Hi this is my first post so excuse me if its rubbish.
A few years ago when I was about 20 I woke in the night to see a young man of about 25 with shoulder length brown hair and wearing a thick wool jumper looking right into my face. I wasnt scared more surprised because he was so close. I sat up quickly and he just smiled stood upright and vanished. I turned on my bedside lamp although there was a full moon so it was pretty light in my room but there was no sign of him ever being there. Ive always wondered about him and even tried to find some history on the house I was living in to see if I could find something but I came back with nothing.
He wasnt transparent or anything like people expect ghosts to be but completely solid and I think if I had reached out I could have felt him I'd like your oppinions on this please as he has been on my mind for a number of years now and I still remember what he looked like very clearly.
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Perhaps lucid dreaming. I've had that many many many times. Do you suffer from Sleep Paralysis?
QUOTE (Truffles @ Feb 27 2008, 06:55 AM) 
Perhaps lucid dreaming. I've had that many many many times. Do you suffer from Sleep Paralysis?
Im not sure I think I possibly had it once just after a friend died and i wasnt sleeping to well but when i woke up in the morning i couldnt move anything but my eyes and there seemed to be black clouds and a light on my ceiling. I actually thought I was either going insane or my friend was trying to "contact" me from beyond the grave. It never happened again but it left me quite shook up for a few days.
Maybe if it wasn't a ghost it could have been some form of someone using astral projection, though i cant see astral bodies myself im not exactly sure how clear and if they look solid at all id have to ask around
I would think it was sleep paralysis. Especially if you have had it before. Hallucinations in hypnopompic state, in other words , remains of a dream, as you said.
Hi, bishka. Well, this wasn't sleep paralysis
You report that you are moving normally, and according to your will.
Nor was this lucid dreaming - that's being aware that you are dreaming. You wouldn't have had any doubt that he was a dream character if it were lucid dreaming.
There is such a thing as "false awakening" which is the "opposite" of lucid dreaming: you dream that you wake up, but you are actually still asleep, and dreaming. From there, however, anything can happen in that kind of dream, just as in any other dream.
The alternative posed by justejust (other than the sleep paralysis part)
is sometimes hard to distinguish from "false awakening," so I would call it either-or.
"Remains of a dream" is very poetic, by the way, and a wistful phrase for a wistful experience, or so it sounds when you write about it.
You should start more threads; you're good at it
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I sat up quickly and he just smiled stood upright and vanished. I turned on my bedside lamp
You report that you are moving normally, and according to your will.
Nor was this lucid dreaming - that's being aware that you are dreaming. You wouldn't have had any doubt that he was a dream character if it were lucid dreaming.
There is such a thing as "false awakening" which is the "opposite" of lucid dreaming: you dream that you wake up, but you are actually still asleep, and dreaming. From there, however, anything can happen in that kind of dream, just as in any other dream.
The alternative posed by justejust (other than the sleep paralysis part)
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Hallucinations in hypnopompic state, in other words , remains of a dream, as you said.
is sometimes hard to distinguish from "false awakening," so I would call it either-or.
"Remains of a dream" is very poetic, by the way, and a wistful phrase for a wistful experience, or so it sounds when you write about it.
You should start more threads; you're good at it
.
"Remains of a dream" is very poetic, by the way, and a wistful phrase for a wistful experience, or so it sounds when you write about it.
You should start more threads; you're good at it
.
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thank you.
I actually think of this experience often and i just wish i could find out more about the "person" i saw.
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I actually think of this experience often and i just wish i could find out more about the "person" i saw.
It was so fleeting, it's hard to say much.
There is always a suspicion that a stranger of about the same age, of opposite sex, benevolent (you say you weren't frightened - of an intruder), whom you still vividly remember years later (he made a great entrance as they say in showbiz, but it still counts) is an "animus" dream character.
Sometmes people would say that an animus is "the masculine part of a woman's mind." But the idea is not that limited in scope. An animus is more like every possibly you have chosen not to be.
I wouldn't bet the farm on the animus notion, but it's an idea. Animus or not, it is interesting that the character did not recur. Even if he was a ghost, it's still interesting that he did not reappear.
I don't suppose you meditate? He would be a great subject to contemplate, and see what comes up.
QUOTE (eight bits @ Apr 25 2008, 11:38 PM)
It was so fleeting, it's hard to say much.
There is always a suspicion that a stranger of about the same age, of opposite sex, benevolent (you say you weren't frightened - of an intruder), whom you still vividly remember years later (he made a great entrance as they say in showbiz, but it still counts) is an "animus" dream character.
Sometmes people would say that an animus is "the masculine part of a woman's mind." But the idea is not that limited in scope. An animus is more like every possibly you have chosen not to be.
I wouldn't bet the farm on the animus notion, but it's an idea. Animus or not, it is interesting that the character did not recur. Even if he was a ghost, it's still interesting that he did not reappear.
I don't suppose you meditate? He would be a great subject to contemplate, and see what comes up.
There is always a suspicion that a stranger of about the same age, of opposite sex, benevolent (you say you weren't frightened - of an intruder), whom you still vividly remember years later (he made a great entrance as they say in showbiz, but it still counts) is an "animus" dream character.
Sometmes people would say that an animus is "the masculine part of a woman's mind." But the idea is not that limited in scope. An animus is more like every possibly you have chosen not to be.
I wouldn't bet the farm on the animus notion, but it's an idea. Animus or not, it is interesting that the character did not recur. Even if he was a ghost, it's still interesting that he did not reappear.
I don't suppose you meditate? He would be a great subject to contemplate, and see what comes up.
I dont meditate no but i suppose I could give it a go and see what happens.
It would be funny if it was my male part of my brain it might explain my bi-sexuality HAHA.
QUOTE (bishka @ Feb 24 2008, 01:02 PM)
Hi this is my first post so excuse me if its rubbish.
A few years ago when I was about 20 I woke in the night to see a young man of about 25 with shoulder length brown hair and wearing a thick wool jumper looking right into my face. I wasnt scared more surprised because he was so close. I sat up quickly and he just smiled stood upright and vanished. I turned on my bedside lamp although there was a full moon so it was pretty light in my room but there was no sign of him ever being there. Ive always wondered about him and even tried to find some history on the house I was living in to see if I could find something but I came back with nothing.
He wasnt transparent or anything like people expect ghosts to be but completely solid and I think if I had reached out I could have felt him I'd like your oppinions on this please as he has been on my mind for a number of years now and I still remember what he looked like very clearly.
A few years ago when I was about 20 I woke in the night to see a young man of about 25 with shoulder length brown hair and wearing a thick wool jumper looking right into my face. I wasnt scared more surprised because he was so close. I sat up quickly and he just smiled stood upright and vanished. I turned on my bedside lamp although there was a full moon so it was pretty light in my room but there was no sign of him ever being there. Ive always wondered about him and even tried to find some history on the house I was living in to see if I could find something but I came back with nothing.
He wasnt transparent or anything like people expect ghosts to be but completely solid and I think if I had reached out I could have felt him I'd like your oppinions on this please as he has been on my mind for a number of years now and I still remember what he looked like very clearly.
LOL! I've experienced many things very similar to your account. Yes, they are solid, and each had their own features as we all do.
Interesting, and thanks for sharing.
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