your mind??
Like beable to wake up in the middle of the night and see like a badger scurrying across your room, a old woman in a rocking chair... or even this one time I saw a knight in full armor standing at the foot of my bed When I was 8.
I'm curious... Did my mind create these images as I woke up? Is it possible that the thing they say about little kids actually seeing ghosts because god knows what reason it's true... Or is it possible it just seemed like I was still awake but really I was asleep?
I'm curious what are all hte possible reasons for me waking up in the middle of sleep and seeing something like this and ducking under my covers...
I remember this one time a badger was on top of me... I didn't feel the weight but it's little head used to poke at a whole in my blanket so I would make sure there were NO holes showing like where the blanket touches the mattress...
Ya I know I'm going through this psychologically analyzing point in my life but I'm just curious...
food for thought.
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 Jul 16 2002, 11:14 pm
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I think psychologists or neurologists would tell you that it's impossible, that you only think you're seeing such images. I would slap such persons, though, because sight occurs solely within your mind, so what's the difference between seeing and thinking you see?
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Jon Snow wrote:
your mind?? I laughed at that one, because when I was 6 or 7, me AND my brother both saw the same image of a strange shadowed Knight, I laugh thinking about it, but my dog went crazy that night and kept runing into my room barking.. I looked around all night before I went back to sleep tring to figure what could have made the shadow, I litterally moved everything in the room but nothing could change the image..it just stayed there..the next day it was gone, I still can't figure what it was that night..but I know I was scared =P | |
Spuzzum wrote:
Truth be told, I think that it explains alien abductions and ghost sightings, really -- that is, that people open their eyes while still asleep, so they see imaginary things superimposed on a real environment. (Why else do the same people get abducted several times? They dream about their former "abductions" on repeated occasions, so they occur again. It doesn't explain the bodily mutilation, but there are a lot of things that people can do in an effort to convince others that what they saw was real.) I've never put much stock in alien abduction stories, mainly because they make zero sense. What would be the point in abducting people? Wouldn't they have had all the necessary research material by now? If some of us are being "tagged" for study, why are they choosing people for whom tags would provide the least useful information (for example, people who don't travel much)? Stories like being able to force a person to walk toward them I don't buy at all, nor am I entirely sold on some of the paralysis stories. In spite of that, I've also had trouble buying the "It's just a weird half-dream state" explanation. But that's mostly because of the way it's presented, I think. It is entirely possible that these sorts of waking dreams account for most of the stories. If that's the case, my guess as to why this mostly only happens to rednecks is that the phenomenon is somewhat environmental. It could be related to work schedule, diet, local pollen, genetics; who knows? The difference is obviously a subtle one, but there might well be some kind of heightened tendency in some population clusters to experience this sort of semiconscious state more often. Lummox JR | |
Truth be told, I think that it explains alien abductions and ghost sightings, really -- that is, that people open their eyes while still asleep, so they see imaginary things superimposed on a real environment. (Why else do the same people get abducted several times? They dream about their former "abductions" on repeated occasions, so they occur again. It doesn't explain the bodily mutilation, but there are a lot of things that people can do in an effort to convince others that what they saw was real.)
I think it was a waking dream, anyway. I could have genuinely seen a ghost. I doubt it, though. =)