I could be going mad ......

iamhunted

I'm beginning to believe I must have some form of latent psychic abilities as over the past few years I've had a few strange experiences, but today (or a month ago whatever way you look at it) I had one that means either Im going mad or i dunno.

About a month ago I was driving along a road that I drive along quite alot and I noticed a thatched cottage on the right hand side of the road. I remember it distinctly because at the time I nearly stopped and got out. it was an old thatched roofed two room cottage in perfect nick with (and this is the bit that made me almost stop and get out) it had about 20 chickens out front. I havent seen 1 chicken round a house in decades, nevermind about 20. I noticed it didnt even have cement or tar or a garden at the front, it was just dry dirt with a few bits of grass .. no path or anything. I got all this in as I'd slowed right down driving past.

Then as I was driving on I was thinking 'thats the sterotypical irish cottage if Ive ever seen one' and was wishing I had stopped and took a picture with my phone.

It stuck in my head because when I got back to work about an hour later (i was on the road) I mentioned it to co-workers. None of them had ever seen this cottage before. I even mentioned it to my wife later that night cus I was still amazed a house like that still existed in this hell hole. Thats how I know i didnt dream it as she remembers me talking about it.

Today I happened to be driving along the same road and it ISNT there. I am 100% certain its the same road, but to be sure Im going to ask at work tomorrow if anyone remembers the conversation. I drove along the road, then drove back across and finally drove back again. theres no thatched cottage and theres nowhere where there was one.

At the minute theres three options:

1) It was a different road, and my memory is catching up with my age
2) I completely imagined it, whilst driving
3) I was on the correct road and I didnt imagine (though that doesnt explain why its not there)

or

4) I could be going mad ......

Aisling&M

That is incredibly interesting and sound very probably like a strong psychic impression. Whether you were able to perceive something of the past or it is a symbolic message for you I don't know. But I'm very interested to see where this leads to!

And once you open your mind to the possibilities they usually make themselves known through random coincidences and experiences like this! Enjoy....

stormkeeper

There's a phenomena that I recall, called a "Time Slip" which may be what you experienced here perhaps. Anyway, the accounts I've seen with regards to it were quite interesting. I managed to dig up the posts on it from the old Essex Paranormal forums, and the definition is as follows:

timeslips as the name suggests is when time "slips" back, you may see buoldings and areas that exisisted many years ago but are no longer around, many documented cases of this phenomnenon have been reported, a few of which happened in essex, one is a report of a brother and sister were walking along the hadleigh benfleet downs and said they saw a georgian house and even said they saw a girl and a dog pass them, the house has never been seen since.

A definition of such also includes:

"A perceived fold or bridge in time that brings the present in contact with another time. The vast majority of timeslips refer to a bridge with the past, though there are some indications of occasional bridges with the future. Sometimes the timeslip seems to be just a vision; on other occasions, there is the suggestion that the sighter is 'within' the scene."

--"Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries"

Lastly another definition with a case:

TIMESLIP TRAITS

A timeslip is differentiated from time travel by its spontaneous nature and its localization within certain parameters. Once one exits the area of the experience, or the timeline decides of its own accord to right itself, one is seamlessly returned to the present.

Timeslips are "often accompanied by feelings of depression, eerieness and a marked sense of silence, deeper than normally experienced," posits author Andrew MacKenzie in his book "Adventures in Time: Encounters With the Past," drawing this conclusion based on the Versailles timeslip accounts as well as his own interviews with people who have experienced the phenomenon.

During a timeslip, all parties seem to be caught up in a suspension of disbelief. The tourists who paid the bill for their timeslipped hotel stay with modern-day currency received no queries or objection from the clerk. Some assert that this is a red flag as to the story's veracity; however, the author of the account could have just as easily incorporated the expected bewildered reaction in place of the mystifyingly complacent one.

The unlikely acceptance of discrepancies could be an example of one of the proposed solutions to the Grandfather Paradox. The paradox states that traveling back in time is impossible because of the physics-defying contradictions it would create. A time traveler could kill his own grandfather, thus negating his own existence. But if he is never born, the grandpatricide would not have occured, in which case the natural course of events would lead to his being born after all, perpetuating ad infinitum the antilogy.

One response theorizes that the Universe would not permit this to happen: In trying to shoot one's own grandfather, the gun would jam; in trying to poison him, one would drop the vial, etc. This interference from on high is demonstrated in the hotel experience when the photos the guests took of the hotel didn't appear on the negatives, and the sprocket holes where the shots should have been in the sequence of the film showed signs of distress, as if the camera had fought taking the pictures.


HERE IS ONE RECENT REPORT >>>>>>>

The following is a story from the mouth of a Merseyside policeman who inadvertently traveled back in time when he was off-duty in July of 1996 in Liverpool's Bold Street area.

Frank, the policeman in question, and his wife, Carol, were in Liverpool one sunny Saturday afternoon shopping. At Central Station, the pair split up; Carol went to Dillons Bookshop to buy a copy of Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting," and Frank went to HMV to look for a CD he wanted. [Shortly] into his stroll to the music shop, he walked up the incline near the Lyceum Post Office/Café building which leads onto Bold Street, when he suddenly noticed he had somehow entered an oasis of quietness.

Suddenly, a small boxvan that looked like something out of the 1950s sped across his path, honking its horn as it narrowly missed him. Frank noticed the name on the van's side: Caplan's. When he looked down, the confused policeman [saw that] he was standing in the road. Frank crossed the road and saw that Dillons Book Store now had "Cripps" over its entrances. More confused, he looked in to see not books, but women's handbags and shoes.

When he looked around, Frank realized people were dressed [in fashions] from the 1940s. Suddenly, he spotted a young girl in her early 20s dressed in a lime-colored sleeveless top. The handbag she was carrying had a popular [modern-day] brand name on it, which reassured the policeman that maybe he was still partly in 1996. It was a paradox, but the policeman was slightly relieved, and he smiled at the girl as she walked past him and entered Cripps.

As he followed her, the whole interior of the building completely changed in a flash to that of Dillons Bookshop of 1996. As she was leaving [the store], Frank lightly grasped the girl's arm to attract attention and said, "Did you see that?"

She replied, "Yeah! I thought it was a clothes shop. I was going to look around, but it's a bookshop."

It [was later determined] that Cripps and Caplan's were businesses based in Liverpool during the 1950s.

All from: http://essexparanormal.proboards26.com/index.cgi?board=timeslips&action=display&thread=1092426857

I can't say with absolute certainty that what you experienced was a time slip, but at the same time, with regards to what you say, it seems quite possible. I do wonder though if those who are more psychically developed have a higher chance of experiencing a Time Slip compared to someone with a lesser degree of development. Keep in mind that this is irrespective of training as some people seem to be more further along naturally as opposed to others, though it all depends on your mindset.

iamhunted

i must look into that. I checked today with staff here at work. I basically asked them if they remembered me talking of a cottage and if so, what road did I mentioned. It was the same road. I didnt even mention today what road I thought it was as I waited for their reply first. I defintely came back into work a month ago talking about this amazing rural cottage on the same road I travelled up and down yesterday, when I couldnt find the same cottage.

I find it weird that I was dirving and this happened. Everything else I remember is there, minus the cottage

iamhunted

"Timeslips are "often accompanied by feelings ... eerieness and a marked sense of silence, deeper than normally experienced"

I did feel that there was ever so slightly something amiss, marked mainly by my desire to actually stop the car and get out, yet I just slowed down and didnt stop (though i fully intended to do so). That was why I think it stuck in my mind so much as at the time it just felt a bit off-ish.

kshiel

I would agree with Aishling, it sounds like a strong psychic impression. Out of interest has any other strange (maybe less strong) impressions or images, feelings etc happen to you before or is this the first time? Maybe try and do a little research on the area and see if a cottage was ever there.

Like Aishling has said enjoy it and take it as a good experience.