Paranormal Activity 2 - Youtube Version
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That's some fascinating stuff!
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-11-21 18:07:49 +0000 UTCSleep paralysis figures into a lot of paranormal stuff. Remember that one of the common experiences of sleep paralysis is that there is a malevolent force in the room with you. Because of this, they believe that when people think that they are abducted by aliens, it may be because of sleep paralysis. It's an interesting phenomenon, because they now can actually manufacture it. They put a helmet on you that triggers certain synapses in your brain, and it makes you go into sleep paralysis, where you are convinced there is something evil there in the room with you. Presumably they do that for research purposes, but can you imagine how effective that would be as a torture device?
Troy Hickman
2024-11-21 16:50:29 +0000 UTCI don't believe in ghosts personally, but I do love the subject of ghosts and the paranormal. The subject is a lot of fun, IMO. When I first started dating my girlfriend, she wanted to prove to me that ghosts were real. She believes in them so one day we went on a date night to the Lemp Mansion in Saint Louis, MO for a tour. It is supposed to be a very haunted house. The tour guide had all sorts of "Ghostbuster" type gadgets and tools. I thought it was hilarious. I was a good sport though, and by the end of the tour the tour guide thought I was the believer and my girlfriend was the skeptic. I guess I did a good job of giving the experience a real chance to prove me wrong. In the end though, there wasn't a single paranormal experience. When we went through our pictures from our tour my girlfriend insisted that she caught a ghost in one of the pictures. I did not see a ghost in that picture at all, but she insisted that the light reflecting off the wall was in the shape of a person. It frustrated her to no end that I didn't see it and was amused by the whole situation. We then showed the picture to my brother and he was like me. He saw nothing. This made her even more frustrated. She really wanted to prove it to me! It's not like I wanted to be right or to not see a ghost. If I had seen one, my whole outlook on life and the world would have changed. That would have been an interesting experience. She loves the Paranormal Activity movies, but I don't know how many we saw beyond the first two. Everyone is saying the third is really good so maybe I will add that to my list. It's possible that I've seen it already and just don't remember it. Does anyone have any ghost stories to share? If not, I have some other ghost stories that I have heard from other people.
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-11-21 15:56:13 +0000 UTCFunny that sleep paralysis is mentioned here. Just yesterday my brother (who has had many episodes of sleep paralysis) text me and said (and I will quote our conversation exactly): Brother: "I had an interesting sleep paralysis incident last night. I was laying in the bed and asleep. I was dreaming Yenny (his girl from Colombia, pronounced "Jenny") was riding me. When she bent forward to kiss me I noticed a tiny red thing coming out of her back. Like the size of a small worm. I looked closer at it and it was forked. A little tiny red devil tail. I tried to tell her about it and leaned back as she was still on top of me. Her face morphed into the devil or some demon. Horns grew out, red skin, etc. I started screaming and was trying to force myself to wake up. When you try to wake yourself from sleep paralysis you cannot freely scream. It comes out as a moan. Suddenly Yenny, the real life version, starts shaking me yelling my name and saying, 'oh my God, are you okay?'. This is what woke me up from sleep paralysis. She was freaked out. From the sound I was making she thought I was DYING." Being the concerned brother that I am, my response was: Me: "That was mean, making her think you were dying. You got her hopes up." ^actual conversation from yesterday! LOL! Brothers are always busting each others balls. :) I have had it a few times before. It seems like you're awake and you look around the room you're in and everything... but I don't think you're actually looking around the room. I think you're still half in a dream state and you're dreaming looking around the room. When it happened to me I felt like there was a presence in the room leering over me as I slept. Like aliens or something. I remember trying to move or yell or something but I couldn't. I recall KNOWING that I was experiencing sleep paralysis and trying to will myself awake. I was straining and everything, and then suddenly I did gasp and moved and the presence was gone. Of course it was gone, because it was never really there. It was a dream, and when I actually awoke the dream was gone. It felt like I was seeing the room I was in, but I don't think that I was. It's a lot easier when you know what sleep paralysis is when you experience it. The first time I ever experienced it I didn't know what it was, and that was a big WTF moment. Anyone else have experiences with sleep paralysis?
Michael@GetFitwithDogs
2024-11-21 15:45:34 +0000 UTCI want to also second paranormal activity 3. The scariest of them all imo. It also completes the overall story arc if I recall.
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-11-21 14:57:35 +0000 UTCAnother great horror reaction. Yeah, Dasha, you should do the third movie, as I think in a lot of ways it's the scariest of the bunch. To answer your question, guppies are little fish. To say that somebody has the attention span of one is kind of like when you say that you have a fish memory. You mentioned sleep paralysis. I suffer from that and I remember the very first time I ever had it. I was a teenager and I was sleeping in the bottom bunk of bunk beds, with nobody sleeping on the top bunk. I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that I was pushing my arms and legs against the top bunk with all my might, and I was paralyzed in that position. I became convinced that there was something evil up on the top bunk and that it was out to get me. I knew I needed to get up and turn on the light, but I could not move for a full 45 minutes. I still suffer from it these days, especially over the last couple of years, except now I am in a semi-conscious state where I am sure there is someone standing over me. Sometimes it's dark figures, sometimes it's monsters, sometimes it's even an evil clown. but I have learned to deal with it to some extent, so when it happens now, I literally punch the thing that is standing over me and it immediately goes away. It's pretty creeptastic.
Troy Hickman
2024-11-21 14:38:13 +0000 UTC
