Fear of his wife's ghost prompted Navin Nischol to request for more light in his cell.
Afraid of being haunted by his dead wife's ghost, actor Navin Nischol recently made one unusual request to the Mahim police station authorities ? to have his jail cell better lit.
While many might regard this as pure paranoia a figment of Nischol's imagination playing games with him ? there are some who understand exactly what he is experiencing. So do ghosts really exist?
"While I certainly believe that there is a strong supernatural presence all around us, I feel it is the fear of anticipation which is more terrorising.
The feeling of 'what if I see a ghost?' is much more scarier than actually coming face to face with one," says actor Sajid Khan who recently made his directorial debut with a film which dealt with the paranormal.
A spooky incident on the sets of his supernatural film Naina, while filming on location in a remote village in Gujarat, still makes actor Anuuj Saawhney shudder.
"I would constantly hear the sound of someone knocking on my trailer van. Even after checking and re-checking the same, the knocking continued.
It was later known that the said location had other unexplained occurences attached to it too. I never believed in ghosts, but that incident has certainly made me believe that there are some things beyond our realm," says Anuuj.
Around twenty years ago, long before the Hollywood film The Sixth Sense created the whole 'I see dead people' blitzkrieg, clairvoyant and tarot card reader, Pia Sinha knew she was different from the other 10-year-olds in her class.
"I was looked upon as a freak whenever I told people that I could see and even converse with ghosts. Even my parents wanted me to get professional help," says Pia.
"Today, I have a lot of people ? sometimes even doctors ? coming to me, requesting me to conduct a seance so that they can get in touch with their dead ones.
It's strange how non-believers become believers when they want something!" Whilst the supernatural has its believers, there are those, many of them from the fields of the science and academia who debunk any such claims.
According to mental health experts, the reasons for such a belief system are varied, often detached from reality. "Very often a temporary reactive cause to trauma such as the death of someone close can trigger off hallucinations, psychosis which we can classify as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)," opines consulting psychotherapist Dr Minnu Bhonsle.
"Such reactions are not pathological in nature and they very often abate after proper counselling and medication. But those of an esoteric bent of mind, who believe in the existence of ghosts, spirits and other things supernatural are very often conditioned by the environment they live in.
They often externalise these beliefs by giving them a form and a shape." Then there are those who are ambivalent. Whether or not they believe, they do not dispute others' claims.
Like theatre actor Ananya Dutta, who says, "Uptil a few hundred years ago, people believed that the earth was flat and they were proven wrong.
Although I have never seen a ghost, I believe that there is something out there. And I feel that the day may be very near when their existence will be confirmed."
While the debate continues to rage at a frenzied pace, questioning supernatural beliefs, seeking an insight into the unknown, reasoning with the 'decidedly' unreasonable, 'Is there something or more importantly someone out there?' is one question desperately looking for an answer. Any takers?
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... 516509.cms
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