*Do you mean do I believe in dead people floating around, saying, “Ooooh!” Of course not. But, I mean, an energy, a life force, a soul that, upon death, separates from the body and inhabits another plane, crying out to the living in a horrific wail of unbearable pain? Oh, absolutely.*
Eborys on
Not real, obviously.
(Downvotes makes me sad for mankind. Primitive beings are we.)
General-Priority-479 on
Hallucinations brought on by unregulated brain chemistry.
BigPhilip on
Some sad reddit-boi with no answers downvoted you….
I’m not sure… there could be more than one kind of thing that we call ghosts, I think about these:
– spirits of the dead, allowed or condemned to stay on this earth, for punishment or to complete some task
– demons
– egregores
BlackBlade1632 on
The last fart.
Generalchicken99 on
I think all the above listed are what people sometimes call a ghost, but IMO what I’d call a ghost is like an energetic imprint left behind by someone due to a traumatic event or something that’s tightly tied a fracture of their consciousness to that location for whatever reason and it’s sort of on loop until it’s released or cleansed. Due to Unfinished business, unresolved trauma, soul ties, maybe they just really like being there! Who knows.
Kenman215 on
Glimpses into parallel dimensions
sgtbb4 on
It’s us from different timelines. We leave traces that replay
LeoLaDawg on
If ghosts were real the whole planet would be haunted given how many humans have died over the years.
GodBlessYouNow on
Residual intelligent consciousness
HotStupid_ on
I’ve been lucky enough to be closely acquainted with a basement dwelling ghost in my home. He moved in a couple years ago and spends most of his time on the couch watching a really old crt TV he must have dug out of my junk room. I think he gets in my fridge during the day and throws out some of my food as his haunting technique. There’s always food missing. He also said his name is James and I should never bother him or he’ll possess me. I never knew it before I met James, but ghosts sleep a lot and tend to smell like an unwashed human. He can also grow a beard. Crazy ghosts!
Murky-Internal-7707 on
All of the above. Theres a realm that the human eye can’t see. There’s all kinds of stuff out there. Left over energy that leaves an, “imprint”. Angels, demons, or whatever you want to call them. Yes probably inter-dimensional. There are spirits of nature, the dead, lower, higher, animal etc. All kinds of stuff. Our world is just a blip of what’s out there.
American_Farewell on
In order of probability –
A) perfectly normal effects of light, sound, air movement, etc that people assign mystical causes
B) hallucinations, I.e. something that didn’t even happen, but the believer says it did
C) pranks
D) unusual energy flukes brought on by coincidental circumstances
E) secret agencies performing tests on unwitting g subjects
F) non-human entities doing the same
G) spirits unattached to the physical plane trying to make a connection
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*Do you mean do I believe in dead people floating around, saying, “Ooooh!” Of course not. But, I mean, an energy, a life force, a soul that, upon death, separates from the body and inhabits another plane, crying out to the living in a horrific wail of unbearable pain? Oh, absolutely.*
Not real, obviously.
(Downvotes makes me sad for mankind. Primitive beings are we.)
Hallucinations brought on by unregulated brain chemistry.
Some sad reddit-boi with no answers downvoted you….
I’m not sure… there could be more than one kind of thing that we call ghosts, I think about these:
– spirits of the dead, allowed or condemned to stay on this earth, for punishment or to complete some task
– demons
– egregores
The last fart.
I think all the above listed are what people sometimes call a ghost, but IMO what I’d call a ghost is like an energetic imprint left behind by someone due to a traumatic event or something that’s tightly tied a fracture of their consciousness to that location for whatever reason and it’s sort of on loop until it’s released or cleansed. Due to Unfinished business, unresolved trauma, soul ties, maybe they just really like being there! Who knows.
Glimpses into parallel dimensions
It’s us from different timelines. We leave traces that replay
If ghosts were real the whole planet would be haunted given how many humans have died over the years.
Residual intelligent consciousness
I’ve been lucky enough to be closely acquainted with a basement dwelling ghost in my home. He moved in a couple years ago and spends most of his time on the couch watching a really old crt TV he must have dug out of my junk room. I think he gets in my fridge during the day and throws out some of my food as his haunting technique. There’s always food missing. He also said his name is James and I should never bother him or he’ll possess me. I never knew it before I met James, but ghosts sleep a lot and tend to smell like an unwashed human. He can also grow a beard. Crazy ghosts!
All of the above. Theres a realm that the human eye can’t see. There’s all kinds of stuff out there. Left over energy that leaves an, “imprint”. Angels, demons, or whatever you want to call them. Yes probably inter-dimensional. There are spirits of nature, the dead, lower, higher, animal etc. All kinds of stuff. Our world is just a blip of what’s out there.
In order of probability –
A) perfectly normal effects of light, sound, air movement, etc that people assign mystical causes
B) hallucinations, I.e. something that didn’t even happen, but the believer says it did
C) pranks
D) unusual energy flukes brought on by coincidental circumstances
E) secret agencies performing tests on unwitting g subjects
F) non-human entities doing the same
G) spirits unattached to the physical plane trying to make a connection