Extra Sensory Perception (who experienced it?)

[total-recoil]

Thought I'd raise it. I've had several experiences throughout my life that are hard to explain. In fact, I'd say I tend to get something unusual happen maybe once every two years. Let me give an example in the hope I don't get dismissed as a crank or laughed off the forum:
Once I was in my room some years ago and just doing the same old routine stuff I normally would do. Making coffee, reading a book, cleaning up and so on. Well, I recall I had put the kettle on to boil to make another coffee (I'm still to this day a heavy coffee drinker) and I was just thinking deep in thought as I usually do when I do routine tasks. I just got to thinking about an obscure war and I recall clearly it was the invasion of Sicily by Athens. Granted I had actually read about this war in the past as I had done some ancient history. I'd also done Russian history too. Even so, it just popped into my mind about this particular war when Athens invaded Sicily and as I was thinking I automatically switched on the T.V. It was just like I thought I wonder what's on T.V. There it was bang on the screen. There was an Aussie soap opera running and the scene was a classroom with a teacher showing a huge map and he was teaching the kids about the invasion of Sicily by Athens!! Of course, I was stunned.
Of course, I wouldn't rush in and call it extra sensory perception and suppose it's always possible it was one massive coincidence. However, I have had similar experiences to this from childhood and, as I say, it happens with intervals of months in a way you just don't expect.
So, has anyone had weird experiences? Are our brains capable of a lot more than we assume normal?

 

[Bay]

I often know that my sister is going to call me on the phone, moments before the phone rings. We don't speak all that often, so I can't chalk it up to routine.

 

[Dragon's Tooth]

I remember when I was a kid playing a game where me and my sisters would send fruit to each other. This meant one sister concentrated on a fruit and the other sister had to guess. And 100% of the time we were correct unless I used a fruit I knew they didn't know.

My mum often dreams about things as they are happening or things that come true.

I myself an massively attuned to the feeling of a place. One house growing up I hated living in because I knew it was haunted. And by not very nice ghosts either. I still have trouble being on that property at night (the house in question is on a farm). Also a lot of the time I get gut feelings and if I don't go with my gut feeling it always turns out that I should have.

I think our brains are capable of things we can't understand. I also think we don't understand a fraction of what this universe is. So to say being psychic or what ever isn't real ... I think that's just BS because I know ghosts are real so what else is real.

Also I have been visited a couple times by important spirits that have passed over. My best friend who died a couple years ago came to me in a dream and told me only the words "I forgive you" then smiled and left. I was so sad and happy after that dream because I knew she forgave me for not being a terribly good friend towards the end (I now know it was my aspieness in over drive that caused that) and I knew I was her last stop before crossing over. I knew she crossed over because she was loved in this world and there wasn't a reason to stay after saying good bye. That is just one experience. I have many others.

My father in law is the biggest anti religion, anti after life, anti anything along those lines but he believes in ghosts because of his own experiences. So I think there is a good case for something we just can't explain.

 

[total-recoil]

I already became interested in the subconcious - the part of the brain that functions in a way you yourself don't realise. I have a theory that with aspergers, neurotypicals know we are different which is why so many of us experience being ignored. I mean, those of us who are ignored don't tell people we are different but we are treated differently, correct? So, the assumption is people do rely on the subconcious part of the brain. And I learned dolphins can communicate over huge distances which also interests me.
When I talk of ESP, I suppose I refer to capacity of the brain we are not yet aware of. Maybe parts that are under-developed.
Here is one other very strange incident I can share from when I was very young: I recall quite vividly I used to smell strong tobacco in the living room when my mother was watching a film. I'd ask what the smell was and, of course, nobody in the room was smoking. It turned out my experience was triggered by a famous actress in black and white movies. Whenever she appeared on T.V., I would smell this really strong brand of tobacco. I confess this is very weird but it did happen.
Every so often just when I think everything is quiet and routine and normal, I get another strange experience.
Also I should add my perception is people in general are pretty hopeless at picking things up when I compare with animals. I have a strong bond with a beautiful German Shepherd and I can relate a strange story about him. Once we were walking back towards his owners house (I walk him for the owner) and the dog suddenly became very very excited. He was pulling on his lead so bad I was having trouble staying on my feet. We continued walking towards the house and then two minutes later a car passed us by and it was the owner. She was pulling up the drive in her car as myself and the dog finally arrived and I told her what happened. Namely that the dog had known she was about to arrive at the house 5 minutes before she even passed us in the car. I told her she has a very smart dog! She was baffled and wondered if perhaps the dog had recognised the sound of the engine from afar or even smelled something.

I often know that my sister is going to call me on the phone, moments before the phone rings. We don't speak all that often, so I can't chalk it up to routine.

 

[total-recoil]

Yes, I grew up in a house that gave me really bad vibes. The second house was O.K. but the first made me really unsettled. Ghosts may be like an ability of the brain to pick up signals a bit like a T.V. set. So many people have seen ghosts throughout history I guess there must be some phenomenon behind it. I only ever saw one and it was in broad daylight not dark and certainly nobody holding their head under their arm in a kilt LOL. Just a guy in working overalls looking at a building who somehow disappeared.

I remember when I was a kid playing a game where me and my sisters would send fruit to each other. This meant one sister concentrated on a fruit and the other sister had to guess. And 100% of the time we were correct unless I used a fruit I knew they didn't know.

My mum often dreams about things as they are happening or things that come true.

I myself an massively attuned to the feeling of a place. One house growing up I hated living in because I knew it was haunted. And by not very nice ghosts either. I still have trouble being on that property at night (the house in question is on a farm). Also a lot of the time I get gut feelings and if I don't go with my gut feeling it always turns out that I should have.

I think our brains are capable of things we can't understand. I also think we don't understand a fraction of what this universe is. So to say being psychic or what ever isn't real ... I think that's just BS because I know ghosts are real so what else is real.

Also I have been visited a couple times by important spirits that have passed over. My best friend who died a couple years ago came to me in a dream and told me only the words "I forgive you" then smiled and left. I was so sad and happy after that dream because I knew she forgave me for not being a terribly good friend towards the end (I now know it was my aspieness in over drive that caused that) and I knew I was her last stop before crossing over. I knew she crossed over because she was loved in this world and there wasn't a reason to stay after saying good bye. That is just one experience. I have many others.

My father in law is the biggest anti religion, anti after life, anti anything along those lines but he believes in ghosts because of his own experiences. So I think there is a good case for something we just can't explain.

 

[hojita]

I've always been interested in this kind of thing! I've always considered myself sensitive in some sort of way. When I was in middle school, my neighbor had a cat that went missing for a couple weeks or so. One night I had a dream that was very short. It took place in my neighbors kitchen. All I saw was the kitchen itself, then the door and then the cat come through the cat door. That was it. The next morning I told my neighbor about how I dreamt her cat would come home and when I came home from school that day, she had left a message on the machine saying she was standing in the kitchen when her cat just showed up through the cat door. Could have been a coincidence but I had never dreamt anything like that.

Recently I had a dream where my grandfather who died in May was present. It wasn't like a memory, it was him there, checking in on me. It could be just a dream but it did comfort me. When my other grandfather died last year, I was super sad, driving home from work when it was like I heard his voice saying "it's okay" and then bam! Just like that I felt calm and peaceful. Sounds crazy but I swear it was his voice.

I think it's silly and doesn't prove anything, but when I put my iPod on shuffle (with over 4,000 songs) I can hear in my head which song is about to play a lot. It's more entertaining to me since it's always right.

I've had several experiences that can't be explained as far as hearing footsteps behind me in an empty hall and such. I work in a hospital on a psych unit. I get a bad feeling toward the end of the hall, and frequently feel like there's someone behind me. I've heard soft music and a woman moaning (I work nights so we hear everything and I investigated, no patient has ever been behind the noises I hear). I've heard a woman's voice, laughter, and on another floor, a man mumbling by my ear. The part of the hallway that makes me feel uncomfortable actually used to be where a bathroom was before renovations. Turns out that a patient suicided down there, a woman. I've read that Aspies can sometimes hear things that others can't(fluorescent lights and such) so I wonder if that's it or something else. I know it's not hallucinations.

I definitely get a "read" off places and sometimes objects. Places that I later find out are haunted have given me terrible feelings in the pit of my stomach and an urge to get away. Objects do the same thing, always old objects. I don't know why but the feeling is so awful I always listen to it. I don't mention these things much since people sometimes think I make it up or am crazy. I never used to believe in these things until thing started to happen. I find that's how most people are though, they don't believe unless/until they experience it.

 

[total-recoil]

I've seen a ghost once but I should stress I don't really believe ghosts are dead people. I don't really know what causes it but have this suspicion there is some scientific phenomenon behind it where our brain can sometimes detect the images. After all, you can see dead people quite clearly on a TV set via telecommunication technology so we know images can be transmitted.
The "ghost" I saw was in daylight - a guy in overalls standing outside a canteen. It was very clear. Then he was gone in seconds apparently. I turned a corner and he was gone.
I also seem to have an ability to tell if someone has aspergers or not, often by reading what he or she said or wrote. This happened when I re-read the story of the Ugly Duckling after I discovered I had aspergers (self diagnosed). I immediately typed "Hans Christian Anderson aspergers" into Google and (as I expected) it came up positive. In fact, I somehow came to develop a sort of interest in Anderson and read a lot about him and how he once stayed with Charles Dickens as a guest. Evidently the Dickens family didn't cope very well with Anderson and Dickens' daughter quite disliked him. It's pretty certain Anderson did have aspergers as well as depression and difficulty relating to the world around him.
However, probably those of us with aspergers often know if someone else is similar.

I've always been interested in this kind of thing! I've always considered myself sensitive in some sort of way. When I was in middle school, my neighbor had a cat that went missing for a couple weeks or so. One night I had a dream that was very short. It took place in my neighbors kitchen. All I saw was the kitchen itself, then the door and then the cat come through the cat door. That was it. The next morning I told my neighbor about how I dreamt her cat would come home and when I came home from school that day, she had left a message on the machine saying she was standing in the kitchen when her cat just showed up through the cat door. Could have been a coincidence but I had never dreamt anything like that.

Recently I had a dream where my grandfather who died in May was present. It wasn't like a memory, it was him there, checking in on me. It could be just a dream but it did comfort me. When my other grandfather died last year, I was super sad, driving home from work when it was like I heard his voice saying "it's okay" and then bam! Just like that I felt calm and peaceful. Sounds crazy but I swear it was his voice.

I think it's silly and doesn't prove anything, but when I put my iPod on shuffle (with over 4,000 songs) I can hear in my head which song is about to play a lot. It's more entertaining to me since it's always right.

I've had several experiences that can't be explained as far as hearing footsteps behind me in an empty hall and such. I work in a hospital on a psych unit. I get a bad feeling toward the end of the hall, and frequently feel like there's someone behind me. I've heard soft music and a woman moaning (I work nights so we hear everything and I investigated, no patient has ever been behind the noises I hear). I've heard a woman's voice, laughter, and on another floor, a man mumbling by my ear. The part of the hallway that makes me feel uncomfortable actually used to be where a bathroom was before renovations. Turns out that a patient suicided down there, a woman. I've read that Aspies can sometimes hear things that others can't(fluorescent lights and such) so I wonder if that's it or something else. I know it's not hallucinations.

I definitely get a "read" off places and sometimes objects. Places that I later find out are haunted have given me terrible feelings in the pit of my stomach and an urge to get away. Objects do the same thing, always old objects. I don't know why but the feeling is so awful I always listen to it. I don't mention these things much since people sometimes think I make it up or am crazy. I never used to believe in these things until thing started to happen. I find that's how most people are though, they don't believe unless/until they experience it.

 

[Nolan1971]

When I was 16 I was home alone for the weekend and at that time had no pets. I was watching tv in my room and my door opened all the way
and all the windows were closed. The folding chair next to my bed creaked and left an impression in the rug like someone sat down.
I felt like I knew who it was and it felt very comforting. I found out nearly 2yrs later that was the day my grandma passed and nobody in the family
told me. One time I was out repairing my car and had a very strong urge to go back in the house like something was wrong.
I went into the bedroom and my hamster had his head stuck in the wheel in such a way as he was choking if I did not help him he
would have died.

 

[SallySlips]

I've had dreams that have come true quite a few times.

One I remember very specifically - My best friend moved away when I was in 4th grade. About a year later, I had a dream that she came back, and the next day when I got to school, she was there.

I had a really disturbing dream about my sister last night, and I can't recall having any sort of dream about her ever. And then I found out this morning that she's in distress. I won't go into the details but, interpreted a certain way, my dream fits in with her situation.

 

[Dragon's Tooth]

There are some people who believe children can see ghosts. They believe that imaginary friends of children are either ghosts or past lives. But usually children give up on them because we adults tell them that is can't be true and to stop being silly. Children are a lot more open to new experiences than adults because they haven't been jaded by the world.

my mum used to think one of my past lives was as a pilot because I used to be able to draw accurate and detailed aerial views of just about anything when I was about four or five. I think it was probably part of my aspieness.

Personally I believe that what makes us alive is a special energy that runs through the universe and when we are conceived that is like gravity in that this energy condenses into one point to make life. When we die that energy returns to the fabric it came from. But that doesn't mean it couldn't get stuck or something as it goes back. And that process creates a ghost. But that's just my thoughts on where this energy comes from. I think that those of us who can sense ghosts or have seen them are more attuned to this energy, which could be hidden in one of the dimensions that string theory predicts is there but we cannot see.

Just my thoughts.

 

[musclecarman]

My father in law is the biggest anti religion, anti after life, anti anything along those lines but he believes in ghosts because of his own experiences. So I think there is a good case for something we just can't explain.

I kind of believe in after life I think theres a small number of souls and that they go into different bodies like for example my great grandpa was a really good at rifle shooting and I think his soul went into my dog ruffy (its just an idea)

 

[musclecarman]

sometimes I have thoughts of random moments in the future usually in like a few days then It happens also I sometimes get random feelings around a certain object like a Toyota car feels different to a Mitsubishi well its hard for me to explain.

 

[musclecarman]

My father in law is the biggest anti religion, anti after life, anti anything along those lines but he believes in ghosts because of his own experiences. So I think there is a good case for something we just can't explain.

I think our spirits must get copied and put into another dimension as another animal I just came up with that idea

 

[Jimbo]

My wife and I saw a ghost several times in an old house we were renting. The first time I felt a hand on my head and I looked up and saw a tall man standing over the bed. I screamed like a girl. The next night we saw him walk across the bedroom and could hear the footsteps.

I have also seen a ghost in the hallway in the house I live in now which was my grandparents old house. At the same time I saw it, my wife said she felt someone sit on the bed with her.

There have been a few houses I was working in that I also had experiences in.

 

[Ste11aeres]

I also seem to have an ability to tell if someone has aspergers or not, often by reading what he or she said or wrote. This happened when I re-read the story of the Ugly Duckling after I discovered I had aspergers (self diagnosed). I immediately typed "Hans Christian Anderson aspergers" into Google and (as I expected) it came up positive. In fact, I somehow came to develop a sort of interest in Anderson and read a lot about him and how he once stayed with Charles Dickens as a guest. Evidently the Dickens family didn't cope very well with Anderson and Dickens' daughter quite disliked him. It's pretty certain Anderson did have aspergers as well as depression and difficulty relating to the world around him.

I was reading David Copperfield, and there is a character in it: Uriah Heep. Dickens describes Heep in terms of pure loathing, yet it was unclear to me, upon analysis, just exactly what was so terrible about Heep. Anyway, the other characters all regard him as disgusting, and base, and it is clear Dickens intends the reader to perceive him that way.
I then read somewhere that it is thought that the description of Heep's physical appearance was directly based on the physical appearance of Anderson.

 

[Ste11aeres]

I think I do sort of believe in ghosts although I've never encountered any-and I don't want to!! The reason it is easy for me to believe in them is that, as a Catholic, I do believe in life after death. Of course, the existence of life after death wouldn't necessarily mean that people appear to others, in other words, it wouldn't necessarily mean that there are ghosts. However, there are so many testimonies from different people who say that they have encountered ghosts, that unless one has an actual reason not to believe in ghosts, it makes sense to believe in them on the strength of so very many testimonies.