Hmmmm...
Here's a less supernatural explanation: you weren't deeply asleep, and were aware of the world around you without being aware that you were aware. Your eyes were sort of open; part of your brain thought, "oooh, nearly at the station", another part of your brain thought, "oooh, someone knows their way around the local railways: that'll be granddad then" (remember that you were half asleep: your thoughts don't have to make much sense); and you deduced that your granddad told you. Except he didn't. You were half awake anyway.

Sorry.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 16:48, 2 replies)

also, there is no Santa.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 16:53, closed)

I have a horrible feeling that there's going to be some heavy de-bunking activity this week...

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 16:58, closed)

Entirely likely, and no bad thing. Still, it's not impossible to be creeped out by something whilst simultaneously knowing that you're being a little foolish - can't say as I'd feel 100% at ease walking through an isolated graveyard on a dark night, but I wouldn't genuinely believe that my gruesome demise at the hands of the restless dead was imminent and inevitable.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:04, closed)

^This^
The mind is more than capable of coming up with stuff that scares itself without resorting to ghoulies and ghosties to explain it.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:41, closed)

yarp
I heartily concur, I'm a graduate of science and was forced to go to catholic church for my 1st 18 years so I am in no way saying I believe in the afterlife. I just kinda like how it made me feel without having to think about the actual ins and outs of it scientifically.

There was quite a lot of saliva on my shoulder though, kinda suggests I was properly comatose...
(Ross McBingobangobongo bingobangobongo, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 20:10, closed)