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The FILTER That Hides the Paranormal | Haunted in Waiting w/ Ann Lund · Eye Opener Society

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  Hi all this is ann lund and i'm coming from
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  you with the next podcast here at
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  the eye opener society being presented by my own blog and podcast haunted and
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  waiting you can find me on facebook you can find me on tiktok you can find me
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  of course here on the eye opener society on either BitChute or YouTube,
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  and I can also be found on my blog, which is called hauntedandwaiting.blog.
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  First of all, let's introduce today's topic, which is the filter.
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  So I've had a lot of people ask me about the filter and explain it in a way
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  that they can understand.
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  Some people get it and some people don't, but it is very prevalent pretty much in everything.
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  It exists in how you basically see the world around you, sometimes not so truthfully.
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  So let me get into the topic of today, which again is the filter.
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  And the title of this podcast is basically the filter, why we can't prove ghosts
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  exist, even if they're real.
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  Okay, so what if the reason we can't prove ghosts exist is not because they
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  don't actually exist, but because we're trained not to see them?
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  Think about that. What if the world isn't lacking evidence?
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  What if there's enough evidence out there, but we're failing to see it because
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  we are filtering out that evidence?
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  So the idea of the filter isn't everything, like I said. Okay,
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  it's a concept in psychology called reality tunnel or the reality tunnel.
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  And it suggests that every single one of us sees the world through a filter.
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  A filter that's built by our beliefs, our upbringing, and what we've been taught is real.
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  Can come through religion, can come through school, can come through your friends,
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  can come through your family.
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  And from the moment we're very young, we're basically told this when it comes
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  to ghosts in most circumstances.
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  Ghosts aren't real, don't believe everything you see, and there's always a logical
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  explanation. I love that one. There's always a logical explanation.
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  Although with that one, a lot of times logical emits or I'm sorry,
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  omits the fact that maybe logical is that they actually do exist.
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  And over the years, something happens very slowly. Okay, we stop trusting in our own perceptions.
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  We ignore that shadow in the corner that we kind of kind of see when we're not paying attention.
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  We explain away those footsteps we hear upstairs. We dismiss that feeling that
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  you're being watched, you know, someone standing over your shoulder.
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  We dismiss it, not because we say, hey, we're not going to pay attention to
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  it, but we dismiss it because of the filter.
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  Okay, the filter logically, or I should say, in its own sense,
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  filters the information and makes us ignore it.
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  I'm going to tell you my own personal story. It was interesting,
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  but when I was young, I grew up in a haunted house.
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  If you're curious to read about that, you can go to my blog,
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  hauntedandwaiting.blog.
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  Read up on the, it's a free book that I'm posting there called My Bronx Haunting.
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  And I write about some of the experiences I had there. But in this particular
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  house in the city, it was only myself and my sister-in-law who believed the house was haunted.
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  We saw things, we experienced things, okay? As well as some of the friends that
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  we had, street kids that would come to the neighborhood.
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  I'm sorry, come into the house from the neighborhood that would come to my house and see things.
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  But other than that, majority of my family, I would say 80% of my family,
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  did not believe the house was haunted.
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  I had one friend, I'm gonna call him T, okay? He was at my house one day.
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  We were, I want to say, about 10 years old.
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  And it was just him and I sitting in our living room. And at that time, it's an old Bronx house.
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  There were radiators in every room, okay, a pre-war house.
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  And over the radiators, if any of you live in an old house, there was something
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  called a radiator cover.
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  Okay, so it's a wooden box that took over the radiator so that you wouldn't
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  get burned if you happened to touch it.
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  For whatever reason, and he was a believer, okay, he was one of my friends that
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  believed, when he would come into my house, this radiator cover would shake.
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  It would shake on its own, and it would go da-da-da-da-da. It would just shake.
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  And he would look at it, and he'd get scared, and he'd run out.
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  He ran out of our house many times because of this.
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  Now, I had mentioned this to the adults in the house at the time, and they dismissed it.
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  Well, we did live near a train. The train was a block away.
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  Maybe the vibration from the train is doing it. Okay, fine. Then how come it
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  only happens when T is in the house in no other time?
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  So they couldn't explain it. So there were times when T was in my house,
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  and my whole family was there and the radiator would do this and nobody seemed
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  to notice it but T and myself.
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  We instantly would notice it and of course you know I'm going to say once we
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  brought it up to everybody's attention it would just stop as if whatever was
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  making it shape was making it stop same way.
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  But we heard it, nobody else heard it because they had filtered out that situation.
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  They had filtered out that it was moving.
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  Why did they filter it out? Because radiators don't move on their own.
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  So it was filtered. So it's a perfect example of a filter, okay?
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  And there's also this idea of, you know, taboo and social conditioning, right?
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  So let's be honest, believing in
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  ghosts, although it's a little bit more mainstream, is still very taboo.
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  Even today, if you tell someone, hey, I saw this, I saw, I heard that,
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  you're immediately met with, it's almost immediate, you were tired,
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  it was your imagination.
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  There's a rational explanation, and I love that one because they always try to figure that one out.
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  And if they can't come up with a rational explanation, it always defaults to
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  you were tired, it was your imagination.
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  Or maybe even you're making it up. That's the one I can't stand.
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  But here's the deeper question. How many experiences are dismissed before they're
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  actually even explored, like my radiator cover?
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  Okay, psychology shows us that our brains are wired with these biases.
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  Okay, so we interpret the world in ways that confirm what we already believe.
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  For instance, radiators don't move on their own.
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  So if you believe in ghosts, if you believe that ghosts aren't real,
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  your brain will literally work to disprove your own experience over and over
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  and over again. When I was in Gettysburg.
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  They had given us, there was this tour that we had done, and they'd given us
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  this bag with all these ghost hunting equipments.
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  And before we went around the house, it was called the murder house,
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  actually, to explore the house.
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  The people throwing the tour showed us videos.
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  And these videos were over and over and over and over examples of times when
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  a light would go off on its own or something would fall off a desk.
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  And everybody in the room, I should say nobody in the room, picked up on it.
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  Didn't even notice it because of that filter.
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  So let's talk about the scientific method and the paranormal.
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  And we've got to love the materialists, right? Got to love them.
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  We're going to talk about science.
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  Science relies on something incredibly powerful. It's called the scientific
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  method. We all know it, right? When you went to school, seventh grade science, right?
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  You observe something, you measure it. If you can repeat it with controlled
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  conditions, then you can prove it. Here's the problem, okay?
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  Ghosts don't follow rules. We know that. They don't show up on command.
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  You can't just take a ghost and tell them, here, we're going to do an experiment
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  on you. They don't repeat on cue.
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  They don't perform in controlled environments.
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  And because of that, science will automatically dismiss it.
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  The other thing is, if you really think about it, when you do a scientific experiment,
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  you include all the variables.
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  You remove variables to make sure that it wasn't a cause and effect that a variable created.
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  But what if there are variables that we just don't know of yet,
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  that science hasn't uncovered yet?
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  You know, such as ESP. We can't prove it. But what if that's a variable?
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  Maybe a person has to have a certain level of sensitivity to these things to do an experiment.
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  So it's flawed just in its very own way.
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  Method, the scientific experiment, the scientific community didn't understand
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  that, that those things cannot be proven, okay?
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  So, and the fact that scientific consensus is that there's no reliable evidence
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  that ghosts exist, and many experiences are explained through perceptual errors
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  or environmental factors or the brain misinterpreting sensory input.
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  So, for instance, The radiator is moving because of the train.
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  They don't pay attention to the fact that it doesn't always do that.
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  And it only did it when tea was in the room.
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  So things like sleep paralysis, hallucinations, pareidolias,
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  which is seeing faces, and things that maybe represent a spirit,
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  are this unintentional blindness.
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  Okay, going back to the radiator covers, how everybody else,
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  nobody else seemed to notice the radiators but me and my friend.
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  That's unintentional blindness. Also, when we were in Gettysburg,
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  the fact that nobody saw a flashlight flickering in the corner of the room,
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  again, unintentional blindness. Because it's not something that should be happening, so you don't see it.
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  Your brain literally begins filling in gaps. So science says it's not a ghost,
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  it's your brain. But what if that's only part of the story?
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  So the materialists believe in this big filter, right? There's a philosophy
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  behind modern science called materialism.
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  Okay, basically says only physical things exist.
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  If you can't measure it, if you can't detect it, or if it doesn't interact with
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  physical matter, it doesn't exist.
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  Guess what? Ghosts do not fit that model either. Okay, so they're dismissed.
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  Not necessarily because they've been disproven, but because they don't fit that framework.
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  Some versions of this thinking, like eliminative materialism,
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  go even further, suggesting that things we experience might not even exist if
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  they can't be explained biologically.
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  In other words, if science can't explain it, it gets filtered out. Okay?
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  So it's not like you're trying to ignore it. Your brain automatically ignores it.
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  But what if the filter works both ways? Here's where it gets interesting.
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  Simon says we misinterpret reality.
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  But what if sometimes reality is being misinterpreted by science itself?
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  Even some physicists have questioned whether materialism can fully explain consciousness
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  or reality at all. So now we're left with something unsettling.
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  Two filters, right? One that filters out proof of ghosts and one that filters
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  in logical explanations.
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  And somewhere in between, I feel, is the truth, right?
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  So you do have those people that everything is a haunting
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  okay so it works both ways so let's
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  talk about real cases because that's what i love um where the filter
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  may have applied okay so there's some there's a situation that happened in england
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  in 1977 i will have it in my blog and a link you can read up on it yourself
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  but it's called the enfield poltergeist and there was a family that reported
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  seeing objects moving voices physical disturbances and the classic definition
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  of a haunted house so to speak,
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  Some say it was paranormal, and others say that it was just a hoax or like a
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  psychological trick on the brain. But here's the key.
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  Some events were witnessed by multiple people, yet still dismissed.
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  Okay, so multiple people are having these experiences, but it was still dismissed.
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  The scientists dismissed it. You can read more about that on my blog, okay?
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  And again, it's similar to the Amityville-Hara situation in 1975, okay?
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  One of the most famous hauntings here in the United States, okay,
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  with the Lutz thing, okay, where they heard voices, they heard apparitions,
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  violent paranormal activity.
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  Skeptics, again, called it a hoax, again, but some supporters were arguing that
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  parts were exaggerated or the entire case filtered out because it didn't fit
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  the scientific explanation.
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  But again, more than one person experienced the same thing at the same time.
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  So unless it was a mass hoax, it's another perfect example.
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  Sleep paralysis. Anybody out there have that? Thank goodness I do not have sleep
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  paralysis, but thousands of people across cultures do have sleep paralysis. My son is one of them.
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  Where they report seeing dark figures or pressure on the chest or presence in the room.
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  Science says sleep paralysis and hallucinations can cause that,
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  right? But here's the twist.
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  Why do so many people describe the exact same shadowy figure across cultures, across countries?
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  You know is it the brain really are the brains communicating
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  with each other across the sea or are we filtering the same experience through
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  different explanations so i'm going to add a link there as well about sleep
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  paralysis so if you experience sleep paralysis and you want a little bit more
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  than the scientific explanation please go there and read out okay um so in closing.
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  The next time your dog stares into the dark okay or your cat loops for no reason
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  or you hear something you can't explain or maybe see something through the corner
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  of your eye, ask yourself,
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  did nothing happen or did you just filter?
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  Did you just decide not to pay attention to it, not to research the house you
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  live in, not to look into a situation?
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  Okay, so maybe ghosts don't need proof.
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  Maybe, you know, there was a time when we didn't realize gravity was a thing,
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  right, until we could prove it. Could be the same thing.
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  So anyway, again, thanks for listening. And if you have a chance,
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  please hop on over to the Eye Opener Society.
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  Some of the other podcasts are amazing.
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  Alternative realities, we talk about things a lot of people don't like to talk
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  about, a lot of raw stuff.
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  And of course, you can also find me on my blog, on didn'tweeding.blog,
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  as well as on Facebook, same name, as well as on TikTok, same name.
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  Wish you all well. and until next time, this is Anne Lund.