Curing the deluded

[naomi24]

People who claim to live in haunted houses, and claim to see or hear ghosts, are usually deemed irrational and deluded by those who don't believe in such things. If they are, indeed, irrational and deluded, why is it that they often haven't experienced such things prior to moving into a particular house, and why upon moving on again to the next house, do their apparent delusions and irrationality cease immediately?

[naomi24]

New houses aren't exempt - and ghosts don't only make noises or appear as something that could, with a bit of thought, be easily attributed to something else. Sometimes they appear as real, and as solid, as any living person, and sometimes they do things that are impossible to explain - whichever way you look at it.

[cazzz1975]

maybe it is a fear of the unexplained? no one will believe any accounts of ghosts unless they see it with their own eyes, however they are probably too scared of what they might discover if they did witness an event. so its easier to disregard everything as a load of rubbish.

granted most of these spook shows are just a lot of hooey, but in real life I am sure unexplained events exist.

[Beanmistriss]

I'm pretty sure that Charles Bonnet Syndrome only affects people who have sight impairments.

[Ankou]

there was a fascinating programme on a few night a go about the 'real me' and it went through many experiments where the brain or psyche can be easily confused to experience out of body or virtually unexplanable experiences.

i am open to be convinced otherwise, but my personal opinion is that these ghost sightings are inner brain activity sending wrong or fuzzy messages that these people perhaps jump to a conclusion that suits their particular belief.

[Ankou]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...92010_The_Secret_You/

[naomi24]

Apologies for the delay in getting back here.

I haven’t time to watch the video on your link at the moment, Ankou, but I will. Thanks.

'Fuzzy' brain activity is no doubt responsible for many reported sightings of 'ghosts', but that wouldn't explain why, on occasions, more than one person sees the same thing at the same time, as Sara and her friend did; it wouldn’t explain the odd things that happen that don’t involve ‘ghostly’ sightings - for example, things going missing for months and suddenly reappearing in a prominent place - and nor would it explain why a person apparently suffers‘fuzzy’ brain activity in one house, but nowhere else.

I think Sherlock Holmes was absolutely right when he said ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’