sd-7:
My mom used to scare us with stories that the demons talked to her, and that they told her JWs knew the truth about them. "This stupid lady doesn't know who we are," she reported them saying to her. In hindsight, I have to wonder what that was all about.
Some possibilities:
- She lied
- She had a vivid dream
- She subconsciously incorporated something she'd seen or read into a false memory
- She experienced auditory hallucinations during a period of stress, fatigue, feverish illness or drug use (prescription or otherwise)
- She has a neurological disorder
Given that "Her father was dying of cancer around that time", it is probably a combination of elements 3 and 4, possibly with a dash of 2.