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[Muse]

Is there anything in there other than the standard theory, i.e. your brain wakes up before the rest of the body is ready to come out of sleep?

Yeah, there's more to it. He's an investigative journalist who had a problem with sleepwalking. Walked into a wall and OUCH! So he started investigating sleep, sleep disorders, etc. and came up with the book. I think there was a PBS interview. The book is worth reading. For one thing it points out something that isn't much realized, being that people do wake up in the middle of the night, it's not an anomaly, it's natural. It explains this and lots of other stuff. It gets into the cycles of sleep, their different functionality. It explains what @mikeford was talking about when at times your body is paralyzed due to a temporary hormone. If you are awakened at that time you won't be able to move, it can happen, and is, of course, temporary.

 

[Muse]

Isn't that a risk anyway? Do you want someone to target your house for a burglary, knowing that you live alone there? Or is that so far out in the wilderness that there isn't a soul for miles? Or do you have a high tech security system alerting you to the presence of anyone before they even know that you know they are coming?

Also, what about if, God forbid, you pass away suddenly? Does anyone know to come looking for you in case no one hears from you?

Of course it's a risk. Well, life is a risk, there's no escaping risk in life. Burglary? Yeah, I think of that.

People who don't know me will not know that I live alone here, not unless they canvas the place a while but my house doesn't look like a rich target so I don't think they would.

I keep my doors locked and a person's not breaking in by simply lifting a window, not here. But TBH my house does not look like someone's going to find a treasure in here. I have NO GOLD, NO DIAMONDS, NO JEWELRY. I have some relatively cheap electronics, more than anything it's stuff like that I would miss if stolen, but I do back up my data off site, so it wouldn't be a tragedy. I have some cash here for an emergency but it's hidden. My car is in my driveway almost all the time, I only use it for maybe an hour/week on average. so it looks like somebody's home. I keep lights on always. The house hasn't been broken into for almost 40 years and that time a roommate coming home saw someone leaving the house with a piece of electronic equipment... he shouted at him and the equipment was left on the window sill and the would-be thief ran away. This was like 2AM.

I should work up a security system, I've been thinking about that. At least something that will trigger a really loud alarm if someone enters the house who doesn't know how to do it without disabling the alarm. That's my thought.

If I suddenly die in the house, well, what of it? First of all it's very unlikely, I'm pretty damn healthy, man. Secondly, well, probably the first person to realize there was a problem would be my mailman. Anyway, so what.

 

[Muse]

YES! I have recounted that here before. No matter what scientific explanation anyone gives, I FELT the actual weight of someone pushing down on me. My eyes were open. I tried with every single ounce of strength in my body to move. I could not. My brain was fully aware. I could only see straight ahead. Even my eyeballs couldn't move so I couldn't even see what was on my chest that was causing that feeling and then after almost 20 or 30 seconds of struggling like crazy in my mind, I was let go and I just got up like a dead person would suddenly rise from the grave. What's worse, I've been through this twice!

It's a hormone your body produces that does that. Most of the time it isn't there, but briefly it is. Personally, I have never experienced it but if I do I know what's afoot and won't panic.

 

[igor_kavinski]

It's a hormone your body produces that does that. Most of the time it isn't there, but briefly it is. Personally, I have never experienced it but if I do I know what's afoot and won't panic.

Only problem is, it happened in a house where I experienced other paranormal stuff (like TV turning on in my room with lights switched off). Once a remote control operated bell rang, signaling that my brother was coming home in his car so I ran to the gate to open it. And I'm waiting and waiting and no car comes. He came about an hour later and I asked him, did you pass by the house and ring the bell as a prank? He was like, what? No way!

And now you will look at me really weird because of what I'm gonna tell you: my sister is psychic. She actually talked to a Djinn in that same house when I was no longer living there. His name was John and according to him, he was murdered in the 1800s and he has to stay in that spot forever where the house is now built (not sure if humans getting murdered become Djinns. Didn't occur to me to ask my sis). John can travel to any place in the world for short periods of time because apparently, he had some fixation with me. My sis told me that he likes to visit me and watch me sleep

Even in my current room, sometimes I will hear stuff moving in the middle of the night (that could be more because my room is a mess with things thrown on top of each other but still, weird that things will stay put for long periods of time and then decide to move just when I'm there to hear them move in the middle of the night).

My sister doesn't talk to John anymore coz she moved to a different house and even while she was there, she had to stop because it had a serious neurological impact on her (half her body would go numb). Now she's more into face reading and tarot cards and energy of the Universe that links everything to everything else. That sort of stuff.

 

[Muse]

Only problem is, it happened in a house where I experienced other paranormal stuff (like TV turning on in my room with lights switched off). Once a remote control operated bell rang, signaling that my brother was coming home in his car so I ran to the gate to open it. And I'm waiting and waiting and no car comes. He came about an hour later and I asked him, did you pass by the house and ring the bell as a prank? He was like, what? No way!

And now you will look at me really weird because of what I'm gonna tell you: my sister is psychic. She actually talked to a Djinn in that same house when I was no longer living there. His name was John and according to him, he was murdered in the 1800s and he has to stay in that spot forever where the house is now built (not sure if humans getting murdered become Djinns. Didn't occur to me to ask my sis). John can travel to any place in the world for short periods of time because apparently, he had some fixation with me. My sis told me that he likes to visit me and watch me sleep

Even in my current room, sometimes I will hear stuff moving in the middle of the night (that could be more because my room is a mess with things thrown on top of each other but still, weird that things will stay put for long periods of time and then decide to move just when I'm there to hear them move in the middle of the night).

My sister doesn't talk to John anymore coz she moved to a different house and even while she was there, she had to stop because it had a serious neurological impact on her (half her body would go numb). Now she's more into face reading and tarot cards and energy of the Universe that links everything to everything else. That sort of stuff.

Jeez, well, hardly know how to respond that but I have never been into paranormal stuff, not that I recall. I like William Blake have been into his more famous work and it resonates with me. Blake is spiritual, refers to "God" at times, which is arguably paranormal ( ) but I deal with that by just trying to be "in his head" so to speak. He doesn't use God as a proxy for meaningful life but as a kind of representation for fullness in human life.

I pay attention to paranormal stuff but not particularly. When I encounter people communicating about it, I don't run the other direction, I just check out what it is about, don't take it too seriously. Now, I tend to doubt people especially who seek out paranormal... many people do that, they are obsessed with it. I usually feel they are weirdos or maybe neurotic or have something in their past they can't remember or acknowledge and it puts a kink in their think, they typically have suppressed memories. Or they are really bored and like PN stuff to give their minds free reign to fantasize in ways that make them feel more powerful. They hang onto PN fantasies. Plenty of people have fantasy lives that they indulge and take seriously, even take for reality, look at the Q folks, Trumpies, Fox News watchers, hell, even plain old TV. Let's face it, the great majority of humans are NOT sane.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Let's face it, the great majority of humans are NOT sane.

Ain't that the truth

 

[wedding-guest]

Wurkkos TS21 flashlight (clip included) bundled with 21700 battery is down to $29 through 9/20/2023. Add a baseball cap to the order for free, even with only one flashlight. Slow three-week shipping to US seems to be free also. As Muse mentioned above, clip the flashlight to brim of the cap and you have hands-free headlamp.

 

[mindless1]

^ Thanks, linked: https://wurkkos.com/products/wurkkos-ts21-led-flashlight-3500lm?VariantsId=10089


... though a 21700 based flashlight is awfully heavy to clip onto the brim of a ball cap. 18650 is a lot of weight too, would rather stick with a 14500 or smaller cell light for that purpose.

 

[Muse]

^ Thanks, linked: https://wurkkos.com/products/wurkkos-ts21-led-flashlight-3500lm?VariantsId=10089


... though a 21700 based flashlight is awfully heavy to clip onto the brim of a ball cap. 18650 is a lot of weight too, would rather stick with a 14500 or smaller cell light for that purpose.

The TS21 is way heavy to clip to a hat. I think a 18650 flashlight is going to be too heavy too. I have a baseball hat that I keep with two single cell AAA battery flashlights clipped to the bill. Those flashlights weigh very little. It just feels like I'm wearing a baseball hat. I can reach up and turn either flashlight on or off by twisting the front. Plenty of light for my purposes.

The guy who reviewed the TS21 in the video I linked in the OP said it could be used as an EDC, but I would never do that. My EDC is a single cell AAA. I use it many times every day. It's so light I don't know it's in my pocket but it's always there in my right front pocket. It has 3 brightness levels, weak, medium, strong. If I don't need the top brightness, I don't put it on brightest setting because that will wear down the battery fastest. I only change the alkaline battery maybe once a month. I used to keep an AAA Eneloop in it, but now think that's too much trouble. I have so many AAA alkalines around, it's basically the only thing I do with them. I have Eneloops in my remotes. They don't leak, is a big reason. They don't seem to ever leak in my EDC, maybe because I change the battery with some frequency.

 

[mindless1]

^ Yeah I used to EDC something larger but downsized to a 1x AAA. I don't buy alkalines any longer (except 9V for smoke/CO detector backup power), run LSD NiMH Eneloop, Tenergy Centra, or Amazon Basics in everything that uses AA or AAA. I used to run alkalines in clocks, and do use the batteries included with remote controls just so they don't go to waste, but Amazon deals on the Tenergy and Basics, made me switch to all rechargeable.

 

[mikeford]

I still have a number of devices that alkaline work best in, used to bay a pack of diehard when Sears had a sale, lately pack of 16 or so from Harbor Freight for like $5.

Flashlights I use I am ok with Lion, but not the rest of the family. We all have Olight AAA for EDC.

For a headlight, any of the cheap Home Depot $10 types with COB leds, a small red only mode, and AAA batteries is fine.