(February 7, 2016 at 6:20 am)Brian37 Wrote:(February 6, 2016 at 7:04 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Just got back from visiting my 92 year old grandfather in the ICU, who just woke up from life saving surgery. He didn't even recognize me, he was calling me JoJo a guy he was in the war with. He was hallucinating that he was back in WWII as a POW, he was trying to pick lice off of his arms (which wasn't there) and was asking me if I could get him past the gaurds so he could get home. My point is this all seems very real to him and he is awake, the brain can do crazy things when it is not functioning properly.
Yes, but even with people who report things like ghosts, or seeing dead people, those are not real things, they are delusions that are false perceptions because humans have no understanding about how the brain can be messed up or how false perceptions and the brain under duress, like drug or mental illness can compile a delusion.
That is my point
