+1,006 What if people really do see the things that they claim are ghosts, except they aren't really spirits or poltergeists? What if what they're really seeing is a chunk of time that got temporarily lost? So a girl could've been brushing her teeth in your bathroom 50 years ago but that time got mixed up and you're seeing it happen right now. It's not really happening, but you see it. That would be pretty creepy but insanely awesome, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And that's why really old houses are called haunted more often, because there's more chance for time to get mixed up(!!!)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm watching poltergeist Right now d

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/57900 It's a fold in the time/space continuum!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No cat picture? D:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/60421

by Anonymous 13 years ago

:D all is well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Much better. y

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WHAT THE HELL MY PICTURE IS REMOVED?!?!?!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually Internet time got mixed up. Your picture is now traveling through cyberspace. Who knows when it could show up again. Maybe 56 years from now amiriters will be conversing with eachother and suddenly your picture pops up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That would make sense since my comment was also there at least a minute before Axolotl's.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Semi-relevant: I believe our imaginations are just projections of other dimensions that find themselves in our brains. If you can imagine it, it exists; if not in our dimension, then another. So perhaps they're imagining the "ghosts" but because they're imagining it, their brains are seeing parts of another dimension.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you apply rule 34 to this theory, there's some pretty freaky deminsions out there...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Time got mixed up. Interesting theory.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Time doesn't really exist though, but cool idea.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Please explain.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

We (humans) created it to keep track and record. The world would still turn if we didn't have watches. We would still breath. We just wouldn't have written history of anything. It's just a measuring tool.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well we also created socks, does that mean they dont exist?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, definitely not.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

However, people lose socks quite often, that could be the universe tying to rid itself of a human made mistake. hmm

by Anonymous 13 years ago

THEY DISAPPEAR //INSIDE// OF THE WASHER. Not the part where you put the clothes, but behind it, in the //frame//.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Of course, it all makes sense now! You deserve a Nobel Prize, Einstein!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

socks are just clusters of very close together atoms, technically they're not real.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's like saying length and mass doesn't exist. Watches are like rulers and they help us keep track of time. Hours and minutes are units to keep track of time, just like meters and liters. So we invented how to measure time, we did not invent time, just like how we did not create length or mass or volume. Also I agree with Ms Narwhal up there.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Hours" and "minutes"? What is this nonsense? I believe the terms you are searching for are "Rockys" and "Chronos"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's the new futer!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The thing about time is that it's an abstract concept. Length, mass, or volume are all used to measure tangible things. Comparing it to length/mass really doesn't give it justice. These things can be changed in either direction whereas time only moves in one direction. If you really think about it, time travel makes no sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Except length and mass are properties of an object, whereas time is on its own a thing that only grows. What we use clocks for is measuring and keeping track of how fast it grows and to what size. There's no time that is "past" or "present", time is only the ongoing line of everything getting older, it's not history. So it doesn't exist. Last second does not exist. There's only one second -- right now. Anything before this was the same moment, only now you are that one second older as well as everyone else on this Earth. There is no record that is "time" to make a filmstrip of every movement, and therefore "going back 4 seconds" is not only impossible but wouldn't let you see what was going on 4 seconds ago. You can measure an object with a ruler to see how long it is, but you cannot measure time to see how long it is because it's ust not long. You cannot measure time. You can only measure the rate of its growth and align everyone to that rate. There is no time that people thing as a strict progression of cause to effect, the only time is measuring from now to the future. So I don't think that's comparable to length or mass.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Also, everything moves. Galaxies move toward and away from each other, the sun orbits the center of the milky way, and the earth moves around the sun. So even if you were able to travel back in time, you'd just be floating in space.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Time still exists. Our measurement of it is made up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Which may be why time travel doesn't work...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I thought time travel didn't work because you cannot reach the speed of light.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's just what they want you to think.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well that makes sense because people assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

better description than my physics teacher...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A fellow Whovian :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This post actually reminded me of when old timey France got stuck on a futuristic space ship in Doctor Who.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because that's where it's from. The Girl in the Fireplace is the episode name.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's actually from the weeping angels episode

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ah. That was an awesome episode; I've got to rewatch it sometime.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Life begins at the conception of the mother in my opinion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My favorite part of the post was where it didn't mention anything about that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/60423

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh man, I'm glad //someone// remembered to bring it all back to abortion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://amirite.net/679876/1620696

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://amirite.net/690479/1621672

by Anonymous 13 years ago

whoa.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This reminds me of an episode of Torchwood...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

season 1 episode 3

by Anonymous 13 years ago

All I know is people would be seeing a lot more ghost sex.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

write a novel centering around this idea? pretty please?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

read Hourglass by Myra McEntire. it's very very similar to this idea.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I highly recommend "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Semi-similar subject matter, also a great read.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

pathfinder by orson scott card- same dude who wrote end's game. BEST. BOOK. EVER.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Like in skyrim and the elder scrolls

by Anonymous 13 years ago

thats stupid

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Party pooper. :(

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks. Now I won't be able to brush my teeth without being paranoid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And when people see UFOs and things like that, it's just a chunk of time from the future that got stuck in the past.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/60467

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Does this remind anyone of the movie 'The Others'

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This happens in a Sarah Jane Adventure episode, it's an awesome theory.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Conspiracy Keanu, is that you?

by Anonymous 13 years ago