Persinger M A
Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Percept Mot Skills. 1989 Feb;68(1):55-65. doi: 10.2466/pms.1989.68.1.55.
The visitor experience, a more intense form of the normal sense of presence, emphasizes the deep belief of personal contact with an extraterrestrial (or religious) entity. Phenomenological details of visitor experiences are expected to reflect the functions of deep temporal lobe structures; common details involve cosmic meaningfulness, vestibular experiences, flickering, complex visual sensations and alimentary references. After intense experiences, interictal-like behaviors similar to religious conversions (widening affect, sense of personal, desire to spread the word, concern about Man's destiny) emerge. Normal people who are prone to these experiences show frequent temporal lobe signs and specific personality characteristics that include enhanced creativity, suggestibility, mild hypomania, anxiety, and emotional lability. Learning histories that encourage the use of right temporal lobe functions for the consolidation of memory, such as compartmentalization of beliefs or repression due to early sexual abuse, predispose to intense visitor experiences. The most frequent precipitants are psychological depression, personal (existential) stress and proximal exposure to the focal tectonic strain fields that accompany luminous phenomena. Possible neuropsychological mechanisms are discussed.
访客体验是一种比正常在场感更强烈的形式，它强调与外星（或宗教）实体进行个人接触的深刻信念。预计访客体验的现象学细节会反映颞叶深部结构的功能；常见细节包括宇宙意义、前庭体验、闪烁、复杂的视觉感受和饮食方面的参照。在强烈体验之后，会出现类似于宗教皈依的发作间期行为（情感范围扩大、个人意识、传播教义的愿望、对人类命运的关注）。容易出现这些体验的正常人表现出频繁的颞叶体征和特定的人格特征，包括创造力增强、易受暗示性、轻度躁狂、焦虑和情绪不稳定。鼓励使用右侧颞叶功能来巩固记忆的学习经历，例如由于早期性虐待导致的信念 compartmentalization 或压抑，易引发强烈的访客体验。最常见的诱发因素是心理抑郁、个人（存在主义）压力以及近期接触伴随发光现象的局部构造应变场。文中讨论了可能的神经心理学机制。
原文中“compartmentalization”这个词可能有误，不太明确准确意思，这里保留原文翻译。
