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[MOTU] Your own inexplicable experiences

  • 09-02-2011 12:04pm
    #1
    NecroSteve
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭


    Post 'em here!

    I've been subject to what's traditionally called "fairy-leading", that is, getting completely lost in a familiar place. In this case it was a field, accompanied by a friend (whose parents owned the field) who experienced the same thing at the same time. I don't know how to describe it apart from the place suddenly seemed utterly unfamiliar for no discernible reason, and we didn't have a clue where to go. And no, we weren't eating mushrooms or drunk or anything. The old folklore about this kind of thing says turn your coat or pockets inside out and you'll find your way again. So we tried it. And it worked!


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  • #2
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    I was in bed and felt the matress sag as if someone sat on the side of the bed.. i looked around expecting to tell my brother to fúck off, but no-one was there.. so i put it down to being half asleep and getting that "falling sensation, and you jump awake"..

    That happened about approx 10 years ago. I've since moved out and the exact same thing happened the other night. I was listening to my ipod and the side of the matress sagged, as if someone sat on the side of the bed..
    My wife was the only other person in the flat, but was watching telly at the time.

    No drink/drugs involved.


  • #3
    auntyweeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭auntyweeze


    im not sure if this would be an experience or a dream.
    i am nearly positive i was awake when this happened the other night.
    i was in bed it was very early in the morining maybe 2 or 3am and i woke up and couldnt move i was trying to get my phone from my bedside locker to see the time but couldnt move at all not even my arms only my eyes it felt like something was sitting on my chest i looked up and all i could see was black shadows so in my mind i started to tell this black thing to go away and leave me alone but it honeslty felt like something was pinning me down after what felt like ages but was probably only a minute or two the weight lifted off my chest and i started coughing. it was like i was after holding my breath for ages. this has happened me once or twice before but years ago but it kinda freaked me out but i put it down to a dream but i could have sworn i was awake


  • #4
    raveni
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭raveni


    auntyweeze wrote: »
    im not sure if this would be an experience or a dream.
    i am nearly positive i was awake when this happened the other night.
    i was in bed it was very early in the morining maybe 2 or 3am and i woke up and couldnt move i was trying to get my phone from my bedside locker to see the time but couldnt move at all not even my arms only my eyes it felt like something was sitting on my chest i looked up and all i could see was black shadows so in my mind i started to tell this black thing to go away and leave me alone but it honeslty felt like something was pinning me down after what felt like ages but was probably only a minute or two the weight lifted off my chest and i started coughing. it was like i was after holding my breath for ages. this has happened me once or twice before but years ago but it kinda freaked me out but i put it down to a dream but i could have sworn i was awake

    That sounds like sleep paralysis. I've never experienced it myself but I'd imagine it is pretty unsettling the first time you get it, especially if you haven't heard of it before.


  • #5
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    peatcass wrote: »
    I was in bed and felt the matress sag as if someone sat on the side of the bed.. i looked around expecting to tell my brother to fúck off, but no-one was there.. so i put it down to being half asleep and getting that "falling sensation, and you jump awake"..

    That happened about approx 10 years ago. I've since moved out and the exact same thing happened the other night. I was listening to my ipod and the side of the matress sagged, as if someone sat on the side of the bed..
    My wife was the only other person in the flat, but was watching telly at the time.

    No drink/drugs involved.

    That has happened to me also, only one in the room and the matress sagged. And made a rather loud "BONG" sound too. Have noticed it on a couple of occasions on different beds.


  • #6
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    tony 2 tone wrote: »
    That has happened to me also, only one in the room and the matress sagged. And made a rather loud "BONG" sound too. Have noticed it on a couple of occasions on different beds.
    Ha ha, no, it was like someone was sitting beside me, the next second can feel it going back to normal as if someone stood back up.

    Have had plenty of springs go in matresses to know the difference.


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  • #7
    tony 2 tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    peatcass wrote: »
    Ha ha, no, it was like someone was sitting beside me, the next second can feel it going back to normal as if someone stood back up.

    Have had plenty of springs go in matresses to know the difference.

    Should have put in more detail, it happened as per your description, matress sagged as if some one was sitting on it, then went back up after a short time. I just remember the bong of the springs as it freaked me out. :D


  • #8
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    raveni wrote: »
    That sounds like sleep paralysis. I've never experienced it myself but I'd imagine it is pretty unsettling the first time you get it, especially if you haven't heard of it before.

    Aye, I've had this before.


  • #9
    rhonin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭rhonin


    raveni wrote: »
    That sounds like sleep paralysis. I've never experienced it myself but I'd imagine it is pretty unsettling the first time you get it, especially if you haven't heard of it before.

    Had this only last week. I get it every couple of months. Horrible feeling, yet it only lasts a couple of seconds. Usually happens to me if I'm really tired.


  • #10
    raveni
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭raveni


    rhonin wrote: »
    Had this only last week. I get it every couple of months. Horrible feeling, yet it only lasts a couple of seconds. Usually happens to me if I'm really tired.
    It's more common than some might think. Incidentally there's a thread on it and hallucinations (which can also be a part of it) in the sleeping and dreaming forum: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056044337


  • #11
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I have had sleep paralysis several times, the first two or three times were terrifying, however the few times it happened afterwards i was aware that i was asleep and that i had nothing to worry about. The last time it happened i said to mself that all i had to do was go back to sleep and wake again, so i closed my eyes and opened them again and i was awake and able to move again. But it was still 'freaky'

    My other inexplicable experience was when i used to live with my grandmother when i was at school (she lived on her own and so i stayed with her for company) Anyway she used to call me for school every morning at 8:20am. Her alarm would go off at 8:10 and she would get dressed and then come down the hall and knock on my door to get me up. I was generally awake and would wait till she knocked before i would get up. One morning, i was awake from about 8ish but lay there anyway waiting for her to come down the hall and knock on the door. By 8:25 there was no sign of her so i got up and got ready. I had breakfast and was figuring she slept it out and was going to head to school and leave her to sleep for another while but i decided i should let her know i was away as i was in after she went to bed the night before and i didnt want her worrying so i went and knocked on her door, no answer, so went in and she was lying in the bed with her eyes closed and looked like she was sleeping peacefully. I called her several times with no response. I knew something was wrong and went over to her and she was stone cold. My poor nana had died. Anyway the doc said she died in her sleep and would have had no pain and probably not even realised her heart had stopped. Once her remains were taken up to the front room for the wake, i went down to the room and had a look at her alarm clock which hadnt gone off. It was the old wind up bell type. The clock was wound and the alarm was set. So i moved on the hands to 8.05 o clock and waited and low and behold the alarm went off at 8:10 like normal yet it didnt go off that morning. Maybe there was a mechanical reason for that but i tend to believe it was more a spiritual thing...sorry for the long winded story.


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  • #12
    Isard
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Isard


    I was in the kitchen with my Mum and suddenly we both heard my Grandma's voice from the living-room. The thing is that my Grandma was out of town that day but we did hear her calling!


  • #13
    listenup
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭listenup


    About 10 years ago i was going to bed one night and was goin reading a hotpress magazine i bought that day i went down the hall opened my bedroom door BUT didnt turn on the light cause i was goin to go to the jax i could see my bed with the light from the hall ANYWAY..i threw my magazine onto the bed from the door and as i saw it land on the bed it completely dissapeared i thought i was seeing things i turned on the light looked at the bed NO MAGAZINE looked down the side of the bed NO MAGAZINE thought it slid under the pillow looked ..NO MAGAZINE it freaked me the **** out and still does i reckon my mag is in some alternate universe thats my freaky story


  • #14
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    I always ignored this forum when it was called Boardean times because I had no idea what it was for.

    Anyway, years ago Yuri Geller was on the LLS and wanted everyone who was watching the program to place a spoon on the top of their TV sets. At the count of three (Geller was counting), everyone watching was to shout 'JUMP!' and, he predicted the spoons would leap off the monitor.

    In my house, we dutifully placed a spoon on the TV and all shouted 'JUMP!' when Geller said to.

    Nothing happened, and I went down to my room. Twenty minutes later, I heard excited voices talking in the living room and my father came down to tell me that the spoon had suddenly sprung from the TV set. I sceptically returned to the living room and observed everyone standing there, looking incredulously at an innocuous looking spoon on the floor, as though it were a thing of wonder.

    I picked it up and put it back on the TV set. We waited, but nothing happened. After a while, my parents went to the local pub and my sisters went to bed. I alone was in the living room. Perhaps 45 minutes later, I observed the spoon slowly rotating, like the needle of a compass, on top of the TV set.

    I was fascinated. To determine if the audio was causing a vibration in the spoon and making it move, I muted the TV. But the spoon kept moving. Excitedly, I went down to my sisters and told them what was happening. When we entered the living room, the spoon was on the floor, about two metres from the TV.

    That was the most inexplicable thing that I ever witnessed.


  • #15
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    When I was about 17 or 18 and still living at home with my parents I woke up in the middle of the night and there was someone in my room (had my own room, never shared it with anyone) I coudn't see anyone but could feel that someone was there (as in feel a presence not physically feel them). I wasn't in the least bit afraid though. I just felt really calm and as though I knew that whoever it was, was there to watch over me and mind me. I found old photos of my great grandad afterwards (who had died in 1936) and I don't know why, but I'm so sure that the person in my room was him. I keep one of those photos in my wallet now.
    It was a really comforting feeling and unfortunately only happened once, but I'd really love to experience it again, and know that someone somewhere is looking after me.


  • #16
    jumpjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭jumpjack


    This was really weird:

    Yesterday, after a job day, I went picking up my scooter to go back home. I noticed some ants on the "shelf" where you put your feet; I examined closer, and I noticed they were not just "a few", they were dozens! :confused:
    Is there any remains of food? Let me remove the "carmat" ("scootermat" :confused: )
    No, there is no food or any liquid.... but there are HUNDREDS of ants!!! :eek::confused:
    What are they doing? Where do they come from??!
    Let me look closer: they're all grouped inside a hole... a very small cavity, 1 cm wide by 3 cm deep... They filled it with their EGGS!!! :confused:
    Eggs?!?
    Why the hell should ants move their eggs, the mous precious things they have, into my scooter? (have you ever tried to grab an egg from an ant's forelegs? They prefer getting killed than leaving them!).
    I tried getting them away by blowing on them (didn't want to touch them), and they LEFT the eggs, and they start to DIE around! :eek::confused:
    Die?!? I didn't even touch them!!

    What the hell did it happen?


  • #17
    The Master of Disaster
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭The Master of Disaster


    OK this isn't my own, it happened a friend of my mother, but it's a unusual one to say the least:

    When she was a teenager she had to go the funeral of a distant relative (I can't remember exactly which cemetery it was but suffice to say it was in Dublin). As she was waiting in the cemetery she looked over and caught site of one of the headstones and was intrigued to see that its 'occupant' had the same name as her. This wasn't exceptionally unusual as this woman has a very common Irish name and surname. Anyway she wandered over to it out of curiosity and got a serious shock when she saw that the date of death of this dead woman was the same date as her own birthday. She called her aunt over who had a look at it and agreed that it was very strange but probably coincidental.

    So the funeral finished and they returned home etc. A couple of days later she went back to the cemetery to inquire further. This time however it wasn't there and although convinced she had the right spot she searched around but alas to no avail. She went to the records keeper at the cemetery and gave the name and DOD but he could find no record of such a person. She went back a few times but never saw it again.

    Normally I call BS on stories like these but this woman is far from the superstitious type and would, like me, be quite a sceptic. But the fact she had physically touched the headstone, seen it up close and that her aunt also could attest to seeing is all very strange!


  • #18
    jumpjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭jumpjack


    The Master of Disaster wrote: »
    OK this isn't my own, it happened a friend of my mother, but it's a unusual one to say the least:
    Disturbing! :eek:


  • #19
    jargon buster
    Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭jargon buster


    as a small child I had one sometimes two people stand at the door and look into my bedroom at night, they had no discernable faces as the only light was from the hall and in the darkness of the room they were just basically a shadow.
    It happened most nights and to me seemed a long time. I just assumed it was my parents checking on me.
    I mentioned it years later in conversation to them with regards to over protective and fretting parents, it turned out they hardly ever looked in on me and never came in together.


  • #20
    snafuk35
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 833 ✭✭✭snafuk35


    Rick Deckard wrote: »
    I was in bed and felt the matress sag as if someone sat on the side of the bed.. i looked around expecting to tell my brother to fúck off, but no-one was there.. so i put it down to being half asleep and getting that "falling sensation, and you jump awake"..

    That happened about approx 10 years ago. I've since moved out and the exact same thing happened the other night. I was listening to my ipod and the side of the matress sagged, as if someone sat on the side of the bed..
    My wife was the only other person in the flat, but was watching telly at the time.

    No drink/drugs involved.

    You have a sagging mattress?


  • #21
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    snafuk35 wrote: »
    You have a sagging mattress?

    is this young persons talk for something else?
    I only recently found out what a wizards sleeve is!!


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  • #22
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    The Master of Disaster wrote: »
    OK this isn't my own, it happened a friend of my mother .....

    Was ye mothers friends name " Audery Rose " ?


  • #23
    snafuk35
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 833 ✭✭✭snafuk35


    Rick Deckard wrote: »
    is this young persons talk for something else?
    I only recently found out what a wizards sleeve is!!

    ??????


  • #24
    ImGettinPaper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭ImGettinPaper


    I had an out of body experience where I was listening to Drum n Bass. :cool:


  • #25
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    For many years now, longer than I can remember and since I was a child, just as I'm about to fall asleep, I experience a sudden flash of golden light that brings me back awake for a while. Just the one time when it happens, a sudden start as the 'light' happens, and then I go to sleep. I drive my wife bats, as I usually call out 'what was that?', even though I know what it was...

    I also have the 'double waking' - I wake up and then, sit on the edge of the bed and look around and then - just when I'm about to stand up, I REALLY wake up and I'm still on my back or side...

    ...and I've often describe places I've never been to before I walk through the door. No, not famous places that I might have seen on TV, but mundane places that are just impossible for me to know about.

    Spooky, eh?

    tac


  • #26
    doublejj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭doublejj


    i have dreamed about certain places that i have never been too,and when i ask people who have been to these places i can describe them down to a tee....i also dreamt before that trees and bushs at the front of a friends house had been cut down,when i passed the house a week later they were gone,when i asked him when were they cut he only cut them two days before...weird


  • #27
    ImGettinPaper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭ImGettinPaper


    doublejj wrote: »
    i have dreamed about certain places that i have never been too,and when i ask people who have been to these places i can describe them down to a tee....i also dreamt before that trees and bushs at the front of a friends house had been cut down,when i passed the house a week later they were gone,when i asked him when were they cut he only cut them two days before...weird
    I had a dream I was gonna have frosties for breakfast and when I woke up...guess what?? I had frosties?!?!?!?!

    Weirrrrrrrrrrd!!!


  • #28
    Rick Deckard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Rick Deckard


    ImGettinPaper wrote: »
    doublejj wrote: »
    i have dreamed about certain places that i have never been too,and when i ask people who have been to these places i can describe them down to a tee....i also dreamt before that trees and bushs at the front of a friends house had been cut down,when i passed the house a week later they were gone,when i asked him when were they cut he only cut them two days before...weird
    I had a dream I was gonna have frosties for breakfast and when I woke up...guess what?? I had frosties?!?!?!?!

    Weirrrrrrrrrrd!!!
    After hours is that way
    >


  • #29
    Star Lord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    ImGettinPaper wrote: »
    I had a dream I was gonna have frosties for breakfast and when I woke up...guess what?? I had frosties?!?!?!?!

    Weirrrrrrrrrrd!!!

    I had a dream that you would get banned if you troll here. Let's see if it happens!


  • #30
    A Primal Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    I have known of incidences in my family regarding "knowing" or "feeling" when a person died.

    When I was very young, my grandmother was sick for a few weeks and we knew she was probably going to die soon. One morning around 10am I was out playing in the snow and I got this feeling that she died then. I would say I knew she died. I found out later that she had died around 10am.

    I would be a quite skeptical person so I put it down as just a co-incidence.

    My dad had an incident where while working late in his career as a Detective; and while very busy a thought suddenly entered his head about a funny thing that happened when he had been out hunting with another Garda around 20 years before, someone he would have known fairly well back then but hadn't been in contact or even thought about him for years. It was quite random as he had a hundred work things on his mind and then he suddenly started thinking about that. He got a shock later to find out that that Garda had died that same day. Like I said he had no idea even if that Garda was sick or hadnt heard anything about him for years. My Dad would be the most skeptical person in the world so again he eventually put it down as a co-incidence, although at the time he was fairly shook about it.

    My cousin told me she woke up in the middle of the night screaming even running into her parents room the night our granddad died.


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  • #31
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Stories I like to post about my own paranormal experiences...
    Once I woke up during the night and saw the shape of an old woman towards the end of my bed. Nearly shít myself. A paranormal believer would probably throw the covers up and try to go asleep, and then tell all their true believer pals about it as evidence of the paranormal. I went to the bother of turning on the lights, and discovered that it was just an article of clothing hanging in a particular way, and being slightly illuminated by light from outside (the moon possibly).

    Another time I saw what one could be forgiven for thinking was a bunch of spacecrafts having a dogfight miles up in space! Just looked like dots of light moving around each other randomly. As we turned the corner and looked up, they were gone. My paranormal-loving friend saw it too, and was clearly pleased to see that I had had a paranormal experience. I just said that I didn't know what it was, and left it at that. Saw the same thing the next day on my own, and walked further on, they disappeared again. Forgot about it, until I looked up about 5 minutes down the road, and there were a bunch of seagulls flying around in front of a billboard, being lit up by the lights Showing that (a) humans often confuse 'big but far away' with 'small but close', and (b) just because an explanation is not forthcoming or apparent does not mean it's not something mundane. Seagulls in front of a billboard would be the last thing that I'd consider.

    Another recent example, I was cleaning up the sitting room a few weeks ago, and as I was leaving the room the TV came on, seemingly by itself. I wasn't near the remote at the time. Then I remembered that I had moved the remote about 2 minutes earlier, and I also remembered my mother complaining before that this new TV takes ages to come off standby when you press a button!


  • #32
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    A Primal Nut wrote: »
    I have known of incidences in my family regarding "knowing" or "feeling" when a person died.

    .

    yeah, I sometimes 'feel' this too. It's like as if the dead person is asking me for help or something, very hard to describe it though.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #33
    lcrcboy
    Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭lcrcboy


    Staying at my cousins house which was full with people at the time so I had to sleep downstairs on the living room couch, which was ok because no one had been drinking and everyone had to get up for work so went to sleep early enough. But I woke up at about half three in the morning to a mobile phone which was ringing I tried to ignore it at first but the stupid phone kept ringing so I got up and found it on top of the fire place which was across the other side of the Living room, I pressed the end call button and went back to sleep it didn't ring again that night.

    The next morning at breakfast I told my cousin that his phone or who ever it belonged to was ringing last night, he sat back and said thats strange because that phone on the fire place was his from over a year back and was completely broken it went dead a year ago. Now Im completely 100 percent sure I woke up to it ringing and I had not been drinking or doing anything else that night. That night has always stumped me


  • #34
    Ditch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    If only ye'd answered that damn thing! :D

    Strange as it may seem; I can completely relate to that story. Because, now ye mention it, I have a phone sat on my mantle piece here. Somewhere. Buried beneath six years of accumulated dust.

    My point being that; Yes. People do keep 'dead' mobiles on their shelves. I'd just question the chances of my ones battery being any good by now though.

    But, I'd love to hear from one or two of the people who's numbers I lost for ever when that bugger died on me. Old friends I'll never be able to speak to again :(


  • #35
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    i was once driving along a road in Laois, not too far from work. It was a road I travelled occasionally - enough to know where it was, where it was coming from and going to .. but not well enough that I knew every single house along it.

    Anyway, one day I was driving along it and I saw this really, really cool old thatched cottage. I was so soo close to stopping and taking a photo - and I wish the feck I had now. Anyway - I just noticed it was really bright, clean and nice ... fresh straw in the roof and chickens in the yard etc.

    I came back the next day to take a photo of it, but there was no bungalow.


  • #36
    Fittle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭Fittle


    As a child, in bed at night, I was able to lie on my side (foetal position) and 'rock' my body side to side (in my mind) until I could feel myself, above the bed and looking down on myself. I could do this for years, and it never felt remotely scary or odd - in fact, I loved the 'rocking' feeling I could do. I have often tried to focus really hard as an adult and have been able to do it about twice in the past few years...

    I was at a counsellor in my 20s (dysfunctional family stuff) and she told me it was very common for children to remove themselves from situations (parents/family arguing in my case) by imagining themselves outside the situation and that this was my 'coping mechanism' at the time...some coping mechanism!


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  • #37
    MrFlabr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭MrFlabr


    I have quite a strange one that to this day I can't explain, so bascially about a year and a half ago I woke up in the middle of the night. Being completely disoriented I decided to reach for my phone and check on the time as it was a school night and I wanted to see how mych longer I had to enjoy my cosy bed. Anyway as I reached out to get my phone I felt this cold force touch my hand and stop it reaching my phone, all of a sudden I felt as if someone was leaning in towards me so that it's as if our noses were touching. Then this 'presence' let out a huge shriek and I felt this huge pressing sensation on my chest, I tried to talk,scream, even blink and couldnt and then as quick as it happened, it ended. Strange stuff I must say although it could have been a horrible, horrible dream that felt so real!


  • #38
    Sashiee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Sashiee


    tac foley wrote: »
    For many years now, longer than I can remember and since I was a child, just as I'm about to fall asleep, I experience a sudden flash of golden light that brings me back awake for a while. Just the one time when it happens, a sudden start as the 'light' happens, and then I go to sleep. I drive my wife bats, as I usually call out 'what was that?', even though I know what it was...

    I also have the 'double waking' - I wake up and then, sit on the edge of the bed and look around and then - just when I'm about to stand up, I REALLY wake up and I'm still on my back or side...

    ...and I've often describe places I've never been to before I walk through the door. No, not famous places that I might have seen on TV, but mundane places that are just impossible for me to know about.

    Spooky, eh?

    tac

    that is spooky!!! ever seen the film insideous??
    Maybe you can travel in your sleep!


  • #39
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    I had a granny dying premonition too and I don't know how to explain it. I was around 10 and may have picked up on what was happening that night with late night calls and the likes.

    When I was 18 or so the summer I had my first car I was driving home late at night along a country road .I saw what I thought was an old man in front of the car, slammed on the brakes and, went right thru "him".

    Got out, checked the road and ditch etc nothin. I checked the car for damage - nothing. Bright moon etc , light thru trees I thought , got back in the car.

    The weather changed and it was bucketing down and just beside this very old graveyard I got a blow out of the back tyre. The only pull in space was the graveyard entrance. Being the cool guy that I am I changed the wheel and drove home nonchalantly -naht :pac:.

    Now I am not saying there was a ghost hitching a lift for the 5 miles between the 2 spots but the next time my ma put a little bottle of holy water and rosary beads in the glovebox I thought "well why not".

    After that night, nothing has spooked me.

    There is a rational explanation for what happened and, even if I didn't accept the explanation there was only my own apprehension. So ,either way , its ok.


  • #40
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Just to explain - I am the biggest skeptic ever! I don't believe in any paranormal hocus-pocus nonsense.
    However:
    One night about two years ago I was woken by my wife mooching about in the bed. It was about 3am and a dark winter night. Every now and then she would peer over the duvet and then hide her head under it. This happened 3 or 4 times. I asked her if she was alright and she said that she wished that the spirit people would go away.
    I gently shook her and said that I thought she was having a nightmare.
    She said no, that she is fully awake. She then promptly fell asleep and left me awake all night peering over the duvet!

    The next morning we were discussing it and she said that her Granny and her Dad were in the room wanting to tell her something but she didn't know what.

    Anyway - a few days later we get a phone call to say her uncle had died recently, but his body had lain in the house for a few days before it was discovered. It turns out that he died the night that the spirit people were in our bedroom.


  • #41
    leggit
    Registered Users Posts: 936 ✭✭✭leggit


    Was sitting in my house on my own twice when I've distinctly heard the front door open and close (very noisy front door, couldn't mistake it for anything else) but nobody has come in or out???

    Another time, my old washing machine came on by itself? It was a button you had to pull out from the machine and you had to put a fair bit of effort in to do it.

    Had sleep paralysis before as well, when you have it for the first time and don't know what it is it scares the bejesus out of you!!!


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  • #42
    BigDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    Not so mucch a scary experience (I'm sure most people wont even find it interesting) but an odd one that left me perplexed.

    I was in Easons on O'Connel street and noticed these two lads around 35 stereotypical "comic book guy" geekish over weight types with a heavy metal bands tour tshirt glasses bad beards. One of which was wearing a long black leather jacket and leather cow boy hat which was what drew my attention initially, I looked at them dismissed them as grown up nerds on way to graphic novel section. I then glanced at my watch and realized I was late for the dart and powerwalked out of the shop and broke into a jog up O'Connel street.

    I reached the top of the street right (batchelors walk) on the quay and the exact same two lads walked right by me back down the street....

    No chance of mistaken identity on account of distinctive clothing and geeky looks.....also anyone that knows Dublin will know there is no chance they could of some how made it out ahead of me then cut through the back streets and around the quay to walk by me unless they could move at warp speed.

    It literally stopped me dead in the street. Jaw open staring at them..(nearly missed the dart)...I was seconds away from going back down the street after them and asking them were they just in easons.

    To this day I wish I would of gone and said something (regardless of how crazy I would sound). Had me freaked!


  • #43
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    BigDuffman wrote: »
    One of which was wearing a long black leather jacket and leather cow boy hat which was what drew my attention initially,

    And what might be wrong with this :pac:


  • #44
    BigDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    CDFM you weren'tin easons last week by any chance where ya ;)


  • #45
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    BigDuffman wrote: »
    CDFM you weren'tin easons last week by any chance where ya ;)

    LOL no, but CDfm junior now has a coat just like that. :D

    I upgraded.


  • #46
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Lost a black wooly hat last month and went everywhere looking for it. Next day I bought a new one. Last night I lost the new hat and did the usual trawl around looking for it. Went back into the canteen I was in earlier and asked the cashier did she find a black wooly hat. She pointed to the other side of the room. On a table was the hat except it was the one I had lost last month!


  • #47
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    Ive got 2.

    When I was 5 we lived in a flat, my bedroom had a cold oppressive atmosphere I never liked but it was all I knew.

    At school we made things in craftwork out of cornflakes boxes, etc I made a ship.

    I took it home, I slept with the light on cause I often woke up scared.

    It was on a dresser in my bedroom, I awoke in the middle of the night and saw it go vertically up a wall. I was frozen with fear, eventually I called out and my mother came, I suppose she throught I had had a bad dream.

    My brother shared my bedroom, hes 11 yrs older so was never home much, hes a total sceptic, I never told him or talked to him about the incident.

    About 15 years ago a few of us were in a room having a drink, we got talking about the supernatural, my brother said, when he was young he once woke up and saw a thing I had made at school climb up the bedroom wall vertically......but he reconed he had just imagined it.....no word of a lie.

    I recon it was a poltergeist experience.

    Heres story 2

    I was living in London, people were ringing up the radio sation about a diamond pulsating light over west London, I looked out and saw it in the distance, it was like no star or planet or helicopoter, I kept watching it, it took off suddenly very fast, people reported seeing it all the way to the south coast, it also made the papers.


  • #48
    tommy21
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    Had a very lucid experience the other night (hoping its a nightmare but seemed so very real and so different I don't know) - woke up in the middle of the night and my deceased grandmother is sitting on the couch in my bedroom. She suffered from Parkinson's when she was alive and was exhibiting the same kind of hunched symptoms. So I get up and "walk" over to her, and ask her how she is. She shakes her head as if to indicate not well. I ask her is she in heaven, and she shakes no, then whispered "hell." Then her face began to melt away and I woke up (standing!) in my bed, shouting. Under a lot of stress at moment so presuming it was a nightmare, but very unsettling.

    The same woman told us some very unsettling stories from when she used to work in England. She was some form of a maid in one of these old English manors. For years periodically the same thing would happen. She would go up to her room at night and close the door, usually leaving it unlocked. In the middle of the night, perhaps 2-3 times a month, the door would open of its own accord then close. Footsteps could be heard across the floor, and a drawer would open on the other side of the room, then shut. Then that would be it. She tried locking the door, and the handle would be tried for about 10 seconds, before nothing else happened. I suppose nothing actually happened beyond that, but incredibly sinister all the same, like a lost spirit or something.


  • #49
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    I just had weird one. I dreamed I was having to unblock the sink, I went downstairs and my son has the sink full if bits of rice and other s...

    This never normally happens.

    Its not so much dreaming I find this things happen in, its more the state when you are half asleep.


    Why is it never the lottery numbers ?:-(


  • #50
    keith nev
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭keith nev


    what is it when u are listening to a song and a feeling from head too toe come upon u its such a good feeling it puts a smile on ur face ....i looked it up and apparently its called a musicgasim :confused::confused:


  • #51
    Naid23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Naid23


    A little thing happened to me when I was about 16, My granny was dying of cancer and was at home with the family gathered round. I had to drop books back to the library so rather then sitting around my mam asked me to head over, so she gave me money for the book fine and enough for my bus fare into town after.

    I had a bad feeling and didnt want to go but did so anyways, the library fine was exactly 5e which my mam had given me so i wouldnt had enough money for the bus had my dad not given me extra money. So I headed round to the bus stop (which freaky enough is outside a big creepy house Numbered 666- always freaked me out).....Just as the bus came into view this big lady bird landed on my hand and I just stood there and stared at it in amazment-normally i shoo it away. It flew away just as my phone rang and it was my dad telling me to come back home, my granny died a few minutes before.

    I wouldnt be a big religious or spiritual person but to this day I've this feeling it was my granny letting me know she was gone!.. was just weird!!


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