I’ll add to this:
- I suffer from Sleep Paralysis occasionally. It started in Basic Training and then I would get it once in a while whenever my mind is overactive prior to sleeping. One theory is that the body is physically exhausted while the mind is still in a heightened state of awareness. Since the body is paralyzed while you are asleep or you would end up sleep walking, when you wake up in this state, you can’t move. Another is that this is due to a dopamine deficiency, which explains why I got it again plus a prolonged bout of Restless Leg Syndrome after using lots of deca in my early twenties. L-dopa is quite effective for this.
Every single story I’ve heard from out-of-body experiences to spirits sitting on you or suffocating you, plus hearing and feeling the presence of spirits around you because your mind is still partly in a dream state, sounds exactly like what I’ve experienced. Now all I do is relax and I fall back asleep.
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I lived in a very superstitious part of the world till my teens. It was also a place where there was almost definitely a violent death that had occurred everywhere you stepped outside your home in the past because of the Japanese invasion during WW2. Since I was fascinated with horror movies at that time and my friends liked to do stupid shit, I went to every haunted place in town, spent nights at cemeteries and morgues of abandoned hospitals where idiots were known to conduct rituals of some sort, worked late nights on weekends at a movie theater where the Japs hung heads of people at the entrance, went to watch exorcisms, threw a pregnant stray cat over a coffin at a funeral wake because people believed the dead body would turn into a zombie FFS lol. I have seen NOTHING. All I’ve seen are charlatans and found out how much people are susceptible to the power of suggestion.
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Ghostly sightings are culture specific. Chinese people don’t see Western demons. They see fox spirits. Southeast Asians see flying heads and long haired women eating dead babies on trees. Christians use crosses to ward of ghosts. Muslims in Asia throw salt at ghosts and keep a pair of scissors under their pillows to ward off evil or something. There has to be some consistency here lol.