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THE TRUTH ABOUT 'ORBS'

THE TRUTH ABOUT
'ORBS'

From GhostGadgets.com

Orbs are a very controversial item in the paranormal investigation field. The hard fact is that most, if not all, "orbs" are caused by water droplets, dust, snow, rain, etc...A common misconception about dust orbs is that it is dust actually in the camera or on the lens. This isn't true, in fact, dust orbs are caused by air-born dust particles directly in front of the camera lens. Below is an in-depth article on photographic/video analysis and contamination factors that cause false-positive orbs. Please note that the following applies for any camera with a flash (35mm & digital), and all nightshot video cameras.

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Diagram 1

Point "A" represents the camera lens's inverted focal point (the point that an object must be past to be in-focus), and "B" represents the way light travels into the lens. The dust particles that are closer than point "A" will be out-of-focus, and appear as false-positive dust orbs.

Diagram 1 is a representation of how dust in front of the camera lens appears orb-like when a flash is used. "B" represents how light travels through the camera lens, and "A" represents the focal point of the lens, or the point objects need to be past in order to be in focus. As you can see, there are dust particles closer to the lens than point A, therefore the dust will appear out-of-focus, as seen in Diagram 2.

When the flash fires (Diagram 1), light is reflected off the dust, back into the camera lens, causing the dust to be illuminated. Because of the angle of the flash and the camera lens, the closer the flash is to the lens, the more prone it will be to dust orbs. The same applies for using nightshot video cameras, the IR light reflects off the out-of-focus dust, causing them to look like "orbs" or plasmoids.

I want to emphasize the fact that orb-causing dust is floating in the air in front of the camera lens, and is not actually on the lens itself. It seems that many people think that wiping their lens clean before each photo session will solve the dust-orb problem, but this is entirely false. The truth is the dust is in the air, floating close to the camera lens (within about 6 inches normally), and there is no way to solve the problem through lens or site cleaning.

Diagram 2

Point "P" represents the distance the dust particles are away from the camera lens, and "A" again represents the camera lens's inverted focal point (the point that an object must be past to be in-focus).This diagram shows how dust particles become out of focus as they get closer to the camera lens.

Some common characteristics of dust orbs in photographs may be showing some sort of nucleus, elongation around the central axis towards the edges of the photos, a rectangular or octagonal shape, but is not limited to these. Elongation around the central axis towards the edge of the photo is caused by a lens curvature error known as "Coma", cameras with very small lenses and short focal lengths (such as digital cameras) are more prone to coma than other cameras with longer focal length lenses, such as SLR cameras.

Orbs of a rectangular or octagonal shape are caused because of a phenomena that can be defined as:
"When an object with a similar shape as the aperture of the camera lens is brought out-of-focus, the object will begin to take the shape of the aperture".

In other words, if the aperture of the camera is an octagon (the aperture is the hole that opens to let light through the lens), an out-of-focus dust orb will begin to take the shape of an octagon, particularly towards the center of the image. Another common phenomena that is often mistaken for something paranormal is called lens "Flare", and occurs when a bright light source (most often the Sun) reflects off a portion of the lens, and creates "ghost" images (not really ghosts, but internal reflections) of the aperture of the camera. Generally, flare can be ruled out of most photos taken at night, but can be a problem with shooting pictures during the day.

There is nothing paranormal about the dust orb phenomena, it is natural to any camera with a flash and any video with a light source that isn't in front of the camera (ie, infrared light, spotlights). It seems that many groups still consider dust orb photos to be paranormal, because they don't want to take the time to collect REAL anomalous data. What keeps these groups holding on to the dust orb as phenomena is the instant gratification they get by collecting hundreds of so-called "spirit orbs" in a single night of investigating.

The truth is no matter what the environment, there are always air-born particles in the air (except in a vacuum...) that can contaminate your data. You can sometimes even see the flash reflect off the dust particles when a picture is taken. Also, this phenomena isn't just limited to dust, it also applies to rain, water droplets, bugs, etc.

SOURCE:

GHOST GADGETS

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WHEN THE PAST & PRESENT COLLIDE

WHEN THE PAST & PRESENT COLLIDE

PSYCHIC DREAMS
BAYVIEW HOTEL

Aptos, California

This past Christmas Eve my dreams caught up with me...
About 10 years ago, I had a dream about a hotel near the old railroad station, located in the city I lived in (Aptos, CA).

In the dream, I was standing in the foyer of the hotel (located at a busy intersection in the town) and it must have been around the turn of the century judging by what the people I saw were wearing. At the foot of the staircase, stood a haughty woman in her mid-fifties and walking down the hallway was a different, slightly younger woman with her back toward me. Walking quickly out the front door was a man in his mid-fifties with a newspaper under his arm. Lastly, I saw a little boy riding on one of those tricycles with the gigantic front tire outside in front of the hotel.

In the dream the hotel was located across the street of where it stands today...
SO...
Even though the dream was vivid and lucid, I dismissed it (to a certain degree) because of inaccuracy. Obviously the hotel was on the wrong side of the street.

FAST FORWARD:
Christmas Eve 2006

My family and I were out for Christmas Eve dinner and they had selected this very hotel to dine at. I had never been inside this hotel, only past it. When I stepped into the foyer, I took a deep breath and realized I was now standing in the EXACT SAME foyer as I had in the dream 10 years before.

Suddenly, the bartender rushed over to seat us. As she escorted my family into the dining room, she leaned in and whispered in my ear, "You know this place is haunted, right?"I responded by asking her if she knew about 6 CENTS INVESTIGATIONS and she chuckled and said, " I knew there was a reason I wanted to tell you that! I never usually seat people, it's not my job. But I felt compelled to tell you this place is haunted! You must come back and do an investigation!" She then scurried off into the kitchen.

By this time, my knees were shaking and my teeth chattering so i was happy to except the glass of wine offered to me by the bartender. After a large slurp, I opened my menu and just about choked on the olive i had just popped in my mouth. There on the front of the menu is the hotel's history...
A timeline that indicated the hotel, around the turn of the century was literally dragged 180 feet across the street! I was speechless...still am.

But, the point is to write down dreams you remember....
You never know when your notes may just very well come in handy!

DREAM CLAIRVOYANCE- (dreams)
A psychic experience of EMOTIONAL CLAIRVOYANCE happening during sleep; experienced at the Theta level with no rapid eye movement; a very clear, vivid, detailed vision which is easy to recall.cf. SLEEP EXPERIENCES, EOG, DELTA STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, NIGHT LANGUAGE

SOURCE:
The Donning International
Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary
June G. Bletzer ~ 1986

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