tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post2251583210884119837..comments2024-03-19T07:27:06.216-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: Amnesia and Repressed Memory: Great Plot Ideas, Bad ScienceKatherine Woodburyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-21170965361683335712015-12-24T09:55:21.823-05:002015-12-24T09:55:21.823-05:00Slight tangent: The experience of "alien abdu...Slight tangent: The experience of "alien abductions" can be explained by sleep paralysis: when we sleep, our brains freeze our bodies, so we won't sleep-walk. Occasionally, a person's brain will wake up before the body unfreezes. The result is a heavy feeling on the chest (as if something was sitting on it) and a sense that something or someone is in the room. <br /><br />I have experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life. It is wholly terrifying. Although I didn't think I was being kidnapped by aliens, I couldn't calm down enough to think rationally or force my body to unfreeze; instead, I told myself rather desperately to go back to sleep. I did and woke up normally. <br /><br />Our brains really do work overtime to make sense of the world! Even if the "sense" is strange indeed. Katherine Woodburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14364517253667798449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-28866757823237309732015-12-23T18:44:15.959-05:002015-12-23T18:44:15.959-05:00Dan, I know the experience. Usually, in the mornin...Dan, I know the experience. Usually, in the morning I have to take time to sort out the difference between reality and dream. I once sat in the shower mourning my dead sister before realizing I have a brother who is alive and well!Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695983348254508387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-38281274061157506022015-12-23T09:15:42.187-05:002015-12-23T09:15:42.187-05:00Kate,
The mind is funny. The other night I dreame...Kate,<br /><br />The mind is funny. The other night I dreamed I was flying an ultralight aircraft. I woke up and knew what I had just imagined was a dream. Yet I retained in my mind the idea that I used to regularly fly such aircraft. I spent several minutes forcing myself to be rational and to convince myself that this was not the case - for example while I "believed" I used to fly around the neighborhood in an ultralight I had no memory of owning one and no evidence of having such equipment at my house! Dannoreply@blogger.com