Have You Ever Seen A Ghost?

[fig]

ot necessarily seeing a ghost, but I did have a weird hallucination while waking up to sleep paralysis one afternoon years ago.

This was about twenty years ago so I was around 17, 18 years old. I was home by myself since the family went out of town for the weekend and I had to work. I laid down for a quick nap one afternoon, and as I was waking up I realized I couldn't move. I could hear the old clock in the living room not far from my bedroom ticking away and even chiming that it was 4:00, so I told myself I'm definitely not sleeping. I tried and tried to move or to say something but nothing. After what seemed like forever of laying there paralyzed I saw my dad come into the room. Now remember that they're all 400 miles away on a long weekend so I was really freaked at this point. He slowly comes over to me, leans over and says "Brian, it's time to go". Then an instant later he's gone and I can move.

After sitting in my bed for a minute calming myself and trying to figure out what the heck just happened, I went out the clock in the living room and sure enough it says a couple of minutes past 4:00, so I was definitely awake and envisioned my dad coming into the room telling me "it's time to go". Haven't experienced sleep paralysis since.

Maybe do some online looking about "lucid dreaming". It's a known thing and has been researched for years. Still undetermined how it happens, but it's basically being conscious of your dreaming. Some folk do it alot, some don't. I do, and it just fascinates me. Willfully controlling actions in your dreams. Happens about once, sometimes twice or more, a week. The awareness and control doesn't last for the duration of my dream, but strangely, those are the parts I remember after waking.

Dreams within dreams, sleep paralysis, dream images over reality when just waking up. There's some odd things go on during sleep. All very cool. The sleep paralysis doesn't happen much, but when it does, it's usually after a scary dream that I'm aware of and can't move to positively wake myself up. Which sucks LOL.

Sorry 'bout the sidetrack and now, back to ghosts. I've never seen one. My mom said she had once, my wife's sister says she has. If they're real, I want to see one. Would be intriguing and just very cool.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Dream on, dreamer — we live in a wake-centric world, losing touch with our dreams.
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[Gorn]

People with split brain syndrome have damage to the connector between the right and left hemisphere of the brain and can have two entirely different personalities. Do they get two ghosts? Or one with two personalities?

 

[Tom Bomb]

Yes and no.​

 

[fig]

Dream on, dreamer — we live in a wake-centric world, losing touch with our dreams.

Great article and main site bookmarked. Thanks, gonna enjoy looking around in there.

 

[Ostie]

Never seen a ghost (apparition… orbs and lights,yes ), but I touched one once, and know two people who saw him in the same house, in the same room at different dates and times
I also had an experience in college with a ouija board that made me never go near one again.

I also had a Ouija board experience many years ago when I was a teen. I have not touched one since, and I will not touch one again. It’s a long involved story, but the gist is, that board knew something that We didn’t, and it turned out to be true. Not particularly malevolent, but I ain’t going down that road again.

 

[Plake]

18143399[/URL], member: 254563"]I know there's a paranormal thread going...but I want be specific...ghosts only.

Have you ever seen an actual apparition?

I confess I haven't personally..yet...but I'm inclined to think they do exist...

Hearing noises does not count......

Has anyone seen ZenG is the real question. Or was he a ghost?

 

[steve_ss]

In the summer of 2017, my wife and I were in the Cashtown Inn outside of Gettysburg to have lunch. We were seated in the bar area at a table. I was facing the bar, my wife had her back to the bar. There were only a few other people in the place, mostly staff. The waitress came to our table to take our order. I mentioned to her that I thought it was great that they had a staff member dressied in civil war period clothing working behind the bar. The waitress looked at me like I was nuts. I told her about the woman who walked behind the bar and out the doorway, wearing a bonnet and dress with apron. The waitress brought the manager over, and they all assured me no one wore period clothing and no one was behind the bar. The manger then told us about some of the other ghost sightings they've had, and I now I had one of them.

 

[Nightman]

Not necessarily seeing a ghost, but I did have a weird hallucination while waking up to sleep paralysis one afternoon years ago.

This was about twenty years ago so I was around 17, 18 years old. I was home by myself since the family went out of town for the weekend and I had to work. I laid down for a quick nap one afternoon, and as I was waking up I realized I couldn't move. I could hear the old clock in the living room not far from my bedroom ticking away and even chiming that it was 4:00, so I told myself I'm definitely not sleeping. I tried and tried to move or to say something but nothing. After what seemed like forever of laying there paralyzed I saw my dad come into the room. Now remember that they're all 400 miles away on a long weekend so I was really freaked at this point. He slowly comes over to me, leans over and says "Brian, it's time to go". Then an instant later he's gone and I can move.

After sitting in my bed for a minute calming myself and trying to figure out what the heck just happened, I went out the clock in the living room and sure enough it says a couple of minutes past 4:00, so I was definitely awake and envisioned my dad coming into the room telling me "it's time to go". Haven't experienced sleep paralysis since.

I’ve experienced the paralysis twice that I can recall. The last time was around 2005, in the home that I currently live in.
I took a nap on the bed in our ( I’m married) master bedroom that day. I remember waking up from the nap and wanting to get up, but I couldn’t move a muscle other than my eyes. It was frightening, to say the least!
Seeing weird stuff, hearing strange voices/sounds, or squeaky houses are nothing compared to waking up paralyzed.

 

[Bassman316]

I’ve experienced the paralysis twice that I call recall. The last time was around 2005, in the home that I currently live in.
I took a nap on the bed in our ( I’m married) master bedroom that day. I remember waking up from the nap and wanting to get up, but I couldn’t move a muscle other than my eyes. It was frightening, to say the least!
Seeing weird stuff, hearing strange voices/sounds, or squeaky houses are nothing compared to waking up paralyzed.

It was definitely something that freaked me out a bit. Luckily I've never seen or heard strange voices or sounds. Just my dad who definitely wasn't there lol. I've read a little bit about sleep paralysis and it can sometimes be accompanied by hallucinations of demons or a looming demonic presence in the room that you're helpless to escape from. Now that I couldn't imagine going through.

 

[Nightman]

I’ve never experienced seeing “monsters” or even anything that appeared ( or not appeared-LOL) threatening or scary, aside from what our brain would suggest from watching too many scary movies.
I’m still waiting to see/meet an alien to share experiences with.
One thing about this “ghost” thing is you probably won’t know that you’ve actually seen one until someone else validates what it was you saw or didn’t see.

 

[basslicks]

I don't believe in ghosts and have always been a skeptic, but there was a single instance where I did question it for a moment.

My wife and I were at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, which is an awesome place. It's an ancient Native American site with lots of caves that people lived in many hundreds of years ago (you can still see the soot from the fires they made).

Anyway, it was getting dark and we were all the way on the other side of the park, opposite of the entrance. There were no other people around us, it was just my wife and I walking down a main path holding hands. Suddenly we heard a "chink, chink, chink" type of sound that sounded exactly like a human gait with heavy footsteps and it was behind us maybe 10 feet, catching up, going right up the middle. My wife and I both let go of each other's hands and separated, expecting someone to come walking through but nobody did, so we both looked back and were stunned to see nobody there. We starting looking all around us because we were both 100% convinced that it was a human gait but there wasn't anyone around and what we heard was literally right behind us.

I'm not sure what it was, but in that moment it did have me questioning things!

 

[ryco]

Back in the '70s in Jr High would sometimes hang out in an inner city Cathlokic grave yard.

One day we were sitting on a memorial up near the main entrance and noticed a little girl in a red coat and black hat playing around the gravestones down the hill. After awhile we decided to leave and noticed the little girl was gone. There was no way she could have gotten by us through the main gate without us seeing her, so we figured maybe she used the little back gate. This gate was always chained and locked, but figured it was the only way she could have left without us seeing. So we walked down the hill to the back gate and, sure enough, it was locked and chained.

Ghost ot not I do not know.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

People don't believe in ghosts because they see them. It's the other way around. People who believe in such things will eventually "see" things, and call them ghosts.

I'm a very secular person and my mom and brother are very spiritual. My brother and I were making each other believe we see things when we were kids. He still thinks what we "saw" were ghosts where I think it was just our imagination.

 

[bobba66]

I saw the ghost of Elvis, down on Union Avenue.
Followed Him up to the gates of Graceland, and I watched Him walk right through...

 

[Tom Bomb]

War King in Memphis, looked a little worse for wear, not so kingly. He was dead. I guess that's to be expected. Nothing a little makeup and a stiff gin wouldn't fix.​

 

[SoonerBill]

Yeah, I know. This is resurrecting an old thread but I don't want to start a new one.
We occasionally smell a very flowery perfume. My wife doesn't own any perfume. None.
All night tonight we've smelled the perfume.
To track an elderly cat we had we put a number of Ring cameras in the house. One is in our bedroom. And the bedroom camera has shown a white orb flying around the bedroom off and on all this evening. Our cat has cowered in the corner of the closet. Very unlike him.
And occasionally I get a quick glimpse of a lady in a 60s type house dress.
We've lived here for about 25 years. The house was built by a home builder for his never wed sister and has some very custom things that she wanted. For instance the kitchen should have a breakfast nook but instead has extended cabinets where it would be. So the kitchen is HUGE!! The house came on the market because she passed. We don't think she really left.

 

[Hot Rats]

Science is a cult mentality where the top dictates reality to the mass below?!?! Sounds like you got something completely backwards there. Science is about providing the best explanation using what has been experimentally verified and peer reviewed before any conclusion is accepted as being better than what is accepted today. It is also about accepting that some one will eventually come along who builds on the work of others to provide a more complete explanation than what you might have previously accepted. In other words, it's about being open minded.

Concluding that some unexplained phenomena must be the result of some mysterious bogeyman because it can't be explained any other way is what happened in the Dark Ages. That was a time when people who were trying to be open minded, trying to learn, trying to understand the world around them were shut down by the ignorant cultists who refused to give up their unfounded and silly superstitions. And too often those closed minded and ignorant cultists of superstition made many of those intelligent, open minded, and curious people pay painfully gruesome, gory, and horrific prices for daring to challenge the nonsense of the superstitious ignorant. Is that where you wish us to return? To the days of the rack, of the breaking wheel, and of the Pear to try preventing learning from stepping on the toes of superstition?

No, the cultish mentality where the top dictates the rules and reality to the masses below is NOT the domain of science. That's the domain of topics that can't be discussed outside of the TB Lobby.

.....and 11 years later, this is exactly where we are. Now that's creepy and scary.

 

[retslock]

Isn't that one in your avatar?

 

[Hot Rats]

Isn't that one in your avatar?

Naw man, that's just a rock painted by some person I've never met but was lucky enough to happen upon on a walk.