this rather interesting article looks into psychological studys done into people who have been "abducted by aliens".
and found some rather interesting things, being - personality similaritys.
some of you may know i've been into all this Jungian personality profiling / myers briggs stuff for a bit over a year now. i'm only halfway through this article (it's rather long, but quite interesting). it was brought to my attention in a livejournal personality profiling group i live on - the guy who showed us all this article introduced it as "uh... does anyone else feel it's prettymuch describing OUR personality profile?".
no comment
.anyway here's a brief quoted introduction to the psychology theory it talks about called "Boundary Theory":
it was found that all (?) people who have been abducted, and also people who often suffer from nightmares, had very weak "boundarys".Boundary theory begins with the axiom that as the mind matures, it categorises experiences. It walls off certain sets to be distinct from other sets. Boundaries become set up between what is self and what is non-self, between sleep and waking experiences, between fantasy and reality, passion and reason, ego and id, masculine and feminine, and a large host of other experiential categories. This drive to categorise is subject to natural variation. The determinants of the strength of that drive appear to be biochemical and genetic and probably have no environmental component such as trauma. When the drive is weak the boundaries between categories are thinner, more permeable or more fluid. When the boundaries become abnormally thin one sees psychopathologies like schizophrenia. Hartmann discovered individuals who suffer from nightmares have thin boundaries. From this central mental characteristic one can derive a large constellation of traits that set these people apart from the general population.
from a modern personality profiling sense (i don't think Jung touched on this) to me this seems to be describing a P or "Perceieving" preference. a preference only 25% of americans possess, so it's a minority. the thinness of this "Boundary Layer" in this sense would be directly correlating to how strong one's P preference is.
anyway this article is quite interesting, i've only talked about a little of what it covers. looking into some psychology of abductions (assuming they are not real), nightmares, and interesting personality similaritys.
