One woman felt someone stroking her hair. To her, it was a loved one who had died.
Other participants described a smell, felt a touch, or pictured someone they had lost. They had spent 45 minutes looking into a mirror in a dimly lit room, as researchers investigated how an absent person can seem to be nearby.
In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of West Georgia and Northwest Missouri State University found that the vividness and realism of the experiences were linked with a measure of creativity, but that doesn't explain everything that happened in this strange scenario.
The experiment took place in a small chamber called a psychomanteum, where participants tried to experience the presence of someone who had died.
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