80% Of Elderly Have Ghostly Visions

[Still Waters]

Those ghostly visions, which some bereaved people experience shortly after their loss, are simply hallucinations. Well that's what scientists would have us believe.

I came across a study on this subject headed by Agneta Grimby of the University of Goteborg, Sweden. One of the things that struck me was how common these 'hallucinations' actually are.

http://www.67notout....eople-have.html

[Lilly]

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~Hamlet~

[spartan max2]

Interesting, it always says that it is within a month after the death and it is normally comforting.

makes you think.

I guess it could support and afterlife or no afterlife depending on how you spin it

I personally think it leans on the side of support

Edited January 8, 2014 by spartan max2

[Occult1]

An elderly couple tend to be married usually for quite a long time and are used to each other presence and habbits. So, when one of them decease, the other might still feel his/her presence for being used to. Smells, such as perfume, after-shave, cigarette ect can be deeply burned into the consiciousness of a long-time couple. It could very well be that they sometimes emerge on the very surface such as in times of grieving.

Of course that doesn't rule out the possibility of visits from the afterlife. Only that it could have more than one cause, and I think it does.

I do not really like how he ends this article:

''It's up to us as to what we believe or want to believe. I personally believe we live on after death.''

It seems that he does not want to consider seriously any data or ideas that contradict his own belief. That is not what I call open-minded.

Edited January 8, 2014 by sam_comm

[Rafterman]

So we're supposed to weigh peer reviewed science equally with a couple of anonymous anecdotes? Sorry, but one of those things is not like the other.

My grandmother routinely reported seeing my grandfather after his passing. She also saw what she described as Russian sailors and some young woman that she called "that b****" who would come in and steal her stuff. Oddly enough, after her passing, we found pretty much everything "that b****" stole hidden in various places around her house.

I kind of get tired of saying this around here, but all of this is explained by the mundane and there is no reason to jump to supernatural explanations.

[JGirl]

i work with the elderly and it's quite common for them to hallucinate. the biggest culprit (not counting dementia which many of them also suffer from) is a urinary tract infection or bladder infection. seriously.

that is one of the ways the nursing staff becomes aware of the infection - the hallucinations and delusional behaviour.

i'm not saying in no uncertain terms that these people are not seeing the departed. i'm just saying that there are far more logical reasons for the hallucinations that are being overlooked in favour of sensationalism

Edited January 8, 2014 by JGirl

[Star of the Sea]

My mum was in a bad road accident a few years ago and whilst she was recovering in hospital she told me that my Dad had come to visit her. (He had died 13 years earlier) For me her story was very compelling as she told me that one day she was very surprised to see a man walk in to the ward who looked just like my Dad. She said that he was dressed just like Dad, even wearing the same green coat that he had always wore. She was really struck by the fact that he even had a flat cap hanging out of his pocket, just like the one Dad always tucked into his pocket when he was alive. My mum said she smiled to herself thinking back on how my Dad had been a volunteer visitor for the sick and dying at the same hospital for over 25 years. Then in a blink of an eye she turned her head and there was my Dad sat right beside her as solid as anything.. She said he told her 'that he had come to visit her to comfort her and tell her all would be well'. She is adamant even to this day, that he was there by her side.

Edit: Ugh apologies for typos I'm typing from an Ipad.... it's a nightmare lol!

Edited January 8, 2014 by Star of the Sea

[Rafterman]

i work with the elderly and it's quite common for them to hallucinate. the biggest culprit (not counting dementia which many of them also suffer from) is a urinary tract infection or bladder infection. seriously.

that is one of the ways the nursing staff becomes aware of the infection - the hallucinations and delusional behaviour.

i'm not saying in no uncertain terms that these people are not seeing the departed. i'm just saying that there are far more logical reasons for the hallucinations that are being overlooked in favour of sensationalism

I would also imagine that since they spend a good deal more time sleeping that they confuse dreams with reality quite a bitt.

[Neognosis]

This just in: 100% of Elderly people are Elderly.

[moonshadow60]

After my uncle passed on, I went to visit my aunt in their old farmhouse. As I got out of the car and started for the kitchen door, I smelled the scent of his aftershave clearly in the dooryard. It was so clear that I looked around for the source of the scent. Nothing. When I asked my aunt about it, she said that several people had mentioned that, but she hadn't smelled it. He wore Drakkar Noir the last couple years of his life.