Ghostly Encounters
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Nope. Because the supernatural doesn't exist. The supernatural is what happens before the natural is understood.
I would beg to differ.
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You're right. The supernatural is what happens before the natural is understood and when human imagination and irrationality run amok. It's good fun, but it's not real.
I hope you say the same thing when the next time, something slaps you when you are falling asleep at your desk when you are doing overtime late at night. Or something pokes at you when you are sleeping outdoors near certain locations. I encountered such situations before.
^Google "hypnogogic hallucination." Your experiences were real. They are also explainable.
How come i don't experience hypnogogic hallucination when i sleep on my own bed.
My first guess would be the fact that hypnogogic hallucinations are most common in individuals who are over tired (like when you fall asleep at your desk doing overtime late at night), sleep deprived, or stressed. When you are not sleeping in your bed, chances are it is because you are stressed or in a situation which could also be causing you stress, or, not sleeping in your bed causes some psychological stress which then triggers the hallucination. You could also be experiencing confirmation bias. Confirmation bias, the tendency to remember things that confirm our preexisting beliefs and forget or try to explain away things that counter our beliefs. This is something everyone does -- it's a natural part of human thinking. Our abilities to form memories are impaired somewhat during sleep-wake transition, so you could easily be remembering the times you hallucinate when you are not in your bed, and forgetting the times you hallucinate when you are in your bed.
Maybe.
But what's the "natural" explanation for this?:
My wife, when she was about 14, was visiting her grandmother's farm in southern Illinois.
One day, at about dusk, she was walking along the gravel road from the neighbor's to her grandmother's. The road dipped down to a small creek valley, where a bridge crossed a shallow creek, then rose again toward her grandmother's.
As she was crossing the bridge, she looked off the bridge to her right.
There, standing right in the middle of the creek, was an American Indian on a horse. The Indian looked her right in the eye, nodded, turned his horse around, and started up the creek. After riding about eight to ten feet, both rider and horse just disappeared.
What's the "natural" explanation for that?
^I'm American Indian. We are not make-believe.
So you don't really believe that something of us reminds after the physical body is gone.
The soul, the life force or what ever you call it.
^Nope. It'd be nice, but I don't believe in it.
do people sleep in sensory depravation tanks?(I have the whole world here to find the answer and i choose to ask it as a question..
what of that thing going on back in the 90's something with hemisyncing, aligning the brainwaves by listening to two pitches one in each ear just slightly different cycles per second levels (touch different pitches) this causing a moiré pattern in audio form between each side of the brain leading the hemispheres of the mind to increase their sync..in the end leading to bazaar hypnogogical hallucinations..
what of that thing going on back in the 90's something with hemisyncing, aligning the brainwaves by listening to two pitches one in each ear just slightly different cycles per second levels (touch different pitches) this causing a moiré pattern in audio form between each side of the brain leading the hemispheres of the mind to increase their sync..in the end leading to bazaar hypnogogical hallucinations..
That hemisyncing stuff was a bunch of nonsense...it's been thoroughly debunked.
Thank goodness I was afraid I would have to listen to those awful untuned pitches again ,,, thank you..
i was in hypnogogia and had a recurring dream that I was being watched by the people from Talis IV this was way back in the late 80's they were thinking to me "good thoughts will be rewarded bad thoughts will be punished" I thought I saw them in the corner of my room looking in on me.
But why not? Why not try to find out why you've experienced something? It's a lot more fun if you think about it and try to figure out what was really going on instead of just explaining it away with make-believe.
But if all you really want is the stories, I do have a few: Once, back in high school, I dreamed my favorite teacher had died, and that a friend and I were packing away her classroom. The next morning at school they announced that she had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly the night before. It was definitely eerie.
But if all you really want is the stories, I do have a few: Once, back in high school, I dreamed my favorite teacher had died, and that a friend and I were packing away her classroom. The next morning at school they announced that she had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly the night before. It was definitely eerie.
Thank goodness I was afraid I would have to listen to those awful untuned pitches again ,,, thank you..
i was in hypnogogia and had a recurring dream that I was being watched by the people from Talis IV this was way back in the late 80's they were thinking to me "good thoughts will be rewarded bad thoughts will be punished" I thought I saw them in the corner of my room looking in on me.
That is a classic hypnagogic hallucination. One of the most common defining characteristics is the sense of a malevolent presence in the room. That feeling is then manifested into a visual, audio, or sensory hallucination that is representative of what the individual might associate with that sensation. For many it is a ghost (in the 19th century it was commonly the "Grey Lady" a sort of pop culture go-to of malevolence). Another common one today is aliens, because the idea of alien abduction is so ingrained in our culture now. My mother had one for the first time last night and emailed me in a panic. Her's was of a monstrous spider the size of a dog scuttling across her ceiling. She is terrified of spiders, so that hallucination fit perfectly with the phenomenon.
Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
Seriously though, the fading light at dusk and light refraction can play all sorts of tricks on the eyes. Maybe the guy was there but actually off to the side of the river.
http://www.moillusions.com/2012/03/evening-dusk-optical-illusion.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...anic-Sink-Because-of-an-Optical-Illusion.html
Or it could be memory playing tricks on her and how she remembers the incident.
ETA: I'm not trying to take the fun out of the thread, btw; it's just that he asked for a possible explanation. Carry on.
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