(March 17, 2015 at 1:04 pm)rasetsu Wrote: But it's not unusual for people without illness to have the experience of hearing things. That's just the way the mind works.
Several years ago I was waiting in bed for my Sam to come home from visiting Shell three floors above and though I felt awake, my brain must have been starting to sleep. It's known as an hypnagogic state; the mind says "fuck you, I'll start dreaming without you - you can catch me up ". I distinctly heard her voice from outside the bedroom, calling me weakly for help. Of course, I instantly leaped out of bed to help, and she wasn't there. The flat was empty. I went outside onto the landing in case she was there; she wasn't. I went back and lay in bed for about half an hour before she came tapping down the stairs safe and sound.
As you say, the human mind is incredibly deceiving. It's the least reliable witness and we have to be sceptical of pretty much everything it says.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
