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Would you be superstitious if this happened to you?
Mr_Serenity
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So I have a strange story to share with you all. It has been a few turn of events that have been happening to me within the last 3 weeks. I don’t like to be “superstitious”, but I am a combination of open minded and practical. I do want to see the forest not just the trees, so I try to look at it from all sorts of angles.
It started one morning maybe three weeks ago. I woke up and I had this feeling in my gut. This type of feeling where you feel like you’re about to see someone. Like someone who is not supposed to be there. You can get this feeling when you’re in love and you’re expecting to see your date soon, or if you have ever seen a spirit you would get the same feeling right before you see it. It can be a very rare thing to feel, but you’ll feel it in your gut when it comes around.
I woke up with this feeling, and I recognized it right away. Because it’s not a feeling I get very often at all. So I just recognized it and went on with my day. Around the early evening I began noticing there were sharp sensations under my shirt, like their were needles under my shirt. I kept wondering what the hell is this feeling. Like there were invisible needles sticking into several points of me under my shirt. I looked, but there was nothing under there and no red marks either, but it did feel like there was something making me physically uncomfortable.
This feeling lasted for around 1 hour before this event took place. I was on my way to my martial arts class, and I kept thinking the teacher is going to be able to tell there is something wrong with me if these invisible needles under my shirt continue. But anyways I headed there. I take a bus and walk around 1 mile to my class. As I was walking down a side walk at around 5:30 pm (it wasn’t dark yet) I began to approach a man. Right as I got close to him he made eye contact with me and we both stopped.
He made a gesture to me like “Hey I remember you” and he was saying hello to me like he wanted to tell me something. I could see it in his eyes like he knew me. It wasn’t just a normal greeting. As I looked into his face I also realized I knew this man. It was my uncle. He was the oldest brother of my mom‘s mother. We had met a few times before, so we knew each others faces. But I did not know Spanish too well, I only understood it better than I knew how to speak it, so I just greeted him, he greeted me, and we passed each other by.
When I got back home I told my mom that I had seen that uncle today on my way to my class. I was positive it was him, because he was wearing this same cap I’ve seen him wear before. So I told my mom that I saw him in this area. It was also odd for me, because he is not from my area. He lives at least 45 minutes away, and he was supposed to be on his way to Jalisco, Mexico that day.
When I told this to my mom she said no way it could have been him. That he was on his way to Jalisco, and it just would make no sense. She said I must of just seen someone who looked like him. I told her about the cap he was wearing and I pointed him out in a picture we had, and when I did that, it really gave my mom the chills. And she jokingly said I was scaring her. And that she would call her mom the next day to check on him.
The next day she talked to her mom and found out some interesting things. He arrived there that day. But on that day that he arrived he had a very hard time sleeping. He said that a spirit had been bothering him for a long period of the night, and that it only happens when he visits that house and that he couldn’t sleep good there. My grandma had also seen a shadow of a woman walk across the garden that same night.
The very first time I encountered a spirit in my adult life it was also at this very old house. The spirit I encountered seemed like a man because it walked with heavy boots and banged my door with a heavy hand at 3 am. When I experienced that, it was the first time I knew for sure that spirits existed without a doubt. So almost everyone who stays at that house ends up having an experience sooner or later. But now I was questioning if it could some how affect me even many miles away. It was very weird to think about.
Then within the next two weeks of this incident my MP3 player mysteriously died, so I borrowed my brothers and that one also died as if the electrical power had been sucked from them both. They were completely fine for over 2 years I was very careful in taking care of them. So it upset me that both of these MP3 players died within such a short time period and they never did it before. I bought new MP3 player with a 1 year warranty from best buy yesterday, so I have a feeling they’re going to end up losing money from that lol.
Another thing about the MP3 player too. A few million fish were found dead at a beach near me the same day my MP3 player died. So it makes me think it has something to do with maybe a field of energy that is affecting the fish and my mp3 players (I walk a lot outside). It could also have to do with a spirit. There was one time where I was using my MP3 player at home, and I noticed that I could not turn it off. I kept trying, but it was stuck on one song and I could not even lower the volume. This was the only time this had ever happened. And when I looked up as this was happening I could see a spirit trying to manifest a few feet away from me. It was like a silhouette that wasn’t complete, like it needed more energy to fully manifest. It just walked and disappeared, and then my MP3 went back to normal.
I don’t know if these are all connected. But they’re weird enough to make me wonder. Thanks to all who read my story. I thought I vent and share these weird events that happened to me in the last three weeks.
It started one morning maybe three weeks ago. I woke up and I had this feeling in my gut. This type of feeling where you feel like you’re about to see someone. Like someone who is not supposed to be there. You can get this feeling when you’re in love and you’re expecting to see your date soon, or if you have ever seen a spirit you would get the same feeling right before you see it. It can be a very rare thing to feel, but you’ll feel it in your gut when it comes around.
I woke up with this feeling, and I recognized it right away. Because it’s not a feeling I get very often at all. So I just recognized it and went on with my day. Around the early evening I began noticing there were sharp sensations under my shirt, like their were needles under my shirt. I kept wondering what the hell is this feeling. Like there were invisible needles sticking into several points of me under my shirt. I looked, but there was nothing under there and no red marks either, but it did feel like there was something making me physically uncomfortable.
This feeling lasted for around 1 hour before this event took place. I was on my way to my martial arts class, and I kept thinking the teacher is going to be able to tell there is something wrong with me if these invisible needles under my shirt continue. But anyways I headed there. I take a bus and walk around 1 mile to my class. As I was walking down a side walk at around 5:30 pm (it wasn’t dark yet) I began to approach a man. Right as I got close to him he made eye contact with me and we both stopped.
He made a gesture to me like “Hey I remember you” and he was saying hello to me like he wanted to tell me something. I could see it in his eyes like he knew me. It wasn’t just a normal greeting. As I looked into his face I also realized I knew this man. It was my uncle. He was the oldest brother of my mom‘s mother. We had met a few times before, so we knew each others faces. But I did not know Spanish too well, I only understood it better than I knew how to speak it, so I just greeted him, he greeted me, and we passed each other by.
When I got back home I told my mom that I had seen that uncle today on my way to my class. I was positive it was him, because he was wearing this same cap I’ve seen him wear before. So I told my mom that I saw him in this area. It was also odd for me, because he is not from my area. He lives at least 45 minutes away, and he was supposed to be on his way to Jalisco, Mexico that day.
When I told this to my mom she said no way it could have been him. That he was on his way to Jalisco, and it just would make no sense. She said I must of just seen someone who looked like him. I told her about the cap he was wearing and I pointed him out in a picture we had, and when I did that, it really gave my mom the chills. And she jokingly said I was scaring her. And that she would call her mom the next day to check on him.
The next day she talked to her mom and found out some interesting things. He arrived there that day. But on that day that he arrived he had a very hard time sleeping. He said that a spirit had been bothering him for a long period of the night, and that it only happens when he visits that house and that he couldn’t sleep good there. My grandma had also seen a shadow of a woman walk across the garden that same night.
The very first time I encountered a spirit in my adult life it was also at this very old house. The spirit I encountered seemed like a man because it walked with heavy boots and banged my door with a heavy hand at 3 am. When I experienced that, it was the first time I knew for sure that spirits existed without a doubt. So almost everyone who stays at that house ends up having an experience sooner or later. But now I was questioning if it could some how affect me even many miles away. It was very weird to think about.
Then within the next two weeks of this incident my MP3 player mysteriously died, so I borrowed my brothers and that one also died as if the electrical power had been sucked from them both. They were completely fine for over 2 years I was very careful in taking care of them. So it upset me that both of these MP3 players died within such a short time period and they never did it before. I bought new MP3 player with a 1 year warranty from best buy yesterday, so I have a feeling they’re going to end up losing money from that lol.
Another thing about the MP3 player too. A few million fish were found dead at a beach near me the same day my MP3 player died. So it makes me think it has something to do with maybe a field of energy that is affecting the fish and my mp3 players (I walk a lot outside). It could also have to do with a spirit. There was one time where I was using my MP3 player at home, and I noticed that I could not turn it off. I kept trying, but it was stuck on one song and I could not even lower the volume. This was the only time this had ever happened. And when I looked up as this was happening I could see a spirit trying to manifest a few feet away from me. It was like a silhouette that wasn’t complete, like it needed more energy to fully manifest. It just walked and disappeared, and then my MP3 went back to normal.
I don’t know if these are all connected. But they’re weird enough to make me wonder. Thanks to all who read my story. I thought I vent and share these weird events that happened to me in the last three weeks.
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Are there any healers in your family? It sounds like you all have a gift. And do yourself a favor; don't refer to this kind of thing as superstition.
As for me maybe having a gift, when I was 4 years old I opened the door to see a few adult men who were dressed in "witch doctor" Aztec apparel. They had black make up with skull designs, the feathers, earrings, and other jewelry, completely authentic, and I've never seen any other Aztec costume that good. It wasn't Halloween either. This was broad day light and it scared the hell out of me. It's one of my earliest memories that I still remember clearly. I was stunned and looked at them enough to have it ingrained in my memory. Then I slammed the door on them.
I've never seen a spirit entity that clearly again, till possibly 3 weeks ago. I think I may have a gift to see and communicate with spirits. But I tried to revive my MP3 players with energy work I learned from Qigong and that sure didn't work lol.
It is evidence that lots of parallel worlds are happening around us all at the same time. It's evidence that they bump into each other and odd things happen. Most importantly: A while ago I've decided not to be afraid of or make a mountain out of a molehill with of any of this stuff. Why?
Because imagine if I looked at my living room wall and saw a terrifying figure there, hazy and strange. Then I was lucky enough to see as I looked closer and realized that it was my niece dancing crazily at a nightclub thousands of miles away. Somehow the two harmless "realities" bumped into each other BUT my primitive mind went nuts with fear and not enough information. Turns out to be a harmless, though UNEXPLAINABLE, intersection of the two realities of my living room wall and my niece's fun night out somewhere distant.
Strange occurrences does not mean worrisome, your brain's amygdala imposes the worry! Those strange occurrences could just as well be construed as MARVELOUS! Unexplainable puzzling and marvelous. I want to be happy with them if at all possible! Don't want to knock myself out trying to turn them into something major. Accept not knowing maybe? Thats' what I'd try to do. Good LUCK!
FWIW, at least 2 cents.
I also forgot to mention I don't wear a watch. I have a mechanical watch. Maybe I should wear that for a bit, and see what happens.
Yeah, maybe you have a gift for communicating with spirits, the deceased. See if your grandma knows anyone who can help you develop your gift. And I've never heard of someone being able to revive an appliance with their healing energy. Revive people or animals, yes. But not objects, have you? But it sounds like you're sensitive to energy, and that you have a strong field, or at least, the day that you inadvertently killed two MP3 players, you did. maybe you had a surge. Or maybe like you said, there was some sort of energy phenom near you, and you unknowingly conducted that energy to the MP3 players. I've caused computers to crash occasionally, without doing anything, just my energy did that (when I was wired up to one for testing).
I don't believe in superstition or magic. Rather, these phenomena are scientific discoveries waiting to happen.
Oh, and re: the prediction about how your parents would meet--can you go see the guy and ask him about yourself? Maybe he can help you meet women, or can tell you when a good relationship will come along.
I can't believe I'm even posting this. I've only told 1 or 2 people this stuff, ever. Okay, here's some random incidents, although there's many more where this comes from:
My first memory of this type of thing was when I was in Kindergarten. I suddenly got very scared and begged my teacher to call my mother; I said my house was on fire. She told me to sit down. A little while later, I begged her again, I was sure my house was on fire. She scolded me and told me to sit down again. Finally, I told her I was sick, and so she sent me to the nurse. When I got to the nurses office, I told the nurse I was sick and needed to call my mother. I called, she answered, and I asked if the house was on fire. I was crying. She said, "No honey, the house isn't on fire, everything is fine". Confused, I went back to class, but was sure the house was burning. When I got off the school bus a couple hours later, I began the woodsy walk to my house. There were only two houses on the dirt road at that time, my house at the end, and one other before it, a horse farm. As I was walking, I could smell smoke. Then I could see smoke. I ran and ran until I finally got to the house on my road, before mine. The entire farm had burned to the ground. The house and the horse barn. All the horses were dead. By the time I got home my mother had since heard about the horse farm burning down. There were two fire fighters in my yard, talking with my mother, explaining that it was lucky they caught it, because in the deep woods we lived in, it could have easily spread to our house.
Skipping to another story: When I was in Jr. High, I had a "dream", vision, whatever you want to call it. It was my cousin Diane, who was an anorexic for many years and suffered from Depression. I told my mother that I had a 'dream' where Diane was hanging from a type of rope, but not a rope, over a vegetable garden. Knowing the history of my cousins' problems, my mother assumed my imagination got the better of me and ignored it. That night we got a call from my aunt (my cousins' mother), that Diane had hung herself in her apartment with an electrical cord. It wasn't until the wake a week later that I overheard my aunt telling a relative the details of the scene. "It was strange.." my aunt remarked. "She was apparently in the middle of making a salad because there were veggies out on the kitchen counter, some of them cut up, so she was apparently making a salad." That explained the "hanging over a vegetable garden" part of my vision.
Many more stories in between this time, but I'll fast forward to just LAST WEEK. My uncle, whom I was very close with, died in 2005. He left all of his belongings to me. A side note, he introduced me to Buddhism when I was ten and taught me to speak Japanese. Anyway, one item he had that became mine was a light-up globe. It was a globe that you could plug in and it glowed. He had shown me where Japan was on that very globe when I was little (he was into Zen Buddhism). I lived with my now ex boyfriend for several years after his death, and when I moved, I accidentally left the globe there (I had left it in my ex's office and missed it when packing). That was a year ago. A few nights ago, I had a bad dream, in my sleep. I could see my uncle in the dream, and I could see the globe that I had forgotten, floating in water. I woke up very upset, and searched my house for the globe. I've only lived here a year, and some things were still unpacked. When I realized I left it at my ex's house, it really bothered me. For some strange reason, I looked up my ex (who I am still friends with) on Facebook. Sure enough, there on his wall, was a video he had posted. He had a party a few nights before, and went to sleep and left his friends in his house to party. The next day he woke up to discover the mess that his friends had left and took a video of the mess and posted it on his wall. They toilet papered his ceiling fan, turned his dining room table upside down, put the wine rack in the bathtub AND put my uncle's GLOBE in the toilet!! There it was on video, floating in the toilet (floating in water, as I had dreamed). Needless to say I emailed my ex and asked that he mail me the globe.
Anyway, stuff like this has happened my whole life. But here's the really weird part. I had NEVER heard of this watch stopping thing until this thread, today. My watches die constantly. I actually had to stop wearing watches because I would buy them, they would die, I would buy a battery, and it too would immediately die. But I never made any sort of connection with that and my "dreams". So this is very weird.
I don't know what to make of this. What's with the watch thing? It took a lot for me to write all this out, I don't speak of this stuff much, because the couple people I have told have had weird reactions, so I stopped talking about it. This is very strange....
You might try to find someone who offers training in how to manage and make the most of your gifts. Around New England you should be able to find somebody. Call your local New Age bookstore and see if they know anyone who teaches these skills. There are some remarkably gifted people who sometimes offer readings or massage or classes in developing paranormal gifts.
I don't know if this has to do with anything, but since we were talking about watches, I might as well mention this. My father, his sister (my aunt above) and I all share this weird thing with our ears. Wind gives us horrendous headaches. All three of us have to use earplugs on a windy day or at the beach. And the three of us look very much alike as well. Don't know if that has anything to do with it.....
What about your paternal grandmother, anything unusual there? Your aunt might know.
I was much closer with my paternal grandmother than my maternal one. But other than feeling a strong bond with her, I don't know of anything else unusual. I will ask my aunt that tomorrow too. This is fascinating; I have really never discussed this with people.
These matters, unfortunately, tend to be handled with denial in much of Western culture. They're important; they shouldn't be swept under the rug. The reason they /are/ swept under the rug, though, is because of 500 years of brutal repression in Europe during the Inquisition and the Puritan movement. I see those attitudes are still alive and well in the Jehovah's Witnesses.
(We should thank Mr. Serenity for starting this thread.)
Yes, definitely from England. Groton Manor, Suffolk, England was their long held line.
By the way, just for the record, I am the family genealogist, so I have direct lineage back to her, totally verified. Not just a family rumor. I have the names of my grandparents and so on leading directly to her. Interesting stuff.
Well, what a blessing that Gov. Winthrop arranged for her survival!
Just a quick check tells me that Norwegians arrived in Norfolk in the late stone age. Not clear about Suffolk. Fones sounds Norwegian. You never know about Brits. Well, let us know tomorrow what your aunt says. Nice talking with you.
In the beginning of the book, there is a family tree, which I can confirm through my own research leads directly to me.
Nice talking to you too CW!
FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fones
And by the way, that book is out of print and VERY hard to come by. I paid a fortune for it; it's a treasure.
FYI, the book is available new and used on Amazon. Must've done a reprint.
Of course, I know what my meditation teacher would say to all this stuff. "Don't bother with it! Just focus on the breath!" or something like that :-)
In Butsudo you are on your own.:)
Have a nice day.
I like your spirit Dakini,
About rather than being superstitious events, they're phenomena just waiting to be discovered and understood by science lol. I know it sounds totally crazy to those scientific types, but all I can say is that they would believe it if it happened to them.
For the shaman you're talking about that is naturally very gifted with foresight and healing, I thought about her before. Because my mother used to take me to her when I was sick as a kid and the medicine she used always worked. I thought about going to her and asking her for help with my love life. But now she is blind, and I hear her husband has tried to take over her work, but I know for certain her husband just won't be as good as her.
So I wonder if I really should go see her even though she is blind now. I wonder if she would still do a reading for me, and if it wouldn't be rude of me to ask if I could see her instead of her husband.
I'm glad you can finally get this stuff out -). There is something to it. A lot more to this world than we really know. It's good to keep tabs on stuff like this that happens to you. Some will be just debunkable coincidence, but focus on the coincidences. Because too much of a coincidence isn't always that. I've been seeing patterns almost all my life of strange incidents like the ones you mentioned and the ones I mentioned.
Would you know personally that spirits cause trouble Victorious lol? I have actually been physically injured by a spirit before when I was trying hard to interact with them. But that's another story, that is not so easy for me to tell in public. I care about Buddhism to help liberate me into a better mental state. But I can't say my goal is nibbana. My goal is to be successful in love. I rather become good with women and not be enlightened, rather than be enlightened and not have a woman. That's just how I feel about nibbana personally though lol.
about two years later, i was at home with my mom. my mom was bed-ridden and i kind of looked after her (even at that young age). i was in my room alone, playing with toys when the same lady walked in and sat in the chair. she just looked at me. i wasnt scared and after she left i went to tell my mother that this lady was watching me play- she dismissed it as an imaginary friend.
then when i was about 15 years old, i moved in with a foster family. there was a man who would come and sit on my bed every night. the foster mom thought i was looking ofr attention until one day when her son noticed my bed went down as this man sat. one day i even told him to show them that he existed by doing somehting strange and he turned the tv off. they then believed me.
after we moved from there i didnt have another experience until now a few months ago. everytime i am alone at home, i see a shadow of a man- and he will just stand next to me and stare at me. i have no idea who it is and why he does this. my parents both passd away but the man figure is not my dad. its strange cause he doesnt ever come when i have people over or anything. and he just stares. he dosnt harm me or anything. and i cannot ask family either because they dont believ in such thingsand they dont talk to me either. it was weird.,
just thought i would share that :scratch:
Did you know that the Attanatiya Sutta that explains how to ward against demons and evil spirits?
And for the women my kyokushin Sensei told me that they are like eggs. They might have differents colors on the outside but inside its always the same. Whites and Yolk.
I think he has got a point there.
Good luck with the spirits and the women.
/Victor
Another time I visited a gifted clairvoyant I knew of, and she said to me "you knew such and such as person, didn't you". That freaked me out because I had never spoken to this women before and she accurately pinpointed a woman I had known and passed on several years before. She had known this woman as well.
I don't question the existence of unexplained phenomena at all. I have witnessed them for myself in quite simple ways.
Ive seen a few to, Its an unfortunate realms to be born into.