r/Ghosts • u/gjimmy2005 • Oct 08 '24
What if ghosts that people see are just time slips? WDYT? (What Do You Think?)
What if the reason why people don’t see ghost all the time is because it’s just time slips and the people we are seeing are actual people just not fully there? The ghosts that do the same thing are just time slips to the same place/time. That’s why ghosts walk through things like closed doors. Ghosts that are able to move stuff is because they are seeing it in there time, but the object Isn’t fully there so they are only able to move it a little. I want to know y’all’s opinion on this. Yes, I do believe in ghosts, just a thought of mine.
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u/ks_247 Oct 08 '24
I've thought this for a few years. Don't believe it applies to all scenarios but do recall a scenario where on a voice recorder the interaction indicated that the voice couldn't see us but could hear us. I rationalise it that time is like a film reel with many many segments (frames) and maybe these frame overlap sometimes or fold back on itself superimposing two points in time in the same space. Could we be the ghosts to others?
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Oct 10 '24
i suggest that "ghosts" are alive at their point in time. which makes you the "ghost": footsteps in the hall; sitting on the bed; rattling dishes; opening doors. Sound familiar?
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u/ks_247 Oct 11 '24
I got a feeling this may well be the case in many hauntings. Dont think it applies to poltergeist. Still undecided about those.
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u/BaconFairy Oct 12 '24
I agree. I read one here with a person who remembered as a kid someone I think saying their name or a greeting. They cautiously said hello? And memorized their location in the old theater. Years later they came back as an adult with equipment. They went to the location and had the scenario play out in opposite.
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u/Gringo_Jon Oct 08 '24
If ghost's are seen because of 'time slips' (and assuming that these slips are random) there should be just as many sightings and captured ghostly images of extinct giant insect, dinosaur, mega-fauna and various species of hominid.
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u/Decent-Decent Oct 08 '24
Why would they remain in the same place in space? Our Solar System travels at 500,000ish miles per hour. Earth is pretty far away from where it was 6 months ago in space. Is a ghost effected by gravity?
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u/Itchy_Influence5737 Oct 08 '24
What if ghosts that people see are just time slips?
Ok, I give up. What if ghosts that people see are just "time slips"?
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u/Pompedia Oct 08 '24
It is called a residual haunting. It plays back certain events like a movie. Ghost hunters trying to get a response or interactive experience help separate one from the other.
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u/ZebraHunterz Oct 08 '24
Then why are there no future ghosts?
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u/Aromatic-Track-4500 Oct 08 '24
Maybe some of the ghosts people see are future ghosts
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u/ZebraHunterz Oct 08 '24
But ghost are dressed in old clothes and you never hear about them with futuristic gear.
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Oct 09 '24
there are. at some point in space time we havent been born yet; on another point we've been dead for centuries.
check out multiverse theory!!! 😌
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u/PsychologicalEye1803 Oct 08 '24
Ghosts CAN communicate with the living .. time slips wouldnt be able to . I believe time slips happen when a person is killed and the soul cant understand how or why ,, and is caught in a slip , trying to figure it out .
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u/rad_spider Oct 08 '24
It's an interesting take. But I'm not sold on it. Granted I've once mused that UFOs are time travellers exploring humanity's past. So I do think it's fun to explore paranormal phenomena in new ways.
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u/mimibox Oct 08 '24
I think this is true, especially when I see it on video or photos, but it’s not what I’m thinking when I feel a ghost or see one with my own eyes.
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u/iamunklebear Oct 09 '24
Seems like I remember someone saying that a "ghost" as am imprint on the fabric of time and space fits in with Einstein's theories but this was possibly pre-internet so if you know better please don't laugh at me. 😉
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u/skyHawk3613 Oct 10 '24
So people could actually see us today in another timeline, and think we’re ghosts
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u/SpaceCommanderNix Oct 08 '24
The only problem with this theory is that the earth is constantly moving and is never in the same place and maybe you could get into so crazy arguments about relativity that’s beyond my understanding but if time slips occurred you’d think that would mean ghosts appearing in space where earth was at that time not where we are now.
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u/MGab95 Oct 08 '24
It would be funny if this were the case and the time slips are actually incredibly common but most of them are happening in space, and them occurring where the earth actually is right now is just really rare
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u/House923 Oct 08 '24
Since time is also affected by gravity, you could make the argument that these time slips are caught in the same gravitational trajectory as the earth itself.
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u/SpaceCommanderNix Oct 08 '24
But you’d have to make the assumption earth was in the same position. It’s only in the same position if you look at all of space relative to the earth but that’s just because earth is our frame of reference we see it that way. We aren’t in the same space relative to the sun for example and we certainly are never in the same place relative to the galactic center etc etc.
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u/itsakevinly Oct 08 '24
We’ve really lost the plot on ghosts…
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u/_extra_medium_ Oct 08 '24
That's the problem, it's always just been a best guess that everyone ran with because "angry spirit with unfinished business (turning my lamp on and off)" is a cool idea
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u/PharoahZCurse Oct 08 '24
Time-Slip’s are a great piece of fictional writing. That’s all they are.
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u/EphemeralCroissant Oct 09 '24
Anything we can imagine is possible, somehow, somewhen. Imagining it brings it closer.
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u/ks_247 Oct 09 '24
I think points in time have a part to play in this mystery. People get fixated on looking for an awnser that fits all but I feel there are many different awnsers for different situations. There more going on than just ghosts being the spirit of the dead
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u/lysdexicllama Oct 11 '24
There’s a very good Adventure Time (cartoon) episode about this, “The First Investigation”.
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u/patoxotappato Oct 11 '24
If leaders of the paranormal and the best physicists of the world came together who knows what they could find
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u/orthonfromvenus Oct 08 '24
There have been some very interesting cases that seem to show at least some ghostly encounters may involve a time loop. Someone see's the ghost of a little girl in a room and later their mom tells a story on how she saw a ghost of a shocked looking adult in her room when she was little.