Paranormal Activity

[flammableBen]

haha oops

[Barry Scott]

Are you taking the mick? If not then bloody hell!!

You physically cannot move - I wish I could say that I was asleep or it was a dream but it was before I had even gone to sleep, I had only just got into bed and I was sober

No I'm serious. It happens most often as I start to drift off or have just drifted off. It's like I'm asleep but not. I often get a rushing sound in my ears first, like when you screw your eyes closed, then I feel like I'm being pushed about or doing somersaults. I then begin to feel quite scared and often become aware of someone being in the room. If I then open my eyes I occasionally see things (only a few times a year). The most common is a troll like thing sat on my chest, sometimes beating my chest or strangling me or a shadowy looking old women or man (often Abraham Lincoln) in the corner of my room. If I keep my eyes open the paralysis subsides and then everything is fine fairly quickly. I often just close my eyes and go back to sleep though, as it takes a bit of bravery!

As you can't move or make a noise though it's pretty unsettling, especially when I wake into that state from a dream.

[BANGKOK RED]

The exorcism of Emily Rose springs to mind here.

[nevillew]

Hallow'een is going to be fun this year...

[jayohaitchenn]

Nothing paranormal about Sleep Paralysis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Sort of like a waking dream.

[sonicyouth]

When you say your paralysed with dear, were you properly paralysed?

I ask because all my life I've suffered with Sleep Paralysis and this is often accompanied by hellish fear along with voices, hallucinations, the sensation of being shaken or thrown around and the horrible feeling of not being alone. It's only because I suffer with this on an almost nightly basis that I'm able to dismiss it all entirely, although as a child that was harder.

I've often seen someone strangling me, little people or children (more like a kind of troll like figure to be honest) pounding my chest, people stood looking over me, whispering noises, being tickled and any number of strange things. It's never nice, but nowadays I've learned to almost find it quite fun in a being made jump kind of way.

I'd been wondering where my girlfriend kept disappearing to every night.

[The_Plagiarist]

Nothing paranormal about Sleep Paralysis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Sort of like a waking dream.

Nothing paranormal about wanking dreams buddy. I have em all the time

[Simon Pieman]

Did anyone watch Derren Brown Investiagtes: The Ghost Hunter? It was a really interesting watch and shows how people can be manipulated/made to think other forces are at work.



I think there are a lot of things in the world which cannot be explained, at least not conclusively. This is paranormal in the sense that there is yet a decent scientific explanation.

A lot can be explained however and therefore isn't paranormal.

[Langers]

Did Fred ever find out what happened?

Very wierd.

[Simon Pieman]

Oh and another episode, which really busted the myth of mediums:

[Mexicano Rojo]

11 pages and not one mention of linda beaton.

[leefer]

I prefer Oxford Beaton.

[herthab]

There is now...

I often waking up having no recollection of how I got home, or even what happened when I was out.
Spooky eh?

[Talk Talk]

common morality is an interesting choice of words Talk Talk, do you think there's some sort of binding absolute moral right which we should all abide too?

Absolutely there is. We all know it - in that is against our morals to murder, rape, physically assault, steal, commit fraud and so on. Granted not everybody sticks to it, but even those people know that fundamentally it is wrong.

It applies to everybody in the world, no matter what race. This is because it is favourable to the species, if it wasn't then the human race would have died out long ago.

It distils down to one phrase: "nobody should initiate the use of force against another person or their property". The problems in the world are caused by human constructs such as religious groups and governments. These entities do not really exist, only people exist. If morals are universal then they should apply to the people within them. Instead we have religious leaders who incite murder by saying "kill the infidels and the non-believers". Governments who invade other countries and kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. Governments who steal from their citizens through taxes under threat of imprisonment. Churches whose leaders condone the rape of innocent children. Does an average person transform into someone different when he or she puts on a uniform or a funny hat or walks through the doors of a parliament? No.

When the realisation that these entities commit acts that are immoral and evil becomes widespread then we will dispense with them and the world will be a much, much better place. That's why I feel so strongly about wasting time believing in all this paranormal rubbish - there are much higher ideals that we can all strive to attain through the use of reason and evidence.

[STFCBird]

Fred you should have us believers over for an evening of trying to contact your little girl.