Photographing hallucinations

[marycatelli]

This is weird.

A man takes photos to prove to the wife that her hallucinations aren't real,
but she sees the hallucinations in the photos.

Drug treatment mostly stops the hallucinations. EXCEPT --

She still sees them in the photos.

Comments

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested to see what happens if the husband flipped the negative (or reversed the image, whatever). Something I learned long ago in a How to Keep House book: Before starting to clean or tidy a room, look at it in a mirror. Everything is still there, but you're seeing it as if for the first time, and you SEE the dark areas and the clutter spots &c., that you stopped noticing long ago. Just so - would she still see the children and the woman &c in a reversed image?


This reminded me of a Jack Finney story where a guy had a box Brownie with a timer, and used it to take a vacation snapshot of him, his wife and kid. When the picture got developed, oops - he looks a little older, the kid is a teenager, and it's not the same woman. O my. Things got a bit frosty in that household. The investigator could see plainly that however it did it, that Brownie had torpedoed that marriage and it was doomed…

[Which leads to the obvious question: “What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?” - The Matrix Would the marriage have broken up, and would that other woman be present at that time, if the retro-picture wasn't taken? Inquiring Minds Want to Know.]

[marycatelli]

I wonder -- as a commenter on that link says -- if she could tell them from photos of the same location at a different time.

One test of demonic possession is whether the allegedly possessed person can tell the difference between a consecrated host and an unconsecrated one. I wonder why that reminded me.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

But why would the possessor admit knowing?

[marycatelli]

I believe the possessor freaks out is the rule.