paranormal experience i had when i was younger makes me afraid to ctb

[dune7263]

I had vivid paranormal experience with a spirit

 

[heyismeman]

bro you can't just say that and not explain it, what did you experience

 

[dune7263]

bro you can't just say that and not explain it, what did you experience

i saw someone demonically possessed like something from the exorcist, bizarre animalistic movements, moving super fast whilst crawling, voice change etc

 

[roommate]

Sounds like a psychoses :(

 

[dune7263]

Sounds like a psychoses :(

I am not sure if it was, they felt fine after exorcism

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Why is it that whenever people experience something they are always quick to assume that it's the workings of the "paranormal" rather than just assuming that there is probably a reasonable explanation for their experiences? I just don't get it.

My mom also claims that ghosts are real and that she knows this because she used to hear footsteps from her upstairs neighbour's place when they weren't home, which is pretty fucking stupid. Nearly every time people claim that they have had an encounter with the paranormal it always ends up being the case that there was a logical explanation behind everything, even if said logical explanation doesn't end up being unearthed until many years later.

Then again, I stopped believing in the paranormal/supernatural sometime during my final year of elementary school/beginning of middle school, so I usually approach situations like these differently.

 

[roommate]

I am not sure if it was, they felt fine after exorcism

I sometimes get sleep paralysis and get these creatures running at me and I can't move.
Pretty scary :/

 

[mikgazer6]

Same here. I believe there is a reasonable explanation for everything, even if extremely unlikely or still unknown. But there is a small fear at the back of my mind asking what if there is some truth to supernatural, religion, an afterlife or whatever. That throws a wrench into my thoughts on death and ctb. For context my family was "haunted" for over a decade and I have shared experiences of interactions with visible "ghosts" and our own disembodied voices speaking. My own individual experiences include premonitions of familial tragedy and dreams of cult indoctrinations from as young as I can remember. There are many collective individual reports of physical harm with unknown cause such as being clawed (with torn clothes and physical marks) in one's sleep in a locked room. Yet despite all this I still find myself to be skeptical.

 

[dune7263]

Same here. I believe there is a reasonable explanation for everything, even if extremely unlikely or still unknown. But there is a small fear at the back of my mind asking what if there is some truth to supernatural, religion, an afterlife or whatever. That throws a wrench into my thoughts on death and ctb. For context my family was "haunted" for over a decade and I have shared experiences of interactions with visible "ghosts" and our own disembodied voices speaking. My own individual experiences include premonitions of familial tragedy and dreams of cult indoctrinations from as young as I can remember. There are many collective individual reports of physical harm with unknown cause such as being clawed (with torn clothes and physical marks) in one's sleep in a locked room. Yet despite all this I still find myself to be skeptical.

why are you skeptical?

 

[mikgazer6]

why are you skeptical?

To clarify it's the afterlife which I'm truly skeptical of. Whether an afterlife exists would depend if the mind is nonphysical. As far as physical/scientific proof goes, there is no nonphysical mind. Consciousness is caused by brain activity. Brain death means no brain activity which means no consciousness. If the mind is nonphysical, then that still doesn't prove an afterlife. It only gives probability.

As for my/my family's experience, I have a reasonable explanation for everything. Even the shared ghost and disembodied speaking experiences. Everything of the external world that we perceive gets filtered through our human mind which is susceptible to imagination, delusion, and all sorts of unconscious tampering. Although we know what we witnessed and I don't want to think I'm crazy, the reasonable explanation is that my family and I underwent a shared delusion of sorts. And even if these events were actually paranormal, is it anything meaningful anyways? It could just be some random unimportant scientifically undiscovered gimmick of the physical world.

I had vivid paranormal experience with a spirit

Also if you're willing to share I'd love to hear your story. I find these experiences to be very interesting.