I guess I can see why people believe in the supernatural

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I’m a total skeptic myself. I don’t believe in UFO’s, ghosts, Big Foot, psychics, reincarnation or any of the supernatural; I’ve seen all of them debunked too many times. It does make you wonder though when otherwise intelligent people believe in those things; people far more intelligent and worldly than me.

I’ve had several experiences where if other people have them too I could see them mistaking it for the supernatural.

This has happened to me 7 or 8 times in my life: I’m laying in my bed and I think I’m awake and I feel a presence in the room. I can either hear or sense someone’s in the room with me. Sometimes I feel like someone is grabbing my leg or coming towards me. I get what could be called sleep paralysis or I freeze up and I’m scared shitless. I feel this person wants to hurt me. I would swear I’m awake. Well, in reality, I’m half asleep and no one is touching me, no one else is in the room. For about two minutes I lay there getting over the scared feeling.

This has happened over the years. A couple of times it was the devil or a demon, sometimes I feel someone is attacking me in my sleep. I could see that if people had similar experiences they could chalk it up to being something supernatural. Weird.

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You said you were half asleep so it could be that. I have similar issues when I am mentally unwell. Think it’s just dreams

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Yeah, they’re dreams but different from regular dreams. More realistic and in a category all their own.

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Yes feels real. But I think with insight into my delusions I can also differentiate that semi dream world. Maybe it’s just the mind and body processing bad emotions

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Sounds like sleep paralysis @77nick77

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Yes, I looked it up on Wikipedia. It describes exactly the episodes I go through. Well, I’m glad I know what it is.

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Yeah definitely sleep paralysis. Funny i made a post about it today too.

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I own a book about this topic. I actually haven’t read it yet lol but it’s about the supernatural behind every day phenomenon like sleep paralysis. Some people believe in it, and I have some of that thinking myself as it aligns with my religion, but it feeds into my psychosis at times so I’ve learned when I put it down.

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I think scientifically this is an unsolved problem

It’s baffling to me

Every single human and animal that has ever existed has perished

However, there is nothing definitive to either prove or disprove

Being sceptical is correct but you can be sceptical as well about the lack of evidence the other way to

Very complicated topic to navigate

That’s why I am agnostic about it

But I am hopeful there is more to this than just this life

It would be great if at the end we transcend to something meaningful - what ever that might be

Otherwise the other option just seems wasteful

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i guess i will be joining a forum for atheists where my insights will be welcomed and appreciated as opposed to being flagged

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You used the R word

That’s against the rules

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i didn’t call them restarted
ohhh you mean the R itself, i got it

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Religion

A lot of people get triggered by it

F’ing sz!

Same with aliens etc

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This topic is probably cutting a bit close to the bone!

Wouldn’t worry about flags

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I thought delusionally a presence was following me up the staris from the basement last night. I psychotically and verbally told it to F off. Its all delusional I know but instead of being scared I become pissed off now.

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I used to be an atheist and materialist despite growing up in an evangelical household. I had normal to above average intelligence before I got sick.

Schizophrenia feels like a curse to me. It changed my thinking. I believe in different things now and experienced weird stuff while sleeping. I’ve seen UFOs before and had visions or delusions of reincarnation and aliens among other things.

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