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reality glitching just enough to make you question your eyes and your sanity
means A sudden, often ghostly appearance of something or someone unexpected, especially a figure that seems to have no business being there.
from From Latin 'apparitio,' an attendance or appearance, built on 'apparere' — to appear, to come into view ('ad-' toward + 'parere' to come forth, show oneself). It drifted into English through Old French in the late medieval period, first meaning simply a manifestation or the visible showing of something, and only later acquiring its specifically spectral, hair-raising tint — the same 'parere' lurks, faintly, in 'appear' and 'apparent.'
- word root
- from Latin for to appear, simple as that
- the science
- sleep paralysis conjures convincing figures in your bedroom
- carbon monoxide
- poisoning causes hallucinations once blamed on haunted houses
- royal sighting
- three children claimed Mary appeared at Fatima in 1917
- brain trick
- faces appear in noise because evolution favored caution
our lady of fatima — virgin mary appeared to three children in portugal on may 13, 1917, witnessed by over 70,000 people on october 13
our lady of lourdes — bernadette soubirous saw mary 18 times in lourdes, france in 1858, now a major pilgrimage site with reported healings
ghost of julius caesar — appeared to brutus before the battle of philippi in 42 bce, as reported by plutarch and suetonius