Ever have an experience with the paranormal?

[Taverner]

No haters or skeptics here...well at least don;t challenge anyone here.

I am a skeptic - and don;t put too much credibility in ghost stories but once...

back in college I lived in an old house. It was a fraternity that was built around the civil war. It had housed many fraternities, was a boarding house for a while and even a B&B before it became a fraternity again.

So a bunch of us drop acid. Yes, I know where you're going with this and you're probably right - but it all seemed so real. During the trip, I saw transparent shapes, all over the place, going in and out of rooms, talking as if they were just going about their business. At one point one looks at me - notices me, starts walking towards me and then turns into a wall and *poof* gone. No one else notices this of course, but me.

The strange thing is they are all decked out in period clothes, from the 50's, 60's, 20's you name it.

Now this house has had a total of 8 sucicides in it since it was built, and 5 deaths other than suicide that we knew of.

[MarsThe Cat]

1. so- you take hallucinogens, and experience hallucinations...

surprise, surprise, surprise...

[Taverner]

2. Yeah yeah yeah

I know...like I said, could easily be explained. Probably subconscious manifesting itself, as LSD has been known to invoke.

But it was so real at the time....

Terrence McKenna would have argued that I had infact transcended the illusion of time...

[Loonman]

6. But LSD does not make you see things that are not there

Your mind on LSD can enhance things hundred-fold, but you will not have full blown hallucinations or see elephants or some shit. Whomever tells you otherwise is either lying, or they never dropped.


I'm not going into how an intelligent human or non-human entity can affect how you percieve them.

One reason to not screw around with a ouija board while intoxicated on any substance. In fact, don't mess with a ouija board at all.

[Taverner]

8. Very true

I have never out and out hallucinated to the point of seeing something that wasn't there - although certain things that were there were exaggerated.

[asthmaticeog]

9. Self-flattery? n/t

[Taverner]

10. Unfortunately, shrinkage :(

It does have the shrinking effect... :scared:

[asthmaticeog]

11. Wait - hold it...

Acid makes your junk smaller? Or did it just make yours *appear* smaller? And to whom? ;)

[Loonman]

3. Yes

But it's not interesting.

[AlienGirl]

4. I'm soaking in it... nt

[Fox Mulder]

5. I believe in the paranormal.

And that's without the acid trip. :)

I've never experienced anything paranormal, however. (Unlike the name of the television characher of whom I chose my DU screenname after :P )

[atomic-fly]

7. I took a few of them with my digital camera

[TimeChaser]

12. Yep

I've had a lot of experiences, including one with a rather unfriendly (to me atleast) spirit who seemed to have a soft spot for children.

[AlienGirl]

13. *dramatic whisper* I...can instant-message...dead people..."

[UncleSepp]

14. Maybe, but the jury's still out on if that's what it was

Mostly, I have had dreams about places I haven't been, and then later found the places. Also people and events. Maybe this is something spooky, maybe it's cryptomnesia - I am not thorougly sold on a spooky explanation.

However, I also believe that if a thing exists, it can't be paranormal or supernatural. If it is possible for a person to know of past events or distant places without having directly experienced those things, and without having been informed of those events and places through photos, videos, literature, etc, then it is therefore a normal and natural occurrence, the mechanism of which is insufficiently documented. I do not think that if such a thing were normal and natural that it implies anything at all about the human condition or the state of the universe or the existence or nature of divinity, any more than any other natural phenomenon would.

I guess I'm a big ol' wet blanket.

[Shell Beau]

15. Some of mine may have been wishful thinking,

but there was this light over the stove in my mom's house that hasn't worked in years. And I mean years (like 10 or 15) My dad is too busy playing golf to fix it. But my mom, brother, and I were talking about my deceased brother in the kitchen and the light started flickering out of no where. I get chills even now thinking about it. We just all looked at each other and thought WTF? I still feel his presence in their house.

[Chovexani]

16. Quite a lot.

My favorite uncle passed from AIDS complications when I was a child, and we were very close. He chose to spend his final days at home in my mom's care, because he hated hospitals. We were having a very hard time financially at the time (Mom was a single parent trying to put my sister through college and me through private school and my dad was a deadbeat) and nearly lost our house. When my uncle died, he stayed with us for quite a while. His prescence was very palpable to me, but my mom could never feel it. We used to talk all the time, and then one day he just left and didn't come back. I don't think he could pass on until he knew we were going to be alright. Once we were, he could rest.

Something else that happened...when he died my second cousin was around two years old and didn't really know him. But when the family went down south for the funeral, my little cousin kept asking who "the tall man" (my uncle was 6'10"). He would just break out giggling for no reason. Cousin's 17 now and we've talked about it since then, and he swears my uncle was making funny faces at him (my uncle was VERY goofy).

[Taverner]

17. Wow. Just wow.

When you had conversations with him , would it be like he was right there?

Did you ever ask him what death was like?