I love ghost stories. Let's hear some PERSONAL experiences with ghosts or the supernatural. No urban legends please.
Lets hear some ghost stories
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This was probably the overactive imagination of a kid. When I was 8, my bed was positioned to look down our hallway (not a good thing probably). One night I was having a hard time going to sleep and I rolled over. As I rolled over, I looked down the hallway (every time I rolled over). I seen something vaguely human shaped but white. Needless to say I freaked out and was scared motionless. I continued to watch this white shape come closer and as it did I started hearing "ching, ching" and the shape took form as a cowboy. He walked up to the end of my bed and then drew his gun and blink was gone. I freaked out and jumped out of bed and ran to my parents room and jumped in bed (literally), scaring my dad who promptly freaked out and threw me out of the bed. I was very hurt (feelings and my head a bit) and didn't even explain what happened and I went back to bed.
I didn't even tell them (later that year) about the girl (who I originally thought was my sister) fixing her hair under the lamp at the end of the hall (light wasn't on). I went to go see why my sister was messing around without a light on and as I got closer the girl looked at me and blink was gone. Another freak out, but went back to my bed and didn't bother parents.
Like I said, was most likely the over active imagination of a kid.
I didn't even tell them (later that year) about the girl (who I originally thought was my sister) fixing her hair under the lamp at the end of the hall (light wasn't on). I went to go see why my sister was messing around without a light on and as I got closer the girl looked at me and blink was gone. Another freak out, but went back to my bed and didn't bother parents.
Like I said, was most likely the over active imagination of a kid.
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When I was little, right after my grandfather died, I could have sworn I saw him in the mirror in the bathroom. I went and told my mom that grandpa was in the mirror. Now that I'm older, I realize that either I was imagining things or something very sinister was at work.
Ryan
One night I was having a really hard time sleeping, but eventually I fell asleep. It was rather a dreamless sort of sleep and I dreamt that I was in my room and someone was in there with me. I woke up and saw a dark shadow across my room. Like I sleep in a pitch black room, but something in the corner looked "blacker" than the rest.
I turned on my light to investigate the weird "black" area, and when I turned on the light, it was gone. I told my mom about it and how I had an uncomfortable dreamless sleep, and she, being the very superstitious Chinese mother, blames it on ghosts.
The next day she drags me to some buddhist temple up in the valley and tells me to pray. I do what she says and never see the black shape in my room ever again.
I turned on my light to investigate the weird "black" area, and when I turned on the light, it was gone. I told my mom about it and how I had an uncomfortable dreamless sleep, and she, being the very superstitious Chinese mother, blames it on ghosts.
The next day she drags me to some buddhist temple up in the valley and tells me to pray. I do what she says and never see the black shape in my room ever again.
Had you asked this question four years ago, I would have probably spilled my guts about alien encounters and out-of-body experiences.
I have this neurological sleep disorder that causes the dream (REM sleep) center of the brain to 'turn-on' way too early, while I'm still in a very light stage of sleep. Its supposed to turn-on when you're in a much deeper stage of sleep, but mine is really ambitious, I guess.
The result of this is that I may experience hallucinations that are 'superimposed' over cognitive awareness, which means I'm sufficiently awake to perceive these hallucinations (dreams) as "reality".
I wasn't always this way, it started when I was around 24. So when it started, it was absolutely terrifying. I don't think there are words that can adequately convey the experience.
I didn't really know what to make of it, it was like the most vivid, intense, and 'realistic' nightmare I've ever had...times 10. Everything is stimulated; visual, audible, sensory, somatic, proprioception, etc.
Of course, I didn't tell anyone for a long time, I was questioning my own sanity. What do you say and to whom do you say it? I wasn't about to go to a doctor and tell him something like "I see dead people." Yeah...and which mental hospital would you like to be institutionalized in?
If I was going to tell anyone, it would have been Gary Spivey, Shirley Maclaine, someone who also saw aliens and dead people and was as fit for the rubber room as I was.
I happened to come across something about sleep disorders and was reading about different disorders and symptoms. Turns out, sleep disorder researchers are very well aware of this phenomena and it isn't supernatural. In fact, more than one leading sleep disorder researcher is convinced that at a good portion, if not all, of those people who swear to having 'out-of-body' experiences, alien abductions, 'channeling' ghosts and spirits from beyond, etc. are in fact suffering from a neurological sleep disorder which causes these 'hypnagogic' and 'hypnopompic' hallucinations, but do not know it.
So that was a relief, I wasn't seeing dead people, or flying around the neighborhood out of my body.
I have this neurological sleep disorder that causes the dream (REM sleep) center of the brain to 'turn-on' way too early, while I'm still in a very light stage of sleep. Its supposed to turn-on when you're in a much deeper stage of sleep, but mine is really ambitious, I guess.
The result of this is that I may experience hallucinations that are 'superimposed' over cognitive awareness, which means I'm sufficiently awake to perceive these hallucinations (dreams) as "reality".
I wasn't always this way, it started when I was around 24. So when it started, it was absolutely terrifying. I don't think there are words that can adequately convey the experience.
I didn't really know what to make of it, it was like the most vivid, intense, and 'realistic' nightmare I've ever had...times 10. Everything is stimulated; visual, audible, sensory, somatic, proprioception, etc.
Of course, I didn't tell anyone for a long time, I was questioning my own sanity. What do you say and to whom do you say it? I wasn't about to go to a doctor and tell him something like "I see dead people." Yeah...and which mental hospital would you like to be institutionalized in?
If I was going to tell anyone, it would have been Gary Spivey, Shirley Maclaine, someone who also saw aliens and dead people and was as fit for the rubber room as I was.
I happened to come across something about sleep disorders and was reading about different disorders and symptoms. Turns out, sleep disorder researchers are very well aware of this phenomena and it isn't supernatural. In fact, more than one leading sleep disorder researcher is convinced that at a good portion, if not all, of those people who swear to having 'out-of-body' experiences, alien abductions, 'channeling' ghosts and spirits from beyond, etc. are in fact suffering from a neurological sleep disorder which causes these 'hypnagogic' and 'hypnopompic' hallucinations, but do not know it.
So that was a relief, I wasn't seeing dead people, or flying around the neighborhood out of my body.
are you trying to say that I might have it too? that would really mess with my declining sanity... 
datalink7
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Woah, freaky... I think I have the same thing. Several times a week, I'll be falling asleep, but open my eyes and see something. Somtimes it is someone standing there and staring at me. Or a dark shadow. Sometimes it is something more normal, like a rat on my covers (still freaky).
But I have had this as long as I remember. So, while still scary, I think (I'm just imagining it). I have full cognitive powers (I'm not sleepwalking or anything... I'm awake but can see what appears to be real but is not).
Didn't know it was a condition.
Only if you're having these 'experiences' often, then perhaps. At first, I only had them once a week. A few months later, they were happening twice a week. A few months later...etc etc...until I was having them daily and still do today. Except they changed at the same time they increased in frequency.
At first, they were just weird to the extreme. You know how dreams involve imagery, like you 'see' little movies in your mind? They weren't like that first, no imagery at all. More like when you close your eyes, and you see those little fleeting fuzzy things, little zappers that flicker in the darkness, there is actually a name for them, but I forget it. Also it seems like you have gradual changes in the shade of darkness when your eyes are closed, some times shifting hues of color that come and go in wave-like progression.
Combined with that were the most bizarre 'feelings' I ever had. There's no way to describe those, because I never experienced anything like it before. I can only use words that are the closest approximations to what I felt. Feelings of weightlessness, heaviness, floating, falling, vibrations, rumbling, pressure, acceleration, decceleration, some times alternating, some times combined, all very disturbing.
Sounds were like 'whooshing' noises, like the noise you hear by holding a sea shell to your ear, except it was more like being INSIDE the sea shell. No voices or recognizable sounds. Just extremely weird stuff.
Then I started to get fleeting images, faces, whispers, voices, and recognizable sounds would get tossed into the disarray. I would often feel as though something bumped into me, like something was in the room or bed with me, or some 'thing' ran across the room in front of me.
They progressed to more dream-like experiences with recognizable imagery, intelligible 'scenes', memories of past experiences, objects, people, faces, things playing out like a little surreal movie that that you're actually in and watching at the same time.
Funny thing is, when I learned what they were, they stopped being so terrifying. It was almost like, "Oh, I'm having one of those hallucinations again." So I would 'go' with it, just experience it, trying to remember that it wasn't "really" happening, even if I was having a 'disturbing' experience. It was hard at first, but it became easier.
Now, they're often lucid, I can exert influence on them. I just "will" myself to dream something I want to dream, and it happens. Pretty cool.
Don't get me wrong, I'd give them up in a second if I could, I'd give my left nut to be free of this, but I've learned to cope with it in a way that is positive or at least not as traumatic.
schizophrenia ..... whoa man .... someone should make a movie like that, thanks for all the info though, at least it doesn't occur that often with me, but sometimes, I don't know. It feels like it is, waking up in the morning and seeing things that might have been there... :Q
I have a few stories from my work...
I work at a local movie theater around here and I work mainly in the Projection rooms upstairs. Now when I got hired the managers told us that one of the construction workers who was working on the theater during its construction had died on the site and that his ghosts haunts the place. Recently an older gentelman had a heart attack and passed away inside one of our auditoriums which was kinda freaky since nothing like thats happened before all the employees are too all scared to go in there alone.
Story 1: I was working the closing shift and I was doing my nightly closing duties shutting down projectors and covering the prints. Our projectors are in grouped in seperate rooms, 1 - 5, 6 - 8, 9, 10 - 11, 12, 13 - 15, 16 - 20. I was finishing cleaning all the projectors in 1-8 had shut down the lights. It was very quiet inside the room all you could hear was the sound of moving air from the A/C vents, I was just about to walk outside the door when all of a sudden loud music starts to play inside the room. Now we have Sound moniters on each projector so you can listen to the movie or the music thats playing in between movies. Anyways I was scared half to death because there is no way anyone could have turned the music on without me knowing it because there is only 1 entrance to this room. So I turn on the lights and find out it was #8 projectors sound moniter that had been turned on full blast. I turned it off, turned off the lights and ran out of the room.
Story 2: Again I was working the closing shift, I was finshing up shutting down the last couple of projectors. Almost everyone had gone home for the night except me, closing manager, closing assistant manager, and the closing usher. I was shutting down projector #5 which is close to the door into 1 - 5. I was cleaning the projector and out of the corner of my eye I see something white walk by. I figured it was one of the managers comming upstairs to check out our log book or something. After I had finished shutting down the projector I figured I'd go talk to whoever it was that walked by but when I walked over to where our desk was there was nobody in the room. I looked everywhere and nobody was there. That just freaked me out.
Story 3: I opened projection in the morning, I walked into 1 - 5 to read the previous pass logs. I grab my walkie talkie and head over to projector 1. I turn the light on next to the projector and start threading it, I take a quick glance to my right at the Port glass (Into the auditorium) when I see a reflection of myself and someone standing behind me. I turn around to see who it is and nobody is there, and I turn back to the port glass and I see the person standing there again... Scared the living crap out of me.
I need to find a new job man...
Edit: In our old old log books there are lots of stories about freaky stuff happening, projectors turning on by themselves, Lights turning on and off, Lens turrents turning constantly on their own, film flying off the platters. I've even walked in a fellow co-worker who was crying because she thought she saw a ghost.
I work at a local movie theater around here and I work mainly in the Projection rooms upstairs. Now when I got hired the managers told us that one of the construction workers who was working on the theater during its construction had died on the site and that his ghosts haunts the place. Recently an older gentelman had a heart attack and passed away inside one of our auditoriums which was kinda freaky since nothing like thats happened before all the employees are too all scared to go in there alone.
Story 1: I was working the closing shift and I was doing my nightly closing duties shutting down projectors and covering the prints. Our projectors are in grouped in seperate rooms, 1 - 5, 6 - 8, 9, 10 - 11, 12, 13 - 15, 16 - 20. I was finishing cleaning all the projectors in 1-8 had shut down the lights. It was very quiet inside the room all you could hear was the sound of moving air from the A/C vents, I was just about to walk outside the door when all of a sudden loud music starts to play inside the room. Now we have Sound moniters on each projector so you can listen to the movie or the music thats playing in between movies. Anyways I was scared half to death because there is no way anyone could have turned the music on without me knowing it because there is only 1 entrance to this room. So I turn on the lights and find out it was #8 projectors sound moniter that had been turned on full blast. I turned it off, turned off the lights and ran out of the room.
Story 2: Again I was working the closing shift, I was finshing up shutting down the last couple of projectors. Almost everyone had gone home for the night except me, closing manager, closing assistant manager, and the closing usher. I was shutting down projector #5 which is close to the door into 1 - 5. I was cleaning the projector and out of the corner of my eye I see something white walk by. I figured it was one of the managers comming upstairs to check out our log book or something. After I had finished shutting down the projector I figured I'd go talk to whoever it was that walked by but when I walked over to where our desk was there was nobody in the room. I looked everywhere and nobody was there. That just freaked me out.
Story 3: I opened projection in the morning, I walked into 1 - 5 to read the previous pass logs. I grab my walkie talkie and head over to projector 1. I turn the light on next to the projector and start threading it, I take a quick glance to my right at the Port glass (Into the auditorium) when I see a reflection of myself and someone standing behind me. I turn around to see who it is and nobody is there, and I turn back to the port glass and I see the person standing there again... Scared the living crap out of me.
I need to find a new job man...
Edit: In our old old log books there are lots of stories about freaky stuff happening, projectors turning on by themselves, Lights turning on and off, Lens turrents turning constantly on their own, film flying off the platters. I've even walked in a fellow co-worker who was crying because she thought she saw a ghost.
not a real ghost story but an interesting one nonetheless.
Before we start, you need to know that there is a chinese supersition that when someone dies, his/her ghost/spirit will return on the 7th day.
For their 4th anniversary, a married couple decided to go mountain hiking with a climbing group.
However, a couple days into the expedition, the wife became sick and, physcially, could not contiune on the journey.
Thus, the group decided that the husdand will continue on the ascension toward the peak while the wife wait for them and nuture her illness at the same time.
Since they are close to the peak of the mountain, the whole ascend and descent should not take longer than a whole day.
However, days has gone by, there is not a single sign of the ascension gruop, and the wife is becoming increasingly worried.
As days and days rolled by, the group returned, but not without various wounds covering their bodies.
But there is no sign of the husband.
Then one of the person from the group said to the wife in a gloomy voice, "we are sorry. The weather took a dramastic turn for the worse and unfortunately, we lost your huband to the storming weather during our descent. But to show our respect, let's wait for here until the 7th day from the day of his passing and see if we can draw his spirit back"
The camp remained quiet thoughout the entire wait. No one camper or the wife conversed among one another (perhaps they are all too grieved and tired to speak)
However, on the 7th day, the group gathered in a circle around the wife inside a tent, mumbling hymns/words that the wife could not undertand;
though, feeling uneasy, she thinks they are preying for the spirit of the dead husband to return.
And suddenly, the entrance of to the tent opened, the husband, while covering in blood and wounds, rushed in, grabbed the wife and ran out as fast as he can.
While the wife is all too terrified to open her mouth, the husband opened his quivering lips and said in a stuttering voice, "the ascension was a disaster, i was the only climber who made it out alive!"
Who would you trust?
Before we start, you need to know that there is a chinese supersition that when someone dies, his/her ghost/spirit will return on the 7th day.
For their 4th anniversary, a married couple decided to go mountain hiking with a climbing group.
However, a couple days into the expedition, the wife became sick and, physcially, could not contiune on the journey.
Thus, the group decided that the husdand will continue on the ascension toward the peak while the wife wait for them and nuture her illness at the same time.
Since they are close to the peak of the mountain, the whole ascend and descent should not take longer than a whole day.
However, days has gone by, there is not a single sign of the ascension gruop, and the wife is becoming increasingly worried.
As days and days rolled by, the group returned, but not without various wounds covering their bodies.
But there is no sign of the husband.
Then one of the person from the group said to the wife in a gloomy voice, "we are sorry. The weather took a dramastic turn for the worse and unfortunately, we lost your huband to the storming weather during our descent. But to show our respect, let's wait for here until the 7th day from the day of his passing and see if we can draw his spirit back"
The camp remained quiet thoughout the entire wait. No one camper or the wife conversed among one another (perhaps they are all too grieved and tired to speak)
However, on the 7th day, the group gathered in a circle around the wife inside a tent, mumbling hymns/words that the wife could not undertand;
though, feeling uneasy, she thinks they are preying for the spirit of the dead husband to return.
And suddenly, the entrance of to the tent opened, the husband, while covering in blood and wounds, rushed in, grabbed the wife and ran out as fast as he can.
While the wife is all too terrified to open her mouth, the husband opened his quivering lips and said in a stuttering voice, "the ascension was a disaster, i was the only climber who made it out alive!"
Who would you trust?
I'm going to make a bold prediction, you aren't actually opening your eyes, but you BELIEVE you are.
I went through the SAME EXACT thing. I BELIEVED I was opening my eyes, looking around the room or at the foot of my bed. It was REAL in my mind, it was happening. That is a hallucination, when you cannot separate reality from the hallucination, you BELIEVE it. For you, it is happening. When you can separate the two, when you know that you're hallucinating and it is not real, it is called a pseudo-hallucination.
To this day, I have hallucinations where I BELIEVE my eyes are open and I'm looking around the room. Everything is exactly correct, in terms of objects being where they're supposed to be. Virtual reality.
But in reality, my eyes are closed and I'm in a light plane of sleep while experience premature REM onset.
I didn't either, I lived with this for several years before I found out what it was.
In my case, I have narcolepsy and hallucinations are a common symptom of narcolepsy. But there are other causes, usually a sleep disorder.
I must point out it is actually "normal" for most people to have an experience like this on rare occasion. Premature REM onset is something that can occur when stress levels are high, when you've been burning the candle at both ends, not getting a lot of rest, etc. Most people report having a similar experience, maybe even several, but they are not often or frequent.
What makes it 'abnormal' in the medical sense, is when they are occuring with greater frequency, daily or a few times per week, and they are happening regardless of how much rest you are getting, whether or not you are under a lot of recent stress. That's what makes it highly unusual and cause for concern.
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