I Didn't See a Ghost Today

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

Or did I?

I don't know how much I do or do not believe in the existence of what I'll call -- for lack of a better term -- ghosts. Maybe spirits linger, and maybe people can convince themselves that spirits linger, even if they don't (which amounts to the same thing), but I certainly do believe in haunting.

It may be that those who have gone on can haunt us, but I think it's probably more common that the living haunt each other; sometimes on purpose, but more often because they can't help it and often aren't even conscious of it.

Have you ever come across a perfectly normal situation -- like, for instance, just hanging out on the internet talking to your friends -- and suddenly felt like everything around you had somehow "shifted" a little bit? And you knew that everything was really the same as it had always been, but you also knew that it really wasn't?

Maybe not because of anything specific . . . but just because you could "feel" it?

I guess what I'm asking is if any of you feel like you ever have been or are even now being "haunted," and how you define that.

staropeace · Jul 9, 2015

I am easily haunted. I do not believe in ghosts, though.

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

staropeace said:
I am easily haunted. I do not believe in ghosts, though.

See.

I think I might be "easily haunted," too.

And you know what else I think:

I think in some ways we haunt ourselves sometimes.

Does that make any sense?

staropeace · Jul 9, 2015

Pucker said:
See.

I think I might be "easily haunted," too.

And you know what else I think:

I think in some ways we haunt ourselves sometimes.

Does that make any sense?

Lots of sense.

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

You guys know the one about the man who wasn't there, right?

As I was coming down the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today,
I wish that man would go away.

Spend too much time thinking about that and it will quite literally "haunt" you.

This is going to end badly, I think.

danie · Jul 9, 2015

Too sciency and logical to believe in ghosts.
My past haunts me though. Does that count?

PatInTheHat · Jul 9, 2015

An innate intuativeness maybe, I mean I can dig what your sayin', and 'haunted' and 'haunting' are goodly accurate words to describe that almost ephiphanic feeling.
I tend to be pretty intuative, in all manner of things, people's behavior, crowded events, body language and tones, but only all dealing in the natural world's Yogi Bear picinic basket of evolved flora and fauna...I'm the youngest of a brood, youngest of two broods actually, and by a rather wide gap in age, especially on one family side, are you a youngest perchance?
It's just that the youngest have been suggested to be the more intuitive member of a family dynamic.
Maybe there's a connection is what I'm sayin'

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

danie said:
Too sciency and logical to believe in ghosts.
My past haunts me though. Does that count?

Yes . . . I would say the past counts.

I would say that is probably most exactly what I'm talking about . . .

When the past comes up and slaps you (meaning me, of course) in the face.

Dana Jean · Jul 9, 2015

PatInTheHat said:
An innate intuativeness maybe, I mean I can dig what your sayin', and 'haunted' and 'haunting' are goodly accurate words to describe that almost ephiphanic feeling.
I tend to be pretty intuative, in all manner of things, people's behavior, crowded events, body language and tones, but only all dealing in the natural world's Yogi Bear picinic basket of evolved flora and fauna...I'm the youngest of a brood, youngest of two broods actually, and by a rather wide gap in age, especially on one family side, are you a youngest perchance?
It's just that the youngest have been suggested to be the more intuitive member of a family dynamic.
Maybe there's a connection is what I'm sayin'

I am the youngest and agree with this. I've always been the more in touch person in my family. Or "touched" (in the head) member of the family.

Chuggs · Jul 9, 2015

I won't get into it just now, but I believe in ghosts.

Spideyman · Jul 9, 2015

Have you ever come across a perfectly normal situation -- like, for instance, just hanging out on the internet talking to your friends -- and suddenly felt like everything around you had somehow "shifted" a little bit? And you knew that everything was really the same as it had always been, but you also knew that it really wasn't?

Have experienced this more than once.

Maskins · Jul 9, 2015

I had the idea of ghosts drilled into my head by my mother as a child (i have no idea why a) I was scared witless as a child and b) I like S.K's work so much) but I know now they don't physically exist. However haunted, well that is the best word to describe some of the things I've seen and had to deal with and how it has affected me.

I've also woken up in a strange and sticky translucent goo that I have always assumed was ectoplasm...

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

Good ol' Pat.

As indecipherable as ever.

I am not the youngest of my siblings, although for a glorious four years that I do not recall, I was (which is probably an entirely different thread). My family was smashed to bits by a certain tragedy once upon a time, however, and there is a certain amount of "haunting" concerning how I internalize that. But even that isn't what I'm really trying to get at.

It's hard to explain.

Think about this:

A lot of people spend a lot of time "empowering" themselves; trying to find activities and thought processes through which they can make themselves feel "good" or "better" or "whatever" about themselves. But I think there might be just as many people spending just as much time wondering if maybe they shouldn't feel worse.

It's not just guilt, I don't think.

Robert Frost said that taking the road less travelled "wore them about the same" (a lot of people miss the point of that poem),
and I sometimes wonder how many little things are creeping around inside our heads just waiting to get out so that we can barely even notice.

Today I just noticed one, that's all.

PatInTheHat · Jul 9, 2015

Dana Jean said:
I am the youngest and agree with this. I've always been the more in touch person in my family. Or "touched" (in the head) member of the family.

Both perhaps :chew:

?...hey deej why not just embrace it, just makes junk simpler on a daily basis, take my word for it and be free to be cuh-uh-rrrazy :biggrin2:

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And ya know that peckin' order intution in learned behavior, mostly self taught, a type of survival instinct from wayyy back in our lizardly like brain.
And some, perhaps many, people are lucky to be born already installed with a high functioning intuitiveness I think, now put those folk on the bottom of the family food chain, and now I think you might very well get a person with muchos much empathy, a natural empath, and that's you :encouragement:

PatInTheHat · Jul 9, 2015

Pucker said:
Good ol' Pat.

As indecipherable as ever.

I am not the youngest of my siblings, although for a glorious four years that I do not recall, I was (which is probably an entirely different thread). My family was smashed to bits by a certain tragedy once upon a time, however, and there is a certain amount of "haunting" concerning how I internalize that. But even that isn't what I'm really trying to get at.

It's hard to explain.

Think about this:

A lot of people spend a lot of time "empowering" themselves; trying to find activities and thought processes through which they can make themselves feel "good" or "better" or "whatever" about themselves. But I think there might be just as many people spending just as much time wondering if maybe they shouldn't feel worse.

It's not just guilt, I don't think.

Robert Frost said that taking the road less travelled "wore them about the same" (a lot of people miss the point of that poem),
and I sometimes wonder how many little things are creeping around inside our heads just waiting to get out so that we can barely even notice.

Today I just noticed one, that's all.

Eat enough of my serial, 'Ol' Doc P.T. Hat's Cure All Crunchy Stuff', and get a PatInTheHat decoder ring absolutely almost free...save those poptops!

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

I love that:

"absolutely almost free"

You would have done well in a previous century

(you know . . . if you could avoid the tar and feathers)

; )

GNTLGNT · Jul 9, 2015

PatInTheHat said:
Eat enough of my serial, 'Ol' Doc P.T. Hat's Cure All Crunchy Stuff', and get a PatInTheHat decoder ring absolutely almost free...save those poptops!

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PatInTheHat · Jul 9, 2015

Pucker said:
I love that:

"absolutely almost free"

You would have done well in a previous century

(you know . . . if you could avoid the tar and feathers)

; )

I have a cure for that, 'Ol' Doc P.T. Hat's Tarred Feather Styling Gel and Conditioner'...it's all in the pitch :eagerness:

GNTLGNT · Jul 9, 2015

Pucker · Jul 9, 2015

PatInTheHat said:
I have a cure for that, 'Ol' Doc P.T. Hat's Tarred Feather Styling Gel and Conditioner'...it's all in the pitch

Where I grew up "pitch" is also a synonym for tar (as in pine pitch)

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