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Originally posted by Gradius MaximusBeing attacked in your dreams, waking up and visually seeing an entity is much different then getting goosebumps or shivering in the cold.
Poltergeists as well are not possessions.
Originally posted by xiphias
Anyone ever consider the correlation between the "Flight or Fight Response" and possession?
Your subconscious is very capable of taking control of your body in times of danger or stress. It can't have you freezing in fear while standing in the middle of a fire, can it now? Could it be that possession is some prolonged variation of a natural biological function? It could follow that the ability of the subconscious to commandeer the body is some sort of supernatural AND biological trait (or maybe it's solely biological, and the supernatural theme is just a misinterpretation.)
If you're outside in the cold, your body starts to shiver in an effort to warm itself up. You didn't decide to start shivering, something else did. Same goes for your heartbeat. Your heart doesn't beat because you wanted it to, it beats because there's something else in your brain making it beat.
Or how about when you get goosebumps or your hairs stand on end? You didn't decide to make this happen, something in your brain made those goosebump rise and those hairs stand on end.
Hold your hand over a fire, and your body will immediately pull your hand away. It isn't "you" pulling your hand away (not consciously, anyway).
Ever wake up from a dream and find yourself talking the very last sentence from your dream?
If you're standing among a group of people, and this group takes off running in fear, chances are you'll start running too. Did you decide to start running, or did your body decide to start running?
Couldn't all of these be considered a form of possession, in a way? Until I see someone floating in mid-air or their head spinning 360, I'm going to avoid thinking of it in terms of angels and demons. Aliens...now that's a different story.
edit on 25-9-2010 by xiphias because: (no reason given)