KnifeMissle- so many assumptions in that argument, and so much of an ethnocentric viewpoint.
I agree to some extent that dreams aren't the best analogy. Though I have *met* people who have claimed to never have dreamed before. And if someone was seeing a ghost and happened to be hooked up to instruments, I'm sure they could read brain activity too. And duh we have more confidence in dreams
that is part of my point.
But essentially you're saying you know everything there is to know about the lack of proof of ghosts existing and since no one has given *you* reasonable evidence this should somehow dictate how the rest of the world thinks. Youre basically stating that because most people you know don't believe, ghosts don't exist. Well guess how many people there are on earth, and now guess how many you know.
By your own logic let me put it another way since you just implied dreams are real and not fantasies like ghosts. Say I have regular dreams of a dead relative, we have conversations and everything. So I'm conversing with a ghost in my dreams. So by your logic ghosts are fantasies, but dreams are not. But since dreams are real, by inclusion then ghosts are real too since they appear in dreams.
Sorry if that came off a little harsh, it's not you personally. Just a bit pissed off at how ethnocentric people can be, it disgusts me. There are more ancestor worship-believe in ghost cultures in the world than there are not. People think just because theyre well off compared to the rest of the world that that somehow makes them better and wiser.
Or maybe it's because you said "Hey, there are some... credulous people back here on the TFP!" and then picked on only my posts.