So what exactly is a Ghost

[Branflake]

The Merriam Webster Dictionary says -
Pronunciation: \ˈgōst\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English gost, gast, from Old English gāst; akin to Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit heḍa anger
Date: before 12th century

1: the seat of life or intelligence : soul
2: a disembodied soul; especially : the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness
3: spirit, demon
4 a: a faint shadowy trace b: the least bit
5: a false image in a photographic negative or on a television screen caused especially by reflection

So...when we "see" a ghost. Are we seeing vapor? (of a soul?) are we seeing into another dimension? I wonder when I see "Philip" (my resident ghost) - is he a figure lapping over into my dimension ... from another?What are your thoughts?

[Branflake]

I have never "believed" in ghosts....I don't know why I see this "child"....that is why I ask these questions. I saw a man a few times (I wrote about that in earlier posts) and he appeared only when something very stressful happened... 4 times in my life and in different places ..in different countries...so ghost..don't think so...imagination...who knows...real? was to me. have not seen him in years. But this "ghost" that lives in this house...don't know.....that's why I wonder...maybe another dimension bleeding into ours...maybe a vapor of former beings....what, I don't know...but for me they are real..what ever they are. And I tell few...you see to speak of them will make many believe me bonkers.
oooops...am letting you all know that I am bonkers. Oh well.

[LaLa]

Ghost from the Webster's Dictionary: FOLKLORE the disembodied spirit of a dead person; appearing as a pale, shadowy apparition. A slight trance; shadow, not a ghost of a chance/ GIVE UP THE GHOST to die. It is revised and upadated?

Now what does this mean? I have seen spirits in my life in my room, and never questioned what it meant. But from this dictionary that definition of ghost is just that.

I have captured a "ghost" but I call it a spirit in my bedroom and they are seeking something, and I have yet not been able to help them in what they seek. I think I know but stand off from it, as I think I may not know that my help may benefit where they must go.

[Garooch]

So here's a story. Both of my grandfathers died on the same day, when I was about 7. A few months later, I saw 2 old men on a park bench watching me. They seemed to me, at the time, to be my grandfathers. My mother explained it away, as sometimes our minds play tricks. Maybe that's what's happening...We want to see something. I don't know.