I hate having a cold. Excessive mucus sucks.

Why is it that people think you are crazy if you believe you see dead people? I've never understood this. Around the turn of the century (1900, not 2000) people got paid WELL to see dead people. Mediums and Spiritualists were in vogue. But for some reason nowadays people think you are a lunatic if you see something they can't. Most people profess a belief in an afterlife of some type or another. So what's the hangup? Just because one person can see something and another can't, that does NOT mean it's not there. I've always wondered if that was the REAL problem with schizophrenics. That they hear and see things that "normal" people can't and it pushes them over the edge of sanity. This is, of course, impossible to test really as mostly the afflicted people are over the edge and you can't really have any type of controlled experiment with somebody who is out of their skull if they aren't on meds that kill the activity you want to try to analyze.