Miss Z Psychology

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iss Z is a young woman and seems normal. She is in her early twenties with only two years of college under her belt, which was interrupted for a brief time because she needed to make money to continue. Miss Z’s life as a child wasn't the easiest. She came from a broken home and often was so disturbed psychologically. She had been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment and could be diagnosed as schizophrenic. Miss Z is an intelligent person; however, something weird seems to happen to her. Approximately two to four times a week, Miss Z experiences out-of-the-body experiences. Miss Z claimed to wake up during the night and find herself floating with her physical body on the bed. She thought she was awake, but yet she was floating near the ceiling. …show more content…

She never really talk about them but simply assumed that this happened to everyone while they slept. But that wasn’t the case. Miss Z brought up the experiences to a couple of her friends as a teenager and realized they didn’t experience that at all. Her friends looked at the experiences as “queer” experiences, so Miss Z stopped talking about them. Sometimes, Miss Z didn’t just float above her body. When she was about fourteen, Miss Z had a “nightmare” where was walking in a deserted area in her hometown. However, she felt like she was in someone else’s body and wearing their clothes. She noticed that someone was following her. This person finally caught up with her and stabbed her to death after raping her. The next day a story just like what she dreamed was in the newspaper. The first night in the lab, Miss Z didn’t have any OOB experiences. On night two, Miss Z said she had an out-of-body experience at 3:14 a.m.; however, she didn’t get high enough to see the target number. Miss Z reported another OOB experience on the third night. However, she didn't see the target number at all. Rather, she visited her sister who was also having an out-of-body

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