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G-G-G-Ghosts!
dennis:
--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 05 Jun 2008, 22:02 ---Not 100% true.
Dr. Whatshisface did a sleep-based experiment to test for out of body experience. He found a very rare kind of person who claimed to have out-of-body experiences every night while sleeping. The experiment took place in a sleep lab with a very, very high shelf. Using a double-blind procedure, a random number was written on a piece of paper and placed on the shelf and the participant was asked to see it in their out-of-body nighttime experience.
Note that the participant was hooked up to a whole bunch of scientific apparatus such as an EEG, EOG and EMG, so if she was to get up she'd interrupt the measurement of her body electrical signals and the researcher would know the whole thing was over.
That didn't happen, however.
The devices took readings over the night, and as usual, she entered the various NREM and REM stages of sleep. In the morning, she correctly gave the researcher the number. I believe the researcher even took repeated measures to make sure it wasn't just chance, but the participant kept getting it right. Craaaazy.
So ghosts probably aren't real, but in the future I believe our perception of the paranormal is going to get more narrow as we research the full capabilities of the human mind.
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Ohhhhh. Dr. Whatshisface! Of course. Why didn't you say so?
Unfortunately, the vast majority of research into the paranormal is conducted by people who would like nothing more than to verify the existence of the paranormal, and those experiments are rife with error and bias.
Boro_Bandito:
Hmm, can't say I believe too much about the supernatural, with shows like Ghost Hunters on Sci-fi being a total waste of human existance, but I think every person has a couple of childhood experiences that they can't explain, and never will be able to for whatever reason. In my case for instance, When I was around 4, living in Springfield, Missouri, I fell off of the top of a slide that was in my backyard. Something caught me and set me down gently, no clue who or what it was. I remember being confused, because I looked around and no one was there, even went inside and asked my parents, who were both immediately concerned for my safety and thought I had gotten a concussion or that someone had been in our backyard for some reason, but I hadn't hit the ground, wasn't dirty or had as much as a single scratch on me. Meh, who knows.
I claim to be a person of rational thought, and I know (or at least think I know) that there is nothing supernatural of any kind and I'm very much an atheist. But at the same time I sort of lament the fact that nothing supernatural or magical exists in the world. I read a lot of fantasy/science fiction and I enjoy pretty much all ghost stories, even watching Ghost Hunters if there's nothing good on. I think this is part of why I want to play a pen and paper RPG so badly, because I like to pretend. It doesn't help that I keep buying those damned World of Darkness books, which seem to me to be so freakin' cool.
Tom:
Boro, you were touched...touched by an Angel.
Boro_Bandito:
Should... should I sue?
Tom:
No..no you shouldn't God looks after his own. There...there will be a tribunal but the angel will get his job back.
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