I had some experiences when I was younger that were "weird". Also they are nothing extremely obviously "paranormal" but still something that made me wonder what caused them.
Warning: these stories are somewhat stupid, silly, or just dumb. All depending on your take on them.
For a little bit of background, I grew up in a JW family and was baptized before my teens.
At some point in growing up however I started doing masturbation. This started sort of accidentally, and the first times I did not know that what I was doing was even THAT. I was rather clueless of "what was what" in my early years.
Around this time I was in my early teens and still went to meetings with my parents.
So this one time we drove to KH and as I was about to enter the building I heard this voice in my head asking me "what are you doing here?". It did not feel like my own thought but more sort-of like as if something just spoke into my brain.
The other issue with this experience was that it made me a bit uneasy being in the hall, but not like completely uneasy. However later when I figured out that what I was doing was masturbation and that it was "bad" (as folks here may know, JWs sometimes had talks about how bad it was to be doing that stuff), I started feeling worse about the meetings.
Years later I learned a more balanced point of view about that habit however.
Anyway my reason for bringing this up was because it was not the only such kind of thing. The other time it happened was equally silly.
When I was in teens, I used to go home from school at lunch time. This one time after coming home I noticed a new WT (Watchtower) in the mail (back when they still mailed 'em). I grabbed it with me to read on my way back to school.
My family lived in an apartment building so I went to take the elevator back to the street level. For some reason, once I was in the elevator I decided to pray and for some silly reason I thought about telling God a joke in my prayer. This is when I heard a voice again in my head, this time telling me "Jake that's inappropriate".
It was a similar experience as earlier when I had entered KH.
The crazy thing is that I then decided to open the WT and went to the "questions from readers" page. It had a question on what kind of thing is inappropriate to talk about during prayer, and the answer mentioned jokes as one of the inappropriate things.
Now I want to point out couple of things:
1. In both of these cases the thoughts did not feel like my own thought when it happened.
2. Both of these cases had certain attributes (like a "flavor") that could have caused a person to think that the voice was "definitely NOT" by demons. They appeared in situations when, one COULD argue, there was a "reason" for that sort of voice to appear.
3. If I would have been a "certain kind of religious" I probably would have taken these as example on that Jehovah is communicating with me directly. In the worst case I might have believed (in a mislead manner) that I am somehow "extra-special".
This is the sort of half-nonsensical experiences I have had.
I do not deny that it maybe might have been some medically explainable thing. I have however not had any other similar problems during the decades afterwards. Anyway I do not believe these voices had anything to do with God.
Warning: these stories are somewhat stupid, silly, or just dumb. All depending on your take on them.
For a little bit of background, I grew up in a JW family and was baptized before my teens.
At some point in growing up however I started doing masturbation. This started sort of accidentally, and the first times I did not know that what I was doing was even THAT. I was rather clueless of "what was what" in my early years.
Around this time I was in my early teens and still went to meetings with my parents.
So this one time we drove to KH and as I was about to enter the building I heard this voice in my head asking me "what are you doing here?". It did not feel like my own thought but more sort-of like as if something just spoke into my brain.
The other issue with this experience was that it made me a bit uneasy being in the hall, but not like completely uneasy. However later when I figured out that what I was doing was masturbation and that it was "bad" (as folks here may know, JWs sometimes had talks about how bad it was to be doing that stuff), I started feeling worse about the meetings.
Years later I learned a more balanced point of view about that habit however.
Anyway my reason for bringing this up was because it was not the only such kind of thing. The other time it happened was equally silly.
When I was in teens, I used to go home from school at lunch time. This one time after coming home I noticed a new WT (Watchtower) in the mail (back when they still mailed 'em). I grabbed it with me to read on my way back to school.
My family lived in an apartment building so I went to take the elevator back to the street level. For some reason, once I was in the elevator I decided to pray and for some silly reason I thought about telling God a joke in my prayer. This is when I heard a voice again in my head, this time telling me "Jake that's inappropriate".
It was a similar experience as earlier when I had entered KH.
The crazy thing is that I then decided to open the WT and went to the "questions from readers" page. It had a question on what kind of thing is inappropriate to talk about during prayer, and the answer mentioned jokes as one of the inappropriate things.
Now I want to point out couple of things:
1. In both of these cases the thoughts did not feel like my own thought when it happened.
2. Both of these cases had certain attributes (like a "flavor") that could have caused a person to think that the voice was "definitely NOT" by demons. They appeared in situations when, one COULD argue, there was a "reason" for that sort of voice to appear.
3. If I would have been a "certain kind of religious" I probably would have taken these as example on that Jehovah is communicating with me directly. In the worst case I might have believed (in a mislead manner) that I am somehow "extra-special".
This is the sort of half-nonsensical experiences I have had.
I do not deny that it maybe might have been some medically explainable thing. I have however not had any other similar problems during the decades afterwards. Anyway I do not believe these voices had anything to do with God.