Everybody wants to see my orbs

[pjthompson]

They're real—and they're spectacular.

Or maybe they're just dust bunnies.

Whatever. Kev said I must post these, and I always do what Kev says. Some people think orbs are spirit or energy emanations and I've heard they're best captured on digital cameras, so huh. Other people think they're just floating dust particles flaring when the flash hits them. I reserve judgment. Wouldn't want to fall under the spell of any "left over hippy sh*t." I do know that when it comes to my apartment, Dust Never Sleeps, especially around the various screens in the place, so huh. But the only places in my apartment I got orbs was here at the computer station and over the mantel. And in all my years of taking pictures (gazillions of pictures) I don't remember ever getting them before. But I could be confused. In fact, likely.



Here's where I hang out online when at home. Please note the enormous orb on the screen of the old TV on top of the filing cabinet, and in the old computer screen. Please note that I haven't yet gotten all the files off the dinosaur computer so it's still sitting there reflecting orbs back at me—mocking me, pleading with me not to trash it, flinging Albert Camus quotes into my face. There's also a very faint orb in the screen of the iMac, but it doesn't show up so good here.

Albert Camus: "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

(Which is a seriously upbeat quote for ol' Al, but I love it.)



There are actually eight orbs in this close up, some of them pretty faint. If you want to find them yourself, don't read the rest of this.


Orbs: (1) the big 'un on the TV, (2) one off the left edge of the TV, (3) a small 'un between the copyholder and the calendar, (4) another small faint one in the bottom right edge of picture next to the calendar, (5) a small, faint one just below TV on filing cabinet, (6) a large, faint one in the upper left corner of picture, (7) a small, faint one just above the big 'un, (8) another small, faint one on the upper left edge around the TV screen.

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Hmm... very interesting. And well-formed, too.

Maybe they're the physical incarnations of your muses?

[pjthompson]

Maybe they're the physical incarnations of your muses?

Either that, or the physical incarnations of my messes.

My friend calls them my creativity pixies. :-)

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

That would be kinda cute... little tinkerbells flying around your head. It's definitely weird though, considering how round they are despite not being straight-on with any of the glass surfaces.

eeeeeerie.

[pjthompson]

ittle tinkerbells flying around your head.

LOL. It does present quite a picture, doesn't it? I wonder if I could persuade the creativity pixies to have a talk with the plumbing gremlins?

finitely weird though, considering how round they are despite not being straight-on with any of the glass surfaces.

Yeah, I don't know what to make of them, but it's odd. I tried to recreate the circumstances under which I got this picture and a couple of more "just because" shots, but I haven't had time to upload them yet. The only thing I know for sure was that there was no huge orb in the TV screen.

I won't be making any EVPs, though. Those things creep me out. Some things I just *don't* want to know about the space I'm living in. Ya know?

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Some things I just *don't* want to know about the space I'm living in. Ya know?

I'm right there with you.

I'm more than happy to leave the spirits alone as long as they do the same to me.

[pjthompson]

P.S. The mantel and around the mantel is where I keep a lot of my handmade stuff, so the pixie/dust was floating around there, too.

[pjthompson]

There's an addendum to this story. I tried to recreate the circumstances of the picture and see if I'd get orbs again. I snapped some more pix. I even shook out an exercise cloth I sometimes keep in that chair to see if it would raise some dust and some orbs. Nada, zip, niente. Whatever those orbs were, they apparently just stopped by for a visit. :-)

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... This is intriguing. Maybe you could get some ghost hunters to stop by... your apartment could wind up on the Discovery Channel. :-)

Yeah, but seriously... that's really weird. Same time of day (assuming there are windows around)?