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[BrewSmackerVeiny]

Is that like when you fart and it fills the whole room?

Exactly

 

[Total Power]

Some interesting stories here and I thank you all for relating them......real experiences.

I'm not sure that being poorer alone makes you happier.....it may though....but I feel it can bring about some realisations and force one to be honest.
I have all the time in the world for honest people. Honest by way of expressing their feelings, their insights and even their depressive states.

I also once had too much of everything. Spent each Sunday going out and spending up to $1K and on what?.....stuff....shit....but I was too gutless to admit that it didn't make me happy. Not the smiling face happy, but the real happiness we all seek by way of understanding and self-aware.
It took me until I finally learned to ask myself one simple but important question that things started coming together as much as from the outside, it may have looked as though my life was falling apart. That questions was and still is; If I was the only person on earth, would I really want that?

It's fascinating that when we see the signals we realise just how much we do things just because others do and for the way others may view us.
Think about how ridiculous that is. It defies logic, unless you post it to simply being an inherent human behaviour, but what a silly behaviour.

Total Power says that he's still helping people. Well, good on him, because he hasn't been drawn into the tit-for-tat world that abounds, but for one that that doing what he believes (knows) to be right. Hats off to him.

I appreciate your kind words mate.

An eye for an eye is the problem in today's world, it will make the whole world blind. I thank you mate and also Toump Ass for sharing your experiences, funny hey? we come from different cultural backgrounds, have different opinions/thoughts, yet we are so similar. If only the human race would make an effort collectively to grow together and put aside our differences, but focus on the betterment of us and our planet. It won;t happen though, organised religion, politics and above all greed will be the end of us.

 

[Pessimistic]

Occasionally I have a dream where I ‘know’ I committed a crime but the dream never ‘tells’ me what the crime was.

Nevertheless I’m so convinced that if authorities confronted me with enough convincing evidence The weird guilt might make me confess. But I’m also conscious of this in the dream. It’s very weird to believe that

The Guilt level seems not to be at murder or extreme violence, but pretty unacceptable socially, whatever it is

 

[chelseacarlton]

Occasionally I have a dream where I ‘know’ I committed a crime but the dream never ‘tells’ me what the crime was.

Nevertheless I’m so convinced that if authorities confronted me with enough convincing evidence The weird guilt might make me confess. But I’m also conscious of this in the dream. It’s very weird to believe that

The Guilt level seems not to be at murder or extreme violence, but pretty unacceptable socially, whatever it is

I was there and you’re guilty as ****!

 

[Maybenextyear]

Only a few years ago I was working back one night at an office which had was operated as a palliative care hospital for many years. It was about 9pm in the winter so it was dark outside. It was footy season so I had the radio on SEN and I was totally pissed off I was back so late. I was the only one in the building and I had locked all of the external doors. My mind was in a completely different space from paranormal thoughts.

I had the door shut to the room I was working in and I suddenly had an overwhelming feeling there was someone else in the room. The feeling was that strong I actually turned around as I thought someone had opened the door and was sneaking up behind me. The hair stood up on the back of my neck and I could feel it watching me. I couldn't see anything but I could feel it in the room and it was close. I have never experienced anything like it before and without seeing anything I could almost pin point it's location in the room.

I was that scared I actually opened a window and I thought if the power goes off I'm jumping straight out and whatever the hell was in there could have my tools. I packed up and walked out and left every damn light on as I made my way out.

Any way I don't know what it was. I'm positive it wasn't my mind playing tricks as I don't know how you go from thoughts of footy and work to absolutely packing your pants in a split second. Any one that has had that over whelming feeling that there is someone or something else in the room will know exactly what I'm talking about. I worked in that building a few times after and never had that happen again........yet.

Strange.

 

[Pessimistic]

I was there and you’re guilty as ****!

In your dreams....or is it mine?

 

[Freak Dodgeball Accident]

Only a few years ago I was working back one night at an office which had was operated as a palliative care hospital for many years. It was about 9pm in the winter so it was dark outside. It was footy season so I had the radio on SEN and I was totally pissed off I was back so late. I was the only one in the building and I had locked all of the external doors. My mind was in a completely different space from paranormal thoughts.

I had the door shut to the room I was working in and I suddenly had an overwhelming feeling there was someone else in the room. The feeling was that strong I actually turned around as I thought someone had opened the door and was sneaking up behind me. The hair stood up on the back of my neck and I could feel it watching me. I couldn't see anything but I could feel it in the room and it was close. I have never experienced anything like it before and without seeing anything I could almost pin point it's location in the room.

I was that scared I actually opened a window and I thought if the power goes off I'm jumping straight out and whatever the hell was in there could have my tools. I packed up and walked out and left every damn light on as I made my way out.

Any way I don't know what it was. I'm positive it wasn't my mind playing tricks as I don't know how you go from thoughts of footy and work to absolutely packing your pants in a split second. Any one that has had that over whelming feeling that there is someone or something else in the room will know exactly what I'm talking about. I worked in that building a few times after and never had that happen again........yet.

Strange.

Ha, bloody hell.

Bit of a weird setup, but I've been doing a bit of woodwork in our garage for a couple of hours. Wife brings me out some lunch, so I'm sitting down on a chair and start reading this. I get to the part where you said the hairs on your neck are standing up, so then I start getting little goosebumps thinking that something freaky is about to happen. Just then, I felt something brush against my leg. Absolutely freaked me out! It was just my cats tail as she walked past. I've been in here over 2 hours and didn't even know the cat was in here.

Speaking of this cat, I've been meaning to make a post in here about it. Would have been maybe middle of last year. The wife and kids were staying in Melbourne this one Friday night, so I was home by myself watching footy. It was maybe 9 or so, and the cat wanted to go outside. Usually we don't let it go outside at night, but the way it was acting it seemed like she needed a piss or something.

So I turn the outside light on, open the curtains, slide the door to let her out and then shut the curtains again (the back door is in the same room I'm watching TV). So then I lay back on the couch and continue watching the footy. Half hour later I see a movement out the corner of my eye, it's the bloody cat walking past from the other direction! I absolutely shit myself, because I definitely don't remember letting her back in!

I jumped up and ran out to the laundry door thinking someone had broken in as that would be the only way she would have gotten back in coming from that direction. That was locked, so I went back to check on the back door where I'd previously let her out. The light was still on, so that made it even more confusing. It's possible that I did let her in without thinking about it, but I would always turn the light back off once the cat was in. So I still don't know what the hell happened, but after the incident just before I think that my cat may be able to teleport which is pretty cool.

 

[Pessimistic]

Our cat passed away recently but more than once I would have seen birds in the garden on the lawn, they fly away, cat saunters up to glass door and stares at the place the birds had been. Extra senses?

 

[Silent Alarm]

My sister had some Tibetan flags in her room and a few days after her friend died in high school, the window opened and the flags were dragged down. No one was home for days. One of those things where you want to believe it was some sort of farewell from them.

Who knows what the world is and what happens after we die.

 

[Snake_Baker]

This is more like it.

 

[radiojake]

had to check it wasn't a .gif

 

[MaddAdam]

Camped in the Himalayas i took refuge in a Buddhist monastery and learned to meditate.

You two didn't run into each other up there did you Snake_Baker

 

[Snake_Baker]

You two didn't run into each other up there did you Snake_Baker

 

[Total Power]

You two didn't run into each other up there did you Snake_Baker

Nah, Snakey will be stopped right at the immigration and sent back

 

[RonSon]

Two weird stories. One I shared and the other my mum and her brothers and sisters experienced.

First one, as a kid - would have been about 10y/o I guess. Driving to my grandmothers house, three lane road and come over a rise and see a rainbow touching down in the middle of the road about 50m in front of us. We saw the car in front of us drive through it, it didn't move as we approached and our car drove straight through it. It was weird, the car seemed to fill with lights of all colours for a split second then we were out the other side. Everyone in the car reacted with astonishment. Funny thing is my sister talked about it in show and tell at school that week [she would have been about 5] and the teacher told her off for telling lies - my mum actually went into see the teacher the next day and say my daughter didn't lie, we did drive through a rainbow. The teacher must have thought we were all loony.

Second one, I would have been a few years older, it was the early 90's. My mum was one of 9 children and got woken up in the middle of the night and could hear one of her brothers in the room telling her he is ok and not to worry about anything. She said it sounded like it was coming from the foot of the bed but she couldn't see anything there. She freaked out and woke my dad up. He did the usual, you must have been dreaming, go back to sleep. The really crazy thing is a few minutes later she gets a phone call [very rare to get a 2am phone call in our house back then as the house phone would wake the whole house up] it turned out to be her brother to say I've just heard brother Bob speaking to me telling me he is ok and not to worry. Has Bob visited you? He had called another of the brothers and the other brother had been visited as well, not believing in ghosts and sure he had heard his brother he was tearing the house apart looking for him convinced he was playing a prank on him. They called my uncles house [he lived on a farm] after that and it turned out that he wasn't at home, he had been at the pub and should have been home by then. Called the police and they eventually found his car crashed into a tree on the way home. Time of death was estimated to be around the time his brothers and sisters were visited.

 

[radiojake]

Second one, I would have been a few years older, it was the early 90's. My mum was one of 9 children and got woken up in the middle of the night and could hear one of her brothers in the room telling her he is ok and not to worry about anything. She said it sounded like it was coming from the foot of the bed but she couldn't see anything there. She freaked out and woke my dad up. He did the usual, you must have been dreaming, go back to sleep. The really crazy thing is a few minutes later she gets a phone call [very rare to get a 2am phone call in our house back then as the house phone would wake the whole house up] it turned out to be her brother to say I've just heard brother Bob speaking to me telling me he is ok and not to worry. Has Bob visited you? He had called another of the brothers and the other brother had been visited as well, not believing in ghosts and sure he had heard his brother he was tearing the house apart looking for him convinced he was playing a prank on him. They called my uncles house [he lived on a farm] after that and it turned out that he wasn't at home, he had been at the pub and should have been home by then. Called the police and they eventually found his car crashed into a tree on the way home. Time of death was estimated to be around the time his brothers and sisters were visited.

ah that stuff is crazy...

is it ghosts or collective conscious ? Are they the same things?

 

[two up]

About 2 years ago I was watching the old 80s film Arachnophobia with my wife. Literally as the movie was finishing, baby spiders (I think baby huntsman) begun streaming from the overhead air conditioning vent. Had to be hundreds of them. Would have been extremely unusual without the film, but with the film just as it ended, I was stunned.

 

[3rdManUp]

I'm a sleep research scientist. A lot of these posts are textbook examples of sleep paralysis and it's been really insightful reading them. I've experienced it a few times myself. It is most commonly associated with narcolepsy if a common, on-going thing. Otherwise, it is can be bought on with stress or sleep deprivation which is what caused mine.
The first time I experienced it I woke up to the sound of my wife and friends having a party in the lounge room outside our bedroom. I went to get up and say WTF and then realised I couldn't move. I was stuck, every muscle bound and my head jammed, all the while I could hear all these people behind me. It suddenly dawned on me what was going on so I relaxed and then all of a sudden BAM- room is dark and quiet, wife in bed next to me asleep. It can be really unsettling.

The last time it happened though it was absolutely terrifying. I had the sense that something was stalking me in the dark, behind me, slowly creeping. I was switching between 1st and 3rd person point of view. Its so hard to describe. Just something malicious.. sinister, impending. I tried to yell out but nothing came out and it felt like drowning in concrete and having to swim hard to the surface to get a breath. Suddenly woke up and felt it suck away. Needed to get up and splash some water on my face after that one.

Yep, sleep paralysis sucks!

What are these tingles and vibrations of which you guys speak. I have bad sleep apnea (and that's one of my better points...) and believe that I've almost died a few times from it because I've had a tingling/vibrating feeling in my head where I feel like I'm being sucked away and had to force myself to wake up. I put that down to stopping breathing for too long.

Good lord man! Get a CPAP machine pronto!

 

[3rdManUp]

Great story, can somewhat relate as a "choco" although I've never seen any monsters! Where was this exercise held?

I've heard some indigenous fellas talk about places with bad mojo and no-go places.
Can you elaborate on what you mean?

 

[3rdManUp]

Straight up I don't really believe in ghosts or anything paranormal like that. But this is a story that happened to myself and a few mates back in eithe late 2009 or early 2010.

I joined the navy and completed my initial corse training at HMAS Cerberus on the Mornington Peninsula South East Victoria. There was this place we used to go for BBQ's and drinks and to just get away and bum around. It was a little clearing that led to a beach. It was a pretty decent hike to get there from the road. There was a dirt road you could drive down but we'd normally just walk there from base and just camp on the beach with a fire.

We were all pretty sure the fire was illegal so we used to get a bit paranoid about cops coming and telling us off so as soon as we heard anything we'd automatically freak out thinking it was cops.

Anyone one night we were down there. There was about 6 of us (all guys). Two of my mates went for a walk to this old submarine base that was about a five minute walk away. Anyway there were gone for ages and we could hear talking and whispering in the bush behind us. At first we thought it was cops and kind of hit behind trees and stuff. No one emerged on the beach so then we started thinking maybe it was some locals. We tried to sneak up behind the whispers and voices to see who it was but the more we walked around the more the voice seemed to be surrounding us. We started freaking out thinking we were going to get robbed or something and ran back to the beach. One of our mates was asleep on the beach. we didnt even notice that we left him there. We decided that we should get our other mates from the subs base and bring them back here. I went with another mate and headed to the sub base. After about 300meters into the bush we could see shadows moving and the voices were back. We ran at the shadows but they would just vanish when we got to where they were. Then we'd look around and they would be moving around behind us. Then we could hear the voice above us in the trees. We ran to the sub base and saw our mates. They said that they had heard people in the sub base with them but after walking around they could not find any body. We told them about what happened to us and then ran back to the beach.

When we got back there was no one there. We called out to our mates and one came. He said that he went for a piss and when he came back our mate that was asleep on the ground had vanished when he got back. There were no foot steps or anything around the place apart from the ones that were clearly ours. And it didnt even look like he had gotten up as there were no marks in the sand apart from the spot that he was lying in. We started to really freak out and then went looking for him. We thought he might of walked back to base and then started running up the road trying to catch him off. After getting about half way we decided if he was walking back we would of caught up to him by now so we went back to the beach and there he was, asleep in the exact same spot he was in before as if he had never moved. We were more annoyed than anything else and when we woke him up to ask where the hell he had been he just started screaming.

Eventually he stopped and calmed down and we were like what the hell is wrong? He said he had no idea, apart from the fact that he just didnt feel ok about anything. And he wanted to go back to base. He didnt want to be on the beach. He wouldn't say why though, just that he didn't feel right being there.

The whole way back we could still hear the voice and whispering around us and above us and it really felt like we were being watched.

Horrible night really lol we never went back there again after that night.

Reminds me of this story

 

[3rdManUp]

Okay, I only found out about this very recently at a family friend function.

My family and I moved out of my childhood home when I was 12. As I found out at this function from a former neighbour who is still living in the same street - a family with a young teenage boy moved into our house once we moved. The boy moved into my room. After about 18 months or so, the boy killed himself by jumping in front of a train. A tradgedy, but not biazzare.

Anyway, after that family moved out another family moved in, and they also had a boy around the age of 14/15 who also moved into my old room. Unfortunately this boy also killed himself by throwing himself off a shopping centre roof - about 9 months after they moved in.

Now this is where it gets a bit weird and this is what I only just found out from my dad. He vividly remembers going into my room, turning on my light and seeing me standing up right on my bed looking into a corner of my room. His presence didnt alter me and I continued to look directly into this corner. There was nothing in the corner, no painting, no robe, just two meeting walls. Apparently I had wide gaze of horror look on my face and he said he couldn't snap me out of it for a few minutes.

Looking back I also remember I got terrible nightmares in that room.

Anyway, it just seems beyond coincidental that both these boys, after just recently hitting pubity, in the same room (4 bedroom house) take their lives. I never did, but we also left that house when I was 11/12 and maybe hadn't reached the age yet? So maybe that room was haunted or something? Bit creepy.

Dude WTF?! Where did you live?

 

[3rdManUp]

Now that the trolls have gone I can elaborate.
On this night my daughter was in her bedroom at her desk. On her desk is a mirror. If you have a daughter then you would know that a mirror is a compulsory desk item.
The first inkling she had that something wasn't right was a sudden sense of dread, and then a feeling that she was being watched.
Then in the mirror she saw something - something that looked smoke-like, in that it was whispy and transluscent.
When she turned around she saw a face in the translucent smoke and it scared her so much that she ran from her bedroom.

Things have escalated since then.
The house next door to us is a house of pain. It's been a house with a history of domestic violence and child abuse.
I got to know the family over the years, and learnt about the history of violence against the mother by the Grandmother and the children by the mother until the family was finally evicted by FACS and the Police.
Three years ago it was sold off to a developer who renovated it.
The renovation itself was plagued with problems including fires, collapsing walls and collapsing roofing.
It has since been rented out three times after it's renovaton.
Once to a single woman who left after 3 months.
Once to a family of three who left after the eldest son assaulted the mother and who was removed by Police.
And finally to a woman who was forced to leave because her husband beat her so bad that the husband fled and was later arrested by Police.
It has since been unoccupied for 6 months.
Two days ago, a day after the incident with my daughter, the guy who renovated the house, has moved in.

Is there any updates on this one? Did the landlord last long?

 

[sprockets]

I'm a sleep research scientist. A lot of these posts are textbook examples of sleep paralysis and it's been really insightful reading them. I've experienced it a few times myself. It is most commonly associated with narcolepsy if a common, on-going thing. Otherwise, it is can be bought on with stress or sleep deprivation which is what caused mine.
The first time I experienced it I woke up to the sound of my wife and friends having a party in the lounge room outside our bedroom. I went to get up and say WTF and then realised I couldn't move. I was stuck, every muscle bound and my head jammed, all the while I could hear all these people behind me. It suddenly dawned on me what was going on so I relaxed and then all of a sudden BAM- room is dark and quiet, wife in bed next to me asleep. It can be really unsettling.

The last time it happened though it was absolutely terrifying. I had the sense that something was stalking me in the dark, behind me, slowly creeping. I was switching between 1st and 3rd person point of view. Its so hard to describe. Just something malicious.. sinister, impending. I tried to yell out but nothing came out and it felt like drowning in concrete and having to swim hard to the surface to get a breath. Suddenly woke up and felt it suck away. Needed to get up and splash some water on my face after that one.

Yep, sleep paralysis sucks!



Good lord man! Get a CPAP machine pronto!

Already have one.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

This thread is an absolute goldmine. Some stories which are absolutely convincing of aliens visiting Earth

 

[Seedsman_]

I have a story that happened to my two cousins while they were at home.

There's a hallway in their house that leads to three bedrooms. There is a bedroom at each end of the hallway and one in the middle. The eldest cousin said he woke up in the middle of the night and saw this short, fat, completely white human like figure walk from right-to-left, passed his bedroom door, towards his younger brothers room. He didn’t give it too much thought until he heard a very strong commotion coming from his brothers room. The eldest brother quickly jumped out of bed to see his younger brother sitting up, staring directly at him with horror on his face. The eldest brother asked what was wrong to which the younger brother replied that he woke up and saw this short, fat, white man staring at him from the foot of the bed. It then tilted its head, leapt on him and staring choking him. He couldn’t get him off and struggled to breathe. He then started reciting the Lord’s Prayer in his mind and the being vanished. Shortly after, his eldest brother rushed into the room.

But you want to know what the most ****ed thing was? He told me this story one week after it happened, after a night of serious drinking where I had to crash at his. I didn’t get to sleep until sunrise, the campaigner.