My friend can see ghosts.

What is the origin of his ability? He claims to see them and he can become REALLY scared. How can I help stop him from seeing ghosts?

welcome to ATS, but instead of posting a short one liner like your OP is, why not contribute to a few more posts?
as to your friend, what are the conditions surrounding his visions?

Could you simplify that? I'm quite new to all this ATC.

reply to post by RimDaas

stop him from seeing ghosts

That would just be crazynes to do dat.. finally your friend have the power to prove to the world they are real. How does he descrbe these "ghosts" are they complete bodies ? floating ? tranparante ? do they speak to him, can he comunicate with them.. have he tried ? we could learn so much.. aint he just alittle intrested ? perhaps he could experiment with taken pictures in the direction of a ghost with.. things like thermal camera, nightvision.. perhaps do a EVP.. I would be so excited if it was me, or I knew one that had these "powers"

reply to post by RimDaas


The guy is just able to see some of his thoughts. Ask him if he can visualize stuff if he try enough.. You know, we all see ghosts in dreams

-v

reply to post by Vandalour


Its not quite something he likes. He describes the ghosts as translucent and he has tried to ask questions to them. They only awnser one question. From what i;ve heard, he says it runs in the family. I don't know how he has inherited it but I'm quite curious.

reply to post by Vandalour


Do you know why camera's lens structure is called "objective"? Because it objectively records the reflections of light from physical objects. Ghost again are purely subjective, usually hallucinations and delusions. Tho it doesn't remove the fact, that they are very real to the one experiencing them.

As are dreams.

-v

reply to post by RimDaas


These kind of abilities do run in families. Ghosts are thoughts, spiritual and non-material. They are thoughtforms of subjective mind - sometimes even a group of closely linked people can see the "same thought", but more usually they just say "you know, I was thinking just the same".

Anyway, some people seems to have this capability to see thoughts, and because it's pretty much based on neural structure, it can run in families. Or so it has been reported.

-v

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some usefull info on the matter of seeing ghosts, more stories click through on the links at the bottom of the page too...

reply to post by v01i0

Ghost again are purely subjective, usually hallucinations and delusions.

So with that you are saying that all the pictures taken of ghosts are fake or misunderstod ?
paranormal.about.com...

I know what you are saying.. about light reflecting of matter and such.. but how would you know if these entities dont acidently step into our dimension sometimes.. or perhaps it it us stepping into theirs.. nothing is certain, nothing is proved

I would venture to say meds are in order here.

have him try to prove his claim..some simple tests (write down a few numbers or letters on a paper across the room outside of his view, then have his ghost friends tell him what it is...confirm his claims.

until he proves his claim, then your friend could simply be having some mental issues, or simply freaking you out.

you will know his intentions if you tell him to prove it and immediately he starts on why he cant (they can't see the paper, etc)...he will start making up rules immediately.

I do believe in something that people label ghosts, but I find about 95% of peoples claims (perhaps more) are either misunderstandings, lies, or general crazyness...would be refreshing to see something unusual actually measured, but my breath is not being held.

Finally, why is he scared? a "ghost" has never killed anyone ever...he doesn't freak out when he see's living people and they have killed countless others...so why freak out about the harmless entities.

reply to post by RimDaas


We need some more details here.

Can he see them with his naked eye or can he see them in his mind?
How long has he been able to see them?
Do they know who he is?
You say it runs in his family, can anyone else in his family see them?
Does he think they're going to do harm?

Stuff like that, so we can gauge the situation more clearly.

reply to post by KrypticCriminal



I'll ask him some of the questions myself
They run through his family as I said. His cousin has it and someother cousins too.
They don't know who he is. they're usually beduoins since we will in the desert regions.
They can cause harm. They have caused harm sometimes.

In Oriental beliefs, some people are known to be able to see ghosts. These people are termed to have "yin yang eyes". It is believed that a number of kids can see entities between the age of 2- 4 but as they grow older, they lose this ability naturally.Being at such a young age, most kids probably would not remember these incidents.
However, some kids do retain this ability even as they become adults.

For people born in the yin time/day/month/year.(based on Chinese Ba Zi) these handful of people would also be very prone to ghostly encounters. There are reports of people seeing ghosts that are just like humans, they do not float but walk, they always have this sulky face, their ghostly apparition often is depicted at the time just before death and they are seen in daylight as well contrary to popular beliefs.

Lastly there is also a belief that when a person is down on his luck, he is more susceptable to seeing such stuff.
Using the leaves of the pomelo fruit to bath allegedly helps to removes ones bad luck. (to a certain extend) Attending weddings and avoiding funerals whenever possible seems to help as well.

If your frend is able to see the dead since young, i suggest getting to terms with it.

P.S sorry for the poor english.

A few members of my family including myself have been gifted with seeing spirits/ghosts/whatever you want to call them. I'm not sure if it's even POSSIBLE to stop somebody from seeing them once it's already started... If any sort of medication does work, then I would say it's safe to assume it's some sort of mental/psychological problem rather than actually seeing ghosts and such.

I've had many experiences, usually in houses of my family members and such.
Once at my grandmother's house, I was on her computer and I saw a woman walk right beside me and out the door. There was only one way in that room and that was the door she walked out of, only thing behind me was a television and a closet.

At my auntie's house I saw a girl standing in the laundry room, I hate telling this story because it still scares the # out of me, so I'll leave it at that, nothing spectacular really, it just stuck in my mind and is haunting me still in a way.

At my brother's ex-girlfriends house out in a small town (Lumsden, SK), she lived in an apartment that used to be a hospital or something of the sort, and when we were watching TV we could hear something like the noise of running, and all of a sudden the TV set shook and stuff... Like somebody was running past right in front of us.

Anyway, I hope your friend can solve his 'problems' if that's what he wants to consider them... I say he is gifted and should not want to stop seeing these things, but to each their own.

Among primitives, for instance, the imago, the psychic reverberation of the sense-perception, is so strong and so sensurously coloured that when it is reproduced as a spontaneous memory-image it sometimes even has the quality of an hallucination. Thus when the memory-image of his dead mother suddenly reappears to a primitive, it is as if it were hes ghost that he sees and hears. We only "think" of the dead, but the primitive actually perceives them because of the extraordinary sensuousness of his mental images. This explains the primitive's belief in ghosts and spirits; they are what we quite simply call "thoughts". When the primitive "thinks", he literally has visions, whose reality is so great that he constantly mistakes the psychic for the real. Powell says: "The confusion of confusions is that universal habit of savagery - the confusion of the objective with the subjective." Spencer and Gillen observe: "What a savage experiences during a dream is just as real to him as what he sees when he is awake." What I myself have seen of the psychology of the Negro completely endorses these findings. From this basic fact of the psychic realism and autonomy of the image vis-à-vis the autonomy of the sense-perception springs the belief in spirits, and not from any need of explanation on the part of the primitive, which is merely imputed to him by Europeans. For the primitive, thought is visionary and auditory, hence it also has the character of revelation. Thus the sorcerer, the visionary, is always the thinker of the tribe, who brings about the manifestation of the spirits and gods. This also explains the magical effect of thought; it is as good as the deed, just because it is real. (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, part 6)