What did I just see.

[Rafiq]

Before I explain, I was not under the influence of any drugs or any shit like that.

I saw... Well, when I was getting toothpaste from my upstairs bathroom.... I... I saw something. I fucking hope it was just nothing, but I can't believe that.

I saw, as I was exiting the bathroom, a tall, gray fucked up creature. I said "OH FUCK" as loud as I could. Trouble is, is that it seemed so striking and terrifying to be fake. It was breathing, too. I glimpsed at it for like 4 seconds before I ran out. When I turned my head to look again, twas gone.

When I shouted, my siblings heard me and I told them I tripped on a toy

Any possible things that could have caused this type of halluconation?

If not, share one of your own scary experiences, drug influenced or not.

[Pirate Utopian]

It looks like Satan is on earth to feed.

[ColonelCossack]

Da Fok.


Slender man! :cursing: You're gonna die 24 hours after seeing it! lol

[Rafiq]

It looks like Satan is on earth to feed.

No, it wasn't like that. This thing seemed human-ape like. It was breathing and it was staring me down.

It didn't seem spiritual. It seemed... I don't know, I sound really stupid right now. But fuck I don't know

[ColonelCossack]

Maybe a chimp escaped from the zoo?

[Le Rouge]

It happened because we're in 2012 now. True Story.

[Zostrianos]

There's scientists who've proven that hauntings often occur in places that have a lot of electromagnetic activity, and some cases of strange sightings or ghosts were explained by the presence of excessive electric waves in the area, which can cause hallucinations. Do you live near a power station by any chance?

[Rafiq]

If it helps I just watched rise of the planet of the apes and has been exposed to bright lights all day, and keep in mind this was in the dark. Ah damnit, that must'v been it. Still, that shit almost gave me a heart attack

[ColonelCossack]

When I have some crazy shit experience like this i'll just go to revleft to be comforted by materialism. My mind is genuinely at ease.

@rafiq; i think i can make a guess at precisely the shot in that film that fits your description of an ape staring you down. That was probably it then.

[Rafiq]

Keep in mind this didm't seem like a ghost

[Rafiq]

There's scientists who've proven that hauntings often occur in places that have a lot of electromagnetic activity, and some cases of strange sightings or ghosts were explained by the presence of excessive electric waves in the area, which can cause hallucinations. Do you live near a power station by any chance?

No, but I have christmas lights up

[ColonelCossack]

I just watched son of rambow. I'll be fucked if I start seeing flying dogs.

[Zostrianos]

No, but I have christmas lights up

Could be that you were just tired...either that or geomagnetic activity:

http://oldwebsite.laurentian.ca/neurosci/_research/mystical.htm

... increased geomagnetic activity in association with right hemispheric stimulation encourages the incidence of a sensed presence, 4) when a person attempts to "focus" upon the sensed presence it appears to become dynamic (to "move") since the act of focusing alters brain activity and hence how the applied complex fields interact with the brain, 5) an inordinate number of people who experience a sensed presence attribute them to gods or deceased individuals, 6) about 7% of the population, particularly males with enhanced temporal lobe lability and who attend a religious place frequently), report that if god told them to kill they would in his name, and 7) certain patterns of applied magnetic fields produce subjective experiences that are sometimes considered "parapsychological" or "paranormal". By applying a specific sequence of magnetic fields through the brain of a person who had experienced a "haunt", we generated the experience as well as paroxysmal electrical activity that suggested a source deep within the right temporal lobe.

[Le Rouge]

Seriously, i'd say you were really tired. Or it was just someone in your house and because of bad lighting that person looked like what you saw. I would like to know what the lighting conditions were please.

[Rafiq]

Seriously, i'd say you were really tired. Or it was just someone in your house and because of bad lighting that person looked like what you saw. I would like to know what the lighting conditions were please.

There was no person.

The lighting conditions were like the hall had lights, and there was a large opening into the bedroom from the hall. The bedroom is long and extends back, and if you go into the bedroom far enough you reach a bathroom. Now I got my shit, left the bathroom, shut the bathroom light, walked toward the room light switch and shut that off too. When I turned around, I saw it

[Rafiq]

I was tired, though..

[ColonelCossack]

There was no person.

The lighting conditions were like the hall had lights, and there was a large opening into the bedroom from the hall. The bedroom is long and extends back, and if you go into the bedroom far enough you reach a bathroom. Now I got my shit, left the bathroom, shut the bathroom light, walked toward the room light switch and shut that off too. When I turned around, I saw it

These things always seem to happen in bathrooms... whenever I clean my teeth, I get the feeling there's an old person standing behind me in the bath.

[Lobotomy]

have you been eating and drinking enough food and water?

[Rafiq]

Okay so I just did a re enactment of what I did and it turns out it was me shutting the lights too quickly and moving my head too fast turning around that.caused me to see this ape. Because when I did it again the same thing happened, only I know it's not an ape.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Perhaps talking with a doctor about this would be the best course of action?

[Rafiq]

Alroght just trash this thread. Just made myself look like the biggest jackass :lol:

What can I say... Shit happens

[ColonelCossack]

Okay so I just did a re enactment of what I did and it turns out it was me shutting the lights too quickly and moving my head too fast turning around that.caused me to see this ape. Because when I did it again the same thing happened, only I know it's not an ape.

What was it then? A hat stand?

[Rafiq]

What was it then? A hat stand?

No, it was a mixture of that flash you got when exposex to too much light, when you close the lights and the reflection of a shiny metal dressor

[ColonelCossack]

No, it was a mixture of that flash you got when exposex to too much light, when you close the lights and the reflection of a shiny metal dressor

aaaaaaaaah I see

I bet a similar thing will happen to me now... :glare:

[Susurrus]

It was a counter-revolutionary. You must crush it.

[Sputnik_1]

It reminds me of this:

http://redbavon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/donnie-darko.jpg

[Erratus]

Alroght just trash this thread. Just made myself look like the biggest jackass :lol:

No, if you used this as proof for the supernatural, and turned into christian reactionary, then you would have made a jackass of yourself.

[Rafiq]

No, if you used this as proof for the supernatural, and turned into christian reactionary, then you would have made a jackass of yourself.

The first thing on the top of my head when I saw "it" was that it was merely a projection of my mind. The reason why I was frightened was because I didn't want to see that shit anymore.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

in all seriousness, this may be insanity. most people who are insane, hear, see, and feel things that aren't real.

listen to "Brain Damage" by pink floyd, then tell us if you believe that fits you

[Seth]

Have you been awake like, 30 hours?

[Revolutionair]

The human mind is hardwired to see other humans/living things. The best example I can give is looking at a smiley: :)
Look at it, does it genuinely look like a smiling human? Of course not. If you have been watching a movie for a long time, with more or less the same characters. The characters will leave an imprint in your brain. The reason you saw this 'ape' is the same reason you look at the smiley and feel like it's a smiling human. The human mind never fully analyzes what it sees. It picks out some details that it has stored in its database (for you the fresh memory of an ape), finds the closest match, and calls it a day. Being tired made your brain put less effort into picking out details of what you saw, thus it is easier to hallucinate.

I hope I got my point across despite my horrible English.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

The human mind can be very powerful. I was going to suggest that what you saw may have been a dream. Perhaps you had a lucid dream, which can be very vivid and realistic seeming.The dream incorporated imagery from POFA. Sometimes people literally have trouble distinguishing memories of actual events with memories of lucid dreams.

It could have been something caused by light distortion though.

[Rafiq]

in all seriousness, this may be insanity. most people who are insane, hear, see, and feel things that aren't real.

listen to "Brain Damage" by pink floyd, then tell us if you believe that fits you

I'm not insane. I realized what it was... Why are people still posting in this thread?

[Comrade J]

Because it's funny :D First time I've read it though.

I hope people still remember this when next year's awards come out. Best Account of a Ghost Ape Sighting 2012 goes to... ;)

[Rooster]

human-ape

Humans are apes.

[Rafiq]

Humans are apes.

That's true

[Tenka]

I think I once had one of those geoelectrical hallucinations or whatever. My mother had seen something one night, pointed it out to me on the threshold of the hallway, and I looked. There I saw a small, dark shadow on the wall without a definite shape, and with nothing to cast it. It grew, and morphed into all sorts of strange shapes that made me think of ribs, until it filled up almost the whole wall, and then it shrunk to something that was approximately the size and shape of a man and lingered in the hall for a while before disappearing.
It was moving jerkily the whole time. This animated shadow-looking thing, where I saw it, my mother saw something very different: "the spirit of a horse" that she had met when she was little. She's a crazed new-ager, so of course....

This seemed the right thread to post something like this in. I believe we shared some sort of environmentally-induced hallucination, and our different preconceptions had us interpreting it very differently, subjectively.

edit: my sister was there, too, and she was a little frustrated at not being able to see anything in that spot!

[Rafiq]

That... That's very strange.

[Prometeo liberado]

There's scientists who've proven that hauntings often occur in places that have a lot of electromagnetic activity, and some cases of strange sightings or ghosts were explained by the presence of excessive electric waves in the area, which can cause hallucinations. Do you live near a power station by any chance?

Maybe his head is so huge from massive amounts of smarts that electromagnetic activity just oozes from his brain?:D

[Prometeo liberado]

I'm not insane. I realized what it was... Why are people still posting in this thread?

Why are you still reading it?

[An archist]

Seeing things that shouldn't be there: when I was about 10-12 years old, I had a terrible nightmare while we were on vacation. I woke up and saw my brothers bed next to me, and next to that there was a crib, the room had also become longer, to fir the crib. I was definitely awake, because I could walk around the crib to the door, to get to my parents room ro ask them why there was a crib in the room.
Off course when we got back, there was no crib anymore

So, dunno, creepy stuff happens?

[ColonelCossack]

Seeing things that shouldn't be there: when I was about 10-12 years old, I had a terrible nightmare while we were on vacation. I woke up and saw my brothers bed next to me, and next to that there was a crib, the room had also become longer, to fir the crib. I was definitely awake, because I could walk around the crib to the door, to get to my parents room ro ask them why there was a crib in the room.
Off course when we got back, there was no crib anymore

So, dunno, creepy stuff happens?

Da Fok