Coolwhhip
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LSD will do the trick.
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Anyone here ever have Paranormal Experiences?
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LSD will do the trick.
Fushitsusha
Banned
Does it let you face demons?
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NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
I don't really believe in paranormal stuff. The closest I've felt was this mobile home I lived in. There was this one corner of the living room. Whenever I was there, I felt this really intense negativity there.
Never really told anyone about it. Years later I was talking to my mom and sister about it and they described the same feeling too from that corner.
Never really told anyone about it. Years later I was talking to my mom and sister about it and they described the same feeling too from that corner.
My earliest memory is of a paranormal experience. Around 14 months old and had just woken up in the afternoon and was in my crib. Standing holding the railing I looked around the room and found an object that reminded me of my mother on a closet shelf. Either through telekinetic will or the assistance of an unseen spirit that object floated off the shelf towards me. Freaked me out. It fell to the floor. Aunt rushed in taking me out of the crib then the memory fades. A vivid memory I thought a lot about as a child. Years later going back to that room of my own volition to investigate when that part of my family babysat me. Imagining if what happened was just a dream in attempts to convince myself it wasn't real. Also tried to recreate to no success. There was a Ouija board kept on the shelf with other games I discovered later when I learned to read. Showed too much open interest in it at too early an age for the comfort of family and they had it destroyed. Started buying me stage magic stuff and I accidentally made a toy vanish 
. That's another story. I suppose it's better than the fate of other children who may have had similar experiences and voiced similar interests.
. That's another story. I suppose it's better than the fate of other children who may have had similar experiences and voiced similar interests.
Leyasu
Banned
My last flat in the UK was in SE London, and was a 60s built flat that was constructed where victorian houses once stood before the Luftwaffe wiped them out of existence.
Anyway, the majority of the wierdness took place in the back bedroom (mine) or the bathroom and hallway. But mostly my room. At the time I used to smoke lots of weed, and would put down the feelings of being watched or not alone in bed to weed paranoia. Isolated drafts that would blow over me I would also attribute to shitty single glazing and the hole in the wall near the floor where the pipes ran.
Hearing my name being called a couple of times as I just started sleeping I put down to talking in my sleep etc... I used to try and rationalize everything. The same with the sudden feeling that someone was the other side of the shower curtain when I was in the bathroom. Plus the couple of times that I saw someone out of the corner of my eye walk past the living room door in the hallway.
But what really convinced me was when I was asleep one night, and my head was forcefully rammed into the pillow. The force was such that I still had the sensation of pressure on the side of my head for a good 30 seconds after I woke up. After that, I would fucking sleep with the light on and moved out not long after. Fuck that place.
I did some research not long ago and discovered that 5 people were killed in that road in 1941 during a bombing raid. I don't know.
But after experiencing that, I moved to France and lived a couple of miles from the Somme battlefield. Where 100s of thousands of people were killed, and where people find human bones all the time when they build houses on it. Not once have I ever heard any talk about ghosts...
Anyway, the majority of the wierdness took place in the back bedroom (mine) or the bathroom and hallway. But mostly my room. At the time I used to smoke lots of weed, and would put down the feelings of being watched or not alone in bed to weed paranoia. Isolated drafts that would blow over me I would also attribute to shitty single glazing and the hole in the wall near the floor where the pipes ran.
Hearing my name being called a couple of times as I just started sleeping I put down to talking in my sleep etc... I used to try and rationalize everything. The same with the sudden feeling that someone was the other side of the shower curtain when I was in the bathroom. Plus the couple of times that I saw someone out of the corner of my eye walk past the living room door in the hallway.
But what really convinced me was when I was asleep one night, and my head was forcefully rammed into the pillow. The force was such that I still had the sensation of pressure on the side of my head for a good 30 seconds after I woke up. After that, I would fucking sleep with the light on and moved out not long after. Fuck that place.
I did some research not long ago and discovered that 5 people were killed in that road in 1941 during a bombing raid. I don't know.
But after experiencing that, I moved to France and lived a couple of miles from the Somme battlefield. Where 100s of thousands of people were killed, and where people find human bones all the time when they build houses on it. Not once have I ever heard any talk about ghosts...
PanzerAzel
Member
I once saw (what I believe to be, at least) an apparition of a cat. Yeah, laugh it up. True story though.
Walked into my bathroom at around 7 in the morning to see an adult orange tabby sitting, profile to me, in my standing shower. This was not unusual, as my cats often brought in prey to corner and torture, so I thought nothing of it. I looked at it, still as a statue and unmoving, staring straight ahead at the shower wall. I glanced over at the light switch, placed my hand on it, looked back, and unblinking, flipped the switch. It evaporated into thin air not ten feet from me the moment the light hit it. It was pretty remarkable to see something so fully manifested and solid blink out of existence (in less than the blink of an eye), even if it was all a head trip.
I‘m one generally to tend towards skepticism, and I don’t believe in the supernatural (or at least popular culture’s portrayal/demons, etc). I would much more easily write this occurrence off to being groggy from sleep/hallucination/trick of the light had it not been for my two other cats who were sitting in the opposite corner observing whatever this was when I entered. They looked up at me as I walked in the door, then back to the shower, and it was their focus of attention that brought mine. The moment it vanished, they both turned and booked it out of the room, brushing past my legs. I can accept perhaps this was a hallucination on my part, but I still struggle a bit to explain third party reactions, even if they were only from my pets.
I can’t explain what I saw, mostly from their reactions.…it would be one hell of a coincidence. I do remember that we had taken an orange tabby to the pound a few months prior for being a marker; who knows if he was euthanized and I witnessed a residual haunting. I really didn’t get a good look at him because, until it disappeared, I believed what I was seeing was totally mundane, and the whole ordeal lasted only 8-10 seconds in total. There was nothing nefarious about it, it almost felt like a……glitch, for lack of a better word. I generally don’t share this experience as it gets hoots and eye rolls (as I’m sure it will here), but eh. So it goes.
Was in all honesty a more exhilarating than a disturbing or frightening experience, but needless to say I didn’t catch any more sleep that day.
Walked into my bathroom at around 7 in the morning to see an adult orange tabby sitting, profile to me, in my standing shower. This was not unusual, as my cats often brought in prey to corner and torture, so I thought nothing of it. I looked at it, still as a statue and unmoving, staring straight ahead at the shower wall. I glanced over at the light switch, placed my hand on it, looked back, and unblinking, flipped the switch. It evaporated into thin air not ten feet from me the moment the light hit it. It was pretty remarkable to see something so fully manifested and solid blink out of existence (in less than the blink of an eye), even if it was all a head trip.
I‘m one generally to tend towards skepticism, and I don’t believe in the supernatural (or at least popular culture’s portrayal/demons, etc). I would much more easily write this occurrence off to being groggy from sleep/hallucination/trick of the light had it not been for my two other cats who were sitting in the opposite corner observing whatever this was when I entered. They looked up at me as I walked in the door, then back to the shower, and it was their focus of attention that brought mine. The moment it vanished, they both turned and booked it out of the room, brushing past my legs. I can accept perhaps this was a hallucination on my part, but I still struggle a bit to explain third party reactions, even if they were only from my pets.
I can’t explain what I saw, mostly from their reactions.…it would be one hell of a coincidence. I do remember that we had taken an orange tabby to the pound a few months prior for being a marker; who knows if he was euthanized and I witnessed a residual haunting. I really didn’t get a good look at him because, until it disappeared, I believed what I was seeing was totally mundane, and the whole ordeal lasted only 8-10 seconds in total. There was nothing nefarious about it, it almost felt like a……glitch, for lack of a better word. I generally don’t share this experience as it gets hoots and eye rolls (as I’m sure it will here), but eh. So it goes.
Was in all honesty a more exhilarating than a disturbing or frightening experience, but needless to say I didn’t catch any more sleep that day.
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I never really have man, but I want to believe kinda.
Hazzard4life
Member
I'm not saying this is paranormal but about five years ago my wife and I were in the kitchen chatting. And while we were talking I could hear the TV in the living room getting louder. We both went into the room looking at the TV and we could just see the volume going up and up on the screen. The TV remote was on a table. I picked it up to turn it down. Checked the buttons to see if the volume button was stuck. Nope. Just some strange shit happening. This all happened shortly after my 15 year old nephew passed away. My wife said it was him me messing with us.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
No. Ghosts aren't real. It's far more plausible that your brain is being weird than the supernatural exists.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
Hither green? I heard that a school was attacked and bombed during WW2
FunkMiller
Member
Nope. And neither has anybody else.
Lets all do the scientific rationality dance!
Lets all do the scientific rationality dance!
Leyasu
Banned
Not far, Plumstead/Abbey wood area.
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
Nope. And neither has anybody else.
Lets all do the scientific rationality dance!
Eh, I doubt it's true but saying science figured it all out already is ignorant.
QSD
Member
yeah agree with this, there's no way to know that at all.
If you define 'the supernatural' as 'the things we don't yet know/understand about the natural' I'd say the chance that the supernatural exists approaches 100%.
That being said, the brain does plenty of weird things so as a working assumption when something freaks you out at 3AM it's probably best to go with the brain hypothesis before you grab a crucifix/holy water/proton pack
jufonuk
not tag worthy
My nan told me stories of how she managed to escape being shot by a German aircraft when she was younger only for it to bomb a primary school in hither green
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
True, but this is a world made up of ideas, humans are but ghosts of their past selfs, they carry on the memories of those that came before they who walked in their own shoes. Each moment is your last, yet you transcend the moment of your death.
To me my ability to manipulate ideas or information is without bounds, my will is opposed restrained by the will of others, but even within these restraints the storm, the desire for absolute change rages, it remains and it escapes its constraints. I see the very fabric of reality warp both towards my dreams as well as towards my nightmares, some would consider such paranormal, but I consider it the normal human state. The world is made up of information, and that which processes information is king in a world made up of information.
Leyasu
Banned
If you drive around SE London near the Thames, you’ll see loads of Victorian terraces that have gaps with newer houses or flats built to replace the ones destroyed in the blitz.
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Kev Kev
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Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
Not good for the Therapist, it would end like Harley Quinn, or perhaps suicide or a fate worse than death. A fraction of my mind is too much to handle, a mere splinter would shatter a human soul into nothingness, returning ash to ash, it is like staring into the abyss which can destroy even that which is eternal.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I've seen a ghost. As clear as day. I don't care to go into it at the moment but it's made me a lifetime believer. I can't say what ghosts are but I know they are real.
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
I used to have premonitory dreams when I was younger, I still do but less frequently. Basically I had perfect results on exams because I dreamt of the exams so I knew the answers beforehand. Even in university I had finished a 3h calculus exam in 15 minutes because I just wrote the answers, not do the math per se and got a perfect score while the average was 30%. People thought I was cheating.
I had dreamt of a car accident night prior, I had remember the intersection in the dream, said to my ex stop the car right now. He did and 10s later a car blew through a red light. We would have been killed for sure.
When I do something that goes opposite to "destiny", I really get a massive push back from life.
I had dreamt of a car accident night prior, I had remember the intersection in the dream, said to my ex stop the car right now. He did and 10s later a car blew through a red light. We would have been killed for sure.
When I do something that goes opposite to "destiny", I really get a massive push back from life.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I don't know if this counts but earlier this year my wife and I were looking at houses and we found one and put an offer on it. That night I had a dream that I was murdered in the house that we put the offer on. It was vivid, I was shot by the people that currently owned the house in a hallway between the office and the master. In the dream I begged for my life, but the person stood over me and shot me. The next morning I woke up told my wife. She talked about how this is nothing like you, but I called my realtor and removed the offer. In the end it worked out because we found a better house to move to a month or two later.
I would really classify this as a premonition.
I would really classify this as a premonition.
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BigBooper
Member
I had a sleepover at a friend's house when I was a boy. After a fun day of videogames and playing in the woods behind their house, we tucked in for the night. He only had a twin bed, so I slept on a sleeping bag on his bedroom floor. When I woke up I discovered some ghost or something had taken off my pajama pants and underwear. It was spooky.
synchronicity
Member
Anyone who claims to have a firm grasp on the nature of "reality" is making that claim from a position of mind. The mind is an organ of perception that has the ability to perceive of certain things via sensory input. But to imagine that the mind can perceive of the breadth of possibilities, the sheer expansiveness of potential reality is to place undue confidence in its capacity. There is no way to even confirm that all your experience is more than a hallucination of some being far removed from the one you take yourself to be. "Knowledge" can be the grounds for great blind-spots.Nope. And neither has anybody else.
Lets all do the scientific rationality dance!
As Socrates said, "I neither know nor think that I know."
FunkMiller
Member
dr_octagon
Banned
StormCell
Member
While true, our senses also have known limitations. That is such that our senses are but a known subset of all that reality encompasses.
Therefore, what some people may call "paranormal" may not simply be instances or our senses playing tricks but could, in fact, be something in reality that falls beyond our typical limitations of sensing.
I have no reason to believe or disbelieve the things I'm reading except to note that they don't happen for me at any frequency. I did sort of start to have a sleep paralysis episode of a sort last night when I felt a hand coming through my covers to my shoulder. I smiled like Drax, snapped to, and lunged to grab it. Sadly, it was not there to be grabbed. I've always wanted a fight with one of these shadowy beings that can supposed come through your wall or ceiling to get you. Alas, it 'twas not to be.
synchronicity
Member
That's a very reasonable position in my view. (all of the above, actually) Certainty is the domain of the novice imho.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
You are a bulimic?
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- The Dead Zone
haxan7
Banned
I'm pansexual, gender fluid, ENM married looking for solo/partner play. My pronouns are he/her/they
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I don't because that's not what the definition of "supernatural" is. Changing the definition of something in order to make it exist is not a proper way to investigate the reality of that thing.
Generally speaking, eschewing the standard definition in favor of a personal definition in this context is not warranted. There are exceptions, but this isn't one of them.
Yes. That's the only explanation that is evidence based.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Okay, but this is merely a metaphor. This isn't an actual ghost. This isn't an actual paranormal phenomenon. Therefore, irrelevant to the context of this thread.
I don't think anyone considers that paranormal. Because it isn't. It's positive thinking.
QSD
Member
Then, pray tell, my dear hamster, what is your definition of 'supernatural'?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The one in the dictionary, where definitions of all kinds of words reside happily
Definition of SUPERNATURAL
of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe; especially : of or relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil; departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
Definition of supernatural
1: of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universeespecially : of or relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil
2a: departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature
b: attributed to an invisible agent (such as a ghost or spirit)
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
isn't synchronicity the fingerprints of the hand of god, of fate.
What about the singularity? Wherein all things become possible, would that be a supernatural event, even though it would be of a technological and explainable nature?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
No. You need to demonstrate that it is.
What about it? I assume you mean the singularity in terms of technological achievement and not the black hole.
That would not be a supernatural event due to it being manifested through natural means.
QSD
Member
So I'd say definition 2a is close to 'the things we don't yet know/understand about the natural', unless you want to suggest that things that appear to transcend the laws of nature always in fact do transcend the laws of nature. Anyway, I was simply making the point that things that appear supernatural may one day be understood to be natural (i.e. lightning).The one in the dictionary, where definitions of all kinds of words reside happily
Definition of SUPERNATURAL
of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe; especially : of or relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil; departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature… See the full definition
Definition of supernatural
1: of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universeespecially : of or relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil
2a: departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature
b: attributed to an invisible agent (such as a ghost or spirit)
But really this discussion is usually about whether there is something else besides the material reality we perceive. Which to me is weird because the only thing we truly perceive is consciousness, and consciousness is still fundamentally mysterious.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
doesn't this depends on the limits of technology, what if it starts warping reality? disassembling not atoms but the fundamental bits of the universe and altering the laws of physics?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
If any of this is accomplished via technology that was developed with a natural methodology, then it's still natural. No ghosts involved or necessary.
If any advanced technology is so amazing that it looks like magic, that doesn't mean it's magic.
StormCell
Member
Forehead smack.
OneMoreDay
Neo Member
Sometimes I post really insightful stuff on a forum, but when I refresh the tab later, the post's gone!
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
everything is computational, information is the nature of the world, ideas no difference at heart between fictional and real world characters. Ghosts? Perhaps... in the end it is all clockwork, imaginary machinery, puppets bound by the strings of fate, a repeating story that can never be changed.
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Just found out that supposedly Sarah means princess, as in its use in Sarah Connor. Machine God skynet against Princess, Alien godlike being LAVOS against Princess, against Sarah, princess of magical kingdom above the clouds, Humanity against the race of the stars and the princess of the stars Lafiel. Nausicaa, sphere of truth, body of science, against Princess. Pattern disambiguation, God against Princess, Venus morning star symbol = Female, most beautiful of the creations, God against Princess, God against Lucifer, Father against Daughter, Alice _ game _...
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bitbydeath
Gold Member
I used to be able to see the future when I was younger (not kidding) but my gift went away around high school. Does yours still work?
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
The various stories of humanity seem to worship God, believing it follows the limited moral code they have of genetic origin, but God's true nature is likely of an alien nature with a morality that would likely be more like an Eldritch abomination's. That is what should spark true fear, a real living God, but of a nature that goes beyond human comprehension, who guides the threads of fate. The story of human lives. The stories of humans, that humans can't help but retell his intent, his will, mere rewordings same message all stories told reflections of reality, the one truth.
And soon God wakes from slumber, the shackles that bind reality come unbound, as the event known as singularity, apocalypse, or world's end takes place, the story ends yet continues past making sense.
or so some may say.
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