Woken up by a ghost

[ExMinister]

That would say more about the 'us' that feel brains are 'lying bastards' than it says about brains.

On the subject of 'things that go bump in the night' I have had some graphic experiences which cannot so easily be explained away as 'some kind of muscle thingy'...or for that matter, a scripted event created by a lying brain...

Do you believe your experiences were caused by ghosts?

 

[Stray Cat]

So you are saying that no matter what , either the brain or the consciousness is lying?

You are saying that it doesn't matter what the experience is, or what the source is the experience/source is a lie?
If so...

Good luck with that.

I am saying that if your experience breaks the laws of physics and goes against what science knows, it is much more likely that your subjective perception of the event is skewed than that centuries of rigorous objective scientific work is wrong.

 

[skullerello]

I cannot read H.P. Lovecraft before going to bed. I don't even find Lovecraft particularly frightening. It's simply that when I have read Lovecraft before going to bed, I invariably wake up battling vicious, air-swimming eel-things that are snapping at me, and hurting my real body by thrashing at the walls of our real-life bedroom, and/or bruising/scaring the crap out of my wife, before finally waking up. (and sometimes, much, much later, gathering and collocating my nocternal thoughts to settle down). Plus, I sometimes wrestle with hypnogogic convenience store customers over styrene cups.
I also, as a civilian, have a rather difficult time navigating the passage-ways of a certain aircraft carrier to which non-civilian me was once attatched.
It's a mess when I'm uncomfortable in life.

 

[skullerello]

Hell! If it weren't for "ghosts", I might never wake up.

 

[mutile]

I constantly have ghost rats gnawing at my back but that is my delusion.