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Originally Posted by Godnick
Great thread, I have all sorts of great ghost stories myself, in fact, I saw something this morning flashing in my bathroom,
I turned the light on, and there was nothing there
I supposed it was a ghost orb doing whatever it pleases
Anyways, Does anybody have any good links to ghost vids?
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Seeing things in the darkness means nothing. All it is is that your mind saw a bit of something, but couldn't understand it, so it changed your perception to something which made more sense. It's commonly used in optical illusions... basically it leaves things a little ambiguous and lets your brain fill in the rest.
Also, night vision works best when you're not looking directly at the thing. This means that if there is a small bit of light (such as a LED) and you try to look at it, it may appear to disappear, yet when you don't look directly at it, you can see it. Something to do with rods and cones and the fact that whichever functions in darkness is offcenter.
I think I have the best story though. Doesn't involve darkness or anything that could have been just in my head.
I must have been like 8~10 years old. I awoke in the middle of the night to find the lights on in the living room. Not an uncommon occurence these days, but it was very rare for it to happen back then, so naturally, I thought something was up. So I go out to the living room and look around and there is no one out there. Apparently the lights were on and everyone was in bed. But wait... the refridgerator door is wide open. It was one of those ones with the fridge on bottom and the freezer on top. Anyway, I go over because I figure that someone was just crouched down looking in the fridge and as I get near the fridge, close enough to begin to see that no one was behind the door looking inside, the door closes.
I've got a few other things, but they all involve things that could have just been my imagination and tricks of light. Things like seeing outlines of people in the darkness, "shadows" of light taking on the appearance of a silloutte of a person projected on the wall, hearing sounds when there is no way for the sound to have been made. Actually, there are a lot of sound ones... Things like being able to distinctly hear certain video game music clear on the other side of the house, but if it's investigated, the source is clearly not even powered up and by the time you get out to check on it, the sound has already dissipated. Oh and keyboard clacking... for a while, when my bedroom was the front bedroom (it's the back one now), I'd hear what appeared to be the sound of someone typing away on the keyboard in the living room, but if I got up to check it out, the sound stopped. Oh and on a few occasions when I was in the front bedroom, I had been awoken by the sound of a cat scratching on my door... this wasn't uncommon because we have/had multiple cats and they often slept in my room only to get locked up when I went to bed for the night, but occasionally, I would get up to let them out after hearing the scratching and there would be no cats in my room and there wouldn't even be any cats nearby around my room (ie they might have been scratching to get in).
Oh yeah and basically every picture taken in my current bedroom (the one in the back) has "orbs" in it. This could be dust though...? Not sure the common explanations on orbs.