Encounters with phantoms and ghosts belong to one of the most ancient paranormal phenomena. Some people do not believe in their existence, others claim that they see phantoms all the time. Who is right and can you really see a phantom?
A phantom (a ghost, an incorporeal substance, from the French fantome) is an optical vision, a collective image of an object, both existing and once existing. What do phantoms look like and why do they arise? It is believed that a phantom exists in the imagination that generates its essence, therefore, it can be represented in different ways.
How do you recognize phantoms?
A phantom differs from a living creature only by indirect signs, in particular, it moves silently and weightlessly, passing through real objects, has a fixed gaze, does not feel emotions, cold or heat, the floor does not creak under it and the grass does not bend.
Phantoms behave in a special way: they either copy the mobility of the original, or act independently of it. The former are called twins and exist as long as there is energy supply. No feed - no phantom. When a phantom exists at the expense of other sources of energy besides imagination, it is considered a ghost, often tied to the energy of a place that for this reason cannot be left for him.
A ghost is a phantom that does not depend on the original, while capable of exerting a physical effect on all objects in our world, except for the person himself (for example, moving things). The phantom can be seen only in semi-darkness (twilight) or at night, that is, in the absence of the sun's rays, which distort the composition of the air at the molecular level.
Why do people see phantoms?
Usually the phantom enters the field of lateral vision, which sends a signal to the brain, which forms the entity in different ways. The manifestation of a specific image in a person's mind can occur in several ways, but most often different people see a phantom that looks like an ethereal and transparent formation that displays real beings, it dematerializes when it comes into contact with objects. This essence appears to them in the form of gray or with whitish segments of ethereal clouds of a certain shape, outwardly resembling a foggy or soapy spatial part.
Some eyewitnesses described the phenomena when the phantom was dense and was capable of causing damage, and disappeared only after a person was ready to harm him. According to the descriptions of people who have seen such a phantom, it looks quite material and resembles an ordinary, everyday person.
People with visual impairments saw phantoms more often than others. In the rest of the officially recorded cases, their physical appearance occurred spontaneously, against the wishes of the person, which, as a rule, indicates a tense life situation or is a harbinger of an unfavorable event.
Phantoms can manifest themselves not only in a human, but also in any other guise. For example, in Syria, where hostilities were taking place, soldiers saw phantoms of service dogs that died during the clearance of the territory.
