I saw it before sleep. Why? Because it's my own experiment on belief and superstition.
If Jesus saves you or you think he's special, Jesus works to save you then and so on.
I can see that there is a huge autosuggestion aspect in these 2 examples. Nothing seems solid, of course.
The guy whose girlfriend got sleep paralysis started to have it after she described it to him. We see a common theme there, like it's some kind of infection. But if you were terrified and your partner believed what you saw was real based on your reaction, wouldn't that be a form of empathy- feeling and "seeing" what they see?
The woman who saw that cat on her partner's chest knew of his problem and heard him struggling at the night. What's odd is that it was an after the fact confirmation. She said red eyes, and then he says yes, mine had red eyes. The mind can and does fill in the blanks of memories.
Sometimes it can be from inner shame, guilt, or PTSD. These cases below remind me of what happened to my girlfriend's roomate- the voices/ghosts she saw/heard were always talking about bad things she's done. To stop them, she got into an OCD of cleanliness... another interesting aspect of shame of self. It lead to my girlfriend having to move out, as she would blame her for dirty dishes that she herself put in the sink!! That's how powerful the brain is!
-One of the women was sexually abused and says that does affect her.
-One of the guys who went back to his old house in Vermont, says it came to him as a man telling him that he did nasty sexual things.
What bugs me is the internal bias. I'm not doubting what they have seen, they aren't liars. But how can they determine what is real?
It was interesting when the other woman (not the abused one) said that it could be internal as we have no clue how dreaming would come if we were aware and "awake".
They also mentioned how the images were common around the world. That could be assumed to mean that it is really a single group of entities. It also can mean that the brain sees common shapes, due to our environment, and cultural stories. Shadows look like men, a red night light comes up as a huge red light in the room- and so on. Sounds like hallucination.
They even mentioned how the Freddy Cruger story based on it, served to multiply the idea.
I'm open to the idea that it is really "men in black" or aliens. But to start with that assumption is dangerous and a feedback loop. I point to the case of my gf's roomate who believes in ghosts, and thus- the voices must be ghosts. Never mind they were telling her things that she looked down on herself already. It's kind of annoying actually. If I had some higher entity telling me that stuff, I'd be pissed as hell because where is my right to tell them to shut the heck up, haha! And again, abductions stop when we fight. Is it against a part of our brain that is the predator? Could be that part links us to "4d sts". Just an idea.
Why not go with the simple explanation, Occam's Razor? That would be that a dreamlike state while awake could be self confirming a reality that isn't there. A waking nightmare so to say.
I saw it before sleep. Why? Because it's my own experiment on belief and superstition.
If Jesus saves you or you think he's special, Jesus works to save you then and so on.
I can see that there is a huge autosuggestion aspect in these 2 examples. Nothing seems solid, of course.
The guy whose girlfriend got sleep paralysis started to have it after she described it to him. We see a common theme there, like it's some kind of infection. But if you were terrified and your partner believed what you saw was real based on your reaction, wouldn't that be a form of empathy- feeling and "seeing" what they see?
The woman who saw that cat on her partner's chest knew of his problem and heard him struggling at the night. What's odd is that it was an after the fact confirmation. She said red eyes, and then he says yes, mine had red eyes. The mind can and does fill in the blanks of memories.
Sometimes it can be from inner shame, guilt, or PTSD. These cases below remind me of what happened to my girlfriend's roomate- the voices/ghosts she saw/heard were always talking about bad things she's done. To stop them, she got into an OCD of cleanliness... another interesting aspect of shame of self. It lead to my girlfriend having to move out, as she would blame her for dirty dishes that she herself put in the sink!! That's how powerful the brain is!
-One of the women was sexually abused and says that does affect her.
-One of the guys who went back to his old house in Vermont, says it came to him as a man telling him that he did nasty sexual things.
What bugs me is the internal bias. I'm not doubting what they have seen, they aren't liars. But how can they determine what is real?
It was interesting when the other woman (not the abused one) said that it could be internal as we have no clue how dreaming would come if we were aware and "awake".
They also mentioned how the images were common around the world. That could be assumed to mean that it is really a single group of entities. It also can mean that the brain sees common shapes, due to our environment, and cultural stories. Shadows look like men, a red night light comes up as a huge red light in the room- and so on. Sounds like hallucination.
They even mentioned how the Freddy Cruger story based on it, served to multiply the idea.
I'm open to the idea that it is really "men in black" or aliens. But to start with that assumption is dangerous and a feedback loop. I point to the case of my gf's roomate who believes in ghosts, and thus- the voices must be ghosts. Never mind they were telling her things that she looked down on herself already. It's kind of annoying actually. If I had some higher entity telling me that stuff, I'd be pissed as hell because where is my right to tell them to shut the heck up, haha! And again, abductions stop when we fight. Is it against a part of our brain that is the predator? Could be that part links us to "4d sts". Just an idea.
Why not go with the simple explanation, Occam's Razor? That would be that a dreamlike state while awake could be self confirming a reality that isn't there. A waking nightmare so to say.
If we take into mind this article and what happens in survival situations- what says this state is not similar to those states described?
https://www.sott.net/article/292451-Third-Man-Factor-The-hallucinatory-effects-of-survival
When I think of the C's saying knowledge protects, it includes that we should be careful to determine what exactly is objective and if not fully objective- why do we consider it truth. Maybe that is the ultimate meditation- without isolation of thought or physical environment- the meditation of life?
definitely agree with mkrhnr not to watch this at night. For those that have experienced sleep paralysis and night terrors in the past, it is very frightening when it happens - although the experiences I had weren't as detailed as the ones discussed in the documentary. Although my mom had told me of some of her experiences, and those matched very close to the dark shadowy figures, although she described it as having a beak like a bird and would have conversations with it, or so she says. Some of what she has told me also sounds like abduction scenario type stuff, travelling to other planets, and being visited by people, which some of the people in the documentary described, including the example you brought up of the blue figure. But yeah, two things that probably do help is 1) try to reduce your fear or at least stay calm, and if you can't, try and get angry 2) calling on a higher power for help. Changing diet helps a lot too. Some of the people in the documentary seemed afraid of their own shadow, and how much of that could be reduced if they weren't eating inflammatory foods that weren't affecting their brain chemistry and nervous system as much. It's not a sure fire solution, but I sometimes wonder what makes people susceptible to these experiences and others not. Genetic profile, some sort of misfiring in the brain, emotional traumas, mental illness, MTHFR mutations...? But I noticed how night terrors reduced a lot after switching to Paleo/Keto.
) with no flesh, his hands turned to bones and i realized he was skeleton under the hood.