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different experiences have left me with mixed opinions on the subject.
when i was fourteen, i left a tape recorder hidden and running in the cemetery a few blocks from where i live now. It's the biggest one i know of in the city and the graves there date back to the turn of the previous century.
When i picked it up again the next day after school, i played it back through my headphones and freaked out
instead of the faint sounds of traffic and birds, i heard snippets of slightly muffled conversations, too many layered on top of each other to sort anything out but the distinct murmur of a large crowd of people each having small group conversations.
(For reference, walk into a crowded room or an arena during the intermission of whatever event is going on, you know the sound, you can't make out any one conversation, but you know the sound of human chatter en masse)
At the time, i was still ponderint the idea of becoming a priest (go figure) and this was one of those pieces of weirdness in my life that served to shake my faith. After all, if there were so many voices that hadn't been assigned to heaven or hell, than what was the point?
of course, my other belief about the "afterlife" doesn't allow for either the genuine notion of heaven, hell, or ghosts, except for one little loophole on the ghost idea so far out in left field as to be beyond ridiculous
The human brain, like every other brain and every other creature who contains a brain of even the most rudimentary sort in their body is basically a fairly complex bio-electrical device.
The theory has been posited that since, for many, time as we are aware of it in dreams lapses fairly rapidly in comparison to real-time (see filn and blathe of waking_life) perhaps the notion of the "afterlife" as put forth by some who have been "there and back again" is the brain going on it's last dream before it expires
this is plausible, but what about ghosts?
Well, as electrical devices, we have an impact on, and are impacted by all sorts of differing energy waves... Magnetic fields, radio waves, Infrared and whole spectrums of different types, strengths and frequencies of radiation.
The things we feel are electrical signals relayed from one part of our body back to the CPU we call our brain, the commands that the brain sends for us to carry out voluntary actions and involuntary reflexes is more electricity, our dreaming briains emit even more types of electricity when we are asleep
It almost stands to reason that the notion of ghosts may spring from an exceptionally strong "Last transmission" coinciding with a location that is perhaps more conducive to retaining that signal, which takes on at least a thin sheen of plausibility when one considers that incidents of "haunting" as we know them are typically very much location-specific.
A room, a house, a small stretch of railroad tracks, ships, places in the woods, etc.
Yeah, i know how totally fucking nuts that all sounds, but hey, it's just one set of ideas in an ocean of them.
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