From: Jasper
Date: 30 Jun 2000
Time: 20:15:41
Some people say that there is no such thing as a ghost. Some say they exist, but only as hallucinations in the minds of the people who think they see one. But how do you explain two explain two honest, no-nonsense kind of people sharing the same hallucination?
For example, my uncle, his wife, his son and his two daughters were leaving the home of some friends in the South. He was about to back out of the driveway when my Cousin William said, "watch out fore that little girl!"
My uncle, who had slammed on the breaks just as William let out the warning said, "I see her, Son."
Then my Cousin Florence said, "What girl?" Her sister Deborah didn't see the girl, either. Neither did my aunt. So they got out of the car and looked. No little girl anywhere. Naturally father and son questioned whether they had actually seen what they thought they did. One of them told the other what kid of dress she was wearing. Thy both agreed. Did both of them share the same hallucination? Did one of them influence the other to see what he saw? Did they see a ghost?
If there was another part to that story of a little girl being run over by a car in years past, I don't know about it. But I have a theory that it doesn't matter because sightings like this have nothing to do with the spirits of the deceased or anything like that. If everyone in the car had seen the girl I would think that it might have something to do with the weather, with that particular spot and the kind of thing that happens sometimes in the desert when a mirage turns out to be a real place hundreds of miles away. The fact that three out of five people in the same place did not see it makes me think that it was something else.
It turns out that many sightings of ghost are, in fact, hallucinations caused by electro-chemical signals in the brain misinterpreting where the source of the image originated. It is as though an imaginary image superimposed itself on the optic nerve so there is no way of telling from the observer's point of view that it's all in his head. When you think about it, though, the eyes are extensions of the brain and electrical signals are bouncing off of things all the time. Is it possible, under the right atmospheric conditions, for us to get brief glimpses of events from a distant time or place if our brain waves are operating at just the right frequencies, like television or radio signals? Could the difference in who saw the little girl and who didn't be as simple as who was tuned to the right channel?
Just a theory. What do you think. -- Jasper
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