The Paranormal?

[Streeper541]

Although I have not had one in several years, I have had a few "paranormal" experiences my lifetime. I've seen through a steel wall, I've foretold the future on several occasions, and have even received bite marks from a spirit. No bull. I've had a few other experiences too. Most of these happened when I was younger, but none has occurred since the age of 25.

 

[TheWhale13]

One of the weird stories that took place on my mother's side was set in the weeks after my grandmother died. My cousin was very young and slept over at grandpa's place in the same bed as my grandpa and grandma shared. But my cousin had a very hard time sleeping the entire night. When my grandfather asked him why he didn't sleep he said that it was because someone was trying very hard all night to push him off his side of the bed, and it was not my grandfather.

He has apparently forgotten this now but my aunt told me it, and I think it is quite an interesting story, there was a lot going on after grandma died.

 

[Servant King]

Yep, I see glitches in the matrix every day. Honestly, I enjoy watching it collapse, and I can't wait until it's gone. I just hope I have enough 'baccy to last me up to that day.

 

[anotherbob]

One of the weird stories that took place on my mother's side was set in the weeks after my grandmother died. My cousin was very young and slept over at grandpa's place in the same bed as my grandpa and grandma shared. But my cousin had a very hard time sleeping the entire night. When my grandfather asked him why he didn't sleep he said that it was because someone was trying very hard all night to push him off his side of the bed, and it was not my grandfather.

He has apparently forgotten this now but my aunt told me it, and I think it is quite an interesting story, there was a lot going on after grandma died.

one of the strange experiences I had was when my grandfather on my moms side passed. And I was on something I can't talk about that inspired some great trance music but it still doesn't matter. I was walking with my friend J. Suddenly I was somewhere else kind of non discript and my grandfather walks up to me and tells me basically he's going and not to worry about it, it's not so bad and it's his time. We said our good byes. I knew the message that was going to be on my answering machine when I got home and it was there. He got sick earlier and passed really quickly in his late 80's. It still tickles me that the person I got a visit from like that was one of the most hardcore materialists I've ever known.

 

[STP]

I think animals have this ability too… my cat and dog are always staring, and occasionally hissing and barking, at nothing… or so it seems… BOOHAHA ?

 

[anotherbob]

The animals are certainly sensitive to things we aren't after taking in my current guy other animals like me more i swear at the least they can tell i am caring for a special needs cat ptsd specifically

 

[beefeater33]

A few times, when I ate those funny mushrooms when I was in college.............. ?

 

[irishearl]

Another tale from the more paranormal side of things in my family. My first wife had a congenital blood disorder that eventually killed her in her late 20's She spent the last 4 months of her life in the hospital Early on in that stay, she had a proverbial near death experience when her dead mother visited her. She assumed that meant it was time to check out but her mother said, though they would be together soon, it was not yet her time. I slept in the hospital and stayed with her throughout usually sleeping on a cot next to her. I was not ready to let her go and think I more or less communicated that to her. The last week of her stay she was out of it and sleeping most of the time. The last night, I decided to sleep in another room the hospital provided and during the night finally expressed to myself-and the Universe?-that I wanted her suffering to end and for her to move on, though didn't express that to her. The next morning she was gone. I think there are many things and processes in this world that go unseen and largely unknowable.

 

[irishearl]

Retired 3 years now but had worked as a psychotherapist in community mental health for decades. It is thought that paranormal abilities run in families-i.e. inheritable-and particularly so among females. Years back I had worked with a woman who had some serous troubles coping but who seems to have legitimate paranormal ability which included "seeing dead people" as they say in the movie The Sixth Sense. Such experiences were merely a background fact and not the focus of her treatment but I did normalize the experiences for her. At 1 point she stated her 14 year-old daughter wanted to come speak to me but she did not know why. I saw her the 1 time and she came solely to discuss her experiences of "seeing dead people." Once that, too, was normalized, she never returned. While this is the only time I personally worked with folks having apparent paranormal ability, I would hear of occasional cases among my colleagues of parents bringing in their young children who were alarmed because they would claim to see a recently deceased relative. While I obviously believe that some cases of these abilities are apparently legitimate, I did not discuss my beliefs with my colleagues. However, on 1 occasion when a colleague was asked to treat a 5 year-old for seeing dead relatives she was considering whether the kid was psychotic and needing meds, I did dissuade her from going that route.

 

[brian64]

I have had occasional dream experiences that were profoundly different than "normal" dreams...I suspect everyone has those now and then. But even ordinary dreams demonstrate the ability of consciousness to create an entire reality.

DMT is supposedly generated by our pineal gland and is likely related to dreams. There was a scientific study done on DMT...I think the book was called the Spirit Molecule...and the scientist conducting the study concluded to his surprise that the subjects were experiencing an actual alternate reality and not just what we would call hallucinations.

Consciousness itself is the real "paranormal" phenomenon. The most fundamental question is what came first, matter or consciousness? I believe matter is an artifact of consciousness and not the other way around.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I had a nice chat with my granddad this morning while he was enjoying a glass of red wine. From memory we hadn’t spoken since 2015 or thereabouts, he passed away in 2014.

 

[mso489]

Most of what gets talked about is bunk, and some of what doesn't get talked about could be true, it seems.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Most of what gets talked about is bunk, and some of what doesn't get talked about could be true, it seems.

This is a good point. I’m always interested in hearing peoples’ stories, and especially those which have been transformative in their lives. I’m less concerned about building a dogma or worldview which is able to explain them. From my own experience, after converting to Christianity in my late teens after I guess what some would call “a road to Damascus” experience, the most damaging thing was immediately adopting a set of beliefs as truth. In hindsight, I’m not even sure if there was a social pressure from the church family to do this or not, but as someone who just had their perspective on life turned upside down in the space of a weekend it seemed like maybe the natural thing to do. While I would still call myself a Christian (though quite uncomfortable with the label if I’m honest), it has taken me a decade to even begin to working out these issues complicit in my faith, and I often still wonder whether the cost of some of my friendships was worth it, or at least unavoidable. All good stuff for ruminating over a bowl

 

[FurCoat]

I've had experiences. My house got to the point that the Cherokee Nation sent a shaman to cleanse the house. My ex wife is Cherokee and since the that experience, she has become a shaman.

 

[mikethompson]

No one could have been an active member on here for as long as I have and not believe that some things can't be explained.

 

[shanez]

I've never seen anything that could be considered proof of the paranormal but weird stuff does happen around my house:

 

[irishearl]

I've never seen anything that could be considered proof of the paranormal but weird stuff does happen around my house:

I doubt there will ever be proof of the paranormal to quell all doubts. But there have been tons of anecdotal information over the decades which is very compelling, some of which defies currently accepted explanations.

 

[renfield]

No one could have been an active member on here for as long as I have and not believe that some things can't be explained.

Not explained and unexplainable are two very different things. Occam’s razor needs to be applied when sufficient facts are not available.

We live in a physical universe which follows the laws of physics, however difficult to grasp intuitively. Nothing magical or mystical about it.

A year ago I got tired of hearing and seeing in the media how quantum entanglement was “bizarre spooky action at a distance”. I dug into the topic which required brushing up on advanced tensor calculus and other mathematics so that I could actually understand QE. It took me a couple of months of effort but it makes sense and is nowhere as strange as it’s made out to be. It’s just not intuitive, like a lot of quantum physics.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Faith = comfort…I like comfort. ?️

 

[didimauw]

Nothing too spectacular here. But not long after we got our dog Kane, we had to stop him from ferociously barking and growling at something under the table, that me and the wife couldn't see ...we still bring that up at times. That was about 14 years ago.

Old man's still kicking.