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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| Reggie wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| Hasn't anyone ever had a supernatural experience? |
I had two experiences that were possibly supernatural.
The first one happened when I was 16. My twin brother went to the high school prom and I went to my girlfriend's house instead. She and I had been having a good time for several hours until I suddenly had a bad feeling come over me and I was worried if my brother was okay because I had a 99% sure gut feeling that he had just been in a car accident. I thought I was crazy or something and was trying not to think about it. After about a half hour, my girlfriend asked me, "Reggie, is something wrong?" I was too embarrassed to tell her that I thought my brother had been in an accident because I knew it would make me look silly and nutty if it ended up that he hadn't, so I told her that I thought I had left my curling iron on and needed to call my parents to have them turn it off. I knew I had unplugged it, but I needed an excuse to call mom and dad. When I called, the first thing I asked them was if they had heard from my brother. They said he had just called them and had been in a car accident a little while ago, but that he was okay.
The second one happened when I was 18. One of my cousins and I were into smoking tobacco that we had personally grown, but had branched off into smoking pipe tobacco since we agreed that it smelled great. We had bought two cheap corncob pipes and a baggie of cherry flavored tobacco at Walgreens. One night, I was at my parents' house and wanted to smoke some pipe and I had my tobacco in my backpack, but had left my pipe in my dorm room in Knoxville. My grandfather had been a chain smoker of pipes, cigars, and cigarettes and died of lung cancer in 1978, and I remembered there were pipes in his bedroom. When I got one out of the desk drawer, the light in the bedroom slowly dimmed until it was off and slowly lit back up. It's not unheard of for the lights to go out at my parents' house, especially if a tree falls on a line or someone wrecks into a pole, but they usually go out suddenly for anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours and suddenly come back on. So, I put the pipe back into the drawer.
I think the first one was probably supernatural and the second one was probably just a coincidence. |
I am a bit surprised that you do not attribute the first one to that "special communication" that twins are supposed to have with each other. Perhaps that can be classified as "supernatural," but I have heard such twin stories so often now that I almost take them as routine.
I am not sure what to make of the second one, but sure, why not?
| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
I had my first ever one in mid-January. I was staying at a hotel in Riyadh (alone) and woke up one morning. In the bathroom, one of the taps turned itself on - FULL BLAST! I was scared out of my wits, because I assumed there was a human being in there. The tap then turned itself off. I was too scared to go and see if anyone was in there, but after a moment I got up to see and, of course, there was no-one there. I'm sure there was a rational explanation, but boy did that creep me out. Fortunantely, I was leaving that morning, so packed my gear and got the hell out.
(On-topic: I think Avatar is rubbish) |
Was the bathroom door open? I mean, did you actually see the water running or only hear it? If you only heard it, couldn't it have been from a neighboring room?
I myself have had two also. The first was when I was an older kid lying in my bed one morning listening to the planes warming up at nearby LaGuardia Airport. This had an eerie, calming effect on me: although the sound was not overwhelmingly loud, it did drown out a lot of the other ambient noise and I used to really like it.
This one time though as I lie there, I looked down to see myself on the bed! I had floated up to the ceiling, or it seemed like I did, and was looking down on myself. This was not a dream, I was fully awake and conscious although it quickly ended once I realized it. Of course, others have reported "out-of-body" experiences.
The second time was as a teenager. I was an avid fan of thoroughbred racing, and one day was at the track with my sister. The next race was coming up, and as I looked through the horses' names in the program, a feeling came over me that told me a certain horse was going to win. No, it didn't tell me, I just knew it. Of course, he won and I had bet on him but not as much as I should have. I mean, I have been to the track many times since then waiting for it to happen again, but it never has. It was just a overwhelming feeling, and to this day I still remember the horse's name which was, oddly enough, Prestidigitator!
(On-topic: Is it a must to see Avatar in 3-D?) |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:42 am Post subject: |
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I just watched it the other day - the plot was basically rubbish (not really worth discussing imo), but gotta say the 3D effects were quite impressive... it's not like the old 3D that sort of pops out at you (which is what I was expecting), this is more like looking inside the screen into a fantasy world... it sort of immerses you into it. It was a new experience.
But, yeah I wouldn't bother paying money to see it unless in 3D. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Reggie wrote: |
| so I told her that I thought I had left my curling iron on and needed to call my parents to have them turn it off. |
Quick thinking. Got any pics of the hairdo? |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
Was the bathroom door open? |
Yes
| bacasper wrote: |
| If you only heard it, couldn't it have been from a neighboring room? |
Never in a billion years
| bacasper wrote: |
| (On-topic: Is it a must to see Avatar in 3-D?) |
Just don't bother, would be my advice. |
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