Paranormal experiences & Dreams
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I thought this would be an interesting topic..I had thought about this a while back but wasn't sure if it should in this spot..but then I thought real world events why not and since someone else also brought up doing a paranormal thread..I thought why not
I was just curious has anyone else had any paranormal things happen to them...things they don't usually talk about or any recurring dreams
I've had serval things happen to me, but 1rst I'll talk about my recurring dream
The 1rst time I ever had this dream I was 6 years old...the 2nd time I had it I was 8 and the 3rd and last time I had it I was 11
I'll just start by saying the dream never varied the only thing that differed was my age I was 6 in the 1rst dream 8 in the second so basically whatever my age was at the time thats how old I was in the dream
its starts off I'm walking and I'm barefoot and its so hot that the ground has cracks in it and I'm so thirsty and my mouth is dry and I'm tired
all of a sudden I look up and I see a huge pyramid and behind the pyramid is a huge sun I mean its really huge and its so bright I can't look at it.. then all of a sudden I'm inside the pyramid..I don't know how I got there..but its cool and dark inside and there is hay on the ground..I don't remember much after that..only there is someone there with me an old man and he's showing me these pictures of the landscape and our world and he telling me something only I can't remember what he said
as I got older I've always wondered about that dream and if it has any meaning because I was so young when I 1rst had it and because I had it two more times after that.
I also use to play with a ghost boy when I was 2& 3 years old I guess you could call it playing...he lived at my mothers friend's house he looked to be 6 or 7 years old he had dark hair that was cut in a bowl shape he wore a red and white striped shirt blue jeans and those plain sort of tennis shoes the ones that look like keds or vans
my most vivid memory of him was one day I was playing with a ball that I had it rolled across the kitchen floor and he went over and rolled it back to me..he would always shake the pots on the stove if there was something on it...still to this day I wonder about that boy
also when I was young I would say about 5 all the way up until I was about 7 or maybe eight..I'm not exactly sure because this went on for a long time practically everyday for years
but everynight when I went to bed before I would actually go to sleep I would close my eyes really tight until it was pitch black and then I would begin to see hundreds of thousands of pin points of light in a rainbow of colors..it was like I was floating in space and everything seem to melt away and it would just be me in this space with these pin points of colored lights that seem to be moving it... was wonderful..and I loved doing it because I would melt into sleep without even knowing it
I remember vividly on one occassion when I had did it and I felt myself outside my body I was floating and all of a sudden I was at my great grandmothers house I use to love her house she had these stairs that wound around like a circle I could see her sleeping in her bed and I was looking down at her and then all of a sudden I was back in my room
my greatgrandmother was blind but the next time I saw her..she told my mother that I had come to vist her..I told my mother that one night I had visted her..my mom didn't know what to make of it
I've had one other thing happen to me I call them the Pink room dreams..because thats the only thing I can think to call them they felt real but they had to be dreams..but they are really hard to explain so maybe I'll save that for another time
anyway I've always been curious about other peoples dreams or para normal experiences and would love to hear about them
I believe that there is so much out there and we are more then just these flesh and blood bodies that we inhabit..that we are more then what we precieve ourselves to be..I believe that we are spirts in the material
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You and I might wanna have a conversation one day. Always willing and able to meet someone that lives in the real world.
"Your mouth is talking. Might wanna see to that"
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That's fascinating Piratejenny, thanks for sharing your experiences.
I used to be in the habit of reading all sorts of paranormal stuff and I thought I'd point out to you that your experience isn't as unusual as you might think. In fact, your experiences aren't quite so uncommon among women.
Have you ever had an experience where an object near you was vibrating? Some women describe a shaking bed and other frightening happenings.
Your a special sort Piratejenny. 
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Thanks for sharing your experiences PirateJenny.
I like to read about the paranormal, but I try to keep an open (and objective) mind about the facts.
Ghoulman's right. You're experiences aren't too uncommon, but at the same time there are a few others you've mentioned that are interesting.
In realtion to the ghost experiences, it's common for children under the age of five to see and play with ghosts. It's believed that children of this age and domestic animals are more susceptible to them than adults.
(People who have or claim to have clairvoyant ability also have experiences like these as a child.)
The dreams that you describe as being or feeling 'real' may be down to sleep paralysis. (Or maybe not, but it's a plausible option.)
It's a phenomena that's also commonly linked to and explains part of the Ufo phenomena.
The experience of visiting your Grandmother's house sounds like an out of body experience.
There's also a phenomena called 'Remote Viewing' that was used by the US government during the cold war. (They basically enlisted people with psychic ability to spy on the enemy in far away locations.)
Remote Viewing is a dodgey thing because it's not really proven, but the experiences you had sound similar to what happens during RV.
There aren't any paranormal experiences that I've really experienced.
Although, last week I had a dream about my eighteen month niece. Her lower lip was all inflated and sore in my dream.
The next day, I heard her crying while she was sitting in her buggy and I found out she'd bit her lower lip pretty badly.
The experience (random and small) kinda wigged me out. I'm still not sure what to think about it...
It's been great reading this thread.
Keep Flyin'!
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Quote:Hmm. Dreams tend to be heavily symbolic, so. . .
Originally posted by piratejenny:
its starts off I'm walking and I'm barefoot and its so hot that the ground has cracks in it and I'm so thirsty and my mouth is dry and I'm tired
all of a sudden I look up and I see a huge pyramid and behind the pyramid is a huge sun I mean its really huge and its so bright I can't look at it.. then all of a sudden I'm inside the pyramid..I don't know how I got there..but its cool and dark inside and there is hay on the ground..I don't remember much after that..only there is someone there with me an old man and he's showing me these pictures of the landscape and our world and he telling me something only I can't remember what he said
The pyramid could mean various things: Historically, the pyramid represents divinity, typically of a sky-god (Ra, Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, Odin, Yahweh, whatever). In this case, the pyramid is a stairway to the god's realm, which makes it a place of enlightenment, a place where initiates go to interact with the god(s).
In the Freudian sense, the pyramid also represents the female womb (i.e., a place where things are born from --you can see how Freud got here from the "place of enlightenment" theme). This makes things interesting though, since the sky (realm of the gods) is typically seen as masculine --it's the Earth (that the pyramids are built from) that's feminine.
Most modern religions are based on "sky-god" mythologies, but they also recall an earlier earth-god religion that had to be marginalized/villified so the sky-god worshippers could gain legitimacy. The hallmark of the earth-goddess was serpent worship (the snake in Eden, the serpent-haired Medusa, modern-day "Reptilian" aliens [a whole 'nother topic, BTW]). In all these cases though, the serpent (and the represented religion) isn't just a Bad Guy; it represents knowledge. Eden's snake gave Eve the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge, Medusa would never have existed or died without Athena's direct interference, etc.
(Don't even get me started on all the motifs and collective unconscious psycho-social "memories" that Stargate taps into. Makes my head spin.)
See where I'm coming back to?
The pyramid is a place of Knowledge, of the Forbidden/Forgotten variety. You went inside (inside the womb, to prepare for a rebirth), where you met a Teacher, who taught you something, something about the world you live in, something that I can only assume is Important. . .
I think you'll have that dream again at some point, but this time you'll remember what he was telling you. If you're lucky, it won't leave you all mind-blown and River-like.
Wait, there's more.
Pop culture, spurred by the iconic pyramids of Egypt, have added another layer of symbolism: the pyramid as time-capsule. In this sense, the pyramid can represent time, either the ancient past (built by ancestors that we don't remember) or the distant future (where the pyramids are all that remain of long-vanished glory and long-forgotten mystery).
Crunching numbers and thinking of time, I have to ask: how old are you? There's a pattern here
6 (first dream),
7, 8 (second dream, after two years),
9, 10, 11 (third dream, after three years),
13, 14, 15, 16 would be the next logical interval, then 21, then 27. . .
The blinding huge sun of your dream might just be dream-logic exaggeration (you think pyramid => desert => unbearably hot sun), but there might be something there. We now know that our sun is aging. Eventually, it'll expand, burning the land and boiling the sea (so to speak
). Could be your mind added that image "intentionally" (as much as your subconscious can have intentions).When you enter the pyramid, you're walking on hay, which, lest we forget, is the remains of once-living things, turned dead and dry. The Teacher is an old man --almost certainly the pyramid's sky-god, come to impart wisdom. "Old" can mean wise, but it can also mean "near-death."
The far future, then, and your world
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Thanks for sharing, piratejenny. It can be difficult and a bit frightening opening up like this, letting people know what is going on in your head. But since you've asked, I'll open up a bit too.
As far as recurring dreams, one I have at least 3 or 4 times a year is that in various situations, I'm given a book to read. If I pretend to read it, everything is fine. But once I try to make out what is actually written, the words dissolve into unreadable symbols, and the letters squirm like snakes.
As far as the paranormal, there have been a few things in my life. From a very young age I've had strong bouts of deja-vu (getting less frequent with age). The longest lasted almost 15 seconds, and I could even tell you where and when I had the dream when I first "saw" what would happen. And what is REALLY interesting is that my 11-year-old son asked me about "dreaming things before they happen" earlier this year. Is there a genetic link? I don't know.
There have also been a few occasions when I simply knew that something out of the ordinary was going to happen, but I had no idea of what. The day my grandmother died (of old age, in her 70s) I was in 3rd grade, I woke up and told my mother that something special was going to happen - I just knew it. And one winter evening when I was 15, I was alone in my other grandparents' house (next door to my house) with my electric guitar cranked (they were in Arizona for the winter) when suddenly it got VERY creepy being all alone. I stopped playing, listened, looked around, and no-one was there. About 30 seconds had elapsed when I picked my guitar back up and fingered a chord, but before I could play it the gorram lights went out!!!! Scared the hell out of me!! Grandpa had the lights on a timer.
In college, I had a friend explain to me how to use "retinal overload" to see things you can't normally see. Like when you stare at something so long that all the colors seem to change, especially in low light and your eyes are tired. And later on that year I spent a FASCINATING evening talking with a girl from a different floor of my dorm. I would "look" at her, using the retinal overload trick, and (for example) once I could "see" her hair moving on its own. She told me that for her entire life, as long as she could remember, she had been hearing voices, and had a guardian spirit she could actually feel touching her (he was playing with her hair when I noticed, she said). Sometimes she would ask me to "look" in a corner and tell her if I could see anything (several times I saw hazy figures) and if I noticed a figure somewhere else, I'd ask her if she heard anything, and she could point in the rough direction of a voice she was hearing (it almost always lined up with what I had seen).
I haven't tried any of this in many years - a few times, I saw things that really freaked me out, including a classic ghost-type figure, hooded robe and all, that turned towards me and pointed right at me as soon as I overloaded my eyes and "saw" it.
Lastly, I've occasionally been able to feel other people's emotional states. Once again, back in college, I had a female friend I was VERY close to since high school. She'd complain about her boyfriends, or about not having one, I'd complain about not having a girlfriend, we'd give each other backrubs, and generally hang out. One night she had a date, and I was playing poker with the guys, and suddenly I felt a shiver run down my spine and I got REALLY horny for a few seconds. I noted the time (9:30) and kept playing. Then, about an hour later, I had another very stong feeling, almost like exhaling after holding your breath for a long time.
The next evening, I asked her about her date, and we compared notes and matched up times. The first rush I felt happened about the time they were going down to the basement of his parent's house for what she was hoping would be a pretty intense make-out session (we were all 18, and freshmen at a Christian college, folks, so only R-rated!) And the second feeling was about the time she realiz
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thanks everyone for sharing, I've always wondered why people don't talk about these things more like in everyday discussions, I agree with the person who said some of these things aren't all that uncommon ..I think its just that we don't give a voice to them... and you really have to wonder why..maybe it could have something to do with being a child..when these things happen..and not really being able to articulate them and the more I think about it..I have to say at the time these things happened to me..it didn't occur to me to think of them as unsual..I mean seeing those pin points of lights everynight..just seemed normal to me... and too the intensity of the memory starts to fade..and you sometimes wonder about what happened.
I love the dream analysis, its funny because I've wondered about that dream all my life since it happens..but I've never sought out any type of meaning
I've heard of remote viewing and I've always been curious about that, I don't know much about how it works..but I think it has something to do with instincts
and I do think that all of us experience clairvoyancy at some point or another I do think its something that comes out in all of us at various times..its so interesting to know that we all have the ablity to see the past and the future..only we don't know how to access that part of us on a regular basis..I guess there is a reason for it!!
and to Darkjester some of your experiences seem fascinating to say the least.
espeically the retinol overload thing..and being able to see the hazy figures..
i do believe that there are so many things going in that we can't normally see that are going on thats in our world but thats outside of are world at the same time does that make any sense..maybe things that can be picked up or seen on another frequency if only we can tune ourselves into that freguency.
speaking of feeling and being able to tune into someone elses feelings...my older sister always mentions this to me.. ( I have no recollection of this)but when I was about five I was up and my sister said I was staring at her, which she said was just weird and gave her the creeps..but as soon as she opened her eyes I said your going to be sick...later that day she was sick..she was sent home from school because she had puked all over herself)
I had actually forgot to mention this one dream I had..because well its really gross.. and it really wasn't a dream...after all it really happened but it was just the weidest thing. I was also five or six when this happened
I had dreamed that there was a mouse in my bed, only I don't remember all of the dream ..I'm scared of mice but as soon as I woke up without hesitation I pulled back the covers and there was the mouse dead
but you know what was so weird about it
the mouse was as flat as a pancake..as flat as a sheet of paper but everything was in tact..the eyes eveything there was no blood no guts not anything messed up on that mouse it was just flat
I ran like lighting speed into my mom's room and told her..I was scared to tell her..but I wasn't going back to that bed
My mom came in saw it, she never mentioned it she just got a dust pan and a broom and got rid of it, I never spoke about that mouse..
but it really creeped me out I guess I rolled over it..but I still don't understand how it got to be flat without there being any blood..even as a child I wondered about that.
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I have had similar experiences, all of which in my opinion have a direct link with the paranormal.
As a child I made the mistake of telling folks, I thought I could trust, my experiences. They were deemed strange enough that I was dubbed with the name "Demonboy" in grade school, because one of my schoolmate's parents was a psychologist I was taken to see, and she told her son. Since then I've only shared my stories with a scant few. However, since this is the internet and I am unlikely to suffer undue pressures hehe:
I've seen ghosts..some benign and some very malignant. I've experienced poltergeistic activity. I had a recurring dream as a child..many times it we reoccur weeks at a time.
I always dreamt that I was much older and was walking by my grandfather's home with a bunch of friends (none of whom I knew at the time, I just felt they were friends), when I heard a baby's cry come from the house. I ran inside and up the stairs in complete darkness. I remember that I was completely unafraid. I enetered the room from which the cry had come and saw a woman sitting on a bed crying. I saw a small infant standing in its crib crying. That was when I heard a low guttural laughter behind me. I turned and saw only a dark mist with no physical shape to say of. I remember it came at me and I pummeled it. I slowly turned it so it was in front of me and I grabbed it and pushed it out of an open window in the room. It was then, that the most chilling part of the dream occurred. At first there was only silence. During the fight, I had suffered no injuries and felt confident that the matter was over. It was at this point that I looked out the window and there was nothing. That was when I heard the laughter again behind me. I remember the feeling of utter fear and cold. I turned to face the laughter and the thing bit me.
I woke up, with the smell of charred flesh lingering in the air and a pork chop taste in my mouth. I had this dream approximately 40 times when I was about 11. The psychologist determined I was Super Hyperactive and I had to spend 4 years as a zombie under the effects of Riddlin.
Another situation occurred when I moved into an old old house when I was 19 with some friends. There were six of us who witnessed things flying across the room during dinner. Glasses slid across the dinner table and dumped into 2 of my friend's laps followed by the doorknobs and doors shaking and moving. The empty cans flew off the stove we had cooked dinner on. I stayed in the apartment after they had moved out, because I didn't feel threatened per se. They on the other hand lost it. Things were ok for awhile and it was nice to live alone again. That is until I was rendered immobile several times and experienced severe pain (no markings however) and heard many voices in conversation and laughter. I asked a friend, who knew a medium to come over on a weekend and bring her with him. She brought a couple of people with her. They claimed I was a "sensitive" and quite possibly was channeling a wake that had occurred in the apartment many years ago. Needless to say..I thought I was being possessed and moved the hell out LOL.
I have seen a child ghost. I was about 22 in another apartment I had lived in. She actually came out of my bathroom and walked to the door of my bedroom, turned around and walked into a back closet near the bathroom. I asked the old man who owned the place if there had been a room back there. He said that the house used to be an old farmhouse and there had been rooms on the back of the house in the early 30's. They removed them to make a larger back yard after all the farmland was sold. The weirdest part of the experience was that I felt totally calm and unafraid. She never gave me a feeling of discontent.
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I'd classify ghosts and hauntings in three different ways.
1) Replayers; An event has taken place in a specific place that left an imprint, like a photographic negative, the event replays itself from time to time when the conditions are right.
2) Revenants; Some has died in a place either violently or with unfinished business pressing upon them. They cannot move on unless this issue is resolved or their murder is solved.
3) Residents; Some people just loved the place they are living in so much that they refuse to move on. They feel a strong attachment to the house and may resent the people who live there now.
Like anybody else these spirits can be good, bad or indifferent. I believe there are also non-human spirits. Animals certainly, especially those domesticated by man and with strong attachments. But also, for lack of a better term, devilish or demonic spirits. These are malicious and can cause great harm.
I've had lots of weird experiences and I don't automatically lump anything that happens into activity of the spirit world, but just into an event awaiting explanation. Sometimes there is a logical, scientific explanation, sometimes there isn't. That could be because our science isn't advanced or open-minded enough or it could be because the event isn't explainable in the rules of this world.
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there are two things I would like to talk about, one of them maybe a little off topic but 1rst I'll start with Connorflynn
I think it was just ridiculous and ignorant that you were labeled Demon boy all because of some strange reocurring dreams that you had, I don't understand why people are so quick to try to villify something they don't understand..it makes you wonder how far we've come since the dark ages..
Again alot of these experiences I don't really think are that uncommon its just that people don't talk about them and its understandable why!!!( I look at what happened to you)..how many other kids are being medicated or labeled hyperactive because of such experiences..I do think children inparticular are alot more sensative and aware of other-worldly things..I think we grow out of it as we get older and are more solidly grounded in the material world where we rely heavily on our five senses..to mold our perceptions of whats real..
Its really to bad that we don't all talk about these things more..I think it would help us and move us further along as a speices..its really sad that you told people you thought you could trust and ended up in a bad spot because of it...
Your dream is really frightening.., it could very well be that it was really happening to you in some way maybe in some other realm...it seemed to fully engage your senses..maybe the person who analylized my dream could do the same for you..maybe it would help..since you had it so often..there is probably something to it.
The old house..sounds as if it had some poltergeist ....or were you or any of your friends playing with a quija board..there are somethings that can open a door to unseen things good and bad, I personally haven't any experience with such things but I heard about it and I believe it.
you seem to have no problem seeing ghost..you must be sensative to such things..
the other thing I thought was interesting was this
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In all these cases though, the serpent (and the represented religion) isn't just a Bad Guy; it represents knowledge. Eden's snake gave Eve the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge,
why is it that the snake is considered evil...or the bad guy..he gave Eve the apple which is a symbol for knowlege..( why is knowlege considered a bad thing..is being ingnorant and stupid good)
Now I'm not religious but I've studied up on a variety of diffrent religions to have an understanding of them..
the power that and hold that religion has over people has always fascinated me
Reading up on Lucifer..he is considered the Light Bearer..the Enlighten One the bringer of light and knowlege..he is the snake we still see his symbol used in various forms even to this day, like the medical symbol of two snakes entwined
It seems to me that Lucifer is really the good guy, if not good then certainly not bad or evil as he is labeled
I still don't understand why he was villified, ..why is having knowelge such a bad thing
if anyone would like to discuss this feel free , I've I think its interesting to say the least
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