Ghostly impressions?
 

I read an interesting theory once (I can't remember where sorry but I will point out that it's not my own), thought I'd throw it out there to see what everybody thought.

On 'seeing' ghosts:

the theory went along the lines that because everyone posesses an electromagnetic field (henceforth 'EMF'), the field can be impressed on it's environment, if the environment's EMF is weaker than the persons. The example used was this:

A young man is relaxing in the sun by a spring, and suddenly he spots a lovely young girl bathing herself. Naturally, he is suddenly quite excited and it stimulates his EMF to become stronger (in a way which reflects his feelings) and this new, stronger EMF creates an impression locally on the environment's EMF.

A few days later, another chap happens to sit down in the same spot, and perhaps he's a little tired or something, because his EMF is weaker than the environment's. Because the 'impression' of the randy young man's field is still there, the tired man picks up on this and subconsciously interprets it as the vision of a vague and 'ghostly' young girl in the spring, and hence, sees the ghost of the girl.

Sorry it's a bit of a cumbersome explanation. Also the terms 'weaker' and 'stronger' are used in the loosest sense, to approximate what I'm trying to say here.
I think this could go someway to explain apparitions, especially of dead people. Say a child of a family dies, that whole family feels terrible grief for that loss, which is a very powerful emotion and would leave these impressions all over the house. This could be reinterpreted later on, or interpreted by say, a new family moving into the house as the vision, voice, or any component of the family's 'memory' of the dead child.

What are your thoughts?

Well, since I believe that every person leaves a print on every environtment he is in, I think that's a pretty plausable explanation. But again, this is just speculation like millions of others out there. The theory you posted only works on people who believe that people have spiritual energy which they can send out/project/manipulate willingly or not. Since a vast majority of people don't believe in that theory, it might not work for some. It is interesting nontheless.

If that were true, then every overstimulating emotional event would cause an impression on the environment. I don't subscribe to this theory.

An interesting idea, but how would that explain the "fields" that are there for years? And if they all stay around for years then we would all have experiences with seeing things.

I don't see how this theory is any more plausible than saying that ghost are actually dead peoples spirits. It could explain seeing things I guess, but what about other activity that comes along with most ghostly encounters, ie cold spots, feelings of unease, moving objects etc?

Anyway, I don't mean to be crass, but I don't buy it.

Yeah I know, I don't particularly "buy it" either, as you put it. I just think it's an interesting idea. Food for thought.
Thanks for your responses.

It's an interesting idea, but I have to agree with whoever said that any overstimulating or very emotional event would leave an imprint and the world would be filled with them.

I think it's not so much ANY overstimulating event, its only those which occur in a space where the emf is suitably weak enough to accept the impression. Also, in order to pick up on these impressions, a person would again have to be suitably weaker than the environment emf.

Maybe I read this wrong, plus I know jack shit, but if the young man was stimulated by the young girl wouldn't it be his emf that leaves a impression?