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Disappearing Object Phenomenon: An Investigation
Have you ever had your car keys or television remote control inexplicably vanish from under your nose, only to reappear months later in another part of the house for no evident reason? Most would dismiss it as absent-mindedness, with perhaps a joking remark about paranormal activity. Yet remarkable circumstances surrounding many such accounts suggest that the mysterious disappearance of objects could be more than "just one of those things.
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192 pages, Paperback
Published October 14, 2016
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May 28, 2021
Detailed categorization of jottle experiences, short on explanations
The author presents an extremely detailed and thorough categorization of jottles, which are paranormal events involving disappearing, appearing and reappearing physical objects. He does this in an attempt to find a pattern to these occurrences that might reveal a cause for this phenomenon. Unfortunately, Jinks gets so carried away with categorization that the reader may become confused and overwhelmed by the sheer volume of his data. The purported cause is presented near the end of the book and it is based on the so-called many worlds interpretation proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in the 1950s. In Jinks' version, consciousness splits as the experient hops around different alternative universes, where car keys are on top of a dresser in one universe and inside a refrigerator in another. Both versions of reality are true, but the consciousness only experiences and remembers a single reality comprised of both versions. I guess that makes sense if you believe in MWI, but the evidence supporting it is pretty thin in my opinion.
I became interested in DOP (aka jottles) when my wife and I both experienced it together -- twice. Both of these times involved filling a candy dish in our living room with wrapped chocolates before retiring for the night, and discovering an empty dish one morning and a near-empty dish another morning. The two disappearance events occurred about one month apart. Neither of us sleep walk, and a thorough search of our house and the trash after both disappearances didn't uncover any candy or empty candy wrappers. Nobody entered the house on either night -- all doors and windows were locked -- and nobody else lives with us. Both my wife and I clearly remember filling the dish on both of the nights when the candy disappeared.
According to Jinks, food disappearances are extremely common among jottles, and his data show they are generally followed by a reappearance some time later. We're keeping our candy dish empty while hoping for a reappearance, LOL.
Last year, COVID took the life of my wife's dear friend, who loved this particular brand of chocolate. My wife thinks her departed friend may be taking the candy to "the other side" to enjoy it or to send us a signal. I personally don't believe in ghosts, and her friend wasn't the kind of person who "took" things, although the second time there were two pieces of candy left in the dish, one for each of us! Who knows?
I thought the DOP experiences in the book were interesting, but I think the author got too bogged down with the data and really didn't have a convincing hypothesis as to why these things occur, which I believe they really do based on my own experience. Therefore, I only gave the book a lukewarm 3-star recommendation.
The author presents an extremely detailed and thorough categorization of jottles, which are paranormal events involving disappearing, appearing and reappearing physical objects. He does this in an attempt to find a pattern to these occurrences that might reveal a cause for this phenomenon. Unfortunately, Jinks gets so carried away with categorization that the reader may become confused and overwhelmed by the sheer volume of his data. The purported cause is presented near the end of the book and it is based on the so-called many worlds interpretation proposed by physicist Hugh Everett in the 1950s. In Jinks' version, consciousness splits as the experient hops around different alternative universes, where car keys are on top of a dresser in one universe and inside a refrigerator in another. Both versions of reality are true, but the consciousness only experiences and remembers a single reality comprised of both versions. I guess that makes sense if you believe in MWI, but the evidence supporting it is pretty thin in my opinion.
I became interested in DOP (aka jottles) when my wife and I both experienced it together -- twice. Both of these times involved filling a candy dish in our living room with wrapped chocolates before retiring for the night, and discovering an empty dish one morning and a near-empty dish another morning. The two disappearance events occurred about one month apart. Neither of us sleep walk, and a thorough search of our house and the trash after both disappearances didn't uncover any candy or empty candy wrappers. Nobody entered the house on either night -- all doors and windows were locked -- and nobody else lives with us. Both my wife and I clearly remember filling the dish on both of the nights when the candy disappeared.
According to Jinks, food disappearances are extremely common among jottles, and his data show they are generally followed by a reappearance some time later. We're keeping our candy dish empty while hoping for a reappearance, LOL.
Last year, COVID took the life of my wife's dear friend, who loved this particular brand of chocolate. My wife thinks her departed friend may be taking the candy to "the other side" to enjoy it or to send us a signal. I personally don't believe in ghosts, and her friend wasn't the kind of person who "took" things, although the second time there were two pieces of candy left in the dish, one for each of us! Who knows?
I thought the DOP experiences in the book were interesting, but I think the author got too bogged down with the data and really didn't have a convincing hypothesis as to why these things occur, which I believe they really do based on my own experience. Therefore, I only gave the book a lukewarm 3-star recommendation.
July 11, 2020
Invigorating description of seemingly innocuous, paradigm-shifting phenomena
Australian psychology professor and author Dr. Tony Jink's typology for what we now know as personal Mandela Effects and reality shifts and what he calls Disappearing Object Phenomena (DOP), involving 385 case studies that he finds convincing, trustworthy, and reliable Dr. Tony Jinks gave a 2017 talk in which he specifically rules out that experiencers of Disappearing Object Phenomena are psychologically distinguishable from non-experiencers. That is to say that experiencers are not suffering from such possible psychological issues as: transcience; telescoping; errors of commission (suggestibility, illusionary correlation, confirmation bias); perceptual blindness (ie: inattentional blindness); altered states of consciousness (hallucinations, autohypnosis); encoding errors ("absent mindedness"); memory distortion (pre-existing beliefs); and loose associationism. Typology of DOP includes:
Disappearances - like Barrington's Flyaways
Appearances - like Barrington's Turn-Ups and Windfalls
Reappearances - like Barrington's Comebacks and Walkabouts
Replacement - equivalent to Barrington's Trade-In
Jinks notes that DOP events are isolated incidents--they are discontinuities. Jinks contemplates possible causes of DOP such as: invisibility; teleportation and/or wormholes; parallel universes; dimensional shifts; external agents; and human-centered causes (such as witnessed in psychokinetic abilities, for example). Jinks' favored explanation is human-centered causes, unwittingly caused by the experiment themselves, for various obscure subconscious reasons. Jinks recognizes that these DOP incidents are characterized by a quality of seamlessness, and he therefore likes the idea of conscious observation (by multiple consciousness states) that are responsible for 'collapsing reality,' so we have the consensual reality we have now, such that the new situation appears as if it has always been that way.
Highly recommended!
Australian psychology professor and author Dr. Tony Jink's typology for what we now know as personal Mandela Effects and reality shifts and what he calls Disappearing Object Phenomena (DOP), involving 385 case studies that he finds convincing, trustworthy, and reliable Dr. Tony Jinks gave a 2017 talk in which he specifically rules out that experiencers of Disappearing Object Phenomena are psychologically distinguishable from non-experiencers. That is to say that experiencers are not suffering from such possible psychological issues as: transcience; telescoping; errors of commission (suggestibility, illusionary correlation, confirmation bias); perceptual blindness (ie: inattentional blindness); altered states of consciousness (hallucinations, autohypnosis); encoding errors ("absent mindedness"); memory distortion (pre-existing beliefs); and loose associationism. Typology of DOP includes:
Disappearances - like Barrington's Flyaways
Appearances - like Barrington's Turn-Ups and Windfalls
Reappearances - like Barrington's Comebacks and Walkabouts
Replacement - equivalent to Barrington's Trade-In
Jinks notes that DOP events are isolated incidents--they are discontinuities. Jinks contemplates possible causes of DOP such as: invisibility; teleportation and/or wormholes; parallel universes; dimensional shifts; external agents; and human-centered causes (such as witnessed in psychokinetic abilities, for example). Jinks' favored explanation is human-centered causes, unwittingly caused by the experiment themselves, for various obscure subconscious reasons. Jinks recognizes that these DOP incidents are characterized by a quality of seamlessness, and he therefore likes the idea of conscious observation (by multiple consciousness states) that are responsible for 'collapsing reality,' so we have the consensual reality we have now, such that the new situation appears as if it has always been that way.
Highly recommended!
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