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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Love is liking someone a lot and having an emotional attachment to them which can be scientifically measured. Butterflies in your stomach are explainable with science (they're actually neurotransmitters and neurons in your stomach that have learned to react to certain people/events). You can't compare an attraction and emotional attachment to someone to seeing a ghost. That is comparing a feeling to an event.
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Caveat: I am not saying that people who have experienced ghosts or other unexplainable phenomena are insane.
Who is to say that seeing a ghost is an event? Also, just because something is a feeling doesn't mean it's NOT an event. Those butterflies, the heart racing and the feeling of euphoria caused by "love" are events.
Paranoid schizophrenics have auditory hallucinations that are incredibly real (to them). In fact, surgeons have induced auditory hallucinations in non-schizophrenic people. These people are certain that their "dead mother," or someone is talking to them; or they hear music or whispering ... whatever.
I have had sleep-paralysis and awakened to a "presence in my room" and auditory hallucinations--my memories of these events are that it was very real and actually happening. In my opinion (memories notwithstanding), this is all taking place in my brain. Someone else may not feel the same way.
I can't prove that it wasn't real any more than someone else can prove that it was. This is how I feel about ghosts (among other things). Is it possible that it's all taking place in the person's head due to some chemical reaction? Sure. Is it possible that it is actually taking place "in the real world?" Sure. Why not? Until I (or anyone else) can prove without a doubt one way or the other--I'm open. Everything else is just opinion.