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  Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
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  i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

  how "real" do they seem?

  is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

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  Nathan Natas

  Lest anyone think me a cad for being rude to a woman, permit me to explain that NewYork44M is a GUY, not a woman as his avatar suggests.

  I appreciate the many fascinating contributions to this thread, and I remembered that when I was younger I would sometimes wake up in an emotional mood - happy and expectant or really really angry - based on the events that unfolded in my dreams just prior to waking up. These weren't hallucinations, but emotional states predicated by dreams.

  When my wife was very young she often experienced NIGHT TERRORS with images that would do Alfred Hitchcock proud. She once had an open-eyed vision of gigantic bubbles slowly sliding down her bedroom wall.
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  Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

  how "real" do they seem?

  is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

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  Nathan Natas

  WOW Scully, THAT is one for the X-files!

  Thanks for sharing.

  DATA-Dog, would you be willing to elaborate a bit on what your experience was like?

  Snare&Racket, I am inclined to agree that as we fall asleep auditory hallucinations are possible.
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  Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

  how "real" do they seem?

  is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

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  Nathan Natas

  JeffT asked, " Are asking with or without chemical involvement?"

  Either. If you want to be judged, NewYork44M might be available.

  I'm seeking an understanding of what these experiences are like. My limited experiences were brief, but I "knew" they weren't real. The brief visual hallucination seemed semi-transparent, but more importantly, when I got to where the hallucination appeared to be, there was nothing there. The highway was a long unlighted drive with forests on both sides. I slowed down and turned the radio on REALLY LOUD. The auditory hallucination was clear as a bell ans at first seemed completely well, but it was my wife's voice I heard, and she was asleep next to me.

  Personally, I don't think that drugs are a doorway to a different reality; they're ways to screw up the signal processing of the brain. Sometimes our brains can screw up the signal processing without any help, as with fatigue or an inherited chemical imbalance, or maybe a neutrino from deep space smacks the bull's-eye on just the right neuropeptide...
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  Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

  how "real" do they seem?

  is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

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  Nathan Natas

  NewYork44M said, " I would suggest that most hallucinations are drug induced."

  Thanks for sharing your self-righteousness with us. I would suggest that most self-righteous people are assholes.

  I have never taken drugs for entertainment purposes; I don't smoke and although I do drink alcohol, I have never been drunk.

  When you do experience a hallucination, NewYork44M, I would expect you to fail to realize it for what it is.

  You exemplify the adage, "he who speaks doesn't know."
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  Have you ever had a hallucination? What was it like?

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have almost never had a visual hallucination and i was wondering what they're like.

  how "real" do they seem?

  is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real?

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  Nathan Natas

  I have almost never had a visual hallucination and I was wondering what they're like. How "real" do they seem? Is there any kind of a hint you get that tells you they are not real? How do you react to them?

  I say "I had almost never..." because there was one time when I was driving the Blue Ridge Highway at zero-dark-thirty and I was sure I kept seeing "something" up ahead crossing the highway. I figure the hallucination was the result of exhaustion because I had been driving for something like 14 hours that day. Needless to say, I did not survive the experience.

  O wait... yeah, I did survive!

  I have also had occasional auditory hallucinations, usually after half-waking up in the middle of the night. I thought I heard a female voice outside my house calling my name. Trust me, I do NOT have female fans who call to me at night from somewhere out of my house. usually they say "Let me OUT! ...NOW!!!"

  If you have had a hallucinatory experience, share it here, please.
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  Elders receive a report that I am openly displaying false religious symbol

  by confusedandalone in

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  when you look at the image above what do you see?

  a sneaker or an outward display that i am now following after another religious group?.

  well yesterday i had a 10 minute conversation with an elder who finally got the balls to call me.

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  MAZDA -

  The company website states that its name "derives from Ahura Mazda , a god of the earliest civilizations in West Asia...the god of wisdom, intelligence, and harmony..." Ahura Mazda is the Zoroastrian God. The company website also notes that the name "also derives from the name of our founder, Jujiro Matsuda ."

  - from wikipedia
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  Elders receive a report that I am openly displaying false religious symbol

  by confusedandalone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when you look at the image above what do you see?

  a sneaker or an outward display that i am now following after another religious group?.

  well yesterday i had a 10 minute conversation with an elder who finally got the balls to call me.

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  You are absolutely CORRECT about Mazda automobiles, CONFUSEDANDALONE.

  ...and I am *stunned* by the "elder's" leap from " What can you tell me about that?" to " you are diverting attention from your own wrong" before any "wrong" was established.

  What a moron!

  ...and since WHEN are stripes a "religious icon"?

  How stupid are those two nosy Pioneer bitches?
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  MAJOR DOCTRINE CHANGE IN 1/15/2014 WT ON GENERATION TEACHING

  by EndofMysteries in

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  2. beliefs

  the generation scripture no longer is speaking about 'the end'.

  i'll quote it...... side note: tons of lies in this article, i'll point out at the end of the post.

  "yet, jesus words at matthew 24:34 give us confidence that at least some of "this generation will by no means pass away" before seeing the start of the great tribulation.".

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  They're "spinning" like fanatic dervishes... they ought to be making mayonaisse!
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  A Challenge for Jehovahs Witness Apologists : Identify What Jesus Christ Has Accomplished In His Nearly Complete 100 Year Reign From 1914

  by smiddy in

  1. watchtower
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  i for one would be very interested , if you can quantify what his acheivements have been , these past almost 100 years .. incidental acheivements could do for a start ,.

  followed by more meaningfull acheivements ,.

  then to top it off , with his major acheivements that he can be accredited with these past 99 years of his kingdom rule ,.

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  He's almost completely eliminated polio, malaria and river-blindness... no, wait, that was MEDICAL SCIENCE, wasn't it?
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  Blood sausage

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  while visiting our neighbors across the pond, i visited a butcher store to rustle up something for supper.

  that was the first time i had ever seen blood sausage.

  we just never see it over here in the states.. when a witness leaves the organization over there, do they all eat blood sausage once again?

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  Nathan Natas

  Stand for Pure Worship, it comes as no surprise to me that your ignorance spans many fields of human endevor, not just theology.

  They are not "hog moss," they are hog maws... the stomach of a pig.

  If you've ever had a hot dog that "snapped" when you bit into it, you consumed pig ears, jowls, snout, feet, tails, etc., ground into a tasty seasoned pink paste then stuffed into a pig intestine.

  Bon Appétit, goofball!