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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 233621" data-attributes="member: 1710">My opinion on ghosts? I don't know. I don't think I've ever encountered one but I'd like to quote Dr. Midnight and say, "I've never seen a ghost, but I'm an imaginative coward, so I'm easily spooked." Hehehe. I like to read about hauntings and the paranormal, but I pay for it with the "creeping paranoia" for quite a while afterwards. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My friend used to describe some "visitations" he had during his very early childhood, some disturbing, some not. Most centered around someone he referred to as "the green man". They ended eventually when the "man" said it was time for it to go. In the last visit my friend said their were woodland creatures around the green man. It wasn't until sometime after high school that I informed him about the Green Man/Men of European mythology. He was pretty flabbergasted, he had never heard of them.Whether this was some sort of paranormal encounter as witnessed through the eyes of a child, or simply a product of his, quite active, imagination...The sleep paralysis thing has happened to me before. It's frustrating because you are conscious (though how lucid I do not know) but you cannot move or speak, and sometimes it feels like you can't even breathe. It takes a supreme amount of effort/willpower to even move my head the tiniest bit. Horrible. But other than the physical and mental discomfort of being unable to move or cry out for help, I have never associated the phenomenon with fear or terror or the paranormal. Not even with nightmares.I did have it occur once at the same time I was dreaming, and the situation was rather odd.I got up on a Saturday and then started dozing on the couch. My feet were pointed towards the front door. In my dream, the door crashed open violently and a whirlwind, a small tornado, came swirling toward me. The air got heavy and hard to breathe, then the whirlwind was on top of me, pressing down on my chest and I could not breathe at all. As I awoke, I still couldn't move or breathe and I had the impression that I could still hear the roar of the wind and that the tornado was going back out the door.It was pretty intense.Also sometimes I experience flashes of colored lights and loud noises as I'm falling asleep or waking up. As I understand it, this is another common, documented occurrence called Hypnagogic Hallucinations. Usually it would take the form of me waking up to a sound that uncannily resembled the air horns of a large truck coming at me, because the sound would crescendo until I was fully awake. It was a bit disconcerting, but not disturbing. It doesn't happen to me much anymore.Now however, I have a different problem, I will wake feeling extremely groggy and disoriented, dizzy, barely coherent. This state gets a little better after a few minutes, but it hangs on for hours. I think that's because it's being caused by a severe lack of oxygen. The Lewis family sinus problems are probably just catching up to me as I get older. Maybe we all have sleep apnea?Edit: Actually, the thing that disturbs me about sleep paralysis is when I wonder if that's what a coma is like...The pressure on the chest some people experience is no doubt part of the reason incubi/succubi are portrayed as sitting on a person's chest.</blockquote>

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