Someone recently wrote to me wanting to know what orbs are. Besides pointing them to my What Are Orbs webpage, I also wrote:



My understanding of orbs has continued to evolve since my first little capture




They are in abundance outdoors and often appear small and clinging to plants and trees. But they also appear indoors in smaller numbers and they also appear on people's heads/hair. In this way they remind me of when they cling to trees. My understanding is that they are somehow part of the life force that applies to plant, animals and people.

And they do smile...

Here are some circus orb photos I posted once before.



Big Tent in the distance (no rain or visible dust -- very clear night)


(boy at circus -- good example of orbs that emanate from people's head area).


Orbs congregate around excitement (parties!) And during the rain (perhaps the immense kinetic energy). Or during times of strong emotion.

I browsed through some of my photos from a few years ago when I was most intent on capturing photographs of orbs. I thought it would be nice to share more of them:



Original microfied


Next Photo microfied


8 Photos later (microfied also)


It was raining at the time, but quite a few of the photos had only stray orbs in them. One or two had none.

In the last photo they seem to emanate from the tree. And maybe in the photos above, because I am standing way back and above the tree, they appear as just a swarm. They could very well be "spirit" mostly from that tree.

I took this photo a year or two ago when we purchased a new 10 megapixel camera. I wanted to see if the orbs looked different with pixel size.





Here's a crop that's been reduced in size from an enormous photo. The orb did look more opaque and solid, I thought! Though there is a translucent example here as well in the bushes on the left. And a small one in the background/distance.

Orbs can appear from solid and bright to very translucent and vague within the same photo.



Here's the actual size cropped around just the orb.


The nature of the 10 megapixel made the orbs and other spirits appear differently. And since I was so accustomed to viewing my approx. 3 megapixel photos, I decided to stick with them. And they take up much less disk space, so.



Here I've adjusted the colour level, just to see.




And here I've applied photocopy, which to me reveals an eye in the 10 o'clock position.

When I look at closely at many orb photos, I see tiny orbs that cling to trees, or people, animals, and in this case, a spider/web.



Reduced Original


Cropped and Enlarged
(Tiny orb in centre near spider leg)


Photocopied


I took several shots of this spider. In this photo, the spider's bundled capture resembles a butterfly of crystal or light.

Great Images Alisa. Observing, and watching orbs. A means of feedback for the hive-mind, little sentient floating video cameras that are the real fly-on the-wall surveillance. Here's a few of mine.

Oh, these are delightful, Starchie! I'm so excited you shared them because it is quite interesting to see the difference between our captures. Yours have such amazing concentric and coiling designs. It truly does fascinate me.

I have considered the possibility that different-looking orbs could be captured in different places, but my orbs look the same no matter where I photograph them. None of mine look like yours though. So it lends to my thought that the photographer is somehow interpreting the orbs. I also find that some photographers capture other spirit things, but not orbs, or some capture lots of ecto/mist as well as orbs, or one but not the other. I personally have never captured ecto, but Elaine capture tons of it along with tons of orbs.

I also agree with you that the orbs act as eyes or cameras! I have had many confirmations of this. Earth satellite eyes. I also like "fly-on-the-wall surveillance".

Thanks for your great addition to this topic.

Sometimes I think larger orbs/probes fly alongside other stuff. Here's one I posted elsewhere showing a large orb over a mountain

Here's a blow up

But if I filter the image you can see many orbs and other flying stuff, hiding in the cloud.

Ooooo! Nice ones Starchie. And I like the various takes you've presented of this photo...very illuminating.

Your highlighting is especially revealing. These hidden orbs are the same size as the visible one, but shaded instead of lit. Maybe because the sun is hitting the one just right? I also wonder if there are truly solid orbs/probes in the sky (as I have captured what appears to be solid orbs). And I also wonder if these solid sky spheres differ from the translucent type captured around yards, houses, people. My feeling is that they are. But your sky photos do look like the translucent orbs, so...

Wonderful though!

They can be translucent or solid, translucent when they are dimensionally shifted, I think this is a camouflage mechanism so we can't see them. They seem able to shift up to another plane of reality something humans see as translucent, this could be their true state or home, but even though they seem translucent they are not really.
From the mountain picture the solid material spheres are hiding behind the cloud, this shows that they are intelligent, and employ stealthy techniques to hide from us the translucent sphere is not hiding behind the cloud perhaps thinking it doesn't have to. However as its sitting right over the peak, from my camera angle, I'm sure its there purposely to be seen. I have more images like these but big spheres I think should probably be in a UFO, forum. Sorry if I hijacked your thread.

No, not hijacked! It is all a part of the intertwining subject matter. But if you do want to post any thing that you feel is more UFO related, please feel free to post in the UFO Forum here.

But I feel your posts have been quite relevant and have added greatly to the topic.

I agree that the orb poised directly over the peak is just way to precise not to be intentional.

I'll look forward to seeing your other images of the big spheres.

Christine sent me some of her orb photos with her permission to share them. I chose to use this one of her dogs. Sharing with me like this, others have really helped me to better understand the nature of orbs.



There is a fuzziness on right side of photo and over curly-haired dog.


An abundance of orbs are concentrated on left dog.
Neat how orb makes the dog's eye glow green!


I often capture orbs blanketing trees or their leaves and orbs surround people (often in their hair) and on dogs and all living things. I have come to realize that the orbs I photograph, in general, come from living things.

Recently I had a dream-like experience where when I was communicating with someone, orbs came off of me and went to them, and orbs from them came to me. I learn much from my altered state and dream-like experiences, and for me, this was validation that living thing emit orbs.

I am also reminded of someone I used to write with who photographed orbs by setting up a camera to film themselves as they meditated and "produced" orbs.

I love the dogs. They sure look like they would be a fabulous group of characters to be around.

As far as the orbs go, I have no idea, my opinion remains open about them. There's too many possibilities from physical to spiritual.

Your dream like experience sounds like the exchange of energies of life that I feel goes on constantly.

I've often thought life arcs and sparks with energy. Like when you get a group of children (or pets) together playing a game especially if it's a sport. You can feel the energy in the air passing between cheering spectators and the players.

I heard a rock star, on tv, replying to the question if he ever gets tired of the fast pace of traveling on tour. He explained that 'he does get tired when they're on tour, but he gets re-energized from the energy the fans gives him every time.' I paraphrased, lol, the rock star said it much better and with absolute love and appreciation. I was so touched in the sincereness of his sentiments. It was quite refreshing to hear.

I watched a movie once where an actress was describing the feeling of applauding fans being like 'waves of love flooding over the foot lights.' Those may not have been her exact words, but they hold much in the description of the energy and emotion shared for entertainers and fans.

Even through the internet I think energies & emotions are exchanged in words and/or pictures.

Oops, but I got off topic... I apologize.

Well said! And nice perspective for the topic. I enjoyed it and I hope you will often elaborate like this as it is highly interesting!

Maybe the orbs play a part in this exchange or amplification of energy.

After I made this post, Christine sent me a message adding that she was giving the dogs lots of love and attention and rough-housing with them just before she took the photo, and took the photo because of the free-spirited feeling about them. "It was a mood of pure joy and love...."

So it is kinda synchronistic with what you're saying.

Thank ya!

Synchronicity is Cool!

Small bright lights that I capture in my photos I dubbed fairy lights early on due to their similarity to fairy lights for decoration or Christmas tree.

Here's either a large fairy light or a small bright orb.

Here is an example of tiny orbs that I sometimes see in photographs of trees and plants. (This was taken too close to fence hence the stark white bit on bottom left).





There are tiny orbs and long orb tubes or trails (faint)


Enlarged from bottom right


Photocopied

The first set that you refer to as Fairy lights is also the type of anomaly that I refer to as fairy lights. I think they're so curious & interesting.

The second set are dandy captures of wee orbs. I particularly like the one that is to the far lower left that looks like a pearly bubble.

Cool!

Fairy lights dubbed by two of us! We must be right.

And thanks for your comments of appreciation on the wee orbs. I thought for interest I should add some different ways they show up, different settings, sizes and such. So thanks.

You're welcome!

Last night I took a few photos. I asked for something special on my final photo, I aimed into the dark sky and got a rather bright orb.



Original cropped


Applied colour curve (interesting )


Enlargement (and slight colour curve) of less bright orb


Photocopy applied


My interp of a face in this orb

Another faint orb from this same photo...



Original crop enlarged


Applied photocopy before brightening (shows the ripple pattern better)


Brightened (colour curve)


My interp of face



I see the same "type" of cartoon face with the same eyes in this orb. It is in a different pose, but same type. Many orb faces look cartoon to me (as if it is an interpretive face).

I was looking through some pictures of the Gap at Watson’s Bay I took earlier in the year and I think I spotted an Orb on the cliff edge.
What do you think…?

here is the close up.....

Thanks for sharing this. It looks to me like orbs I have captured that are larger and less dense. Although it is hard to say, I feel it is far away on the the cliff. What do you think?

ummm Flux Scratches Head ~

“Me thinking lots of Orbs and Spirits at the Gap” <------ Flux’s Native American Chief Voice Impression. LoL

Flux passes talking stick back to Alisa…

*wink

I graciously accept stick, but sadly have no more information to share. Orbs remain a curiosity to me. They are real, they think and interact, but I know not how to define them much in physical terms so I shall not.

Yes I know what you mean about defining them in physical terms. I draw some similarity to some people that want to get into photographs and don’t resist at all when asked. A bit like the relative in families that’s always ready with that special smile if you know what I mean. Others don’t want their photo taken at all and always shy away from the camera.
It’s the same with Orbs some jump into the shot and others won’t.
Just let them do their thing and see what happens I suppose.
I think they know we know of them though. Agree...?

Agree! They know we know!

I get one particular orb that shows up in the house...he often scoots right into the shot, especially if my son is in the photo. I can take a photo in a room...no orbs. Wait a second, take another...an orb appears in the far corner. Take another, it is closer up to camera. As if drawn to it, or accommodating me.

Then the other day I was taking some photos after the rain and capturing some orbs here and there. I then said, "Okay, give me all you got!" And I captured this extra bright one:

Have you got an enlarged close up of this orb you could post for us to see?
It looks interesting and worthy of a closer lQQk.
I think I can also see a few faces in the tree as well.
One is above & left of the Orb and another facing left at the bottom of the tree that looks like one of starchie’s Brave Spirits in the other post…

My pleasure...

And I think I see a face as well, though it is slightly askew. I also like how the last image in which I applied photocopy shows (once again) the interesting swirling pattern that I think is evidence of its energy.

Oh...and I see faces in the tree as well, Flux. That is the tree in which I have seen the "eye" and is the producer of many other photographed images including the Bird Man.

WoW thanks Alisa…..
I had a hunch there was more to be seen in that Orb and your pictures have proven it for me now.

You obviously got yourself a pretty special tree there. Make sure it gets plenty of water.

What else can one say other than it will be interesting to see the next lot of images from it.

As the say in the classics……

Camera & Action..!!

Thanks, Flux!

I will water and look after him/her... and continue with the pics...

A recent realization in my orb exploration, is that amongst other functions orbs serve, they can indeed be eyes. Or serve as a portal for viewing.

Not only do I so often see eyes within photographed orbs, I have had vivid dreams that they act as eyes. In one recent dream I could see into another person's house by looking into an orb. It acted like a webcam. In another dream I was floating in a sea of eyes that I knew were orbs and were everywhere seeing everything. I have come to believe they are the etheric material that connects all things, facilitates communication, records everything and ties us all together with the creator.

Meanwhile, I was very excited to receive this orb photo from a dear friend of mine. She had said she sensed an orb about and that she felt it was an eye. The moment I saw the photo I recognized the orb as an eye and was able to bring this aspect out...

I think this photo also lends to the theory that orbs can be eyes. In this photo the dog has a twinkle in his eye and the orb that appears next to him looks exactly like a perfect iris. To me this illustrates that the eye of the dog's soul sees far beyond its physical eye. Such food for though!

These photos originally appear in the Photo Gallery.

I searched through my journal for tidbits about orbs to share. I'd love to know what other people think, feel, receive, etc.

I received early on (in my search for meaning) the message that orbs are "soul detectors". At a later date I received these exact words, "orbs are the form after full manifestation".

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During my night time lessons I learned that we don't have to decide what we want to do ever, as the orbs, which are "will", come to us and drive us to do God's will.

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Last night when I walked into my bedroom there was this flash in front of my face. It looked like two orbs swooped me, right in front of my face. It was either one that moved very fast, or two that crossed right in front of my face. Immediately I felt my amnesia wanted to kick and say it was glare off the TV or the light. But a little part of me struggled to maintain that the orbs swooped to show me that they are here because I had asked to see them (which I had).

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I am beginning to see orbs. I see them as a flash, but not really a flash. Just a momentary circle of colour, white, green, or purple. It reminds me of seeing an after-image (like looking at a light or the sun and then seeing a bright spot for a while afterwards), but with an orb, it doesn't repeat like an after image, I just see it the once for a moment and then it is gone.

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I recently had a vision of orbs where I was conscious, closed my eyes and immediately went into an altered state, saw an orb and then snapped straight back to full waking consciousness. For one moment I fully understood orbs and how they operate/move and I thought, Of course!! The next moment, I had only an image left in my mind that is too complicated to accurately describe. It reminded me of the internal gears of a watch. It was definitely a multidimensional vision in which the orb, which was actually long and shaped like a serpent or dragon (it had a head, too), moved along like a snake would writh along, but extremely intricately, as if made up of many moving parts that click along and fold in upon itself (like a complex slinky, though not a spring) and gold in colour. It was truly an amazing vision and made total sense to me at the time -- just until I crossed the veil over into full consciousness where I lost the ability to fully comprehend it.

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Dreams I've had about orbs:

At one point in the night I woke from a vivid dream that took place in my bedroom. All of a sudden I could see some orbs around the TV. I wondered if they were on the screen, but they weren't. They were colourful like I see in my photos, pink and blue and perfectly round with little patterns in them. And I could start to see many of them all over around the TV. I realized I was for the first time seeing orbs as they appear in my photos, but with my naked eye. As I sat there watching them, they moved. I could tell there was a presence there and that these orbs were part of the presence and then the presence exited through the wall and left an impression for a moment that looked like the wave patterns I see in my photos when I use the photocopy function that I have felt are interdimensional indicators. I knew there had been an entity standing there probably using the television energy as a way to show up. And then he left. I felt it was a he and this was a way of showing me he is there.

The orbs reminded me of this for some reason:



Months later I realized why...because this looks a little bit like the time I later crossed over and saw an orb made up of many moving circle parts like the inside of a watch (as mentioned above).

Dream: I lay down in the lounge room and I saw an orb. By looking at it it was as if I could see somewhere else, like I was in two places at one time. And this morning as I was reviewing this dream I heard in my head, “like a windpipe” (like an instrument you blow through, like a flute). So I suppose the orb was like a tube or a portal-type thing.

Anyway, I could see into someone else's house and they had a cat tree (climbing gym) in there with a cat on it. When my husband had come in to the dream-lounge room my dream-self had been in an altered state but came out of it and said to him that I had just seen an orb in which I could see into someone else's house and they had a cat tree. And I asked hadn't he just been on the internet chatting with someone over the webcam, to which he said he had. And I asked if they had a cat tree in their house that he could see in the background, and he said yes they did. I started to describe the scene I saw in the orb and asked him if this was what that house had looked like, and he said, “Yeah, it is.” I kept expecting him to be more impressed but doesn't share the same sense of enchantment and wonder about it all that I do. Anyway, I was very excited in the dream because it was a huge break-though for me to be able see an orb, identify with it and utilize it by seeing through it. It looked like the orbs I capture photos of—multi-coloured blue, pink and other colours mixed in.

Orbs are so mysterious and complex. I believe that all of the things above that I conceived about orbs are all true...they can be the will/eyes of God, they can be a portal to see somewhere else, they are indicators of soul, and they are the visible essence/remnance of a spirit after full manifestation. And perhaps they are even more. I hope someone will add their thoughts or experiences.

Wow Alisa,

I can't believe our synchs! I just posted the moving circles picture above on Facebook on Sunday at 8:44 PM! That would have made it 11:44Am your time on Monday morning. I actually came back to Aus-City a few hours later contimplating making the circle pic my avatar. Then today, just before I read your last comment on this thread, I moved the picture from a folder, to "my pictures" so it would be easier to open as my new avatar on Aus-City which is exactly what I popped on here today to do!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1523881397&ref=mf

That's the link that shows the day & time that I posted that picture on Facebook, it's a link to my FB profile page! It clearly shows that I posted it just hours before you did!

I find these little things between us to be so funny Alisa. Can't wait to see what the next one will be!

Here we go again with the screen jumping thing. Just had a problem w/this yesterday. I better go , can't see what I'm typing anymore.

11:44! The same circle optical illusion!

Wow! I'm so glad you posted to let me know. Though it doesn't surprise me, it truly delights me. We are in the zone together.

And the screen jumping thing...I think it is time to admit that I think this is your power pulsing through the circuits of your computer because I have never heard of this happening to anyone else and it seems to happen to you whenever you are really in-the-zone. Something like that anyway!

I know when I am unsure of my posts they fail to load. Various things like that, emails that go missing, etc., when I have certain feelings towards them. Maybe computers are more sensitive or obvious in showing our "will" and how it affects our physical surroundings.

And these 11:44 syncs are truly rife!

Most of the orbs that I capture ARE water droplets. Teeny tiny water droplets. I have seen people recreate photographic captures of orbs by spraying mists of water and taking a photo, and last night during a very heavy rainstorm, with lots of water in the air, I took photos with enormous amounts of orbs appearing.





For a long time I have struggled with this idea of orbs being tiny moisture droplets. Several years ago I conversed with an orb photographer who said he saw sparkles in the flash whenever he would capture orbs as if lighting tiny specks in the air in front of the camera. I noticed them, too. Yet I knew orbs were sentient, alive, and communicating with me. So how could they be tiny specks?

It was right under my nose all along though. I guess it just takes time for everything to sink in and make sense. Long ago I posted (Do Our Thoughts Influence Water?) about Masaru Emoto's work with water molecules. Water responds to our thoughts and our intention. All things are living, alive with energy - water, air, rocks, everything!

So when we reach out to the universe for proof of something outside of currently accepted reality, water droplets are drawn to us and present to us what we seek. How better could spirit respond to seekers than to act through a continuously present physical form that can reflect light for the camera and convey a message!

They can smile.




They create formations.

The molecules can gather to form a mist figure for the camera, or even create an image within large bodies of water and splashes of water caught in a still moment of time!

Constrained beliefs that water cannot have consciousness would discourage some people (and even myself at one point) from believing orbs to be spirit and that it IS communicating to us on behalf of what we seek as spirit/god/etc. I think water would be pure consciousness unimpeded by preconceived ideas that are part of having a brain. Water seems to mirror to us what we are projecting.

And those of us who have had the pleasure of photographing hundreds of orbs and know that they appear upon request can attest to the fact that the air can be bone-dry and orbs still appear. And other times it is extremely humid and even during rain, orbs simply do not show up. There is great consciousness going on.

Though I have said on my "What Are Orbs" webpage:



I did not fully realize within myself that orbs really could BE water and still be just as meaningful. But I can realize that now and embrace it. I have known several people that became interested in orbs, but dropped their interest the moment they experimented with water spray and captured orbs this way. I didn't know how to respond other than to reiterate that I just know that orbs are sentient spirit even if you can reproduce them this way. But I feel now I have an answer and it is a union of science and spirit. Orbs are spirit in the physical form of water.

And just as I finish this post, rain has suddenly begun to pour heavily from the sky!