The Paranormal Experience Thread

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The subject of the paranormal often comes up on this board, and I think it would be fascinating to hear everyone's personal experiences of this nature. Telepathic communication, ghostly encounters, waking and sleeping visions... whatever you would like to share with us, please post it here!

(I'll tell some of my own stories here when I have more time to write them down.)
 

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well....my experiences aren't with people at all...they seem to be contained to cats. I have lost 2 beloved kitties in the past years and I do see them, and I know when they're about. It's of great comfort. I also work with rescue here in my area, and I seem to be always right when I can feel whether alive or gone....it's hard to explain. I don't have premonitions or dreams, I just have a deep visceral feeling of what the answers are. I've been called to help on many occasions and am glad to do so, but only when I know the answer for sure. I just thank God for my gift.
 

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An unexpected topic here! I really have had TOO many experiences to list, but i will say that i have had a couple of out of body experiences and spirit encounters. I've delved into lucid dreaming and things like that.

The scariest of them? Being alone (no pets at the time) and hearing fingernails scrape down wooden walls in my trailer (when I lived in Alabama long ago-dunno if the graveyard next door had anything to do with it, or whether there were just uneasy spirits in my home). In the same trailer I heard a boy crying in the back bedroom on occasion, and also woke up once with a man "talking in my head." And, no, I don't have any mental illnesses. I've seen/heard things since can remember (which is back to age 1-2).

Strange enough, I've always felt protected from dark things when I have an animal (cat or dog) nearby. Do any of you feel the same?
 

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We have a spirit (ghost) cat in our home. She/He only visits at night in our bedroom. My wife and I have both felt him jump onto the bed and pad around.
He never stays long. Just a quick visit and he's off.
We know it's a cat-ghost because we have no living cats in our bedroom at night. Door is shut so we can get our rest. (light sleepers!)
I guess our little ghostly friend just walks through the closed door.
 

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Originally Posted by joecool

sashacat421, do you actually see them?
like as though they are still alive? that must be neat, i wonder if the other kitties play with the ghost kitties?
No, not as if they are alive, but I see through them, they are transparent and the visions are weak at times, but they're there. The other night I awoke for no good reason at 3 am and Sasha was sitting up on the bed staring down the hall. I knew it was SiSi (his mama) and I said to him, "do you see her honey?" he just keep peering down the hall. I knew it was her and I saw her only for a flicker. Sasha settled back down, hummed to himself, and was happy.

When the wind blows in the backyard, I see Freddie all over. He was our kitten who died of leukemia two years ago, the happiest most angelic kitten I ever knew. He has a very special spot out back where we buried him in his basket, with his red Christmas ball. I see him there ALL the time, he's so happy!

For two summers now, Sasha has sat in the backyard sometimes at sunset, having a major conversation with something sitting in front of him that we can't see. The neighbors even call me on the phone, it's very peculiar.


Another member, Bossinova, lost her cat and she lives the next town over from me here, and she asked if I would come help her look after 7 days, during last winter. I knew the moment she called me that Gypsy was alive. I knew Gyspy was in a blue house, and the owners left and she got stuck. So I told Jen and a week later Gypsy appeared. I told her to go check the little blue house down the street, was it occupied? And she said "they're home!".


Everybody knows what happened to Teufel, Fwan's beloved kitty. I was so scared I'd upset her, that I sent her a private, gentle message through a Moderator, to tell her Teufel was alive.

Just stuff like that.
But sparingly, sparingly.But it doesn't always bring happiness. I knew SiSi's fate within 72 hours. It filled my soul with so much pain, I could not function for a week, my best friend of 11 years was gone. I cannot hide truths, even from myself.
 

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awww, that's really neat sashacat


I don't have any unexpected cat visitors anymore, except maybe in my dreams. My deceased, cat, Punky visited me the night of her death and laid on my chest. It hurt so bad feeling her presence. She spoke to me in a few dreams after that and told me she was ready to move on. I sometimes see her in dreams now, but she's not in cat form anymore.
 

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I could write for days.... first started when I was about four...
 

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Originally Posted by Nekomimi

awww, that's really neat sashacat


I don't have any unexpected cat visitors anymore, except maybe in my dreams. My deceased, cat, Punky visited me the night of her death and laid on my chest. It hurt so bad feeling her presence. She spoke to me in a few dreams after that and told me she was ready to move on. I sometimes see her in dreams now, but she's not in cat form anymore.
Yes. Hissy's did too! It was last year, she wrote a thread.
 

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The only thing that ever happened to me was a few months ago, I was standing in the office doorway and felt something step beside my foot, moving the double-padded carpet away from the side of my foot. Our kits are always staring at blank spots on the wall, one in particular above the front door. We think they see our parents coming in for a visit, at least perhaps my mother-in-law whom I hear had a strong personality and was very close to my DH.

I've always somewhat believed in the paranormal, always have hoped something more solid would happen but nothing else ever has, except a team of online psychics telling me specific stuff that I never even said outloud to anyone much less them. I'm skeptical where psychics are concerned but they were the real deal, it was very obvious they couldn't have been reading off of anything I said - certainly not body language since it was online. My MIL was the first person to come through for them too, only when they mentioned her death I was trying to think of someone in my own family who died that way and dismissed it because I couldn't think of who it could be until after. Still kicking myself over that one... I would've liked to have talked to her and find out if she likes me (we never met). She was very important to DH so it's important to me!
 

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I think I may have mentioned this before in a CTB thread, but my kitty Phideaux visited my Dad the night she died. She was always Dad's cat, they napped together and she slept on top of him all the time. My parents had divorced, and Mom and I had Phideaux because Dad had to move out of state and didn't think she'd tolerate the move. She died in my mom's lap from kidney failure at 16 yrs 2 mos. I called my Dad the next day to tell him and he said, "I know, she came to visit me last night. She jumped up on the foot of the bed and meowed, and then she was gone. I knew she was coming to say goodbye."
 

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Always. I've seen ghosts (human), been visited in my dreams by relatives who just wanted to let me know they'd passed on, and have premonitions. The most recent premonition was today. The only thing I ever photograph is pets and nieces and nephews. I never take my camera anywhere except on vacation. Today I was leaving for a teachers' conference, and I got the thought/message, "Take your camera, and fresh batteries". My boss wanted to take some group photos, and brought his camera. When he tried to take a photo, his camera went on strike, displaying "Low batteries", though he'd just put new ones in. I pulled out my new batteries, but his camera didn't work on them, either. So I said, "Well, we'll just have to use my camera - I brought it." His reaction, and that of a few other teachers, was, "Don't do that!" Those who've worked with me for a while know I "anticipate" stuff, for example, I just know sometimes that I have to have something extra prepared because I'll have to stay longer and substitute for a colleague stuck in a traffic jam. Or I'll buy a can opener for the teachers' lounge the day before the one there falls apart. Or my husband will drive me to the high-speed line to get to the airport, and want to leave the coffeemaker on, and I'll say, "Pull the plug - the car might break down." Of course, the car, which never breaks down, does so on his way back home. This isn't anything I can "summon", meaning the feeling has to come on its own, without conscious thought from me. The exception is tarot cards. I used to read them as a teenager, but far too many dire predictions came true, so I refuse to read them now (and have probably forgotten most of the meanings in the meantime).
My parents and grandparents used to freak out when I was little, because I could accurately describe events that took place before I was born.
I took a psychobiology (brain chemistry) course in college, and the professor who taught it, who was very interested in the paranormal, became very interested in me because he couldn't hypnotize me, and experienced my "anticipating" things like car accidents and a broken leg. He talked me into participating in some tests (mainly cards with symbols, dice, etc.), and I failed miserably. The conclusion the testers reached was that my scores were statistically impossible, so therefore I must have "psychic abilities, but a negative attitude to such"!
Sorry if I'm rambling. I believe that a "sixth sense" exists, and manifests itself in various ways. Based on my own experiences, though, I think those who claim to be "ghost hunters", or "clairvoyants/psychics" who can communicate with the dead or foresee the future are frauds.
 

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Originally Posted by jcat

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I took a psychobiology (brain chemistry) course in college, and the professor who taught it, who was very interested in the paranormal, became very interested in me because he couldn't hypnotize me, and experienced my "anticipating" things like car accidents and a broken leg. He talked me into participating in some tests (mainly cards with symbols, dice, etc.), and I failed miserably. The conclusion the testers reached was that my scores were statistically impossible, so therefore I must have "psychic abilities, but a negative attitude to such"!
Sorry if I'm rambling. I believe that a "sixth sense" exists, and manifests itself in various ways. Based on my own experiences, though, I think those who claim to be "ghost hunters", or "clairvoyants/psychics" who can communicate with the dead or foresee the future are frauds.
You aren't. I'm impossible to hypnotize. I wonder if there's a link somewhere?
 
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That's interesting -- I've never been able to go under hypnosis, either... and yet, when there was no other person involved, just an audio tape of a repetitive sound that was supposed to aid meditation, I went right into an altered state of some sort:

I saw a series of white and green flowers appearing as buds and then opening, blooming gracefully on a black background and then fading, like fireworks. Each flower was more complex in structure than the one before, and I was aware as I watched them that I couldn't possibly have imagined these designs in a normal state of mind.

After awhile, the thought crossed my mind, "Is this all I'm going to see? Is there something else?" And instantly, the flowers vanished... and against the black background, an image of my own face appeared in deep blue, and my hair was all drifting out around me with stars tangled in it, twinkling. It was beautiful, and yet eerie... it alarmed me, and I quickly sat up and turned off the tape. The whole thing had lasted only ten minutes.

This was when I was very young, and I was so shaken by it that I never tried it again. Now I'd love to experiment with it, if I could just find that tape!
 

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I have always wanted to meet real psychics, and now i have, at least on some cat forum.
I did precognition as my science project last year, and both subjects had positive results, in over 600 trials!!! i definitely believe in psychic abilities and ghosts etc, but have never seen a ghost. I was thinking about getting a set of tarot cards and trying my hand with them. The cards or Marseilles, i think they are called. Can anyone help me find some?
Joecool

I forgot, I have been hypnotized, but only because I really wanted to know what it felt like. I believe it would have been easy to not try hard enough. It was fun though.
 

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I've had quite a few experience of the paranormal. Never seen a ghost though, and I guess I'm glad of that.

When I was teenager I started describing a thing that happened when I was 4 or 5 years old, to my mother. I told her about the street car/trolly car we road, and how excited I was, because it was my first time on it. I told her how we went to a center median and caught the street car, which was totally different than catching a bus. I told her how the conductor asked me if it was my first time on the street car and how I told him "Yes", and then he told me I could ring the bell, when it was time. My mother stopped me and said, "You've never been on a Street Car like that, Hope". I said, "Yes, I have, I remember it as plain as day" It was such a stand out experience to me as a young child. She told me it was IMPOSSIBLE, because they hadn't had street cars like that since maybe 20 or 30 years BEFORE I was born. She also told me that SHE had never been on a Street Car like that, either. So, the only possible answer to this, is that I was remembering a Past Life Experience. Now, I know that they have Street Cars in San Francisco, but I had never been to San Francisco, until years later, and the street cars I remembered did not LOOK like either the street cars or cable cars of modern day San Francisco.

Another odd thing that happened to me, was for a while, I lived in Oakland. CA next to San Francisco. The house I lived in was going to be turned into a historical monument because it had once been the famous author, Jack London's home. At the time, I had a job in an Answering Service, and we had thousands of clients. I was told that a journelist was going to be coming to the house I was living in, to do a story about Jack London and this house he used to live in. The moment I heard that, I just KNEW that it was going to be one of the people I answered telephones for on the service, and it was. I have a lot of little psychic things like that happen to me all of the time.

Also, about a 3 weeks before my beloved Snoopy passed on, I woke up from a dead sleep with a voice telling me in my head, that I wasn't going to have Snoopy with me much longer. I started crying, but tried to convince myself that it was nothing, but 3 weeks later he passed on. He was 20 years old, so I did know he didn't have a lot of time left, but it was just strange. I was so bothered by that experience that I talked to people at work about it, and they all told me it was nothing, so I convinced myself the same thing.

By the way, I can't be hypnotized, either.
 

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I remember Hope your streetcar visions from the last paranormal thread. I was fascinated.

A word about ghosts: somebody gave me a great, logical and durable explanation about them. There's no real reason to be afraid of the average ghost, because they are an apparition that is caught between here and the hereafter. Most are rather sad figures. Ghosts become ghosts to come back to get something they left behind. Or to set a truth right. No other reason. If something is left behind that can alter the path of the living - a truth - then that's all a haunting is. Most ghosts do not want to be bothered nor harmed at all. The ones that bother us are trying to be heard, to set a truth right.

One the truth is known or the wrong is set right, the ghost comes no more.

All the ghoul and exorcisms and all that is completely different than a ghost.
 

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I don't have any paranormal experiences, but I did just finish watching White Noise and it was really creepy! Now I'm having a hard time getting to sleep.
 

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I am not sure if these stories are paranormal, but they are definitely strange.

When I am under stress, I usually dream about an interaction I will have with another person. And it will happen the same exact way. I had dreamed about physical fights with my sister that were never premeditated and had no reason to happen. I have dreamed about sitting at the dinner table listening to my mother and grandmother talk about whatever and it would happen exactly that way. I have dreamed about situations at work that would occur within 2 weeks of the dream.

I think I am also able to sense when a loved one will pass away--but I can't express it in words. About a week before my grandmother died, I was feeling strange. It was a mix of sadness, depression and anger and I couldn't understand where it was coming from. One day, I totally blew up at someone for no reason. The day after, I felt fine. I got a call about an hour later, my parents told me my grandmother had died. When my other grandmother had died, I knew that she didn't have long to live. My mother called me almost everyday for comfort. One day, I had been thinking about my grandmother and a great sadness overwhelmed me. A voice in my head told me to check my email. I got an email saying "Call home." My mother called me 5 minutes later to tell me the bad news. I came home from the funeral. On my last night, I stared into her room. In my head a voice told me I should go into her bedroom. It was dark and there was something really strange about it. My grandmother used to see me off every single time I would take a plane to where ever I was going back to. I don't remember being so scared of the darkness in that house. So, I put all the lights on, ran downstairs and into my mother's room. A friend told me that it was my grandmother and she wanted to say good-bye. The odd thing is that I can still feel her around me. I have even started taking up some of her old habits.
 
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Joecool -- tarot cards can be found at most large bookstores, in the section with paranormal and New Age books. You'll also find all sorts of other "divining" cards, but the old traditional tarot is the thing to start out with.

However... it should be understood that the cards don't have any power themselves. The power is in the psychic who uses them. The cards just help you focus your thoughts and "notice" whatever information may be around you.

The first psychic I ever met was a redheaded Army wife who used plain old playing cards (which are directly analogous to tarot cards), and read for me in her kitchen with her kids running around. She was right on target, too -- what she told me was not at all what I had hoped for, but she stood by it, and she was proven right within 16 months.

The trouble with cards is that it's so easy to read DOOM into them and terrify yourself (or someone else). I believe that the way the cards fall is really just random, and it's all in the interpretation you give them. For example, the Death card scares people silly, of course -- but it's just a symbol, and can be interpreted as a great change, an abrupt ending of some kind... lots of potential meanings.

Which brings up the question of how useful tarot cards really are -- and unless the reader is an honest-to-gosh psychic with a good bit of experience, I think the cards aren't very useful at all. They're ambiguous, and purposefully so... a simple tool that's only as good as the person using it.

However, they can be fun to play with -- if you don't take them too seriously. And who knows, maybe you'll discover you ARE psychic!
 
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