Thread: The "Old Hag" I've heard so much about.

yea and hopefully well never get it!! XD

watch that ol hag comes tongiht AHH =/

muahuaha! you cant expect to not get it now! your own fault for jynxing it

Originally Posted by NightLife

If I ever see the Old Hag, I'm gonna ____ beat the crap out of her... Sounds like she'd be annoying and I wouldn't want her in other dreams...

LOL.
The best way to overcome the Old Hag is confidence.

Originally Posted by quattykitty

where did you see that?? i find that amazing!!

I'll have to dig through the mountains of books I have on sleep and nightmares to find the exact one (it was several years ago), but I promise to get back to you as soon as I find it!

I heard that the Old Hag is like the leader of the NightStalkers, people who jump into other peoples dream and terrorize them.

Originally Posted by Griman

I'll have to dig through the mountains of books I have on sleep and nightmares to find the exact one (it was several years ago), but I promise to get back to you as soon as I find it!

yayythznks =]

Originally Posted by Xibran123

I heard that the Old Hag is like the leader of the NightStalkers, people who jump into other peoples dream and terrorize them.

i wouldnt believe it

I THINK it's something like this-

You know your body has reflexes during your sleep, say something covers your nose, your brain sends the reflex to your arms to move it out the way.

Then imagine, that your body has completely fallen asleep so the reflex doesn't work, your brain would be inclined to believe that something is physically stopping you from moving, hence influencing your dreams to have a sort of nightmare based around the fact that you cannot move.

That's my idea anyway... I could just read about it somewhere, but I'm really rather tired right now
G'night!
Jim

my HI is sometimes very frightening but i don't think that counts.

I think I know what this is.

I use to live in korea and we talk about this too.

We call it a ghost.

Like how we explained it was by saying that a girl ghost would sit on your chest and choke you. (very scary)

you would wake up and have conscientiousness but can't move and feel like someone is sitting on you. It's almost impossible to get up and very powerful

This is prob because your brain isn't fully awake to tell the bodies what to do.

This happens when you are very tired or wake up at a wrong moment of your sleep

Originally Posted by Iliad Keys

We dream about what we encounter and think about during the day though.

No, actually we don't, as several studies discovered. If you dream about actual events, it is only for a short while after falling asleep and it is usually related to the last things you thought about before entering sleep. Next to nothing is really known about how dream content is generated or what dreams are.

Some claim that the OH-phenomenon is a mechanism of the subconscious to prevent you from entering sleep consciously. I see no reason for that, because there are no indications that conscious dreaming is physically or mentally harmful, so why should there be a mechanism to prevent it? On the other hand, why don't we always dream consciously?

Esoteric sources claim that the OH is a negative entity that wants to induce fear to suck from your life energy. I leave that uncommented.

I haven't seen any hags so far - at least not when dreaming - but met several other monstrosities. The dweller-phenomenon I have encountered many times. It is a presence nearby when awake in sleep paralysis or in hypnagogic or hypnopompic states. I've never seen it though, just felt it.

Isn't the old hag just a type of hypnagogic manifestation of sleep paralysis?
If she happens to strangle you or sit on your chest again, I'd advise you to take advantage of this situation because you can use it to WILD. Then you can utterly maim that wench.

Originally Posted by fy_iceworld

Isn't the old hag just a type of hypnagogic manifestation of sleep paralysis?
If she happens to strangle you or sit on your chest again, I'd advise you to take advantage of this situation because you can use it to WILD. Then you can utterly maim that wench.

haha its not that its real but thats what we say. its like an urban legend.

Here is a fantastic work of art by George Grie of sleep paralysis/old hag: http://www.neosurrealismart.com/mode...paralysis.html