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Paranormal Experiences?

I have read many profiles and it seems that the majority of Atheist/ Agnostics do not believe in "ghosts" or anything "supernatural". I for one have had paranormal experiences in my life, pre-cognitions, unexplained energy that slammed doors, tossed things across the room, unexplained noises in the house. I know it's energy, I'm not sure of it's source. Does anyone believe in the possibility of a parallel universe? Asking for a friend..?

Stephanie1961 5 Apr 1
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Well...as a12 year old I used to always hear a strange voice on the other side of my closed bedroom door that would repeatedly say my name and as it did, it would always get deeper and deeper. Then there was the time when I was 9 and I saw a strange shadow appearing up the stairs in the hallway, heading for my room. I can never remember waking up from these dreams cause they seemed so real and until this day can’t understand why that happened.

I'm scared just reading that, never mind actually experiencing it!

That sounds quite creepy and bizarre, especially the shadow figure on the stairs

@ScienceBill72 It was! Best believe me!

I definitely don't doubt it !

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I have had at least 2 dreams that were descriptive of future events.Twice I have done things that didnt make sense but resulted in being in a place that saved someones life.I can't explain them but thats about it

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Of course I have had experiences. Lots of them. I used to study phenomena. When you believe it and follow traditional teachings of it things seem to happen. If you challenge it and question it with logic fewer things happen. In the end it is a mindset that comes alive when it happens. You may find that the paranormal is something that we do not understand and therefore we help cause it ourselves.
Paranormal experiences are much like Evangelical religion. It is all very real while you are a part of it, but it lessens as you slip away from it. For those who continue to be bothered by it, I would say out loud "I do not want to play the game." You find with time that this works mostly because you are talking to yourself. You are making a decision to abandon phenomena.

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My rational brain says no, however I did have one experience I cannot explain.

Tell us more. What happened, when, what was your state of mind at the time and who was with you?

@FrayedBear I used to work for a children's book publisher. We rented a building from the local Catholic school. The property also houses a sort of retirement community for nuns. Anyways, old building, lots of people have reported "stuff." I'm skeptical so never really bought into it. Had to work a Saturday morning. The staff I worked with was in the basement, we had cubicles and mine was situated so I could see if someone was coming down the hall from the rest of the building. My coworker Melissa had said she was coming in too. I was working an half keeping an eye out for her. I heard books loudly dropping on her desk and thought I must not have seen her come in. So I start walking over to her cubicle and as I'm coming upon it I start to say "Hey Melissa, I must have missed you come in." I got as far as saying hey Melissa and looking into her cubicle and it was empty. Now I had heard books heavily dropping from waist high onto her desk. Several books. It was loud. I'm sure I turned white as a ghost (pun intended) and went back into my cube. I turned my music up high and worked as fast as I could to get the hell out of there. After that I either brought my dog or my kids with me if I had to work outside of core hours.

We had cleaning companies that worked there in the evening and every once in a while one would see something and refuse to come back. Some coworkers reported being touched by something. One saw a full nun apparition.

@Marcie1974 Can't trust those nuns can you. But perhaps it proves there is neither heaven nor hell for them to go to.

@FrayedBear I used to work for a publisher based in Canterbury in England. The builging was 16th Century, but underneath it was a much older vaulted cellar stretching towards the cathedral. None of the staff would go down there alone and many of them claimed to have experienced strange stuff down there. I ventured a bit further into the darker depths, but not that far - I don't believe in ghosts, but it was damn spooky down there and I've been proved wrong before!

Marcie 1974 this is a great story, like wow, maybe the nuns spirits got trapped between world's for some bizarre reason lols

@ScienceBill72 why are nuns so fucking scary?

@Marcie1974 For some childhood memories of brutality and bullying by frustrated women leading indoctrinated subservient lives stressing the humanity out of them?

@Jnei ROFL Childish fears re-emerging in adulthood?

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Thank you for your response. I simplified my examples as there have been many. Trying to give details to each occurrence would require a lot of time to type details. However, the 'door' example was interesting because it was inside the house, with no open windows or breeze. The door did not close easily because it hung uneven due to settling of the house. In order for this door to be closed you had to lift up and push really hard to close it. This incident happened while five members of the family were sitting in the next room watching TV. The bedroom door slammed with force. No explanation of how or why, it just left a very eerie feeling. In this same time frame a huge eucalyptus wreath that had been hanging in my living room for three years (by a very secure nail and hanging hook on the back of the wreath) on three occasions lifted itself off the nail and was propelled into the middle of the living room, this happened with all five family members sitting in the room.

What ages were the family members?

@FrayedBear it was myself, my husband and three kids that were the ages of 16, 15, and 12.

@Stephanie1961 I have read hypothesis that such experiences are caused/ happen because of teenagers.

@FrayedBear yes it could be psychokinesis energy some call it poltergeist activity. The strange part is my mother died just a few days prior to the onset of activity that continued for about six weeks..

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.One time in the late afternoon at dusk in very low light I was approaching in my car towards a dead end road I saw 2 motorcycles in the mist of somebodies garden. both were clear mages of motorcycles. I wondered why they were parked there.. As I approached this image and received more detailed resolution due to declining distance, the motorcycles disappeared and I was left with only the shrubs in the garden. This occurrence immediately struck me as how much the brain must assist the eyes when attempting to resolve ikmages being viewed with inadequate lighting.

Very true.

I was walking in the middle of a major city and glanced quickly to the side and thought I saw a Black Angus in someone's back yard. On second glance it was a black Great Dane,a really big one. Nice illusion

Correct ... in every sense realm your brain fills in the gaps of any missing information coming through your cortex and systems... So potentially you can have all sorts of effects/confusions.

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Sure. I've observed all the stuff you mentioned, and FAR more, but found it's easy to get rid of that spooky stuff..just decide it's gone, and it IS.
We are creating our own realities, and when we don't "feed" that weird energy with fear or belief, it vanishes.

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I’ve had several experiences that have left me not able to to deny the paranormal. I know everyone from both sides of the fence would like to debunk it. Is what it is, and I refuse to try to rationalize them away.

Drunk or sober, stoned or clean?

@FrayedBear I’m clean and sober, except when I’m not. But every incident I’ve had has been 100% clear headed.

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I recognize the unknowable. That means that we cannot know if there is a God or if there is no God. Therefore, I am an agnostic, not an athiest. Assuming there is a God, or a Supreme Being, I do believe we can't define It by naming it Jesus or whatever. I have been advised to call It "All That Is." Since this is in the realm of the unknowable, I do not stress over deciding anything about it. BUT I do take hints from the few paranormal experiences I have had. Not as much as yours, but a few significant things. I have no need to convince or try to prove to anyone. Whatever I experienced was meant for me alone as yours was for you. So what do I derive from these hints? That's for another time. All I will say right now is that the meaning of our existence is vast.

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I believe in the possibility of alternate, possibly opposite though not paralell universes.

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No. It's more likely any experience you've had has a fully natural explanation that your not aware of. Supernature is for people when they forgoe probability and seek fanciful explanations that don't really explain anything. Good for stories but nothing else. Why would a door closing make you think something not in this world done it... how would it close then? More likely a force in this world but because you don't know what it is and your suseptable to supernatural beliefs you go for the easy route. Magic. Just a way to satisfy the gap in your knowledge but it's intellectually dishonest. Really you have an unexplained occurance and have little to base a conclusion on.

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Funny you should ask, I spoke to my father about this today, he asked where I felt my mother was, (she passed away a year ago). I told him that I think she is just energy, she left her body and honestly, I don't know where she is. However, when she was in the hospital, on her death bed, literally, there was a point when I was at home and I felt and saw her presence walk up to my door and my body froze and I knew it was her and she smiled at me. I snapped out of it. The next morning when I went to visit her, the doctors said they took her out of the induced coma but hadn't woken up. Her eyes were wide open, not blinking or responding but she was still "alive", as in heart pumping and on a breathing machine. At that point I knew she was gone.

I told this to my brother and he said that same night he had his own experience. I cannot deny my experience. It was rather chilling.

Everyone has their ideas and experiences. That was mine. I don't need religion to tell me what that was about and where my mom is. 🙂

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There's a possibility if you believe string theory. Most paranormal activity is fairly easy to explain though. I use to go ghost hunting, almost every time there was a plausible explanation for the things that happened. It is amazing what the human mind can make you believe you saw or heard.

Since everything is ultimately made of energy, energy can't be created or destroyed, and time and space are only illusions, that means we've always existed and will always exist in some energy form. Of course there could be "ghosts."

Many young children in studies done of 2-6 year old children worldwide who remembered their past lives, remembered being ghosts between incarnations, described what they did and who they saw, and the accuracy of these events were verified.

@birdingnut do you happen to know of a location or journal for these studies, it sounds like a fascinating read.

@birdingnut I found at least one study from Dr. Ian Stevenson. I was only able to find the first 3 chapters from his book in a database, so I'll have to go pick up the book from the library. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

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