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by godshatter 981 days ago
No, I never tried and she hasn't come around for a few months that I've noticed. I don't know if she's a ghost or whatever, but if it is something that's self-aware I didn't want to give it the impression that I was inviting it into my home.

The first time I saw her I did go search around the house in case I had a "homeless person living in a cupboard" scenario.

I've never experienced sleep paralysis, thankfully, even when working on being able to dream lucidly.

On the topic of aphantasia, I would expect sleep paralysis and any visual hallucinations to be on the dreaming/near to dreaming side of the fence since that circuitry seems to work for people with aphantasia as far as I can determine. If I try to think of specific memories involving people I am very close to I can get a flash of something that goes away before I'm even really aware of it that seems to be in the side channel people talk of. It doesn't seem to work for anything not emotionally connected, and only rarely.

The lady that has visited me was felt completely different. Thinking back, I have also been able to see auras, and just proved to myself that I still have that ability. It might be a visual abnormality or something, though. If I was actually visualizing, it was an overlay and not on a side channel.