Ooooof @wookie sounds proper fucked up. Glad Im not reading this alone at night  How did things resolve?

superflyninja wrote:

Ooooof @wookie sounds proper fucked up. Glad Im not reading this alone at night  How did things resolve?

We moved out and the spooky stuff stopped.

Thing is I never once remember feeling scared, it never felt like whatever was there was trying to be menacing or malicious. It just felt like something else was in our house with us.

If anything after a while I accepted it was probably my grandad who lived and died in that house. It felt somewhat comforting.

Interesting stories, especially those as kids. The theta /alpha states of out brain wave frequencies must play some part in this. As we hit puberty it switches to beta where we remain all our adult lives apart from when we sleep and the brain switches back to theta waves. Adults switch to alpha when in a light trance or meditation.

We have a limited perception of 'reality' which is produced by our brain as adults in the beta wave frequency. We can only see a limited tiny band of the electromagnetic spectrum via our eyes. So when people experience 'night terrors' maybe its because the brain is in the theta state and its a different 'reality' they are perceiving which is all around us but our conscious beta brain tunes out?

Just a thought. Its often been said anecdotally that children can see things adults cannot. That popped in my mind a short while back. I took my son to tesco's and there's a shortcut to tesco that cuts 10 minutes off the route of we go down a certain street then a footpath behind the houses on that street. Everytime we come to one particular house along the way my son bursts out crying. Full blown tears and want to get out of the pram and be held. Its happen everytime we walked passed this certain house. We now dont take this shortcut anymore because it upsets him (he's 2) but it does make me wonder if hes perceiving something i can't. The house looks identical to every other house on that street (terrace housing). Bizarre.

Anyway im sure i've told my own shadow person story o here before, so i wont repeat it. Needlessly to say, i wasnt asleep or alone. My was in the daytime as a child with my best friend at the time in tow. Simply the most scary experience of my life.

Forgot to ask, for people who had these expereinces do you or did you have any religious items on the walls in the house or are you/your parents (if it happen as a child) religious?

Every house i have moved into or my parents have moved into, one of the very first things they have done and subsequently taught be to do is the following:

1. Play the adhan (call to prayer) loudly enough once when you move in so it can be heard throughout the house.

2. Read ayatul kursi (a surah of the quran) out aloud in the house and put a copy of it up on a wall in the house (to ward off evil spirits).

3. Have a Khatum (the spelling of the word is probably wrong ) where you invite friends and family to pray and bless your house and they feed them.

It maybe a muslim thing with islam. Just wondered of othe people did anything similar when moving into a new home within their religion.

I think humans are naturally drawn to the supernatural, and their ability to empathise through the recreation of another person in their own mind creates the opportunity to believe in spirits and ghosts among other things. The only unwelcome visitors you need to be scared of in your own home and weird uncles and people who break in. Both of whom you should be able to kick fuck out of.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Just wondered of othe people did anything similar when moving into a new home within their religion.

This is my method:

Warning, this is pretty jesus fuck horrifying - This is what it’s like waking up during surgery

I......think we had a Jesus portrait at the top of my stairs. I think. 
Im amazed at how many of us have stories to be honest. Looks like there is a lot to discover still about sleep. But I think you are right Dino, many of these stories are from childhood, especially concerning sleep. My gut tells me all those stories arent a million miles removed from DMT/mushroom experiences. 

Mind you my gut is also telling me to go make a cheese sandwhich.

I've only had one sleep paralysis experience and I was 22.

Also no religious stuff in any of the 12 places I have lived over the years.

Also it will make your render times take forever.

Mama Div goes in on those old wife tales type ones.
Woe betide anyone that puts new shoes on the table.

You say that but last Friday I’d had some new trainers delivered. My son had put the new box on the table and then that night we didn’t win Euromillions. Proof.

Green’s an unlucky colour where I come from, and I think it’s the same in fishing/maritime communities everywhere. Green is the colour of land so it’s an unlucky colour to paint a boat. Green boats will sink. It persists as an old wives tale to this day - I bought a green car once and my Mum’s instant reaction was ‘Oooh, that’s brave of you. Unlucky colour for a car.’

Lord_Griff wrote:

I think humans are naturally drawn to the supernatural, and their ability to empathise through the recreation of another person in their own mind creates the opportunity to believe in spirits and ghosts among other things...

Sooo, who ITT (or anyone they know) believe there’s a god watching our every move?

I can’t watch everyone’s every move.