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LudwigPastorius

(9,265 posts)
15. I've got a couple:
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 11:56 PM
Oct 2022

One night I dreamed my mother had injured her eye. The feeling the dream left me with was so strong enough to nag at me at work.

I called her around lunch, and asked how she was. She said she just got back from Urgent Care because she was doing laundry that morning and had splashed some bleach into her eye. I told her of my dream. She asked which eye I had dreamed about. I told her it was her right eye. She went quiet for a beat and just said, "That's right".

Years later. My dad was dying of cancer, but at this point was still at home and not in hospice. I came by for a while to help mom out.

Dad was in the middle bedroom, where a hospital bed had been set up, with the head of the bed against the wall adjoining the guest room at the end of the hall. That is where I slept that night.

I woke up some time late in the middle of the night out of a sound sleep. It was dark in the room, but I was startled to see a small, very bright light that appeared to emerge from the wall from my father's room. (Later, I noticed that it came from almost the exact spot where his head would be as he was sleeping in the next room.) This pin point of light then moved to the corner of my room where it stayed.

I was kind of terrified of seeing something that just should't be there, so I rolled over in bed, away from the light, and pulled the covers up to my chin, thinking that I was hallucinating or something. Then I became petrified as I felt someone (or something) sit down on the side of the bed almost right up against my back. I just laid there as still as I could, for a long time until I thought that it was gone, finally drifting off to sleep.

I am a frequent dreamer, and have even gone through periods of sleep walking, but this was very unlike any dream I've ever had. Logically, I want to dismiss it as a dream, but I really don't think it was at all. I don't know what it was.

My dad was moved to hospice 4 days later and died there a couple of days after that.

Paranormal experiences? [View all] mysteryowl Oct 2022 OP
Paranormal experiences do not mean that supernatural phenomena exist. They do not exist. nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2022 #1
I woke after an afternoon nap to a young man petting my cat Lucy. Lunabell Oct 2022 #2
Oh, that's a good one! Bayard Oct 2022 #8
All true. Lunabell Oct 2022 #11
That sounds plausible to me Bayard Oct 2022 #21
That's an Amazng story with so many coraborations from others! electric_blue68 Oct 2022 #24
Yeah, I have had a lot of strange experiences. Lunabell Oct 2022 #29
I'd say so! Let's you that one off your list of experiences! 🤞 electric_blue68 Oct 2022 #30
I don't know if it's paranormal or not. You decide... mitch96 Oct 2022 #3
I have had experiences that I personally cannot explain entirely ColinC Oct 2022 #4
Question about your story about the dimes hitting your head and then dropping onto the ground highplainsdem Oct 2022 #23
So I was alone by myself indoors ColinC Nov 2022 #33
Thanks for explaining! What a weird event! It does sound like two of the dates on highplainsdem Nov 2022 #42
Still hoping to hear more about your personal experience. But out of idle curiosity, I googled highplainsdem Nov 2022 #32
One major thing happened the day of the dimes ColinC Nov 2022 #35
That does sound similar. I'm so glad I did that googling and found both highplainsdem Nov 2022 #43
Also this is probably unrelated but yesterday when walking home ColinC Nov 2022 #37
None here but am fascinated with it ....... Lovie777 Oct 2022 #5
People are too arrogant to admit that they don't have all of the answers, so they invent them. Chainfire Oct 2022 #6
I moved to Cincinnati in the early 90's Bayard Oct 2022 #7
What counts as paranormal? RockRaven Oct 2022 #9
What do ya got? mysteryowl Oct 2022 #10
When I was a kid, we were driving through Missouri. Lunabell Oct 2022 #12
Only one. I dreamed RFK was dead the night he was killed. nolabear Oct 2022 #13
I worked with an RN in the mid 70's mnhtnbb Oct 2022 #14
I can imagine. My friend switched to psychiatry. nolabear Oct 2022 #17
Huh. My friend switched to L&D, then to Administration mnhtnbb Oct 2022 #18
See my post #26 ... electric_blue68 Oct 2022 #27
I've got a couple: LudwigPastorius Oct 2022 #15
Thread from late June about DUers' personal experiences of the paranormal: highplainsdem Oct 2022 #16
We moved into an apartment that was the first to be refurbished intheflow Oct 2022 #19
I have only had a few experiences in my life. Niagara Oct 2022 #20
Terrible Movies... JCMach1 Oct 2022 #22
The night my dad died... Fix The Stupid Oct 2022 #25
Two about RFK June 5 & 6, 1968... electric_blue68 Oct 2022 #26
Oh my. So similar to mine. nolabear Oct 2022 #28
Ohhh, boy the Deep South with no liked minded people around you! How lonely... electric_blue68 Oct 2022 #31
I'm so sorry you lost your mother shortly before MLK and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. How highplainsdem Nov 2022 #34
You're the second person I know who was there. nolabear Nov 2022 #38
How traumatic that must've been for your friend in the audience that night, highplainsdem Nov 2022 #40
Ah. I did misunderstand. nolabear Nov 2022 #41
I don't believe in them, but frogmarch Nov 2022 #36
"I thought you said "goat"!" Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2022 #39
Old joke, but a good one. highplainsdem Nov 2022 #44
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2022 #48
I find it amusing reading these stories ... entire LIFETIMES where something 'paranormal' could've Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #45
Ahh, but these are happening all the time... mysteryowl Nov 2022 #52
I literally had a trippy-ass coincidence happen just today. Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #53
If you're REALLY curious - as opposed to really interested in ridiculing any discussion highplainsdem Nov 2022 #54
I never said because it happened once ... it didn't happen. Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #55
Sigh. The experiences in this thread aren't just "trippy coincidences." highplainsdem Nov 2022 #57
You mean like, say, my girlfriend, the physician assistant who did hospice care for over a year? Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #58
The key word in what she told you is "instantly." highplainsdem Nov 2022 #59
Maybe there were machines running who's tone changes when the person dies Hugh_Lebowski Nov 2022 #61
Mortician for 15 years berniesandersmittens Nov 2022 #46
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Nov 2022 #47
Hi Lucinda mysteryowl Nov 2022 #51
When I was around eight I woke up at night to see giant rabbit ears in the window. milestogo Nov 2022 #49
Hilarious mysteryowl Nov 2022 #50
It was the curtains, actually. milestogo Nov 2022 #56
Yes, my FIL stubbornly haunted the hell out of his house, starting the night after his funeral. betsuni Nov 2022 #60
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