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Okay, for lack of better things to do i have decided to begin a thread for people to share their unexplainable experiences (if any). These experiences can be anything, ghostly, etc...
I myself have had a couple of experiences that have sort of made me a believer in the fact that maybe there are such things as ghosts, guardian angels etc. For the past three or four years i have had what i first labelled as night terrors (your mind playing tricks on you while you sleep, presenting your most feared thing in front of you).
My most feared thing is dark hooded figures blocking my way. So i would wake up in the night and sit up and there would be somewhere in the room a dark figure, i just get up and un but when i step out into the hallway everywhere i look there is a figure. Recently however i have seeked professional help with this after a particularly bad one last week. I went to a spiritual expert and she asked me to tell her about the worst experience in my life. I told her about the time my grandmother died, and how i was in australia at the time and she was in england. I had promised her we would see each other again and i felt guilty that i had never kept the promise. She suggested it could be the greif and the guilt combining into one, the black being my guilt, the figure being my grandmother and the reason is happenening is because i constantly long to see her again. I don't know, its confusing. the trouble is i know it is not a dream because i don't wake up from them, i 'snap' out of it. My housemate grabs me and the figures fade away, he does not see the figures. Its very confusing and disturbing and i am trying to find out whatit is and am starting to believe the spiritulist in the fact that my grandmother could be 'watching over' me, however i will explore every possible explanation before i give in and believe.
Well thats my 'unexplainable' experience.
Would love to hear any unexplained experiences that other people have had. And all you skeptics out there feel free to be skeptical, its a topic i find most intresting and like hearing both opinions both scientific and supernatural.
Matt :)
 
Wow.....

That sounds like your having a bad time there Matt, I hope you and your Grandmother sort things out.

Nothing strange has happened to me so I cant really post much more.

Take Care
Dan
 
Matthew, hang in there...

I have had quite a few deja vu, predictions from dreams, and some other unexplainable stuff happen to me ever since I was a wee little MaytagGirl, LOL.
I know it's kind of wierd to put this stuff out there for the rest of the forum to read, and especially when people only know you as a nick-name, and not a physical person, at least for the time being.
Let me tell you something I did around Thanksgiving time: I went to a friend who owns a metaphysical store. On this particular day, I felt "drawn" to go see Lynn. So myself and a dear friend who was back in state for a visit, drove down to see her. I told Lynn about all the BS and bad crap going on in my life at the time, a LOT of negativity on my part. I was 110% hater. Bad attitude, bad Karma. (And taking it out on the world) This had gone on for quite a while. After that, I went and sat under "the pyramid" for a few minutes, then went out on the dock on the waterfront to smoke a ciggy. Sitting out there for a bit, a lady who knew Lynn came in and sat down with us out back. She started reading me to no end. I was flipping out. (not wiggin out, she was just right on) No one had told her squat about me, and I had never met her before this day. Come to find out later, she practice Reiki, and some other things. Her advice to me was to go: (seriously) Hug a tree. I told her if I hugged a tree I would end up killing it. With all of the instructions in hand, (what to say, what to do) and a certain stone to carry in my left pocket, that was gifted to me by Lynn, we took off.
Thanksgiving day, after the big feast, I took a walk, and found the tree. Hugged 2 of them infact.
Well, honestly, mind over matter, maybe, but alot of the folks that know me now, can't believe how much "calmer" I am. Especially after an nasty incident with my 1st ex-husbands, 2nd ex-wife spit and cussed me out not too long ago. Old me, would of jumped on her ass and beaten her to a pulp, I just stood there and wished her peace and happiness in her life, of course, smiling....and that sent the psychotic B---h over the edge.
Other things have happened since then, but I won't get into details here.
The day I had to put my Jasmine to sleep (12/09/05) was the day of the mini-Tx wash-in. I was a total wreck all day, and when I got home that evening, I could hear her "meowing". It happened over a period of about 3-5 days, and even my daughter heard it a couple of time. We had her creamated and she resides on the mantle, next to Mom. (I figure folks are REALLY thinking I'm a fruit loop by now, LOL)
I've had to shorten things up a bit, for drama purposes...I have also told these stories to alot of other people. Including the one where I "swear" I saw a man standing in the corner of the elevator here at work, just recently. The door closed, and reopened, and he was gone. I got chills up and down my body. The door just kept opening and closing a little, about 5 times. A japanese gentleman came up, and I told him what I had seen, and not get into that elevator, it was haunted. He said something in his broken English to me about how I was a good a person...Huh??? Nothing to do with what I just told him. Mind you, that elevator acts whack every now and then, and everytime it opens, I look for "him". It takes me over 10 mins to tell all the details of that incident, and it only took place in about 5 seconds.
I think everyone on Earth has a little bit of psychic ability, and other "special gifts". Some of us are more in-tuned to things than others.
Without having someone call Mental Health on me, I will close on my story-sharing for now. I could write books on this stuff...LOL
Matthew, be careful about who you talk to that claims to be psychic or spiritualist. I have STRONG opinions on these types of folks, who are just out there to take your money, offering you nothing in return. I believe that the true gift, is just that, and is to be given freely and shared, not treated like some roaming carnival gypsy.
Perhaps someone who you know who is more empathetic would be more suitable. And it doesn't cost a thing!
I've rambled long enough. I'm sure I've "soiled" my good name. LOL
Hang in there Matthew.
 
Great Topic!!

Thanksgiving day in 1994 I had helped my Mom, Sister and her husband move. During the day, at their old house, I swore I saw a little girl standing in the open front door. However, this little girl was dressing in clothing from the 1920s, not the 90's. She was there for a brief moment, then gone. I thought nothing too much of it. Later that day, went home to a household of people and had T-day dinner.

The next day I had to go to work and I just had a bad feeling. I didn't like the company that was at the house, didn't want to go to work and it was a crappy day overall. Got home, had to feed them all again, after I worked all day.

Then at 11:30 p.m. got the call that nobody wants at that hour. My sister on the line, paramedics there, my Mom appeared to be having a heart attack. I wasn't too worried, I heard my mother laughing in the background. I figured she was ok and flirting and joking with the paramedics. I would meet them all at the hospital.

However, at the hospital, the ambulance came in with the the lights off and no siren. I knew she was gone. When my sisters arrived and we were talking I mentioned the laughter I had heard. My one brother-in-law, said, there was no laughter, she was on an oxygen mask at the time. But, I knew my Mom's laugh and I knew what I had heard. I believe her way of telling me it would all be ok.

Next day at the funeral home, we found a very nice casket, white with carnations, her favorite flower. This was a no brainer. Then at the florist, he flips open his book of arrangements, to the exact casket with the perfect spray of carnations. Coincidence? or perhaps something a bit more?

Our family background is Hungarian, and trust me there is a lot of curious and unexplained stuff!
 
I have had weird experiences with dreams, I see things happen, and maybe a couple months later, they happen. It's very odd, sometimes I realize that I have seen that same moment before part way through and if I do as I did when I dreamnt it, it turns out same as when I dreamnt it, but when I realize it and change someting that I did in the dream, it turns out differently. I remember it happened maybe 2 months ago, I had had a dream about it maybe 4 months before that I was watching Smallville at like 1am on Christmas break and my dad burst in and caught me up at that time and I got in BIG trouble. But I realized that I had seen a clip of the particular episode I was watching and I realized I had dreamnt this before and I would get in trouble. So, I paused Smallville, turned off my monitor and hopped into bed and pretended to be asleep, about 10 seconds later I heard my door open a crack and my dad said my name to see if I was awake. I didn't respond so he shut the door assuming I was asleep! I got in no trouble whatsoever! lol
 
a visit from beyond?

Several months after our Mother died, my sister and I were having a very quiet breakfast together. Neither of us had said much, which was unlike us. So, to make a long story short, she finally looked up and said...Did you smell Mother's cigarettes last night? I had. I cannot explain it, but both of us had smelled her smoke...... There were several other unexplained "visits", but I won't go into them here.
 
Clairvoyance

A couple of months ago I remember reading a forum on this very same site regarding very personal "Coming Out" stories from many of the members of the club. Please believe me, they were nothing compared to admitting in public you're a pshychic, or even much worse, telling someone you know something you just get to know only because you're a psychic.

Even though I have had this "gift" (or curse?) since I was a small child, I was scared to death to even admit it to my best friends or family members. With time and age I felt more secure, and slowly started telling people "things" I saw or felt. First I did this with at a very slow "pace", but with time I did it with more detail. Some people were fascinated by this, others were kind of scared. I didn't pay much attention to this last type! My mistake...

All this was kept for years like in a kind of "oh, how funny" state of things. But with times things changed.

The last day I talked about this in front of other people happened some years ago. My wife and I were having dinner at a friend's house and I met a couple I'd never seen before. We were sitting at the dinner table, about 8 couples in all, and as I started seeing this couple's aura I started seeing very definite images of their past, their present and their future. Well, I thought, it is now or never. I then started to tell this couple things about themselves. Initially this couple, as well as all the other guests, were fascinated and encouraged me to go on and on and on. I must have talked for more than half an hour. Then, very slowly things started to turn around. Suddenly, in a split second, everything switched around, and the evening turned out to be worst than if I had admitted I was one of the witches of Salem! (All things I told this couple turned out to be quite true, for sure, we are close friends to the present day.) Needles to say, I lost contact with all these other people, I have no interest in seeing them again watsoever.

Since that horrible night I have never ever talked to anyone about this anymore, even though at some times I have to literally bite my tongue to keep quiet about things I see.
 
This is no joke......

I had been renting an apartment with my partner and a lot of strange things happened there. I would get the feeling someone was in the room with me in the bathroom, the third bedroom, and the basement and it was only those rooms. I would actually stand sideways doing laundry in the basement, because I would swear I could "feel" someone there. One time my Daschund, who never barked, ran out of the kitchen to the top of the basement stairs and barked 3 times and I heard the door that went out to the driveway close. I was alone so I called the police and when they arrived, the door to the driveway was locked. The downstairs tennant was in Florida, and when I called the landlords they were home and had not been to the apartment. My partner Steve had fallen down the basement stairs, saying he tripped over something, but there was nothing on the stairs. A friend of ours had asked if there were any old boxes in the attic or basement that we had gone through, and of course me being a private investigator at heart, had gone through a bunch of stuff left there by the owners. She said that sometimes that "disturbs" things. There was this old brown and white picture of a young blond girl on a ledge in the basement and she had this eerie smile. I never touched it, but the day we moved, I grabbed the picture and tore it up in a dozen pieces and therw it in the trash. :) When we were going to open houses looking to buy, I went up this beautiful stairway to see the second story of this house and 1/2 way up the stairs I got that same "feeling" again, and I said "let's go". I have not experienced that since.
Now this past fall when my Gram passed away, I woke up that morning about 7:45 to a message on the answering machine from my Mom telling me that Gram was not doing well...that call was at 4:45...I never heard the phone. I quickly called the hospital and found out that she passed away. What's strange is that at 5:25 that morning, I woke up out of a sound sleep thinking I heard a woman talking. Before I asked my Mom what time Gram passed away, I was talking to my sister, and I said "Tina, I have something to tell you". She said "Wait let me tell you something first", and proceeded to tell me that she woke up out of a sound sleep at 5:24. Maybe Gram was saying goodbye? My Mom said that she passed away around 5:00.
We also had a brother that passed away at home when he was 15. I was not home when it happened. Sometime after that, I was at work at CVS and I looked up from the cash register to see a young boy who looked just like my brother, I mean my whole body went numb....I really thought it was him. He asked me where the batteries were, and I told him the aisle, watched him go there. I locked my cash register and went from behind the counter to the aisle with the batteries, and he was not there, I watched for 1/2 hour for him, and he was nowhere to be found. That one, to this day makes me teary eyed...it was so real...it was like one last chance to see and help my brother.
 
Well, Matt, the best I can offer is that perhaps you can use your powers of logic to determine which images are real, and which, being impossible, are not real. I personally don't believe in spirits, ghosts, and such. I do believe that the mind can sometimes lose its ability to distinquish between dreams and reality. Whether that's a chemical imbalance that needs to be treated with drugs, or if it's something the rest of the mind can control with reason and logic, I don't know.

On a lighter side, I used to have a recurring bad dream. In my case, it was that I had finally found the perfect house and was very content. Then some relatives moved in and soon I was feeling like an unwelcome, powerless guest in my own house. In other cases a strange dream may seem so real I wake up convinced that it happened. I have to kind of ponder it during the during the day to shake the feeling... but it never seems to linger that long, and finally I accept it as a dream and am relieved that's all it was. Who knows, maybe it could be the plot of a hollywood comedy :-).

Suggestion: no coffee, tea, or caffeinated drinks/food after 12:00 noon.
 
I disagree, the only time I would advise someone to reason away things with logic things they don't understand or fear is because they're never going to be comfortable with it. I personally do believe there's more around us than many can see from my own experiences, some of which have been corroborated by others at the same time they were happening and while none of us were in any altered state of mind via drugs, drink, whatever. It's a futile argument though to try and convince an unbeliever that what you saw or experienced really did exist. There is another reason why so many times these experiences happen when you are either asleep or tired and it doesn't have anything to do with dreams, it has to do with your mind being in a relaxed state or for a better term, not being in "reality" and therefore more receptive to things you might otherwise be blocking out while awake. In a case such as what Matt describes above he was sleeping and he did awaken enough to see these figures and watch them, that could be because the mind still wasn't fully in gear and then when reason/logic starts to awaken they start to fade or disappear. Being reasonable and logical isn't a bad thing, you need that to go about your daily life but it doesn't hurt to be able to shut it down either, unless of course like I said before you're not comfortable or afraid of these sorts of unknowns.
But then, once you've experienced one, you know, and you'll always know for the rest of your life so trying to pretend it's all a hallucination or your mind was playing tricks doesn't really work that well anyways, you're stuck with it so may as well accept it.
It's also never certain how much or how long any particular person is going to experience these sorts of things. Some people may have it just happen once in their life, some fairly frequently, some maybe once ever few years or only when something that affects them personally happens, such as the death of a family member or a close friend. A rationalist would put it down to a coincidence but not everything weird can be attributed to a being a coincidence. .
Ok I've blathered long enough.. next....
 
Parents, Part Two

Back to 1972, my father passed away. He had been ill for some time, so it was expected. I was 17 at the time. I had bought a 1959 Cadillac limousine a few months before he passed away. He didn't like the car at all.

Family started to arrive for his funeral. My oldest sister, her husband and my two nephews, who were very young at that time arrived in from California to Arizona. The day of my Dad's viewing, my nephews thought it was great fun playing in their uncle's big, black Cadillac. I thought, they'll cut their hands or heads off playing with the power windows and such. All of this operated without the ignition turned on. So, I locked up the car so they wouldn't get in trouble. This was in the morning.

That night was the viewing. Several of us went back home to get things ready for all rest of the friends and family. As we pulling into the driveway, we noticed, all the lights in the Cadillac were on. Dome lights, reading lights, etc. All burning very brightly. Now, this was in the days before long life batteries, the car was locked. It was parked under a carport where everybody was walking by it all day. Nobody noticed the lights were on...but it appears somebody was home!!

I disconnected the battery and sold the thing a month later! I finally got the message from my dad. Perhaps my nephews found all the light switches in the car, or was it something else.
 
Nightmares after armed robbery

Matt,
I haven't really had any supernatural experiences in that sense however in 2002 the discount variety store I was manager of at the time was involved in a savage armed robbery, in which 2 criminals smashed my office door open while I was having my lunch and basically stuck a large carving knife to my throat and demanded all the money which was locked in the safe,although deep down I wanted to fight them, I just followed the company's procedures in these things and submitted and gave the money to them during this time they taunted me,took my driver's licence and threatened to come to my home and kill me if I reported the robbery to the police.
I went through 5 months of trauma counselling to help recover but for a while I was having terrible nightmares and seeing them leering at me over my bed while I was trying to sleep and always worrying about every phone call and knock on the door.
However I have pretty much recovered from it now and am enjoying a reasonably balanced life, I know this digressed from your initial enqiry but I thought I might just share it with the site, and no I don't really believe in ghosts or the supernatural .
Cheers.
Steve.
 
Nightmares after armed robbery

That's like post-traumatic stress disorder. What a horrible experience for you. I am sorry that you had to go through that, but hope that your mind can heal from that violence.
Tom
 
I've had precognitive dreams since early childhood, and numerous instances of other types of psi. First time I told my parents about it, as in, "something I dreamed about the other night just happened today (and the details)," they said "Oh, that's just ESP, it's normal, that happens to us too." So I never got the weird fear-conditioning that some kids I knew got when they told their parents about psi events. Instead I applied my geek sensibilities to it and observed in detail and attempted to look for a decent theory to explain it.

The reason science was traditionally uncomfortable with this stuff is that it appears to partake of the subject matter of religion, notably death and the hereafter, and "prophesy" and so on. And for the longest time there was no good theoretical explanation for any of it. That's been changing over the past decade or two. The best current thinking on the subject is that it's an example of quantum entanglement or "non-locality." In fact, "ESP" behaves in exactly the manner you would expect from a nonlocal phenomenon. I could write ten pages on this subject since I've studied it in depth, but if you're interested, go look up the names "Hameroff and Penrose" and their paper on "objective reduction."

Mattywashboy, here's some specific advice for you:

First, I'm quite certain that a part of you is rather more curious about this than scared, even if you're not consciously aware of it. So, next time you encounter one of those hooded figures, I want you to look at it directly and say "I know you, now take off your mask!" or some words to that effect. And then observe, in much the same way as you'd observe the behavior of a neighbor's pet or a harmless little critter in the garden.

You'll most likely discover that the person behind the mask is a representation of a part of yourself or someone you know, or of a symbol of some aspect of human behavior that you have been having internal debates about. And something about what you discover will help you deal with the issue constructively. Feel free to let us know what happens, or not if you prefer.

By the way, I don't think these experiences you're having involve psi phenomena or a separate "entity" of some kind. I think what's going on here is a classic instance of an internal issue being represented as a visible symbol with sufficient emotional content to make you pay attention until it's resolved. That doesn't increase or decrease its meaning or importance, or the validity of the feelings you're having about it. But you may feel some reassurance to know that your own mind has many ways to take care of you and see to your own best interests, even if sometimes that means making you uncomfortable.
 
There is hope, Matty

Having the luck to grow up in a household similar to DSGK, where the para normal was expected, I can sympathize with Matty, while concurring with D.

I have to go out right now, and I'll come back to this exotic and mesmerizing thread later, but I have stronger advice.

The research I've studied, urges that you go beyond confrontation to actually ATTACK the predator physically with whatever weapon suggests itself, including hands and fists. You may not succeed the first time; just keep at it until you vanquish the foe. After many failures, I have enjoyed stunning success witht this method. But you have to attack. Often before you strike, the predator will turn away and flee. You'l be so happy, relieved, and confident when this happens. Matty, you can do this.

My source is Dr. Ann Faraday, PhD Life-long dream researcher and one of the queens in the field.

Mikey
 
the advice and support i am getting is FANTASTIC from you all, i was aprehensive when starting this thread coz i was unsure of the reaction. My pointer hovered over the 'post to discuss o mat' button way too long.
For those of you who are advising me to stand up and face it, when i wake up i'm like all people when they wake up suddenly, not fully registering their surroundings, i sit up and if i see a figure my first instinct is to run, which is what i do, by this time my housemate is usually out of bed after hearing me hit the floor and run and is there to grab me before i'm halfway trhough the neighbourhood. I think Petek has the right idea in saying that logic comes later, maybe if i stop myslef from running and just face them maybe i will see more detail that can help identify them. It does seem that as i wake up fully the figures disappear (paul gets me in a bear hug and being a big fella it does wake you up fairly quickly). Its an odd thing to describe and i thought it might have been something to do with the old house, but we moved recently and it still happens here, also when we go on camps it happens there. I'm glad i'm finally getting to the bottom of it.
Thankyou to all who shared their experiences and i urge more people to keep on posting on this thread.
I will keep you posted as to the progress and give a report if i have another 'night terror'.
Matt
 
First off I don't think Matt said this thing was a predator only that he is frightened when he see's it, so why attack it when you can try to figure out what it is and why it's there. It's all a matter of accepting things, strange as they may be and learning from them. I didn't publicly post my experience with a similar dark figure. I'm very open to these sort of experiences and in the one case of it happening to me I wasn't alone when it happened, a friend of mine was there and experienced it as well. He was terrified and I was to say the least fascinated and awestruck watching it. These things don't exist in our reality and can't hurt you so if you know that beforehand if and when it does happen sit back, pay attention and enjoy the show.
 
Well, I guess you could say I'm a sceptic about these kinds of things. I fully accept that they appear quite real to those who see them... but to date there has been no proof that ANY claimed paranormal events are real.

The human brain, after all, is just a mass of gooey tissue, made up of proteins, lipids, salts, etc. That it works at all is something of a miracle. That it occasionally goes a little out of whack, and conjures up people and things that aren't really there, shouldn't be any surprise.

PS-My parkeet has night terrors. In her case, they are real. I have two cats. ;-)
 
Matt,
My first posting told you of "strange" things that happened to me, which I honestly believe were more spiritual, but now I will tell of my partners night terrors. I have known him for 15 years, and he has had these night terrors since he was a child. With him, they come and go. Sometimes he can go for 6 months without having any. Then, out of the blue, he will be plagued by them night after night for 6 months. There have been many times I was actually afraid of him when he would wake up screaming, or swearing, or sometimes punching me, squeezing my arm or leg so hard, and one time choking me. Sometimes he will wake up thinking there are spiders all over the room, other times he sees people on the ceiling or in the corner, and one time (he would kill me if he knew I told this) he got up and peed in the hamper while sleep walking.The only thing that can calm him down is to grab him in a bear hug and actually try to restrain him while talking to him and reassuring him he is ok. I actually had to change my work schedule to go in to work at night, because I was always tired in the morning from no sleep. He went to a sleep clinic to be evaluated. He had to go and sleep there overnight, hooked up to all kinds of monitors. They detected very irregular sleep patterns, but did not find it alarming enough to go further...he obviously had a "light" episode that night, because if they saw what happened at home they would be more concerned. After that, he did not pursue it further...he just got discouraged. I really believe it is something that happened to him as a child that has made him afraid, but I can't be sure.
I really can't give you any advice, because I am no expert, but I can tell you that I know all of it is very real and I understand. I hope you can get to the bottom of it, and keep me posted.
Joe
 

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