Ghosts and Ghoulies

[batbat]

I had a conversation about ghosts with my sister the other night. She has this idea, you see, that she has a bit of a sixth sense; she's somehow more attuned to the supernatural than most.

I never know what to say about this topic, because I'm totally conflicted about it: it's the place where, for me, reason and experience collide. That is to say, I

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[obfuscate]

There are a few things in my memory that I can't remember whether I dreamed them or whether they happened for real. I suspect they're dreams, but they're vivid enough that I'm not sure, and there's no one I can confirm them with. Just saying.

I get PISSED when I can't sleep and someone else is. Not just jealous, but really angry. I hate that.

[batbat]

Oh yeah, I understand that. But I've also had experiences that I think might have been dreams, and they just feel different to what happened that night. I mean, I was wide awake at the time - I don't remember even being slightly dozy, and it hasn't faded at all in my memory like most dreamlike experiences do.

Then again, you obviously are right. On a rational level, I believe it was just a trick of the mind, or a sort of half-dream. But part of me says, 'That doesn't properly explain how real it seemed.' Does that make sense?

[alsoname]

I've heard about gas venting from the ground, appearing like hovering balls of eerie light ... Who knows what that was, though. Weird

[alsoname]

I realize that nothing I said really addresses your post, but is just tangentially related. To address your post more specifically, there have been times where I had NO IDEA if something was a dream or not. A long time ago, when I was living with my parents, they had guests staying in the room next to mine. These people were rustling around and chattering away all night, and I was utterly unable to sleep because of it. At maybe 6 a.m. I was delirious from lack of sleep, and I distinctly remember walking up to the wall and unleashing a torrent of verbal abuse and cussing. When I finally got up, I remember being really sheepish, but I didn't have to deal with any of the expected repercussions ... So maybe it was just a dream! To this day I'm not sure what happened.

[batbat]

That's a funny story. I have this similar one, which is a little bit dirty, but I used to share a house with this guy and our rooms were separated almost literally by cardboard. The walls were so thin you could hear everything going on in the other room.

One night he had his girlfriend over, and I have this distinct memory of them discussing having anal sex for about half an hour at about 3am - in really loud voices. When I asked him about it the next day he strenuously denied it - and he wasn't the kind of guy to be shy about stuff like that; he used to tell me all kinds of things that he and her got up to. So I'm still none the wiser.

[batbat]

I've heard about that too - a guy I used to know said it happened to him. He would wake up and be unable to move, and would feel as if a man was sitting on his chest, doing unmentionable things. It's sometimes called 'witch sitting', because people in the middle ages believed it was what witches did; some people also say it's the origin of the Roman idea of a succubus (or incubus).

I also hear that there's a perfectly rational explanation, to do with how some people wake up - apparently something happens in their brain that causes them to become conscious during a natural process that is supposed to occur while you're unconscious.

[meupatdoes]

Thank you for the grey figure story.

Now I will not be sleeping for the next week.