Two stand out. While under the influence.
The experience of time stopping or freezing after bumping into someone at a music festival, it was only for a perceived 5-7 seconds. As I swung off this dude and began to lose my footing everything stopped. Sounds, people moving, the trees swaying, everything. The external physical world stood still as did my physical form but my brain and thoughts was still moving at regular speed, able to understand the outside world had stopped but do nothing about it. The closest I’ve found to explain it is a guy having a seizure in the shower and perceiving that the water had frozen, I simply cannot explain this one.
On a separate occasion, fish made of little black dots, almost like flies, swimming around my living room. They were perfect in form and movement, like being inside a fish tank. It was the strangest thing because they were full external visual hallucinations that I seemed to have no control over but could perceive as real. They appeared as real as the room around me.
As kids we had a few "must have been ghosts" experiences.
Me and my brother both woke up at the same time because we heard our mom shout on us from downstairs. We got up to see what she wanted but she wasn't there. Went back upstairs into her bedroom and she was asleep.
Our bedroom TV once turned itself on in the night, loud static channel. It was unplugged before we went to bed and didn't have a remote control.
"Must have been aliens" one. Was watching an airplanes blinking light in the sky flying along. It stopped moving and kept blinking for about 5 seconds. Then shone really bright and shot towards the horizon in about a second. This was about 15 years ago and nobody believes me. I still don't have an explanation for it. I assumed it was brand new military tech but I still haven't heard of anything that can move that fast.
A few weeks after my mom passed, I was reading a book winding down for the night. I set the book down in the middle of a very large coffee table and went to bed. Maybe 20 mins after laying down I heard a loud bang in the living room. I shot outta bed and grabbed a bat and went to investigate. In the living room, on the floor about 5 feet from the table, was the book I was reading. There were no animals or other people in the house and all the doors and windows were locked. This was a heavy hardcover book, so I don't think wind or something like that picked it up and threw it. Im skeptical by nature but I still can't come up with an explanation for that one.
One time on a summer day as a teenager I went to the grocery store with my Mom.
We parallel parked the car a ways away from other cars. We secured the car as normal and went on a short shopping trip.
When we came back out after maybe 15 minutes, all of the cars windows were rolled down completely.
We both know for a fact all the windows were rolled up when we left, and even if we had them down, there would have been no reason to have the back windows down.
Nothing was stolen, no one was around, everything appeared untouched.
This was a Nissan Murano if I recall correctly - it did have power windows, but at the time there was no fancy stuff to remote control car features outside of having a remote starter installed, which we did not have.
There was only one set of keys.
We still have absolutely no explanation for this to this day.
Seems you are looking for "supernatural" experiences however the following probably sounds supernatural to some:
Contentment in the serenity of what appears to outsiders to be a boring situation.
Of course, I'm terrible at explaining 😅
Yeah. This fantastic woman married me. I have no idea why.
Also, I really don't understand rockets at more than a superficial level, but I saw one launch once.
I'm quite uncertain about jet airplanes, especially when you're, like, driving in the same direction and there's a strong headwind, and it almost looks like you're going faster than them? They're just hanging there, god knows how many tons of metal and 300 people. It's creepy.
And I really think economics is proof that we're in the Matrix, because the more I think about it, the less (functional, not ethical) sense capitalism makes, and everybody who talks like they know about it just sounds like stringing together a bunch of buzzwords. Also, there's that truism that if you ask four economists a question, you'll get five opinions. Plus nobody can reliably predict the stock market; weather - a highly chaotic system - is more predictable than the stock market. It's like the programmers put it in, but when it got to the point where they had to make it explainable, they couldn't without introducing recursive conflicting rules, so it's just hand-waving, and people pretending or misleading themselves that they know how it all works.
Do you want explanations for the jets and rockets, and if so what is your current understanding?
Damn, you got here first! OP, if you don't find their explanation satisfactory, reply to my comment and I'll be sure to help.
The stock market is chaos, driven by bias and a bunch of unknown and unknowable variables.
A simple example with 3 players.
- P1 thinks stock A is a good buy (for whatever reason) at $1/unit. P1 decides to buy putting upward pressure on the price.
- P2 has been holding a bunch of A for a while and has a number ($1) in mind to sell at, P1 can't know this information. This sale puts downward pressure on the price.
- If P1 & P2 have the same number of shares, the pressures are equal, and the price doesn't move. If they don't the price moves either up or down.
- P3 has been watching A, sees that it moves and decides that this is a good time to buy, (going down its a bargain, going up its on the rise get in early), putting further upward pressure on the stock.
Each action by the different players causes something to happen to the price, no-one can know all the internal thought patterns of all the other interested parties, and thus can never have perfect information. And even with perfect information, it may not be possible to predict, as some stocks interact in non-predictable ways.
e.g. Nvidia goes up, TSMC usually goes up, but not always. TSMC going down can be caused by Nvidia, but also thousands of other things also.
Conclusion: can the stock market be predicted? General trends - Yes, specific stock movements - No!
Wait until you learn about passive indexes where the logic is you give me money = buy and then factor in the volume of assets under management in that cycle. Then take a look at retirement age and global average age trending closer towards retirement age lol do the math on that one
My grandfather came to me in a trip in the shower and told me I'm wasting my life. I puked up steams. Quit my "finance bro" job moved to New Mexico and became a farmer. He's been dead 20+ years.
A long time ago I was riding in a subway train. The subway car was mostly or very likely completely empty because it was late at night, likely the last one of the day. There was a paper clip laying on the floor between my feet and then I noticed that it had started to stand up on its own. One of the ends of the paperclip was still touching the floor inside the train, but the other end was pointed up and it wobbled around softly for a while.
A day or two later I mentioned this to my electricity teacher at the time, an electrical engineer who just happened to work for the subway agency. I expected him to say that it was some kind of magnetic effect due to the proximity of the high-voltage supply lines used to power the subway, but he instead said that it was impossible and I must have been hallucinating. I've never hallucinated in my life. I still wonder what could have caused that phenomenon. I'm sure that there's a scientific explanation for it, but I haven't found it yet.
Hmmmmm.. My intuition tells me something like this could be possible with a vertical alternating magnetic field. If the paperclip formed a closed loop, eddy currents would produce an opposing magnetic field to hold it up. Sorta like in this video: https://youtu.be/5HnihTg1rso
Unfortunately I can't find anything online showing this off, and I'm not really sure what could generate a field like that on the subway anyways.
Yeah. Precognitive dreams mostly. Nothing I expect anyone else to believe, but I myself know because I documented them when I dreamed them, then the events occurred and it was such random, little detailed things that I could not possibly have predicted based on knowledge. Maybe everyone dreams the future and just forgets their dreams?
Some synchronicity things too, stepping into exactly the right place at the right time, wishing for something then having it immediately drop into my lap. Those I am minded to chalk up to random chance, but some are so comically obvious, things just appearing where they were not, right when I need them.
Yup, same. I would get this sense of deja vu except instead of feeling like I've been somewhere before it was feeling like I had previously dreamed the events that were about to happen. And yeah it was always minor stuff, a conversation, mom coming home angry about having dropped something expensive at work, the solution to some coding problem a friend was about to tell me, etc. I tried playing with it, and if I changed anything ('Oh, I know what you're about to say', etc) it would disrupt it and not happen, but otherwise it happened the way I dreamed it every time. Sadly it got more and more uncommon as I got older, and now it's been probably 10-15 years since the last time I remember.
What were the events that you dreamed?
The dumbest one that absolutely convinced me it was precog, was:
I was in line at the bank behind 3 women. They had a scale, one of those big Toledo No Springs ones. I stepped on the scale, but the dial went backwards. I turned around and saw this girl Joann, who I hadn't seen since middle school.
I wrote all this down in the dream journal, and then didn't think about it.
Couple weeks later, I'm at that bank. 3 women ahead of me in line. I get on the scale, but it says I weigh 30lb, it's broken. I turn around and who do the see? Joann, that girl I had not seen since middle school.
What the fuck? It kinda pissed me off because I really don't want to think the future is set to that extent. Like, seeing some big event that might echo back in time, sure. But a broken scale at some bank? Joann? I haven seen her since, either, we were not close, why would I dream her true?
The hot water tap in my shower turned itself completely off one day.
The whole gender thing? And I say that as a trans person. It's real, but I can't explain it...
My whole life, also it is hard for me to explain my emotions and feelings.
Can you explain how you recognize someone’s face? Can you explain how you balance your body and move your feet correctly as you walk? Can you explain how you speak in grammatically correct sentences without consciously thinking about the rules of grammar?
The vast majority of our experiences are fundamentally inexplicable—basically, everything that isn’t part of our internal narrative.
Uhhh, but the three examples you gave are not inexplicable.
How generative natural language works has been highly debated for over 60 years—there’s certainly no consensus most linguists would agree with. And while we have a pretty good idea how the process of facial recognition works, we know that process isn't conducive to extracting a conventional explanation of how to recognize a particular face. (The best you could do is to make a list of features that would allow someone to eliminate all but one candidate from a small group, but that’s distinct from the process of actually recognizing someone.)
Last year I was watching this show and and something odd happened. The camera turned to the fact of one of the characters and I don't know why but it was like she was directly at me and she was talking about militias which was weird because I had just watched a video about one. As the vid went on I could have swore that one by one the characters just came out at me like that old Nintendo ad.
This happened about a year ago I still think about it. It wasn't like I was tripping. I was a little drunk but that was about it.
Totally, I was at the beach, and this guy walked up...well, I say "walked" but he didn't really use his legs all the way. And as she, wait did I say it was a guy?, well anyways they turned the thing on and it was SO LOUD and I swear, all the waiters dropped their watchamacallits. Wait, maybe it was at a restaurant? Hmmm....
It's easy to have inexplicable experiences when you are bad at explanation!
