[idi banashapan]

personal experience is subjective. sometimes an experience can seem like something it is not. take, for example, something I'm sure most of us have experienced - falling in a dream. it feels like we're falling, but in reality, we are not. that's not to say one didn't believe at the time one was falling, but that does not mean one actually was.

experience and belief are very closely tied in our minds, but to have one does not mean the other is necessarily the truth. the brain works in such a way that it will try to fill in gaps of an experience by using pieces of knowledge acquired through past experiences during one's own life. if one experiences something that the brain either cannot process completely, or even if it's a simple case that the surrounding circumstances are unknown to the individual, the creative brain takes over.

in this case, Barewolf has seen things that his mind cannot piece together in a logical fashion because his experience of an event does not include part or parts of the scenario in whole. his mind has gone back through all knowledge it has acquired to find something it knows about that can 'explain' how his experience happened. for him, ghosts filled the gaps. reading books, seeing films, hearing stories. we have all been subjected to 'strange things going bump in the night' stories. but that does not mean what Barewolf experienced was a ghost. more likely is that some of the story was missing from what he experienced and it was completed by refering to these ideas.

consider this for instance - my car keys. I come home and I put them down on a table in the livingroom. later, I come back and they have gone. my experience is that no one else is in the house. I was in the shower. there's no wind in my livingroom. how did they move? a ghost? perhaps. but what I didn't know is that whilst I was in the shower, my gf comes back home and needs the sat-nav from my car. she picks up my keys and goes to my car to get it. comes back in and puts my keys on the table in the hallway. just because I didn't experience a logical explaination as to how they moved, does not mean that there wasn't one. without knowing she had come back, it would certain be described as spooky and paranormal, but in fact, it is not.

as already stated in this thread, there are lots of stories about ghosts, but no, indisputable, measurable, solid evidence that ghosts exist. it's not even something that can be made to seem probably using equations or statistics. everything we know about ghosts is based on personal experience and beliefs, not necessarily the truth. I don;t deny it may well feel very true to the one experiencing the event, but that truth is subjective and not necessarily actual. very different things.

ghosts may well be real, but until proven without any doubt, I'm more inclined to think there is a logical and far more physical explaination to the events you describe.