Why we need ghosts
I never experience dreams "as if I was there".Perhaps it is related to our ability (necessity) to dream scenes and people doing al kinds of strange things. If you come down to it, all dreams are ghostly, but we can experience the dream *as if we were there*. Perhaps living ghosts are a form of dreaming while awake.
Why ghosts in particular?Because humans are already discovered territory and therefore not mysterious. They also have no superpowers.
Ghosts are very mysterious and they can do anything we can imagine.
Its actually good brain stretching exercise in creativity.
Neither can I, but then considering the other threads started by this member . . . .I really can't grasp the motivation for the OP.
Ghosts exist in many forms. Some are temporal imprints on the spin networks of the quantum vacuum. Others are intelligent shells or emanations or tulpas of consciousness. Others are transconstructual presences, like your mom in the kitchen when you're playing video games. But their superpowers are limited. There are reports of heavy desks being turned over and objects being teleported across spacetime. But they can't do anything. For that you will have to wait for the one million AD collective egregore of the human race.![]()
andmi·rage, NOUN
ORIGIN
- an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.
synonyms: optical illusion · hallucination · phantasmagoria ·
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apparition · fantasy · chimera · vision · figment of the/one's imagination · phantasm
- something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so:
"the notion that the public is pro-business is a mirage"
early 19th cent.: from French, from se mirer ‘be reflected,’ from Latin mirare ‘look at.’
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Well you can call a mirage a ghost also. Except it isn't.
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We can throw in the term *phantom* also, but I think it is important to make a clear distinction between causalities. One has nothing to do with the other.
You mean ghosts only appear when a dark room is lit with a bunch of flickering candles ?I don't think a ghost is a mirage. Mirages have more to do with light and its distortion by heat waves. Ghosts don't appear in those conditions.
You mean ghosts only appear when a dark room is lit with a bunch of flickering candles ?
According to Albert Einstein, there are four dimensions, three of space and one of time, with the special property of the ability to bend light. Stephen Hawking furthered this theory by questioning the possibility of many more dimensions existing in the realm of our universe. However, according to Hawking, matter and light are confined to the “membrane” of the dimension, making interdimensional travel impossible. Because space-time has the ability to bend light, however, there exists the possibility that we can see the shadows of people and even galaxies from other dimensions in our own, and they ours.
Supposed encounters with these “shadow people” are common in North America. One tale describes a woman’s meeting with the mysterious entities as a little girl while living in Dorchester, Massachusetts during the mid-1990s. During her first night sleeping in a new room, she claims to have seen a tall and unnatural shadow on the wall. To her surprise, the shadow stepped off the wall and glided around the room, wearing what appeared to be glasses. She saw three more of these shadow people near her closet. She eventually realized a large shadow was slowly enveloping the entire room, leaving her in pitch darkness before she leaped from her bed to take comfort in her grandparents’ room. She believes that what she encountered that night were dimensional travelers, who most likely saw her as a shadow person.
Why ghosts in particular?
Have we not enough characters in mythology, folklore, religion and other superstitions, literature, comic books, computer games and movies to fill all the need for superpowers and mysteries that any species can digest in several lifetimes? (By that I mean: far too many.)
So what's the special thing about ghosts?
It's that they represent people who actually existed; a way of holding on to relationships. Wish- expression, though not fulfilment, unless you're willing to let go of sanity instead of a dead person.
No not always. Here's an instance where a ghost appeared in broad daylight:
Tulpa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTulpa also translated as "magical emanation", "conjured thing" and "phantom" is a concept in mysticism of a being or object which is created through sheer spiritual or mental discipline alone. It is defined in Indian Buddhist texts as any unreal, illusory or mind created apparition.
We can't. All our fictions are based on things we have actually seen or heard of, that we than recombine and exaggerate.Do you ever wonder why we can create all these things that dont exist?
Yes, and so? Metaphors are just another interpretation of the real, as are stories and pictures.What i mean by that is it does exist or is real on some level of our consciousness either by dynamics or metaphor.
Big brain hates not being in control.Creation comes in many forms, doesn't it? Why do we have this constant need to create and purge?
Yes... Or, more accurately, modifying what already exists. Ghosts are not included in this category.Nature is always creating in one form or another. For good or ill.
You may, but that is something that exists only in your head and doesn't bother other people.What makes people think we cant or even unconsciously create ghosts?
why we need ghosts