I've heard many people say they saw Jesus .... if they saw THIS...
...then we know they're just 'seeing things'.
I didn't want to bring this up, but...
...a few years ago, I had planned to enter the 2010 Guitar Center Drumoff. I carved out 5 hours of my day - two in the early morning, three late at night - to put in some very intense practice. Well, with a month left, I started to fear that I was not a guaranteed win...
...so, I started practicing in 48 hour straight blocks. Of course, I took care of other little business related things, and am sure I chatted on BGOL off and on...but it was all-practice, and no sleep for 48 hours; a day off; and another 48 hours.
By the third week of this, my body/mind was struggling with the sleep schedule something serious. I started having crazy hallucinations while awake, and crazy dreams when I did sleep. I thought I had completely fucked myself up.
A constant theme of my hallucinations was Jesus and Krishna giving me drum lessons. Seriously. Jesus and Krishna were teaching me WHAT I needed to play in order to win. It all seemed so real that, to this day, I still kind of question if those were hallucinations were real experiences. I KNOW they were hallucinations, but there are always those nagging doubts.
If I was one of those types of people that WANTED to believe those hallucinations were real, I would be telling people that Jesus and Krishna wanted me to win the drum-off so badly, they taught me personally.
WHAT would lead my mind to produce those sort of hallucinations? You think Jesus and a Hindu God was that invested in my Guitar Center Drumoff victory?
Something as simple as sleep deprivation 'caused something like that.
Well, as soon as my sleep patterns to reach a state of normalcy, I didn't dream about Jesus or Krishna from that point on.
That's the only way I know it was shit. I hadn't had any experiences like that before or after. If I'm to believe those experiences were real, then I'd tell people that the key to having a real spiritual encounter would be severe sleep deprivation.