Taking this out of previous context to my own context,

Believe only what you know via personal experience.

What my dad said to me was, "Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see." For a long time this was a little confusing but I remembered it. Then the world wide web appeared and as time went by I thought the seeing part was getting worse. With experience, "shooting at the moon at Xmas" (while obeying mom's instructions to not be deceitful as best I could, I was completely truthful) I realized what dad was talking about and that he was right all along.

Dad told me to respect the girls. Experience taught me that mom could punish in ways I wasn't even aware of. As one of the smallest people in the class throughout grade school I didn't need experience to believe that fighting was not something to be craved. Mom died when I was in grade 5 and there are things we didn't get the chance to talk about. Something we didn't talk about was identifying when the girls were present, years later after after some very 'in your sight I'm here pay attention to me' identification got easier. There is a good line from the move The Matrix, where the oracle says "Know Thyself". With more identified instances and observation of intruder practices, I can say I remember "bee vision" experiences as far back as when I was a teenager when I would just say to myself that was strange - I didn't have the critical thinking to question where that was coming from or why. Especially at night an episode can be very misleading as you are not fully cognizant, and I do believe there can be more than one girl present at the same time. When talking about them I call them all girls as the communication isn't face to face, when communicating with them I call them all witches as my belief is they are not supposed to be there. They can do some pretty amazing things (some of which are pleasant) and they do respond to communication but I don't know who I am communicating with so there is a trust issue. A coping method is to deem all visuals as not-of-my-doing when I finally realize the visual is there (the way they get in at night is really annoying) to try guarding against being re-educated - not all episodes are unfriendly but they are all uninvited and therefore a surprise when identified. I admit I don't know how to prevent these episodes and the in-your-sight (or ear) instances showed once again that dad was right and I try to be respectful to avoid bad (gross or painful) experiences.

So I have personal experience at trying to be re-educated when I am least able to defend myself. Thanks to some episodes of these 're-education techniques' I am better at identifying episodes when they are happening and I have an idea how long they have been happening to me. I don't think that is what dad had in mind when he told me "Learn by doing" but he was right about that too. Mom was right too.