Erm... No one ever *sees* the tooth fairy, or Santa now, do they.
I think that the mind itself creates the illusion of the 'ghost' and, much like a dream, the illusion looks and feels real, therefore is taken as real.

"it interprets sensation and turns it into perception", which is exactly the same thing as creating it 'on the fly'. When I said it can do whatever the fuck it likes, I obviously meant within the boundaries of possibility. To be more precise, it has the power to make you believe anything...that there are spiders under your skin, that your friend is your enemy and wants to kill you, that a flower in a field is in fact the manifestation of God or that U2 are actually talented.

OK, maybe a bit far fetched at the end there, but basically, your mind creates YOUR reality and therefore has the ability, with or without the help of drugs, to warp it however it pleases. Ask Monty about the DMT..
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 25 Jan 2010, 16:56, Reply)