Why do ghosts wear human clothes?

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Magical Realist said:
Oh so it's the "because it is televised it must be faked" theory again. Do you have any evidence it is faked? How does one fake a full body apparition on a FLIR camera walking thru a closed door?
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Apparently you have not seen Terminator II and III. Good stuff to be sure, but not really real was it?
 
Write4U said:
Apparently you have not seen Terminator II and III. Good stuff to be sure, but not really real was it?
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So you have no evidence it was faked at all. Ofcourse you don't. And just saying it is doesn't prove anything.

Another apparition caught on video on the Queen Mary:

 
Why do ghosts wear human clothes?
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Because the Spiritual Border is only required by law to provide ghosts with those boring bedsheets -- after checking their passports, strip-searching them, and sending them on their way. Many ghosts thus flock to a NecroMall as soon as they've garnered enough scare-tokens to purchase better outfits.

While a Spectral Goodwill Store can in theory receive second-hand clothing from the deceased stratum of extraterrestrial civilizations, the latter aliens would need to have anthropic-like forms for their apparel to even have a chance of fitting properly on human ghosts. The neutered Greys, despite being humanoid, accordingly don't have any goodies to begin with for shrouding in modesty:

"Think me mad if you must. But with mine own eyes I witnessed the groom and his nubile bride being seized and carried aloft by a resentful angel, who was jealous of their mortal fruits!" --An Itinerant Tinsmith's Remarkable Journey, by Ulf Svenson
 
Magical Realist said:
I didn't see nothing in those videos. And neither did you.
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I did, it was a squirrel or some other rodent. about 12-14" running across. Abandoned buildings tend to become home to little critters .

You wanna see a ghost? It isn't alive but you can see it, even if it is not physically there. It is a remarkable trick of our mirror neural network (mind) to see a green dot in an *empty space*. Just stare at the little black cross in the middle. If you view it from an angle (turning your head a little), you may even see an entire circle of non-existent green dots beside the lilac dots, or the lilac dots may disappear altogether and you only see a green dot runnining around. Remarkable!

http://www.123opticalillusions.com/pages/lilac_chaser.php
 
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I did, it was a squirrel or some other rodent. about 12-14" running across. Abandoned buildings tend to become home to little critters .
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No..squirrels don't stand up when they run. But hey, if you imagine it maybe that's what you see, right?

As far as the afterimage effect, that's well known. You can look at the sun for a few seconds and see a purple blob afterwards for like 3 minutes. It's not a ghost, and it has nothing to do with that phenomenon.
 
Magical Realist said:
No..squirrels don't stand up when they run. But hey, if you imagine it maybe that's what you see, right?
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Wrong, I have squirrels in my back yard and they stand up constantly, especially when someone is observing them. And your assertion that we want to see a green dot is nonsense. You cannot escape the effect, no matter how hard you try (and I have tested that myself); it is how the MNN functions.
As far as the after image effect, that's well known. You can look at the sun for a few seconds and see a purple blob afterwards for like 3 minutes. It's not a ghost, and it has nothing to do with that phenomenon.
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And have burnt out a few optical neurons in the process. But you missed the point of that demonstration. The point is that under certain circumstances, we can and do see non-existent things, also known as ghosts (or ghosting).

You seem very sure that *real* ghosts have a different cause, can you explain why the optical phenomenon of *seeing* ghosts has nothing to do with *seeing* green ghosts in an empty space which was previously occupied by a *lilac* dot? I can. But an answer of "that's well known" proves the point, rather than falsify it.
 
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Wrong, I have squirrels in my back yard and they stand up constantly, especially when someone is observing them. And as to your assertion that we want to see a green dot is nonsense. You cannot escape the effect; it is how the MNN functions.
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Nice try..I said: "Squirrels don't stand up when they run." And they don't. And I'm not the one pushing the lie that we see what we want to believe. That was you.

And have burnt out a few optical neurons in the process. But you missed the point of that demonstration. The point is that under certain circumstances, we can a do see non-existent things also known as ghosts (or ghosting)
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It's an optical effect from looking at a certain color or light. It has nothing to do with people seeing apparitions or video of darting forms in abandoned sanitorium hallways.

You seem very sure that *real* ghosts have a different cause, can you explain why that has nothing to do with *seeing* green ghosts in an empty space which was previously occupied by a *lilac* dot? I can. But an answer of "that's well known" proves the point, rather than falsify it.
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LOL! Because there is no afterimage from staring at some other bright image when people see ghosts. It isn't a residual effect of the retinae retaining images immediately after seeing them. It has nothing to do with that.
 
Magical Realist said:
Nice try..I said: "Squirrels don't stand up when they run." And they don't. And I'm not the one pushing the lie that we see what we want to believe. That was you.
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MR said: if you imagine it maybe that's what you see, right
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It's an optical effect from looking at a certain color or light. It has nothing to do with people seeing apparitions or video of darting forms in abandoned sanitorium hallways.
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Really? Explain why there is always a *narrow beam* flashlight involved in total darkness, instead of a flood light or a flash photograph, which would light the entire area and render a sharp picture.
LOL! Because there is no after image from staring at some other bright image when people see ghosts.
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No, it's the reverse, the observer is in toal darkness and brightl narrow beam flashlight lights small areas in this darkness. The effect is the same. That's why ghosts always appear as *white*.
It isn't a residual effect of the retinae retaining images immediately after seeing them. It has nothing to do with that.
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Except in the demonstration the retina does not retain the image of the *lilac* dot, the image generated by the MNN is a *green* dot. You need to do some more reading how the brain (MNN) processes information.
 
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Write4U said:
Really? Explain why there is always a *narrow beam* flashlight involved in total darkness, instead of a flood light or a flash photograph, which would light the entire area and render a sharp picture.
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Not enough for the afterimage. Especially in total darkness.

No, it's the reverse, the observer is in toal darkness and brightl narrow beam flashlight lights small areas in this darkness. The effect is the same. That's why ghosts always appear as *white*.
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LOL! If it was an afterimage it would look like the narrow beam of a flashlight. Ghosts don't look like that. They appear on camera and to the naked eye as human figures.

Except in the demonstration the retina does not retain the image of the *lilac* dot, the image generated by the MNN is a *green* dot. You need to do some more reading how the brain (MNN) processes information.
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The green dot is the afterimage from seeing the lilac dot. You evidently don't even understand your own example.

Try this one:

https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/afterflag.html
 
Magical Realist said:
Unquote your post so I can respond to it. You know how to do that don't you?
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Yeah, I posted it before previewing it. I had something more important to take care of.
But ad hominem remarks do not answer my question. As usual you have managed to evade answering. Fact is , you have no clue if or why ghost appear to some but not to all.
 
Write4U said:
Yeah, I posted it before previewing it. I had something more important to take care of.
But ad hominem remarks do not answer my question. As usual you have managed to evade answering. Fact is , you have no clue if or why ghost appear to some but not to all.
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It's certainly not an afterimage on the retinae of a brighter image, that's for sure.
 
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