Alright, let me set this up for everyone:
A friend of mine and I entered into a lengthy discussion about deja vu, which he considered to be evidence of psychic abilities. He then went on to say something about a study which proved we use 10% of our brain. I had to explain that such a claim makes no sense. However it seems more likely we only use 10% of our brain at a time (but even this may be wrong...someone help me out), but anyway he left all angry and ended with some ufo story and a video that happened to have been thrown away and i was left with a nother friend of mine.
I have known this guy for about 10-11 years and he's essentially a metalhead atheist not known to believe in supernatural nonsense, but he admitted that he had seen a ghost.
obviouslty i asked a few questions....were you sleeping or in bed or about to go to bed....were you stressed out, and so on. This is the story he went on to describe:
He was younger, around 15 and was home alone with his older sister and younger brother while his parents were out of town. They were all watching television when suddenly they started seeing mist and such floating around them. In total he said he saw abaout 20 ghosts that looked exactly like people (a bit misty though) and they were just walking around them, while my friend and his siblings sat on their bed. At one point he said the ghost of his dead uncle came in the room and sat down on his sisters legs, who she still recalls as feeling warm. He said they sat there in silence for a while and then the mist creatures which filled his home just vanished. He also said that he brought it up to his sister the next morning and she just said she never wants to talk about it again, and still remembers it to this day.
so now i start thinking. if it was just him i could probably explain it away as being some sort of sleep paralysis, but the fact that both he and his sister still recall the events and it left a toll on them leaves me confused.
i know there has been cases of mass hallucinations before where more than just two people see something, but in this case, what could it have been? extremely dirty vents, an older sister humoring her brother about a nightmare, yet keeping the joke going to this day (alot of work for a little prank), was it some sort of communal dream?
i just can't come up with any ideas as to how two people could see the same ghosts and have the same experience. I know if i saw a bunch of ghosts walking around me, and i looked over at my sis and she is seeing the same thing, i'm going to have a hard time dismissing it as a a hallucination.
Does anyone have a reasonable explanation as to how two people could see the same detailed "ghosts"? (they kept their younger brother's eyes closed the whole time)
A friend of mine and I entered into a lengthy discussion about deja vu, which he considered to be evidence of psychic abilities. He then went on to say something about a study which proved we use 10% of our brain. I had to explain that such a claim makes no sense. However it seems more likely we only use 10% of our brain at a time (but even this may be wrong...someone help me out), but anyway he left all angry and ended with some ufo story and a video that happened to have been thrown away and i was left with a nother friend of mine.
I have known this guy for about 10-11 years and he's essentially a metalhead atheist not known to believe in supernatural nonsense, but he admitted that he had seen a ghost.
obviouslty i asked a few questions....were you sleeping or in bed or about to go to bed....were you stressed out, and so on. This is the story he went on to describe:
He was younger, around 15 and was home alone with his older sister and younger brother while his parents were out of town. They were all watching television when suddenly they started seeing mist and such floating around them. In total he said he saw abaout 20 ghosts that looked exactly like people (a bit misty though) and they were just walking around them, while my friend and his siblings sat on their bed. At one point he said the ghost of his dead uncle came in the room and sat down on his sisters legs, who she still recalls as feeling warm. He said they sat there in silence for a while and then the mist creatures which filled his home just vanished. He also said that he brought it up to his sister the next morning and she just said she never wants to talk about it again, and still remembers it to this day.
so now i start thinking. if it was just him i could probably explain it away as being some sort of sleep paralysis, but the fact that both he and his sister still recall the events and it left a toll on them leaves me confused.
i know there has been cases of mass hallucinations before where more than just two people see something, but in this case, what could it have been? extremely dirty vents, an older sister humoring her brother about a nightmare, yet keeping the joke going to this day (alot of work for a little prank), was it some sort of communal dream?
i just can't come up with any ideas as to how two people could see the same ghosts and have the same experience. I know if i saw a bunch of ghosts walking around me, and i looked over at my sis and she is seeing the same thing, i'm going to have a hard time dismissing it as a a hallucination.
Does anyone have a reasonable explanation as to how two people could see the same detailed "ghosts"? (they kept their younger brother's eyes closed the whole time)
