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G-G-G-Ghosts!
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 08 Jun 2008, 15:35 ---Anyone know anything about this? It's confused me for a few years.
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That's a rather simple internal clock mechanism. It's merely simple mind over matter. Your brain knows it needs to be up and will generally kickstart you into gear.
tania:
how do you explain waking up before the phone rings? not trying to be flippant or anything, i'm genuinely curious because this happens to me pretty often as well and i don't have any kind of explanation for it.
Boro_Bandito:
maybe you wake up in the middle of the silence between phone rings and only think the phone just started ringing when you truly hear it for the first time.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Boro_Bandito on 09 Jun 2008, 07:45 ---maybe you wake up in the middle of the silence between phone rings and only think the phone just started ringing when you truly hear it for the first time.
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Nah. Because it usually happens at least 2 minutes after I wake up until the phone rings. I'll sit up, rub my eyes and start to get out of bed, and it rings. Happens at least three times a week, at random times of the night/morning.
dennis:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 09 Jun 2008, 13:26 ---
--- Quote from: Boro_Bandito on 09 Jun 2008, 07:45 ---maybe you wake up in the middle of the silence between phone rings and only think the phone just started ringing when you truly hear it for the first time.
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Nah. Because it usually happens at least 2 minutes after I wake up until the phone rings. I'll sit up, rub my eyes and start to get out of bed, and it rings. Happens at least three times a week, at random times of the night/morning.
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This is called confirmation bias. People will tend to remember things that confirm their preconceptions, namely, that you tend to wake up just before the phone rings. If you were to keep a journal and mark down every time it happens, as well as when it doesn't happen, and the timeframes involved, it would probably show that it's just coincidence. This is just a natural human tendency--remember the things that are significant.
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Also, a lot of ghost sightings (and alien abductions), and it seems, many of the ones in this thread can be attributed to the phenomenon of night terrors, that is, when you become conscious before your body does. I've had this experience many times, and oftentime it ends quite spookily, where I see an apparition or feel a presence and hear a voice just before the rest of me wakes up. If you don't know what happened to you, you can invent all sorts of things to explain what happened (see pareidolia). This is the reason why a lot of ghost experiences happen to people in bed. They're basically dreaming while awake.
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