Doctor Kyrie Posted February 19, 2013 #1 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Is it possible that all "ghosts" are simply power of suggestion. A place that is haunted is scary because we were told it was haunted? Discuss, also please note if you'd like to be anonymous if I use the text in a film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted February 19, 2013 #2 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I believe in the paranormal, and I believe in ghosts. I also believe that, as you suggested, the human mind can "trick" us, or "scare" us, depending on our expectations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor T Posted February 19, 2013 #3 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Is it possible that all "ghosts" are simply power of suggestion. A place that is haunted is scary because we were told it was haunted? Discuss, also please note if you'd like to be anonymous if I use the text in a film. No I don't think it's possible that all ghosts are from the power of suggestion.. I saw someone I once knew, walking down the street like a regular scene on a regular day.. Later that day I learned that that same person had died some months earler.. So, no, there's no way that event was suggested to me.. Have also seen one or two other ghostly forms, at random, completely non-suggested.. I think many are suggested though, expecially when a place/area has a repulation grown about such things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Topp Posted February 27, 2013 #4 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Same thing about mediums 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted February 28, 2013 #5 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Is it possible that all "ghosts" are simply power of suggestion. A place that is haunted is scary because we were told it was haunted? Discuss, also please note if you'd like to be anonymous if I use the text in a film. You raise a good point. Someone with a strong belief in the supernatural will hear an unexplained noise or see a digital artifact in a photograph and immediately think - GHOST! Someone who isn't predisposed (like myself) will think "damn, those squirrels are back in the attic again" or "sorry, don't see anything." My secretary loves to break into old abandoned places and photograph them. She does some really cool work and I'm planning to accompany her on some upcoming trips. But she is constantly showing me things and saying "look, there's the ghost" and I"m like, "I don't really see anything". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted February 28, 2013 #6 Share Posted February 28, 2013 depends on what kind of ghost you're looking for : if its anything like the 'ghosts' being suggested to in movies or paintings/drawings then yes, those are 'inherited' creatively presented but still a 'suggested' idea actually anything that can be 'caught' on recorded devices, audio or visual is nothing but suggestive incidences. Yes I mean nothing Those are not ghosts, those are our ghosts. Everyone has their own version of ghosts. Try an experiment, go taking random snapshots through out the day or night, just snap along where you're going, not at anything in particular, just random pics. Then look through them, you'll be finding a lot of ghosts or things that makes you think of ghosts. Or place a strong magnet in some corner of your work place, in a half year you'll be hearing a lot of strange stories about some strange place in the workplace. In my case it was a new power supply unit, gave out a lot of magnetic activity. The office next door behind the wall the unit was backed up against became the 'haunted room' because 'strange' things were happening. As soon as the unit was moved back downstairs after the renovation works, the stories stopped. Ghosts are not what you think or other people say it is. You'll know when you meet one but you'll never tell anyone about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted February 28, 2013 #7 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I'd say 99% of all hauntings are through the power of suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Requiem Posted March 1, 2013 #8 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I think power of suggestion plays a big part in many cases. A lot of people tend to be openly weak minded and will believe they started out as a squirrel wearing a top hat if you talk long enough. People will believe what they want to believe. Through a few personal experiences, I'm a believer in other worldly beings. But I choose to keep it to myself instead of validating my experiences with discussing them with others. If that's all over the map and makes no conclusive sense, I apologize. I love lamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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