I think personal experiences are also important to share in this thread. Interest +1.
For example, even though it seems contrived, I had an experience last night when after listening to all of those EVPs and things, I went out back to have a cigarette.
Walking outside, I wasn't freaking out, looking for ghosts or paranoid in the slightest bit though, my wanton need to smoke a cigarette was priority. It was probably about 2 in the morning.
I turned on the outside porch light, went outside, and lit a cigarette, took a drag.
I fucking froze as I heard a distinct two taps on the back sliding glass door. I've heard the sound before from the kids or wife or whatever tapping on the backdoor with their fingers or a toy or something. So I know that's what it probably was, the reverberated panes of glass on the backdoor (but of course, no one was there).
But what was really unique was that at the same time I heard those two taps, the porch lights dimmed for a split second, they didn't flash or go completely black or anything but significantly dimmed for about half a second.
I felt that feeling of someone staring at me, and I cringed. A second or two after the initial shock, I was like ugh. My skepticism kicked in about MY OWN EXPERIENCE, maybe me cringing over due to the noise made the lights "seem" to dim, the two seemed to happen simultaneously.
Anyways, this experience reinforced my belief that if you are totally shutoff and ignorant to the spiritual world, nothing happens.
But since I was looking into it with an open mind, maybe even "fucking with it", results can occur.
I also feel there's a complete difference between expecting something to happen (the dumb sense) and kind-of "mind-melding" with the spiritual world.
Do you think some part of the brain making us believe something is happening or that some part of the brain is opening up and allows supernatural things to come forth?
Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:02 pm 
