Holy Spirits - Alarm Clock?

BBM77

My mother always said that if she sleeps on in the morning that the holy spirits would tap her on the shoulder to wake her up. I always thought “yeah right” and passed it off as a dream or something.

One morning, the other week I felt a tap on my shoulder and when I looked at the clock next to my bed I was after sleeping on a ½ hour. It was as clear as day and could not have been anybody else as I live alone. I had to admit to my mother that my doubt was wrong.


Did anybody ever hear of or experience this kind of thing?

6th

Never heard of it.

Sapien

Ballybrickenman wrote:

My mother always said that if she sleeps on in the morning that the holy spirits would tap her on the shoulder to wake her up. I always thought “yeah right” and passed it off as a dream or something.

One morning, the other week I felt a tap on my shoulder and when I looked at the clock next to my bed I was after sleeping on a ½ hour. It was as clear as day and could not have been anybody else as I live alone. I had to admit to my mother that my doubt was wrong.


Did anybody ever hear of or experience this kind of thing?

What are "holy spirits"?

kshiel

I have heard of people trying this as testing the spirit by going for a nap and asking to be woken up before a pre set time and seeing if they would. They always have woken but this I would say could be put down to there own biological/ brain body responding (sorry bit out of it today and cannot think of the term used)

Slow Motion

kshiel wrote:

I have heard of people trying this as testing the spirit by going for a nap and asking to be woken up before a pre set time and seeing if they would. They always have woken but this I would say could be put down to there own biological/ brain body responding (sorry bit out of it today and cannot think of the term used)

Agree. I get up pretty much the same time every weekday, if I forget to set my alarm I still wake up, also when not in work I can usually say to myself before I go to bed "Right I want to get up at x am" and will wake up accordingly without setting the alarm !

6th

Sapien wrote:

What are "holy spirits"?

If I was to go with the terminology used by the OP I would think "huh?" but I'll just ingore the spiritual side of it and consider does he mean that spirits decided to wake him up when he sleeps in?

Rather than "holy spirits" I would maybe consider if what the OP is saying has happened to him and indeed his mother then maybe its a passed relation who's interacting with them and has a thing for poor timekeeping.

mossieh

Not being smart here but surely spirits(holy or otherwise) would have better things to be doing. I can certainly think of interesting ways to spend an afterlife and waking my lazy grandson in the morning is not one of them. I think that Kshiel is on the ball here, it's a biological mechanism that your sleepy brain interpreted creatively.

6th

mossieh wrote:

Not being smart here but surely spirits(holy or otherwise) would have better things to be doing. I can certainly think of interesting ways to spend an afterlife and waking my lazy grandson in the morning is not one of them.

You'd be surprised!

mossieh wrote:

I think that Kshiel is on the ball here, it's a biological mechanism that your sleepy brain interpreted creatively.

Anyway yeah I'd say its just the body waking itself.

BBM77

kshiel wrote:

I have heard of people trying this as testing the spirit by going for a nap and asking to be woken up before a pre set time and seeing if they would. They always have woken but this I would say could be put down to there own biological/ brain body responding (sorry bit out of it today and cannot think of the term used)

It was pretty clear so I find it hard to believe it was my brain telling me I was tapped on the shoulder.

6th wrote:

If I was to go with the terminology used by the OP I would think "huh?" but I'll just ingore the spiritual side of it and consider does he mean that spirits decided to wake him up when he sleeps in?

Rather than "holy spirits" I would maybe consider if what the OP is saying has happened to him and indeed his mother then maybe its a passed relation who's interacting with them and has a thing for poor timekeeping.

I would like to think it was the spirit of a deceased relative looking out for me, but how knows.

6th

You should try ask on teh Spirituality Forum too, you might get a very different resonse there.

monkeyfudge

I find the act of setting an alarm clock is enough to make me programme my brain to wake me up... I pretty much always wake up about 2 or 3 minutes before the alarm goes off... and this isn't the same time every day either.

Still... doesn't stop me going back to sleep and using a built in reflex to keep hitting the snooze button every 5 minutes for an hour or two.

kshiel

Ballybrickenman wrote:

It was pretty clear so I find it hard to believe it was my brain telling me I was tapped on the shoulder.

I would like to think it was the spirit of a deceased relative looking out for me, but how knows.

I am not saying it wasn't a real experience just that there can be other ways to look at it and the logical one holds as an explanation especially if it only happened once to you. Try testing this spirit in different ways and see if you get a response .

Stoner

I guess to Ballybrickenman's mother , the spirits are holy, my own mother would use similar wording, I don't think Ballybrickenman's mother is living in some sort of state of ignorance, she can call them whatever she wants IMO.

My Grandfather who I have discussed with Kshiels on a number of occasions claimed to have experienced similar things.

Although he claimed it was his dead wife. His youngest son was retarded and would experience difficulty sometimes when he slept (breathing). My grandfather claimed that he was on more than on occasion shaken by his dead wife so he could attend to his son, his son would be ok and not in difficulty yet, he would just have moved onto his back or something, so he raised no alert. He also claimed to have been woken up by her.

Anyway on a more scientific note, the same grandmother never had an alarm clock in her life , and would be asked by hers sons to wake them up at any time in the morning and she would be able to do it, I guess she just had a good internal clock.

stevenmu

Well a lot of people can train themselves to wake up at a particular time, I know I'd often wake up within a minute of my alarm being sue to go off. I think what sets this apart from that though is the clearly felt tap on the shoulder, it's something I've never felt anyway when I've needed to wake up.

faceman

i have had simliar experiences but never classed them as paranormal as you are in that mad place between sleep and reality. i have often felt breathing on my face.