Would you sleep/ live in a haunted house?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Clearly. It was dormant most of the time, though. I think it may have been a were-spider. Moonlight seemed to activate it.

Boru

So after the tree was cut down it was where-spider?

If ‘where-spider’ means ‘kindling’, then yes.

Makes it difficult for me to like you, puns like that.  

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So after the tree was cut down it was where-spider?

If ‘where-spider’ means ‘kindling’, then yes.

Makes it difficult for me to like you, puns like that.  

Boru

So was-spider is more gramatical?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If ‘where-spider’ means ‘kindling’, then yes.

Makes it difficult for me to like you, puns like that.  

Boru

So was-spider is more gramatical?

Yup. As well as more historical.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

So was-spider is more gramatical?

Yup. As well as more historical.

Boru

Surely "hysterical" is more apt?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yup. As well as more historical.

Boru

Surely "hysterical" is more apt?

I didn't think that out loud did I?

[The Valkyrie]

Surely "hysterical" is more apt?

I didn't think that out loud did I?

If you say something out loud that you shouldn't have, just cover the way I do with patients.

"No, Mr Pemberton, there's nothing to worry about. It's just a mild case and you'll be fine in a couple of days. What's that? No, the autopsy isn't for you. It's for another patient. Oh, you know what a common name Reginald Pemberton has to be!"

[Agnostico]

Has anyone had any experiences with hallucinations, induced or otherwise? I think a lot of ghost claims may come from hallucinations

I read that nearly everyone has at least one experience of "sleep hallucination" or "sleep paralysis" in their lifetime

It happened to me twice after a physician put me on medication which blocks serotonin which i never wanted to take anyway
Interestingly the psychedelic known as LSD or acid works by changing your levels of serotonin as well, causing hallucinations

The first night I kept getting woken up by either a loud bang or having my name yelled out.
I later learned that this is known as "exploding head syndrome". It's not as disturbing as the name suggests but could definitely cause one to believe there was a ghost or something

The following night as ive gone to get out of bed to go to the toilet there is an image of an old man sitting beside my bed, looking at me, face to face just about
Like WTF, I ran out of my room screaming. It definitely wasn't a dream and the image i saw was as clear and defined as the images we see
It really freaked me out

The on the next night just as I was falling asleep I see a glowing blue orb hovering and dancing above my bed... WTF... Again i ran out of my room screaming

What the fuck is wrong with me i thought.
I know people with psychosis have audio hallucinations but i seemed to have skipped that and gone straight into visual hallucinations.
I've hallucinated before when taking psychedelic drugs, more intensely as well. But the sleep hallucinations were different.
It was a random image in a normal backdrop but most of all it was totally unexpected

But thanks to the internet I was able to find these scientific explanations for it which was such a relief cos i thought i was loosing my mind
I learnt that changes in serotonin levels can cause these types of parasomnias and went to tell my physician that im getting off this drug

It was really a dangerous medication to be subscribing for someone who is just sad over a close family death.
Feeling depressed during such an occasion is normal. But she misdiagnosed it as depression
Extreme side effects of this drug where things like stroke, suicidal thoughts, worse depression, a different mental issue, hallucinations

Before we had these scientific explanations for these phenomena a person would be left with really no other explanation but to think it was a ghost or something
It was really easy to pass off the orb as a spirit and the old man as God if i was so inclined, which i guess is what people would have thought after having such experiences.
Sleep paralysis is the most extreme parasomnia. Some peoples experiences are a literal living nightmare

I just thought id share that. People might make judgements about my sanity but i don't care.
Hopefully someone can relate or even be made aware of such parasomnias being a possible explanation of ghosts

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Has anyone had any experiences with hallucinations, induced or otherwise? I think a lot of ghost claims may come from hallucinations

I read that nearly everyone has at least one experience of "sleep hallucination" or "sleep paralysis" in their lifetime

It happened to me twice after a physician put me on medication which blocks serotonin which i never wanted to take anyway
Interestingly the psychedelic known as LSD or acid works by changing your levels of serotonin as well, causing hallucinations

The first night I kept getting woken up by either a loud bang or having my name yelled out.
I later learned that this is known as "exploding head syndrome". It's not as disturbing as the name suggests but could definitely cause one to believe there was a ghost or something

The following night as ive gone to get out of bed to go to the toilet there is an image of an old man sitting beside my bed, looking at me, face to face just about
Like WTF, I ran out of my room screaming. It definitely wasn't a dream and the image i saw was as clear and defined as the images we see
It really freaked me out

The on the next night just as I was falling asleep I see a glowing blue orb hovering and dancing above my bed... WTF... Again i ran out of my room screaming

What the fuck is wrong with me i thought.
I know people with psychosis have audio hallucinations but i seemed to have skipped that and gone straight into visual hallucinations.
I've hallucinated before when taking psychedelic drugs, more intensely as well. But the sleep hallucinations were different.
It was a random image in a normal backdrop but most of all it was totally unexpected

But thanks to the internet I was able to find these scientific explanations for it which was such a relief cos i thought i was loosing my mind
I learnt that changes in serotonin levels can cause these types of parasomnias and went to tell my physician that im getting off this drug

It was really a dangerous medication to be subscribing for someone who is just sad over a close family death.
Feeling depressed during such an occasion is normal. But she misdiagnosed it as depression
Extreme side effects of this drug where things like stroke, suicidal thoughts, worse depression, a different mental issue, hallucinations

Before we had these scientific explanations for these phenomena a person would be left with really no other explanation but to think it was a ghost or something
It was really easy to pass off the orb as a spirit and the old man as God if i was so inclined, which i guess is what people would have thought after having such experiences.
Sleep paralysis is the most extreme parasomnia. Some peoples experiences are a literal living nightmare

I just thought id share that. People might make judgements about my sanity but i don't care.
Hopefully someone can relate or even be made aware of such parasomnias being a possible explanation of ghosts

I should think nearly everyone has had hallucinations of the sorts you describe.

Boru

[Little lunch]

I've had exploding head syndrome hundreds of times.
It's just before I fall asleep and someone leans in and yells something gibberish in my ear.
Sometimes it's the snippet of a conversation between two people, again, really loud.
It's calmed down a lot as I've aged and it hasn't bothered me for years anyway.

I read somewhere once that it's related to narcolepsy?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I've had exploding head syndrome hundreds of times.
It's just before I fall asleep and someone leans in and yells something gibberish in my ear.
Sometimes it's the snippet of a conversation between two people, again, really loud.
It's calmed down a lot as I've aged and it hasn't bothered me for years anyway.

I read somewhere once that it's related to narcolepsy?

I remember the first time I read about exploding head syndrome.  I was HUGELY disappointed.

Boru