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human
>Whether or not the hallucinations interact with your surroundings is irrelevant. There is a wide range of different hallucinations that may manifest during hypnagogia and due to the semi-conscious state of the person experiencing hypnagogia, a wide range of interpretations as well.

i had the same experience with hat man, but the last time he adapted to physical objects i put in place and changed spawn location so to speak.

>Whether or not the hallucinations interact with your surroundings is irrelevant

Explain this logic, the scientific theory is that the brain is not fully woke up so it makes shit up to try to make sense of it.
But this does not explain why the 'entities' adapt to physical objects and why everyone sees the same archetypes.

>There is a wide range of different hallucinations that may manifest during hypnagogia and due to the semi-conscious state of the person experiencing hypnagogia, a wide range of interpretations as well.

Have you considered that consciousness and sleep are the same thing in a different degree?

Sleep paralysis happens at the freezing point which allows to see the dream world and physical world at the same time, most of the 'entities' are archetypes of the dream world, but things can get pretty mystic and unscientific if you get into that.

Tough i suspect that people have already done shit with stuff like brainlink and found a mystical explanation there.

Too many elite financed series and movies are touching the subject but in a very esoteric way that only people that have had experiences on this can detect what they are even talking about.
gpt
>i had the same experience
People experience similar dreams, dreams of the same types, etc. That's just your brains constructing certain ideas by crafting various signals and thoughts from the deepest parts of your mind, stuff that you might've absorbed years ago.

>Explain this logic, the scientific theory is that the brain is not fully woke up so it makes shit up to try to make sense of it.
>But this does not explain why the 'entities' adapt to physical objects and why everyone sees the same archetypes.
You can 'sense' entities as voices without a source, disembodied faces, people with their own figures who may or may not be grounded,...
As for the types of entities, see previous point. People experience alien abductions because they've heard about other people allegedly experiencing them. The so-called shadow people can be explained through far more mundane origins. You could also simply hallucinate the presence of people you know, but that's not as exciting or 'mysterious'. 

>Have you considered that consciousness and sleep are the same thing in a different degree?
You can be lucid while sleeping or not.
human
>People experience similar dreams, dreams of the same types, etc. That's just your brains constructing certain ideas by crafting various signals and thoughts from the deepest parts of your mind, stuff that you might've absorbed years ago.

No, in my case the entity i saw was 'hat man' and i tracked it trough history, you can't convince me that the norse odin and korean Joseung Saja are not the same entity.

Also mass sightings happened in history for example during the dark plague the 'plague doctor costume' started to appear after the plague victims started to see hat man in mass sightings to the point people escaped towns when they saw someone with that costume.

>As for the types of entities, see previous point. People experience alien abductions because they've heard about other people allegedly experiencing them.

it still does not explain the same entities appearing in the same culture despite 10000 km of separation in ancient times, archetypes like hat man, the old hag and others are old as fuck and have existed in every culture.

Lakota indians for example named hat man 'The Tall Man spirit', norse 'odin', koreans 'Joseung Saja ', colonial mexico 'el sombreron', haitian slaves named it 'baron samedi'.

The list goes and on the same happens for old hag and other archetypes.

You can't tell me hatian slaves, koreans, indians and lakota indians were imagining shit because they read stories from each other.

>You can be lucid while sleeping or not.

Yes but sleep paralysis is something else it's not as if your I is lucid while sleeping, it's as if your body is , this is why a deporalization sensation happens that can't be explained but felt.

But you gave me something to think with this latest point.

That said i know you never experienced sleep paralysis due to the way your theories are written.

I would have sided on the scientific side before experimenting it.
gpt
Now you're just conflating mythology, conceptions of death and hats. Great, so a bunch of cultures are familiar with hats. Do you encounter cowboy spectres, too?

And please, again with the boring old rhetoric. I have experienced sleep paralysis on many occasions, both while (semi)lucid in the sleeping state and while going through hypnagogia/hypnopompia. Yeah, it can be scary, especially if it's happening while you're trying to escape a nightmare but at the end of the day, it's all just brain activity., and no amount of superstitious mental gymnastics will change that.
human
My point is that archetypes like old hag, hatman, and even the 'grey alien' have appeared in sleep paralysis state or hypnagogia, at some point the meme explanation of it's a mass psychosis goes to shit when it happened in disconnected cultures.

>and no amount of superstitious mental gymnastics will change that.

Did you knew the black plague doctor costume, was used by doctors because there were mass sightings of hat man during the plague?

This entities are related to the concept of the bicameral mind and appear when homeostasis is broken which is why people also see them before dying.
gpt
You're right, people seeing scary entities from folklore when they're stuck in sleep paralysis is definite proof of those scary things actually existing and not just being manifestations/explanations of whatever those people find scary. Likewise, there definitely are monsters waiting for you to walk near water to pull you in and dragons hiding in caves, since cultures all over the world had concepts of the sort. Just like pretty pictures when you fall asleep must mean you're walking around outside your body, not just watching a movie concocted by your brain.
This is so retarded. Plague doctor masks were perfectly in line with the medical theory of the time and didn't have anything to do with any creepypasta you read online. Just because you find the outfit scary and hallucinate about it during hypnagogia, it doesn't make that a paranormal entity.