General / Off-Topic Paranormal Activity...!

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Not the movie(s)!

Not really paranormal either, just a very odd coincidence!
Felt like sharing, feel free to share your own, or attempt to explain others!

Ok, basically, I had a dream(nightmare?) last night, that my car got a puncture, on the driver's side. Very short dream.
But I distinctly remember waking up feeling relieved that it was just a dream.
I told my girlfriend, who just said "That's a weird thing to dream about!".
I went to work as normal and forgot about it.

9 hours later I came home from work, pulled on to my drive.
Got out of the car, and heard hissing.
Got a puncture... Drive side!

Creepy coincidence?

I should add, I've never, in 14 years of driving, had a puncture. Lol

Not ghosts or poltergeists, I know. But really?
I can inaccurately predict a flat tyre apparently!

This is also the most recent of my bizarre premonitions! Not all involving dreams.
A few years back, I had an image of a guy I just saw in the street, punching me in the face.
About 5 seconds before actually being punched in the face, by the very same person. Exactly how I saw it.
Why I didn't block it, I'll never know...

I'm usually very logical about this stuff, but some things are just plain weird.

Doesn't seem to work for the lottery.... Go figure.

Lol

I don't even believe in seeing the future.

I've also never seen a ghost. But I want too!

Feel free to debunk or share your own experiences!

CMDR CosmicSpacehead

 

[Lianachan]

Yes, just a coincidence.

 

[verminstar]

Few years back, my mammy told me bout this old fortune teller...did the cards, tea leaves, palms and even the board fer those adventurous enough. No money changes hands either and this old girl asks only fer donations to feed her colony of cats. She actually refuses to take money payment point blank because...well she wasn't very clear on reasons why she wouldn't take cash payments and insisted on donations being material only and only for the cats...of which there were a great many.

Apparently, this old girl is very accurate and was well known in the rural community fer many years.

So anyway...first me mam...she was ill at the time but doctors hadn't diagnosed her. The old woman held me mams face in her hands and told her to make as many happy memories as she could and take lots of photos to remind her of the good times because she may forget in the future. At the time, we thought this rather odd...6 months later me mam was diagnosed with alzeimers.

Anyway, I'm rambling and the best bit is coming. She looked at me...a woman I have never met in my entire life and live over a hundred miles away from...and told me she couldn't read me...at all. She wasn't rude or afraid in any way...more bemused and perplexed by something she said she had only ever encountered twice in 60 years of reading. She explained that everyone has a guardian angel...someone who watches over them. And she claimed I had not one, but 2 and that this was preventing any reading being done. She described looking at me like trying to make out far away features in fog...out of focus sorta thing.

Next she read my daughter and told her how sorry she was...even though my daughter was 7 years old, she seemed to instinctively know what she meant. She never uttered a word the whole way back home, but that night, she had what she described as the most vivid dream of her mum ever. She remembered the next day, but had absolutely no memory of it the day after. Even described to me what her mum was wearing...an old sweatshirt that used to be her favorite but was lost years before my daughter was even born. Her mum died from cancer when she was 6 years old so you do the math.

Coincidence perhaps? Feel free to explain how because I can't ^^

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Truly weird, Verminstar!
And sorry for you loss!

I'd love an answer to all this weird stuff.

My girlfriend gets even more weird things, so many in fact, it's rather creepy. Lol
I'm convinced she's some sort of demon.... Not that i believe in those either! (She does!)

Weirdest and most memorable(and funny) for me, is after watching The Simpons Movie, in 2007.
She told me she remembers a TV show about a dome, and explained exactly what happens in it.
I thought nothing of it.

Until Under The Dome came out in 2013, and what she described, was actually the TV trailer for it.
Down to the last detail.

Lol

 

[glynie]

I'm personally not convinced there's anything paranormal going on. I'm not ruling it out but I'm not convinced. It's a deeply frustrating subject for me because I've never experienced anything myself and yet I'm surrounded by people who believe in this stuff. When I consider things like the one million dollar paranormal challenge, basically an opportunity for anyone to prove that they have some kind of genuine paranormal ability (or reproducible experiences maybe) - in over 50 years and over a thousand attempts, no-one's been able to prove a thing, not one of them. Well it just leaves you thinking every story is a load of rubbish, and the people around you who claim the contrary are either liars or delusional - which is really quite sad.

...but saying that, I have a load of these stories. Me personally, I've never had anything happen which I could confidently say was paranormal, so these stories are all from other people that I know. The weirdest thing I recall seeing was a slow flash of a bright light in the night sky, but it could've been a satellite or something. Make what you want of these:

- My dad passed away, bless him. Apparently however, prior to his passing, he told one of my brothers that he would try to communicate a single word should he have the means of doing so to convey that there's an afterlife (or at least that he was still around). Well my brother attended some kind of "spiritual evening" or whatever, and when asked if there were any messages for him, the word that was communicated was in-fact this word. My brother doesn't know how anyone could've known about it. It was an extremely rare name from a story.
- Another from my brother (Chris). He was in Australia in the process of moving house. At the time he didn't have anywhere to stay so one of his friends offered to put him up for a while until he found a new place. The first night he arrived, he fell asleep and woke during the night because of a disturbing dream. He told me that the dream was like so: imagine you were to get a piece of paper completely filled with dots (.....), row after row, but each of those dots was actually that of a baby's face, crying in distress. Just row after row of crying, distressed baby's faces. He said the dream was very vivid and intense and it woke him up. Anyway he thought little of it, went back to sleep and carried on as normal. A couple of weeks later he had the exact same dream. Apparently later that day, his friend came in and asked him how he was getting on - whether he was having luck finding a place to stay, did he feel comfortable staying with her, etc. Chris answered something like: "Yeah not too bad. Feel a little funny after last night. Had a bit of a weird dream". "Oh yeah, what kind of dream?" she asked. Chris described it to her and apparently she went as white as a sheet. She told Chris that the building they were in used to be an clinic. :s ...disturbing.
- My friend who lives literally 2 minutes walk away told me that when he arrived home one day he found his mother sitting in the kitchen rather shaken. The reason for this he explained was because she was sitting at the table making rollies (cigarettes) when the ashtray just moved by itself a few inches across the table. They've always believed their house was haunted.

Feel free to ask any questions...I don't know if I believe them myself. I can't help but think everyone may be insane. The thing is, if I experienced something like that, I'd probably be thinking that I was insane - and that's what bothers me. These people don't seem to question their own sanity or experiences, and I find that odd. Anyway, there you go. Let me know if you want to hear more crazy stories which have absolutely no evidence whatsoever and are only backed up by people's word. I have loads of them.

 

[Patrick_68000]

This kind of situation happens quite often. And also in the opposite direction, the impression to relive the same event, which took place in a hypothetical past. To relive the same scene in the same place, without having ever been there, is quite disturbing

 

[verminstar]

I'd be the same with the skepticism...there's not a religious bone in my body and even argued the theory once that the garden of eden was nothing more than a genetics lab. Think of the story and then compare that to a modern genetics lab...anyway yeah, I'm a skeptic that believes 99% of it is a lotta rubbish. Nothing more than smoke and mirrors and parlor tricks like those fools do on the sky tv with their ghosthunter programs...those have already been proven to be fake and nothing more than elaborate setups.

But there's that 1% that just cannot be explained...there is no logical explanation and that is incredibly vexing. It can't be proven and telling the story to someone who wasn't there will sound like just some fanciful story from our imaginations...a fantasy perhaps. Until it actually happens, ye simply won't believe it. In my own example, that old woman knew things about my late wife that were simply not known outside the close family circle as it were. She couldn't read my palms even though she tried and when she placed the tarot cards, she herself was dumb founded by her inability to read them. And yet she knew things that even my daughter didn't know...things that as far as I'm aware, only I knew.

The old sweater that my wife used to wear all the time...how in hell my daughter could describe that in perfect detail years before she was even born...from a dream. We don't even have any pictures of her wearing that sweatshirt and it was long gone and completely forgotten by the time we had our daughter. Like I say, I'm the biggest skeptic in the place but what my daughter told me made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

If someone...anyone has a viable, logical explanation then I'm all ears ^^

 

[glynie]

Psychics use psychological tricks, and often they're not even aware that they're doing it themselves which makes them all the more convincing. Based on the thousands of others before her who've tried, she wouldn't be able to prove under any kind of testing that she has any genuine psychic ability. I suspect what was happening, as difficult as it may be to hear, is that she was reading the words on the tip of your tongue. Watch some Derren Brown videos. It appears as if he's reading people's minds, but he's not, and he even explains that himself on occasion. He's expertly interpreting people's body language and facial features in ways that wouldn't occur to most people. I suspect it's all a collection of this and cold reading, and essentially you just weren't aware of it. We're all fallible in one way or another. Perhaps your memory of the event has even become distorted in some way, and if you're not considering that possibility, then why not? No offence intended.

This is really the problem I have with it. Consider the stories I told above. Tell all the stories you want but at the end of the day, there's absolutely no irrefutable evidence whatsoever. Nothing. Ever. I think that really should be the bottom line.

 

[Jason S]

The double slit experiment has shown that a measuring the result changes the result. More strangely even if you leave the measuring device there and then disconnect the recorder it still acts as if not measuring it and when connecting the recorder the results change. Now this is an experiment that has been completed many times with the same strange results and supports ideas like biocentrism.

 

[glynie]

Please don't tell me you're claiming the double slit experiment is evidence for the supernatural. Like: Double slit experiment is weird, therefore, psychics really have magic powers?

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I love these stories.
I find paranormal stuff very interesting, even if I dont fully believe it.

I'm oddly very sceptical about nearly everything paranormal, but when you either experience it, or witness, it kind tips me towards believing in that stuff.
But I'll still try and seek the rational explanation first.

I also lack any religious beliefs for the same reason.
(Although i do find them interesting too!)

I've never actually had anything ghost related happen to me. As much as I want too. Lol
My girlfriend however grew up in a 500 year old house in Cornwall(in an old smuggling pirate house apparently!), and she has almost endless stories and experiences from harmless stuff moving around, or completely vanishing temporarily, then months, or even years later, being found in places they couldn't have possibly gotten by accident(like, in the walls!). She's also experienced full bodied apparitions of an old lady, both alone, and with her sister, as teenagers. (Stereotypical!)
Which funnily(or creepily) enough turned out to be a previous owner of the house, which they discovered after they moved out.
And, she's also experienced the bad kind of stuff, doors slamming and locking. Like in the movies. Which both her parents witnessed, and couldn't open the door from either side.
She actually kicked the door off its hinges out of fear! A old fashioned Solid Wooden Door, not these new build flimsy doors!
The worst one is various forms of attacks from "something" which she insists wasn't the old lady. Whatever that was, threw things, and pinned her in the bed.
Now I immediately thought "night terrors" for that. Until she told me it was 3pm in the afternoon, and she was wide awake, reading a book!!

Despite all that, I still find it all hard to believe, and I want to experience it myself.
But, my girlfriend says, if someone is telling the truth about paranormal stuff, especially hostile stuff, they never want to see it again, and often don't want to talk about it.

 

[glynie]

Unfortunately I'd be considering why she made it all up and what kind of psychological problems she has. Now that may sound cynical, perhaps even cruel, but it's a real possibility that needs exploring. My first thoughts are perhaps she had a hard time in that place, being left alone there. Maybe she was lonely, depressed. These fantasies could be to entertain herself so she didn't have to feel rejected.

I know that train of thought is a more difficult road to go down than just believing her supernatural stories, especially since it may create relationship problems for you at some point, and the situation is not without my sympathy, but I reiterate the point I made earlier: No irrefutable evidence, for anything, ever, in centuries of searching for it.

 

[Ian Skippy]

There are a number of large cash rewards offered for people who claim to have 'special paranormal talents' to come to a lab and show it in a controlled environment. Everyone who has tried failed miserably, and the famous 'TV-stars' of this scene always refuse to go. We live in a day and age where pretty much everyone has a camera in their pockets 24/7. Guess what? Suddenly Poltergeists, ghosts, appearances of Maria and Jesus, Loch Ness and all that stuff don't seem to happen as much anymore. Not a single proper video of anything 'spooky' or 'paranormal' has ever been shown. Maybe they are just camera shy, but there is probably a better explanation.

I'm oddly very sceptical about nearly everything paranormal, but when you either experience it, or witness, it kind tips me towards believing in that stuff.
But I'll still try and seek the rational explanation first. [...] My girlfriend however grew up in a 500 year old house in Cornwall(in an old smuggling pirate house apparently!), and she has almost endless stories and experiences from harmless stuff moving around, or completely vanishing temporarily, then months, or even years later, being found in places they couldn't have possibly gotten by accident(like, in the walls!).

The explanation is simple: humans are atrociously bad at statistics, we have no intuitive sense of it at all. Throughout our life, we have billions of random thoughts popping in and out of out brains, and we dont consider it much. Unless one of them turns out to be actually true, and then we forget all about the other stuff and instinctively feel 'there must be something to this'. There is not. If you want to experience it, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

 

[Avago Earo]

OP, I predicted someone punching me in the face moments after puking down his suit and calling him something bad.

 

[Nagual]

Once upon a time while I was at college, I had a weirdly lucid dream that I was sitting in the Union office as normal, 2 girls walk in coming from the smoking room. One had burned her hand, so I just took them to the janitors office for them to take car of. Nothing special, but I did tell my colleagues about it, and got the expect replies. Later that day, 2 girls come into the office, one had spilt her tea on her hand, burning it.. so I took her to the janitors office obviously.

Sure, maybe coincidence or on a quantum level I perceived a particular possibility wave form Ni idea, but there are more things to this universe than we can understand much less even know about. Perhaps in the decades or millennia to come a further understand of such occurrences will discovered.

 

[glynie]

As you say, a coincidence, or perhaps even a slight error in your memory. You could be recalling the events incorrectly. Of course it wont seem like it to you - it couldn't.

Coincidences are to be expected though. Actually it'd be weird if they didn't occur. For example, the instinctive thought is to consider it bizarre for someone to win the jackpot on the national lottery more than once, but actually if you look at the numbers, it should happen, and it has happened.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

As you say, a coincidence, or perhaps even a slight error in your memory. You could be recalling the events incorrectly. Of course it wont seem like it to you - it couldn't.

The flat tyre story us particularly weird, because I woke up, remembering my dream, which doesn't happen often at all.
Then told my girlfriend about it. And remember her response, and i was still in my PJs. Lol (just woke up)
Then went to work, and came home.
Then got the puncture.
And then, I posted on here.


If I had not mentioned my dream to my girlfriend, I probably would have dismissed it as de ja vu, Human error, etc

I've had plenty of experiences where I've remembered things completely wrong, and things have seems weird.

I felt this one was note worthy, due to the timeline of events.

Of course it's all most likely just a very very odd coincidence.
I just kinda like the idea it's not. Lol

 

[Avago Earo]

Once upon a time while I was at college, I had a weirdly lucid dream that I was sitting in the Union office as normal, 2 girls walk in coming from the smoking room. One had burned her hand, so I just took them to the janitors office for them to take car of. Nothing special, but I did tell my colleagues about it, and got the expect replies. Later that day, 2 girls come into the office, one had spilt her tea on her hand, burning it.. so I took her to the janitors office obviously.

Sure, maybe coincidence or on a quantum level I perceived a particular possibility wave form Ni idea, but there are more things to this universe than we can understand much less even know about. Perhaps in the decades or millennia to come a further understand of such occurrences will discovered.

Yeah, it's an odd feeling isn't it? My earlier joke aside, I used to experience what some call Deja Vu quite a lot when I was younger, always followed by a feeling of dread.

The occasion that stands out though, was when I was at my Dad's work and a filing cabinet key was lost. I saw that and the conversation as it was unfolding and not realising I'd dreamed about it after the event. It played out before me and I knew the next word and action. I remember telling my Dad on the drive home. 'Active imagination' was the response (or words thereof) I know there are good scientific explanations for this, and they do make some sense, but the memory of it feeling real is as clear now as it was over thirty years ago. It spooked me, then, for quite some time.

 

[verminstar]

That still doesn't explain how someone I had never met before could know certain details that absolutely nobody else on the planet knew but me...nobody.

Unless yer saying a mentalist has been conning people fer 60 years fer no money? How is that explained?

If done as a joke then it's a bloody long running joke...if it's a con then why and fer what considering she refuses to take payment? The mentalist approach just doesn't cut it unless yer saying that all those who were there all experienced the exact same hallucination.

How can she predict the exact illness my mother hadn't been officially diagnosed with? At that point, the doctors were scratching their heads because they couldn't figure it out...yet this old woman who never even had a landline and still has an outside toilet could do what hundred grand a year doctors couldn't do? Can any of this be explained?

I'm just as much the skeptic...have been my entire life and up until that point would have laughed it off as nothing more than fantasy. But this? Like I say, I'm all ears to any explanation that might actually be believable ^^

 

[glynie]

There are a wealth of psychological reasons people do these kinds of things for no money. It may make them feel good, or powerful, or kind for example. Sometimes these people do background on the people they're 'reading'. Sometimes as I've explained, information can be extracted during the reading itself without your knowledge. I'm not prepared to accept your suggestion that it was something paranormal without some kind of evidence, especially when there are perfectly reasonable alternative explanations for these kinds of things. Sometimes those explanations challenge our beliefs - for example they may make us consider we are being deceived, but I think it's more reasonable to entertain that possibility under the circumstances.

I'm not saying that nothing paranormal ever happens (perhaps somewhere it did, or perhaps one of these stories does have a paranormal explanation). What I'm saying is how can you possibly believe in any of them without a single shred of proof?

My own brother tells me these stories, but I'm still not convinced.