My Paranormal experience

[jayrev]

Ok, not really, but it was strange. Seventeen years ago I had a very close friend who was killed in a car accident. We were both teenagers at the time. Yesterday several times I had thoughts about him out of the blue, which isn't a common occurance. It wasn't until I was in bed trying to go to sleep that I realized that it was his birthday. Of course, there are two logical explanation that I can think of:

1. I subconsciously knew it was his birthday without it registering consciously.

2. It was a coincidence.

For some reason I still had a hard time sleeping last night.

 

[Jono]

I can relate somewhat to the above statement, though without commenting further on my reference I actually did not contemplate that it might have been a paranormal experience.

The mind is an amazing thing, as is the tip of the iceberg we call consciousness

 

[Azrael 5]

I experience the same thing at about the same age 17(lost a friend the same age in a motorbike accident)..freaked me out as he'd done the ouija board days before.The whole calling bad spirits and everything.
*shiver*

 

[Bodhi Dharma Zen]

The trick is the presence, or not, of a meaning. In your case, remembering him and then realized that it was his birthday automatically attach a sense of meaning to an otherwise random event.

 

[robbersdog]

I don't really see the paranormal nature of the event. If you hadn't know when his birthday was, and found out later that you thought about him more on his birthday, that would be weird, but still coincidence. The fact that you say you then realised it was his birthday shows that you already knew it was his birthday (or at least part of you brain did). This triggered thoughts about him, then you realised what was going on.

It's sad. I've lost four people I knew well in the last 18 months or so. I think about each of them quite a lot, but I'm useless with birthdays and don't know any of the birthdays of the people who died. I do have days when I'll not be able to get someone out of my mind, but that's just the way the mind works I suppose.

 

[jayrev]

I don't really see the paranormal nature of the event. If you hadn't know when his birthday was, and found out later that you thought about him more on his birthday, that would be weird, but still coincidence. The fact that you say you then realised it was his birthday shows that you already knew it was his birthday (or at least part of you brain did). This triggered thoughts about him, then you realised what was going on.

It's sad. I've lost four people I knew well in the last 18 months or so. I think about each of them quite a lot, but I'm useless with birthdays and don't know any of the birthdays of the people who died. I do have days when I'll not be able to get someone out of my mind, but that's just the way the mind works I suppose.

Nothing paranormal about it in my thinking, but I'm sure some would have given it paranormal significance. Really just an interesting (at least to me) example of the power of the human brain. (Unless you subscribe to the coincidence theory.)

 

[robbersdog]

I think your story would be leapt upon by many many people as absolute evidence of life after death. It's sad that they miss the amazing things your brain is really capable of an think it needs to be blamed on something else.

Believers often hark on about the amazing things we closed minded skeptics miss out on. I sincerely believe the opposite. So many things become so much more fantastic when the supernatural is removed from the equation.

 

[Blondin]

My paranormal experience

On Monday a cow-orker and I were discussing music and favorite artists and Cat Stevens name came up. This led to a brief mention that Cat Stevens was one of the many suspected subjects of Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain". That night I was doing the crossword puzzle and one of the clues was "Song by Carly Simon", the answer was "You're So Vain".

Spooky but co-inkydinks happen. I didn't lose any sleep at all.

 

[thatguywhojuggles]

I had a strange experience once.

I was sitting at home one day, and around 3:00pm, I started thinking to myself, wouldn't it be nice if my friend Ross popped by for a visit. Then minutes after I thought that, Ross pulled up in his truck. I went out to greet him, telling him I was just thinking about him and that he should visit me. Ross looked at me a bit confused and said, "I talked to you on the phone yesterday and you told me to come over at 3:00." At this point, I found out what time of the day he had called me. Turns out I was taking a nap when he called, and (though I have no memory of it) apparently I, while talking in my sleep, invited him to come over.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Re: My paranormal experience

On Monday a cow-orker and I were discussing music and favorite artists and Cat Stevens name came up. This led to a brief mention that Cat Stevens was one of the many suspected subjects of Carly Simon's song "You're So Vain". That night I was doing the crossword puzzle and one of the clues was "Song by Carly Simon", the answer was "You're So Vain".

Spooky but co-inkydinks happen. I didn't lose any sleep at all.

I always heard that was about wossname- Shirley Maclaine's brother. You know.
Poor memory may explain my immunity to synchronistic events.

Now when you say "Cat Stevens", I presume you refer to Yusuf Islam, the man whose biggest hit involved the setting of rather banal words to an old hymn tune. (Child in the manger, infant of Mary.) I always found a whiff of hypocrisy in that fellow.


Warren Beatty. That's the chap.