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Dream/Hallucination
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I often wondered if this is a type of mayko (hallucination). On rare occasions I get startled upon awaking by a yell or sound that appears to be related to a dream I may have been experiencing. Most of them are quickly forgotten upon awakening and are hard to recollect to see if it's some kind of mental spill-over.
Last night was really weird. I thought I was awake, with my eyes closed. I sensed movement nearby so I opened my eyes and saw very clearly a young white blond man staring at me. He walked quickly to the closed door of my room and vanished. It all happened in seconds. Of course while it was happening my head was screaming Ghost! But afterward it felt like a dream even though I was sitting up in bed with my eyes wide open. Even now it doesn't seem real because my memory of it is very dream like.
Klaufi_Wodensson
Vinlandic Warrior
When I read that it gave me the chills...
Aquitaine
Well-Known Member
I dunno about hallucinations, but very rarely when I'm about to fall asleep and drift off, I "hear" this erm...... "whacking" sound as if you've just had your face hit with something hard. I think it's only happened to me a very few times in my life, like maybe 3-5 that I can remember. But when it happens it really wakes me up and my heart starts racing, I've always wondered what the Hell it is.
Just of one-off "crack".
But it's not as if I just "hear" it, it's as if I sort of...... "experience" it, I dunno, it's very difficult to describe but it's obviously not an external noise that I hear - it must just be my brain burping or summit xD
Dunno, just thought I'd mention that.
Just of one-off "crack".
But it's not as if I just "hear" it, it's as if I sort of...... "experience" it, I dunno, it's very difficult to describe but it's obviously not an external noise that I hear - it must just be my brain burping or summit xD
Dunno, just thought I'd mention that.
enchanted_one1975
Resident Lycanthrope
I am thinking you saw a ghost...
Aquitaine
Well-Known Member
Klaufi_Wodensson
Vinlandic Warrior
I have actually thought I was awake, more like half asleep (?), and I heard a young girl calling my name, almost sounding as if she was in distress, but I immediatley "woke" up, and was rightly weirded out...
I grew up believing in ghosts and I definitely know a lot of people who have had interesting ghost experiences but last night was not like your average real-life experience. Yes, my vision of this person was very clear. I could see the details of his face very well. Maybe even too well. And like Nowhere Man said, it rapidly faded into a dream-like memory.
One thing that was really strange was that despite the entire room being very dark I could see the man as clearly as if it were day time. If it were a ghost I would expect my memory to feel a little more real.
Just the way I remember it seems so dream like now though. I think that if it is possible to dream with your eyes open then this is the most likely explanation.
One thing that was really strange was that despite the entire room being very dark I could see the man as clearly as if it were day time. If it were a ghost I would expect my memory to feel a little more real.
Just the way I remember it seems so dream like now though. I think that if it is possible to dream with your eyes open then this is the most likely explanation.
Yes, it is all very weird!
TurkeyOnRye
Well-Known Member
I've had many dreams like that, in which the dream is so close to reality, you actually believe it to be waking reality. I few times, I've awaken from deep sleep, only to open my eyes into my room, with limited physical capabilities, like being weighted down. I'd just be laying in my bed staring up at the ceiling and overhead light. Then, I'd really open up my eyes, and look around the room. Trippy stuff.
Mr Cheese
Well-Known Member
the more spiritually "mature" you become, the more you will "see" things....
in Buddhism this is explained by the buddhas chakras opening, and his eventual rejection of his newly gained "super powers"
In the west this manifests as "psychic powers"
The idea for the seeker is not to become a slave to them......
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As far as ghosts go, often ghosts are not ghosts at all..but more residual shadow energies that have a life of their own...but again thats a western view, I have no idea of an eastern one...
I've noticed this. People who get into meditation end up experiencing all sorts of amazing things.
But still, I don't think that what I saw was anything other than a dream or hallucination. I could be wrong and who knows maybe it was an energy shadow (I don't know much about that though). All I know is that what I saw was as clear as day and then how quickly it faded into a dream-like memory.
Sleep paralysis, frightening yes but probably nothing to worry about unless it happens to often. The point is that your mind have awoken before your body does. When we sleep our body are paralysed so that we will stay in bed and not start to walk about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
For the OP's "ghost" experience, maybe it was a "false awakening"? You dream that you wake up while you are really asleep. Or simply another variant of the problem of not being fully awake, a lot weird stuff can happen when in between a sleeping and an awake state. I have false awakening from time to time but oddly enough, at some point I "realise" that is all false and can take control of the dream, why go to work when you can fly like a bird instead?
False awakening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are a lot of reasons why we can see ghosts that have noting to do with ghosts actually existing. I am sceptical but what do I know? All my three sisters can be described as "witches", and are apparently sensitive to some weird stuff I prefer to stay away from. Perhaps because I have some weird experiences to, shivers.
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snakedoctor
Active Member
I believe all of the comments can happen its up to the person to except them for what they are or rationalize them down!
I was always the different kid. I new when bad things were about to happen,when they did happen even if I was 3 states away. I have been able to those things that others don't. And the dreams and visions are always a fun ride!
I've been in the shower at night in the dark and drifted off to another realm while still awake! This was the scariest one of them all mind you. But could see all going on around me but I wasn't there I was walking in this other place! Down a street like a market that you would find in malaysia or Marco. And it all had some one being tortured in all different ways and I kept being lead by this guy never saw his face but he was peaceful made me feel comfortable and safe. It got worse as we went and I would stop and watch because of the fact that it was real there was a women who was pregnant and
Ill stop don't know if it appropriate or not anyways when I came back to reality I took a breath like when you die the first deep gasp of air and started crawling on hands and knees out of the shower I could not sleep after that.
I was always the different kid. I new when bad things were about to happen,when they did happen even if I was 3 states away. I have been able to those things that others don't. And the dreams and visions are always a fun ride!
I've been in the shower at night in the dark and drifted off to another realm while still awake! This was the scariest one of them all mind you. But could see all going on around me but I wasn't there I was walking in this other place! Down a street like a market that you would find in malaysia or Marco. And it all had some one being tortured in all different ways and I kept being lead by this guy never saw his face but he was peaceful made me feel comfortable and safe. It got worse as we went and I would stop and watch because of the fact that it was real there was a women who was pregnant and
Ill stop don't know if it appropriate or not anyways when I came back to reality I took a breath like when you die the first deep gasp of air and started crawling on hands and knees out of the shower I could not sleep after that.
Troublemane
Well-Known Member
Maybe the dream world and astral plane are really one and the same?
snakedoctor
Active Member
Maybe the dream world and astral plane are really one and the same?
I agree with that!
Smokeless Indica
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How tired were you. I've experienced freaky stuff when I was really tired. At least when I was younger. My fiance put a nicotine patch on before he went to sleep one night and got stuck in his dream. He'd keep waking up but every time he woke up into another dream. When he finally really woke up I had to hold him and reassure him that he wasn't dreaming anymore. When I used one I had very weird dreams. I couldn't remember what they were though. Different foods can also affect your dreams. Or it could've been a ghost. I'm just trying to help you rule that out because it would scare the living daylights out of me if I seen that.
That is very possible and that's what it feels like although sometimes I'm sure I'm awake already and open my eyes and get a fright! Yes, it's happened more than once now. The OP was my first very clear experience but I still feel that rather than actual ghosts or psychological abnormalities, I'm 'dreaming' in some way. It's really weird. What is more weird is that a couple weeks after the OP incident, my father's aunt and uncle were staying with us. Of course they didn't know about my experience but on one day my uncle was in the kitchen with my father and he sensed that there was a young blond man standing there. When the man disappeared, he told my father who then told him about my experience. I don't know what to make of that.
I can't remember how tired I was. The thing is, similar things have happened since and sometimes I'm quite awake. Awake enough that I open my eyes because I'm unable to sleep. And other times I am tired and even well rested. I don't know! There have been a bunch of people who think there are ghosts in my house but I still find that I am highly skeptical of this. I need the experience to be mroe clear and to last longer. It's no use if it always happens at night and only for about 2 seconds.