Most people when asked would say that a ghost looks like a white floating person, dressed in old clothing and almost like real people only slightly wrong. They picture the famous representations from cartoons, movies, photos they've seen online but what they don't think about is how the people died.
It's a theory that a ghost is what's left of a person who's death resonated so vibrantly that it stuck where it was, either repeating the person's death or living as them. To be blunt a ghost is not the person who died, it's whatever was left of them while they were dying - their thoughts, feelings, their final moments all encapsulated into one being of infinite lifespan and very few goals or recreational wants.
Some ghosts only want to relive their deaths, as if they are trying to figure out what went wrong between them living and what they are now. Others soon lose interest and turn their attentions to the living that surround them and mostly walk through them. When questioned a fair few poltergeist admit that they are only seeking company, that the past eight hundred years has consisted of everyone they know existing as they sit in an unaging void between the world of the living and the afterlife.
This brings us to another query - do ghosts still believe in an afterlife or do they accept that their current state believing that they are the deceased person and not the continuous resonating afterimage of their death? It could be that the ever present memories of their untimely demise coupled with the world around them continuing to adapt and change into an unrecognisable mesh of chaos might be too much for them to accept as their fate. It could be that they have seen hints at an afterlife beyond our comprehension as living beings.
Whatever the case may be it is unarguable that ghosts vastly outnumber the living and while they may choose to remain inert and simply watch us as we carry on our lives, the fact is that they are perfectly capable of having us join them without any warning whatsoever.
It's a theory that a ghost is what's left of a person who's death resonated so vibrantly that it stuck where it was, either repeating the person's death or living as them. To be blunt a ghost is not the person who died, it's whatever was left of them while they were dying - their thoughts, feelings, their final moments all encapsulated into one being of infinite lifespan and very few goals or recreational wants.
Some ghosts only want to relive their deaths, as if they are trying to figure out what went wrong between them living and what they are now. Others soon lose interest and turn their attentions to the living that surround them and mostly walk through them. When questioned a fair few poltergeist admit that they are only seeking company, that the past eight hundred years has consisted of everyone they know existing as they sit in an unaging void between the world of the living and the afterlife.
This brings us to another query - do ghosts still believe in an afterlife or do they accept that their current state believing that they are the deceased person and not the continuous resonating afterimage of their death? It could be that the ever present memories of their untimely demise coupled with the world around them continuing to adapt and change into an unrecognisable mesh of chaos might be too much for them to accept as their fate. It could be that they have seen hints at an afterlife beyond our comprehension as living beings.
Whatever the case may be it is unarguable that ghosts vastly outnumber the living and while they may choose to remain inert and simply watch us as we carry on our lives, the fact is that they are perfectly capable of having us join them without any warning whatsoever.
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