Ghosts - do u believe?-any experiences..?
Posted by: Webke on 13 May 2005
I am quite sceptical about these things, i do sometimes sit and watch colin fry which can be quite shocking sometimes, would be interested to hear others thoughts on this subject.
Posted on: 13 May 2005 by JeremyD
I don't believe in ghosts but I have seen two:
The first was Andy Gibb (brother of the Bee Gees) about 24 hours before I heard he had died - and possibly before he actually died. I was suffering from serious sleep loss at the time.
The second was Princess Diana. I had my radio on all night during the night she died, and I "saw" her in my room as I was waking up. Presumably, I had unconsciously incorporated the news into the tail end of a dream. She said she had come to watch over me always, and I replied by saying something like, "Get lost, you stupid hallucination!" She then turned away sadly and faded away...
The first was Andy Gibb (brother of the Bee Gees) about 24 hours before I heard he had died - and possibly before he actually died. I was suffering from serious sleep loss at the time.
The second was Princess Diana. I had my radio on all night during the night she died, and I "saw" her in my room as I was waking up. Presumably, I had unconsciously incorporated the news into the tail end of a dream. She said she had come to watch over me always, and I replied by saying something like, "Get lost, you stupid hallucination!" She then turned away sadly and faded away...
Posted on: 13 May 2005 by garyi
Ugg.
Posted on: 14 May 2005 by BigH47
Take more water with it.
Posted on: 14 May 2005 by Nime
JeremyD is actually raising a very interesting subject. Sleep deprivation is really wierd! Wierder than you could ever imagine.
I went down to London for a CND march in my teens. Having hitched all night through pouring rain I was already in poor shape by the time I reached London. I spent two days there with nowhere to sleep. Trying to sleep in Trafalgar square was impossible due to the contant police patrols going round and waking anyone sleeping.
I was teetering constantly between being awake and dreaming. Not sleeping. But instantly dreaming. It was often impossible to be sure in which state I was actually in. It felt as if a switch in my head kept flip-flopping between the two states.
My eyes would close immediately if I did not concentrate hard on keeping them open. A very frightening state to be in so far from home. I can still remember this strange switching effect between reality and dreaming more than 40 years later.
Eventually I hitched the hundred miles home and fell exhausted into bed for 48 hours of unbroken sleep.
I had another wierd experience when on a long bicycle ride alone on Dartmoor. I was tired from a difficult night camping in a storm.
Looking up from my usual crouched position over dropped handlebars, I saw a carriage being drawn by two beautiful horses coming towards me down the otherwise empty road. I stared in disbelief! But then I glanced down at my gears. When I looked up again they were gone.
It seemed so real that I told the family when I reached home many hours later.
I went down to London for a CND march in my teens. Having hitched all night through pouring rain I was already in poor shape by the time I reached London. I spent two days there with nowhere to sleep. Trying to sleep in Trafalgar square was impossible due to the contant police patrols going round and waking anyone sleeping.
I was teetering constantly between being awake and dreaming. Not sleeping. But instantly dreaming. It was often impossible to be sure in which state I was actually in. It felt as if a switch in my head kept flip-flopping between the two states.
My eyes would close immediately if I did not concentrate hard on keeping them open. A very frightening state to be in so far from home. I can still remember this strange switching effect between reality and dreaming more than 40 years later.
Eventually I hitched the hundred miles home and fell exhausted into bed for 48 hours of unbroken sleep.
I had another wierd experience when on a long bicycle ride alone on Dartmoor. I was tired from a difficult night camping in a storm.
Looking up from my usual crouched position over dropped handlebars, I saw a carriage being drawn by two beautiful horses coming towards me down the otherwise empty road. I stared in disbelief! But then I glanced down at my gears. When I looked up again they were gone.
It seemed so real that I told the family when I reached home many hours later.
Posted on: 14 May 2005 by Paul Hutchings
Never seen a ghost but did once have something strange happen. I used to work in a shop and was in the tea room one day eating lunch with a colleague, two of us in there, sat at a table with the sideboard/sink about six feet away.
There were the usual cylindrical Tea/Coffee/Sugar cans on the sideboard and out of the corner of my eye I noticed one of them just move about six or seven inches across the sideboard.
I looked at my colleague and before I said a word he said "yes, it did".
I would have said I could have imagined it if it weren't for my colleagues unprompted reaction.
There were the usual cylindrical Tea/Coffee/Sugar cans on the sideboard and out of the corner of my eye I noticed one of them just move about six or seven inches across the sideboard.
I looked at my colleague and before I said a word he said "yes, it did".
I would have said I could have imagined it if it weren't for my colleagues unprompted reaction.