Have you ever experienced a paranormal phenomenon?

[JihadJane]

@ paximperium

Well, I have to say, I agree with chillzero. Chill out!

Really? Then be very very specific about these powers. What can you do?
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What garbage. Oh, nobody has said that we don't fully understand the brain as of yet, but then out lack of understanding of the brain does not in anyway make your magical claims even plausible.
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The cop-out of every psychic. Pathetic coward. You don't even believe in your so-called powers.

I'm not accusing your mother of shoplifting. There's nothing magical about what I described, in my opinion. It just hasn't been explained. Perhaps we just don't spend enough time listening to ourselves in our frantic dash from birth to death.

 

[JihadJane]

Chill I don't think anyone is jumping on anyone - JihadJane is making a claim of being able to do something that would for little effort earn her(?) a million dollars yet is not willing to make that million dollars - a rather strange attitude.

Paximperium appeared remarkably over-excited to me. You also seem to have the easy $$$$$ fever!

To me it's no big claim. I am skeptical of such matters myself and generally only believe what I have experienced myself. I did a week-long Remote Viewing course (with David Morehouse) out of curiosity and practised tthe techniques that I learned for a few months afterwards. I was impressed with the results.

If you think filthy lucre is going to lure me into any kind of ritual public humilation involving the likes of paximperium or the creepy, beardy bloke pictured at the top of this page you are very much mistaken!

 

[Babbylonian]

Since I'm not personally acquainted well enough with the "general public," I don't think I can answer the poll under the stated conditions.

 

[ExMinister]

I once received a second class stamped letter the same day it was posted.
Other than that, no.

ETA-ExMinister. This happened to me several times a few days before Christmas about ten years ago.
Turned out I had bought a jacket as a present, which had an "Oboe" sensor tucked away in an inside pocket.
Luckily I found it before I gave it to the unsuspecting girlfriend.

Wow - now that's interesting! At the time I tried having my husband/whoever carry my purse, wallet, etc., but hmm...when you said that, I realized it COULD have been something in a jacket or pants pocket. It was so long ago, I have no idea what clothing I was wearing in those days. Maybe I can finally consider this solved! Thank you, thank you! If I could give you a great big hug for taking the time to share that, I would!

 

[Soapy Sam]

I consider myself hugged.

 

[-Fran-]

I thought I had a few such experiences when I was a kid and a young teenager. But I've long since realized that it was either about wanting to see the same things as my friends seemed to see, or not knowing enough to understand what I saw.

As an adult I have never had any experiences that could be interpreted as such.

 

[KingMerv00]

Paximperium appeared remarkably over-excited to me. You also seem to have the easy $$$$$ fever!

Yes, I think Pax needs to relax. I'm sure calling you a coward is really helping.

To me it's no big claim. I am skeptical of such matters myself and generally only believe what I have experienced myself. I did a week-long Remote Viewing course (with David Morehouse) out of curiosity and practised tthe techniques that I learned for a few months afterwards. I was impressed with the results.

If you think filthy lucre is going to lure me into any kind of ritual public humilation involving the likes of paximperium or the creepy, beardy bloke pictured at the top of this page you are very much mistaken!

This isn't about filthy lucre, public humilation, or creepy beard-o's. It is about being skeptical in your own beliefs. Is it possible the results you witnessed are an illusion? Why do you think every time powers like these are tested under proper conditions they yield nothing?

Maybe you are right. Maybe there is something to remote viewing. Why not prove it to yourself and the scientific community? If you don't want to take part in the million dollar challenge we could come up with protocols you could do in your own home.

 

[applecorped]

A ham sandwich I was eating once telepathically communicated with me and requested spicy mustard. I didn't believe it so I used miracle whip instead.

 

[Senex]

the results.

If you think filthy lucre is going to lure me into any kind of ritual public humilation involving the likes of paximperium or the creepy, beardy bloke pictured at the top of this page you are very much mistaken!

You believe you have achieved success at remote viewing but won't share your ability because it is beneath your dignity.

I could mock you -- but it is beneath my dignity

 

[jhunter1163]

I once dreamed that my mother (who had been dead for years) was on a bus I was riding, and she told me that she was very upset that John Denver died, as he was her favorite musician.

It wasn't until the next morning that I heard the news of his death on the radio.

 

[paximperium]

Thank you!



any more info on those dreams, by the way?

Strangely, I've found them to be remarkably accurate although as many know, our memory isn't exactly all that accurate.

The first dream I remember was a two stage dream about me running around an airport and then about sitting in a bus with my family and watching a large number of neon lights and then seeing a giant neon sign of a clown. 6 weeks later, the airport happens to look remarkably similar to the Las Vegas airport and the giant neon clown was the Circus Circus sign. I was 12 and had never been to Vegas before.

The other dream I remember was meeting my ex-girlfriend. I remember in the dream meeting someone I had strong emotions for who was dark haired, the exact(or dreamily similar) clothing, a coffee house called "The Beany Brew" and the conversation about the economic crash in Asian stockmarkets...yeah that's a weird dream. Then I moved to a new city for college and went through that scenario a year later. Odd since I definitely have never been to this Beany Brew before...and I never took advantage of the stockmarket and economic crash in South East Asia that same year...oh well.

A couple of others were just rather banal me moving a very specific dresser, having a conversation with some person I didn't know.

Weird and still one of the things I have difficulty fully explaining especially the second dream. Maybe I was retrodicting and just filling in the dream to the present experience.

 

[chillzero]

Strangely, I've found them to be remarkably accurate although as many know, our memory isn't exactly all that accurate.

The first dream I remember was a two stage dream about me running around an airport and then about sitting in a bus with my family and watching a large number of neon lights and then seeing a giant neon sign of a clown. 6 weeks later, the airport happens to look remarkably similar to the Las Vegas airport and the giant neon clown was the Circus Circus sign. I was 12 and had never been to Vegas before.

The other dream I remember was meeting my ex-girlfriend. I remember in the dream meeting someone I had strong emotions for who was dark haired, the exact(or dreamily similar) clothing, a coffee house called "The Beany Brew" and the conversation about the economic crash in Asian stockmarkets...yeah that's a weird dream. Then I moved to a new city for college and went through that scenario a year later. Odd since I definitely have never been to this Beany Brew before...and I never took advantage of the stockmarket and economic crash in South East Asia that same year...oh well.

A couple of others were just rather banal me moving a very specific dresser, having a conversation with some person I didn't know.

Weird and still one of the things I have difficulty fully explaining especially the second dream. Maybe I was retrodicting and just filling in the dream to the present experience.

I have these experiences too, particularly when my insomnia is bad, or I am depressed or ill.

I have also had a few weird occasions, where I was certain I remembered tellling someone about a dream of whatever event is unfolding at the time. I don't remember the event unfolding, like deja vu - it's more like I remember a narrative; that I remember the words I used to tell someone about a dream I had had ... and the dream I was telling them about is now coming true. (hard to explain, sorry)

 

[Fnord]

Any experience that I may have had with the paranormal is more readily explained with normal scientific principles. Why fight science?

 

[PingOfPong]

I've had more than a few "experiences". When I was a kid, I tried to get answers about it from the adults in my life but all they wanted to do was twist it around into an interpretation that flattered their own faith/beliefs. I hated that.

Now that I'm all grown up, I agree with Fnord. All my experiences can be explained away in one way or another. I'm ok with that. The experiences are useless anyway.

 

[Tricky]

I've had out-of-body experiences. Turns out they're pretty common with Panic Attacks. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "bad chemicals".

 

[I Ratant]

A friend was dying of cancer.
One morning I heard him call my name, in my house, when I was in another room. I went to where I'd heard the sound, but nothing there.
The next day, his wife called to tell me he'd died that evening, sometime after I'd heard the noise.
She said he'd told her that morning he was going, and they spent the day talking about what she should do.
Never could figure what that noise was.

 

[Elizabeth I]

What has happened to the old traditions? There is no Planet X option in this poll.

Oh, well...

On Planet X, paranormal experiences you.

 

[ExMinister]

I've had out-of-body experiences. Turns out they're pretty common with Panic Attacks. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "bad chemicals".

I have those too. Scary ones. And panic attacks. Do you mind me asking how you've found them to be linked?

 

[ExMinister]

I have these experiences too, particularly when my insomnia is bad, or I am depressed or ill.

I have also had a few weird occasions, where I was certain I remembered tellling someone about a dream of whatever event is unfolding at the time. I don't remember the event unfolding, like deja vu - it's more like I remember a narrative; that I remember the words I used to tell someone about a dream I had had ... and the dream I was telling them about is now coming true. (hard to explain, sorry)

Me too - I'll think, "Hey I could swear I remember this exact thing happening, saying these words." I wonder if it's because we've dreamed something similar and coincidentally the situation just brings back part of an old dream from the past.

I've had dreams where I've gotten information that really seemed accurate in answer to important life issues. One in particular, about my son when he was a baby and we were all very concerned about a disease he was suspected to have, and I dreamed I was in a room with a telephone, I picked it up and a woman's voice told me my son was fine, that he didn't have the problem everyone thought he had, and not to worry. Four years later, it turns out that dream insight was true. Maybe on some level I figured it out and turned it into a dream?

Then I dreamed last year that my deceased grandfather appeared and told me my dad wouldn't live past his next birthday ! That was a terrible dream, but here we are a good six months past my dad's birthday and he's just fine. So much for psychic dreams I guess. It is weird when they happen like the first one, though.

 

[arthwollipot]

I once saw a ufo make a sharp instantaneous 90 degree turn.......until I realised that I had just witnessed a chance alignment of two aircraft at different heights crossing each others paths from my perspective made all the more convincing because of the patches of cloud in the area which happened to hide one as the other appeared just after the crossover point.

I hope you don't mind, but I've quoted this in the U.S.O.'s...what if... thread. It is very appropriate - I hope you don't mind.