What spooky stuff has happened to you recently?

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Well, even if it hasn't happened to you recently, it still bears mentioning.

I saw my first name today as someone's last name.

It was a woman's name.

My future wife's name? :D

In the past:

Have had two inexplicable sleep paralysis events and they happened while I wasn't even fully asleep. You normally hear that these happen when the body wakes up but in my case, it happened while trying to relax and maybe go to sleep.

Once the TV turned on by itself in my unlit room. No one else was in the vicinity.

Another time, I was alone at home and rest of my family was out on a drive. The remote controlled bell goes off so I run and open the gate, thinking they returned.

No one came. They returned about an hour later I think.

When I was a kid, every time family would leave me alone in the apartment, it would get me excited because I could do whatever I want. But then one hour would pass and the worry would start eating me from the inside out and all joy would drain from my body. I would sit by the window, looking for their car to arrive and kept daydreaming about alternate dreadful life possibilities where I'm an orphan.
 

BoomerD

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Nothing in recent history....but my father-in-law died in 86. We moved back to Spokane to help my mother-in-law deal with all the assorted bullshit that comes with the death of a long-time spouse.
Every one of us "bumped into him" in various parts of the house at different times., Then, fast forward about 6 years. I was living in CA, nearly 1000 miles away. I worked for an electrical utility as their crane operator. On-call nearly 24/7. One night, I got called out at about 0200 to help the underground line crew with a transformer that had been taken out by a car. I got in the boom truck, loaded up the transformer and headed for the site. Just as I was getting on the freeway, for some reason, I looked toward the passenger seat...there was my father-in-law with a cup of coffee in his hand, grinning at me. It "felt" like he was checking in on my...and his grin was telling me he was proud of what I had done with life. That shook me...I looked at the road ahead, then back and he was gone. That was the last time i encountered him...
Makes me shudder just thinking about it...30+ years later.
 

Charmonium

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I don't think I'm ever going to be able to understand how it's possible to be fully awake/conscious and see things, people or whatever as if it's actually there/real/substantive.

I haven't done tons of hallucinogens. A pretty fair amount of acid, some psilocybin, some strong hashish. I've never seen jack shit. What did happen is that I couldn't see anything at all. That was on a couple tabs of acid. I wouldn't classify it as blindness. It was more an inability to look at anything - you can try, but the brain just isn't having any of it and your eyes close, mostly. Not a good state to find yourself in while "driving."

Anyway, that was the most extreme of all of my acid trips - nada.
 

DigDog

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I don't think I'm ever going to be able to understand how it's possible to be fully awake/conscious and see things, people or whatever as if it's actually there/real/substantive.

I haven't done tons of hallucinogens. A pretty fair amount of acid, some psilocybin, some strong hashish. I've never seen jack shit. What did happen is that I couldn't see anything at all. That was on a couple tabs of acid. I wouldn't classify it as blindness. It was more an inability to look at anything - you can try, but the brain just isn't having any of it and your eyes close, mostly. Not a good state to find yourself in while "driving."

Anyway, that was the most extreme of all of my acid trips - nada.
I am with you on this. I don't think this actually happens, short of situations where the user has consumed waaay too much; i'm talking complete loss of self kinda situations. The rest is just fervid imagination, and the other guys being overly descriptive of something that's a mere feeling.

But then again, there is documentation of people hallucinating out of religious fervor, so maybe it's just that some people do, and some people don't.

I mean, don't get me wrong, i've certainly had my share of revelations and crazy ideas, but i never thought i was factually seeing this with my own eyes.

As for spooky stuff, i am convinced that i can make supernatural stuff happen. It's not something that has changed my life, i don't go around dressed like a wizard, but there have been situations where i felt a .. "pressure" .. like when you're really pissed off and you're trying to keep it together .. and i wouldn't let go; and then something IRL would happen. This was so noticeable that other people around me also thought it was happening.

Pure coincidence, of course. But when it always manifests itself the same way - power breaker tripping, lights burning out, an entire street in Brighton losing power and going dark while i'm walking through it - and always accompanied by that feeling, and that .. expression, on my face, makes me sometimes think it's supernatural. (there must be a scientific explanation, i trust)

"something breaks because i don't". It's as if i project my stress onto things around me.

It's only happened maybe 3-4 times, so, just spooky coincidence.
 

Charmonium

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@DigDog -thx for the reply. I've got some pretty significant cortical atrophy due to childhood encephalitis, so that's been my main goto explanation. But the MRI that's proof of that is over 20 years old and contrary to prior medical "wisdom," the brain DOES generate new cells in adults.

Well, d'uh. So no idea if that info is still valid.

I'm assuming none of that applies to you in any way, and I really don't need to know if that assumption is incorrect. So your experience is very interesting to me.

Cheers!
 
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