# Ghosts aren't real, are they? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-arent-real-are-they/762466 "2016-08-11T17:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 59
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-arent-real-are-they/762466/59 "2016-08-14T16:02:23Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I don’t believe in them but I am still terrified of the possibility that I may be wrong. It doesn’t help that I am prone to sleep paralysis combined with semi-conscious hallucinations when I first come out of deep sleep. One of the scariest feelings in the world is to ‘wake up’, realize that you can’t move and ‘see’ someone standing at the foot of your bed. > > I have gotten much better at thinking my way through it until I can move again but I still jump out of bed as soon as I can and turn all the lights on while panting for breath every single time. It was a lot worse when I was a child because I didn’t know why it was happening. I just figured my room was haunted by a ghost that wasn’t especially aggressive. Good lord you have my sympathy. I only had it happen once when I was a child and it was one of the scariest moments of my life. I was taught to believe that there was a constant spiritual war on earth between angels and demons so when a demon showed up in my room one night, I had no reason to believe that it was anything other than a demon in my room, pinning me to the bed. I believed this well into adulthood until I’d rejected my religious beliefs and heard about sleep paralysis. That you still have to deal with these must seriously suck! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-arent-real-are-they/762466)._