Unexplainable events?

dr gonzo

This is more of an addendum to the the biggest fright thread below but i just wanted to throw this out to AHer's. Have any people here ever experienced something odd or unexplainable?

Im not saying you have to believe in ghosts or aliens or anything mad but ive heard stories of strange occurrences from people before who would otherwise be the most truthful and down to earth people you could meet.

Does anybody here have something thats happened to them that they just cant rationalise?

digme

dr gonzo wrote: »

Does anybody here have something thats happened to them that they just cant rationalise?

Conciousness.

Midnight_EG

Who was phone?

Pinturicchio

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dr gonzo wrote: »

This is more of an addendum to the the biggest fright thread below but i just wanted to throw this out to AHer's. Have any people here ever experienced something odd or unexplainable?

Im not saying you have to believe in ghosts or aliens or anything mad but ive heard stories of strange occurrences from people before who would otherwise be the most truthful and down to earth people you could meet.

Does anybody here have something thats happened to them that they just cant rationalise?

Waking up every single morning with a hardon even though my dreams are non sexual... WTF is that about? If somebody wakes me up by knocking on the door, I gotta wait a little.


Honestly? Plenty of things happen on a daily basis that our minds simply cannot comprehend. We try to rationalise them in order to put our minds at ease, well kinda (ghosts etc etc).

Seloth

Once when I was just on my couch my grandmothers smell just appeared..she passed on two years previouse : /

For the funnys,a friend of minewas in New York at the statue of liberty and spotted another friend of ours in the que next to him

Bodhisopha

Acoustic guitar feet away from me on the couch, nobody near it, nothing but the couch beneath it touching it, the 6th string rings out loud, clear and cleanly.

Unexplainable event.

dr gonzo

Seloth wrote: »

For the funnys,a friend of minewas in New York at the statue of liberty and spotted another friend of ours in the que next to him

Actually something like that happened to me. I was in the middle of Peru in a small bar and heard someone calling my name, turned out to be a friend from school who i hadnt seen in years. Mad coincidence.

Pinturicchio

Most of those things aren't unexplainable, just unlikely.

ddef

Who shot JR?

Pinturicchio

ddef wrote: »

Who shot JR?

I did.

donmeister

Why doesnt my poo taste like Nutella?

fonecrusher1

donmeister wrote: »

Why doesnt my poo taste like Nutella?

So what does it taste like?

epgc3fyqirnbsx

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

So what does it taste like?

tastes like **** man

Sofaspud

dr gonzo wrote: »

Actually something like that happened to me. I was in the middle of Peru in a small bar and heard someone calling my name, turned out to be a friend from school who i hadnt seen in years. Mad coincidence.

I got the same thing in Tenerife, from a girl I went to secondary school with during the summer after first year.

fonecrusher1

Mustafa Odd Lambaste wrote: »

tastes like **** man

So you've tasted Donmeister's poo??

liah

ddef wrote: »

Who shot JR?

Tom, obviously.

zenno

well I did have a strange one about 3 years ago. I was relaxing most of the day and listning to nice music through the night. I think i had 2 beers at about 2AM and fell asleep. I woke up all of a sudden a while later but i couldn't move and i heard a loud electrical buzzing noise around my head, then something grabbed my hand it was definately a hand that grabbed my hand at that stage i panacked and pulled back but when this all happened i was awake but i couldn't move. so i don't know what it was but i do know one thing, I wasn't asleep and i wasnt dreaming, I was awake but i couldn't move but I can tell you something grabbed my hand and was pulling on it for a minute I know that for sure but i can't explain it. just one of those things that can't be explained.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

So you've tasted Donmeister's poo??

I work at a sewage plant.
And with that oiche mhaith mo cairde

fonecrusher1

Mustafa Odd Lambaste wrote: »

I work at a sewage plant.
And with that oiche mhaith mo cairde

Ah i see, i get ya. He works there as well.;)

liah

zenno wrote: »

well I did have a strange one about 3 years ago. I was relaxing most of the day and listning to nice music through the night. I think i had 2 beers at about 2AM and fell asleep. I woke up all of a sudden a while later but i couldn't move and i heard a loud electrical buzzing noise around my head, then something grabbed my hand it was definately a hand that grabbed my hand at that stage i panacked and pulled back but when this all happened i was awake but i couldn't move. so i don't know what it was but i do know one thing, I wasn't asleep and i wasnt dreaming, I was awake but i couldn't move but I can tell you something grabbed my hand and was pulling on it for a minute I know that for sure but i can't explain it. just one of those things that can't be explained.

Sleep Paralysis.

Google it. Comes with visions and feelings of usually pretty scary stuff and nine times out of ten you can't move, scream, talk, do anything. But it's all just in your head, and it happens to a lot of people.

fonecrusher1

liah wrote: »

Sleep Paralysis.

Google it. Comes with visions and feelings of usually pretty scary stuff and nine times out of ten you can't move, scream, talk, do anything. But it's all just in your head, and it happens to a lot of people.

Or he was raped by an alien?

liah

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Or he was raped by an alien?

I prefer thinking "horses" instead of "zebras."

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I had a fourteen foot fall one time onto concrete and I got up and was fine. Couldn't explain that one especially seeing as when i tie mmy laces my back can hurt

Though maybe thats why

fonecrusher1

liah wrote: »

I prefer thinking "horses" instead of "zebras."

Why? because horses are more capable of violent acts?

liah

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Why? because horses are more capable of violent acts?

...the cause is more likely to be horses, not zebras.

In other words, the simplest explanation is more likely to be the right one, at least in this scenario. Sleep Paralysis: 1, Aliens: 0.

/evidently I watched too much Scrubs.

Seloth

liah wrote: »

Sleep Paralysis.

Google it. Comes with visions and feelings of usually pretty scary stuff and nine times out of ten you can't move, scream, talk, do anything. But it's all just in your head, and it happens to a lot of people.

Has happened to myself several times,usually brought on by stress and this realy dosent help it .

AT one stage it happened so Often I got used to it heh.The first few times It happened the power also went out so as soon as I could move the light nnot coming on freaked the **** out of me

fonecrusher1

liah wrote: »

...the cause is more likely to be horses, not zebras.

In other words, the simplest explanation is more likely to be the right one, at least in this scenario. Sleep Paralysis: 1, Aliens: 0.

/evidently I watched too much Scrubs.

Yet for all your philosophical bleating there is still a very very slight chance he was in fact romanced by E.T.?

liah

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Yet for all your philosophical bleating there is still a very very slight chance he was in fact romanced by E.T.?

As much a chance of being romanced by unicorns, or Jesus, or Chuck Norris.

MrStuffins

I'm a pretty rational thinker and don't believe in Ghosts, Goblins or Midgets!

But for years i've been getting "Grabbed" on the shoulder by... well, nothing! It's like someone is behind me and has just nabbed me for shoplifting, i get grabbed by a really hard grip of a hand, but there's never anyone there.

It happens about once every 3-4 months and has been happening since i'm about 13.

It's probably some sort of nerve problem, but i've never thought about asking a doctor. So until now........ it's unexplained

zenno

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Or he was raped by an alien?

LOL. well that was a good one raped by an alien. no all i can say to the above poster is, i know sleep paralysis i have had it hundreads of times but science disregards this problem. at the end of the day that's what scientists are there for. to explain the unexplained so imo they are not doing their job. all i know is i had a few strange one's. but what gets me is the fact that i'm awake and i can clearly see my suroundings but can't move and a feeling of severe fear also comes over you as if you are going to be ended. i just wish scientists would get deeper into this as everyone i know has this now and again and i have heard them explain their experiences to me. it's definatly a curiousity cause i'm lost on it. how can you be awake fully and have something pull your hand hard and you know it is a hand that is doing it ? anyway always looking for the answer to these strange experiences but unfortunatly no one has answers all they have is ridicule.

Kanoe

the christmas after my father died my kin were sitting around the table when his cell fone started ringing, it had been turned off for five months.

Sharpshooter

MrStuffins wrote: »

It happens about once every 3-4 months and has been happening since i'm about 13.

It's probably some sort of nerve problem, but i've never thought about asking a doctor. So until now........ it's unexplained

You really should have asked THE doc.

MrStuffins

Sharpshooter wrote: »

You really should have asked THE doc.

I've seen him naked, i don't really wanna take body advice from him!

Although he really IS an expert in Nerve for that alone!

Bodhisopha

zenno wrote: »

LOL. well that was a good one raped by an alien. no all i can say to the above poster is, i know sleep paralysis i have had it hundreads of times but science disregards this problem. at the end of the day that's what scientists are there for. to explain the unexplained so imo they are not doing their job. all i know is i had a few strange one's. but what gets me is the fact that i'm awake and i can clearly see my suroundings but can't move and a feeling of severe fear also comes over you as if you are going to be ended. i just wish scientists would get deeper into this as everyone i know has this now and again and i have heard them explain their experiences to me. it's definatly a curiousity cause i'm lost on it. how can you be awake fully and have something pull your hand hard and you know it is a hand that is doing it ? anyway always looking for the answer to these strange experiences but unfortunatly no one has answers all they have is ridicule.

That is sleep paralysis, but your version seems more exciting to you so don't mind the rest of us and stick to it.

Nothing grabbbed your hand, you imagined it. Despite being "awake" you were still dreaming too. Waking world and dreaming world overlapped, a symptom of sleep paralysis.

liah

zenno wrote: »

LOL. well that was a good one raped by an alien. no all i can say to the above poster is, i know sleep paralysis i have had it hundreads of times but science disregards this problem. at the end of the day that's what scientists are there for. to explain the unexplained so imo they are not doing their job. all i know is i had a few strange one's. but what gets me is the fact that i'm awake and i can clearly see my suroundings but can't move and a feeling of severe fear also comes over you as if you are going to be ended. i just wish scientists would get deeper into this as everyone i know has this now and again and i have heard them explain their experiences to me. it's definatly a curiousity cause i'm lost on it. how can you be awake fully and have something pull your hand hard and you know it is a hand that is doing it ? anyway always looking for the answer to these strange experiences but unfortunatly no one has answers all they have is ridicule.

Yes, they are..

"Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious but unable to move. The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "by which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false".[5] As the correlation with REM sleep suggests, the paralysis is not entirely complete; use of EOG traces shows that eye movement can be instigated during such episodes.[6] When there is an absence of narcolepsy, sleep paralysis is referred to as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP).[7]

In addition, the paralysis may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[8] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations."

Basically it's when you start to drift off to sleep but for some reason you wake up. Your body is still asleep, your head isn't, the signals between the two get mixed and you end up with some pretty whacky stuff.

There is no hand pulling on your hand. That's the explanation. It may seem as real as anything else, but it isn't-- your brain created it. It's not real.

ROTTING CHRIST

Last year I experienced a very strange event in my family home, (it's a detached house so this wasn't a neighbour or anything) but I woke up around 3am to the sound of a child crying coming from our downstairs kitchen. Very distinct and loud, could hear the echo around the kitchen too. When I opened my bedroom door my mother and brother were already out of bed and on the landing looking downstairs wondering what the hell was goin on. We all walked downstairs and as we got closer to the kitchen the crying just faded away towards the back of the kitchen and stopped. We looked around the house, the back garden, etc and found nothing.

I don't live there now but they say some strange things happen now and again in the kitchen since. A cup smashed in the middle of the night when nobody was in there, the radio coming on full volume by itself, etc. They have got a priest in to bless the house but it didn't stop anything.

zenno

Bodhisopha wrote: »

That is sleep paralysis, but your version seems more exciting to you so don't mind the rest of us and stick to it.

Nothing grabbbed your hand, you imagined it. Despite being "awake" you were still dreaming too. Waking world and dreaming world overlapped, a symptom of sleep paralysis.

well i know i didn't imagine it, the messed up thing about it was, it was too real thats what gets me. anyway who knows. strange all the same.. peace.

zenno

liah wrote: »

Yes, they are..

"Sleep paralysis occurs when the brain awakes from a REM state, but the body paralysis persists. This leaves the person fully conscious but unable to move. The paralysis can last from several seconds to several minutes "by which the individual may experience panic symptoms and the realization that the distorted perceptions were false".[5] As the correlation with REM sleep suggests, the paralysis is not entirely complete; use of EOG traces shows that eye movement can be instigated during such episodes.[6] When there is an absence of narcolepsy, sleep paralysis is referred to as isolated sleep paralysis (ISP).[7]

In addition, the paralysis may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (hypnopompic or hypnagogic) and an acute sense of danger.[8] Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations."

Basically it's when you start to drift off to sleep but for some reason you wake up. Your body is still asleep, your head isn't, the signals between the two get mixed and you end up with some pretty whacky stuff.

There is no hand pulling on your hand. That's the explanation. It may seem as real as anything else, but it isn't-- your brain created it. It's not real.

well thats it in a nutshell. it sure seems so real though.

Bodhisopha

zenno wrote: »

well i know i didn't imagine it, the messed up thing about it was, it was too real thats what gets me. anyway who knows. strange all the same.. peace.

I've had many similar experiences.

Blessings.

ballsymchugh

ROTTING CHRIST wrote: »

Last year I experienced a very strange event in my family home, (it's a detached house so this wasn't a neighbour or anything) but I woke up around 3am to the sound of a child crying coming from our downstairs kitchen. Very distinct and loud, could hear the echo around the kitchen too. When I opened my bedroom door my mother and brother were already out of bed and on the landing looking downstairs wondering what the hell was goin on. We all walked downstairs and as we got closer to the kitchen the crying just faded away towards the back of the kitchen and stopped. We looked around the house, the back garden, etc and found nothing.

I don't live there now but they say some strange things happen now and again in the kitchen since. A cup smashed in the middle of the night when nobody was in there, the radio coming on full volume by itself, etc. They have got a priest in to bless the house but it didn't stop anything.

this calls for an exorcist, or ghostbusters. one of my old religion teachers in secondary was an exorcist. apparently every diocese is meant to have one.

zenno

Bodhisopha wrote: »

I've had many similar experiences.

Blessings.

same back to you.

I will say this..you have to experience it to realise the reality of it.

peace.

Peyton Manning

It's not exactly supernatural or paranormal or anything, but I have nightmares about cows at an average rate of about 1 per week. It always takes place in my old house, which our family moved out of about 2-3 years ago, and it always takes the form of a zombie movie. The cows will be coming up through the field in front of our house, or up the lane way that leads to our house. I'll be trying to board up doors, windows etc. but for some reason, I'll always have to make a dash outside to get something (a lot of the time, it's to get my dog into the house safely). Im always really terrified in the dream, as if these cows get anywhere near me and they'll kill me. No reason why I have nightmares about them and so often too, as I have no problem with them in real life and there always in fields near my house (have often fed cows grass from my hand, and have never had any bad experiences with them). Needless to say, if I see that new KFC (I think) ad right before bed about chicken burgers where the cow knocks down the front door to confront the guy eating chicken instead of beef, it doesn't bode well for a good nights sleep!

Pherekydes

Whatever happened to inexplicable?








Now that's unexplainable.

Sofaspud

zenno wrote: »

I will say this..you have to experience it to realise the reality of it.

I've had it a few times, but luckily I knew what it was before I ever got it.

It's nicknamed "old hag" syndrome because a lot of people imagine an old woman strangling them during it, but for my first one there was a guy in a black mask holding a power-drill to my face. That one was scary.

Since then, I've realised that when in this state, I can tell myself it's a dream, and as soon as I can force myself to move anything, even my little finger, I'll be fine.

antodeco

Archimedes wrote: »

It's not exactly supernatural or paranormal or anything....

That sounds like an awesome movie "Night of the zombie cows" or something.

Ive had a few weird experiences. Mainly ones about saving my life. I should have been hit by cars a few times, and been decapitated by a Dublin bus mirror, but by sheer luck, Ive always been missed. Examples include: A car coming towards me, and all of a sudden me falling backwards out of the way, crossing a road a car didnt see me, but I somehow tripped up out of the way. The Dublin bus one was weird. I was standing at the side of the road, and the bus was flying down the buslane (literally against the kerb). I wasnt paying too much attention, but I just got a nerve twitch in my neck, that made me grimace my head downwards, just as I felt my hair being hit by the Dublin bus mirror.

Oh, I also get sleep paralysis. I have to literally try and throw myself out of the bed to try and "wake me up".

nacho libre

A few years ago, while out walking near a river, I saw an old woman with long blonde hair coming towards me then in the next moment she was gone.

I don't believe in ghosts but it's difficult to explain away this incident.

Indubitable

I bumped into a friend of mine that i met while living in tanzania. I found him in zurich airport

That was explainable. we were both traveling.

Indubitable

when i was 6 and i was staying with my uncle i opened the door and stepped outside and saw a lion's head roaring from around the corner. I ran inside again. 20 seconds later it was gone

Tar.Aldarion

A few days ago I got like extra strong deja vu, I could actually tell what the next few lines of the conversation people were having was going to be. Still I'll put that down to quantum physics :pac:

sarmer

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

A few days ago I got like extra strong deja vu, I could actually tell what the next few lines of the conversation people were having was going to be. Still I'll put that down to quantum physics :pac:

Has anyone else ever had a deja vu of a deja vu? It's happened to me a couple of times. It's where you have a deja vu of already having had a deja vu of a particular moment.

I've also had sleep paralysis. Was having an afternoon nap back when I was in college and felt someone push me onto my back and then I felt myself float out of my body. I could see my room but I was higher than I actually should have been. Was terrified because it felt like someone was in the room but I couldn't see them. Struggled to move and eventually I could but it was so weird. Same thing happened the next day but it's never happened before that or since.