Boreal
FAREWELL POSTINGS
Ghosts and Other Manifestations
December 7, 2024
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lightest touch and I was fully awake ready to give her a prescribed dose of
hydromorphone, or adjust her oxygen level depending on the circumstances and so
on. It did not bother me that I had to get up five or six times a night; I was
being useful to the person I loved, and how I miss that. Now, if I am jolted
awake by whatever, I turn on the television on the dresser so as to create a
calming presence and avoid imagining ghosts lurking in the darkness.
If I were Muslim I would not be worried about my imagination getting the best of me at times like these, since there are no ghosts per se in Islam. If there is anything hiding and watching you under the camouflage of night, it is probably the jinn.
Of all the craziness you find in the Koran, the jinn are relatively benign.