Waking Dreams
November 3, 2014 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2014 at 1:58 pm by DeistPaladin.)
The other day I was talking with my wife about a show she was watching called "The Dead Files". For those who don't know, our views on the spiritual are interestingly opposed. I'm a deist who doesn't believe in souls or an afterlife. She's an atheist who does believe in spirits or ghosts.
Anyway, I walked in as a person on the show was being interviewed about her paranormal experience. She was having a nightmare about a sinister ghost. When she woke up, the ghost was still standing there by her bed.
I shrugged and said no big deal. It's rare but it does happen. When I was a kid, the subject of my childhood nightmares sometimes lingered for a few moments after I woke up. They would fade away after a few seconds. It was frightening but after the first time I remember it happening, I figured that our imagination keeps the dream going for a few seconds as we wake up. It's funny how looking back that even in childhood I would try to find natural explanations for these things. I was a budding skeptic, I suppose.
It was a rare experience and it hasn't happened to me since puberty.
She looked at me sideways, in a sort of "seriously?" expression. She's never had that experience and doesn't think it's normal or natural at all. Dreams always end when we wake. They never "linger".
Anyone know anything about this? Was it childhood imagination that got the best of my senses? Does this sort of thing happen to others?
Anyway, I walked in as a person on the show was being interviewed about her paranormal experience. She was having a nightmare about a sinister ghost. When she woke up, the ghost was still standing there by her bed.
I shrugged and said no big deal. It's rare but it does happen. When I was a kid, the subject of my childhood nightmares sometimes lingered for a few moments after I woke up. They would fade away after a few seconds. It was frightening but after the first time I remember it happening, I figured that our imagination keeps the dream going for a few seconds as we wake up. It's funny how looking back that even in childhood I would try to find natural explanations for these things. I was a budding skeptic, I suppose.
It was a rare experience and it hasn't happened to me since puberty.
She looked at me sideways, in a sort of "seriously?" expression. She's never had that experience and doesn't think it's normal or natural at all. Dreams always end when we wake. They never "linger".
Anyone know anything about this? Was it childhood imagination that got the best of my senses? Does this sort of thing happen to others?
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