Modern buildings

Category: Events

Type

Involuntary

Introduction and description

Although this section has been called modern buildings, I have subsequently discovered that many large buildings used as offices, warehouses, schools, factories, processing plants and so on can provoke experiences, they do not have to be 'modern' as such, just have similar problems.  Initially I used the word modern, as it seems to be a feature of high rise, double glazed, poorly ventilated buildings with a high prevalence of modern 'artificial' materials in their construction and use.

People have had hallucinations and strange 'feelings' and the building then gets labelled as a 'Sick Building' and, indeed, it is not a bad description, because these buildings over time can make people sick.

Causes of 'sick buildings'

There is not one cause, it appears there are a number of possible causes:

Fungus - large badly ventilated buildings that have large areas which are not cleaned, or are inacessible to be cleaned - like air conditioning vents - can harbour fungus and these fungi have been shown to affect health.  Thus many experiences here are a knock on effect from the health problems, for example:

so if we follow the chain here, the fungus produces lung diseases, the lung diseases produce hypoxia and the hypoxia produces spiritual experiences. 

Toxins - the next major cause is the fumes from cleaning products used in the building, plastics, paints, and a host of substances which can not only make people ill, but also make them light headed enough that they start hallucinating.  In some respects a person is, without realising it, Inhaling volatiles and gases.  For example

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Static electricity -  There can be quite a build up of static electricity in buildings with carpets that are able to hold and generate charge and which are walked on by large numbers of people.  If you are getting a shock from the door handles in your office, then you have high static electricity and that is a known producer of experiences. 

LF Magnetic radiation both large scale industrial and domestic scale  - computers and all sorts of electrical equipment give off radiation and this is a known promoter of experience as well as a known health hazard.

Stress - the battery chicken like atmosphere and layouts of some working environments, coupled with the noise, lighting and pressure of the environment, simply produced high levels of stress, which is a known producer of spiritual experiences as well as a major contributor to declines in health.

Resonance - Wind acting on high rise office building produces turbulence, turbulence can produce infrasound and infrasound is a very effective producer of spiritual experiences via stimulation via resonance.  It is also possible for infrasound to be present within a building generated from electric fans, air conditioning systems, or simply via air flowing down long corridors unbroken by any furniture.

Hypoxia - After the energy crisis of the 1970s, the emphasis was placed on the need to conserve heat and the solution was to construct sealed buildings without natural ventilation. Not surprisingly, lower levels of air exchange in these environments led to an increase in indoor air pollutants – carbon dioxide and smoke [when people smoked at work].  The more people in the work-place, the more 'efficient' the closed system and the more like a battery chicken farm it is, the more likely it is that the people are suffering from hypoxia.  Furthermore the more machines there are, the worse the problem....

Others - I'm sure that in time the association will also be made with bacteria and viruses floating round these buildings, but as yet, the papers on Pubmed indicate that little research has been done in these areas.  I have a new found sympathy for all those call centre workers who ring me up at inconvenient times trying to 'help' me with accidents I have never had; they are probably as sick as the buildings they work in.

How it works

Stimulation via resonance as well as Hypoxia.   In addition all the illnesses these causes produce will also be the cause of experiences in their own right.

References and further reading

• Toxicol Ind Health. 2009 Oct-Nov;25(9-10):617-35. Doi: 10.1177/0748233709348287. Molds, mycotoxins, and sick building syndrome. Straus DC. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA. david.straus@ttuhsc.edu
•  Sci Total Environ. 2013 Feb 1;444:433-40. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.114. Epub 2012 Dec 29. Airborne molds and bacteria, microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOC), plasticizers and formaldehyde in dwellings in three North European cities in relation to sick building syndrome (SBS). Sahlberg B, Gunnbjörnsdottir M, Soon A, Jogi R, Gislason T, Wieslander G, Janson C, Norback D. Department of Medical Sciences, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. bo.sahlberg@medsci.uu.se
•  Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2013 Apr 11;10(4):1489-504. doi: 10.3390/ijerph10041489.  Sick building syndrome by indoor air pollution in Dalian, China. Guo P, Yokoyama K, Piao F, Sakai K, Khalequzzaman M, Kamijima M, Nakajima T, Kitamura F. Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. kakuchina_1@yahoo.co.jp
•  Cien Saude Colet. 2011 Aug;16(8):3583-90. [Air pollution in internal environments and sick building syndrome]. [Article in Portuguese] Schirmer WN, Pian LB, Szymanski MS, Gauer MA. Departamento de Engenharia Ambiental, Universidade Estadual do Centro-oeste, Irati, PR. wanasch@yahoo.com.br
• Indoor Air. 2004 Jun;14(3):178-87. Effects of pollution from personal computers on perceived air quality, SBS symptoms and productivity in offices. Bakó-Biró Z, Wargocki P, Weschler CJ, Fanger PO. International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. zzb@med.dtu.dk

Related observations

Hallucination

• Environmental Protection Agency 004999
• Ghost buster 005004
• H Witherington the unhappy hum-hearer 005001
• Hallucinations caused by Djinns 006813
• Hallucinations from machines in workplace 006814
• Hallucinations from work exposure to Toluene 006812
• Hallucinations in the workplace 006810
• Scientific paper on wind turbines and infrasound 004995
• Shoe factory workers solvents and health 006815
• The Ghost in the Machine 005005
• The Sick building of Dr Gavreau 005006

In time

Synaesthesia, Pure or enhanced perception, Inter composer communication, Vision, Dream, Perception recall, Exploring group perception

• Hallucinations caused by Djinns 006813

Other observations

• Scientific paper on infrasound 004994