Ghost Stories

[Psychotron]

no such things as ghosts. just your mind messing up the simulations

[Pac Man]

no such things as ghosts. just your mind messing up the simulations

See, I could agree to that to a point but when multiple people experience the same thing without common knowledge of it than what is it?
I used to hear a girl giggle and laugh at my old house, little did I know my sister used to see a girl in her bed room at night. We didn't tell each other what we had been seeing or hearing for the first year we lived there. That was only one of the things that happened in that house. I had my bed slide 5 ft from the center of the room to the wall when I went to sit on it, k maybe it just slid by itself or maybe I knocked it and it slid, being all of 80lbs at the time you could imagine I wouldn't know my own strength luckly my mom and brother were home to help me move it back since it had an oak base.
The sliding glass door used to open at night followed by foot steps in the hallway, this happened almost every night sometime without the door opening. One day my friends were over and it happened, I never told them about it but they flipped out when they seen the floor boards move and heard someone walking right in right of them.

I lived in that house for 3 years, long enough to turn the biggest skeptic into a believer. When we moved out I asked the landlord for the 50th time what happened there, turns out that a man killed his daughter than himself about 30 years prior.

The same way you can't accept it because of the lack of evidence you also can't deny it because there is no evidence that says it does not exist.

[bmg]

no such things as ghosts. just your mind messing up the simulations

is that a matrix reference?

[Psychotron]

is that a matrix reference?

no it wasn't intended to be, but you're right it does remind me of what the Mervingian wife said.

Anyways, your brain is essentially a big simulation. It takes what it gets and does its best job to produce accurate results. This is why all those tricks work that people see with images on the internet.

Your brain want's to see faces, it's meant to recognize them. If it sees just the makings of a face you're going to see it. The same goes for sounds, when it's put together if the brain can't recognize it exactly, but feels it's close enough to something it heard before, that's what you're going to hear.

One of the biggest problems is the way the eye handles processing information. It is always looking ahead so to speak. So it predicts what you will see next. This is how those optical illusions work.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361623,00.html

[yannick35]

I am with you here, i eard plenty but never got to see or hear anything myself.

Great thread.

Hey ironside you got some scary stories but very interesting too.

Amazing thanks for sharing