Ever live in a haunted house?
I think I did. When I lived in an apartment above an old diner in Lawton. That place was not right from day one. I had a thing where I was visted by beings in my sleep.
I thought it was ghosts.
Other folks think it's aliens.
This is what science says-
https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis#1 (https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis#1)
But it wasn't. This dam place didn't feel right from day one. It was making me crazy.
Things moved. I wasn't doing drugs. I drank cheap booze once in a while. This was in 1988.
My radio went on all by itself. I heard people running up the stairs in the middle of the night. Made no sense. I was freaked out.
My Ma and Brothers Glenn and Richie said they lived in a house in Rochester, NY, and the German shepard dog usta bark at things in rooms for no reason. Like a certain corner of the house. Somebody took tooth paste and made crosses on the ceiling of the bathroom.
Ma was a Catholic at that time. She moved.
several over the years, including my parents house. pictures,posters and books would turn upside down over night. the books drove my momma crazy, i get that bit of OCD from here about my books being properly shelved.
my first apartment was on the second floor of an office building, it had a back porch off the kitchen,my bedroom was next to the kitchen. i would hear someone walking on the porch, and a chair rocking at night. there was no chair there, and the door to the stairs was nailed shut. in an odd way, it comforting, i was very lonely there.
The house above mine - built on a hill rise while ours is at the bottom of the slope - once creeped me out totally back in 1998 when its' owners invited me in. I walked in and felt uneasy immediately: a few more steps and my hair stood on end. :buggedout: I asked the owners if anyone had died in the house: the lady owner said that four of her five kids had died due to cot death in the house and I said I could feel them. :buggedout:
The house was sold about ten years ago and the new owners renovated it totally: they invited me in and I was surprised to find that all the bad feelings had gone.
I never lived in a haunted house, but one of the places I worked was haunted.
One time when I was opening the store and nobody else was in it, I saw a man standing there in the dark. (I hadn't turned on the lights yet.) When I looked again, he was gone. Also, sometimes you would heard strange noises and things would be moved around when nobody was looking.
There was a time my mother would complain about a strange beeping noise at night beside her bed. We never took it seriously until my mom woke me one night and told me that it was beeping again. I went to her bedroom and yep, there was a loud and weird beeping coming from the corner of her room behind her nightstand. There was no electronic device in her nightstand (or in her bed, we checked everything), the beeping was coming clearly from the corner and not from the walls (my room was on the other side of the wall). I was baffled to say the least, and my mom said "I told you so". She said it usually beeps between 3 am - 4 am for about 5 minutes or so.
Didn't sound like an alarm clock and the beeping stopped for good a few nights later. We never found out what caused this.
My brother insists that a house we lived in on Atlantic Ave in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ was haunted... including him seeing a face coming out of the wall... though I may have been party to any "strange happenings" he has listed, I never got any spooked feeling in that house. In fact, that's the house where I learned there was no Santa Claus... and also learned to love Halloween. Of course, years later the Alexander Lodge in Spring Lake, NJ (Mercer Ave) was spooky at times... but, I'm the one with the stories about that house...!
In my mind there are certain places that just ain't 'right'.
But ghosts of the dead? I dunno, man...that's pretty far out.
But the sh!t happens to folks all the time. :buggedout:
I lived in an apartment in Lawton in 1989, and I came in one night and a light bulb fell from the ceiling. It wasn't hot. In fact the bulb in the hall light was ON. And it had a glass cover over it. Their was NO where it could come from. I would hear knocking on my door, and there would never be anyone there.
Oddly enough, this same apartment is where my Brother in law shot and killed a guy many years later.
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 13, 2019, 02:48:12 PM
I lived in an apartment in Lawton in 1989, and I came in one night and a light bulb fell from the ceiling. It wasn't hot. In fact the bulb in the hall light was ON. And it had a glass cover over it. Their was NO where it could come from. I would hear knocking on my door, and there would never be anyone there.
Oddly enough, this same apartment is where my Brother in law shot and killed a guy many years later.
A prequel ghost? I no longer presume to have answers.
I used to throw myself down the stairs in the Alexander Lodge (I was about 8)... first step, jump. Next step, jump. Third step, jump. From the second landing to the first landing there were 14 steps (and 4 more up and 3 more down). Tall house... where my older sister and I climbed out a third floor window and up and out onto the roof and up to the widow's walk... we never did get into the ATTIC of that house, but onto the roof above it! That was the house where I heard a lady crying, but there was no lady there.
the house my inlaws lived in when we were first married was WWII era and built by a japanese couple. i didn't know that at first though, and after seeing a japanese woman doing flower arrangements out on the patio several times, i asked my MIL who she took the arrangements to? freaked my MIL out big time, as she had had a couple of arrangements show up on the dining room table that dad SWORE he didn't buy.
she ( the lady) was always smiling though, and eventually i stopped seeing her there. but we all smelled her perfume occasionally, and my inlaws insisted it was just the wisteria by the window. so i never mentioned smelling it in the winter, except to curtis.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on November 13, 2019, 10:03:06 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 13, 2019, 02:48:12 PM
I lived in an apartment in Lawton in 1989, and I came in one night and a light bulb fell from the ceiling. It wasn't hot. In fact the bulb in the hall light was ON. And it had a glass cover over it. Their was NO where it could come from. I would hear knocking on my door, and there would never be anyone there.
Oddly enough, this same apartment is where my Brother in law shot and killed a guy many years later.
A prequel ghost? I no longer presume to have answers.
I used to suffer from sleep paralysis and would periodically see "ghosts" of people I knew that were still alive. A friend of mine who died in 1996, I saw his ghost 6 months before he died while I was sleeping on his couch and he took his mom out grocery shopping; he came out of the kitchen and said "hey what's up?" while I was trying to kick myself out of my sleep paralysis, and as I was struggling he said "fine then" and then walked back into the kitchen. Then I snapped out of it. My friend and his mom came home from shopping about 45 minutes later. I never got a chance to tell him about it.
I saw another friend of mine in 2014 sitting on top of me one afternoon while I was napping in my bedroom. I was having another sleep paralysis episode, but I didn't struggle this time, I just let it happen. She leaned forward smiling and gave me a kiss, and then I snapped out of it. She is still alive and well in 2019.
I understand that these can easily be explained away as dreams or a half-dream state during a sleep paralysis episode while the body is continuing to wake itself up, but these incidents were very vivid and reactive, and took place in real world environments, namely the rooms that I was currently in at the time. Also, nothing can explain me waking up seeing the ghost of my wife laying beside me and smiling at me in July of 1995, 3 months before she was born in October of 1995. It's like, how do you hallucinate or dream about the woman that you marry 24 years later? That doesn't make any sense. :question:
sweetie , do you know anything about astral projection? i can help you learn, if you like.it would help you understand what you see during sleep paralysis, and help you put a stop to any fear. just sayin'...* i'm the resident white witch at present, ftr* :cheers:
Wow, Barri, you can teach astral projection? Then your money woes are about to be forever over, since every intelligence service on the planet and every big corporation involved in industrial espionage (not to mention Ripley's Believe It Or Not!) will gladly pay you megabucks to do that, since apparently all their clinical trials of astral projection (tell us what's written on the white board in the next room....) went nowhere. :bouncegiggle:
i can teach anyone what it is and how t can be done, but you have to have an innate talent for it, and a great deal of patience for practicing. and a willingness to first, open your mind to your own abilities, and second, accept years of failing along with accepting that you may never be able to consciously do it.
most people have been indoctrinated to believe that the powers of the mind don't/can't exist from childhood onward. it isn't easy to get past that kind of brainwashing, especially for those who tend to be close minded about a great many things.
as for getting paid to teach anyone to open their minds, that's against my religion. :wink:
Quote from: ER on December 03, 2019, 12:11:30 PM
Wow, Barri, you can teach astral projection? Then your money woes are about to be forever over, since every intelligence service on the planet and every big corporation involved in industrial espionage (not to mention Ripley's Believe It Or Not!) will gladly pay you megabucks to do that, since apparently all their clinical trials of astral projection (tell us what's written on the white board in the next room....) went nowhere. :bouncegiggle:
I'm sure that the CIA would want to employ someone with that type of talent.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf)
Quote from: zelmo73 on December 04, 2019, 04:44:20 AM
Quote from: ER on December 03, 2019, 12:11:30 PM
Wow, Barri, you can teach astral projection? Then your money woes are about to be forever over, since every intelligence service on the planet and every big corporation involved in industrial espionage (not to mention Ripley's Believe It Or Not!) will gladly pay you megabucks to do that, since apparently all their clinical trials of astral projection (tell us what's written on the white board in the next room....) went nowhere. :bouncegiggle:
I'm sure that the CIA would want to employ someone with that type of talent.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf)
Maybe I should say that I did have what certainly appeared to be an out of body experience when I was in labor with my first child in 2008, so I cannot dismiss that OBEs or convincing hallucinations of them exist.
That said...
My issue with all these alleged mind control/astral projection experts which urban legends tell us the CIA supposedly has is this: intelligence agencies invest millions of personnel hours per year in operations that annually see men and women no one will ever hear of leave behind families, children, friends and daily life, and in so doing see many sacrifice their lives for their country. If all it ever took was some hippie a***ole sitting in a room astral projecting over to see what the Chinese were doing, all those millions of (billable!) hours would be inefficient and those deaths would not only be needless, those who sent those people over to die would be cold blooded murderers.
A good rule of thumb is to pay more attention to what someone is doing than what someone is saying. If Haitians can really use voodoo for fun and profit, why do they live amid disease and poverty? Half the self-proclaimed casters of spells I knew in the Michael group and from other places, including friends of mine, are also poor and overweight and tend not to have what you'd call lives of success and happiness, so....physician heal thyself. (With a magic spell you say you can cast.)
Remember, the CIA authors a lot of its own bulls**t as part of psychological operations. It's cheap, it's useful, it builds a reputation for mystery and omnipotence, and it keeps the other side guessing: "If they're spending millions on out of body travel, Boris, maybe we better start spending too!"
One will find no more prolific liars on planet Earth than the CIA.
You know the term "tin-foil hat"? That reportedly relates back to a long-ago CIA operation by that name to discredit the counterculture and conspiracy theorists in general by advancing perception that anyone who reports on something odd or decries some governmental misdeed will appear unhinged. That way someone who actually does have legitimate news will have to work that much harder to appear credible.
The CIA has been there and done that in terms of investigating the validity of on-demand mind control and remote viewing and the best argument for it being nonsense is that it uses the technology like spy satellites and people on the ground instead of having a commune full of New Agers floating over to keep an eye on Putin.
someone else's belief in my talents isn't relevant to me. and i think it would be rude for me to demand that anyone believe me, kinda like people who demand that i believe in their god is rude. not my style.
Quote from: ER on December 04, 2019, 10:14:14 AM
Quote from: zelmo73 on December 04, 2019, 04:44:20 AM
Quote from: ER on December 03, 2019, 12:11:30 PM
Wow, Barri, you can teach astral projection? Then your money woes are about to be forever over, since every intelligence service on the planet and every big corporation involved in industrial espionage (not to mention Ripley's Believe It Or Not!) will gladly pay you megabucks to do that, since apparently all their clinical trials of astral projection (tell us what's written on the white board in the next room....) went nowhere. :bouncegiggle:
I'm sure that the CIA would want to employ someone with that type of talent.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.pdf)
Maybe I should say that I did have what certainly appeared to be an out of body experience when I was in labor with my first child in 2008, so I cannot dismiss that OBEs or convincing hallucinations of them exist.
That said...
My issue with all these alleged mind control/astral projection experts which urban legends tell us the CIA supposedly has is this: intelligence agencies invest millions of personnel hours per year in operations that annually see men and women no one will ever hear of leave behind families, children, friends and daily life, and in so doing see many sacrifice their lives for their country. If all it ever took was some hippie a***ole sitting in a room astral projecting over to see what the Chinese were doing, all those millions of (billable!) hours would be inefficient and those deaths would not only be needless, those who sent those people over to die would be cold blooded murderers.
A good rule of thumb is to pay more attention to what someone is doing than what someone is saying. If Haitians can really use voodoo for fun and profit, why do they live amid disease and poverty? Half the self-proclaimed casters of spells I knew in the Michael group and from other places, including friends of mine, are also poor and overweight and tend not to have what you'd call lives of success and happiness, so....physician heal thyself. (With a magic spell you say you can cast.)
Remember, the CIA authors a lot of its own bulls**t as part of psychological operations. It's cheap, it's useful, it builds a reputation for mystery and omnipotence, and it keeps the other side guessing: "If they're spending millions on out of body travel, Boris, maybe we better start spending too!"
One will find no more prolific liars on planet Earth than the CIA.
You know the term "tin-foil hat"? That reportedly relates back to a long-ago CIA operation by that name to discredit the counterculture and conspiracy theorists in general by advancing perception that anyone who reports on something odd or decries some governmental misdeed will appear unhinged. That way someone who actually does have legitimate news will have to work that much harder to appear credible.
The CIA has been there and done that in terms of investigating the validity of on-demand mind control and remote viewing and the best argument for it being nonsense is that it uses the technology like spy satellites and people on the ground instead of having a commune full of New Agers floating over to keep an eye on Putin.
If you die and go to Heaven- isn't that astral projection? :question:
Dude, if EYE died and went to Heaven it wouldn't be astral projection, it'd be a freakin' miracle that'd shock the saints and make the devil say "no way!" as he took the red-hot pitch forks off the stove. :wink:
^ if you go anywhere after your dead- that's astral projection.
If you are a Christian- you believe in souls and out of body life. So you and the "hippies" got more in common then you know.
ME? I think we are all crazy.
I think we are all in our own private Overlook Hotel.
http://youtu.be/rjq1aTLjrOE (http://youtu.be/rjq1aTLjrOE)
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 04, 2019, 10:57:21 PM
^ if you go anywhere after your dead- that's astral projection.
No it isn't.
I don't think an astral body is usually held to be the same thing as a soul. Or an ethereal body either. I mean who knows?
I have always liked the idea that everyone has multiple souls within the body. Not saying I subscribe to the idea, just that I like it.
My innate conviction, despite many years of trying to suppress the notion, is that our consciousness survives physical death, though how that works I am clueless and anyone who claims to know is someone I tend to distrust. My adherence to Christianity, as you know, lies strictly in my acceptance that Jesus rose from the dead. Anyone who can do that is someone you want to listen to. Jesus rose from the dead, so I follow Jesus. He says he'll take away my sins, that's a good deal because I have a lot of sins.
But I got nothing against hippiekind and have friends from every spectrum of thought and belief and a lack of all belief.
My husband's friend's wife, who is from the Philippines, said that she can astral project because she didn't grow up with fluoride in her water so her pineal (not penile) gland wasn't affected. So, according to her, you can't astral project and have good teeth I guess. I don't know if I buy it.
From what I heard about astral projecting or shape-shifting is that if you can do it, it's usually only to places or people you have a connection with, which would explain why we can't astral projectably spy on other countries.
Regarding the fat, poverty stricken hippie magicians.. what about the skinny Indian yogi holy men? They're magic too. I think the best example that magic is real is Glenn Danzig. I'm pretty sure he did some deal with the devil to be super muscley, but then had some monkey's paw effect where he also had to be short. He says he goes to the gym, but I've never seen him at the gym. Where are the pictures? There's like one picture from 1991. You don't go to the gym once and have Danzig muscles.
ER- what is "hippie kind"? WTF is that?
Maybe I should call Christ a magic hippie?
Because of what Jesus did may not have been God given powers. It may be powers within yourself and by intense thinking you can release.
It's no more outlandish as Christ walking across water.
Myself- I don't know. I really don't care either. I know some places are haunted. That's all I really know.
Aw, c'mon, Ron, you can figure out the word "hippiekind." T'aint one of my complex words like avothiog.
Quote from: Paquita on December 04, 2019, 11:48:27 PM
My husband's friend's wife, who is from the Philippines, said that she can astral project because she didn't grow up with fluoride in her water so her pineal (not penile) gland wasn't affected. So, according to her, you can't astral project and have good teeth I guess. I don't know if I buy it.
From what I heard about astral projecting or shape-shifting is that if you can do it, it's usually only to places or people you have a connection with, which would explain why we can't astral projectably spy on other countries.
Regarding the fat, poverty stricken hippie magicians.. what about the skinny Indian yogi holy men? They're magic too. I think the best example that magic is real is Glenn Danzig. I'm pretty sure he did some deal with the devil to be super muscley, but then had some monkey's paw effect where he also had to be short. He says he goes to the gym, but I've never seen him at the gym. Where are the pictures? There's like one picture from 1991. You don't go to the gym once and have Danzig muscles.
I think if astral travel is real then it's probably a normal part of life and probably most common in parts of our sleep cycle. It might be one of the built-in functions of sleep. I've had dreams so vivid they've left me wondering it they weren't astral. I still remember one from the '90s where I was on this mountaintop in probably the most beautiful place I'd ever been, and even now I can see see it when I think about it.
Glenn Danzig, yeah, his grandpa was Popeye.
Quote from: ER on December 04, 2019, 11:54:43 PM
Aw, c'mon, Ron, you can figure out the word "hippiekind." T'aint one of my complex words like avothiog.
Yeah- I can figure out " hippie kind".
Dam. For some one who posts about odd things- your pretty narrow minded.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 05, 2019, 12:04:30 AM
Quote from: ER on December 04, 2019, 11:54:43 PM
Aw, c'mon, Ron, you can figure out the word "hippiekind." T'aint one of my complex words like avothiog.
Yeah- I can figure out " hippie kind".
Dam. For some one who posts about odd things- your pretty narrow minded.
Them's fightin' words, Michigan. My mind is as broad a the backside of the barn where the blues was born.
Quote from: ER on December 05, 2019, 12:09:32 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 05, 2019, 12:04:30 AM
Quote from: ER on December 04, 2019, 11:54:43 PM
Aw, c'mon, Ron, you can figure out the word "hippiekind." T'aint one of my complex words like avothiog.
Yeah- I can figure out " hippie kind".
Dam. For some one who posts about odd things- your pretty narrow minded.
Them's fightin' words, Michigan. My mind is as broad a the backside of the barn where the blues was born.
Why you talking s**t about hippies?
I ain't a hippie myself. But I got no beef with hippies. I got the same haircut!
Come on, Ronny, you can call me a lot of stuff and I'll go yep, thass-a-me, but closed-minded? In my life I been a lot of things, read a lot of books, been a lot of places, done a lot of stuff, had conversations with people from all walks, sat in on sessions where a supposed mid-Causal entity was channeled, learned to read tarot cards as a child, did sensory deprivation, ate Jesus thousands of times (he tastes like a cracker, go figger), been to brisses for the buffet tables and weddings for the blind, read Taoism, Buddhism, Mormonism, the Koran (boring), mouth-kissed a clown, swapped shoes with a drag queen and given CRP to a goldfish, thought a lot of thoughts, and I'd have to lay out the fact I been published in a lot of genres, including sci-fi, fantasy, Gollum porn, and non-genre/lit'ry to argue otherwise.
Why I once wrote a novella of the thoughts of a corpse while being cremated.
Of questionable fashion sense I may be, love, but closed-minded? Noooooooooo. Sheesh Give me a paper cut and rub salt in it, why doncha?
I also been up almost two days right now so I better wind down.
Now you got me looking back to what I said about hippies, hang on.....reading.
Quote from: ER on December 05, 2019, 12:09:32 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 05, 2019, 12:04:30 AM
Quote from: ER on December 04, 2019, 11:54:43 PM
Aw, c'mon, Ron, you can figure out the word "hippiekind." T'aint one of my complex words like avothiog.
Yeah- I can figure out " hippie kind".
Dam. For some one who posts about odd things- your pretty narrow minded.
Them's fightin' words, Michigan. My mind is as broad a the backside of the barn where the blues was born.
Your ass may be- but not yer mind.
Joking! I joke- you had 'broadside of a barn' there- I couldn't resist.
Quote from: ER on December 05, 2019, 12:24:09 AM
Now you got me looking back to what I said about hippies, hang on.....reading.
Dear- YOUR a hippie if you like it or not. Politics and "hippie" s**t don't mean s**t.
There are hippies who follow the Bible like it was made out of leaf gold, I seen hippies worship morons like Manson, I seen hippies who are some of the most goofy f**kers I ever seen on earth. I see a lot of nut job Christians and Muslims and Punk Rockers and all sortsa morons who think the'yre thing is the best. I could give a f**k less. It's all a planetary play-off. It's all bulls**t.
OK, Ronnie, I have to admit that was a little funny!
Just don't open any mysterious packages from ER the next few weeks. :bouncegiggle:
Nooooo. Read more closely, I didn't bash hippies, I said a hippie a***ole. Singular. One hippie is an a***ole. The hippie a***ole astral projecting.
I had a fine day visiting The Farm commune in Tennessee passing through. I've met a few jerky hippies sure but all in all hippies are fine by me.
Second boy ever to kiss me (kissed me, I did not kiss him back) had parents who were total hippies, grew weed out back, tripped as a spiritual exercise, somehow produced this kid with a 170 IQ. Good friend of mine is married to a nudist hippie.
I'm cool with a lot more people than you think I am.
But yeah, for the purposes of my earlier rant, that one particular hippie who was astral projecting? Sheesh, yeah, he was an a***ole. He kicked and dogs and wiped boogers under other people's tables, stuff like that. You'd hate him. He disses Motorhead and Bela. Real jerk. Totally.
Oh, me, I am really, really, really sleepy. I slept like four hours and change since....what day is this...since I got up on Tuesday, and I truly better go to bed. It's been fun as always weirding out with y'all, specially you, Ronny. Have a good Thursday. TTYS!
And oh yeah, to the poster with the sleep paralysis episodes way back? Good luck with that. I knew someone with the same condition, it's scary and a mess but harmless unless you overreact to it. Totally explicable from a medical standpoint, brain scans show what it is, which is basically parts of the brain that ought to be asleep staying awake in conjunction with the parts that produce dreams, generally the same centers that deal with fear and nightmares and archetypal images like the old hag and in his case his ex-wife, who was much worse. No monsters, just all in your brain. Good luck.
Everybody take care!
Quote from: ER on December 05, 2019, 12:30:21 AM
He disses Motorhead and Bela. Real jerk. Totally.
I reckon I would hate this guy because he hates Motorhead and Bela Lugosi?
You gotta really think I'm some kinda cartoon.
Quote from: ER on December 04, 2019, 11:59:03 PM
I think if astral travel is real then it's probably a normal part of life and probably most common in parts of our sleep cycle. It might be one of the built-in functions of sleep. I've had dreams so vivid they've left me wondering it they weren't astral. I still remember one from the '90s where I was on this mountaintop in probably the most beautiful place I'd ever been, and even now I can see see it when I think about it.
About 6 years ago, I was experimenting with lucid dreaming, which is what you are describing here. It was a way to will your body to fall asleep while your conscious mind stayed awake. The idea was that if you could do this then you could consciously control your dreams. It was very tricky to do because you often only had one shot at it before you drifted off into natural sleep, but if you could get it done right then you could have yourself some amazing experiences. If you got into a habit of doing it then your mind would start to naturally want to do it as you drifted off to sleep. Nowadays, once every month or so, I go through that same type of hypnotic state where I feel sleep coming on but I'm still consciously awake but my body starts to feel like dead weight as if paralyzed. What I've never liked about it was that it feels too much like sleep paralysis where all of that weird ghostly crap started to happen, and when all I want to do is sleep normally then that is where it becomes a problem for me.
It was during that time 6 years ago where I only had one bonafide out-of-body experience where I was actually traveling to different rooms in my home and as I "walked" it felt as though I was wading through hip-deep water when actually it was just my legs back in my body laying on the bed trying to move as I "walked" around the house. What I found fascinating about that out-of-body experience was "walking" through the closed door and standing in the pitch dark bathroom and still being able to see in the dark clear as day; not "night vision" as we know it because there were no light-generating goggles or anything, and staring into the bathroom mirror and seeing nothing but the empty room behind me; no reflection of me or anything.
The problem I had with this experience though; was it an out-of-body experience or a lucid dream? :teddyr:
Quote from: indianasmith on December 05, 2019, 12:29:59 AM
Just don't open any mysterious packages from ER the next few weeks. :bouncegiggle:
:buggedout: + :teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: ER on December 05, 2019, 12:09:32 AM
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Them's fightin' words, Michigan. My mind is as broad a the backside of the barn where the blues was born.
:bouncegiggle: "... broad...backside..." :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: ER on December 05, 2019, 12:39:40 AM
Oh, me, I am really, really, really sleepy. I slept like four hours and change since....what day is this...since I got up on Tuesday, and I truly better go to bed. It's been fun as always weirding out with y'all, specially you, Ronny. Have a good Thursday. TTYS!
And oh yeah, to the poster with the sleep paralysis episodes way back? Good luck with that. I knew someone with the same condition, it's scary and a mess but harmless unless you overreact to it. Totally explicable from a medical standpoint, brain scans show what it is, which is basically parts of the brain that ought to be asleep staying awake in conjunction with the parts that produce dreams, generally the same centers that deal with fear and nightmares and archetypal images like the old hag and in his case his ex-wife, who was much worse. No monsters, just all in your brain. Good luck.
Everybody take care!
I have had sleep paralysis in the past. It's scary s**t. As a child and as an adult. Last time was in the 'haunted' apartment I spoke of earlier. It's just one of those things that won't hurt you, but it does mess with your head. I thought it was ghosts. Others think it's alien abduction s**t. I think it was my brain.
As far as astral projection goes- old guys up in the Himalayas do it, so they say. And who am I to say it's not real? Just because I can't do it? There are more things in this world....blahblahblah.
You can never dismiss anything. That I believe.
If you believe in Gods and souls, which seems really out of this world weird, why not astral projections?
I was told by an old gypsy lady that washing your hair with p**s will make it thicker. Yes, as a young man I tried it. It works.
and sooo...back to the original topic. yes, i believe that hauntings happen, and that physical stuff like the upside down pictures in my previous post happen. i also believe in " house memories", which i don't consider to be true hauntings, they're memories that the place you're in projects and those who are open to it can see it,hear it,feel it, even smell it.
like at my old house, every couple of days i'd wake up at 4am smelling bacon and hearing a man and a woman talking in my kitchen. i never saw them because my narrow butt ain't gettin out of bed at 4am unless it has to, lol! my husband didn't see or hear THEM, but he smelled the bacon many times . the first year in the house he'd go searching for where i hid the bacon and ask me where it was( yes, i hide the bacon) and not believe me when i told him i hadn't cooked any. just an example of house memories....