Ghosts

RogueStoner

My dogs are going nuts again. Time to play my favorite game...intruder? ghost? or just plain crazy?

Looks like our little ghost girl is back again. My daughter has seen her and now my younger son. She likes to play in my bathroom...make random things fall, make tapping sounds, close the door. I'd put some some toys out for her but my kids have already done that. Every. Fucking. Where.

dankind

Does anybody ever look at the photos for a Zillow listing and come to conclusion that the property is haunted?

RogueStoner

dankind said:

Does anybody ever look at the photos for a Zillow listing and come to conclusion that the property is haunted?

Or you just know where the bodies are buried. It's the "extra storage space" shed. They're always under the damn shed. 

chadwick

rogue stoner,

im almost jealous. it's been calm around here as of late. but i know here before too long something weird as frig will kick in & i won't be jealous no more. weird how that is but when you've had basically a lifetime fulla this stuff, i think you begin to expect it & when there's a dry run for even a month, you're like, what the frig? do something you bastards.

just watch i'll be having some stupid ass shit happen any moment now. 

oh here he comes now with caramel corn (it's an inside joke for a special someone)          

RogueStoner

chadwick said:

rogue stoner,

im almost jealous. it's been calm around here as of late. but i know here before too long something weird as frig will kick in & i won't be jealous no more. weird how that is but when you've had basically a lifetime fulla this stuff, i think you begin to expect it & when there's a dry run for even a month, you're like, what the frig? do something you bastards.

just watch i'll be having some stupid ass shit happen any moment now. 

oh here he comes now with caramel corn (it's an inside joke for a special someone)          

I agree. As weird and unnerving as the  active times are, when it's calm, it's too calm. It almost feels lonely, as silly as that sounds. And I can't control any of it nor understand most of it. Today's a very active day. A bit overwhelming. 

chadwick

how so is today's activity overwhelming? the dog's going nuts? 

RogueStoner

chadwick said:

how so is today's activity overwhelming? the dog's going nuts? 

Ok, so most of the activity happens in my bedroom (excuse the phrasing ) and on my balcony. That's my special spot...where I smoke, text, post, "write", contemplate, feel, pray, listen to music, and see figures walking by. From a wall to the edge of my balcony and disappear. I joke that it's become like a portal. Anyways, the best way I can describe it is...imagine you're in a dark room. As you make your way through, you can sort of feel that you're near a person even though you can't see them. That's what I feel. And my body feels like it's vibrating. (Go ahead, degens...have at the jokes )  This morning, walking through my house was like walking through a crowded party. Physically it feels a little like walking in a pool. It affects me physically. Nausea and such if it's negative. Sometimes I'll just burst out in a huge grin if it's good. The talking part is like when you recall a conversation in your head, each participant has a different voice, tone, style. That's how I hear them. Although there have been times I've heard them audibly but muffled so I couldn't understand what they were saying to each other. My body was visibly shaking when that happened. 
Pros: A person pops into my head, I pick up my phone, within a minute or so that person texts or calls or posts. Pretty convenient.
Cons: Getting vibes about people or sometimes glimpses. Some don't take it very well. I get it. I still pray for them. 

Wow. You caught me on a strange night. I usually overshare but I really opened up here. Oh well. Let them think I'm "disturbed". I know what I know and that's all I need. 

Tomorrow is my friend's funeral. My daughter wants to go. She insisted on drawing a picture to give to Serena's mom. She asked for a cross necklace and we lit a candle and she said a prayer for her. 

Damn. Tomorrow is going to be tough. 

rgambs

Why don't skeptical ever have these experiences?

RogueStoner

rgambs said:

Why don't skeptical ever have these experiences?

My theory is that it's like a spectrum and people fall in different spots. I think everyone has the capability to be somewhat sensitive but most people tune it all out. (They're not as masochistic as I am ). 
Skeptics also explain everything away or just ignore it. Weird noises get explained away as the house settling. Or just tuned out. I'm choosing to tune in, after having ignored all of this for years. 
It's not that I look at everything as supernatural. But if I can't explain it, I don't just ignore it anymore. I guess enough has happened throughout my life that I just can't ignore it anymore. Believe me, it's no picnic. 

rgambs

Sensitive to what?
Light?  Sound?  Temperature changes?

Skeptical minds process these stimuli as well as believers.

RogueStoner

rgambs said:

Sensitive to what?
Light?  Sound?  Temperature changes?

Skeptical minds process these stimuli as well as believers.

Yes, I guess it comes down to what they attribute them to. 

Annafalk

I have only had two ghost experiences in my life otherwise nothing, I don’t think I’m sensitive in that way.

chadwick

roguestoner,

it is true what you said - it's no picnic , but quite a gift. if i shared what i believe i would be laughed out of here, therefore i try & tone it down some. 

when i was 4 or 5 years old i had this dream, well, at least that is how i comprehended it to be. then it vanished from my thoughts & memory for decades until my mom mentioned it. bam, it was like being under hypnosis or something. it literally kicked my brain in & flashes of this event came crashing in just as they did decades ago. im my opinion this was no dream, it was a reality of some kind. i know it was real as it lines up with something. i'd rather not go into details & i am sorry about that.      

PJ_Soul

I don't disbelieve in them.... ? I'm a ghost agnostic. I acknowledge there is the possibility of some kind of natural process that makes ghosts possible. I think that is a very remote possibility, but I don't rule it out completely. That would rely on the theory that consciousness is energy though.... so I dunno. There certainly are a lot of crazy ghost stories out there. A few of them are convincing, although there could be other unexplained natural phenomena at play there, and people simply translate it into "ghosts". I feel like that's more likely. But you never know. I seriously doubt it... but it would be nice. I'd love to become a ghost, lol.

chadwick

pjsoul,

you may get to become one.

dankind

I've had experiences that I can't explain, but the skeptic in me refuses to believe that they're supernatural.

These experiences often involve lights. One very strange one was when we were subletting an apartment in Brooklyn while the co-op that we bought was be rehabbed. We had been living there for a about a month, and I had already had a few experiences with the lights increasing their intensity as mine did (e.g., I'd get upset with my daughter and raise my voice or something like that). I chalked those up to bad wiring. But then this one night, I noticed a strange glow in the laundry room, I went inside and discovered that the owner's battery-operated hiking headlamp was on. Now, this was a sticky slide switch that required some pressure to be forced up into the on position or down into the off position. It's not something that could've been switched on accidentally by tossing a box of fabric softener sheets next to it or something like that.

I still haven't figured that out, and I never will. But like I said, the skeptic in me refuses to believe that it was something supernatural.

F Me In The Brain

I don't believe in ghosts.  That stated, I don't believe in any religious figures either.  Ghosts seem just as likely as gods -- people that believe in ghosts get a bad rap when I consider that....since most of the world believes in a god (or gods) they never see.

Was in Charleston, SC last month and it seemed every place we visited was said to be haunted. 

I do hear creaks and shit like that constantly in my house, but growing up in a 200+ year old house I am used to a life of explaining things away, like RS says.  It would have freaked me the fuck out as a kid to be alone in that huge, noisy-ass, house at night, and to think those noises were ghosts. 

One of my best friends growing up, his father routinely saw someone in their house.  I stayed over lots and lots of times but never saw anyone.

I am OK with not seeing ghosts (or gods) if they are real. 

F Me In The Brain

I would like it if my dad would come down as a ghost and hang out with me.  I guess we couldn't drink together but I could drink enough for 2.

hedonist

F Me In The Brain said:

I would like it if my dad would come down as a ghost and hang out with me.  I guess we couldn't drink together but I could drink enough for 2.

You and me both, F Me.

PJ_Soul

F Me In The Brain said:

I don't believe in ghosts.  That stated, I don't believe in any religious figures either.  Ghosts seem just as likely as gods -- people that believe in ghosts get a bad rap when I consider that....since most of the world believes in a god (or gods) they never see.

Was in Charleston, SC last month and it seemed every place we visited was said to be haunted. 

I do hear creaks and shit like that constantly in my house, but growing up in a 200+ year old house I am used to a life of explaining things away, like RS says.  It would have freaked me the fuck out as a kid to be alone in that huge, noisy-ass, house at night, and to think those noises were ghosts. 

One of my best friends growing up, his father routinely saw someone in their house.  I stayed over lots and lots of times but never saw anyone.

I am OK with not seeing ghosts (or gods) if they are real. 

Interesting, because I'm at least somewhat open to the possibility of the existence of ghosts, but I am a staunch Atheist, lol. Gods seem impossible to me, but not ghosts.