Your thoughts, comments and ideas please?

Question

Can you explain the following three accounts below. Can you give your thoughts and comments on it. It has been termed Spontaneous Human Invisibility. Also at the end of the readings can you comment on the two pictures in the link and tell me what you think please?

1.A WOMAN NAMED Melanie in Ventura, California had a strange experience while sitting on her own living room sofa. While just staring at the wall, she became, she believes, invisible. Her husband walked around the house looking for her. He even walked right by her - just a few feet away - and did not see her. The episode lasted about 10 minutes, then suddenly she was visible again.

This unusual story is one of several documented by Donna Higbee who is conducting extensive, ongoing research into a phenomenon she calls Human Spontaneous Involuntary Invisibility. According to the anecdotes Higbee tells at her website, The Research and Writings of Donna Higbee, people suddenly and unexpectedly become invisible. They don't seem to feel any differently when this occurs, and they can see and move around normally, just as if nothing has changed. Yet other people don't see them. They are ignored - totally - as if they aren't there.

The victims of this bizarre phenomenon attest that the experience is not the same as being ignored. Certainly, most of us have had feelings of being invisible in awkward moments at social occasions. But this experience is far different.

2. One of the anecdotes Higbee relates, in fact, takes place at a party. A 37-year-old man goes into a bathroom and comes out, apparently, totally invisible. He attempts to engage in conversation with several people, including his own girlfriend, but is ignored completely. He asks her for a cigarette, but receives no response. At first he thinks they are playing a joke on him and so returns to the bathroom in anger. When he comes out again, it's as if nothing had happened. Everything is back to normal and he could be seen again.

3.Daniel S. felt he became invisible one day when he was with some friends who were setting off firecrackers. Daniel wanted them to stop because he was afraid the cops would show up and check IDs. This especially meant trouble for him because he had several unpaid tickets in his name. He was fearful of going to jail and losing his job. The police did show up, and they checked everyone's ID - except Daniel's:

"The cops started at the other end of the line (there were two lines, one in front of the other) of people. I was standing behind a friend, who was a girl. The cop asked each person to hand him their IDs as he passed down the line. Then he would take the ID and call in each person. I was the last one in the behind line. I was also the largest person there. I was even larger than the policemen. The cop never even acted like he saw me. He never asked me for my ID. Neither of the two cops paid any attention to me. All of my friends, except the two who were taken in by the police, thought I had left. Many asked me afterward where I went to hide. I told all of them that I was there. No one would believe me."

Also click on these two links which is alleged to show the invisibility phenomenon.

1. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page32.html

(The above picture is of a woman without a head visible)

2.http://www.ghoststudy.com/monthly/apr02/apr02mysterypic.html

(This picture shows a transparent man)

Answer 1

go to

1.http://www.highbeam.com/Search.aspx?q=is... for invisibility.

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibilit...

u can find ur answers in these sites but ny opinion is that he really is a ghost because i believe in paranormal stuffs and i love them a lot, the weird stuff is my type.

Answer 2

The pictures I'm a bit iffy on, but what you described is quite interesting.  It could easily be a psychological phenomena, rather than legitimate invisibility.  A human's ability to ignore the seemingly obvious.  But thanks for asking this, I'll be doing a bit of research.  Can you post or email me where you found this?  I've seen the topic touched on lightly before, but not in this detail.

Answer 3

Ive never heard of that human Invisibility,but I think the man in the picture looks transparent because of the old cameras back then.It's not a ghost

look at these pics

http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/f...

the woman's dress in this picture, it looks transparent.

http://www.castlebar.ie/Nostalgia_and_Hi...

Answer 4

I, too, frequently experience Spontaneous Human Invisibility. I never knew it at the time, but it DOES explain why woman have ignored me my entire life.

I believe that I have often been invisible at work, too.

But, I am most frequently invisible when trying to get assistance at large retail stores, for some strange reason.

I have had this ability ever since I was a kid, I guess. My parents always said I became invisible when there were chores to do.

Answer 5

My thoughts are torn.On one hand I want to laugh at the complete silliness.On the other I'm discouraged that some will take this nonsense seriously.

My idea,the guy in the WW2 picture probably went for a drink before the picture was exposed.My comment,this is ridiculous to an extent I cannot believe,even here.

Answer 6

i have never felt invisible, but a few times in life i felt "THICK"? it has been many years since it has happened though.

is it possible this is the opposite end of the spectrum?

Answer 7

The issue optics (a branch of physics) would have with this scenario is this: You can't see through most solid matter because most solid matter is made up of atoms that absorb energy in the visible light spectrum, and re-emit the energy as light in a certain frequency, what we would describe as the color of the object.  This energy, what is absorbed and emitted, is a property of the atom, a characteristic decided by electrons and their orbits around the nucleus.  When you can see through a solid, such as glass(although some people would categorize glass as a highly viscous liquid), it is because the atoms in the glass don't absorb light in the visible spectrum.  The atoms that make up the glass don't have any electrons in orbits that would respond at a natural frequency to the energy the light is made up of.  Without going more into a physics lecture, I guess what I am trying to say is that for someone to suddenly become invisible they would have to suddenly be made up of different atoms.