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Do the sexes differ on how much/how they experience paranormal

  • 02-12-2007 10:39PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭


    Ok,

    So I was reading some info lately on how boys & girls process things & how for the most part girls are more 'sensory' - i.e. experience more by feeling & empathy etc

    I was wondering if the forum readers felt that their gender pre-disposed them to experience things a certain way or indeed if any paranormal experiences had completely changed the view


    For me personally, 1 thing sits clear. I usually 'feel' things.. I get a sensation or tingles etc.

    1 time though, when I did an investigation with boards in fact, I was in 1 room with some of the guys. There was a seasoned reader there(won't reveal his name) who,when we did a zenner card experiment, got as many wrong as I did. So that confirmed for me that my own methods of 'feeling' things are just as good to me as the science stuff is to the brainiacs amongst us. As much as I hate to admit it (& I am the original geek girl), I think there is a difference between the sexes in this regards


    Anyone any other evidence of how they were convinced/theories

    Thanks

    Ladybird


Comments

  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Well I haven't worked this out in detail, but now that you mention it, my impression of the posters on this forum would be that the female posters would tend to focus more on feelings, sensations, emotions etc, whereas the male posters do tend to focus more on logical process, cause and effect and rationalising experiences. (not to imply of course that our female colleagues are in any way irrational :) ).

    I think that this is probably is probably a difference in how the genders process experience and information in general, or to be more correct a difference in the priorities of the two. I don't think there'd be a difference in actually recieving the information, i.e. I think both genders would experience the paranormal in equal amounts. Altough possibly if men are more likely to rationalise and understand the inner mechanics of the experience, that may also make us more likely to dismiss experiences aswell ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭ladybirdirl


    Ok, back up there a bit........you lost me a bit?

    How do you mean priorities of the two

    LB


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭kshiel


    I think it varies from person to person and there extent of experience, like all things experience and knowledge go hand in hand with understanding and placing it into logic. AS a generalisation women are supposed to be more sensitive and men more logical but in terms of psychics/mediums etc I dont think this holds water as a lot of time it is there sensitivity which enables the experience (if you get what I mean.)

    Although I do get what you mean about on here though and I have wondered and this is not in anyway meant as an insult but I have woundered how many of the guys put the more logical pharse and keep there emontional frame out due to not wanting to be seen as over emontional. And I have to say girls get away with been more emontional than boys which is society I suppose but this really gets on my ........ .

    Or it could be simply this is the paranormal forum and it should be logical first............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    I also think it's a society thing. Men would be considered strange if they claim to see/experience things whereas women I suppose would also be considered strange but would get away with it. I reckon it's because for men to be in-tune suggests something less than manly (only to other men now, and even then only the "caveman" type :D ) where women are more predisposed to the mysterious and unexplainable. Thats why I think men look for the rational.

    As for how the information is processed, women give priority, more to the feeling of what is going on, even in everyday life. For example, if someone "apologises" in a less than sincere tone, us women will pick up on the tone as opposed to the words, most men would be more willing to hear what was actually said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭ladybirdirl


    Yeah I know what you're saying kshiel & helena but is it really that simple?

    What I mean is.. I'm not great with the science stuff but I am a techie by trade.......yet for the paranormal stuff it doesn't work like that for me

    I don't know that the guys here (& correct me if I'm wrong) would have too much of a problem showing the side of themselves that has 'experiences'.........

    Or in fact maybe it is that simple. I know it's something I struggle with.. I'm looking for a logical explanation at all times but in any experience I've had my intuition/psyche/whatever takes over

    I wonder why it's like that though, why wouldn't we as wimmin follow through on the logic side first. Anyone any ideas

    LB


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,633 ✭✭✭stormkeeper


    I actually feel stuff as well, although I also "hear" things as well... it's rather hard to explain to be honest, although I have been told I have clairaudiance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭kshiel


    It would be a difficult one to explain, I know what you mean I always tend to go with my gut instinct or my intuition etc etc and some of it is well to hard to put into logic as when that side takes over it, it tends to take over it and the logic seems to come second at times. It may have something to do with the whole learning the control side of things, as when we start experiencing paranormal happenings or when we feel that energy or presence in the room and we ask a question and feel the response its hard to put it into words at times what the logical side could be. for example I was meditating the other night and I wasn't completly sure if there was a presence there or not so I ask can you make your presence known to me and with that the energy feel on the side of my head was hughe. What would be the logical response I could have been expecting that and generate the sensation, but honestly that wouldn't hold water to me aand here is where it gets tricky as I cannot fully explain the sensation in the first place, its almost like electricity but different.

    With men I dont think it is totally different when it comes to the experience but biologically we are different and I suppose this would have some effect on the reaction along with upbringing and society in which we live. It all brings bearing on how we react to things and some of it is more general than other aspects.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Ok, back up there a bit........you lost me a bit?

    How do you mean priorities of the two

    LB
    Priorities is probably the wrong word, maybe interests would be a better one. I think in general men are more interested in the mechanics of how something works and women are more interested in the bigger picture consequences. For e.g. if a man and a woman both experienced a ghost I think the woman might tend to be more interested in things like why the ghost appeared, what that might mean, what lessons can be learned, how it will affect there life, there beliefs etc while a man might be more intersted in what the ghost was physically composed of, the mechanics of how and why it manifested etc.

    Of course that's a huge generalisation, and I'm sure both genders are interested in all aspects but maybe tending towards being interested in them in different proportions


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,633 ✭✭✭stormkeeper


    I see what you're saying Steven, and it makes sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    op, i'm not blanking your post, i just have no idea, from what i have seen, i'd say no though. any gifeted person i know seems to have some sort of different way of explaining how things come to them. But as i have no such abilities i cant even begin to understand what it is like, in much the same way as Stevenmu couldn't understand what it feels like to be good looking like me when i was explaining ti to him on Friday night.


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