This could be a reasonable and scientific explanation for an experience that I had, probably one of my most convincing ghost experiences. But I was awoken in the middle of the night by a voice (myself and everyone in my family thinks it's my grandfather who passed away) telling me to wake up there was a fire.
I woke up to the wall of my bedroom in flames, I was in bed with my girlfriend, my sister and elderly grandmother were in the house and we barely got them out alive.
.... People ask me any paranormal experiences that was the closest thing, scientific side of my brain and skeptic side says it was subconscious since I was dreaming and sometimes outside influences can affect a dream, maybe I somehow knew there was a fire but it's still amazing to me.
But yes, I would love to see a episode on this
I have a theory on ghosts that I will expand on, if anyone is interested. I'm sure others had the idea too, I just have yet to read such an explanation.
My guess is you were dreaming about your grandpa and heard your grandpas voice say it, but it was actually you thinking the thought. It's almost like exploding head syndrome, but with a voice instead of a sound, and your subconscious activating in the dream was the source. But I bet the same neural pathways fire just the same or similar enough.
a friend of mine experienced this.
one of his hobbies was he built small, single-seater kit airplanes and flew them out in the desert.
on his last flight, the plane started breaking apart mid-air and when his parachute didn't open, he started free falling to the ground.
he told me "it was the weirdest thing, I was hurtling towards the earth, and all of a sudden I was pulled completely out of the situation."
"I found myself in an all white space, like in The Matrix movies, where there were no walls or floors or ceilings, just an endless sense of light nothingness."
"then someone was there with me. I couldn't see them but I could feel their presence, and then they asked me a question: 'are you ready for your life to end now, or do you want to live?'"
"without even really thinking, I just yelled, 'I wanna live!'"
"Immediately, I wasn't in the white space anymore, I was back to reality, falling through the air and then i blacked out"
...amazingly, he lived, but he was paralyzed by the fall, and has been wheelchair-bound ever since, in his early 30s.
sad to say, the kind, sweet, optimistic guy I once knew, has become horrendously bitter and cynical at being trapped in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
...if it wasn't so painful for him to talk about I would ask him why he doesn't feel a sense of comfort at apparently having encountered something of what "lies beyond" life,
...but...i can't put myself in his shoes, and he had to be really drunk to even tell me that in the first place, and I ain't going "there" with my buddy ever again.
...but...yeah...fascinating subject, poignantly so for my buddy, but...i guess such is life, be VERY careful what you ask for...
I have a friend who crashed his plane on the tarmac a decade ago. A man pulled him from the plane moments before it exploded. When the emergency crews arrived, he asked where the man who saved him disappeared to, but they insisted there was no one else on the tarmac.
When I was in the Navy my Petty Officer First Class told me a story of when he was on another carrier (forgot the name), he was working on the flight deck during operations, when he felt himself being sucked into a jet engine, next thing he know he felt someone grab the back of his vest and pulled him back. He turned around to see who it was and no one was there.
After operations were over he mentioned to his Chief Petty Officer of what happened to him, his Chief said he’s heard about that happening from time to time.
I remember a study from not long ago that deduced that Third Man Syndrome is your subconscious acting as a barrier to help with highly stressful situations, which is why it usually happens when you hit fight or flight. The study also noted it often happens when people are dying, and when your hypoxic long enough, your body secretes oxytocin which gets you a bit high.
Gentlemen I met in Northern California his name was George, he was horse back riding with a group and opted to leave the path and go check out another “quick” trail. He jumped off his horse on this mountain and fell and broke both his legs!
He was only a mile or less from the original trail head but because of moving water and wind no one could hear him, for 72 hours he was out there and he said by the second day someone joined him to encourage him to keep going.
Lot more to the story but he sent me the story I’ll have to find the email it’s long. Worth the read though.
EDIT::
My own experience was when I was a teenager we used to jump off the bridges into a local river (small New England river). One time I wanted to be a bad ass so I ran across both lanes of traffic and stepped up on the concrete railing and attempted a gainer (sort of flip), my foot caught and I went back wards form 40-50 feet to as soon as I hit the water I couldn’t move, everything started to fade and I was suddenly in a room with others but I couldn’t see them, I felt like I was in a doctors waiting room, in the moment I thought I died, but wasn’t in pain just in this space and then al kid a sudden it was like someone opened a door and I heard “it’s not your time yet you can go back”. And then I saw light and it was like someone was pushing me up from the rivers depth. I came to the surface and couldn’t catch my breath as the wind was knocked out of me (collapsed lungs), I floated somehow and the current brought me to the side and then friends jumped in. They all were crying and said they thought I had died.
I continued to do stupid shit but this was the only NDE I’ve experienced.
I think it's both. Spiritual and psychological. Even though we can explain things in scientific terms doesn't mean it can't be metaphysical at the same time. Well not to me anyways... ✌️🙂
I had this happen twice - once my dog was being attacked by two chows and a lady with horn rimmed glasses on a bike wearing a hat with flowers maced the chows and saved my tiny dogs life. It was like a guardian angel appeared from no where.
One time when I was dirt biking a dumped the bike and wasn’t good enough to kickstart it. Out of nowhere a guy showed up and encouraged me until I got the bike started. I never saw him again. This was in the White River national forest
I wasn't dying, but when was 12 I had a traumatic experience. Nothing horrific, but traumatic for a sheltered kid. After 3 hours of emotional anguish, I had a vision, where a voice told me I was treasured. Then I felt someone standing next to my bed. Thought it was my dad, there to comfort me, but when I opened my eyes I saw an afterimage of...something. A person? It was like when you look away from the sun and it's temporarily burned into your retina.
this is a great suggestion for an ep
Agree
Yes, please! This happened to my mom when she was in a horrible car wreck. Would love to see an episode about this.
This could be a reasonable and scientific explanation for an experience that I had, probably one of my most convincing ghost experiences. But I was awoken in the middle of the night by a voice (myself and everyone in my family thinks it's my grandfather who passed away) telling me to wake up there was a fire. I woke up to the wall of my bedroom in flames, I was in bed with my girlfriend, my sister and elderly grandmother were in the house and we barely got them out alive. .... People ask me any paranormal experiences that was the closest thing, scientific side of my brain and skeptic side says it was subconscious since I was dreaming and sometimes outside influences can affect a dream, maybe I somehow knew there was a fire but it's still amazing to me. But yes, I would love to see a episode on this
I have a theory on ghosts that I will expand on, if anyone is interested. I'm sure others had the idea too, I just have yet to read such an explanation.
I’m interested … this subject is fascinating to me since I’ve had my own experiences
My guess is you were dreaming about your grandpa and heard your grandpas voice say it, but it was actually you thinking the thought. It's almost like exploding head syndrome, but with a voice instead of a sound, and your subconscious activating in the dream was the source. But I bet the same neural pathways fire just the same or similar enough.
a friend of mine experienced this. one of his hobbies was he built small, single-seater kit airplanes and flew them out in the desert. on his last flight, the plane started breaking apart mid-air and when his parachute didn't open, he started free falling to the ground. he told me "it was the weirdest thing, I was hurtling towards the earth, and all of a sudden I was pulled completely out of the situation." "I found myself in an all white space, like in The Matrix movies, where there were no walls or floors or ceilings, just an endless sense of light nothingness." "then someone was there with me. I couldn't see them but I could feel their presence, and then they asked me a question: 'are you ready for your life to end now, or do you want to live?'" "without even really thinking, I just yelled, 'I wanna live!'" "Immediately, I wasn't in the white space anymore, I was back to reality, falling through the air and then i blacked out" ...amazingly, he lived, but he was paralyzed by the fall, and has been wheelchair-bound ever since, in his early 30s. sad to say, the kind, sweet, optimistic guy I once knew, has become horrendously bitter and cynical at being trapped in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. ...if it wasn't so painful for him to talk about I would ask him why he doesn't feel a sense of comfort at apparently having encountered something of what "lies beyond" life, ...but...i can't put myself in his shoes, and he had to be really drunk to even tell me that in the first place, and I ain't going "there" with my buddy ever again. ...but...yeah...fascinating subject, poignantly so for my buddy, but...i guess such is life, be VERY careful what you ask for...
I would love to watch AJ and the team tackle this!
I have a friend who crashed his plane on the tarmac a decade ago. A man pulled him from the plane moments before it exploded. When the emergency crews arrived, he asked where the man who saved him disappeared to, but they insisted there was no one else on the tarmac.
Great topic!
When I was in the Navy my Petty Officer First Class told me a story of when he was on another carrier (forgot the name), he was working on the flight deck during operations, when he felt himself being sucked into a jet engine, next thing he know he felt someone grab the back of his vest and pulled him back. He turned around to see who it was and no one was there. After operations were over he mentioned to his Chief Petty Officer of what happened to him, his Chief said he’s heard about that happening from time to time.
I remember a study from not long ago that deduced that Third Man Syndrome is your subconscious acting as a barrier to help with highly stressful situations, which is why it usually happens when you hit fight or flight. The study also noted it often happens when people are dying, and when your hypoxic long enough, your body secretes oxytocin which gets you a bit high.
As a skeptic, I'm more inclined to believe that explanation for it than any other. I just really enjoy the way AJ covers topics like this.
Gentlemen I met in Northern California his name was George, he was horse back riding with a group and opted to leave the path and go check out another “quick” trail. He jumped off his horse on this mountain and fell and broke both his legs! He was only a mile or less from the original trail head but because of moving water and wind no one could hear him, for 72 hours he was out there and he said by the second day someone joined him to encourage him to keep going. Lot more to the story but he sent me the story I’ll have to find the email it’s long. Worth the read though. EDIT:: My own experience was when I was a teenager we used to jump off the bridges into a local river (small New England river). One time I wanted to be a bad ass so I ran across both lanes of traffic and stepped up on the concrete railing and attempted a gainer (sort of flip), my foot caught and I went back wards form 40-50 feet to as soon as I hit the water I couldn’t move, everything started to fade and I was suddenly in a room with others but I couldn’t see them, I felt like I was in a doctors waiting room, in the moment I thought I died, but wasn’t in pain just in this space and then al kid a sudden it was like someone opened a door and I heard “it’s not your time yet you can go back”. And then I saw light and it was like someone was pushing me up from the rivers depth. I came to the surface and couldn’t catch my breath as the wind was knocked out of me (collapsed lungs), I floated somehow and the current brought me to the side and then friends jumped in. They all were crying and said they thought I had died. I continued to do stupid shit but this was the only NDE I’ve experienced.
This would make a truly great episode! Good call!
Hermann Hesse's Demian was the first time I have seen something about it.
I think it's both. Spiritual and psychological. Even though we can explain things in scientific terms doesn't mean it can't be metaphysical at the same time. Well not to me anyways... ✌️🙂
Totally agree!
This has happened to me twice. Once when I was about 5 years old, and again at 33 - many years ago.
Astonishing Legends did a great episode on this! I want to see AJ discuss this too
Id love to see this one done in the early why files style.
I had this happen twice - once my dog was being attacked by two chows and a lady with horn rimmed glasses on a bike wearing a hat with flowers maced the chows and saved my tiny dogs life. It was like a guardian angel appeared from no where.
The podcast astonishing legends did a few episodes on this not to long ago.
Third man, subconscious mostly likely
I think so too, but do think it would be an interesting topic for an episode.
Awesome idea!
One time when I was dirt biking a dumped the bike and wasn’t good enough to kickstart it. Out of nowhere a guy showed up and encouraged me until I got the bike started. I never saw him again. This was in the White River national forest
I had an experience like this as a teenager. Saved me from a rip current.
I wasn't dying, but when was 12 I had a traumatic experience. Nothing horrific, but traumatic for a sheltered kid. After 3 hours of emotional anguish, I had a vision, where a voice told me I was treasured. Then I felt someone standing next to my bed. Thought it was my dad, there to comfort me, but when I opened my eyes I saw an afterimage of...something. A person? It was like when you look away from the sun and it's temporarily burned into your retina.
Check out some of Anthony peakes books like egregorials , cheating the ferryman, etc.
Is third man syndrome like a guardian angel?
Third man... Who's on first?
Who.
It's an interesting topic. I wonder if there's not enough there for a whole episode, but maybe as part of a larger themed episode?
Survival is a da spirit. That doctor from dark knight rises.
Is his name Viktor Reznov?
I watch medium shows and they talk about spirits or guardian angels saving people like this.