Ghosts! Ever seen one?

[ChimpMaster]

you guys are all talking bollux - it is just your feeble brains messing with you. It is prone to make up explanations for whatever input it gets in order to make sense of it. Hence a strange light can become explained as a white "ghost".

Why does it have to be white?

[NotAllThere]

you guys are all talking bollux - it is just your feeble brains messing with you. It is prone to make up explanations for whatever input it gets in order to make sense of it. Hence a strange light can become explained as a white "ghost"...

Couldn't agree more. Our brains are constantly interpreting and editing our perception of reality, including recent events, and editing our own memories.

The phone rings, and our autonomic system responds first - then our brains work out "phone ringing". They then project the feeling of the phone ringing to the time of it ringing. Sometimes, they make a mistake, and project too far back, and we get the feeling of "knowing the phone was going to ring before it actually did".

[Pogle]

Never seen a ghost,
but I did once meet a helpful Oracle DBA - Scary!!

[oracleslave]

Never seen a ghost,
but I did once meet a helpful Oracle DBA - Scary!!

Must have been Bob Dalek

[Money Money Money]

My mum was telling me the other day that when her mum was in hospital her sister had woken up one morning and when she looked out of the window she saw her mum and her auntie (who had died years ago) in the garden waving at her. Later on that day she found out that her mum had died that morning.

I never used to believe any of these storys, but was pretty speachless as to come up with an explaination to this one.

I now keep an open mind!

[Bagpuss]

Couldn't agree more. Our brains are constantly interpreting and editing our perception of reality, including recent events, and editing our own memories.

The phone rings, and our autonomic system responds first - then our brains work out "phone ringing". They then project the feeling of the phone ringing to the time of it ringing. Sometimes, they make a mistake, and project too far back, and we get the feeling of "knowing the phone was going to ring before it actually did".

I must have missed that day, the one when everthing unknown in the world was suddenly explained.

[BA to the Stars]

All right, who drank my whisky then, eh?

Proves the existence of spirits

IGMC

[foritisme]

first off, as a lad in the military I had to go for days without sleep. Some of the hallucinations I had were extraordinary, I believed them , but disbelieved them all at the same time.

Glad you mentioned that, was worried it only happened to me. I remember one morning after a 48 hour exercise and the bushes were walking towards me.

[EternalOptimist]

Glad you mentioned that, was worried it only happened to me. I remember one morning after a 48 hour exercise and the bushes were walking towards me.

I tulip you not.

I was looking out of my trench, on guard. This naked bird walks across the field towards me, jiggling her boobies. She stood there taunting me for an hour. When the sun came up, it was a branch off a shrub.

Ive never trusted women since

[NotAllThere]

My mum was telling me the other day that when her mum was in hospital her sister had woken up one morning and when she looked out of the window she saw her mum and her auntie (who had died years ago) in the garden waving at her. Later on that day she found out that her mum had died that morning.

I never used to believe any of these storys, but was pretty speachless as to come up with an explaination to this one.

I now keep an open mind!

Easy. She was dreaming. She'd have thought nothing of it, if her mum had died four weeks later. Simply attaching significance to a coincidence.

The trouble with having an open mind, is that your brain might leak out.