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<blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 1002765" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>Andrew Gable and Terrasim: What you guys have been saying about hyponogogic dreaming is dead-on. Full paralysis (sign of still being in a REM sleep-like state), feeling awake (but possibly arguably still in some stage of sleep), seeing humanoid/tall shadows near/bending over you, etc. I remember reading about a psych sleep study done a few years ago where they induced hyponogogic dreaming by putting electrodes on a person's head and passing low current into certain brain areas. In the five cases they did, each person reported the same thing- basically the alien abduction experience. However, the people they did this experiment on all had sleep disorders, so its not known if it generalizes to most people. Kinda discredits the whole alien abduction story though.</p><p></p><p>I am a skeptic, but I also find amateur ghost hunting really fun. I have been to probably 20 locations, never seen anything convincing, but I have heard noises and had strange things happen. A few of the more odd:</p><p></p><p>I was driving on a remote two-lane highway at night, and there was an old 50's era car about 300 feet in front of me (had the tailfins). Anyway, I was going downhill, and I was messing with the AC. I can't be sure, but I glanced out the windshield, and thought I saw the car get to the bottom of the hill, but fail to make the 70 degree left turn and go off the road into a ravine. I got to the bottom of the hill about 10 seconds later, and pulled over to see if the driver was hurt. There was no car in the ravine, no tire tracks or disturbance in the grass where it would have left the road, and the road after the left turn was straigt for about 1 mile after that- and that car that was only a few seconds ahead of me was nowhere in sight. Pretty unnerving.</p><p></p><p>Our family business is supposedly haunted. There have been dozens of incidents reported there, some from not-so-reputable employees, but many from reputable sources, including my dad. Some of the things include: seeing an old man out of the corner of the eye walking around with a clipboard, a light touch on the shoulder when some people are in the freight elevator, footsteps, voices, low rumbling noises that sound like freight carts moving after business hours (which always remain in the same place), moved objects, damaged light fixtures (by damaged I mean pulled out of the ceiling), and one case of a cop who was scared silly by something when the alarm went off at 2 am one night and my dad let him in the building to check for intruders.</p><p></p><p>After my parent's Scottish terrier died at 14 years from cancer, something strange happened to me. They had to have him put to sleep because he was in a lot of pain, and I wasn't there to tell him goodbye. I was really upset- this dog followed me everywhere when I grew up, but I was in grad school and lived 150 miles away. He used to sleep on my bed at night, cuddled up with me. The night after he died, while I was half-asleep, I thought I felt something settle on the bed next to me where he used to lay. I almost immediately dozed off, but I remember feeling completely at ease and comforted. The really odd thing was that when I got my current scottish terrier, the first night I had him- he settled in to sleep in the same place, and always sleeps there every night.</p><p></p><p>Thats enough for now. I'll post more later</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gothmog, post: 1002765, member: 317"] Andrew Gable and Terrasim: What you guys have been saying about hyponogogic dreaming is dead-on. Full paralysis (sign of still being in a REM sleep-like state), feeling awake (but possibly arguably still in some stage of sleep), seeing humanoid/tall shadows near/bending over you, etc. I remember reading about a psych sleep study done a few years ago where they induced hyponogogic dreaming by putting electrodes on a person's head and passing low current into certain brain areas. In the five cases they did, each person reported the same thing- basically the alien abduction experience. However, the people they did this experiment on all had sleep disorders, so its not known if it generalizes to most people. Kinda discredits the whole alien abduction story though. I am a skeptic, but I also find amateur ghost hunting really fun. I have been to probably 20 locations, never seen anything convincing, but I have heard noises and had strange things happen. A few of the more odd: I was driving on a remote two-lane highway at night, and there was an old 50's era car about 300 feet in front of me (had the tailfins). Anyway, I was going downhill, and I was messing with the AC. I can't be sure, but I glanced out the windshield, and thought I saw the car get to the bottom of the hill, but fail to make the 70 degree left turn and go off the road into a ravine. I got to the bottom of the hill about 10 seconds later, and pulled over to see if the driver was hurt. There was no car in the ravine, no tire tracks or disturbance in the grass where it would have left the road, and the road after the left turn was straigt for about 1 mile after that- and that car that was only a few seconds ahead of me was nowhere in sight. Pretty unnerving. Our family business is supposedly haunted. There have been dozens of incidents reported there, some from not-so-reputable employees, but many from reputable sources, including my dad. Some of the things include: seeing an old man out of the corner of the eye walking around with a clipboard, a light touch on the shoulder when some people are in the freight elevator, footsteps, voices, low rumbling noises that sound like freight carts moving after business hours (which always remain in the same place), moved objects, damaged light fixtures (by damaged I mean pulled out of the ceiling), and one case of a cop who was scared silly by something when the alarm went off at 2 am one night and my dad let him in the building to check for intruders. After my parent's Scottish terrier died at 14 years from cancer, something strange happened to me. They had to have him put to sleep because he was in a lot of pain, and I wasn't there to tell him goodbye. I was really upset- this dog followed me everywhere when I grew up, but I was in grad school and lived 150 miles away. He used to sleep on my bed at night, cuddled up with me. The night after he died, while I was half-asleep, I thought I felt something settle on the bed next to me where he used to lay. I almost immediately dozed off, but I remember feeling completely at ease and comforted. The really odd thing was that when I got my current scottish terrier, the first night I had him- he settled in to sleep in the same place, and always sleeps there every night. Thats enough for now. I'll post more later [/QUOTE]
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