"Trust the signs"

Archeron

I've just been reading the other thread about a frightening experience many years ago, and came across this phrase "trust the signs" My question is, how do you recognize these signs?

Will it always be a warning? Can it be something mundane? Could it perhaps even be an arrangement or pattern seen in everyday normal things that just seems to make sense to the individual? At what point does it stop being a sign, and become merely a persons imagination and/or delusion?

The reason I ask this is because I have had numerous occasions in my life where I am convinced I have seen "other worldly" (for lack of a better phrase) events. The most recent one being just a couple of weeks ago where I seen an elderly woman dressed all in black be hit by a car in front of me, and then dissolve at speed into black sinuous smoke trails and disappear. I would presume the driver in that car didnt see her as he didnt waiver or slow down at all despite the fact that she was pretty apparent. Scary bit was that she seemed to be watching ME while she was being hit. Are these the type of things that could be interepreted as signs, and if so, how do you begin to decipher what these signs could mean?

When and if you ever see these types of events yourself, do you pin a meaning to them or just pass them off as unusual events?

6th

Well seeing ass it was me that made the 'trust the signs' comment maybe I should expand on what I meant.

By signs I dont just mean visual 'clues' it was basically a comment about trusting yourself aswell. If you get a 'feeling' not to wal a particular way home from a night out etc. Plenty of times I've been in the situation where I'll see a quickway of doing something and say 'fcuk it, why not' but if I get a feeling, even a moment of doubt where it doesnt feel right then I try to listen to the doubt.

At what point does it stop being a sign, and become merely a persons imagination and/or delusion?

The same could be ask of me about spirit experiences I have had and again it comes down to knowing yourself and trusting yourself. Of course its always possible that a spirit I have seen is a figment of my imagination of a result of some undiagnose mental condition but experience has made me trust that this is not the case.

Now when you say this 'woman' was hit by the car, did she react as if she had been hit by a car (did the mass behave as it an impact had taken place) or did 'she' simply disolve?

Archeron

I know what you mean about the gut feeling thing, and I do tend to trust those. Not too long ago while driving, something told me to slow down, which I did. Seconds later I hit a massive patch of slurry on the road and went sliding on to the wrong side of the road. Had I been at the original speed, who knows what could have happened.

With these sightings that I've had though, I always wonder if I should put more thought into what they actually could mean. I never really discuss these things in polite conversation as people tend to think you're mental, but I'm comfortable in my knowledge of what I saw.
When I make the comment about delusion, what I mean is whether or not its possible to be looking so hard for a sign or a meaning behind what you see that you can begin to convince yourself that there is some meaning or reference when it might not be there to begin with. I am 110% sure of the things that I've seen in my life, and have often wondered why I see so many odd things, when so few other people seem to. I dont have any particular interest in the world of the paranormal, apart from reading some books when I was kid, so I certainly dont think its any part of being influenced by what little I have read up on. I am a normal bloke, 30YO with a normal life, and always wonder why it is so common for me to see these things. In almost all cases, I simply shrug my shoulders and add it to my own little list.

As regards the woman I seen recently, she did not react as if she had been hit. She reacted as a cloud would if something went through the middle of it at high speed, and broke into what I could loosely describe as black tendrils that then just drifted off and disappeared. She definitely had what looked like a physical reaction to the car, but not one with any form of human expression or emotion. In using the word tendrils though, whatever it was did not react exactly like smoke as it had a much thicker, almost syrupy texture to it, but airborne. (does that makes sense??)

What I mean is, when I see things like this, should I simply take it as an unusual occurance or should I perhaps take it as maybe a warning, or some sort of hidden message? How do you tell the difference between something that is a random sighting, and one that could have direct meaning into your own life and experience?

6th

Short response before I take lunch is that you should take them as unusual occurances. Only you know the difference in how you feel when you get the gut about slowing down and when you see 'something' like this woman.