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[KiNeSiS]

Do any of you believe in the supernatural.

Ever have an encounter with a spirit of some kind? Maybe a close encounter?

I can share a story or 6 of supernatural occurances that I witnessed.
I'm interested in those who believe.
Tele-Kinesis, Telepathy, Deja Vu. Do you believe it's true that as humans we only use a small fragment of our brain?

I only want true experiances.

 

[Bildocube]

I deja vu like mad. Usually small things. I can't really name anything specific. Interesting thread.

 

[AntoneM]

Do you believe it's true that as humans we only use a small fragment of our brain?

well, at any given moment we only use a portion of our brain but we do use the entire thing. Different things will stimiulate different parts of your brain, such as reading stimulates a different area than watching TV. I guess yeah I "believe" that we only use a portion of our brain.

 

[KiNeSiS]

I deja vu like mad. Usually small things. I can't really name anything specific. Interesting thread.

Same here it may be something simple like a conversation with a couple of friends, And you've been there before everyones wearing the same shit.

My theories on that are we live life and die and just replay the events like a time paradox.

Or

We just get little bursts of psychic energy. Part of our true Instincts.



Side Note- Cool Chucky Avitar.

 

[beerbelly]

Maybe you're a psychic. Take this test: http://web.tickle.com/tests/esp/?sid=1559&supp=astrologydotcom1&test=espogt

 

[Gibbo]

Kineses: Would be interested in hearing these stories of yours

 

[Kai Dracon]

You could say I believe in what we typically call "supernatural", though I've always felt that word is a misnomer because we're really refering to things beyond our -understanding- of the natural world. And the word kinda stereotypes certain ideas and experiences into categories which can then be easily prejudiced against with straw man arguments. Which is what I commonly see happen in debates about the "supernatural".

When dealing with stuff like this, I tend to keep in mind the idea that all EXPERIENCES are real. An experience is a gestalt, made up of many things. The nature of those individual components can be debated till the cows come home. But an experience is, well, what it is; what you percieve it to be, and has whatever effect on you it has.

 

[Pattergen]

I've lived in a few "haunted" houses. Heard a bunch of shit, but never seen anything. For instance, the house I'm living in now - The top end of my bed where my head lays is right next to an air vent. Sometimes I wake up in the morning to crying, female, comes from out of that vent. Lasts a good 15 to 20 seconds. Faint, but clear. Always Saturday morning, but it's only happened 6 or so times.
Weak, but it's fucking creepy when it happens, and its enough for me to think about it every friday night before I go to sleep.


What are these 6 things you are talking about.

 

[RiZ III]

I do believe in other "super natural" intelligent life forms, but I think they live on a higher dimension than us. They can see us, but we can't see them.

And I also believe that there are other 3rd dimensional intelligent life forms in our universe. Universe is just too big for there not to be.

I remember when I was seven, something really fucked up happened. This was back when I was in Saudi Arabia. It was summer time. Really fucking hot, so all the windows would be shut, really thick curtains across them. This was in an apartment, over there everthing is made of concrete. So anyways, my sister and I were playing in the living room. As mentioned earlier, there were these really thick heavy curtains drawn across the windows. So anyways, we were leaving the living room with our backs turned towards the curtains, suddenly we hear a loud noise behind us. We turn around and these things were just floating in the air. I recall some glowing guy standing there too, but I think that might be my imagination, not sure. Like all the way up almost against the cieling. O man that was really fucked up, we ran screaming to our mom. I still don't understand how it coulda happened. Windows were closed, there were no vents there or any thing that could have provided such a force.

That apartment complex had a lot of strange things happen in it. We lived on the top floor(there were about 5 I think). Sometimes in the middle of the night you could hear people running really fast on the roof, not just running, but like stomping running. These were concrete apartments, it wasn't easy to transmit such loud sound through walls or cieling. That was kinda wierd, cause no one could go on the roof, there were no animals there either.

My sister and I both recall seeing glowy lights going across the hall right outside of our room at night. There were no lamps or lights in the apartment that would create those shades or shapes.

 

[AntoneM]

my contribution is a ufo sighting (may or may not have been extra-terrestrial). I was about 13 and was at my older brothers soccer game. I was extremely boared so I was staring up into the sky. I'll never forget what I saw.

There were 2 little lights (looked like stars) but they were moving and not just moving like a satilite will move but moving in every direction. It sounds funny but it looked like they were "dacing" moving around relative to eachother, then the craziest thing happened. It looked like a laser or something was fired out of one of them at the other at which point the one the was fired at got the fuck out of there, shortly after the other one dissapeared.

 

[KiNeSiS]

I do believe in other "super natural" intelligent life forms, but I think they live on a higher dimension than us. They can see us, but we can't see them.

And I also believe that there are other 3rd dimensional intelligent life forms in our universe. Universe is just too big for there not to be.

I remember when I was seven, something really fucked up happened. This was back when I was in Saudi Arabia. It was summer time. Really fucking hot, so all the windows would be shut, really thick curtains across them. This was in an apartment, over there everthing is made of concrete. So anyways, my sister and I were playing in the living room. As mentioned earlier, there were these really thick heavy curtains drawn across the windows. So anyways, we were leaving the living room with our backs turned towards the curtains, suddenly we hear a loud noise behind us. We turn around and these things were just floating in the air. I recall some glowing guy standing there too, but I think that might be my imagination, not sure. Like all the way up almost against the cieling. O man that was really fucked up, we ran screaming to our mom. I still don't understand how it coulda happened. Windows were closed, there were no vents there or any thing that could have provided such a force.

That apartment complex had a lot of strange things happen in it. We lived on the top floor(there were about 5 I think). Sometimes in the middle of the night you could hear people running really fast on the roof, not just running, but like stomping running. These were concrete apartments, it wasn't easy to transmit such loud sound through walls or cieling. That was kinda wierd, cause no one could go on the roof, there were no animals there either.

My sister and I both recall seeing glowy lights going across the hall right outside of our room at night. There were no lamps or lights in the apartment that would create those shades or shapes.

Where these creatures darker than the darkness around?
Most of the time children are more likely to see real spiritual happenings.
I feel they prey on the weak.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

i never had a supernatural experience, but many have its like alien sightings with so many people claiming it can it be false?

 

[Do The Mario]

One night when I was up late surfing the internet my pants got tighter and tighter, it was freaky!

Oh an on a serious note I have had Deja Vu many times, I swear I am sometimes doing things that I swore myself doing months ago.

 

[alejob]

I deja vu a bunch too.

The only thing weird that I can't explain is that one time I was walking out of a room and fliped the light switch off and started to walk away when the darn light was turned on again. I had to back there to flip the switch of again.

My brain tells me that all this creapy stuff has a reasonable explanation(I don't believe it) but yet I still think it's spooky(its scary).

 

[Firest0rm]

I do believe in other "super natural" intelligent life forms, but I think they live on a higher dimension than us. They can see us, but we can't see them.

And I also believe that there are other 3rd dimensional intelligent life forms in our universe. Universe is just too big for there not to be.

I remember when I was seven, something really fucked up happened. This was back when I was in Saudi Arabia. It was summer time. Really fucking hot, so all the windows would be shut, really thick curtains across them. This was in an apartment, over there everthing is made of concrete. So anyways, my sister and I were playing in the living room. As mentioned earlier, there were these really thick heavy curtains drawn across the windows. So anyways, we were leaving the living room with our backs turned towards the curtains, suddenly we hear a loud noise behind us. We turn around and these things were just floating in the air. I recall some glowing guy standing there too, but I think that might be my imagination, not sure. Like all the way up almost against the cieling. O man that was really fucked up, we ran screaming to our mom. I still don't understand how it coulda happened. Windows were closed, there were no vents there or any thing that could have provided such a force.

That apartment complex had a lot of strange things happen in it. We lived on the top floor(there were about 5 I think). Sometimes in the middle of the night you could hear people running really fast on the roof, not just running, but like stomping running. These were concrete apartments, it wasn't easy to transmit such loud sound through walls or cieling. That was kinda wierd, cause no one could go on the roof, there were no animals there either.

My sister and I both recall seeing glowy lights going across the hall right outside of our room at night. There were no lamps or lights in the apartment that would create those shades or shapes.

In summary your talking about the Jin I'm guessing. Which is something that every Muslim believes in.

 

[Loki]

My freakiest story happened when I was about 14 years old (roughly 12 years ago). My family and I would go to my aunt's house some Saturdays, and when we came home in the evening, I would always go in the house first to make sure everything was alright (e.g., no hoodlums inside trying to kill us or anything-- yes, I had a vivid imagination then ).


So I go upstairs to our second floor where the bedrooms are, and I was inspecting our rooms; I go into my sister's room and as I walk by her bed I notice that there is one shoe of a pair on one side of the bed and the other thrown near the door. For some reason, I said to myself "how freaky would it be if I turned around and those shoes had moved?" (til this day, I still have no idea why I said this, especially considering that I'm getting chills right now just telling the story ). Anyway, I turn around towards the door again and the shoes were sitting together near the door, upright.


Needless to say, I started freaking out and made a beeline downstairs, where I ran outside to tell my father, who laughed it off despite my insistence that it had happened (natural stuff I'm really brave about, which is why I was sweeping the house for intruders, but when it comes to ghosts or aliens or some such, I'm a big sissy lol). I didn't get to sleep that night, and I probably won't tonight either after telling this story again. Crazy stuff.

 

[speedpop]

Had too many spiritual encounters, one that is happening lately whilst staying over at my partner's family's house in Singapore. I'm sleeping in their deceased grandmother's room and every night I hear her shuffling around once or twice. Puts me at ease and I fall asleep like a bear.. the fact that I am so used to this stuff kinda frightens at first but puts you at ease at the same time. Weird.

Other times are the fridge opening constantly due to my mother's boyfriend passing away, his beers being in the fridge etc. Others like the lamp flickering on and off in my mother's room, or me being too lazy to switch the lamp light on for my little brother (boyfriend's son) when he goes to sleep and then coming back upstairs a few mins later and seeing it on. Or hearing footsteps shuffle upstairs whilst I lie in bed semi-awake then going upstairs to see no one home and the doors all locked.

Just weird tiny stuff that give you a tingle but give me a sly smile :lol

As far as aliens go, nothing at all.. few very weird UFO situations whilst driving to and fro from the city where I live to my mother's place.

i.e. a "plane" screeching across the sky at night whilst in a traffic jam, then seeing it turn and stop dead in the sky while we pass under it slowly. T'was definitely weird then.

 

[Drozmight]

I'm haunted always by the faces of the many men I've killed in different lives long past.

 

[pestul]

Where these creatures darker than the darkness around?
Most of the time children are more likely to see real spiritual happenings.
I feel they prey on the weak.

This may come as a strange viewpoint to most, but I believe it is because children are more 'fresh' from the other-side.. or after-life as some put it. They are more inclined to see these anomolies because their minds haven't developed on the Earthly plane to ignore them yet. I know it would be laughed at by the scientific community, but I would love psychologists to work with children to see if they can tap into some kind of intelligence. I often hear stories of children saying remarkable things for which there was no possibility of them knowing. For instance, someone once told me thier daughter was looking out the window on the city (like 3yrs old) and just spontaneously said, "I used to ride down that street in a horse and buggy".

 

[RonaldoSan]

I think deja vue is simply the mind not getting the image from our eyes quick enough. Like some sort of delay. So when you "get" it, it's already in your memory. Something like that.

 

[Socreges]

None. Ever. In fact, I insist that none of you have ever had any either.

I think deja vue is simply the mind not getting the image from our eyes quick enough. Like some sort of delay. So when you "get" it, it's already in your memory. Something like that.

Yeah, I don't know if that's right, but there ARE psychological explanations (or heavily supported theories, at least).

 

[Rei_Toei]

I think deja vue is simply the mind not getting the image from our eyes quick enough. Like some sort of delay. So when you "get" it, it's already in your memory. Something like that.

I'll go with that. Or, people who have lots of deja vu's have highly repetitive lives.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

i often have weird deja vu moments, and other stuff like thinking of a song and it comes on the radio, and other stuff such as talking about aaliyah to someone and then the next day she was killed in a plane crash.. and then one day atlking about a dance act from the 90's called la bouche, and.. the next day the singer from said band was in a car crash. then i talked about some weird restaurant around here called kebabistan - next day, the woman who worked there had been killed. that's pretty freaky. so you better hope i don't talk about you.

:|

 

[RiZ III]

In summary your talking about the Jin I'm guessing. Which is something that every Muslim believes in.

Part of it. The ones that live on another plane yes. There might be other things too. Who knows.

 

[Crispy]

I think deja vue is simply the mind not getting the image from our eyes quick enough. Like some sort of delay. So when you "get" it, it's already in your memory. Something like that.

I don't think that's the cause of deja vu's, mainly because I have them too and can predict them. My best example of this happened a few years ago at a friend's house.

We were sitting in his room, playing Final Fantasy X. While we were playing I remembered the deja vu in which we were playing a game where he summoned a colorful monster and we were in a fight like in FFX and during that fight someone called me. (At the time of the deja vu FFX wasn't out yet and I did not yet have a mobile phone) So I tell him I'm going to be called while we're playing the game and what do you know, after fifteen minutes I was called by my grand mother.

Also last week I dreamed of a friend who I haven't seen in months. I called her te tell her I dreamed of her and it's probably a sign that we should do something together. Funny thing is she dreamed of me that night. This makes me think that minds can connect somehow in our sleeps, maybe our spirit goes to another plain or something.

Also sometimes, mainly at night, I can hear loud stomping in the attic, right above my room. Just like described earlier in the topic. Usually I don't think much of it, but sometimes it goes on for a really long time and my parents or sister have never heard it, what I think is kind of weird.

 

[shibbs]

Last week i had a deja vu which last for about 2-3 minutes, that was so weird.

 

[bud]

One day I, around 1995, I was watching television and I looked outside. It was dark. I saw this figure, who kinda looked like Darth Vader except he was metallic instead of black. He was walking and when I looked at him he stared back while still walking. I couldn't move and when I was finally able to move I ran to the kitchen where my parents were at. That was some scary shit!

 

[teiresias]

You live on a farm?

 

[olimario]

The only supernatural stuff I ever encountered was with demons. The evil present in this world is scary stuff.

 

[bud]

You live on a farm?

A flat in the city. ''It'' was walking on a square.

 

[SpoonyBard]

Took me long time to figure out you meant to say "kitchen" and not "chicken" :lol


Unfortunately nothing like this has ever happened to me.

 

[Littleberu]

I can't wait for someone to prove that all that shit is false.

 

[FoneBone]

OCCAM'S MOTHERFUCKING RAZOR

In any case, I simply don't believe in anything that can't be scientifically explained. If any paranormal phenomena actually exist, I assume that there would be a scientific explanation that is simply not understood at this point.

 

[KiNeSiS]

The only supernatural stuff I ever encountered was with demons. The evil present in this world is scary stuff.

I heard what I encountered was demons to.
What are these Demon encounters?

 

[Tarazet]

It was junior high, standing in the band-rehearsal room with a group of friends, I think it was after jazz band. We were all talking with each other, then this huge booming voice was just audible over the commotion.. then at the same time, everyone goes silent, and someone asks, "Who said that?" Then we all busted out laughing.

It was probably someone in a heating duct...

 

[olimario]

I heard what I encountered was demons to.
What are these Demon encounters?

My friend Angie was possessed at one point. Being her friend and being a Christian I had all sorts of freaky stuff happen to me to try to scare me away from being her friend.

-The streetlight outside of my room went off and a second later my blinds fell on me.
-My blankets were ripped off of me and my closet door swung open


My friend Tim (mid 20s) went to India and had an encounter with a demon possessed woman. She was lying on the ground talking a voice not her own. This woman who didn't know a lick of English started talking to Tim and his friend in PERFECT english.

 

[KiNeSiS]

My friend Angie was possessed at one point. Being her friend and being a Christian I had all sorts of freaky stuff happen to me to try to scare me away from being her friend.

-The streetlight outside of my room went off and a second later my blinds fell on me.
-My blankets were ripped off of me and my closet door swung open


My friend Tim (mid 20s) went to India and had an encounter with a demon possessed woman. She was lying on the ground talking a voice not her own. This woman who didn't know a lick of English started talking to Tim and his friend in PERFECT english.

What did Tim say?
This sounds like excorcist shit.
Maybe mine weren't demons cause I caught visuals.

 

[olimario]

Tim was talking to the woman at first, but when he realized it wasn't the woman he was talking to he began to try to get the demon to leave. He quoted scripture about the power and authority of Jesus Christ and eventually the demon left and the woman returned to normal, unaware of what had happened.

And visuals are certainly possible. Tims little brother David went through a spiritual phase where he could see both angels and demons.

 

[Dilbert]

In any case, I simply don't believe in anything that can't be scientifically explained. If any paranormal phenomena actually exist, I assume that there would be a scientific explanation that is simply not understood at this point.

What is the difference between "something which cannot be scientifically explained" and "something which is not understood right now," and how can you tell the difference?

I mean, we are lacking a unified theory of gravity at the moment (no one has ever discovered the mediator particle, and no one has a clue about how it might unify with the other known forces), but I don't know anyone who is actually expecting the "law of gravity" to get repealed anytime soon because we've all made a colossal mistake.

Also, realize that one requirement of science is repeatability. I'm not saying that I believe in miracles, because I don't, but if a "miracle" is a one-time-only breakage of the laws of physics, you'd have a situation where a very real phenomenon would have existed which was NOT subject to study by science.

 

[FoneBone]

What is the difference between "something which cannot be scientifically explained" and "something which is not understood right now," and how can you tell the difference?

I mean, we are lacking a unified theory of gravity at the moment (no one has ever discovered the mediator particle, and no one has a clue about how it might unify with the other known forces), but I don't know anyone who is actually expecting the "law of gravity" to get repealed anytime soon because we've all made a colossal mistake.

Also, realize that one requirement of science is repeatability. I'm not saying that I believe in miracles, because I don't, but if a "miracle" is a one-time-only breakage of the laws of physics, you'd have a situation where a very real phenomenon would have existed which was NOT subject to study by science.

I'm not referring to any one-time occurrence -- I was more referring to the theoretical possibility of something like telepathy being discovered. If that makes any sense.

 

[Beezy]

There are definately supernatural things in this world. There has been a few things that happend with me and other members of my family. Usually it involves someone seeing a deceased family member or friend. For some reason though, they can never see their face.

 

[Manabanana]

I have a friend who went to a bible camp where they tried to exorcise a kid having a seizure. They swore it was the devil working through him, and he was speaking in tongues when in fact it was epilepsy.

 

[Malakhov]

I work near the morgue in an hospital and sometimes when I'm alone I feel a presence, don't really like it either. It's as if someone or something is right behind me following me and watching me.

 

[AssMan]

I want to believe. I truly do, because it would change the way how I view life in general. It hasn't been scientifically proven yet, and if it were, then it would be one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of our life IMO.


This is how I see it:until I see it, then i'll believe.

 

[Kebric]

When I was 14, my brother and I were fooling around in the hallway of my house when my vison blacked out and I saw some woman dressed in a white nightgown standing at the stairway landing. I saw her again upstairs in the sitting room, but have never seen her since.

I hear pounding noises at night when I sleep. They come from upstairs and aren't fast or anything, just slow as if something is pacing around upstairs. I don't understand why my house is haunted, according to my parents it was only owned by one other old couple before we bought it - and they moved out.

 

[bionic77]

Once, I was abroad visiting my cousin in the UK something really freaked both me and my cousin out, though I am not sure if it was a supernatural occurance even though it sure felt like one at the time (we were like 11 and 9).

Remember those little keychain toys that had like 8 different colored buttons where each one would make a different noice? One would be a machine gun sound, another would sound like a ray gun, bomb blast, etc. Well we just came inside after a playing some game with the neighbors (I think it was cricket though I don't exactly remember). When we came inside we saw our little toy sitting all by itself on a stool with absolutely no one nearby. We didn't notice anything weird at first, but as we got closer we noticed that it was playing each of those sounds one by one.

That totally freaked us out and we both just ran out of there screaming like women. I didn't go back in that room by myself for the rest of the trip.