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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Montgomery: [QB] I tend to take the view that most "paranormal phenomena" are not what they are assumed to be. This doesn't mean they are all without foundation. Many such events could be aspects of the natural world seen too infrequently to be well known. (eg. ball lightning , or even postulated "lights in the sky" produced by tectonic plates causing localised aurorae) My skepticism also rests on the fact that our entire perception of the world is filtered through fallable senses of hearing and sight. I have several times heard my name being called when there's nobody there - a common auditory hallucination brought on by fatigue. I have also had bouts of vertigo (not necessarily related to heights, but to ear infections, etc), which can produce visual distortions and even hallucinations. My brother told me once that his medication for epilepsy used to regularly produce terrifying monsters in his peripheral vision. Being myopic as well, I find when I wake during the night (minus correcting lenses) the world is transformed into a grey swirling mass where even something like a chair can for an instant look like a living form. I don't buy ghosts, because after doing a physics degree you think of everything you see as something that refelcts photons into your eye. If a ghost can be seen, it'd need to reflect, and thus be made of "stuff". So you're telling me a couple of million atoms appear and disappear from the ether, and go through solid objects in violation of the laws of physics? To believe that I'd need more evidence than that of my useless and increasingly knackered eyes. Id probaly need to introduce myself to one and ask if I could have a brief word about the afterlife if they're not too busy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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