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Ghosts! Ever seen one?
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Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Postyou guys are all talking bollux - it is just your feeble brains messing with you. It is prone to make up explanations for whatever input it gets in order to make sense of it. Hence a strange light can become explained as a white "ghost"...
The phone rings, and our autonomic system responds first - then our brains work out "phone ringing". They then project the feeling of the phone ringing to the time of it ringing. Sometimes, they make a mistake, and project too far back, and we get the feeling of "knowing the phone was going to ring before it actually did".Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Never seen a ghost,
but I did once meet a helpful Oracle DBA - Scary!!
I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this
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Originally posted by Pogle View PostNever seen a ghost,
but I did once meet a helpful Oracle DBA - Scary!!
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My mum was telling me the other day that when her mum was in hospital her sister had woken up one morning and when she looked out of the window she saw her mum and her auntie (who had died years ago) in the garden waving at her. Later on that day she found out that her mum had died that morning.
I never used to believe any of these storys, but was pretty speachless as to come up with an explaination to this one.
I now keep an open mind!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostCouldn't agree more. Our brains are constantly interpreting and editing our perception of reality, including recent events, and editing our own memories.
The phone rings, and our autonomic system responds first - then our brains work out "phone ringing". They then project the feeling of the phone ringing to the time of it ringing. Sometimes, they make a mistake, and project too far back, and we get the feeling of "knowing the phone was going to ring before it actually did".
I must have missed that day, the one when everthing unknown in the world was suddenly explained.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostAll right, who drank my whisky then, eh?
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postfirst off, as a lad in the military I had to go for days without sleep. Some of the hallucinations I had were extraordinary, I believed them , but disbelieved them all at the same time.
Glad you mentioned that, was worried it only happened to me. I remember one morning after a 48 hour exercise and the bushes were walking towards me.Comment
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Originally posted by foritisme View PostGlad you mentioned that, was worried it only happened to me. I remember one morning after a 48 hour exercise and the bushes were walking towards me.
I was looking out of my trench, on guard. This naked bird walks across the field towards me, jiggling her boobies. She stood there taunting me for an hour. When the sun came up, it was a branch off a shrub.
Ive never trusted women since
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Originally posted by Money Money Money View PostMy mum was telling me the other day that when her mum was in hospital her sister had woken up one morning and when she looked out of the window she saw her mum and her auntie (who had died years ago) in the garden waving at her. Later on that day she found out that her mum had died that morning.
I never used to believe any of these storys, but was pretty speachless as to come up with an explaination to this one.
I now keep an open mind!
The trouble with having an open mind, is that your brain might leak out.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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