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Ancient castles, abandoned cemeteries and swamps – a favorite ghost habitat. Here are the ghosts of the long dead Count, a robber who was cut off his head for his vile deeds or a girl who committed suicide from unhappy love. And now Imagine that you meet … as a ghost yourself!
Such cases are not uncommon when, being fully conscious, a person sees his double standing or sitting next to him. There are many descriptions of such cases in medical treatises. and even historical documents.
The harbinger of death
In cultures of many nations, meeting with a double ghost considered a foreboding of imminent death. And the grounds for such concerns there is. 19th century English poet Percy Shelley met late at night near his house a figure in a hoodie. When he approached, a stranger threw back the coverlet and Percy saw himself. The twins smiled said “You are satisfied” and disappeared. A few days later the schooner, on which Shelley traveled broke and the waves carried the body to shore the poet.
Once, Catherine II was informed that her twin had just been seen in the throne room. Despite the night, the empress went to meet a ghost. In the throne room, she saw herself sitting on the throne. From shock, Catherine fell unconscious. In a few days she died of a brain hemorrhage. Doubles seen before death Empress Elizabeth and Anna Ioannovna.
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Doppelgangers
But not always meeting with double ghosts ended like this badly. Guy left memories of such meetings in his memoirs. de Maupassant, Byron, Walter Scott, Georges Sand, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the German poet Goethe, who lived after this for many more years. For many novelists, this was the impetus for the creation of literary works. It is thanks to the works of German novelists of the XIX century and the word doppelganger – double came into use.
According to descriptions, doppelgangers have creamy translucent skin, in the dark, only a dark body and its contours can be seen. Happy this just a haze or a shadow. Dusk is when the doppelganger is a man in all its glory. Meetings are short-lived, up to several minutes, but remain in memory forever. While trying to touch doppelganger vision dissolves.
Crazies, relatives, guests from nowhere?
Scientists regard meetings with twin ghosts as autoscopic hallucinations, stressing the fact that the vast description of doppelgangers recorded from the words of psychiatric patients hospitals. What’s so surprising? Not every person in cold blood will transfer the meeting to a double ghost, a messenger of imminent death. If Maupassant even talked with his doppelganger, then illiterate superstitious peasant could very well move off his mind. And all however, some of the cases may well be thrown to the mental disorders
Cases when people completely alien to each other turn out to be looking alike like identical twins, a lot. On the ground More than 7.5 billion people live. Most of them still know about their cousins and second cousins, and then the connection breaks off. It is not surprising that sometimes distant kinship gives itself know. A chance meeting in a deserted dark place of two is even simple very similar people – and everyone will be sure to meet the ghost.
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There is a version that the doppelganger is a person from parallel the universe or another dimension. According to another theory, doppelgangers – it is we ourselves, as a result of some kind of failure in the mechanism of the universe moved forward or backward in time. That is why the double sometimes older or younger than the “original”.
There are many explanations, and which one is correct is unknown. Therefore, having met the doppelganger, do not rush to him with your hug, say hello, ask about his health and stay away him away. If this is an alien from a parallel universe – physical contact with it may result in the breakdown into components atoms for both of you, do you need this? If within a minute the double is not lost – turn on the light, and either it will disappear, or you wake up.
Posted by Klim Podkova
Universe Doubles
