[Closed] So, what psychic experiences have you had then ?

Doing urbex stuff, I've had quite a few unsettling experiences. The worst was possibly in some shipyard offices - standing in the middle of a room, I heard a scrabbling sound above me. Then another from another direction, then more and more all round.

All I could think about was the scene from Aliens where they realise the aliens are above the ceiling.

It was pigeons, of course.

So no. I've seen things out of the corner of my eye, I've walked into a room and there's been a man-shaped shadow in the corner for a second, I've walked through a factory at night and heard footsteps behind me, I've had a door slam suddenly as I approach, but there's no-one there.

But they've all had, on investigation, rational explanations.

None, but i'm pretty intuitive.

I have a premonition that someone will shortly be picked up for incorrectly spelling the word 'fair'.

Well, as you're asking. Whether it's psychic or just pure coincidence I know not, nor particularly care for that matter, however....

In 1981, my dad whilst driving alone, died in a car accident. I was some 80miles away in my digs. At the same time of his accident, I collapsed and passed out.

Go figure.

Well spotted Rusty spanner.
I deliberately avoided the fake olde worlde use of the word Fayre and assumed a market type place where things are sold was a fare, as in Fine Fare, not a fair, as in fair of face or fair decision.

Bencooper, a similar shadow-in-the-corner experience has happened to me on numerous urbex trips. I've a few vague theories about why it happens, mostly concerning the unconscious mind corrupting, as it were, my peripheral vision. Some urbex locations really stimulate dream-like sensations - probably all the mould spores and bad air!

As a teen I was having a sneaky smoke in the house (which was banned) when I suddenly heard my mum's door keys turning in the lock, having obviously returned early from a long distance trip.

In record time I extinguished the cigarette, cleared away the ashtray, and sprayed something smelly to mask the smell.

No one appeared.

Thinking perhaps I'd locked the front door from inside I opened it. No one there. I walked outside the house and looked all around. No one about at all.

If I was given a lie detector test it would show that I 100% believe I heard those keys in the door. However, I'm a facts kinda guy, so I know those huge uncharted parts of the brain that give us imagination, well, give us imagination.

I once met a friend of a work colleague who proceeded to tell me my zodiac sign, and a few other titbits. I do wonder how he did it, what with me being a naturally borne skeptic and all, it was impressive.

My mum is convinced that 'things' always come in threes. I have explained to her that if you count them in sevens (or any other number you care to choose), the come in sevens too, but she doesn't quite get it.

I'm having a premonition right now as to how this thread's going to end up... (-:

my sister recently went to a clairvoyant. the house next door to our folks came up for sale a few days before. the woman said that my sister would end up in a house with a big garden. a week later she looked at the house and their offer was accepted.

now did she get the house because it was written in the sky/ball/inky water/bones or because she was told she would be living in a house with a large garden she was more determined to put in an offer...?

i always said that when the old guy popped his clogs we as a family should buy it.

Old Trafford telephone exchange is haunted.

No one would ever work there at night by themselves and everyone who ever worked there including me, has experienced some really strong 'presence' feelings when alone.
On one occasion there was someone stood behind me looking over my shoulder, I'm absolutely convinced.
I spun round in shock but no one was there.

I'd never work there alone again after that.

All a load of bobbins though this stuff, yes? 😉

A close friend of mine stayed in the Llanberis mountain hut over night. He's a very down-to-earth kind of guy, probably somewhere on the borderline aspergeic spectrum, I reckon. Anyways, so he was sleeping in the bunks upstairs, but was woken in the dark by some people entering the bunk room late at night and settling in. He even said a nocturnal 'hello' to them. Next morning, it was clear that absolutely no one had been there.

The harshness with which the clairvoyant-experience dude was cut down by yesterday was simply classic STW, but anyways..

Cougar - Moderator

I'm having a premonition right now as to how this thread's going to end up... (-:

How's that working for you, so far?

I've had loads and loads of physics experiences - don't know why people come up with strange and silly explanations for them.

told her some vague, but specific details

Can't be both!

I have had millions more feeling sthat did not happen but lets not give any significance ati that and lets talk about interesting coincidences instead

Its a no from me tbh
I used to get dragged to the Fairs by my mum it is really funny to lead them astray by nodding and agreeing at the wrong thing and listening to them run with it

My favourite was one telling me about how I was going to have a happy life as a gay man and my still alive gran was looking over me and that i would do well on stage at my next production

Al utte rBS

Anyways, so he was sleeping in the bunks upstairs, but was woken in the dark by some people entering the bunk room late at night and settling in. He even said a nocturnal 'hello' to them. Next morning, it was clear that absolutely no one had been there.

So he was dreaming then? Fairly obvious, no?

Must've been.

I've had loads and loads of physics experiences - don't know why people come up with strange and silly explanations for them.

Me too, my favourite lesson.

Okayee... get this one. It's pretty weird-o.

One night in 2004 I had this vividly repeating dream, over and over, a series of images, about rocks underground, grinding together, with immense pressure building up, and people panicking about it.

The next morning I saw the news:

Boxing day Tsunami.

Of course you will tell me that I imagined it/dreamt it, etc. Which of course you are entitled to do.

Reality is in essence, what we chose to believe.

i had 1 when i was at the pub with my friends (during the day).i started getting this really powerful feeling that i needed to go home (i lived with my grandfather).it just kept getting stronger.well i went home and found my grandfather having a stroke in his chair 😥 he died a week later (he had had a few strokes before).

i also reckon i woke up at exactly the time my grandmother died (this was when i was 11) of ovarian cancer.

What some people sadly forget, or just don't know, is the well proven repeatable fallibility of people. In legal circles it is a well known phenomenon. Key witnesses who say they saw a suspect yet describe someone who clearly was never there, and didn't look anything like anyone that was there. People recalling people saying something they didn't (proved by recordings).

I seem to recall reading about a staged murder in a pub/bar where some legal students were having lunch. Not one of them managed to correctly identify the 'murderer'.

I once won around £80 on the lottery, and I clearly remember where I was standing, and in which house, when I realised I'd won. However, it was pointed out to me by a sharp eyed friend that the lottery hadn't yet started when I lived in that house! False memory.

My wife read my mind once. I swear I didn't say anything out loud, just thought it and she asked me about what I'd just thought.
Pretty spooky. Only happened once.

One night in 2004 I had this vividly repeating dream, over and over, a series of images, about rocks underground, grinding together, with immense pressure building up, and people panicking about it.

It is not psychic just an interesting event, from thousands of random dreams, that makes sense. Just the effect of numbers or the monkeys at a keyboard effect

Cougar - Moderator: I'm having a premonition right now as to how this thread's going to end up... (-:

I think this is the bit where Cougar's premonition comes true. Ohhhh looky! I shall get my coat and head auuuufff.

told her some vague, but specific details
Can't be both!

Regarding the underground rocks dream and tsunami, I've heard similar stories about the titanic.
If you consider how many people there are in the world, how often the dream about sinking ships or earthquakes, and how widely reported those events are, it's inevitable that the two will sometimes coincide.

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Did anyone see the Derren Brown thing with the 'psychic medium', who had initially agreed to be tested under laboratory conditions? Interesting, but ultimately cringeworthy. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see something like this turn out to be genuine, but it hasn't happened yet has it? The wife and I have had some lively discussions about 'psychics' - she's very much in the 'it's ok as long as people draw some comfort from it' camp, where as I pretty much see it as taking advantage of people at an often vulnerable period in their lives.

I've had a few psychedelic experiances and seen some real weird shit .

Does that count ? 😀

The wife and I have had some lively discussions about 'psychics' - she's very much in the 'it's ok as long as people draw some comfort from it' camp, where as I pretty much see it as taking advantage of people at an often vulnerable period in their lives.

Ditto. Drives me mad. 🙄

And every other night before and since I have had dreams that did not come true

Your argument is something of a straw man. I don't think that all dreams are reflective of the same, or single, process. There are many anecdotes of precentient dreams - of both personal experience and global events - not to mention evidence of single consciousness in numerous species. Just because one dream appears to be a premonition, doesn't mean that all dreams need also be premonitions.

I am uncomfortable about psychic stuff for many reasons - mainly the charlatan aspect plus I don't think it's an area where people should meddle generally. But I once did a ouija board at University and found it a very disturbing experience that I would not care to repeat. I also worked with a guy who claimed to be psychic. He would often go very quiet and into a slight trance and tried to tell me things. I always refused as politely as I could but found it very uncomfortable.

Once I was awake and the wife asleep next to me I heard a funny noise & there was also a strange smell in the room. Next morning the smell had gone and no-one could explain it.

😆

Your argument is something of a straw man. I don't think that all dreams are reflective of the same, or single, process. There are many anecdotes of precentient dreams - of both personal experience and global events - not to mention evidence of single consciousness in numerous species. Just because one dream appears to be a premonition, doesn't mean that all dreams need also be premonitions.

Um, did you completely miss his point?

There are many anecdotes of a great many things (Lochness Monster, Elvis working in a chip shop, faeries, ghosts, gods, Big Foot, flying saucers, Tigers in Tooting...).

None.

Interesting as there are a couple of similar stories on this thread already.

My grandpa had been ill for some time, and my dad and I had been to visit him and my grandma. We left to drive home, and about 20mins into the drive I had a feeling that we should turn round and go back, even said so to my dad who brushed it aside.

When we arrived home 40 mins later, we had a call to say my grandpa had died. Would have been about the exact time I had the urge to turn around.

Make of it what you will.

All this talk of Grandads reminds me of the time my grandad died, as he lay there just deceased, there was a huge Paaphaaaaarp ! His final fart was truly memorable, the finest ive ever heard in terms of depth and consistency.

I knew that Mum was dying even before I got the phone call from the hospital.

Science says there is no proof or mechanism for it. Me, I know differently.

His final fart was truly memorable, the finest ive ever heard in terms of depth and consistency.

That's beautiful.

Science says there is no proof or mechanism for it. Me, I know differently.

So tell us what the mechanism is then.

A couple of years ago I walked past my neighbour, there was about 6ft between us. I shuddered as he walked by and at the same time my instinct said he would have a motorbike accident which would kill him. I wanted to warn him but he would have thought I was crazy. He died 6 weeks later in a motorbike accident about 10 miles from home :(.

My son when aged 2, spent a week talking about a man in his room whose head hurt. He said he'd been on a motorbike by the train station.

He kept saying the man was in his room, every night.

Looked up on the Internet and a man on a motorbike accident under the railway bridge on our road 2 years previously when he was crushed overtaking a car by one coming the other way.

Bit spooky as my son was only 2 and before we moved to the village.

My horse once refused absolutely point blank to set foot on a particular path, to the point of rearing straight up on the air and shooting off backwards, squealing like a banshee.

My friend's horse had no such compunctions, and set off merrily along said path, while mine continued kangarooing up and down on the spot shrieking.

About fifty yards along, the path collapsed and sent my friend and her horse about fifty feet down a ravine.

Neither of them were hurt - apart from an impressive collection of bruises, but I still wonder how my horse knew that the path wasn't safe before he had even put a single toe on it. Maybe he was just brighter than me.

Or he'd seen a hedgehog which he didn't like... or something

Or he'd seen a hedgehog which he didn't like... or something

😆

Actually it was usually the tiger that only existed in his head....

None, think its all bollox

My idiot brother messed up the numerical code on the school bullies locker for a laugh but got caught, he was about to get a kicking when I walked in and found out what was going on, I had a few seconds to impossibly resolve the situation. In that moment I saw 4 numbers in my mind and assured the large thug it was the number. If I was wrong I was getting it as well. Opened first time. He couldn't believe it and left us alone, I promptly smacked my brother. Still remember the number 21 years on.

but I still wonder how my horse knew that the path wasn't safe before he had even put a single toe on it

i watched a figure moving along the road on a bit of a misty night, whilst out on my bike this winter. Thought it was a drunk person and was a bit concerned they were going to move into my path, and also being a badly lit bit of road i was a bit concerned from a safety point of view. Looked like a cloaked figure. I then thought ohh.. it's just the mist.. but kept watching as i approached it. It was a person for sure I thought as I approached. Rode past head down really quickly, looked back .. nothing. Mist wasn't so bad , but still nothing. Thought, oh they've probably left the path or something..but thought this a bit odd as only secinds ago I'd seen it and had watchwed it for maybe 20 or 30 seconds. Next day passed the same spot in daylight.. There's no path on that side of the road and nowhere to go due to fencing, etc.. I would describe it as a tall cloaked figure that did not sway or have any leg movement when it moved.

Think it was a ghost.

When my eldest lad (now 31) was at nursery school, we had to go past an old peoples home to get there. He didn't know what it was but one day on the way home from nursery he looked out of the car window & said 'I was really old when I lived there'
WTF?

None.

...and I've seen more dead and dying people than everyone on here put together.

...and I've seen more dead and dying people than everyone on here put together.

Bizarre claim to make without knowing the intimate details of everyone on here. You've seen more dead bodies than a 50 year old undertaker (from a long line of undertakers)?

I am very cynical, and consider 'psychics' to be crazies or just taking advantage of the stupid and the elderly, but...

My son has come out with a few things which have made me ponder.
Recently we were driving along on a windy country road, and he (out of character) unexpectedly announced, "you should slow down now".
Shocked, I slowed right down, and around the next blind bend was a stationary girl on a horse in the middle of the lane.

and I've seen more dead and dying people than everyone on here put together.

Bizarre claim to make without knowing the intimate details of everyone on here. You've seen more dead bodies than a 50 year old undertaker (from a long line of undertakers)?

Maybe he's a 60 year old undertaker?

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Used to travel all over the UK and overseas and had some really weird stuff go on. I put it down to an overactive imagination more than psychic stuff. As I mentioned on that other thread my cousin is training to be a psychic and she has some great stories. She used to do overnights in allegedly, haunted buildings with cameras and recording equipment 😉

My horse once refused absolutely point blank to set foot on a particular path, to the point of rearing straight up on the air and shooting off backwards, squealing like a banshee.

In the early nineties me and a few mates were intravenously using a very dodgy mixture of PCP and Ketamine (sold in pill form as ecstasy with the brand name M25)

A couple of us were often utterly convinced that we were communicating with each other psychically for a few moments after it was administered..
Ketamine is a horse tranquiliser - perhaps your horse was off it's head..?

While on the motorbike, proceeding round a 2 lane roundabout, I got Bad Juju off a half second glimpse of a scabby black Toyota that was in the inside lane, indicating right. I also wanted to continue round the roundabout, in the outside lane, but got such a strong sense of trouble off this car that I dove for the exit- just as he turned (still indicating right) and drove straight through where I would have been if I'd not turned off.

So that was cool and freaky, but I do like to bear in mind that I've had terrible premonitions of trouble off dozens of cars and this was the only one that actually delivered.

forgot to say that I spotted it whilst looking ahead with a helmet mounted lumicycle light. The road itself has fields either side with no lighting at all. What stuck me as odd was why someone was on that side of the road when the pavement from the previous lit section of road continues as a wide path on the other side to the figure and would have had to have been walked down to get to this point. Also thinking about it , most people would also look back if a bright helmet light was being pointed towards them, on a road with no other lighting.

out running along side of hayeswater - it was raining and saw someone running coming other way with a black dog running a few paces behind -now as a runner any dog triggers alert - but then person stops and says hello and i realise that hidden in raincoat is an old friend we chat a bit get cold compare runs and decide to go on our ways - after i set off i recall the dog as when i saw it was beside a path marker just beyond where stopped - no dog - look back up path no dog - no big deal except the friend had a black dog that ran in the hills everywhere with her for many years - the dog had died a couple of years before this

my mum used to see stuff all the time, however this was the sixties...i can predict that it will rain all year but inexplicably we will have a hosepipe ban and a recession

don't think i believe in ghosts, but i've clearly seen a guy walk past my kitchen window a few times now.

well, would you believe it, OH has a new phone, not only does it predict what word you are typing, it also predicts the next word...weird, what next?

i went to see one once and she said, and i'm quoting here directly here:

is there anyone that travels on a train here? i'm seeing a train... it could be a bus... does anyone use public transport?

talk about casting a wide net!!!

Went to see Tom Binns' Ian D Montfort show a little while ago. Very funny, using the same cold reading techniques quite impressively and deconstructing the whole thing at the same time.

no_eyed_deer - Member
The harshness with which the clairvoyant-experience dude was cut down by yesterday was simply classic STW, but anyways..

They are nobs, but like I said on that thread, not everyone here is like those Big Hitting Aetheists in Lycra, so I wasn't offended or upset by them.

As to Psychic experiences from a very sceptical period, following my childhood acceptance of my Gran knowing stuff we had no real idea how or why, I had a bit of a life altering event which changed my view back to there being something in it.

How can you explain it scientifically, I guess the same way they chart six senses in birds and animals, there is an awful lot of our brains we don't use, I am convinced we do all enjoy a six sense that certain events can trigger. In other sports there are examples of being in a 'zone' when prediction beyond the immediate present gives almost instinctive intuition of what comes next.

I think the mystifying and mystic air to the whole paranormal thing is a blind, that something else is out there has to be a given or there wouldn't be such huge expense spent in exploring various phenomena.

So I just take things as I find them and my collection of life experiences leads me to believe that there is a consciousness that existentially goes beyond our physical presence here, and I don't really care what anyone else believes.

So hence I do find bloody spiritualists upsetting and do feel they should be better trained, more along the lines of the so called professionals that were suggested to me in that other thread, I'll certainly think twice about using one again, even these three or four days later, I'm still replaying the whole thing in my head and can't seem to shake it off, but that's my problem and I'll handle it the way I usually do.