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how do spirits manifest pictures? I woke up one morning and in midair was a very vivid picture of a dark headed man in a hospital gown lying on his side. It scared me to death and it only lasted approx 4-5 seconds. I have contacted people who are trying to give me answers, but i would like alot of opions. why me? im not a physic or anything and this was a truly weird occurance. I dont doubt other people now when they say they have seen an image. this was in the form kinda like a projector but more clear and very colorful. I didnt reconize the man either, but before I saw it other things were happening in my home. any advice or info. thanks Kayla

Firstly, I don’t believe you have to be a “psychic” to witness spirits. There are lots of tales of people seeing ghosts who weren’t actively psychic, in the sense, of working as a medium or tarot reader. However usually if a spirit shows itself to you it has a reason. It may be that for some reason you were manifesting an unusual amount of energy that day, or that spirit may have a particular connection to you, being someone that cares about you or that you care about deeply or someone that is related to you in some way, a relative.

There’s no concrete and definitive explanation for how ghosts appear in pictures and on film, for some it’s to do with the energy that a ghost has in them, that even though they might not be visible to the naked eye for some reason that energy interferes with a picture and shows up as an orb or in some cases an outline of a person, although a lot of times those sorts of pictures ARE found to be a double-exposure on the film, however with digital cameras it’s more difficult to do a double exposure but easier to fake a picture afterwards in Photoshop, a few tricks with opacity and you can turn yourself into a ghost.

Ghosts appearing in mirrors and pictures that are already hanging on the wall, for example, that’s more again to do with psychic energy. I find it easier to catch glimpses of spirits if I’m not looking directly, it’s a bit like looking at a Magic Eye picture, you can find it when you’re not focusing, when you’re not trying as hard to see it.

So, I have no answer really as to how or why a ghost might be able to show up in a picture just that they apparently can. I’ve taken shots of orbs myself, and seen orbs in other people’s pictures. Some orbs I’ve seen are clearly reflections of something else that was caught in the picture, but others they have no explanation. Other than somehow the energy that a spirit generates by remaining on this plane too long is picked up in the camera, or by you only as a reflection and can then be processed by your brain in a way that it wouldn’t normally be able to be.

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