Everyday 'Unusual' Experiences
The Everyday ‘Unusual’ Experiences information handout explores common experiences that are considered unusual, describing their nature and prevalence.
Everyday 'Unusual' Experiences
This tool explains why certain ‘strange’ experiences, such as like déjà vu, hearing voices, or having vivid memories of a trauma, happen to people. Understanding why these experiences occur and how common they are can make them feel much less frightening.
Overview
Everyone has powerful experiences from time to time, and there are many very ordinary reasons why people have experiences that are considered ‘unusual’. Understanding their experiences in the context of other powerful - but ‘common’, ‘normal’ and ‘everyday’ - experiences can help clients to appraise what is happening to them less negatively. The Everyday ‘Unusual’ Experiences information handout explores eight common experiences (or causes for experiences) that can be considered unusual, describing the nature and prevalence of each experience.
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