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Are 'ghosts' all in the head?

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  • #32
    solas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭solas


    and to answer the originial question, I believe that ghosts are all in the head.
    I don't mean to suggest that it is all a delusion, but illusion might be a better word.
    Then again, some illusions work really well and create the desired effect.

    Will try and explain what I mean....
    We all live with this great illusion that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But the sun doesn't rise and set anywhere, the earth revolves around the sun creating the illusion, via our perception and viewpoint, that it does.
    This illusion doesn't negate the fact that the sun rising and setting is very real to us and is vital to our schematic's, it provides us with day and night, and the measurements we set our clocks by and yet from another perspective (the moon) things may seem very different indeed.

    I'm not saying ghosts don't exist or that they aren't real, I think we only get to see a small part of a much bigger picture, but the illusion is enough.


  • #33
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    My dad sternly believes that they are all in the mind, and because I have never seen one myself, and dont know of anyone who has seen one, I'd have to be inclined to agree.
    But if you did see one, why would this make a difference? The ghost could still be in your head?

    Obviously one way to test whether ghosts are only in the head would be to carry around some recording equipment such as a camera, then whenever you saw (or thought you saw) a ghost, you would attempt to take picture. If the picture resembled what you saw you would be a certain way along the road to answering the question.

    It could be argued that seeing a ghost involves mechanisms or 'energies' that can't be captured by cameras or other devices but only by humans (or maybe just those sensitive to certain phenomena). In this case, it would be necessary to have a group of such people attempt to observe a ghost but only describe what they saw independently of one another. Afterwards the descriptions could be compared to see if they are describing the same thing.

    If these descriptions varied or were simply vague ("I sensed a 'presence'"), then this would not help us. However, if each of the observers saw the same very specific thing, for example a skull floating about 7 feet off the ground, then we would be progressing towards establishing the objective existence of such phenomena.

    But I think, for many people, it is enough that ghosts exist for them. It doesn't matter if ghosts have an 'objective' existance. Why does it matter? I think it is fairly natural for people to interpret a sufficiently strong impression of something as reality even if it can't be independently verified.


  • #34
    Schnozzberries
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Schnozzberries


    i do believe in ghosts...i think that they are like spirts or w/e on like a vibration level like a foot higher than us...thats why they usually look like theyre floating if you see them(sorry that i cant explain myself too well)...also since they are on that vibration level thing or w/e not all of them see us and can communicate with us just like not all humans can see or communicate with them...I have seen a spirit once...and my brother saw the same one...i have felt that spirit many times and it always gives the same vibes...i have felt other spirits too...i know many ppl who have seen spirits...i strongly belive in ghosts only because of pesonal experiences ... but hey i guess i could be crazzy and seeing stuff...(actually i am crazy but not the hallucinating kind oh well)


  • #35
    homerhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭homerhop


    I witnessed an old fashioned door bell (the type that had a tbar you turn to make it ring) which had been seized solid ring constantly on the night the owner of the house died.I happened to be staying in a room and was looking straight out at the door that had this bell.There was two long panes of glass in the door and there was definately nobody outside.So yes I definately beleive!


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