How does psychic linking work?
How to catch a ghost?
Is Maisie a ghost?
Where might she reside? The cemetery? The lake house? Home?
How will she appear—what age? What…condition?
How do I get into contact? How do I connect?
Deb says she was able to psychically link with me because of the cookie recipe.
Why?
How do I break the link?
Exorcism?Some sort of banishing spell?Be scientific!!
Hypothesis: bake cookies until I get the recipe correct. See if that resolves the psychic link?
Will Deb work with me? Or against me? Don’t tell her about experiment but feel her out over next few days to get a sense of how she will react…
Can Deb control more than just my mind? Can she make me say/do things, too?
What’s the “cookie recipe” equivalent for Maisie?
Journal…does she have one? Might have answers.
“Relive” portions of her life?
Go ride a horse?
Learn a trumpet song?
Swim cap…goggles. Wear them?
Go to the lake house.
Retrace her steps.
Pier, rope swing, beach. Swim in the lake.
Go to the room. Her room. To the bed. Sit. Pretend to hold her. The way you did that day. Water gurgling in her throat. Gasping. Repeat the words you told her: It’s okay, baby, it’ll all be okay. The ambulance is almost here. Say the words at 2:34. Wait 17 minutes for it to be finished. Timing was everything then. It failed you. You failed her. Maybe you’ll get the timing right this time. 2:51pm. Say the words. Wait 17 minutes.
***ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT
Talk to Sal for other ideas:
What were her favorite books, interests, hobbies, songs, movies, etc. etc. etc. Who were her friends? Boyfriend? Girlfriend?
What I know about Deb:
She was a female psychologist.
She had a lot of kids.
She loved science and wanted to go to the Ivy Leagues, which she did! Or at least there is a picture of her in front of Harvard University.
She baked? I guess? (Have never heard her discuss baking.)
What other memories might Deb be able to show me?
How can I use this to understand the past? Death? Other ghosts?
Is there a way that Deb can share her memories without my embodying them completely? i.e. Can I have some semblance of control still? i.e. Can I avoid vomiting afterwards?
Research Deb to see how her memories coincide with historical record…talk to Sal about new research project and start digging at library.
Figure out a guise. CANNOT tell him about Deb/ghost.
Ideas:
Researching psychology.Might think I am looking to attend therapy. Cannot/Do not get his hopes up.Saw Deb’s name in crossword and piqued my interest? ***Let’s go with that for now.
What I know about ghosts:
If you are being haunted, it’s because you are psychically linked.
Can you be haunted WITHOUT a psychic link?
Hauntings more likely to happen at night when brain is more active (REM? Study up on sleep cycles/brain activity.)
Ghosts can psychic project, i.e. send you an image, memory, feeling. etc.
Ghosts cannot physically hurt a person. Or at least Deb can’t.
Does that go for all ghosts?
Do ghosts have special powers?
Deb can psychically project but she was also a psychologist and knew how to get into a person’s head/psyche.
If a person was particularly strong/powerful in life, could they physically move objects as a ghost, for example?
So CAN a ghost hurt me?
What other powers might Deb hold?
Wait…how did Deb die? Old age? Wasn’t she just 72?
Does the death have anything to do with the haunting? Does a violent death or a life cut short make a haunting more likely?
Learn more about Deb.
Deb will have the answers!!