delta and theta. We experience different psychological experiences when our minds are working at different frequencies.

One proposed theory has always been of great interest to me, though it does tend to seem a little far fetched. We perceive the world as three dimensional. Maybe it is a possibility that this is because we live in the third dimension and our brainwaves are pre-tuned to this dimension. Could it be possible to tune our brainwave frequency into another dimension and experience some kind of parallel world running in unison with ours? With all the fascinated aspects of the human brain that are being discovered, psychology is now moving into a stage where it is overtaking science in helping us to understand the world that we live in, or the world that we perceive. When we consider this, no longer do these kind of theories seem so questionable.