Has anyone had any paranormal experiences?

Answer 1

I have never had any sort of experience that has required anything other than a normal explanation.

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Answer 2

paranormal Definition

Paranormal phenomena are those supposedly due to powers of the mind that go beyond the normal, such as extra-sensory perception, or perception by means independent of the normal use of the senses, telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition or powers of prophecy, and survival of bodily death. Paranormal psychology, also known as psychical research, is the attempt to establish these phenomena scientifically, and then to theorize about their nature. Philosophers who have interested themselves in this area of investigation include Glanvill, Sidgwick, James, and Broad.

And based on this definition - yes - I keep having paranormal experiences - ranging from knowing who is calling me or knowing what someone is gonna tell me (telepathy) to having had the distinct feeling that my beloved grandmother was close to me after she died for 3 years (meaning I had the distinct feeling that she was right behind me and feeling her love) to conducting a conversation with another person without saying anything but thinking the answers. This was not set up as a proof of telepathy but we talked about it later and we both had the same perception.
Or - rarely - but it has happened - the feeling that somebody took my hand and just reassured me that there is a benevolent power in my life.

Or having someone practicing Reiki on me and my pain was gone or ....
It is just an occurrence in my life and I know that so far there is no scientific explanation but maybe sometime there will be.

Answer 3

I've listed alot of mine on here, i am a paranormal investigator and have had many alot of my experiences are on my site as well , people are prolly getting tired of reading my stories over and over again but i will share again my first ever experience :

I was six and lived in Trenton , MI . When the family and I were sitting on the living room couch watching TV, they all of the sudden heard a loud crash that sounded like glass breaking. We ran down stairs to find the remains a light bulb in swept into a dust pan with a broom standing next to it , between that experience many things happened in that home such as things flying across the TV stand onto the floor was one creepy experience.Another is when my mother one day was doing laundry and something screamed boo in her ear . What ever was there in the home struck me in the back with a shoving almost like a smack when i was sitting down and watching tv and shortly after My mom had told me at night she would hear footsteps around her bed at night on a daily basis.”

Ryan ~Paranormal Investigator/Researcher~
www.theprosonline.com

Answer 4

Once, had a unwanted visitor. I snapped awake in the middle of the night to be staring right at a very old person sleeping on their back blankets tuck to their chin. The dog and cat, sound asleep on the bed were of no use to me. I had enough light to clearly see this person as it was a full moon and light was coming in from the skylights, plus all the led lights in the bed room. I blinked, rubbed my eyes, shook my head, and looked away then back and it was still there.

It was there about 45 secs until I reached over to touch the person. My fingers touched the wall before they reached the person then they were gone.

Could not sleep for days after that.

Never happend again.

Answer 5

Where does one start when a person knows they must discern mental dysfunction from the normative? The reality principle in memory recall is that which allows continuity in identification of self experiences as real personal memory from possible spontaneous fantasy formed of memory fragments or schemata. When the person develops intellectually to formal cognitive operations conceptual rules for logic order become logical existence (the trans-personal notion applied to cognitive development). For the reality principal to work it is necessary that the fantasies be judged negatively in respect to self positing items of reality, i.e. this is not real.

The confusion: The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative. If fantasies are a spontaneous emission of the Will, then the Judgment as something sensitive to all the pains and unpleasantness possible in experience must identify fantasy as negative. This puts the reality principle in paradox of rejecting all that is not immediately sensible experience with the exception of personal memory as a rule must be identified as personal or all, memory, fantasy and extrasensory phenomena as equally real, or in a negative state, as equally unreal. So my answer is I have paranormal experience and it is all negative in the proper sense of the reality principle, but much of it is rejectable on moral grounds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development

Cognitive development: 'Accommodation
Accommodation refers to the process of changing internal mental structures to provide consistency with external reality. It occurs when existing schemas or operations must be modified or new schemas are created to account for a new experience. Obviously, accommodation influences assimilation, and vice versa. As reality is assimilated, structures are accommodated.

Consider again the case of Angie. Angie understands that she cannot simultaneously exist in two places. Thus, if her father points out to her that she is the child in the picture, Angie would naturally have to alter her internal mental structures to adjust to the newly discovered external reality. This might mean that Angie would have to believe that photographs represent moments from the past. Therefore, Angie can see herself in the picture and still exist in present time; in this way, Angie can accommodate her internal mental structures to her external reality. '

http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Piaget%27s_Constructivism#Accommodation


What is transpersonal experience: 'Maslow theorized that unfulfilled cognitive needs can become redirected into neurotic needs. For example, children whose safety needs are not adequately met may grow into adults who compulsively hoard money or possessions (see[2]). Unlike other needs, however, neurotic needs do not promote health or growth if they are satisfied.

Maslow also proposed that people who have reached self-actualization will sometimes experience a state he referred to as "transcendence," in which they become aware of not only their own fullest potential, but the fullest potential of human beings at large. He described this transcendence and its characteristics in an essay in the posthumously published The Farther Reaches of Human Nature.

In the essay, he describes this experience as not always being transitory, but that certain individuals might have ready access to it, and spend more time in this state. He makes a point that these individuals experience not only ecstatic joy, but also profound "cosmic-sadness" (Maslow, 1971) at the ability of humans to foil chances of transcendence in their own lives and in the world at large.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow#Maslow_hierarchy

Answer 6

Yes. My friends and people that I have never met before witnessed a UFO in the sky over Tulsa, Oklahoma a few years ago. When I say UFO, I mean, we didnt know what it was and still dont know. It was a feature story on the news that night. It was just a big huge black object in the sky. It cannot be described.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

A few.

I was standing in line at a haunted house in an amusement park. It was a walk through and they had stopped the line right at my family. Before they allowed us in, I started getting this weird feeling and caused a scean to get out of line. Five minutes later, the haunted house was enveloped in smoke. Somebody who went in the group before us had lit his lighter and the place caught on fire and burned to the group. People were trapped inside because of what was said to be inadequate exits. If I didn't leave the line, I may have died with the other people.

I was thinking about this next one while driving to work this morning. I was on a business trip in Cincinnati a few years ago and I was staying in a hotel. I woke up my second night because I felt like I was being choked and I was really cold. When I opened my eyes, there was a black "cloud" hovering over my bed.

And...
When I was younger, my grandmother would let me dust her wood furniture with lemon scented pledge. She passed away 20 years ago but everytime I am going through an emotionally trying time, the room seems to fill with a lemony scent and I feel a sense of calm.

And finally-

A month after my childhood dog passed away, I was at my parents house. I went out to where they buried him in the backyard and said hi to him and told him that I missed him. Then I went inside and heard wimpering that sounded like him. I was alone and there were no other pets. My brother had come home but I didn't tell him what I heard. Then my brother said that he was sitting in the living room a few days before and thought he felt a cold wet dog nose on his arm and he told me how my dad tripped over nothing but heard what sounded like a dog yelp and how my mom heard what sounded like my dog running across the kitchen floor.

Answer 9

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 10

yes. many. i dont know if you care to read below. but if you do this is the #1 creepiest experience:
i was in my room when i heard banging noises in the room next to me. i was about to get up to check it out when i saw a tall (about 6'5''), very dark mass walk past my door. i was frightened i mean wouldn't you be? anyway i went to the place where saw it go and it diccipated. it was just gone. that experience has scarred me for life. but i am over it. :)