What is this in my living room? (pictures)

[Tamee]

I just noticed these things in some pictures I took of my place for someone who wanted to see a cool "hippie house" or rooms or whatever...this is the only picture with them in it. anyone know what it could be?http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/mypad2.jpg

[Tamee]

I found another one, only much smaller:
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/mypad1.jpg

[Ironcore]

A small spherical field of energy created by a conscious entity which refracts the light that is reflected from the walls behind them.

Just a guess…

[drazil]

its probably just lights reflecting form a flash bulb.or something in the paper.or an evil entity come to harrass and scare the living crap out of you.or angelic beings wanting to get their picture taken but cant becaise then theyd have ot appear solid so they emit a little burst of lite as u take the picture.anyways,whatever it is its strange,eh?

[WeeDMaN]

its jus light that reflected in the lens, my dad always explained that to me that when Id mention those about ghosts n stuff.

[Tamee]

its jus light that reflected in the lens, my dad always explained that to me that when Id mention those about ghosts n stuff.
yeah but I thought they would be more circular if it was reflected light??

[MikeE]

Light bouce off of a round object.

[themnax]

night of the living lensflares.

ok. not "lensflares" as such litteraly, but quite natural optical effects.
i've noticed in one of the pictures there are translucent objects in at least one window.

dollars to doughnuts, move them and your unidendified optical effects will chainge or dissappear. light also of course, bounces off of multiple reflective surfaces.

of course they still could be photonic life forms. but i somehow doubt it.

nontangable beings do exist, but seldom if ever manifest outside of our hearts and minds.

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[Tamee]

oh yeah my stained glass thing in the window...

[IvoryVision]

Maybe they are just reflections, or an anomoly of the lens or something of that sort... But maybe angels put them there to remind you to think of them. :)

[themnax]

back in the 50s there was this show on television called science fiction theatre or something like that. this was way before star trek or anything like that. anyway there was this one eppisode where some guy reproduced the conditions on mars (remember this was before sputnik even) in some kind of big glass jar. and anyway a bunch of things that looked like that were seen inside of it the next morning. the day after that they got out and were all over the place (it took THEM a whole day to figgure out the could pass through glass?)

i don't know how exactly they produced the effect but it must have been something pretty common and simple considering what was available back then, so i'm guessing however they did it is what we're seeing there too.

i was maybe four or five years old, and i sort of fell in love with the idea of them, although they were maybe supposed to be a little scarry or something too.

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[Maggie Sugar]

Sometimes these are refered to as "Orbs" by people in the paranormal spheres. I have mixed feelings, based on science and personal experience, concerning Orbs as sentiente beings or as the manifestations of Ghosts.

It sounds weird, as I am a pretty scientific person, but I have lived in a haunted house as a child. I can sense things like "Ghosts" often, and I have taken photos of "Orbs" in places where there was NO paranormal activity at all, that I or anyone else could tell. Then again, I've caught them in places where there WAS paranormal activity (I am about to post about a Haunted House in Haight Ashbury, where I caught not only Orbs but a face in a window of an apartment that was believed to be haunted and that in which no one was supposed to be home that day.)

Anyway, here's the lowdown on Orbs. It's one of the best articles I've seen and it links to two other articles, one in favor of Orbs as paranormal, one which has natural explainations for Orbs.

One more thing, we almost never see orbs on FILM, they have only become common since the invention and common use of the dig camera.
http://www.gimlit.btinternet.co.uk/Orbs.htm

[Tamee]

oh yeah i totally know ghosts are real. I've had a few encounters and my boyfriend's had many. he has more of a link to those kinds of things and i think it's because when he was young his appendix burst and his parents didn't do anything about it, they thought he was just really sick, until he fell unconscious to the floor and because of the lack of immediate action, he died for a few seconds on the way to the hospital. he knows things that I can only catch a glimpse of

[Maggie Sugar]

Tamee. Check this out. It's a photo, with Orbs and a face in a window, taken in a haunted house in Haight Ashbury. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184290

[Atom bomb therapy]

dust

[Ironcore]

ghost

[MaccaByrd]

I saw a documentary once in which a man who worked professionally with photos couldn't explain 'orbs' and he didn't seem to believe anything either way. I don't see why it shouldn't be possible that cameras can capture that kind of energy but I'm not 100% convinced of anything. Yet.

[EarthyGirl1985]

I'd agree, it's either dust or an orb.

[WhisperingWoods]

Dust. I've seen recreations of "orbs" all over the place, using dust and other fine particles in the air.

[cynical_otter]

99% of orbs in pictures and videos are nothing but dust, bugs, and moisture.

Orbs ARE NOT considered legitimate proof of paranormal activity. As a matter-of-fact, if you take your orb pictures to any investigators, they'd laugh.

[rydns]

dust....

[themnax]

orbs seems an odd thing to call what appear to be FLAT discs of light. i think the name must have been given them by someone with a flare for the melodramatic mumbojumbo.

i have no idea what the details of the actual cause are, and weather or not the cause cannot be somehow affected by something 'otherworldly' but at any rate the effect itself, whatever it is, well if you don't see it with your own eyes but then do in a photo, then it is somehow an artifact of the photographic proccess.

if people are seeing and seeing these things more often now, i'm wondering if maybe it might be an effect of digital photography, if that's where the're showing up.

i'd be curious to know if that is where and only where they do. if it is, that would pretty much clinch it.

likewise if it were only in focused light on emulsion photography, this too would indicate some sort of 'artifacting' from/in that proccess.

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[Tamee]

i'd be curious to know if that is where and only where they do. if it is, that would pretty much clinch it.these pictures were taken with a disposable camera.

[nimh]

either dust or aliens

my wedding pics are full of orbs like those ones. <shrug>

[Michaela]

Tamee - I have some interesting information for you about some circles identical to yours that appeared through my surveillance camera system as well as my digital camera. Here's what happened: I purchased and set up a digital surveillance camera with night vision to keep an eye on my car at night because it had been getting vandalised, and we wanted to catch the perpetrator in action. The camera was activated by motion that would occur when someone would enter the camera's field of vision within a pre-set proximity around the car. Each morning, I would view the "motion list", which would contain the previous evening's recording of activity. During playback, I could slow down the action to a frame-by-frame slowness of speed to really scrutinize whatever I chose to. As I viewed the motion list one morning, I noticed a circle of light identical to yours appear on the screen - my car is parked with the nose to a wall, and this circle of light suddenly appeared and flew up onto the wall above my car and then drifted off to the left and then disappeared. From the angle at which it hit the wall above my car, it appeared to be coming from a position down the parking lot to the right. It appeared one other night as well. Then, one day a few weeks later, I purchased a hand-held digital camera. I went outside one morning to experiment taking pictures with it, and I noticed a man halfway down the parking lot with his back to me - I wanted to experiment with the "telefoto" part of my new camera, so I held it up to my eye and zoomed in on the man. I noticed when I zoomed in close on him that he held something in his hands that appeared to be a camera as well, and he was pointing it on the wall in front of him. Suddenly, there appeared the circle of light on the wall, seemingly being put there by the camera he had pointed at the wall ..... and it was the same circle of light that had showed up on the surveillance camera recording! I removed my camera from my eye and looked at the man and the wall in front of him with my naked eye, not thru my camera - and the circle of light was not visible! I looked thru my camera again, and the circle of light was still there! But when I'd look with my eyes only and not thru the camera, it was gone again. I determined that this circle of light was only visible thru the camera and it had some sort of relation to the infra-red capabilities that both cameras had. It turned out that this man was the jerk who'd been messing with my car, and he had no idea at the time that his own camera gave him up. I'm not saying that this is the explanation for your circles, I'm just giving you some input to consider because your circles of light are absolutely identical to the ones as seen through both my cameras that are equipped with infra-red lenses for low-light filming. It is written, I think, that these people that do "ghost investigations" utilize infra-red lenses to enable them to film apparitions that cannot be seen with the naked eye. I mention this not to suggest that your circles of light are ghosts, but to say that camera lenses do see things that our eyes do not. I've been into photography since the 1960's, and I do know this to be a true fact. Digital cameras are more capable to do so than the single lens reflex cameras that use film, although they will also see things our eyes can't, but not as good as the digitals. Is it possible that you have a neighbor that could have been experimenting with their camera, and subsequently, that's how the circles of light appeared in your pictures? Just a thought, because that's how they appeared on mine.

Sincere Regards, Michaela
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[Tamee]

Is it possible that you have a neighbor that could have been experimenting with their camera, and subsequently, that's how the circles of light appeared in your pictures? Just a thought, because that's how they appeared on mine. a neighbor that came into my basement? I don't think so...

you mean from outside? no. I live on an acre and a half of land, right in the middle of it. no one goes out on the yard outside my window besides my family, and the only other people i live with are my grandparents who stay inside most of the time. I'm pretty sure it wasn't them.

[Wasteland]

I have this theory that orbs caught in pictures are light from any source bouncing off of our own personal spiritual waves passing through the air, and that they have nothing to do with paranormal activity. I think when the mixture of electrical waves that both naturally occur in our enviroment and those created by AC electricity, our own spiritual waves, and light particles combine at a certain time, stimulated by the flash or chemical/electrical release of the camera, it creates these orbs that show up. So, it is not an effect of paranormal activity, but an aftereffect of our own world.

[Michaela]

(a neighbor that came into my basement? I don't think so...)

Tamee - actually, when I suggested that you consider influence from outside, I was not of the understanding that all of these photographs were taken in your basement....I thought of this because of how identical circles appeared through my camera from observing the infra-red influence of another camera... and, I guess I thought of the outside because in your very first photograph (the one that has the wood-burning stove in the center), I could clearly see a window with daylight outside in the upper left-hand corner of the picture ... because of the inclusion of the window, I didn't interpret that room as being a basement with no outside exposure. May I respectfully suggest that it would really behoove you to encourage yourself to keep an open mind to all input; whether it be of a logical or a paranormal nature; since you are in pursuit of an explanation.

Sincerely, Michaela
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"They will never make a perfect heart until they make one that
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