What was it? (paranormal)?

Question

This is something that happened to me about a year or so ago.

I submitted it to an online paranormal journal and they printed it in their June 2007 issue and since I REALLY don't feel like typing it all out again. I'm going to copy and paste it here.

Answer 1

a dream would be a possible explanation.

or it could have been an evil spirit trying to trick you about the friend.

or perhaps your friend is something differnt than you think he is

Answer 2

perhaps your friend was astral traveling and having an out of body experience.

Answer 3

This one is easy,it happens all the time.The manifestation may vary aliens,hags,just about anything.It's weird but not paranormal.Sleep Paralysis is what you experienced.Find out more about it on this link.

Answer 4

Of course, it was a dream or a waking dream or a hallucination. Those are relatively simple explanations that can be accommodated within the parameters of known and accepted science. Our entire perception of the outside world is filtered and distorted through our sense organs and brains. It is not hard to explain how your brain could create such a real-feeling illusion.

The alternative -- that is was some sort of real ghost or apparition -- involves so many assumptions of unlikely phenomena outside the bounds of physics that it is not worth considering. Think of what you would have to accept -- that there are some sorts of "spirits" or energy fields not yet detected by the most sensitive scientific equipment; that somehow your friend has the conscious or unconscious ability to control such a spirit; that this spirit can manifest itself in space and time in a visible form -- the undetectable energy is transformed into detectable energy (light); that the spirit can control this image so precisely and with such detail that it looks like someone you know and it carries out some recognizable actions.

Simply on the grounds of Occam's razor -- accepting the simplest explanation for the facts -- you have to reject the paranormal explanation.

Answer 5

This sounds a lot like something that happened to me a few years ago. I laid down for a nap on a saturday afternoon, and woke up thinking it was morning. I am not going to go into details, but I was awake and yet still dreaming.

How do I know I was dreaming and it wasnt really happening?

Afterwards I realized my thinking was illogical and I was accepting it way to easy, as if it was a dream.

When it was happening you didnt question the fact that your friend was blue and standing there throwing you a basketball. You got up and tried to retrieve it. Is this really how you would react if this happened in the middle of the day? Wouldnt you wonder how your friend got into your bedroom, why he was blue and why he was throwing a ball at you?

In a dream you just accept these things without question and when you wake up you start to think about how weird it was.

I believe you had woken up, but you dream state was still switched on for a few minutes and your mind was casting those dreams in your bedroom.

For the record I have never used hallucinegenic drugs, and I have had sleep paralysis many times, and this was not sleep paralysis as it involved getting up and moving around.

And there is a thing called Narcilepsy that can cause dreams to occur when you are awake, but like most sleeping disorders such things can be induced by stress or irregular sleep patterns even if you dont have Narcilepsy.

Answer 6

It could very well be a dream, but due to similar experience i think not. it is a scary feeling but i believe it is due to the cause of lessened sleep. I think it could have been a halucination. and image of him a few feet away from where he actually was.

Answer 7

I will assume since you posted this in the sub-category Paranormal Phenomena section that your wondering if what happened to you was indeed Paranormal.

One thing you need to keep in mind and that is it is wrong to rule out any explanation rather it be for or against the paranormal study.

To answer your question, I can't tell you for certain if it was paranormal or not. I will assume it was not. Based on the information you gave.

Because you stated this happened a year ago and have not said there has been any other kind of activity since. Ghost activity, haunting etc... usually do not work on cue but rarely ever happen just once. In the 30 plus years I have been studying the paranormal I have not seen nor heard of a single incident. (not to rule it out of course).

So you may be asking what could cause such a vision?

To be honest there are other things.

1. Alcohol - too much can make you hallucinate.

2. Drugs - either self-induced, or by an outside source.

3. Some types of mushrooms can give these effects.

4. A mini stroke - has been recorded to cause these effects.

I have never heard of sleep paralyzes lasting longer than a few minutes. and I never heard of awake dreaming or day dreaming causing hallucinations without being drug induced, although I do not claim to know everything so also i would not suggest you rule them out but do look into them as well.

On a paranormal level I can tell you that the spirit world does not have follow the livings rules of parameters or boundaries. They do not have to prove themselves to anyone and surely if a spirit can reach from death and manifest itself to the living, it can pick and choose it's own desires in which to do so. If you yourself believe this was paranormal then I don't feel it was meant to cause you any harm and if there are some activities still present I would urge you to try and record video and audio.

However it turns out I wish you luck.

Answer 8

Have you spoken to your friend about this?  Did you ask him if he had any similar experiences?  If your friend claims to have been in your room on that night, and if he can give you the details of what happenned, that would be evidence that there was an actual event rather than just a dream.

People, even living people, have claimed to have travelled outside of their bodies (Astral Travel).  Sometimes people do this purposely, and sometimes they travel while they are sleeping.  It is possible, though not probable, that your friend was travelling outside of his body, and that he happenned to come to see you.

If you want to know the truth, you have to search for the evidence.  You can't rule out a dream unless there is another explanation.  Even if your friend doesn't have any memory of this event,  that doesn't prove that it was a dream, it just doesn't prove that it wasn't a dream.  Good luck!