GHOSTS & THE PHANTOM
LIMB SYNDROME THEORY
By: Shyan Chapman 06/15/2004
One theory on Ghosts that I found
interesting is the "Phantom
Limb
Syndrome" theory. Phantom Limb Syndrome is a real disorder where people
who have had an arm or leg removed claim they can still feel their limb. Not
only could they still feel it, but they also claim to have sensation, like
numbness or burning, as if the limb were still hurting or suffering some sort
of long-term damage from the injury.
Well losing an arm or leg is something
most people do not readily know how to deal with when it is amputated. The same
can be said about loved ones that have been around us throughout our lives,
when they die it is something we may not readily accept, or deal with right
away. In the same sense as "Phantom Limb Syndrome" some people claim
to see and hear their loved ones, even sense their presence as if they were in
the room and had never left. Like a limb, they were taken, amputated from life.
Though they are gone, it is as though they left an imprint upon the face of the
Earth that can still be felt, not only by those who knew them.
This accounts for people, who buy new houses, or rent very old
houses, claiming to see translucent figures though nothing can be seen upon
second glance. They claim to feel their touch again though there is no hand or
smell perfume, though there are no fumes. Some cases have even strangers who
live in a new home where someone died seeing the deceased in dreams.
The Term "Phantom Limb
Syndrome" has been around since the
Civil War,
while the symptoms have been around since before Christ. There is really no
cure for it that I know of. Maybe a little something for the burning or
numbness in the Phantom Limb but that is just a temporary relief.
The same
may not be said for the symptoms of seeing a Ghost, not without further study
into the phenomena, which has been ignored to a great degree by mainstream
science.
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Edited by
David Chapman 06/16/2004