Posted by samizdis 2 days ago
However, there's another theory about this (not mine, sadly): "The most common ghosts are the ones that appear dressed in a white sheet with flailing arms. These are people who died while changing their duvet covers and they are condemned to wander in bedrooms forever, trying to find the corners." ;-)
But surely an identity would need to projected onto a ghost to transform it from an unknown haunting in a sheet into a known phantasm recognized by its victim.
Like dimensional digital projectors from our soul or collective consciences onto the sheet to create a ghost seems to be the idea.
But then again, that's all matter (well, waves), isn't it?
That lead us to a more interesting question, why barn owls are not black?
I just somehow knew they were a spirit.
Its happened a half a dozen times or so for me, since I was a small child.
Our minds get kind of funny when we are asleep. They manifest strange and incomprehensible imagery. I wouldn’t make too much of it.
(By the way, I have these much more frequently when I am stressed. Perhaps that was a factor for you?)
Usually, it's family members who will do it yearly. In addition, each year during Ghost Month, people will burn offerings to those ghosts who do not have family.
They don't burn actual clothes, but representations of clothes made of paper. They are also burn paper made houses, cars, and money.