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I do, it feels to me like I'm being dropped then wake up the instant I hit the bed. The sensation is very real.
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This has happened to me at least four times in my lifetime. In that one moment you feel a primal fear like no other, as if you were actually in danger of falling to your death. It's an incredible thing.
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My personal opinion is that using Ouija Boards and doing other things to 'call up' ghosts can have an effect on the spiritual world, and you can call up things. I think stories like yours, Chris, prove something is going on. However, I do not believe that the dead can be raised. So I would attribute the experiences people have as a result of these things to demons, especially as they so often seem to be characterized by fear and panic.
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The opinion Ouija boards varies greatly from person to person, even in circles of paranormal investigation. Alot of people think of it as nothing more than a simple divination tool, and that it doesn't actually have any powers or open any "doors". Its merely a way for unseen entities to communicate using your energy for fuel to manifest themselves. This is essentially the theory I subscribe to, though I don't like to make any assumptions. I'm almost positive the events of that night were connected to my friend mistreating the Ouija board, so I remain up in the air on that matter.
Stories I've heard about teenage girls summoning "the devil" through a Ouija board seem pretty far-fetched to me. I don't believe a piece of cardboard and a plastic planchette boxed and distributed by Parker Brothers has any supernatural powers. Ouija boards only work if whatever you're trying to talk to is already there.
I also don't believe in demons or devils, at least not as they're described in Judeo lore. I do, however, believe in inhuman spirits. Inhuman spirits being entities that were born as spirits as opposed to the wandering souls of departed people. That isn't to say I'm not fascinated by demonology. I studied pretty much anything relating to ghosts, ghouls, demons, the dark arts and the occult most of my teen life.