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n that something is only “seen” in someone’s head, as part of this “mass hysteria” that happens with a group of people. If you’re not part of this mass hysteria (i.e., not carried away with it), you can be standing right next to someone and you won’t see what they are seeing — because it’s “just in their head”.

I suppose. I don't see 0bama as a living god, for example.

[Star Traveler]

You said — “I suppose. I don’t see 0bama as a living god, for example.”

Yes..., that could be a good example of mass hysteria of a different kind. It’s a mass hysteria of “idealogy” (and mass foolishness, no doubt...).

But, it’s not quite the same thing as *seeing something* — as if it were a real physical object in front of you (as if you’re looking at a plane or a person). That’s a different sort of “mass hysteria” that some psychologists say is involved with large groups of people suddenly seeing *objects* in the sky, or objects landing, or being coming out of objects, and so on...

I can more readily believe “mass hysteria” in terms of “idealogy” — as we all deal with different idealogies (i.e., abstract thoughts), all the time. I can more readily “buy” the idea that someone’s “abstract thoughts” are wrong — than I can “buy” the idea that large groups and masses of people (who are not even in the same proximity with one another) see the very same objects at the very same time. That doesn’t lend itself to well, to me..., having to do with this so-called “mass hysteria”...

I hope you see what I mean...