Post by Janine Briscoe on Nov 1, 2015 21:43:48 GMT
Premonitions, paranormal experiences, and sightings have always interested me just as much as the thought of them terrify me. I have always had a vivid imagination, so watching a scary movie subsequently would haunt me in my dreams as a child, and still do as an adult. I can recall listening to stories my mother would tell me about how my grandmother would know when a person in our family was about to die from a reoccurring dream. She would say that she and the person who was going to pass away would always be passengers in the back seat of a car. They wouldn’t talk. Instead, they would sit quietly and go for a long ride without any interaction. My grandmother would later wake up to the news that person in the car with her had passed away. I always wondered how true the story could be? Is it some power my grandmother had? Is that some weird gene that gets passed down to the next generation? If so I wanted no part in it!
My mother told me of a dream she had that warned her about a death in the family. My grandfather, my mother’s father, had passed away from cancer. She didn’t have any dreams of him after his passing, until one night while asleep he appeared to her in a dream. She explained that she was ridding on the bus, and while she was sitting she saw her father walk on the bus. She waved to him to say hello, but instead of acknowledging her, he continued to walk toward the back of the bus. She told me he had a serious look on his face. “His looked seemed like he was going to take care of some business,” she said. The next morning she woke up to find out that her younger cousin was dead. The dream frightened me. To think that a person who passed on will come back and visit you in dreams. I was a bit weirded out by her story. I thought could that be true? I mean after all it was a dream.
Freud studied dreams and he believed that our dreams are linked to our subconscious. He stated, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious” (Jones). Our mind plays a major role in our dream state. We have thoughts of events, projects, and relationships happening in our wake state that continue to plague our mind in our dream state. How does this explain my mother and grandmother’s dream? Freud would say that dreams act as disguises of our deepest wishes. Maybe my grandmother and mother had thoughts of their loved ones on their minds. It could be possible that my mother had been thinking of her father constantly after his passing and that night happened to have a dream about him. My grandmother may have had my family members who passed away so heavily on her mind prior to their death, and that could explain her dreams. The coincidence behind them passing the next day, I will never be able to explain. Maybe it has something to do with the theory of large numbers. It could be a coincidence that the night they had that dream, the next day the person passed away. I’m sure that has happened to other people as well. It is an erie thought no matter what science we can use to rationalize it.
The book The Mystical, states, “The brain is the most complex structure, and neuroscience is still in its infancy. The mind can also find ways to play tricks on the mind while it is awake. I can recall an event that happened when I was a young girl that I still think about to this day. I was laying in my bed at night and I saw this dark figure floating in my room. It had an odd shape; not one of a human. I immediately pulled the covers up over my eyes just enough to allow me to peek. I witnessed this figure float into my closet. I just watched with fear! The next morning I woke up and jumped out of my bed and ran to look in my closet. Immediately I saw two boxes of unopened, brand new dolls. I ran into the kitchen to show them to my mom. I asked her if she bought them for me, and she told me she never saw them before.
I remember trying to process what I saw the night before. It didn’t make any sense. The Mystical says that the mind plays “neural trickery” on a person. People who believe they have witnessed UFO sightings, or have been actually abducted by UFO’s can go into great detail about the event. “No matter what rational explanations maybe offered to account for the experience the contactee while undergoing the event will perceive it as extremely real” (Lane, 41). What I felt and saw was real. I saw the figure, and felt the trembles after looking at that thing in my room. The reading brought up the concept of Chandian Effect. Our lives are simply natural progressions of consciousness from various boundaries with in the Chandian Effect. We have varying levels of consciousness. Awareness is a state being held in place by a certainty boundary. The book explains this concept as an 8 story building. We can move up and down floors, or we can stay on a floor and observe everything on it (chairs, tables, ect.) When you move up and down the levels it may be difficult to determine what is real from what is radical.
In my case I was in bed late at night and I was in and out of sleep. Maybe I floating in between my dream state and my wake state. I could have been hallucinating and perceived my dream as being reality. It is difficult to discern what actually happened. I know I say this thing floating in my room and the next day I had two brand new toys to play with. Just like those people who claim to see UFOs can explain them with great details, I can narrate my event with clarity like it occurred yesterday. The mind is a virtual simulator, and it can simulate what we want it to without even knowing. The dream world can intertwine with the waken state and we can see it as being real. All I can say for sure is that it sure felt real.
My mother told me of a dream she had that warned her about a death in the family. My grandfather, my mother’s father, had passed away from cancer. She didn’t have any dreams of him after his passing, until one night while asleep he appeared to her in a dream. She explained that she was ridding on the bus, and while she was sitting she saw her father walk on the bus. She waved to him to say hello, but instead of acknowledging her, he continued to walk toward the back of the bus. She told me he had a serious look on his face. “His looked seemed like he was going to take care of some business,” she said. The next morning she woke up to find out that her younger cousin was dead. The dream frightened me. To think that a person who passed on will come back and visit you in dreams. I was a bit weirded out by her story. I thought could that be true? I mean after all it was a dream.
Freud studied dreams and he believed that our dreams are linked to our subconscious. He stated, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious” (Jones). Our mind plays a major role in our dream state. We have thoughts of events, projects, and relationships happening in our wake state that continue to plague our mind in our dream state. How does this explain my mother and grandmother’s dream? Freud would say that dreams act as disguises of our deepest wishes. Maybe my grandmother and mother had thoughts of their loved ones on their minds. It could be possible that my mother had been thinking of her father constantly after his passing and that night happened to have a dream about him. My grandmother may have had my family members who passed away so heavily on her mind prior to their death, and that could explain her dreams. The coincidence behind them passing the next day, I will never be able to explain. Maybe it has something to do with the theory of large numbers. It could be a coincidence that the night they had that dream, the next day the person passed away. I’m sure that has happened to other people as well. It is an erie thought no matter what science we can use to rationalize it.
The book The Mystical, states, “The brain is the most complex structure, and neuroscience is still in its infancy. The mind can also find ways to play tricks on the mind while it is awake. I can recall an event that happened when I was a young girl that I still think about to this day. I was laying in my bed at night and I saw this dark figure floating in my room. It had an odd shape; not one of a human. I immediately pulled the covers up over my eyes just enough to allow me to peek. I witnessed this figure float into my closet. I just watched with fear! The next morning I woke up and jumped out of my bed and ran to look in my closet. Immediately I saw two boxes of unopened, brand new dolls. I ran into the kitchen to show them to my mom. I asked her if she bought them for me, and she told me she never saw them before.
I remember trying to process what I saw the night before. It didn’t make any sense. The Mystical says that the mind plays “neural trickery” on a person. People who believe they have witnessed UFO sightings, or have been actually abducted by UFO’s can go into great detail about the event. “No matter what rational explanations maybe offered to account for the experience the contactee while undergoing the event will perceive it as extremely real” (Lane, 41). What I felt and saw was real. I saw the figure, and felt the trembles after looking at that thing in my room. The reading brought up the concept of Chandian Effect. Our lives are simply natural progressions of consciousness from various boundaries with in the Chandian Effect. We have varying levels of consciousness. Awareness is a state being held in place by a certainty boundary. The book explains this concept as an 8 story building. We can move up and down floors, or we can stay on a floor and observe everything on it (chairs, tables, ect.) When you move up and down the levels it may be difficult to determine what is real from what is radical.
In my case I was in bed late at night and I was in and out of sleep. Maybe I floating in between my dream state and my wake state. I could have been hallucinating and perceived my dream as being reality. It is difficult to discern what actually happened. I know I say this thing floating in my room and the next day I had two brand new toys to play with. Just like those people who claim to see UFOs can explain them with great details, I can narrate my event with clarity like it occurred yesterday. The mind is a virtual simulator, and it can simulate what we want it to without even knowing. The dream world can intertwine with the waken state and we can see it as being real. All I can say for sure is that it sure felt real.
