Do u believe in supernatural?
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I do not believe in supernatural
I believe in supernatural
Im not sure but im open minded
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If so what made u believe ?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No I do not believe in the supernatural but I accept many people report experiences that were alarming or uncanny by being hard or impossible for them to explain, at the time anyway.
I would suggest a lot of the "crediting" such an event to supernatural elements is by already believing in the supernatural, and wanting the event to "prove" that, against understanding what really happened.
Among the most common themes are the strange but momentary feelings of pressure or of falling in bed; or seeing menacing forms in a near-dark bedroom. These are all internal, common and harmless little waves of brain activity while falling asleep - the "hallucination" is a hypnagogic dream by which the menacing object is actually a familiar one distorted by the dream.
I have had instances of "falling" and of the hypnagogic dream, but not of the impression of being sat on. I have also noticed that many of my dreams are set not in the daylight that would be correct but a strange sort of deep twilight; and I think I must be dreaming with my eyes open in the real darkness. That is what the hypnagogic hallucination relies on: seeing, say, a heap of clothes on the floor as a body (as happened to me one night).
It is a curious and interesting aspect of human behaviour that so many people not only believe in "ghosts" and report being frightened by something eerie; but want the fear that bolsters their belief rather than the reassurance of mundane reality.
I would suggest a lot of the "crediting" such an event to supernatural elements is by already believing in the supernatural, and wanting the event to "prove" that, against understanding what really happened.
Among the most common themes are the strange but momentary feelings of pressure or of falling in bed; or seeing menacing forms in a near-dark bedroom. These are all internal, common and harmless little waves of brain activity while falling asleep - the "hallucination" is a hypnagogic dream by which the menacing object is actually a familiar one distorted by the dream.
I have had instances of "falling" and of the hypnagogic dream, but not of the impression of being sat on. I have also noticed that many of my dreams are set not in the daylight that would be correct but a strange sort of deep twilight; and I think I must be dreaming with my eyes open in the real darkness. That is what the hypnagogic hallucination relies on: seeing, say, a heap of clothes on the floor as a body (as happened to me one night).
It is a curious and interesting aspect of human behaviour that so many people not only believe in "ghosts" and report being frightened by something eerie; but want the fear that bolsters their belief rather than the reassurance of mundane reality.