I am at a loss to understand the articles "write-off" concerning the possibility of ghosts.

A bit late, but this might explain a few things.

I should point out that the version of the wiki page I was using is this one. It seems to have changed substantially since then.

Very briefly, in the link in the first comment I talked about feeling a hand gripping my head and pulling me under the bed (yes, through the roughly 1 inch space between the headboard and mattress...), I then had a dream involving goblins or something, then, as I was waking, I felt the hand shove me back into bed. The other link compared some of the symptoms of a hypnagogic experience with that experience. The one that still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end is this one: "Involuntary movements (sometimes the feeling of sliding off the bed or even up walls)" [emphasis in original.]

In the link for the second comment I talked about seeing little neon-colored glow-in-the-dark dinosaurs that bit me -- and it hurt!

Both of those events happened roughly 20 years ago and I still remember them pretty clearly.

I was going to respond to Charles, but OMGF had hit most of my points, then after refreshing the page I see that Ebon has stolen the rest. Oh well!

Just because one is an atheist(which never bothered me)I find it hard to believe that you dont have some type of spiritual belief.

Atheists do have a sense of spirituality. What we do not have is an unevidenced belief in supernatural entities, ghosts, gods or otherwise. Nor do we believe that belief in such entities is necessary to make life meaningful or worth living.

Do you really think we are just here and then we just die, and you cant even explain what that is about?

We are here and then we die, yes. I don't understand the second half of your question.

Do Athiests think science explains all things?, hmmm. Is it really that bizarre to an athiest to think we may have something like a soul/aura?

I believe science has the ability to explain all things that can be explained. Belief in a soul or any other supernatural basis for personality is not supported by evidence.

I want to add that the idea of sleep paralysis/hypnogogic experiences is an antiquated, freudian psychological explanantion which doesnt quite explain the problem.

Sleep paralysis is neither "antiquated", nor Freudian (I don't even know where you got that one from). It is a well-documented neurological phenomenon which, in concert with ordinary human tendencies to exaggerate and misremember details, I find more than adequate to account for claims of ghostly experiences. You also didn't mention my article's discussion of infrasound.

Just because one is an atheist(which never bothered me)I find it hard to believe that you dont have some type of spiritual belief.

Define spiritual.

Do you really think we are just here and then we just die, and you cant even explain what that is about?

Yes. Can you explain what this is all about?

Do Athiests think science explains all things?

Science explains natural phenomena. Science is quite good at explaining these things. Science is the best known way of explaining the world around us.

Is it really that bizarre to an athiest to think we may have something like a soul/aura?

Due to the lack of evidence of souls or aurae, as well as the evidence that points away from such things, yes, it is hard to believe that such things exist.

I am at a loss to understand the articles "write-off" concerning the possibility of ghosts.

Without evidence for ghosts, there's no reason to entertain the notion that they exist.

If athiests dont have some type of spirituality, I have to say, it saddens me. I feel almost sorry for you athiests.

That's rather condescending of you. You think it's better to believe in a god that doesn't exist because it somehow makes you feel good, than it is to have a rational, reality-based view of the world?

Now comes the wierd part. (!) Decades later, my wife began to describe the exact same thing happening to her: a floor lamp dashed back to its proper place in her bedroom when she was very young. I asked her to describe the lamp. It sounded the same in every aspect.

Submitted for its anecdotal value only. Happy Halloween.

I also have regular hypnogogic experiences, at least twice a week.