Reality Is Weird and Not What We Think It Is
Supernatural experiences force us to question everything
Have you had any ‘supernatural experiences’?
Most of us love hearing about events that seem to defy explanation. We enjoy the spine-tingling sensation when confronted with the possibility that things may not be as they seem.
I asked a cross-section of people the question, ‘What’s the weirdest thing that ever happened to you?’
These were their answers:
Magical synchronicities
I was in a car with my husband and feeling kind of discontent with life.
I said to him, “I want more magic in my life.”
At that exact moment, a car pulled in front of us with the license plate ‘MAGIC1.’
Later that very day, on the phone, my sister said the word ‘magical’ out of the blue. I hadn’t told her about the license plate.
Later on that evening, I started reading a new novel. The word ‘magical’ was in the first paragraph.
The lone bag in the carriage
I was sitting in a carriage on the underground on my way home from work. A woman was sitting across from me. There was nothing remarkable about her.
We were about halfway down the carriage, next to the center door. Some kids were working their way up the carriage begging for money.
When they got to the woman, she got up. She walked to the END of the carriage and picked up a bag that was sitting there by itself on a seat.
She took some coins out of the bag, came back, and gave the coins to the kids.
She did not bring the bag back with her. She got out at the next stop, using the center door. She never went back to the end of the carriage.
The bag was still there after she left.
The woman at the airport
In our photograph collection, there was a photo with my husband with a group of strangers at a technology conference. It had been taken several years before. The conference was in the USA. We were living in Germany.
Years after the conference, we traveled to New Zealand. As we walked into the airport to fly home to Germany, I saw a woman out of the corner of my eye. I immediately recognized her as one of the unknown women in the photo.
My husband ran after her. He had to know. “Were you at a technology conference in Atlanta in 2011?” he asked.
“Yes,” she replied, as surprised as we were. “I was there.”
Ghost in the driveway
My husband and I lived in Jakarta, Indonesia. We lived in a beautiful house in a lovely subdivision.
On the move in day, the owner was conducting a house cleansing ceremony. At the time, I didn’t think much about that and thought, ‘Oh, he’s being nice’.
Later, the security guards and maid informed us that something or someone was chasing them up the stairs, and an unseen woman cried all night long outside in our driveway. The bar opened for an invisible someone taking a drink, and the windows opened themselves even after they were repeatedly closed.
I moved back home to the United States, but my poor husband had to finish his work contract, scared and exhausted from the uninvited guests.
Wasp
When I was a teenager in Cornwall, I went to the beach three weekends in a row.
I got stung by a wasp each time I went, on the same finger, and on the same place on that finger.
Aliens
I was living in Spain.
I woke up from a very deep sleep to see small, goblin-like aliens with big, dark eyes surrounding the bed.
I had a sense they were operating on me. I struggled to wake up altogether but instead fell back to sleep.
The woman in the photograph
When I was about twelve years old, my father took a photograph of me.
When the photograph was developed, there was a superimposed image of a woman we had never seen before, and who couldn’t have been there when the photo was taken.
She was somewhat transparent but unmistakable.
Teleportation
When I was sixteen years old, I was doing my homework in my room one evening. I looked up, and a friend from school was standing in the middle of the room.
He smiled at me and disappeared again in thin air.
He had no knowledge of it when I asked him about it later.
Precognition
I was walking a country road with my young son when the image of a hedgehog flashed into my mind’s eye.
About five minutes later, we found a hedgehog in the middle of the road which we rescued in case of traffic.
I had never seen a hedgehog before. I’ve never seen one since. There was no particular reason for me to be thinking of hedgehogs that day.
Subtle changes
I woke up one morning, and the world had subtly changed.
For example, the glasses on my bedside table were not the glasses I’d put there the night before. Instead, they were a pair I thought I’d lost months before. Four new T-shirts were hanging in my wardrobe. I knew I’d only bought three.
The changes continued. My lipstick had been running out for some time, but it had magically replenished itself. My husband had lost a lot of weight, seemingly overnight. I had gained five pounds out of nowhere.
My dogs seemed much younger and healthier than they had before. My son’s acne had cleared up.
The strangest thing of all was that the novel I’d been reading and had left in the living room had completely disappeared. In its place was another novel I’d never seen before. My bookmark was in it about halfway through.
The subtle changes continue to this day.
Sign from the other side?
Three days after my mother-in-law died, a customer service person wrote back to me answering a technical question I’d written in about.
She had the same first, last and middle name as my late mother-in-law.
It was an unusual and old-fashioned name.
Little boy at the table
We went to visit the place where my father’s ashes were scattered. On the way back, we stopped at the pub he always loved. We were disappointed not to be able to sit at his usual table.
There was a family with a little boy sitting there instead. As we heard the family talking, we realized the little boy had the same name as my father.
The little boy smiled at us as though he knew something.
Did you enjoy these inexplicable tales? Do you think they are coincidences or dreams or over-active imaginations?
Maybe you can think of a rational explanation for them all. Or do you believe there might be more to reality than our current paradigms can explain?
The take-away: Examine your beliefs. Step outside your own box whenever you can. Reality may not be what it seems.
Thank you for reading.
Fascinating phenomena, love this sort of high strangeness! 🦔