Sweetstuff did you break down half way through your road trip, and were then towed to your destination by a breakdown truck? This could be a rational explanation.
Clam
Ever have a "paranormal" event or experienced something unexplicable?
by fedorE 52 Replies latest jw experiences
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Jim_TX
Well, I'll say that I have had things occur that are not reasonably explained away... although I'm sure that 'experts' (we all know what an expert is, right?) on this forum would have their 'expert' opinions and debunk my stories easily.
Here goes...
One time, I went to one of those ex-jw meetings up in the Dallas area. I had gotten a motel room, and called some folks up there that I was going to meet later - the next day (or that evening - it's not important to the story).
Anyway, they told me that they were meeting at a restaurant for drinks and invited me to join them. I did. I drove over to where they were, and sat with... I believe it was 4 gals at the table. We were all chillin... them with their alcoholic drinks... me with my iced tea (I do NOT drink when I go out somewhere - drinking and driving do not mix well).
Anyway... I was sitting there... zoning out - these gals were talking among themselves - reminiscing about old times.
One gal starts a topic... and I was sitting there thinking to myself, "I've heard this before... dejavu." I didn't say it aloud, however - as I didn't want to spoil the moment. It was pleasant. I also thought to myself, "...and now, that gal will say..." and she did. Word for word. Said what I thought that she was going to say next.
I then thought, "...now that one will say..." and she did. Word for word.
I musta looked like a fool, cuz I was just sitting there... zoned out with a grin on my face - listening to these gals chatting away - with conversations that I had heard before. Weird. Difficult to explain.
I didn't tell them about my dejavue experience.
You can choose to believe what I experienced... or not.
Regards,
Jim TX
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funkyderek
unique1:
While I am all about proving stuff scientifically, there is no explination why I brush up against a million people a year and have only had that happen once in 30 years.
Perhaps not, but that doesn't mean it was a supernatural experience. After all, as you say, you have never had that before or since in 30 years of brushing up against people. It seems to me a supernatural ability would be as likely to manifest itself repeatedly as a subconscious-triggered hunch.
Also I had read nothing about child molestors that day or huge evil men, I went back to the office and checked every article I had read that day for a subliminal title to a corresponding article perhaps. NOTHING. When I hit him, I was thinking of getting to my office with the tasty sandwich I had just acquired.
The thing with the subconscious is that it's sub-conscious. You can't always find the trigger for it.
I'm wondering what your interpretation actually is. Do you think you have the psychic ability to know a child molester when you make physical contact with one? Or that a divine presence gave you that knowledge so you could do something with it? (If the latter, of course, that completely failed, as your believing that he was a child molester would have in no way prevented him from continuing, as you did nothing about it.)
sad emo:
I get a 'sense' about people sometimes too. The worst experience was a family who came into the shop and there was such an oppressive spirit around them, which stayed after they'd left too. It was so bad it seemed to be draining any peace/joy etc from both the place and me.
This is a lot like unique1's experience in that, unlike many of the others, there's nothing to explain. You never found out if your "sense" about this family actually corresponded to anything in the real world. If you had later discovered that they were Satanists, for example, you would then have something worthy of being on this thread. Similarly, if unique1 had discovered that the man in question was really a child molester she'd have something other than a feeling to explain. As it is, there's nothing to explain. You had a feeling about something and you don't know why. That's it.
Jim_Tx:
...and - you mentioned that your dad filled up the car the next day, and it took only one-half tank of gas. That, my dear - is 'proof'. Funky forgot and left out that tiny tidbit of info in his rebuttal.
I didn't forget at all. You need to read what I wrote more carefully; that piece of information was the only thing that stopped me (and indeed sweetstuff herself) from dismissing this as a faulty gauge. If I take her story to be completely true as she tells it, then she used substantially less gas than usual on a trip. That was the fact I was trying to explain. If she's not mistaken about these events, then she either genuinely used less fuel than usual for one of the many possible reasons given or any other that hasn't been mentioned, or else some supernatural force intervened, violating the known laws of physics in order to save sweetstuff's father about 13 dollars.
fedorE:
True enough. But I couldn't then and still can't offer anything other than to say they were LIGHTS. Jumping to the conclusion that they were anything other than "lights" would have been unjustified.
Exactly. It's an inexplicable experience, but it's important not to make that leap to assuming it's supernatural.
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fedorE
So, was it really 11:11 when you looked at the clocks, or were they all wrong? If a clock had been showing the right time and it wasn't 11:11, would it change to 11:11 when you looked at it? If you had proof of that, that would certainly indicate something beyond normal reality. But more likely, it was your drug-addled brain seeing patterns that weren't there. That seems to be confirmed by the fact that it stopped when you stopped taking drugs
You misunderstand. The time never changed. Of course if I checked the time at 0600 It wouldn't be 11:11. All im saying is that the amount of times I noticed 11:11 was absolutely mystifying. It was like I was being told "wake up and don't do that". Was I telling myself that by imagining it all? How do u imagine seeing 11:11 everywhere you go? Sometimes i felt like i was being watched. Thats paranoia. But seeing those numbers so many times makes me just shake my head at how stupid I was going down the wrong path. I could be wrong but I choose in this instance to believe otherwise.
Eclipse
I don't really go for the explanations given by others "in the know" but to this day its like a reminder to me never to go down that road again.
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fedorE
Funkyderek- What is your observation on this womans experience
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snowbird
You can choose to believe what I experienced... or not.
Regards,
Jim TX
I choose to believe because those things have happened to me. I remember sitting in my grandma's yard listening to her and mama talk. I knew exactly what each was going to say in turn. And get this, I even knew who was going to make an appearance! My mother was taking care of my little nephew (Teddy) at the time, and I remember thinking: When grandma gets to the part about such-and-such, Teddy is going to come out of the house. As if on cue, Teddy walked out of the house!
Now, tell me something isn't going on that we simply cannot explain.
Snowbird
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Clam
FedorE the 11:11 phenomenon is discussed quite extensively on the net. Just Google 11:11 or 11:11 DNA. I'm drawn to it all the time myself, so I can empathise.
Clam
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Tyrone van leyen
Inte4esting experience Fedor. My father claims that he kept seeing 911 in everything and my brother as well, before the trade centre towers went down. They don't do drugs though. I had a similar experience however when I was more heavily into drugs. I remember watching Amityville horror. Something must have stayed in my subconscious because for years after, I would wake up at the exact time that guy killed his family, and I mean right on the pin. I would open my eyes and I would be looking at the exact time. Lately I have been having dreams of spaceships and aleins. Very vivid. I had one last night, and no I wasn'ttanked.
As far as something unusual goes. We lived in a farmhouse built at the turn of the century. I was home with my brother. We were the only ones in the house that night. The rest of my folks were at the meeting and we didn't attend because of excessive homework. What we experienced was rare and ghastly. Audioparanromal phenomenon just doesn't happen every day.
I was in my room, and my brother was in his, at the end of the hallway. The sound permeated the entire house, and it was pure evil! There is nothing on earth that could have produced that sound. It seemed to be coming from the walls. I can't do it justice here but it kinda went, " EEEEEWWWWWAAAAHAHAHAHAhehheehehhe!!!!!! It literally sent chills down our spine. We felt we were being watched. It was very clear and crisp, no mistakes here.
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shell69
I worked for five years at one of the JW nursing homes in the north west of england. Some very spooky things went on in there I can tell you; Cups and saucers rattling in the night. Footsteps running accross the first floor landing. Windows which were locked as is the norm at the start of night shift, only to be found WIDE open later. Not open just an inch, but as far as they would possibley go. Fire doors unexplicable bursting wide open at night, setting all alarms off. There was an occasion when the night staff were sat together in a lounge area, when one of the sisters and I saw a shadow pass by the door. We jumped up because we though one of the residents was up and wandering, but there was no one there. And before I get slagged off for having a wild imagination, all of those things mentioned above were 'witnessed' (pardon the pun) by all the staff on duty. We raised the matter with the elder that also worked as a Manager for the home. He just poo hoo'd it. Shell