Strange happenings?

[Peter Deadpan]

Is the strange happening a paranormal or supernatural activity?

Like the connection to thoughts, am I to understand the implication is its ESP?

I do like stranger things like cryptozoology, para-psychology (I think its called anomalous psychology these days) and unexplained events, like it raining fish for instance, there was an author who documented things like this but I dont remember his name right now, I think is book was called The Damned, as in "damnable events" or "damned if I can explain this"

Maybe it rains fish when there is a glitch in the computer program in which we all "live".

 

[Maou]

The street light thing has happened to me many times, and my mom used to say it happened to her. Scientifically speaking, I don't know that it means anything significant and is likely just coincidental. I do sometimes feel like I am somehow affecting lights or devices though, particularly phones. Street light interference phenomenon - Wikipedia

Many years ago, I was trying to teach myself how to lucid dream/astral project. I cannot remember my dreams well and can't lucid dream (I've been aware that I was dreaming once, in the midst of this practice, and for only about 15 seconds or so before I slipped back into regular dreaming). Every single night, I would lie in bed and listen to guided meditations on my earbuds until I fell asleep. It got to a point where I could actively meditate at any moment by will, no matter what I was doing. My mind was very calm and I was in a good physical/spiritual space.

It was around this time that weird things started happening in my home. While I was meditating, I would hear a man breathing or whispering near my ear. It oddly enough didn't scare me at all. I also heard my daughter's doorknob jiggling one night after bedtime. I figured she was messing around or sleepwalking and confused, so I walked down the hall and stood looking at her door, waiting for her to come out. I stood there for a moment and then decided I'd just open the door to "catch" her out of bed. When I opened the door, there she was... on the opposite side of the room, in bed, facing away, sleeping very soundly. I had literally seen the doorknob jiggle just seconds before. She also told me that she would see lights in her room, like several "balls of light" all over the place. She was 4 and still remembers it.

Then, my now ex contacted me while I was at work to tell me that the kids' training potty was going haywire. It was designed to make noise to celebrate peeing in the bowl, with two metal points that would make an electric connection when liquid covered the bottom surface. So the potty was making these noises and going crazy in a way that logically did not make sense at all, when no one was around and it was empty. I was also woken up in the middle of the night when a child's battery powered truck started going off loudly. The button on top to make the noise wasn't making contact with anything. Also, my dog spent a solid 5 minutes barking into the corner of the kitchen like a fricken psycho for no obvious reason, which is extremely abnormal for him.

I am still low-key worried that if I start meditating again like that (which I do want to do), weird things will start happening again.

In my early twenties, I had a significant thing for this guy I worked with. I was pretty infatuated with him and had a lot of feelings. One day when we were all leaving work, he was driving in his car in front of my friend and me in a different car. We were just pulling out of the alley to get to the main street and leave. All of a sudden, without any reason (we were all still in the alley and not exiting to the street yet), I was struck in the gut with the awareness that he was going to get into a car accident. It's still very hard to explain because there was no vision of the event, just a knowing and the physiological feeling in my gut, like you would actually experience witnessing a car accident. It caught me very off guard and I was kinda freaked out but didn't tell anyone about it and shrugged it off after. We all exited the alley fine without incident. A few days later I was walking to work and my boss drove past me and picked me up, telling me that this guy I had the thing for wouldn't be at work that day because he got into a car accident. He was fine, but he injured the other driver and had to pay the price for that.

Another time, my friend and I actually heard a fucking ghost walk up the wooden steps of her old creepy house in what sounded like old style wooden soled boots. It was very real and very terrifying, especially since the sound only went halfway up the stairs and then just stopped. We immediately went downstairs to see if anyone was there, and her mom was sound asleep in her bedroom. No one else lived with them, and last I checked, cats don't wear wooden soled boots and weigh 150-200 lb.

I used to believe in this stuff a whole lot more, and then life repeatedly shat on me and I have since lost connection with the magic of life, but it would be nice to feel it again, even if it makes me look stupid.

It's things like this that make me think things like fate exist. I don't think anything is truly random. Things will always happen a specific way, and that the patterns are larger than we can imagine. That maybe some become aware. Maybe this is a simulation that's happened a billion times before. Maybe reality is fake, and its some kind of test of spirit. Maybe hitting a certain wavelength wakes you up from this wicked dream. Maybe no one else is real but me.

 

[cacaia]

I often think this way, too. What if nothing that we know as "real" is real? What if it's just our perspective of things, but very little else? What if our daily life is invented by us, and that is why good things sometimes happen in our life? Do we choose for it to happen? Do we truly bend reality with our minds? Sigh. It's late over here. I'll go say hi to Morpheus and stroll around Dreamland for a little while......

 

[Virtual ghost]

I often think this way, too. What if nothing that we know as "real" is real? What if it's just our perspective of things, but very little else? What if our daily life is invented by us, and that is why good things sometimes happen in our life? Do we choose for it to happen? Do we truly bend reality with our minds? Sigh. It's late over here. I'll go say hi to Morpheus and stroll around Dreamland for a little while......

Well, the last time I checked the physical reality as we know it is just a product of how our brain processes input data. So neither is sky really blue, fire is hot or ground is solid. In my country you learn this kind of stuff in 7th grade and further, so you can't pass without knowing this. "Reality" isn't real and that was proven long time ago.

 

[Lark]

Maybe it rains fish when there is a glitch in the computer program in which we all "live".

I heard that idea before, there is some Russian philosopher, maybe VG would know them, who did honestly believe that life itself is a holographic artifical environment of some kind.

 

[Maou]

Well, the last time I checked the physical reality as we know it is just a product of how our brain processes input data. So neither is sky really blue, fire is hot or ground is solid. In my country you learn this kind of stuff in 7th grade and further, so you can't pass without knowing this. "Reality" isn't real and that was proven long time ago.

That's just understanding our senses are 3rd person. We are talking about existence itself being possibly all in our heads. It acts the way it does, because we believe that is how it works. Like for example, people believe in ghosts, see ghosts, while many people do not. What if we can never truly find out if ghosts are plausible if we don't believe in them to begin with? Why do kids see weird shit, but adults do not?

What if this also applies to science? What if our universe expanded because we believed it to be infinite or expanding? Essentially everything can be in our heads. But then the question comes, what happens if someone figured out how to harness that (and be a god essentially)? I see two scenarios. 1) The simulation ends like a dream, as the one who realizes it was the only non-npc. 2) The simulation ends, and all of us are npc and cease to exist. The simulation having achieved its goal before entropy.

 

[Virtual ghost]

That's just understanding our senses are 3rd person. We are talking about existence itself being possibly all in our heads. It acts the way it does, because we believe that is how it works. Like for example, people believe in ghosts, see ghosts, while many people do not. What if we can never truly find out if ghosts are plausible if we don't believe in them to begin with? Why do kids see weird shit, but adults do not?

What if this also applies to science? What if our universe expanded because we believed it to be infinite or expanding? Essentially everything can be in our heads. But then the question comes, what happens if someone figured out how to harness that (and be a god essentially)? I see two scenarios. 1) The simulation ends like a dream, as the one who realizes it was the only non-npc. 2) The simulation ends, and all of us are npc and cease to exist. The simulation having achieved its goal before entropy.

Ok, but I just can't relate to such ideas.
I really think there is a external reality. If anything logic says our heads have to be in "something".

 

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[Coriolis]

Ok, but I just can't relate to such ideas.
I really think there is a external reality. If anything logic says our heads have to be in "something".

I agree. That all sounded like just magical thinking.

 

[Lark]

Ok, but I just can't relate to such ideas.
I really think there is a external reality. If anything logic says our heads have to be in "something".

I dont believe it but I do think the idealists, like Bishop Berkley, or the whole "brains in a tank" idea are interesting.

The Matrix trilogy did a good version of the whole artificial environment/brains in a tank (although it was whole people in a tank) idea, Dark City was good version of the Artificial Environment trope too, although different to the Matrix.

 

[Lark]

Well, the last time I checked the physical reality as we know it is just a product of how our brain processes input data. So neither is sky really blue, fire is hot or ground is solid. In my country you learn this kind of stuff in 7th grade and further, so you can't pass without knowing this. "Reality" isn't real and that was proven long time ago.

Well, I can understand how people get started down that route when you consider optics, the colour spectrum from a prism, the twig in a puddle distortion etc.

I get it, where Descartes and the rest were setting out from but to be honest its way more than a hop, skip and jump from there to social constructionism and post-modernism, which I think is all bunk really.

 

[Pionart]

Strange happenings are, in my view, very often a manifestation of forces which science has yet to really touch upon.

In the case given in the opening post, I would posit the cause as being what I term "spiritual" in nature, being perhaps mediated by entities/spirits, or some kind of energy field capable of interacting with both mind and matter.

And yes, talking about this stuff does make a person seem "crazy", but from where I stand it is those who deny the possibility of such things that are out of touch...

 

[typologyenthusiast]

If I am walking, a lamp post or light bulb will just turn off. Coincidence, you will say? I'm posting here because it has happened for YEARS, and not all the time, but often enough to give me pause.

Sounds like a poltergeist to me.

 

[Justin of Flavia Neapolis]

Strange happenings are, in my view, very often a manifestation of forces which science has yet to really touch upon.

In the case given in the opening post, I would posit the cause as being what I term "spiritual" in nature, being perhaps mediated by entities/spirits, or some kind of energy field capable of interacting with both mind and matter.

And yes, talking about this stuff does make a person seem "crazy", but from where I stand it is those who deny the possibility of such things that are out of touch...

After the scientific/rational revolution has all but made its rounds in pure materialism, I find it very telling that the same are having to account for the metaphysical nature of aspects of the universe with Quantum mechanics and even now, “simulation theory” and/or “multiverse hypothesis.”

“I believe in metaphysics, but have to couch it in the language of physics so as to save face.”

 

[The Cat]

 

[Justin of Flavia Neapolis]

When I first studied Quantum mechanics, my professor took a long time advising us "not to romanticize it or link it to metaphysics, as it's being done in pop culture and by other people, 'cause they're wrong interpretations".

I don't feel like discussing my own philosophical views because it would be a sterile discussion. I just wanted to leave this here.

Thank you for the anecdote.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

The human mind seems wired to find meaning in everything and to make connections. It’s simultaneously a great asset and a great deficit.

 

[Pionart]

The human mind seems wired to find meaning in everything and to make connections. It’s simultaneously a great asset and a great deficit.

Yeah it takes a long while of sifting through the information to determine if these coincidences and such have any inherent meaning at all,

Then eventually you start to get it and it's like "wow science is really dumb when it comes to some things."

 

[The Cat]

After a hard day of comedy Science and Religion go to sleep in separate beds.