Here is how you can tell you are a bear ghost and what you can do about it if you are:

1. Examine your surroundings
2. Ensure that your surroundings are as you generally perceive them on a regular basis
3. If your surroundings seem as you generally perceive them, you are not a ghost bear
4. If your surroundings seem strange or hazy or difficult to understand or leave you with a feeling like you have done something wrong that you deserve to face and understand, then ascertain that you are in your normal environment
5. If you are not in your normal environment, the feelings mentioned previously might happen regardless of your state of ghostism (example: you might just feel bad because you woke up in a dumpster again)
6. If you are in your normal environment and still feel the feelings mentioned previously then you must examine yourself
7. If seeing your paws/fur/belly make you feel the same kind of dread mentioned previously regarding your environment, then your level of ghostliness is becoming very evident
8. I made these rules up
9. I made them up because I really do not know how to understand being a ghost and sometimes I think I might be a ghost
10. I mean, I do not think being a ghost might be all that bad
11. But I also do not know for sure that ghosts even exist
12. Maybe they do not
13. But maybe they do?
14. Oh no, I have no idea
15. I started this with such confidence, and I was certain that I knew what I was describing, but I really do not
16. I have no idea what to do or say here
17. I have to try again
18. If you are a ghost, you can do things to help you not be a ghost
19. Maybe
20. Try not being a ghost?
21. That makes no sense and works for nothing else
22. You cannot just stop being a bear, you are always a bear
23. I am a bear
24. I am not a ghost
25. I am really certain of it
26. Now I am afraid that you do not believe me
27. I promise you I am not a ghost
28. Now I am more afraid of not being believed about my ghostism than I am of actually being a ghost
29. I mean, if I am a ghost, then I do not mind being a ghost because I like being the whatever thing I happen to be right now
30. But maybe being a ghost is actually terrible and I do not know because I am not a ghost
31. I do not want to be a ghost
32. Unless I am one already
33. Please

I hope these instructions have helped you determine whether or not you are a ghost, and if you are a ghost, I hope you have more guidance for your general existence.

I am a bear.

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