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Unexplainable events?

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  • #32
    Kanoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭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 :D

    You really should have asked THE doc.


  • #34
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #35
    Bodhisopha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    ROTTING CHRIST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭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.


  • #38
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    Bodhisopha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    Peyton Manning
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    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!


  • #44
    Pherekydes
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    Whatever happened to inexplicable?








    Now that's unexplainable.


  • #45
    Sofaspud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭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.


  • #46
    antodeco
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    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".


  • #47
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,744 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    Indubitable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    Indubitable
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭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


  • #50
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #51
    sarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭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.


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  • #52
    Deus Ex Machina
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    One of the most interesting unexplained phenomena I've seen is the bloop.
    It probably has a mundane explanation, but the idea that it could be some sort of enormous undiscovered organism is intriguing. It is like the Loch Ness thing, but more interesting in my opinion.


  • #53
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    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 :D

    I've had that happen to me a good few times. Every time I turn around quickly in shock and there's nobody there.

    I'm fairly sure it's some form of muscle spasm. Either that or I'm being stalked by the invisible man.


  • #54
    stupidusername
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    Maybe it's been said here already (not going to read all posts) but I can't quite get my mind around 'sleeping'. I mean I get what it's for,and almost get how it happens, but I just can't work out how we're all so comfortable with being unconscious for 8 hours or so a night, when anything could be happening anywhere, around us or somewhere in the world, and we wouldn't know about it.

    It's mad if you really think about it.


  • #55
    Calibos
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    Baby/child crying is always a cat.

    Disappearing people or things is due to how the brain interprets the information coming from the senses. Your brain guesses to an amazing degree when drawing the picture of what you see. It guesses right most of the time. Sometimes a trick of light or shadow or shape or whatever makes it guess wrong. Your brain draws a woman on the path ahead, a split second later when the light changes or the angle you were looking at the area changes as you get closer etc etc the brain realises its mistake and refreshes the image and now you perceive whats really there, the tree stump and the overhanging branch with the yellow leaves etc A woman didn't disappear, what looked like a woman to your brain a split second ago disappeared.

    Look, I saw Jesus' head appear floating in the back yard one night when I looked towards the back door from the kitchen. Stone cold sober. Unlike a religious person who would imediately run off screaming to tell the rest of the family about the 'vision', I stopped dead in my tracks and didn't budge an inch, stared at the 'apparition' and saw that it was the reflection of the spider plant pot on the kitchen table behind me reflected in the glass of the door overlaid over the corner of the bench in the back yard etc etc I was then able to flick my visual perception between the two, ie reality of an illusion caused by everyday objects and a floating jesus head. Kinda like that Candlestick/two human face optical illusion thing where one second you see a candlestick and the next second you see to human faces looking at each other.

    http://www.eyedidntknowthat.info/?pageLoc=/fun-and-games/illusions/candlestick


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
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    I can't actually think of anything myself so here'a a picture instead.


    -n http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/3371/1234293649751.jpg


  • #57
    CrazyRabbit
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    Someone gave me a job.


  • #58
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    Why do birds (of the flying variety) keep mistaking my car for a toilet 10 minutes after I wash it?


  • #59
    swe_fi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 363 ✭✭swe_fi


    I have an if not unexplainable, at least mucho strange

    I have never been to a weegie board session or what you call it, but i have a couple of mates who have. I was at their house one evening and for some reason weegie board came up in conversation. Thing is, these friends would normally be sort of cynical / skeptical when it comes to the "unexplainable", as would I but for some reason they got really agitated when I started talking about this, so I asked "come on, what is the problem...? Dont be ridiculous...etc".

    They both responded with "Stop talking about it!" sort of in an angry tone. The girl of the two then whispered (weird) to me "do n-o-t talk f-n about weegie boards in our apartment" and I whispered back "But why..?"..Apparently they are so powerful you cannot even talk about them because they will haunt your house...I was hopping with laughter inside but did not want to laugh out loud to upset them or the weegie board spirit or whatever....

    But, of course i could not contain myself so i burst out loudly "So, you seriously mean that if I say weegieboard in your apartment, this place will be haunt..." *POOOOF!!!* - A huge lightbulb literally exploded and scattered all over the livingroom floor.

    I was actually shocked at the time, because the timing was impeccable. We were left just gaping and staring at each other. Naturally the best end to this story would be that my laptop went poof <<< when i wrote THAT but it did not happen. Creepy it was though.


  • #60
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    ouija


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  • #61
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    me and a few friends used the ouija board a few times when we were 18.

    scared the livin daylights out of ourselves. the three of us were pasted to the sofa with fear, too scared to move. one of the girls peed in a basin because she was too scared to go to the toilet and we were too scared to go with her.

    we went up the stairs eventually, with our backs against the wall, swearing we were going to go to the priest in the morning to get blessed.

    gobshoites :rolleyes:


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