Ghosts or Grief?

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I am not really a believer in paranormal activity, but I like to keep an open-mind about what others think. I don’t like to shoot others beliefs down, especially when it comes to ghosts, because everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I found a video that talks about why people might have thought they had seen or experienced paranormal activity with a more scientific explanation.

Some of the reasons they gave were: misperceived self-representation, sleep paralysis, and grief. With misperceived self-representation, your body experiences sensations, and it doesn’t read as ones created by yourself. This is also what causes schizophrenia. The brain of schizophrenics tell the body what actions to do, but it doesn’t tell the body to expect it. So the brain perceives the actions as someone else – someone imaginary.

With sleep paralysis, your body is paralyzed but your mind is partly awake. So if you feel a sensation, you are not fully able to place who or what it is or where it’s coming from. Some people claim an alien abduction or see demons in their room.

Grief helps people who have lost loved ones cope with their loss. They have just gone through something heartbreaking and their mind can create images to help comfort them. Feeling that their loved one isn’t gone forever and is still looking out for them helps them cope with not being in actual contact with their lost one anymore.

Again, I don’t want to shoot down anyone who has experienced paranormal activity. I’m just offering these explanations to anyone who wants to look at paranormal activity in a different way.

Here is the video:


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