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oddeye - 2010-05-01

Guy should really speak to his doctor.


Frank Rizzo - 2010-05-01

he should stop making up stories and looking for attention on youtube.


baleen - 2010-05-01


What he describes is the Night Terror phenomenon which afflicts about 1% of the population, all over the world. It is accompanied by sleep paralysis. It's pretty horrifying really. I used to get that shit all the time and still do from time to time.

I'm making a movie about it. The research in the psych journals is still rather sparse, even the definitions are lacking (waking terror and true night terrors, i.e. hypnopompic or hypnogogic sleep paralysis experiences, are often used interchangeably even by professionals) but if you've never heard of night terrors, read a bit about them here:

http://www.nightterrors.org/SMF/index.php?board=2.0

You'll see that experiences like this guy's are pretty common, he has simply ascribed them to fundie Christian causality so that he can make sense of it. Most cultures have no safe outlet for talking about this shit, so once again the fundies have a monopoly on it.

Science will catch up eventually.


SteamPoweredKleenex - 2010-05-01

If you mean "men in white coats will eventually catch him," I hope you're right.


Rev. Blackson Pollock - 2010-05-01

Stricken with night terrors, possibly epileptic, and yammers in incoherent babble. Kid needs meds not mass.


baleen - 2010-05-01


He seems relatively level-headed, he just grew up in an ignorant brain-washed shithole. Eventually he'll probably turn schizophrenic and he'll spend some time in a ward somewhere. It's kinda sad.


lucienpsinger - 2010-05-01

Oooh. I've been intrigued by the hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations thing ever since I first caught mention of it in Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World. A movie on the subject would be tremendous.


baleen - 2010-05-01


What's particularly fascinating to me are the commonalities between experiences. I often saw a "shadow being," he it suffocated me as well.
I have all kinds of theories as to why this stuff happens. I am pretty open about it mainly because when I admit to things like this people tell me strange things that have happened to them, either sleep-related or otherwise, and what's more interesting than those kinds of weird confessions?


TimidAres - 2010-05-01

Once again, baleen, youve given me an e-hard on.
Its about time that someone seriously looks into sleep paralysis and the side effects of it.
I used have episodes when i was in my teens, shadow guys floating around in my room, rolling around under my bed, coming through the ceiling, screaming and writhing around, real jacob's ladder shit.
It wasnt until i was older that i understood that it was SP, and not a side effect of drugs.


Syd Midnight - 2010-05-01

When he finds out that everybody has dreams like that occasionally, he's just going to think that everybody gets attacked by demons sometimes. His problems run deeper.


Syd Midnight - 2010-05-01

ps. Google "night hags", that's what they called them in the middle ages


baleen - 2010-05-02

they called them a lot of things all over the world throughout history and continue to do so.


Toenails - 2010-05-02

Only 1% of the population?

Really? Me and a friend have had similar experiences with our "night terrors". So, I would wager dollars to doughnuts that it is more common than that.

I put that in quotations because the sleep paralysis I get almost never hits me at night. Virtually every time I experience one, it is always when I take a power nap during the afternoon. Also, my hallucinations are always auditory, with my over-active imagination filling in the rest. Also, I never quite get the tactile sensation of being choked or anything, but I do certainly get a strange presence in the room staring at me from an extremely uncomfortable proximity. I've been able to stop this phenomenon by leaving a television on while I nap, if that helps anybody.

My friend's a whole different kettle of fish. It's pretty clear that his rampant alcoholism contributes a great deal to his terrors, and his are extremely visual, as well as lucid. He told me he had a real difficult time accepting that a small dancing man on his dresser wasn't real, because my buddy shut his eyes and tried to shake the hallucination out of his mind, but he was still there tap-dancing or whatever the fuck the withdrawal was having him do.

TL;DR: poeTV is made up of people with some really strange problems.


Cat_Mech - 2010-05-02

Hey Baleen, the board you suggest isn't 'bad' per se, but true Night Terrors are considered almost universally un-remembered by the sufferer. They shouldn't accompany HSP any more than Apnea- correlation/causation thing. The Night Terrors in classical sleep research are usually described by the behaviour on the exit from sleep; not in the hypnagogic phase but afterwards. A lot of people mistakenly connect Night Terrors to HSP because of the feeling of terror that often occurs.

I've been studying this for a while too; I went through long periods of time where I was having sleep paralysis episodes 4 or 5 times a night, for months at a time.

I agree as well, that it is a very under-studied phenomenon. Especially since it is likely one of the roots of organized religion in human society.

Protip: don't sleep on your back/ in the supine position.


a flaming monkey - 2010-05-02

yeah, I think they're fairly common. I used to think i had a mild form of epilepsy or something because I'd get these flashing hallucinations with swirling faces above me, while not being able to move (sleep paralysis). Usually the first sign for me is a whispering sound in my ear. Used to scare me to death and I thought I was being abducted by aliens or something.
I get them more often when I've been up late, in front of a computer or something, overtired and overstimulated. I can kind of control them better now because I know when they're coming and can sometimes force myself to wake up properly.


Jet Bin Fever - 2010-05-01

I'm sick of seeing this giant head every day spouting pentecostal bullshit.


Frank Rizzo - 2010-05-01

theres an app for that.

its called "not watching"


Umaro - 2010-05-01

Hidden racism?


socialist_hentai - 2010-05-01

Hidden?


Fatback Jack - 2010-05-01

One time I dreamed I had to pee then I woke up and I really did have to pee. Christ is God.


namtar - 2010-05-01

Sleep paralysis: nerds/new agers see aliens and religious folk see demons.


splatterbabble - 2010-05-01

Come out of the closet, kid.


EyeViolence - 2010-05-01

AND IT WAS ALL A DREAM (or was it?!)

:O


lucienpsinger - 2010-05-01

Kid's got 300+ videos. I'm guessing he's not going away anytime soon.


poetry publishing guide - 2010-05-01

His throat hurts. Wait, so the buff guys were choking him with their huge black cocks?


Kieran27 - 2010-05-01

I was attacked by two demons last night. They were tall, dark, buff figures... and they tried to choke me. I flipped on the lights, hoping to cast them out with light... and when the light came on, my parents stopped choking me and scuttled away.

Praise Jesus!


Camonk - 2010-05-01

I decide you're a dumb stupid idiot

I don't care what baleen says that guy

Pfft

That guy doesn't know anything

You're a dumb faggot, video dude, and your dream means you're gay


Xero - 2010-05-02

Sorry POE, next time I'll finish the job.


Toenails - 2010-05-02

The last two comments are why I still come to this site.


KillerGazebo - 2010-05-02

Anybody else think this guy looks exactly like Harry Kim?


KillerGazebo - 2010-05-02

Also, stars.


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