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Anybody ever had one or unow somebody who has had a legit real one?
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I don't know if I've actually experienced it or not, but I've had things happen and I knew them before they happened, several times, but it's nothing that I have control over. sometimes it happens. Most of the time, it doesn't.
Don't know if this counts, but I've had really bad vibes the day before something bad happened, like a death in the family. Also I was in New York back in 2008 on Sep. 11, about half an hour away from where it happened. Had this really disquieting feeling all that day.
I've had some strange experiences that I could not readily explain, but I tend to believe that we humans look for explanations that fit our worldview nicely and that there is usually something natural at play that we just don't understand. It's strange because I really like paranormal fiction by Algernon Blackwood, M. R. james etc, but I'm really a total skeptic. Most of my own experiences (very unlikely coincidences, perceived nonverbal communication with beings outside of myself, etc) can be traced to one of four things:
1. Psychedelics, particularly magic mushrooms. The Aztec civilization used these to communicate with their deities, after all. Often a profound trip feels like a kind of channeling, paranormal experience that last for hours.
2. Emotional distress: this leads to sleep depravation, which leads to waking hallucinations, or slipping periodically into a dream state for seconds-long intervals during the day.
3. Unknown human agency: People do things without my knowledge and I can't explain how or why. I hate this bit.
4. Bloody-minded, sheer coincidence: yes, it happens. it doesn't mean the universe is talking to us directly. it just feels so weird, for example, when you think about someone you haven't seen in years and then that very day you run into them completely randomly, as happened to me a few months back. But even in a city of millions of people, during a busy commute to or from downtown, this can easily happen, as strange as it seems.
The other week I was sleeping in a venerable old Detroit house, and kept hearing strange noises in the night. Distant thumps, creeks, bangs. I had an odd feeling about it at first. But in the morning I realized: well, he did say the house was old, and hey, waht's this, none of these doors upstairs actually latch properly and there's a beautiful, bracing breeze blowing through all the open windows in the house, which is blowing all these doors periodically shut with a thump. So yeah, it's usually just something like that.
Sorry for not possessing any cool ghost stories.
I have a gift for the paranormal, can even sometimes get past the physical to communicate with spirets and the like.
Well Rat, that's interesting. Hope you're careful about that one. If anything about the paranormal is true, then it's more than likely there are some really nasty entities out there among the decent. Just as there are among us mortals.
That is very true, it's always wise to have defenses in place as you don't know what you'll find.
I've had vibes too, I had a very bad experience where I didn't listen to what I was feeling. I ended up in a horrific situation because of it. I won't go into detail, but that was a huge vibe kind of thing for me.
I've had this real strange experience where I was wakeful, but could not move at all. Instead I felt someone was tossing me back and forth in bed, almost like I was being picked up, tossed onto my right, picked up and tossed on my left. I couldn't make it stop and I couldn't wake up. OR at least I thought I was awake but I'm assuming I wasn't. Anyways, I don't remember how I fell back into real sleep, but woke up very spooked.
I started this so I guess I should share. First of all, i'm a skeptic. Like
borderline don't believe in anything. That being said, I've had a lot
sketchy vibes and weird shit happen to me.
The first one, that comes to mind is when my family and I were moving
out of my childhood home. I was in the garage, just reminiscing about
good times when my mom comes in and asked why I closed the door
and locked it. Right away, we both looked at each other and realized, I
couldn't have. The lock is on the outside of the door, not the inside.
Weird, I thought, but whatever. The next day, I'm washing my hands in
the bathroom after going number 1. When I go to open the closed door,
its stuck. i'm like, wtf? This has never happened. So I scream out for my
sister, who is in her room. As soon as I hear her coming, the door gets
unstuck. And I realize, the door was never fully closed. It was at least 2
inches open. In other words, whatever was in the house, wasn't trying to
let me out.
I will say, that house was supposedly haunted. My mom and sisters
would claim to see shadows and spirits. I saw a couple things but all that
could be due to drug induced visions. Anyways, hope more of you share.
Sorry for any typos.
jack off Jill,
Sounds to me like you are describing the beginning of an OBE (out of body experience) that some people practice. I practice but have never had any luck having a conscious OBE.
Yes, I believe my flat is haunted; have had several things happen over the fourteen years I've lived there - nothing terrible; not an evil ghost or anything.
I've had sleep paralysis, hypnogogia, but sadly no O.B.E. Unless you count that floaty feeling you get from the anaesthesia when they remove your tonsils as a child.
Hi, I've hadsome experiences. One in which I felt the presents of God, and another in which I felt like I was hugged by an angel, at least that is how it felt like. I've also been able to travel round and visit places, spiritually. I like to fokous on the good stuff. Anyway, interesting topic.
that reminded me of a crazy experience I had while pregnant. I was at the end of things, seven months. I couldn't lay on my back, yes I know I shouldn't while pregnant anyways, but somehow I'd wake up in that position sometimes. So on my back I'm having a hard time breathing, so usually I wake up and change positions. One night I dramt I was being suffacated by unamed person. So in my dream I can feel my chest burning and my head spinning from the fight to catch some air. I hear this real strong female's voice in my ear, head? not sure. But she tells me to hurry up and wake, before my child suffers. All of a sudden I wake up and take the longest deepest breath of my life. It was very scary, because when waking up I could feel that I hadn't been breathing.
These stories are interesting, but lack detail. I haven't experienced anything too dramatic, except for the fact that I think I might have died or something. All of a sudden one morning, I was lying in bed listening to the news, then nothing, it was like this 3 seconds of... I don't know...
I can't really explain it because I have those dreams where I'm chased a lot.
I don't want to give too much detail because it's kind of embarrassing in the first place to talk about it. but like opinions on it
I had some experiences in the first house my X and I purchased together.
I was sitting on the coutch once and a cold puff of air blew into my face. The fan was off, the AC was off and there were no open windows. My X and the dogs were on the other side of the room.
Another time, the light in the dining room came on by itself. I know I didn't turn it on. It was off when I left the room and on when I came back in 5 minutes later. No one else had been in the room. My X was on the other side of the house. I had actually left the dining room to go talk to him in the room he was in.
Lastly, in that same house, the outside water spicket came on full blast and couldn't be turned off for about an hour. That was weird.
I've had experiences like some of you have described, having a bad feeling that something was going to happen and then finding out there had been a death in the family.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Yeah I've had the bad feeling thing but nothing ever came out of it.
Thanks for all the stories so far people! Good stuff!
Chase dreams are perfectly normal for the human ape. The problem with the human ape is we have a very highly developed limbic system, in particular the amigdula, which served us well on the Savannah but not so much now.
This will surprise people who know I'm an atheist. But I do think there's something to the vibe situation. I'm not sure, and I've read up on some alternate theories. But while believers tend towards the subjective too often, I think my fellow skeptics tend towards the immediately dismissive of the entire experience, rather than perhaps render an alternate explanation. Ironically, increasing years of discipline as a software engineer has made me less dismissive, not more. Just because we don't understand a particular cause of a particular event, doesn't mean the event didn't happen.
I do think there is something to the vibe situation, and I've read theories on electromagnetic impression, among other things. I should say hypotheses, not theories. And the honest hypothesizers admit the holes in their argument. All the possibilities I'm aware of for explaining this do have flaws, but that doesn't mean a particular possibility is invalid. It may mean we merely need further information.
So one theory is that all electromagnetic entities, us, other creatures, plants, etc. can leave an impression, especially after a disturbing event, and especially where there is a surface that could receive the appropriate charge to hold it. There are two flaws I know of with this theory: First, everyone working in electronics knows that signal, or as the spiritual people would call it energy, is simply not enough. You need an encoder on transmit, and a decoder on receive, and a means to protect its integrity on storage -- the surface it is allegedly imprinted upon. All we know is the transmit, and can potentially consider the receive. But send and receive are useless without the other factors.
Now, I did have two experiences one could dismiss as coincidence, and might be, but for which I've never gotten a satisfactory answer.
The first, my brother who was chronically ill, I dreamed he'd caught pneumonia. I was out of the country. The way in which I visualized him in my dream was exactly as things were when I got home. Naturally I told nobody that I'd had that experience, not for at least a year.
But that one could be put off as a particularly uncomfortable coincidence.
However, there was the night he died. I wasn't living at home. I hadn't been in communication with my family for some weeks, and so didn't know he was this close to the end. Neither did they, apparently. Not at least until a few days before the end. But the night he died, I was at a friend's helping work on some sound equipment we were replacing parts for. I kept feeling like a thunderstorm or some other weather event was imminent. Strange to everyone who could see the beautiful sky outside the window. I got teased for that, naturally. Quite a bit, actually. At 1 in the morning we were just wrapping up, and that feeling went away. To the "See? We told ya man!" of my friends.
And the next day I got a phone call telling me he'd died, and it was around that time.
Again, one such as I am can't properly establish a link between the two -- my feeling that way, and his death, but it sure seemed that way. I'd been his primary caregiver when I was in high school, quite a number of years. But this event was in the late summer of 91, and I'd moved out early summer of 89.
It is an odd one, for sure. And I can certainly understand another's skepticism of any connection between the feeling of an impending storm and his death that night. It certainly doesn't seem to have any natural use at all. It's not as though I could have done anything about it with this feeling. And nor did I even think it had to do with him, not until I picked up the phone the next day and heard the news. But that feeling of an impending storm was pretty poignant.
I typically get a bad feeling right before people pass away. This is usually someone with whom either I or a friend of mine may have a strong connection. I do not sleep the night before, or if the death occurs during the night, I get very agitated and upset, and when I find out about the death after it happens, I tend to make the connection between at least one sleepless night and the person's passing.