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Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Siouxie
(Post 11006966)
That's a fascinating read! Interesting that your Mum has 'always' known who it is and has no problem with her.
I do agree that some people are more 'tuned in' to phenomena (not necessarily because they want to be) and are more susceptible to seeing things. My Dad used to call it being 'fey' and my 2 sisters and I all seem to have inherited it from him. I've had books on a shelf that have lifted up and turned on their side even after the rest of the books have blocked any chance of it happening naturally; pictures that have lifted off the wall and flown across the room; my sisters and I all heard our Mother calling us by name after she had died - my father couldn't spend one night in the room. I too have had that horrible feeling of being followed/watched whilst walking upstairs - to this day I can't walk up a flight of stairs unless the downstairs and upstairs lights are on (I'm a scaredy cat, lol). When I was young I used to 'hear' the phone before it rang and would tell my Dad who was going to be calling! :) You sound very much like me, I seem to have a habit of thinking things up (or thats how Steve puts it) like i'll think of a person and the phone will ring and it's them. I have also talked up the boiler breaking down in the past which was not fun :D When I close my eyes to go to sleep but am not actually asleep I see pictures and they can be just random shapes or sometimes actually scenes. My son does the same thing, he once said "you know them pictures you see that are like dreams but you're not asleep yet, they can be scary sometimes", then I knew it wasn't just me......Steve of course thinks we're both nuts. Sometimes they can be not very nice things I see and because of my habit of thinking things and then they happen I sometimes scare myself and have to get up to clear my head because otherwise i'll panic that i've caused that thing to happen. There is a name for it they are Hypnagognic Hallucinations, it happens with noises and the feeling that the bed is tipping as well. Also at the beginning of the year when those 3 girls were found in America having been kept captive for a decade. I saw that an internet news report and before reading it I knew the name of the captor and I knew that the police questioned his brother also. I was so convinced that this had already happened and perhaps it was a news rehash before the trial that I started checking the year on the calendar compared to the news report and actually mentioned it to someone a the dog park who said "no they found them yesterday". Weird or what??? Or perhaps Steve is right and actually I am actually just insane :o |
Re: The Haunting thread
I think that there is probably a rational explanation in most cases of seeing the future. Something along the lines of unconsciously seeing or hearing of clues about when something is going to happen. For example, if you tend to speak to a friend every couple of weeks, and it's been over a month, with every passing day it's more likely that that friend will call. Add to that an unconscious ability to analyse the circumstances in which you tend to speak (the day, the time, the weather, various news events or tv) and there can be hundreds of highly subtle clues that some people can pick up on (sub-consciously) and then trigger a prediction when the phone rings. It's kind of a "tuning-in" but not necessarily to supernatural things.
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Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 11007093)
I think that there is probably a rational explanation in most cases of seeing the future. Something along the lines of unconsciously seeing or hearing of clues about when something is going to happen. For example, if you tend to speak to a friend every couple of weeks, and it's been over a month, with every passing day it's more likely that that friend will call. Add to that an unconscious ability to analyse the circumstances in which you tend to speak (the day, the time, the weather, various news events or tv) and there can be hundreds of highly subtle clues that some people can pick up on (sub-consciously) and then trigger a prediction when the phone rings. It's kind of a "tuning-in" but not necessarily to supernatural things.
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Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by shunter1977
(Post 11007120)
You sound like my Steve.....always an explanation and just a coincidence :p
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Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by shunter1977
(Post 11007062)
You sound very much like me, I seem to have a habit of thinking things up (or thats how Steve puts it) like i'll think of a person and the phone will ring and it's them. I have also talked up the boiler breaking down in the past which was not fun :D
When I close my eyes to go to sleep but am not actually asleep I see pictures and they can be just random shapes or sometimes actually scenes. My son does the same thing, he once said "you know them pictures you see that are like dreams but you're not asleep yet, they can be scary sometimes", then I knew it wasn't just me......Steve of course thinks we're both nuts. Sometimes they can be not very nice things I see and because of my habit of thinking things and then they happen I sometimes scare myself and have to get up to clear my head because otherwise i'll panic that i've caused that thing to happen. There is a name for it they are Hypnagognic Hallucinations, it happens with noises and the feeling that the bed is tipping as well. Also at the beginning of the year when those 3 girls were found in America having been kept captive for a decade. I saw that an internet news report and before reading it I knew the name of the captor and I knew that the police questioned his brother also. I was so convinced that this had already happened and perhaps it was a news rehash before the trial that I started checking the year on the calendar compared to the news report and actually mentioned it to someone a the dog park who said "no they found them yesterday". Weird or what??? Or perhaps Steve is right and actually I am actually just insane :o I used to suffer terribly with the 'dream and it happens' scenario. A couple of extreme examples - when I was 9 I 'saw' my mother ascending a staircase up into the clouds - the next day (23rd December) she died of a heart attack at the age of 42 in my bedroom with no warning. When I was 13 I 'daydreamed' that my friend had been hit by a car crossing the road outside school. The next day, she was killed crossing the road outside school wearing the same outfit she had on in my dream (no school uniforms). Regarding the phone thing, this happened when I was quite young - between 8-12 and I would literally 'hear' the phone ringing in my head and know who it was that was calling. These would be friends of my Father, nobody I would know, and not people who regularly called. A few minutes later the phone would ring and it would be that person. Weird. Thankfully, as I have got older these 'things' happen less and less. |
Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Siouxie
(Post 11007142)
I totally get where you are coming from.
I used to suffer terribly with the 'dream and it happens' scenario. A couple of extreme examples - when I was 9 I 'saw' my mother ascending a staircase up into the clouds - the next day (23rd December) she died of a heart attack at the age of 42 in my bedroom with no warning. When I was 13 I 'daydreamed' that my friend had been hit by a car crossing the road outside school. The next day, she was killed crossing the road outside school wearing the same outfit she had on in my dream (no school uniforms). Regarding the phone thing, this happened when I was quite young - between 8-12 and I would literally 'hear' the phone ringing in my head and know who it was that was calling. These would be friends of my Father, nobody I would know, and not people who regularly called. A few minutes later the phone would ring and it would be that person. Weird. Thankfully, as I have got older these 'things' happen less and less. I've found the opposite with regards to age, i'm probably worse now than when I was younger. Kids are usually more switched on to the supernatural though, our son when he was about 2 and we'd just moved house kept pointing to a point in his room and saying "Man Mummy Man" one night when I kissed him goodnight and went to leave he started freaking out and screaming for me not to leave because the man comes when I leave!! Steve was out with friends that night and I called him hysterically asking him to come home because Lewis could see a ghost.........you can imagine what Steve said :rofl: |
Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 11007093)
I think that there is probably a rational explanation in most cases ......
Shunter, I wouldn't let that recurring nightmare worry you. Is it fair to say that the "predictive dreams" only happened once before the event occurred, and fairly close to it? Some weird tales on these pages!! |
Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by geedee
(Post 11007611)
Me too.... the forums full of Witches!! Burn them!:rofl::rofl::rofl:
Shunter, I wouldn't let that recurring nightmare worry you. Is it fair to say that the "predictive dreams" only happened once before the event occurred, and fairly close to it? Some weird tales on these pages!! The hallucinations (as i'm not asleep when I see them) have never come to pass I only fear it because i've talked or thought so many things up in the past. It's more likely I have that as a recurring thought because of my fear of drowning and obviously like all mothers the fear of not being able to save your kids. |
Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Siouxie
(Post 11007142)
Thankfully, as I have got older these 'things' happen less and less.
In fact you know it before they asked. :p |
Re: The Haunting thread
I've had a lot of similar experiences too, I won't list them right now though :)
Siouxie, the woman in the photo is petting your dog. |
Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Dashie
(Post 11007863)
I've had a lot of similar experiences too, I won't list them right now though :)
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Re: The Haunting thread
Originally Posted by Dashie
(Post 11007863)
I've had a lot of similar experiences too, I won't list them right now though :)
Siouxie, the woman in the photo is petting your dog. |
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