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Anyone here ever see the black dog?
DancesWithSheep
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There are numerous documented cases, not of different people having the same hallucination at the same time for the same reason (such as a mirage caused by heat rising off the desert floor), but of different people having the same hallucination at different times and in different locations but for the same reason.
More than once while driving exhausted on dark, lonely straight roads late at night I have had the hallucination of a black dog running alongside my car, as if chasing me. Of course the hallucination is absurd; but it turns out that this same hallucination is a common one, especially among long-distance truckers who drive fatigued, to point that if a trucker says he "saw the black dog", other truckers know he meant that he was driving while dangerously overtired.
My question: How is it that separate minds under same circumstance (extreme fatigue while driving) but at different times and in different places experience the very same hallucination? And why always a black dog and not a white one, or a zebra, or simply nothing at all?
More than once while driving exhausted on dark, lonely straight roads late at night I have had the hallucination of a black dog running alongside my car, as if chasing me. Of course the hallucination is absurd; but it turns out that this same hallucination is a common one, especially among long-distance truckers who drive fatigued, to point that if a trucker says he "saw the black dog", other truckers know he meant that he was driving while dangerously overtired.
My question: How is it that separate minds under same circumstance (extreme fatigue while driving) but at different times and in different places experience the very same hallucination? And why always a black dog and not a white one, or a zebra, or simply nothing at all?
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"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Maybe in this area it goes back for years because we do have real Black Panthers that prowl around late at night in this area, (not speaking of the anti-white Black Panthers political thugs :twisted: though I'm sure they're around too)
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Never knew what that was about. Then again it's David Lynch. I also remember there was a movie titled "Black Dog" it seems it's a Swayze movie (IMDB-ed it) which I never seen was about a trucker killing some folks. So the sleepy bit sounds right.
Back when I used to make Seattle runs after working a 8 hour shift had made me a bit punchy somewhere in Oregon. I do remember nodding off and waking up still on the road more than once. And while napping on the rest stop I woke up more than once panic stepping on the brake pedal. That'll get your heart going.
Brad Steele
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(ghost)
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
This reminds me of Wordsworth's Pantisocracy dinner toast "Confusion to the memory of Newton!" for science having reduced the beauty of the rainbow to a prism. Do you also fart in church, Henry?
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
No idea what you're talking about it. I ran a search to see if anyone else had asked the question or had an answer.
Roll with it till.......
Sorry for misunderstanding. I only meant to say that the appeal and mystery of the "common hallucination" I was referring to loses a lot of its appeal and sense of mystery when explained in terms of eye physiology. Makes sense, and I very much appreciated your reply.