Do you think it is possible for people

[Amatsu]

I don't think it really means anything. The mind is a really weird thing and it plays tricks on us sometimes.

 

[Demanufacturer]

imagination running wild on the believers

also relegion, same thing

 

[Mikal]

What if the rest of the world is a solipsistic illusion and your mind is the only thing that really exists?

imagination running wild on the believers

It's easy to say that when it hasn't happened to you

 

[voixdinferno]

Some people are just extremely good at manipulating other people, that's all.

I

 

[MissUMana]

What if the rest of the world is a solipsistic illusion and your mind is the only thing that really exists?

Frightening how this is probably what Hitler and Stalin thought.

 

[lady_toast]

@Lady_toast : all those beliefs are pure superstition, but I guess some cultures/societies need them for some reason. All cultures convey frightening tales of some sort. Probably a remnant of pagan days, when gods didn't make sense of it all.

And THAT's what I'm really willing to believe; I mean how could you even rationalize the existence of such creatures, you know? XD However, like I said, I've just heard so much crap that I think my judgment about this matter is really stained. While some of the crap I've heard is really bull, some people I know who've told me some of the stories are (as far as I know anyway) not shitting me, and not really the type to make up silly stories.

So while I don't really believe in supernatural creatures, I don't completely dismiss the thought that there maybe some beings out there even though it's only my .001% that thinks that way. I want to whack myself in the head sometimes, just because it's really stupid.

 

[Mikal]

Frightening how this is probably what Hitler and Stalin thought.

Quite possible, I would imagine it's a very lonely way to view the world.

 

[Martine]

@Tiny : I am 100% sure I was never in those places or never met those people before, which is why I am inclined to believe in reincarnation. But then why should it happen when you're a child, and never happen afterwards?

I believe in reincarnation too, due to memories too. I remember of people who were dead before my birth. I remember of my second dad when he was adolescent, of my mum, uncles et aunts too, also a best friend who was really as a twin. My second dad was convinced that I am his first love and it's true that my memories correspond with her, even the day when she went away and left him. I remember my great uncle too, her second "husband". At a certain point that when we received a letter from the ambassy of Japan telling that he was dead, I cried a lot. And I never saw him in that life. It's weird.
My older son often remembers memories as if he was my second dad. It's weird and marvellous at the same time because it's him who remembers me a lot of details that my mind had forgotten, even bad ones.

I think that we have more memories in mind when we are kids because we are more open minded. After, we have automatically the reaction : it can't be, even if we don't realize it. And, well, the more the time pass, the less we remember of course. You know. It's difficult for me to make the difference between the memories that I think I have from a past life and those that I have from my early childhood, except if the people who are linked to these memories are specific from a period. After all, maybe they are all memories from my early childhood. But some are so awful that I prefer to think about a past life. I have the impression that maybe soon, I'll receive a shock.

An other possibility is that you remember things that someone else lived. Well, I talked about the first love of my second dad. She and her best friend were so closed that they felt what the other lived as if it was them who lived those things. And me, I live the same phenomenon with someone too. Maybe, it's the same for you ^^

 

[Taku]

What if the rest of the world is a solipsistic illusion and your mind is the only thing that really exists?

an utterly perverted mind to create a world such as ours

I often have a feel déjà vu or "déjà rêvé"

Especially when people say they dreamt future actions, I think they trick themselves into believing they dreamt it, one never remembers its dreams to good, so it's basically an interpration on what one believes to have dreamt based on a situation that happened later, if that makes any sense

 

[Martine]

Especially when people say they dreamt future actions, I think they trick themselves into believing they dreamt it, one never remembers its dreams to good, so it's basically an interpration on what one believes to have dreamt based on a situation that happened later, if that makes any sense

I am not so sure of that ^^
And ... it happens that we remember our dream perfectly well. At least, a great part of the dream.

 

[Iskanderia]

I wish to Christ this book was required reading in school: http://www.amazon.com/People-Believe-Weird-Things-Pseudoscience/dp/0716733870

And/or this one: http://www.amazon.com/Flim-Flam-Psychics-Unicorns-Other-Delusions/dp/0879751983

 

[Mikal]

I don't believe in ghosts, but I've never seen one :/

If I did genuinely see one though, no amount of books or science would be able to convince me otherwise.

 

[Iskanderia]

How would you know that you had genuinely seen one though?

 

[Mikal]

I wouldn't... but if I saw a floating translucent dead person and there was absolutely no way that it could be a hologram or some kind of trick of the light, then I'd probably rather believe it was a ghost than admit that I'd finally lost in and started to hallucinate.

 

[Iskanderia]

Right, but you can hallucinate without having lost your shit. Again, the mind is a weird thing.

This one time when I was maybe 10, I had spent the night at my cousin's house, got up early and walked back to my grandparent's house. On the way, I saw many translucent figures. Large (like waist-high) spiders mainly. I knew that I obviously wasn't seeing giant spider ghosts or whatever but I also didn't feel weird or like I was in a dream state or anything. I got back to my grandparents and continued to marvel over the weird shit I was seeing, confused but not really frightened. I went back to bed for a couple more hours a while later and when I woke up, the "ghosts" were gone.

I'm assuming that I was stuck in some kind of aware, walking dream state but I'll never know for sure what exactly was going on there. I've never hallucinated since then.

However, if something similar happened after my mother died and I saw her instead of spiders and animals, I'm sure I would've thought it was her ghost.


This is different, but: my grandmother claims she saw both my mother and my uncle shortly after they died, but I really have to assume that the extreme stress of losing a child is what did it, since they didn't appear to anyone else in the family. (She was a pretty shit mother too, so I really doubt they would've chosen to appear to her rather than their father or their spouses.)

So, yeah: mind. weird.

 

[Mikal]

That is weird...

I don't know how I'd react if I saw something like that.

Especially as I HATE spiders

 

[Madmoiselle_Silk]

my grandmother claims she saw both my mother and my uncle shortly after they died, but I really have to assume that the extreme stress of losing a child is what did it

On my mothers side people claim that they've seen people who died, but I did also assume that's just because of the chock of losing someone. I was acctually scared to death to enter my grandmothers appartemant when she'd passed away. Partly because it was such a sad feeling and partly because I was scared that I would see her (like an imagination because I missed her, but that would be scary,I can't even watch pictures of her now seeing her "IRL" again would probably shake me completly)

 

[faith]

No...I've been praying to nothing in particular for the ability to see the future and Storm powers my entire life and I don't have them yet.


Besides, they can track most old ghost sightings to mild CO poisoning, etc.

 

[Amatsu]

Storm powers

If I couldn't become Xena, Storm would've been my next choice as a child.

I thought she was the shit.




I think that's what you meant when you said "Storm powers." xD

 

[Martine]

my grandmother claims she saw both my mother and my uncle shortly after they died, but I really have to assume that the extreme stress of losing a child is what did it

On my mothers side people claim that they've seen people who died, but I did also assume that's just because of the chock of losing someone. I was acctually scared to death to enter my grandmothers appartemant when she'd passed away. Partly because it was such a sad feeling and partly because I was scared that I would see her (like an imagination because I missed her, but that would be scary,I can't even watch pictures of her now seeing her "IRL" again would probably shake me completly)

I saw my father the day of his funerals. Several times. At a certain point that when my first husband and me return home, I had the impression that we forgot to say good-bye to my father XD I thought like you that it was the stress and the shock. My first husband, him, was convinced that my father was really there.

But, more recently, I saw a woman at the door of my room. It was brief and I had more the impression of my imagination than of a ghost. I had never seen her before, even on pics. I didn't know who she was. But she looked at me and seemed to say to me : "he, wake up. It's time that your react". And me, I don't know why but, in my heart, I called her "mum".
Lately, I saw a pic of the mum of my great-uncle and, maybe it's just my imagination, but they look similar. And really, I am nearly 100 % sure that I had never seen a photo of her before.
Since that day, I try to convince myself that I am not as mad as I think to be XD