Posted October 13, 2022
So you have that lost set of keys I couldn't find. I thought they were stolen by a Klabautermann.
Post edited October 13, 2022 by neumi5694
neumi5694
Survived the human apocalypse
Registered: May 2011
From Italy
sanscript
Choose τ over π
Registered: Jul 2011
From Norway
Posted October 14, 2022
Not exactly a normal "ghost" story, but here it goes...
I never have any nightmares ever since junior high (7-8 grade?) because I somehow learned to recognize when I was dreaming and take advantage of it. Doesn't fully work every time, but the thing is that I crawl up in fetus position if I feel too threatened and it feels like I'm being scooped up, and then I wake up. These kind of dreams are since more like uncomfortable dreams.
Couple of years ago I experienced my worst "episode" ever. As I lay beside my wife and had just said good night, I'm looking out of the window trying to think of dull and mundane things, like dancing eskimoes or hopping grasshoppers through some tall grass.
After a few minutes everything turned completely weird, and I got scared for the first time in a long, long time. I mean, really scared. Some dark twisted filter was added to my sight, and I did notice that sometimes the light spectrum was ever so slightly shifted. Warped maybe, in and out. I realised I was actually fully awake because this didn't feel like a dream. Felt all too real for that. Awake but unable to move, completely paralysed while I watched. No matter what I tried I just couldn't move for awhile. I tried to scream...
And then suddenly I heard a sound which sounded like an electric industrial transformer (like those one use to step huge voltages up and down), only more loudly. And then completely blank, and then back again in an instant.
I was relatively calm as if nothing had happened when I got control over my bodily faculties again. In other words, my heart wasn't trying to get out of my chest, which was kinda odd in itself due to the recent experience. In any case, I immediately woke my wife up and told her about it, and asked her, however, she had neither seen nor heard anything.
As I try to recall I get the distinct feeling something did happen, though I can't put my finger on it, and I'm pretty sure I actually was awake.
T o this day I still ask myself; what really happened?
I never have any nightmares ever since junior high (7-8 grade?) because I somehow learned to recognize when I was dreaming and take advantage of it. Doesn't fully work every time, but the thing is that I crawl up in fetus position if I feel too threatened and it feels like I'm being scooped up, and then I wake up. These kind of dreams are since more like uncomfortable dreams.
Couple of years ago I experienced my worst "episode" ever. As I lay beside my wife and had just said good night, I'm looking out of the window trying to think of dull and mundane things, like dancing eskimoes or hopping grasshoppers through some tall grass.
After a few minutes everything turned completely weird, and I got scared for the first time in a long, long time. I mean, really scared. Some dark twisted filter was added to my sight, and I did notice that sometimes the light spectrum was ever so slightly shifted. Warped maybe, in and out. I realised I was actually fully awake because this didn't feel like a dream. Felt all too real for that. Awake but unable to move, completely paralysed while I watched. No matter what I tried I just couldn't move for awhile. I tried to scream...
And then suddenly I heard a sound which sounded like an electric industrial transformer (like those one use to step huge voltages up and down), only more loudly. And then completely blank, and then back again in an instant.
I was relatively calm as if nothing had happened when I got control over my bodily faculties again. In other words, my heart wasn't trying to get out of my chest, which was kinda odd in itself due to the recent experience. In any case, I immediately woke my wife up and told her about it, and asked her, however, she had neither seen nor heard anything.
As I try to recall I get the distinct feeling something did happen, though I can't put my finger on it, and I'm pretty sure I actually was awake.
T o this day I still ask myself; what really happened?
Vinry_.
Stop asking about my other half!
Registered: Dec 2016
From Indonesia
Posted October 14, 2022
Umm, I don't have those keys. A ghost might actually have them. It was already empty when I put that can into the medical cabinet. O.O
Post edited October 14, 2022 by Vinry_.
Dark_art_
🔴I'm just glad that cows don't fly YO
Registered: Dec 2017
From Portugal
Posted October 14, 2022
Randalator
Deadpan Snarker
Registered: Jun 2012
From Germany
Posted October 14, 2022
I never have any nightmares ever since junior high (7-8 grade?) because I somehow learned to recognize when I was dreaming and take advantage of it. Doesn't fully work every time, but the thing is that I crawl up in fetus position if I feel too threatened and it feels like I'm being scooped up, and then I wake up. These kind of dreams are since more like uncomfortable dreams.
Couple of years ago I experienced my worst "episode" ever. As I lay beside my wife and had just said good night, I'm looking out of the window trying to think of dull and mundane things, like dancing eskimoes or hopping grasshoppers through some tall grass.
After a few minutes everything turned completely weird, and I got scared for the first time in a long, long time. I mean, really scared. Some dark twisted filter was added to my sight, and I did notice that sometimes the light spectrum was ever so slightly shifted. Warped maybe, in and out. I realised I was actually fully awake because this didn't feel like a dream. Felt all too real for that. Awake but unable to move, completely paralysed while I watched. No matter what I tried I just couldn't move for awhile. I tried to scream...
And then suddenly I heard a sound which sounded like an electric industrial transformer (like those one use to step huge voltages up and down), only more loudly. And then completely blank, and then back again in an instant.
I was relatively calm as if nothing had happened when I got control over my bodily faculties again. In other words, my heart wasn't trying to get out of my chest, which was kinda odd in itself due to the recent experience. In any case, I immediately woke my wife up and told her about it, and asked her, however, she had neither seen nor heard anything.
As I try to recall I get the distinct feeling something did happen, though I can't put my finger on it, and I'm pretty sure I actually was awake.
T o this day I still ask myself; what really happened?
Sleep paralysis.
Your body enters sleep state (hence the inability to move) but your brain remains semi-conscious and applies dream-like, but crazy realistic hallucinations to its perception of your surroundings. And because it is aware of the muscle paralysis, the hallucinations are often nightmares of suffocation/restraint, evil presences, etc.
I've had my blanket come alive and try to strangle me during one episode. Another time I was trapped in a cycle of (seemingly) waking up, getting up and starting my morning routine only to wake up in bed again, get up, wake up in bed again, lather, rinse, repeat. Sometimes it's just ridiculously loud buzzing noises right next to my ears. It can get pretty freaking scary but it's ultimately harmless.
Edit: It's also what AnimalMother117 described.
Post edited October 14, 2022 by Randalator
sanscript
Choose τ over π
Registered: Jul 2011
From Norway
Posted October 14, 2022
Seriously?!?
Here I try my best to construct a chilling "ghost" story as the thread title is about that, and then you come and wide-stereo-explain it with the appropriate scientific name and all! Darn!
(But yes, I know, but then again, there's no fun in being serious all the time and give the reader an answer to everything. Leaves very little to different interpretations, and most importantly, to the imagination... :p)
Here I try my best to construct a chilling "ghost" story as the thread title is about that, and then you come and wide-stereo-explain it with the appropriate scientific name and all! Darn!
(But yes, I know, but then again, there's no fun in being serious all the time and give the reader an answer to everything. Leaves very little to different interpretations, and most importantly, to the imagination... :p)
Post edited October 14, 2022 by sanscript
Randalator
Deadpan Snarker
Registered: Jun 2012
From Germany
Posted October 14, 2022
Here I try my best to construct a chilling "ghost" story as the thread title is about that, and then you come and wide-stereo-explain it with the appropriate scientific name and all! Darn!
(But yes, I know, but then again, there's no fun in being serious all the time and give the reader an answer to everything. Leaves very little to different interpretations, and most importantly, to the imagination... :p)
Dischord
Musing Aurelius
Registered: Dec 2010
From United States
Posted October 15, 2022
Not a computer thing, but have noticed things I couldn't explain a few times.
Am very logical, not given to fright, and highly trained, both in life, and the military.
Without going into specifics, regarding circumstance, I'll share what seemed to be integral to these times: silence.
Silence, in the beginning, but not a normal silence; a heavy silence. It is as if normal silence, had become populated by another presence. Still silent, but not empty, just at rest, but pensive. Not kinetic, at first, but potential. When it changed, it did so in a notable fashion, but escalated. Not a nut, but just be aware, should you find yourself experiencing the same. Training and capability are of no matter, when you can't identify/reach the cause, as you will find yourself in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal.
Am very logical, not given to fright, and highly trained, both in life, and the military.
Without going into specifics, regarding circumstance, I'll share what seemed to be integral to these times: silence.
Silence, in the beginning, but not a normal silence; a heavy silence. It is as if normal silence, had become populated by another presence. Still silent, but not empty, just at rest, but pensive. Not kinetic, at first, but potential. When it changed, it did so in a notable fashion, but escalated. Not a nut, but just be aware, should you find yourself experiencing the same. Training and capability are of no matter, when you can't identify/reach the cause, as you will find yourself in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal.
Timboli
Sharpest Tool On Shelf
Registered: May 2017
From Australia
Posted October 15, 2022
I'm no sure I do either, though I do have some reserve for the possibility.
I certainly don't believe in a religious God or Heaven or Satan or Hell, way too illogical, but I cannot as easily discount ghosts or spirits, and the possibility of both the malignant and protecting variants, if true.
I've certainly had many occasions that cannot easily be explained away, that I attribute to gremlin like spirits, despite a thorough logical examination of what occurred. All too easy to say or think you just made a mistake, but when you were going out of your way to avoid such a mistake, went to great pains to avoid such, not so easy to dismiss the possibility of malicious troublesome spirits like gremlins that made the mistake happen anyway. Some things just defy logic.
I certainly don't believe in a religious God or Heaven or Satan or Hell, way too illogical, but I cannot as easily discount ghosts or spirits, and the possibility of both the malignant and protecting variants, if true.
I've certainly had many occasions that cannot easily be explained away, that I attribute to gremlin like spirits, despite a thorough logical examination of what occurred. All too easy to say or think you just made a mistake, but when you were going out of your way to avoid such a mistake, went to great pains to avoid such, not so easy to dismiss the possibility of malicious troublesome spirits like gremlins that made the mistake happen anyway. Some things just defy logic.
Post edited October 18, 2022 by Timboli
Telika
Registered: Apr 2012
From Switzerland
Posted October 15, 2022
Am very logical, not given to fright, and highly trained, both in life, and the military.
Without going into specifics, regarding circumstance, I'll share what seemed to be integral to these times: silence.
Silence, in the beginning, but not a normal silence; a heavy silence. It is as if normal silence, had become populated by another presence. Still silent, but not empty, just at rest, but pensive. Not kinetic, at first, but potential. When it changed, it did so in a notable fashion, but escalated. Not a nut, but just be aware, should you find yourself experiencing the same. Training and capability are of no matter, when you can't identify/reach the cause, as you will find yourself in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound#Suggested_relationship_to_ghost_sightings
Dischord
Musing Aurelius
Registered: Dec 2010
From United States
Posted October 25, 2022
Am very logical, not given to fright, and highly trained, both in life, and the military.
Without going into specifics, regarding circumstance, I'll share what seemed to be integral to these times: silence.
Silence, in the beginning, but not a normal silence; a heavy silence. It is as if normal silence, had become populated by another presence. Still silent, but not empty, just at rest, but pensive. Not kinetic, at first, but potential. When it changed, it did so in a notable fashion, but escalated. Not a nut, but just be aware, should you find yourself experiencing the same. Training and capability are of no matter, when you can't identify/reach the cause, as you will find yourself in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound#Suggested_relationship_to_ghost_sightings
Hope all of your ghosts, come on Halloween!
Edit to add: Logic is my friend, but sometimes it doesn't explain all, just like Science. Great tools, but not the all all, in all.
Post edited October 25, 2022 by Dischord
Telika
Registered: Apr 2012
From Switzerland