Did you notice anything strange around the time of the Japanese earthquake?

sylvesterallein

I know this might sound a bit mad, but two of my friends were sitting talking around 2.45 am this morning, when one felt a strange prickly sensation running right up his spine to the back of his neck and thinking his friend had an odd look on his face he asked him if he had noticed anything just then, and the other friend had felt a sensation in his legs as if he was wobbling. One looked at the clock and it said 2.47 am. They both remembered this as news of the quake began to break, and yes, they were sober...but I'm interested enough to ask if anyone else had a similar experience around the same time?

BrianD

sylvesterallein wrote: »

I know this might sound a bit mad, but two of my friends were sitting talking around 2.45 am this morning, when one felt a strange prickly sensation running right up his spine to the back of his neck and thinking his friend had an odd look on his face he asked him if he had noticed anything just then, and the other friend had felt a sensation in his legs as if he was wobbling. One looked at the clock and it said 2.47 am. They both remembered this as news of the quake began to break, and yes, they were sober...but I'm interested enough to ask if anyone else had a similar experience around the same time?

Well the earthquake sensors in Ireland (4 stations) were able to pick up the seismic activity 12 min after it happened in Japan and tell what size quake it was.

sylvesterallein

Interesting. I don't know whether to think of my friends' experience as a psychic event or something caused by a real effect such as picked up by the seismic sensors. Since my friends are brothers, perhaps they would be in tune enough to both pick up such a catastrophe psychically, I don't know. Yours has been the only response so far to my post so I can't decide what to think yet. Thanks for the input.

RandolphEsq

I wouldn't imagine it to be in any way a 'power' to detect earthquakes but instead perhaps they did actually feel the quake since it was so powerful. That, or some other event may have caused the synchronised chills

sylvesterallein

Thanks, Randolph - well, one felt the spine thing and the other what he described as a wobble...the thing that doesn't make sense is that the time they mentioned, 2.47 am GMT was almost exactly the time in figures but 12 hours earlier than the earthquake occurred in Japanese time, but was 4 hours earlier GMT than the actual quake. That was why I was considering some psychic explanation..if you get my drift...

littlemac1980

I don't want to sound rude by saying the notion of your friends' psychic powers is nonsense, however, and this is only my opinion, I do believe that if what you might call psychic power were to exist, it's far more likely that it would be attributable to some latent perception inherent in our physiological person that is very very rarely needed.

I'd consider it quite plausible that, like horses running for higher ground hours or days before a major natural catastrophe, or birds or fish fleeing in similar fashion from an imminent major natural event, that humans too have some basic perception of global or hugely significant environmental and natural events.

Now I understand that this is probably along the lines of what you were getting at anyway, but phrasing your suggestion in the way you did likens it to levitation, or moving objects with ones mind. Suggesting that they experienced a common sensation on the basis that they are brothers fails to give due regard to the fact that on Friday, the worlds axis tilted permanently by (I don't have the exact figures to hand - and I'm not going looking for them now, you can check on the internet if you want) something like 0.8 degrees. As a consequence of the earthquake, Friday got shorter by 0.14 seconds.

Something that can affect our planets alignment and rotation should send shivers up your spine. If a seismograph in Ireland can detect it, then the sensation is perceptible through your legs. Some people mightn't even notice, some people probably would. In the example of horses I gave, it is most likely the case that one or two horses feel/perceive the oncoming danger, when they bolt - the rest follow.

sylvesterallein

No, I don't think you're being rude, littlemac, and I'm grateful for the input. Your post was very thought-provoking. What you say about animals running for cover before an earthquake or other event is interesting, I didn't think about that when my friends were relating their experience. Obviously they must be picking up something, but it would be odd animal behaviour here that would be significant in this particular case. I wonder if any people in Ireland noticed any deviation from normal animal behaviour some hours before the Japanese quake.

edwinkane

sylvesterallein wrote: »

No, I don't think you're being rude, littlemac, and I'm grateful for the input. Your post was very thought-provoking. What you say about animals running for cover before an earthquake or other event is interesting, I didn't think about that when my friends were relating their experience. Obviously they must be picking up something, but it would be odd animal behaviour here that would be significant in this particular case. I wonder if any people in Ireland noticed any deviation from normal animal behaviour some hours before the Japanese quake.

It's interesting that you seem to be looking for a connection with the earthquake. Thats what a lot of us do, look for connections and try to find a way to link that with some sort of psychic power.

If it was a psychic or paranormal power, merely shivering really seems pretty mild. If we are looking for an explanation for your friends shivering in the psychic realm, it could equally have been related to a whole hose of psychic events, from a ghost in the house, to someone from the other side trying ( unsuccessfully) to contact your friend to ..... well, a whole host of things claimed for such feelings.

I wonder what it is in our psyche which wants to find links and wants to claim as supernatural an event as simple as shivering and an odd look on a face.

sylvesterallein

No, Edwin, not really into the psychic thing...the answers were very interesting....yours too, thank you.