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Feelings of presence in Parkinson's disease
Identifier
003442
Type of Spiritual Experience
Ecstasy
Inter composer communication
Hallucination
Background
There seems to be an indication that a number of the sufferers are experiencing a form of ecstasy – the person is actually meeting their Higher spirit. There are however cases where it is just inter composer communication
A description of the experience
Feeling of presence in Parkinson's disease. - Fénelon G, Soulas T, de Langavant LC, Trinkler I, Bachoud-Lévi AC; AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Henri-Mondor, Service de neurologie, Créteil, France.
A feeling of presence (FP), that is, the vivid sensation that somebody (distinct from oneself) is present nearby, is commonly reported by patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), but its phenomenology has not been described precisely. ………. The authors studied 52 non-demented PD patients reporting FP in the preceding month (38 consecutive outpatients and 14 inpatients). ….. About half the patients said they recognised the 'identity' of the presence. More than 75% of patients said the FP were not distressing, were short-lasting, were felt beside and/or behind the patient, and occurred while indoors; most patients checked for a real presence, but their insight was generally preserved. In 31% of cases, the patients had an unformed visual hallucination simultaneously with the FP.