My old house that I lived in from ages 2 to 18 was haunted, and I had heaps of ghostly experiences: sitting on the computer with no-one around and hearing breathing, laying in bed when everyone else is in bed and hearing someone move around in the kitchen, laying in bed and hearing someone move around in my room (again, everyone's gone to bed), waking up and seeing what I've described before as a "solid shadow" in the shape of a person stand there for a while THEN INSTANTLY BEND IN HALF TWICE (like bending down so your legs and upper body are at right angles, except without all the movement involved - just upright then instantly perpendicular, then instantly upright and instantly perpendicular again), waking up to the sound of this dodgy computer I made out of cardboard boxes being ripped up right next to my ear, etc etc. All of which freaked me out, even though I know now that a disembodied person is really nothing to be scared of (any more than an embodied person is something to be scared of!) However it has left a pretty big imprint on me. I've moved house 5 times since then (the result of parents splitting up and me continuing to live with both of them) and each time I've been cautious about whether the new places would be haunted. None of them have been, hooray! Also, fear is represented in my dreams as "the ghost". Whenever I see a/the ghost in my dreams, I'm always overcome with terror, often to the point of my dream consciousness being altered and/or me waking up, though sometimes I face my fear and confront the ghost, sometimes even talk to it.
I've also had experiences with synchronicity, aren't they fun?
I've had this girl I used to have a thing for on my mind recently and I've been wondering whether I should crack onto her again, and I've had song after song on the radio tell me to move on :P "hard to say it time to say it, good bye, good bye; the hardest part is letting go; Don't you think it's time, Time for moving on, Time for growing strong, Time to leave the past behind". I don't even particularly like Nickelback, Coldplay or Bob Evans! There's recently been a strong association with all this new age spiritual stuff (manifesting, "the power of the mind" etc) with the word "experiment".
The "paranormal" thing I've probably delved into the most is dreams. I wouldn't consider them paranormal at all really, but it's the closest thing to something that feels "mystical" or "magical" that I experience regularly, so I've really delved into dream interpretation in the past. Frustration at not being able to interpret many of my dreams, along with work or university starting again has led me to "drop out" of dream interpretation a few times, but I always come back to it, it's just too cool
I'm still pretty much a beginner, and it's great fun when you come across a dream that is bleedingly obvious in its meaning, or when you can see themes and common symbols recurring across dreams.
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Originally Posted by Strangemagik  Oh and I've also had dreams come true to near perfection of the dream. Scary seeing as I have TWICE had dreams of the world ending. |
I used to have dreams like that all the time, "Epics" I call them. They're awesome! Letsee, I've dreamt about civilisation collapsing (more than once), ET invasion (that was a good one, pillars of fire and mushroom clouds on the horizon!), world war three, tsunamis, the coming of a new ice age... I LOVE dreams like that! When I'm dreaming them they feel so deep and profound and awesome, then I wake up and I'm like "woah, cool"