Supernatural experiences? All the frekken time... I'm sensitive to spirits and the energy in objects so I see weird things every once in a while, but the weirdest times in my life we're all haunted houses.
When I was seven I was left alone in my babysitter's haunted house to watch "tales from da hood" before her roomate came home for about an hour. I started hearing things go bump in the kitchen and every time I checked they would stop. I started ignoring it more and more until the tv was turned up way too loud and I could hear every cabnet and the creaky dishwasher open and close. I finally got fed up with it walked in the kitchen, and told them to shut up and they stopped. Turns out a fire claimed a whole family there in the 1920 and the house was rebuilt.
When I was about eight I went over to friends house and watched the lion king while my babysitter worked on painting another room. I could of sworn he said his daighter was there so I went to her room and nocked on the door. I heard a little girl tell me "just a minute" so I waited and waited.... and I walked in. I looked around and there was no little girl or recording device to be found. As it turned out when I met her later on it was her voice. Almost like a dream projection or something.
Last March I was housesitting for a friend of the family while she was out on spring break with her daughters. Her husband died of a heart attack in her house but I didn't expect to feel anything. I remember one night I was jerking it and I saw a man peeking around the corner looking at me. Then a cd case started shaking violently.... I stopped and tried to take some pics but nothing came out. Then a few days later I started seeing him out of the corner of my eye lookiher beirded dragon and walking from one room or the next. Because he knows my mom and I for the most part he leaves us alone but you still have to ask to borrow his tools or he starts banging on walls.
I haven't really seen any other spirits for a while, I did see dead pets not too long ago, but mainly I just get creeped out holding certain objects at thrift shops and I keep seeing mental images of car accident and violent crime victims around my house where people have died. Like not "6th sense" bloody people but more annoying people following me and asking me questions or saying one sentence over and over. I've checked into it and the only thing I found because that road had tons of accidents was an old cross on a tree where a crash happened.
First let me say I'm a bit of a skeptic when it comes to this stuff, but I can share the following experiences--
We bought our first home from a man dying of lung cancer. He passed away while we were in contract to buy the house. About a month into living there I heard a tremendous crash-- I initially thought a large piece of furniture had fallen over. I discovered the crash had been in the basement-- the dryer had somehow been pushed a good four feet away from the wall. There was no evidence of explosion, and the ground was level. Because of the new location of the dryer I could see a long-disconnected exhaust hose and a small mountain of laundry lint piled up. We'd been sitting on a CO tragedy waiting to happen (no detectors in the house, we got them after that). I can't describe it but I knew right then it was the previous owner "warning" us. We also had many photographs in the house with strange streaks and spirals of light, in some pictures taken in sequence the spirals could be seen moving in a clear trajectory, and one had the outline of a human form. All of these lights would appear near one daughter in particular.
I've also had any number of prescient dreams. Two in particular come to mind-- the morning of 9/11 I dreamed my family and I were on the 11th floor of the Omni Hotel (formerly in the trade center-- I think it had been renamed the millennium hotel by that point). I looked out the window and saw the 11th floor was level with the underground parking lot. 2 hours later the buildings were destroyed.
Another dream was a week before the 2004 tsunami. I dreamed I was on a tropical island and that the tide was abnormally low. Suddenly the water started coming from all sides of the island, I was running back and forth between the rising tides and realized soon the entire island would be underwater.
I've had any number of prescient dreams about smaller matters, but I also know the human mind can see what it wants to see-- though I'm hard pressed to explain the dream about the Omni Hotel in particular.
I tend to be a skeptic, but then again I write science fiction as a hobby. My job is very technical, with no abstract elements, except when it comes to managing folks. I even have the sign over my desk that reminds visitors, "In god we trust. All else bring data."
But I grew up between two cultures. My youngest days were part of a small native american community. Still, you ask them about common terms Americans use, like "psychic", and they'll be skeptical. But many might accept the stories of our youth, how our spirits are real, and the connections with those who are close to us can sometimes give us a glimpse into the things we normally can't see. A loved one's imminent death might cast such a powerful darkness over their spirit that others, maybe the more sensitive, will see it. If a person claimed to see a vision of something that would soon happen, it would only be about people who were closely connected to them. There's just this sense that some events affect our spirit so profoundly that they can be sometimes seen before they happen. We even believe that marriage is a real connection, built around the spirit of the wife.
Do I believe this? To me, this isn't something I really choose to pursue, or seek proof. I respect it for its personal meaning - not the scientific evidence.
I have experiences that are special to me, and aren't easily explained.
I saw some guy walking by the foot of my bed the other morning. One other time i saw many ghosts flying past my bed. They looked like they were determined to get somewhere and were unaware of me; but one stopped and saw me. he floated by my bedside and starred at me. I also saw a weird looking spider crawling on my bed. My H was there for that one and saw that I was awake and I was talking.
I've read this is pretty common during hypnagogia, though. I tend to hallucinate a lot between 3 and 7 am.
My first GF's mom had a ghost she even had a name for, apparently he was a shadow that would stand beside her bed at night in times when she was under duress, especially during her two pregnancies. Hearing this all for the first time I thought it sounded frightening, but she said it was reassuring and made her feel protected... I was also startled that this family which is so typically everyday non-superstitious, all readily accepted this shadow figure as a real spirit, her guardian angel. I am sure this could easily be considered hypnagogia but my ex gf's mom is very insistent and said that she understood what that meant but she was always wide awake and coherent, I personally have no opinion on what it really was.
A close buddy of mine whom I considered a brother passed away a few years ago,I was and still am extremely close to the family.They live out of state,anyway at two a.m. the night I had returned home,all five t.v.'s in the house all came on at once,same channel,same program he liked to watch,Scared the hell out of my wife.I think it was his way of saying everythings alright.I calmly turned off all the sets and went to bed happy he took the time to say goodbye.Been quiet since. Posted via Mobile Device
A close buddy of mine whom I considered a brother passed away a few years ago,I was and still am extremely close to the family.They live out of state,anyway at two a.m. the night I had returned home,all five t.v.'s in the house all came on at once,same channel,same program he liked to watch,Scared the hell out of my wife.I think it was his way of saying everythings alright.I calmly turned off all the sets and went to bed happy he took the time to say goodbye.Been quiet since. Posted via Mobile Device
Electricity seems to be a common way for spirits to communicate. Lights, radio, TV, phones, computers. It must be about the energy?
when my husband and i had our first apt, there was a woman that was killed, i always assumed by her abusive husband, she also had small children.
this i know, because the room my husband and i slept in was her childrens room, and every night from midnight to around 2am, she would pop her head in, as if to check on the kids.
the longer we were up, the more often she would come by. it was a shadow of a small woman. once i was sick, she rocked me back and forth and rubbed my fore head.
when we were homeless and sleeping at a rest stop...every night when we were dosing off we heard voices clear as day. like loud and right next to us. there was never anybody there. we could understand every word, and the paid us no attention...
no thats not true, once one of the voices said, whos that..my husband and i jumped up but there was no one there. we were mostly annoyed by this, because they were loud, and we were so very tired.
i absolutley believe in the other side. we have dreams about our future..some are only the shadows of things to come, and some are true.
before we left our state, i had a dream i was on the bus going to the mall [in my dream it was our local mall] and i saw my brother in law, he wouldnt speak to me, or wave. he looked right through me as if he didnt know me.
i also noticed the bus was a different color that our city bus, and the bus wasnt going the "right" way to the mall. i was mad because he acted like he didnt now me from a can of paint.
about a year after we lived in our new city, i was on the bus, not going to the mall, but i was thinking about the prior week when i did go, right there was this guy who was my husbands brothers identical twin....cracked me up.
we have deja-vu all the time, and usually we had a dream about this exact moment and conversation. spirits do come by us, and try to communicate to us.
i have been astroplaneing since before i can remember. i have been shot with a 12 gage, murdered by a serial killer, took the place of another and was drowned...thats all i an remember as im typing this.
my mother dosent believe in this, and she tells me its all the "movies" i watch. i dont like scary movies, like jason, or freddy, silent hill, saw, basically anything that looks like it might be just a little creepy im done. the happening was scary to me..until the end, but i didnt like it, and left the room many times.
so i watch things that are not scary..i dont even like suspense...but thats ok for her not to believe, or any one else. i know what i see and what i feel, and any body that hasent felt it, or had an experience...it cant be explained.
I've had experiences when relatives have died. I haven't been able to sleep and been up all night with an awful gut feeling then received the news the next day.
I have never told anybody this. This was 2005/2006 my husband, my mom, the four kids and I found this charming four family flat and just loved it right away.
We were happy to live there. The room my husband and I were in was the most evilist room. It felt like death. Shortly after moving in my husband changed to someone I didn't recognize. He was phsycaly abusive and verbally. He never laid a hand on me in all our years together.
He became violent and just did cruel things to me. We only lived there about nine months. He has no memory of anything that happened. He remembers fragments and bits. He said its like a fog.
When we moved into our house he was the funny sweet kind person I had always known. But for those nine or so months his whole demeanor changed. He talked different walked different.
He said I had changed. He remembers little fragments of conversations and I was b!tchy and a nagging shrew. Of which I'm not. My mom changed but hers was a good change. Oddly she was nice and laid back.
My husband and I can't explain what it was that happened. The older couple that lived there before prob died. There was a lot of medical stuff left in the apt. I think we both have huge black outs of time and since we moved into our house we pretty much went back to normal.
That exact same thing happened to my mom and her ex many years ago. They would both feel fine outside but in that house things just got ugly. She learned after staying there for a few months that the couple that lived there before them fought day and night sometimes getting violent. They say the energy we put into things stays behind when we leave, like with crying teddy bears. I know after they smudged every corner it was a lot better place to be.
Has anybody read Lisa Williams books or seen her tv show?
We saw her live in Brisbane a few years ago and she was brilliant. I had watched her series for about a year before we went. When she came down off the stage, her energy was amazing. I have never felt that kind of vibe come off anybody in my life.
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Has anybody ever had a supernatural experience that they know was real to them?
I believe in the supernatural because man doesn't have all the answers. We don't even use all of our brain, there is so much more we are capable of discovering in our abilities. Faith is believing in something you can't touch or feel. I have seen things I can not explain, and know many people who it's not so much a matter of finding the logic, it's just when you "know" there's something else around.
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That's great you and your daughter do discuss this. I guess she is an empath?
