Trust us, you DID NOT, have a religious experience, you even admitted you were "confused".
Your brain and senses can take in things, but that does not mean you understand what you perceived.
It just means something happened that you didn't understand. It does not make demons or gods real. What happened is really no different than thinking a glass door is open because it was cleaned really well only to walk right into it.
When I was a kid I had very frightening dreams, and at the time they felt real. I once saw my dead grandmother standing at the foot of my bed. Another time I saw my dead father at the foot of my bed. Another time I saw my LIVING MOTHER standing at the foot of my bed. I also had a "floating" dream where I felt like I was floating over the parking lot outside of my house. TRUST ME, none of that shit was real.
Point being, our brains can fool us. Tell a kid at at a Halloween party in a dark kitchen that the covered bowl of olives are eyeballs, if you really want to believe it bad enough you will.
You had an experience sure, but it was not magic, it was your own brain and a misunderstanding of a very natural event.
Your brain and senses can take in things, but that does not mean you understand what you perceived.
It just means something happened that you didn't understand. It does not make demons or gods real. What happened is really no different than thinking a glass door is open because it was cleaned really well only to walk right into it.
When I was a kid I had very frightening dreams, and at the time they felt real. I once saw my dead grandmother standing at the foot of my bed. Another time I saw my dead father at the foot of my bed. Another time I saw my LIVING MOTHER standing at the foot of my bed. I also had a "floating" dream where I felt like I was floating over the parking lot outside of my house. TRUST ME, none of that shit was real.
Point being, our brains can fool us. Tell a kid at at a Halloween party in a dark kitchen that the covered bowl of olives are eyeballs, if you really want to believe it bad enough you will.
You had an experience sure, but it was not magic, it was your own brain and a misunderstanding of a very natural event.
