Ghosts

Alright I am sure many of you people belong to other boards on the net. I happen to belong to A paranormal board called the shadowlands. www.theshadowlands.net Well anyway I reason I post there is many years ago when I was a preteen maybe 12 or so. I would fall asleep to wake to find myself in paraylsis I can not move or speak. It feels like there is something pushing me down restraining me. Its really freaky, They call this term "sleep Paraylsis" Its when your body is awake but your brian is asleep. But they happen so often I truly believe my room has 'something'. I can even sense an upcoming attack sometimes. Ill hear voices/laughter/buzzing noises sometimes. I have the feeling of floating or falling through my bed. Ill have some really odd dreams that I want to wake up from. Ill wake up and everything will feel SO real I cant stress the realism here, but its just another dream. AH whatever maybe I am nuts. Anyone else here have any ghostly encounters :eek:

omg sleep paralysis that happend to me..liek you cna see and hear and stuff but you cant move no matter HOW HARD you try and stuff? omg it sucks its scary too

Yeah, sleep paralysis seems scary, I'm glad it's never happened to me. Every single "alien abductee" ever to be studied in a harvard psychology thingy were determined to have sleep paralysis. The experience is so vivid and real that they actually beleive they encountered aliens. A bit sad, too bad there's no cure.

XTC, you should look into the links I posted below

When I was a kid (and sometimes even now) I used to be able to leave my body and float around the room or house - everything feels real, but somehow enhanced. I would float up into the corner of my room and look down at myself, lying there in my bed. I would also get a sense that I was huge, or sometimes a sense that I was tiny.
My 'dreams' would be very vivid (like you say), and would 'feel' things that were happening to me - like, this one time, I dreamt that I was a pirate, and got run through with a cutlass (lol)...I felt the blade of the cutlass bouncing against my ribs and stuff as it passed through my body!
Another time, I got stung by a wasp - I felt it like it was real, and was convinced that that was what it felt like to be stung...even though I had never been stung before.
Some years later, I actually DID get stung by a wasp, and was instantly reminded of my childhood dream....and it felt EXACTLY the same:eek:

The human brain is a very mysterious thing, dudes, and (I believe) is capable of much much more than we give it credit for. 'Illumination' (IMO) is just another tool that we have forgot how to use.
Some people believe that babies are born with all those 'lost powers' intact...it is just the upbringing that kinda 'unlearns' us how to use them - if you know what I mean :confused: lol

http://healing.about.com/cs/spirituality/a/obe.htm
http://www.spiritualtravel.org/
http://www.lucidity.com/NL32.OBEandLD.html

Just a few starting points - maybe to help understand what you're experiencing :)
Res...

thanks Res. Useful reading you gave me Thanks. The people on the board I mention, thought I had a OBE becasue One In the OBE or dream whatever I got out of bed and went to the door, but when I reached for the door I simply went through the door into my hallway. I freaked out and felt something zap me back to my room/body whatever, well almost the same thing happened agian, by this time I forced myself to wake up. The people on shadowlands said since I am inexperienced to OBE I couldnt really control it the way it ought to be controlled.

haha..yeah man, it can be a bit freaky when it happens for the first time - a confusion between your brain and your mind; Your mind can see and feel everything that you are doing, but your brain says that it can't be possible - hence the 'snap back to reality', kinda thing.
Like I said earlier, we are told that some things aren't possible, and soon we begin to believe it...thus forgetting how we did it in the first place.
I remember the stuff I used to do as a kid like it was yesterday...but I guess that my adult brain tells my adult mind that those things cant be done - whether I want to believe it or not...because all of this stuff happens at a subconscience level.

If you can be aware of your subconscience at a conscious level, then you really have something to work with. I can still tap into some parts of those 'lost powers' (perceptiveness, NLP), but I guess that it is something that has to be nurtured and practised on a daily basis from a very early age.
I have met people in my life before, and they have told me that I have certain power - even though I have never met them before - it sounds wierd, but they say that I have 'the gift'...
...I dunno....maybe they are more stoned than me lol

Anyways, don't worry about the vase, eh?

i am a frequent veiwer of the shadowlands web site. Its one of th ebest sites out there

Wow and I thought I was the only one!

I very regularly have all the experiences that you talk about XTC. These usually happen to me in the morning and the only way I can really explain it is that it's like a tv in my mind. If I try I can sometime's imagine myself standing on the outside looking into my own subconscience. I never really thought that it was anything paranormal though I just think I'm going schizo lol.:D

I think what Res was saying about being able to exit his physical body is known in the paranormal as a doppleganger. Have you ever tried to project your self to a place outside your own home?

lol, Aps, no man, you're not alone..."We're all mad here," said the Hatter :D
(Oh, interconnectivity...lol)

Yeah, I could 'project' myself beyong the confines of my house (back then), but seemed slightly more difficult...
I also have vivid dreams of possible future events (even now), and attribute the many instances of 'deja vu' to the dreams that I've had in the past.
Like, I can almost second-guess what people are going to say, before they say it...if my buddy and I are rallying (PS2stylee), I utter exactly the same comment as he does - like I am reading his mind. I get that alot - am I projecting my thoughts into his head, or am I reading his unuttered thoughts? Hmmm
Curiouser and curiouser...

A really cool thing is that I can usually do quite well in arguments, as I can second guess the response of my 'combatant' and have a worthy retort already lined-up :D
Maybe that's why I can learn stuff really quickly...I can submerge myself into a state of neural-compatibilty with the person (or text, or whatever) that I am learning from?

Of course, there is a down-side to this 'gift' (lmaoo)..I find that I cannot read a book, or watch a movie without knowing (guessing) the out-come..I always (99.9%) know how the movie/book is going to end, and it becomes a situation where I watch the rest of the movie to check that I am right :rolleyes:

It doesn't work for gambling, though....:mad:

Although, I did have a 'dream' once that I went to a casino and won loads of cash, because I knew what numbers were coming up in the roulette wheel. I got up, went into town to the casino, and did walk away with £750, after only placing £1 intially (won and lost, but overall won!:))

And, how the heck did you get a TV in your mind, Aps?
Is it like, a really small TV, or a big-ass 69" Plasma jobbie, with 7.1 Dolby surround?
:p

Well the reason I think its due to paranormal activity because well my room has had always a feeling of well you know something is there. I get frequent cold spots come across me when there are no windows or doors open. I always see things just out of the corner of my eye. Once I heard a woman's voice wishper my name. Before I moved in my room it was my brother's room and he even said he felt something was there. I remember one time I was falling asleep in the living room and bolted in and looked like he just saw a ghost, he said the closet door was banging and voices were calling his name. Well nothing that freaky has yet happened to me and if it did I would be looking for a new place to live.

i reckon you lot smoke too much weed.... or crack or whatever it is youve been smokin

well I smoke weed yes..... but this shit was happening back when I was a child. I dont smoke crack and I dont take to kindly in you judging me So be careful what you say. you might step on toes when you do not mean to

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well I smoke weed yes..... but this shit was happening back when I was a child. I dont smoke crack and I dont take to kindly in you judging me So be careful what you say. you might step on toes when you do not mean to

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i uesd to be able to know alot of things...id think i was magical, but i dont know. i would know when someone was in the room, id know WHO it was (the whole guess who game always sucked lol) i could know who is in what room in my house...if i sat there for a long time id start seeing things and within a month id se deja vu of what id seen in my head...it was scary and i never told anyone...since i was 12 these things subsided, possibly the completion of my "unlearning" (lol res..) but i can still tell when somone is near me, who it is, and if my parents are coming downstairs when i have a fat ass bowl cherried :D

but weed has given me mild skitzo in which i hear people talking when they arent...it sucks..ill be in my room and ill think i hear my bro mumbling so i say "what" and he just says "shut up im not talkin to you im tryin to sleep" so yeah...i dont know..maybe i was hearing his thoughts :confused: :confused:

XTC I have had many many things happen to me in my old room just as you explained and other things that people would not believe if I posted. How do you get rid of the darkness when it holds you down and you cannot move? Are you Christian or religious by any chance?

i used to have that sleep paralasis it was the worst feeling ever. like being in a nightmare except without the comfort that its not real :(
ghosts are cool. thnx for the links everybody

xtc - im a member of an organization that investigates ghost phenomenon!
heres some orbs we found. you might be interested in finding a group like this in your area or go to www.meetup.com and find some ghost trackers :cool:

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i uesd to be able to know alot of things...id think i was magical, but i dont know. i would know when someone was in the room, id know WHO it was (the whole guess who game always sucked lol) i could know who is in what room in my house...if i sat there for a long time id start seeing things and within a month id se deja vu of what id seen in my head...it was scary and i never told anyone...since i was 12 these things subsided, possibly the completion of my "unlearning" (lol res..) but i can still tell when somone is near me, who it is, and if my parents are coming downstairs when i have a fat ass bowl cherried :D

but weed has given me mild skitzo in which i hear people talking when they arent...it sucks..ill be in my room and ill think i hear my bro mumbling so i say "what" and he just says "shut up im not talkin to you im tryin to sleep" so yeah...i dont know..maybe i was hearing his thoughts :confused: :confused:

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thats telepathy my friend you should try to read some peoples minds! seriouslly u should :D

Euphoric, I used to do a lot of paranormal investigations. But after many strange visits to Gettysburg, things started to happen in my own house. They got out of control so I don't mess with spirit world any longer. :)

yea they have the annoying habit of following people home it seems. they do that to me too one was knocking shit down last night. but as long as im not scared i dont mind the company..if im creeped out then i get angry at those ghosts anyway that was cool sawleaf :)

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Euphoric, I used to do a lot of paranormal investigations. But after many strange visits to Gettysburg, things started to happen in my own house. They got out of control so I don't mess with spirit world any longer. :)

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Well I am catholic but I rarely if ever attend Church, but I do believe in God, the way I see it There doesnt need to be a middle man between me and God. How did I over come the darkness, well if just eventually subsides

XTC, I am pretty much the same also. I am christian, but don't attend church, I have my own personal beliefs. If something is messing with you, that is a sign that it is definately not a good thing. I used to get upset and even tried swinging at a dark shadow that was rushing at me, but I found that a prayer said outloud gets rid of them pretty quick and much better than anything else I have tried. I even had one try to stop me from praying, and that is not a good sign at all. If anyone reads this and doesn't believe it, that's cool. I am not trying to convince anyone, just offering advice to those who have experienced aggressive paranormal activity and want it gone. :)

I've got a story that I'd like to share and I swear that itstrue even though noone fucking believes me: One winter night along time ago (like 9 years) when I was about 7 I had just logged off of my computer and everyone in the house was asleep and so I hunkered down because it was like 12:58 and my parents hate my staying up late so anyways I turned off all the lights and lay down in my bead, the head of which is directly under a window that faces a forest (Mcmillan mesa for those of us who live in Flagstaff Arizona) and so about two minutes later (1:00 am) I hear this crazy banging on my window in a paced rythmical thumping with slight reveberation (I.E. a fist banging) well I had just put my head under one of my pillows (i like to sleep with my head in a sandwich) I didn't lok out or get up because my friends had done this a few weeks back at like 10:00 pm cause they wanted me to come down and play football on the street with my cool lightup football. But anyways I just lied there wating for it to stop. But I noticed that the banging on the window was perfectly in beat with my heart, which was actually going pretty slow, so the terror started to grip me (C'mon gimme a break I was a 7 year old wimp sheesh) Well the banging lasted like 15 minutes and then just stoped. So I got up ran outside with a flashlight and it had snowed a few feet recently and there were NO signs that anyone had been near my windows and there were no objects even that could have reached it (like treebranches etc) so anyways I made sure of what I had heard and I banged on my window and it sounded EXACTLY like the banging before. Anyways ever since then I get really paranoid around 1:00 am and usually there will be some sort of banging (like a tree branch hitting the building, sometimes really hard!) and yet I can look out my window and there will be NO wind whatsoever. and my parents say they never hear anything and that im just being foolish. Well I know my room is weird and creepy, its ALWAYS colder than the rest of my house even though the thermastat is in my room and it always says something like 80 degrees and yet it feels like 60 (even my parents notice this) anyways I am probably being very stupid and paranoid but sheesh it sucks to live somwhere like that.

dont be snarky xtc

When I split from the wife (bitch-fuck-bugger-bitch), I had to live back at my dad's house for a while. He owns a 16th century Vicarage (he's not a vicar, by the way :D).
The house is DEFINATELY home to a few spirits.
There is a 6yr old girl - I haven't seen her, but my brothers have - she was strangled some time in the past, but she keeps nicking stuff and hiding it about the house...like keys and stuff. One night, she kept playing with the light switches - turning them on and off. that was kinda freaky, but not distressing.

There is also another ghost - an older man who wears a funny hat (my cousin described it as a sombrero(sp?). He was a funny character, mostly harmless, but sometimes got mad...especially if there was a bad vibe in the house, you know?

In the room that I had to stay in, I think there is the most presence.
It is cold all year round, it feels odd, kinda like old.
It could be 100degrees in the rooms around it, but in that room, it was cold as ice.

In the cellar there is a presence also.

I have never knowingly seen a ghost or spirit, but I do feel them - subtle, like.
In the house tha I live in now, I can feel the presence of two spirits - sometimes three.
One is a man - I just sense it as a man - he comes and goes on occasion, and lets his passing be known lol
One is female (I think), and she is here all the time (even as I type this post, I can see flashes of light from the corners of my eyes. I like her, she fills me with comfort - she checks on me frequently lol
The last spirit is very seldom here, but I feel that it is lost - it comes here every couple of months, hangs around for a day or so, then leaves again.

None of them cause me alarm, and (don't laugh) I always say hello when I come into the house (like I would if I had a partner waiting here lol)...

Whenever I 'feel' spirits in my place of living, I always introduce myself, and say something along the lines of "As long as you don't make me jump, then I respect your space - you were here first, but I'd very much like to live here too, in peace and love."

lol...I dunno, it always seems to work for me :D