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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9110327" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I find myself in a slightly weird position re: the supernatural in that:</p><p></p><p>A) I haven't had any experiences at all, personally, that I think are actually supernatural. Not even close.</p><p></p><p>I have had a ton of deja vu flashes, but over the decades I've worked out that given they seem to be tightly connected to how tired I am, and the main thing they actually do for me is warn me that my ADHD is particularly bad that day and that I should tightly monitor how I behave that day.</p><p></p><p>I've also had <em>so much</em> sleep paralysis, and know exactly the situation that causes it for me - going to sleep, especially on my back, when I am "overtired", but without reading a book or the like to slow my brain down. When I was a kid and younger teenager, I got them but didn't know why (apart from sleeping on my back was bad), and so just had to deal with them and they were often terrifying. But then thanks, appropriately for this forum, to Dungeons and Dragons, my brain broke itself on it's own idiocy. Because instead of vague presences or the like, this time when I got sleep paralysis, I got a full-on D&D-style rotting skeleton warrior with helmet and rusty axe (I believe someone once even pinned down the 1E or 2E picture my brain originated this with), and I started laughing. My body was still paralyzed, but apparently that didn't matter, because I was just filled with amusement at the ridiculousness of this, even as my brain continued to try to scare itself. After that sleep paralysis can be extremely annoying and uncomfortable, but not much else.</p><p></p><p>Also so far in my life, "ghost stuff" just never happens when I'm around. Even in supposedly very haunted places.</p><p></p><p>B) On the flipside, I don't disbelieve others re: some experiences. </p><p></p><p>Some stuff people are clearly being silly about - sleep paralysis as demons or aliens, for example, ghost stories that boil down to "I heard a scary noise and worked myself into a state and I didn't know what it was so it must be a ghost" (which is like, 30% of internet ghost stories, another 50% being clearly "I am an amateur horror writer", and the rest being stuff people actually believe that isn't as simple as just a noise, even if a lot of it could be explained). But some intuition (often phrased as psychic flashes or the like) people have re: certain events is extremely hard to explain conventionally (the brain does incredible work on the down-low but it can only work with information it somehow has), as well as some weirder ghost-adjacent stuff is a bit harder for me to dismiss. My feeling is we'll probably find scientific causes eventually, but for now it falls under "supernatural".</p><p></p><p>I do love a good ghost/supernatural story, too - there were these amazing ones on reddit a few years ago, supposedly written by a park ranger in the US (clearly fictional, but very well done), about stairs to nowhere in the woods, noises that weren't noises, abductions by fey-like sasquatches and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9110327, member: 18"] I find myself in a slightly weird position re: the supernatural in that: A) I haven't had any experiences at all, personally, that I think are actually supernatural. Not even close. I have had a ton of deja vu flashes, but over the decades I've worked out that given they seem to be tightly connected to how tired I am, and the main thing they actually do for me is warn me that my ADHD is particularly bad that day and that I should tightly monitor how I behave that day. I've also had [I]so much[/I] sleep paralysis, and know exactly the situation that causes it for me - going to sleep, especially on my back, when I am "overtired", but without reading a book or the like to slow my brain down. When I was a kid and younger teenager, I got them but didn't know why (apart from sleeping on my back was bad), and so just had to deal with them and they were often terrifying. But then thanks, appropriately for this forum, to Dungeons and Dragons, my brain broke itself on it's own idiocy. Because instead of vague presences or the like, this time when I got sleep paralysis, I got a full-on D&D-style rotting skeleton warrior with helmet and rusty axe (I believe someone once even pinned down the 1E or 2E picture my brain originated this with), and I started laughing. My body was still paralyzed, but apparently that didn't matter, because I was just filled with amusement at the ridiculousness of this, even as my brain continued to try to scare itself. After that sleep paralysis can be extremely annoying and uncomfortable, but not much else. Also so far in my life, "ghost stuff" just never happens when I'm around. Even in supposedly very haunted places. B) On the flipside, I don't disbelieve others re: some experiences. Some stuff people are clearly being silly about - sleep paralysis as demons or aliens, for example, ghost stories that boil down to "I heard a scary noise and worked myself into a state and I didn't know what it was so it must be a ghost" (which is like, 30% of internet ghost stories, another 50% being clearly "I am an amateur horror writer", and the rest being stuff people actually believe that isn't as simple as just a noise, even if a lot of it could be explained). But some intuition (often phrased as psychic flashes or the like) people have re: certain events is extremely hard to explain conventionally (the brain does incredible work on the down-low but it can only work with information it somehow has), as well as some weirder ghost-adjacent stuff is a bit harder for me to dismiss. My feeling is we'll probably find scientific causes eventually, but for now it falls under "supernatural". I do love a good ghost/supernatural story, too - there were these amazing ones on reddit a few years ago, supposedly written by a park ranger in the US (clearly fictional, but very well done), about stairs to nowhere in the woods, noises that weren't noises, abductions by fey-like sasquatches and so on. [/QUOTE]
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