Houran J, Lange R
University of Illinois at Springfield, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1997 Jun;84(3 Pt 2):1491-504. doi: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.3c.1491.
A sample of 49 accounts of deathbed visions from Barrett's 1926 classic collection were analyzed using the classification scheme for contextual variables proposed recently by Lange, Houran, Harte, and Havens. Consistent with previous research, the contents of the contextual variables operating during these deathbed visions were consistent with the contents of the percipients' experiences. In addition, contextual variables were related to the modalities of the experience, e.g., visual, auditory, and sensed presences, as well as the number of contents, e.g., deceased relatives, angelic beings, and the perception of symbolic borders or limits including water and heavenly gates, as perceived during the dying process. These findings are consistent with the interpretation that deathbed visions are comforting hallucinations and that contextual variables serve to structure these otherwise ambiguous experiences.
使用兰格、胡兰、哈特和黑文斯最近提出的情境变量分类方案，对巴雷特1926年经典文集中49个临终幻觉记录样本进行了分析。与先前的研究一致，这些临终幻觉期间起作用的情境变量内容与感知者的经历内容相符。此外，情境变量与经历的模态有关，例如视觉、听觉和感知到的存在，以及内容的数量，例如在临终过程中感知到的已故亲属、天使般的存在，以及对包括水和天堂之门在内的象征性边界或界限的感知。这些发现与以下解释一致，即临终幻觉是令人安慰的幻觉，情境变量有助于构建这些原本模糊不清的经历。
