This is a good episode but,
it struck me personally when AJ began using academia as his relief for his own "hallucinations".
As long as I live, I will counter this as being NOT the ONLY explanation.
I have both living and physical evidence of an actual haunting that
completely counters what was diagnosed as a purely psychological condition.
Hynogogic hallucinations or Hypnagogia Disorder is one of the things I was told I had happen to me
when I fully disclosed my experiences to a doctor some time ago.
The thing that popped that particular bubble was when I had eyewitness accounts many years later from people
not related to me, nor ever having met before, giving the exact same description of my supposed hallucination(s).
These people happened to have the exact same confrontations from these things in my home
as I did as a child....Which isn't possible under scientific scrutiny.
I have long battled the academic belief of having a perfectly reasonable psychiatric condition (or explanation)
for every single spiritual event that occurs or has occurred to every day, average people.
This is one of the reasons I took up psychological studies in the first place
which also helps to unravel true life mysteries that can be debunked as a simple, natural event.
I lived it....No one can tell me that it was all in my head...Not when I have living proof saying otherwise.
To my point having said all that, (fwiw)...............
I believe these two men did have reasonable cognitive bearings on their respective trauma
in that it rings true...To me.
The passage of time always erodes (or even adds to..) the memory,
it's part of our own conditioning in that, the mind wants to protect itself over a period of time
and does so by glomming onto whatever other information that comes along that references the actual occurrences
within our own psyche to help relieve the stresses over time, which can be associated with PTSD.
False memories can be acquired with the victim becoming certain that they are true,
but, it's a defense mechanism built over time to help alleviate the actual, more traumatic truth.
These people are not insane but, academic psychology and the sciences therein
will never be able to fully help those whom have had this type of real life trauma.
We're a fringe community....I wish more people would talk openly here about these subjects,
you will not be savaged or made fun of here. It really helps to not be openly laughed at.
This is a good episode but,
