Hello,
I posted a topic about a dream I had about my deceased sister a few days ago, and I got to talking to my other "alive" sister about the responses I got over dinner last night.
Anyways, back when my deceased sister passed away over 20 years ago, my other sister was having some very nightmarish dreams that we attributed to the trauma caused by my deceased sister's death. So we got to talking about those dreams again, and she told me that she would always get that loud buzzing noise in her ears just before the "dreams" would begin. I hadn't heard about my sister's "buzzing noise" until yesterday! I told her that I had been reading a thread that someone wrote about that same buzzing noise, and how it is related to OBEs. She was pretty surprised.
But anyways, what I wanted to get at was the substance of her nightmares. She explained to me that she would always get the buzzing noise that seemed to close in on her ears, and then suddenly, the buzzing would stop and she would feel like she was in another world. However, she never felt like she left her body or saw her body from the outside. But her dreams were very, very scary, and they terrified her. She also got that same paralyzed feeling where she could not move her body at all. One time, she "dreamt" that an evil presence was crawing up her body, starting from her toes, and when it got to her face, it said, "That was your sister, Dam**t!". She was paralyzed and couldn't move despite the terror she was feeling. At that moment the presence spoke to her, the "dream" ended.
My sister shared with me yesterday that she has always felt a lot of guilt about my other sister's death. The evening before it happened, my deceased sister had called home to see if she could spend the night at her friend's house, the person she was with when she died in the tragic car accident. My alive sister had been talking on the phone to one of her friends at the time, and she told my deceased sister that she would ask Mom, because she didn't want to get off the phone to let my deceased sister talk to our Mom. To this day, my alive sister believes that if she had let my deceased sister talk to Mom, my mom would have never allowed her to sleepover at her friend's house, and therefore, my deceased sister never would have been killed.
My alive sister has always attributed the scary dreams to her subconscious guilt, but after reading this thread, I wonder if there was more to it than that.
One last thought. My sister told me that she had seen a program on 60-minutes that apparently described almost identical dreams as hers. The condition is known as "sleep paralysis" and it is described here:
Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A woman named Susan Blackmore did a study on sleep paralysis, and how it could explain why some people think they have had "alien abduction" experiences. Anyways, here are some of the details:
Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis? (Skeptical Inquirer May 1998)
What is interesting to me is this statement from the article above:
Quote: "The experience begins most often when the person is at home in bed (Wright 1994) and most often at night" ... "There is an intense blue or white light,
a buzzing or humming sound, anxiety or fear, and the sense of an unexplained presence."
Here is another interesting quote from the article mentioned above:
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In a typical sleep-paralysis episode, a person wakes up paralyzed, senses a presence in the room, feels fear or even terror, and may hear buzzing and humming noises or see strange lights. A visible or invisible entity may even sit on their chest, shaking, strangling, or prodding them. Attempts to fight the paralysis are usually unsuccessful."
One more quote:
"Imagine the following scenario: A woman wakes in the night with a strong sense that someone or something is in the room. She tries to move but finds she is completely paralyzed except for her eyes. She sees strange lights, hears a buzzing or humming sound, and feels a vibration in the bed. If she knows about sleep paralysis, she will recognize it instantly, but most people do not."
Just thought I would add this food for thought.