bodleyfludes
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 11, 2021 10:17:00 GMT -6
That you come across an interesting thread, one that seems to have been jogging along quite happily for some time, but as soon as you respond with your own comment, your post stops the thread dead in its tracks - as completely and convincingly as happened to Lot's wife when she turned to look back at the catastrophe happening behind her.
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Post by paulette on Mar 12, 2021 1:16:32 GMT -6
Oh dear. I think some people here talk back and forth. Others have a more eliptical orbit. I often start a thread and don't seem to interest others. Maybe later it gets comments on it.
It is as it is. I'm glad you're here. I'd like to hear what brought you here.
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bodleyfludes
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 12, 2021 12:02:50 GMT -6
Paulette, I came here through another ProBoard web-site. I had decided to scan the whole ProBoard index hoping to find a group of particular interest to me. Some sites I looked at were quite disappointing, in some cases, the one-time inhabitants seem to have gone extinct. I didn't want to end up talking to myself. Then I found the 'Edge of Reality', noticed that some subjects, and approaches to those subjects, more or less matched my own taste - and I seem to have lingered.
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bodleyfludes
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 12, 2021 12:59:31 GMT -6
What percentage of anomalous sightings and events could conceivably be the effect of brain anomaly or temporary malfunction – or even of a ‘normal’ brain. For instance: Wiki says ‘Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of aphasia, amnesia, and epilepsy’. Is this fail-safe butt-covering, or are there further, known but unspecified, triggering events, too? I have experienced this species of strangeness, when a sudden unfamiliarity swept over me as I surveyed an ordinary playing field, very familiar to me, where I had walked the dogs on innumerable occasions. This would have been well over 30 years ago. More common has been the well-known phenomenon of a sudden uncertainty regarding the spelling of a common, many times used, word. Anyway, I think peculiarities of the brain must account for many otherwise unexplained phenomena. And I am not thinking of that bunch of druggies grouped together in a sanitorium, with huge insects crawling all over the walls, clearly seen by every addict. And all six of them signed affidavits to confirm what they saw . . . . so it must have been true. Then there is the phenomenon of witness reports to some broad-daylight crime. The reports are each detailed, tendered innocently and honestly, and intended potentially useful to the ensuing enquiry into a horrible crime, except the reports contradict each other in important respects.
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Post by paulette on Mar 14, 2021 18:47:52 GMT -6
Bodley - I have an assortment of experiences. some from far back in my childhood (4?), then while under the influence of peyote - but the friends with me also experienced. Not as deeply as I. I was 4 or 5 hours in and no longer hallucinating. But I felt the presence of something powerful. One of my friends actually went and looked on the second story porch. I lay down and was so frightened that I finally put on top of my mind - "You are scaring me to death." I then "fell asleep, and woke up 5 hours later. All of that might have remained inconclusive (but not to me). But when I was having a baby, he had to be pulled by emergency C section. My doctor leaned over and said "Good night" as they put the anesthetic in. I saw him, blank mouth, dark large eyes (thick glasses) leaning over me and almost leapt off the table. Sheer terror. I assume I was having a serious flashback. Of being "put out" so I could be observed.
Things continued to happen to me and people around me. Including my child.
All these stories can be enlarged.
I think being high was the REASON that we were visited. I was dancing in a rye field, a dry thunderstorm night and I put up my arms and said, "Come on then! I'm ready."
Apparently I wasn't. Paulette
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Post by bodleyfludes on Mar 15, 2021 8:25:11 GMT -6
Paulette: I think there must be a great many people who experience a seeming impossible event, and simply choose to pretend it away. I expect that's a quite common opinion too. Either that, or depending on how intense, frightening or outrageous the event is, the mind's built-in protections safely cloak the memory without reference to 'us'. Professor Tyrell reminded us, it is not until we come to consider (for instance) apparitions, that we are faced with the fact we never have direct acquaintance with anything outside ourselves. We rely on our brains to translate incoming sensory data. We have to trust what it tells us because we have no alternative. The brain is a fickle organ, and we only have our brain to fall back on yet again, in deciding whether that light whisking across the sky, or the huge insects crawling across the ceiling, or those shadowy figures standing in the doorway, are real, or the product of fever, drugs, imagination or imperfect perception. It is the same ridiculously nonsensical situation as in asking a complete and habitual liar whether I should believe the next thing coming out of his or her mouth. Crazy to ask, crazy to believe the answer, crazy to believe there is firm ground somewhere beneath your feet. Yes, just one more cotton-picking opinion.
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Post by paulette on Mar 18, 2021 0:04:38 GMT -6
A few more details then. We all saw a disc with a bright orange light swoop down from the sky and do a zigzag in front of me before seemingly landing behind a small grove of trees. It shone through - and then went out.
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Post by skywalker on Mar 19, 2021 9:38:06 GMT -6
Y’all seem to be talking about questioning reality and whether what we see is really what we see. That brings up something I’ve always wandered about. Why do people who are insane or hallucinating perceive a reality that doesn’t exist? How can a person’s senses make them believe that something is there when it isn’t really there? That doesn’t make sense to me.
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