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Originally Posted by duga
So...do you? And if you do...do you have a story to go with it?
I do, and I have a whole bunch of theories based on how ghosts can exist...but that isn't nearly as interesting as a good experience story.
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Hey, duga,
No, I don't believe ghosts or souls exist.
I *do* know that the human brain is very capable of believing coincidence is more than that. People also sometimes believe dreams are real. More seriously, various brain "glitches" such as seizures and other neurological troubles produce hallucinations that can be emotional, auditory, and/or visual.
Since people have been hoping desperately for life after death for probably hundreds of thousands of years, ghosts to me symbolize wish fulfillment as the mind tries to fill in gaps in knowledge by imagining the existence of ghosts. I also feel the concept of ghosts symbolizes people's fear of death.