metacomet
15-10-2009, 04:57 PM
When I was a kid we used to play hide and seek in the dark, and one day me and a friend were talking about what to do that night, we had no particularly good ideas so we decided to play hide and seek in the dark.
His older brother overheard us planning to play outside at night and told us we shouldn't, because of what their Ya Ya said (Ya Ya means grandmother in the native language) ... we were all white descendants of Indians, but when it comes to elders, we still have an inclination to take what they say seriously.
"She told me when I was a kid not to play outside at night or the spirits will follow you."
We didn't play hide and seek that night, partly because other plans arose but for the most part I did know inside that it was the truth. I had done alot of playing hide and seek in the dark, next to the mountains (where they lived as well as me my other neighbor friend) and the act of hiding was more intense and interesting then seeking.
When you were the one hiding, you'd find a quiet and dark spot, shadowed even from the moonlight and starlight or far away street lamps and because it was night time and outside, you weren't likely to be found right away. Sometimes I would hide a good 10 minutes in places where a mountain lion could sneak up on me quite easily... being outside in the dark was a rush for that reason alone.
But there was also the sensation that you were being watched. As a kid, you enjoy creepy feelings (sometimes) and you wonder to yourself, am I being watched or is this what it feels like to totally be alone and watch yourself? Am I feeling myself watching myself? Or is something else watching me?
Well, I do believe that both things happen.
Consider that when the sun goes down, and night time approaches, half the animal population (if not more) has already settled down for the night, and they go to sleep. Human beings certainly don't go to to sleep once it gets dark, we stay up a while longer, none-the-less, if night time has just arisen in your part of the world, you can be assured that everything behind the east horizon is dark, and most everything is sleeping.
My point is that at all times half the planet is asleep or in darkness, and most of the animal population along with it. Humans as well. This creates a polarity in the consciousness of the planet, like a negative and positive charge between the waking world of sunlight and the sleeping world of night.
On one side of the planet, all things are awake and in the light, on the other, all asleep and in darkness. While in sleep, all souls leave their physical body and navigate astral and ethereal dimensions which we call 'dreaming'. This discharge of energy goes on at such a volume that if you are awake at night, you may be in a completely different atmosphere then the daylight (spiritually, invisibly).
When it's night time, and there is no light, and very little consciousness (or awake beings) - if you go out and stand in the middle of a field and walk around talking to yourself, you will eventually feel like you have company.
If you crawl beside a large tree on the edge of a forest when it's night time, no light and deadly quiet, you will eventually feel like you have company. There will also be the sensation that anything can come around the next tree and get you, but that might be our natural tension from thousands of years of watching glowing red eyes on the edge of forests or having ancestral relatives fall to bears and mountain lions.
What I think this creepy feeling of having company is about, is that when night time is here, the atmosphere for consciousness is dimmed along with the absence of sunlight. When we are out by ourselves in the dark, in wild places, away from our neighborhoods or cities, our consciousness, being like a light unto itself, could appear to the 'other side' like a beacon or firefly.
How often do you see a firefly by itself in the middle of nowhere, without a relative to be seen? Never. They are always in groups. Likewise, you will very rarely see a person out by themself at night, and in the spirit world, the ethereal plane, at night time, we may attract the attention and curiosity of countless beings... depending on where we are, we attract different attention.
When playing hide and seek someone's yard or in the neighborhood, there was very little creepy feelings. But when playing on the edge of fields, the edge of woods or around / in abandoned shacks, night time is an obstacle unto itself, because the whole time, you feel something over your shoulder, watching, and the bushes and trees in your peripheral vision began to move or assume the shape of people, animals, and other things. These tricks of the eye are caused by an increase in tension as the feeling of being stalked increases.
Does the feeling of being stalked come from our lone observation of ourself? Does our consciousness, when in the dark and alone with us, become introverted? Is this enough to cause the feeling that we are 'not alone'? Maybe so.
One man was supposedly lost in these mountains for a couple weeks and went insane from being 'followed'. I sometimes wonder if the spirits of the forest just swarmed him because he was like a lone firefly, a lone shining attraction in the middle of a mountain - and to ethereal beings, or spirits, that could be like a wheelbarrow of steak to bears and other wildlife.
When I go on winter hikes, even in the middle of the day, there is a sensation that you are never fully alone, which may be caused by the electromagnetic strength of the mountains here. But I do believe the mountains have spirits, and that my friends grandmother wasn't joking about playing hide and seek in the dark.
His older brother overheard us planning to play outside at night and told us we shouldn't, because of what their Ya Ya said (Ya Ya means grandmother in the native language) ... we were all white descendants of Indians, but when it comes to elders, we still have an inclination to take what they say seriously.
"She told me when I was a kid not to play outside at night or the spirits will follow you."
We didn't play hide and seek that night, partly because other plans arose but for the most part I did know inside that it was the truth. I had done alot of playing hide and seek in the dark, next to the mountains (where they lived as well as me my other neighbor friend) and the act of hiding was more intense and interesting then seeking.
When you were the one hiding, you'd find a quiet and dark spot, shadowed even from the moonlight and starlight or far away street lamps and because it was night time and outside, you weren't likely to be found right away. Sometimes I would hide a good 10 minutes in places where a mountain lion could sneak up on me quite easily... being outside in the dark was a rush for that reason alone.
But there was also the sensation that you were being watched. As a kid, you enjoy creepy feelings (sometimes) and you wonder to yourself, am I being watched or is this what it feels like to totally be alone and watch yourself? Am I feeling myself watching myself? Or is something else watching me?
Well, I do believe that both things happen.
Consider that when the sun goes down, and night time approaches, half the animal population (if not more) has already settled down for the night, and they go to sleep. Human beings certainly don't go to to sleep once it gets dark, we stay up a while longer, none-the-less, if night time has just arisen in your part of the world, you can be assured that everything behind the east horizon is dark, and most everything is sleeping.
My point is that at all times half the planet is asleep or in darkness, and most of the animal population along with it. Humans as well. This creates a polarity in the consciousness of the planet, like a negative and positive charge between the waking world of sunlight and the sleeping world of night.
On one side of the planet, all things are awake and in the light, on the other, all asleep and in darkness. While in sleep, all souls leave their physical body and navigate astral and ethereal dimensions which we call 'dreaming'. This discharge of energy goes on at such a volume that if you are awake at night, you may be in a completely different atmosphere then the daylight (spiritually, invisibly).
When it's night time, and there is no light, and very little consciousness (or awake beings) - if you go out and stand in the middle of a field and walk around talking to yourself, you will eventually feel like you have company.
If you crawl beside a large tree on the edge of a forest when it's night time, no light and deadly quiet, you will eventually feel like you have company. There will also be the sensation that anything can come around the next tree and get you, but that might be our natural tension from thousands of years of watching glowing red eyes on the edge of forests or having ancestral relatives fall to bears and mountain lions.
What I think this creepy feeling of having company is about, is that when night time is here, the atmosphere for consciousness is dimmed along with the absence of sunlight. When we are out by ourselves in the dark, in wild places, away from our neighborhoods or cities, our consciousness, being like a light unto itself, could appear to the 'other side' like a beacon or firefly.
How often do you see a firefly by itself in the middle of nowhere, without a relative to be seen? Never. They are always in groups. Likewise, you will very rarely see a person out by themself at night, and in the spirit world, the ethereal plane, at night time, we may attract the attention and curiosity of countless beings... depending on where we are, we attract different attention.
When playing hide and seek someone's yard or in the neighborhood, there was very little creepy feelings. But when playing on the edge of fields, the edge of woods or around / in abandoned shacks, night time is an obstacle unto itself, because the whole time, you feel something over your shoulder, watching, and the bushes and trees in your peripheral vision began to move or assume the shape of people, animals, and other things. These tricks of the eye are caused by an increase in tension as the feeling of being stalked increases.
Does the feeling of being stalked come from our lone observation of ourself? Does our consciousness, when in the dark and alone with us, become introverted? Is this enough to cause the feeling that we are 'not alone'? Maybe so.
One man was supposedly lost in these mountains for a couple weeks and went insane from being 'followed'. I sometimes wonder if the spirits of the forest just swarmed him because he was like a lone firefly, a lone shining attraction in the middle of a mountain - and to ethereal beings, or spirits, that could be like a wheelbarrow of steak to bears and other wildlife.
When I go on winter hikes, even in the middle of the day, there is a sensation that you are never fully alone, which may be caused by the electromagnetic strength of the mountains here. But I do believe the mountains have spirits, and that my friends grandmother wasn't joking about playing hide and seek in the dark.