Experiences that made you question the nature of existence/reality
07-15-2018, 11:31 PM
When I was around 12-14, I had quite a few various experiences that seemed like interactions with ghosts. If you read up on accounts of hauntings, it's not uncommon for them to surround a person in the household who is going through puberty. These things would happen in different locations, but most centered around the house we were living in at the time.
It was mostly very small shit that I couldn't really pin down for sure. For example, I'd be playing an electronic keyboard, and just after I stopped, one single key would play by itself. Or would see something out of the corner of my eye - one time a mom's friend saw something pass behind me and screamed out. I'd be home alone and walk into the kitchen to find a burner glowing that I hadn't turned on. TV volume would get turned all the way up or down while I was in the other room.
But the one that sticks out in my mind the most is harder to brush off as a trick of the imagination. I got home alone from school one day and instantly threw my bag on the couch and went back in the kitchen to cook some ramen up (healthy, I know). While I'm waiting for the water to boil, I suddenly hear some rustling around in the back bedroom shared by me and my two brothers, seemingly coming from my older brother's closet.
I call out my brother's name. Nothing. So I decide to walk back there and see what's up - mind you I'm already a bit nervous alone in this house because of all the little "incidents," so I've got that feeling you get when you're watching a scary movie and someone is walking into a room they know they shouldn't walk into.
You have to pass through the only bathroom in the house to get into our bedroom. And that's when it happens - as I walked by the bathroom sink, the faucet suddenly turns on...
I turned it off. Turned off the burner in the kitchen.
And went up and sat in a tree in the driveway for hours, waiting for someone else to get home.
My mom has always fancied herself a little bit psychic, and there seem to be all sorts of things backing it up. She also had experiences with ghosts when she was younger. Once when she and my father were house-sitting in Cape Cod, as she tells it, an "unseen" force drug her off the bed and out of my dad's arms, leaving him essentially playing tug of war in the dark. They left the room and never stayed in that house again.
But the premonitions is where she has really blown me away a lot of times. She's always sharing dreams with myself or her sister, some of which seem to hint at something that happens later on. The most striking psychic experience happened when she was working a job as a bartender one night. As a single mother raising three boys on her own, you can bet bartending was a taxing job, and the first thing she'd want to do after her late night shift was over was get home and collapse into bed so she could catch a few hours of sleep before getting us up for school in the morning.
Anyhow, when she got to the road that led to our house, "something," an instinct of sorts, told her not to turn down it and to just keep going. For some reason she followed this instinct. Mind you it's late late night and we live out in the country - it's nothing but dark redwood forests, and no real feeling of safety for a woman alone at night. She kept driving and telling herself she should just turn around and go back, but every time, the urge to go on hit her again, and she'd obey.
Finally, about 3 or 4 miles down the road, she told herself how ridiculous it all was and made a mental note that she was turning around after the next corner and quitting this aimless nonsense. But...as she rounded the corner, there was an SUV upside down in the road. It was a friend of hers who'd been drinking at the bar that night - her boyfriend was behind her when she wrecked, but he couldn't leave her there alone to go get help. She was lying there in the road with a huge gash on her forehead, bleeding all over the place. My mom stayed with her while the boyfriend ran to the payphone in town to call 911 (this was before cell phones, for you youngsters out there).
I don't know if her friend was injured so bad she wouldn't have made it without my mom showing up, but regardless, a striking experience.
I have my own share of dreams that seem somewhat psychic in nature. One that stands out to me is a dream I had where I had moved into this new place and was being haunted/followed by a ghost that would stand outside my house. There was a sense of there being a real threat to my life. Anyhow, I won't drag on about the details of the dream, but I remember one moment I was hiding in my place and scared shitless, holding my .45 in my hand. At one point, I raised the blinds to see if I could see anything outside, and I was shocked to find this girl standing just outside my window, feet from me, staring at me.
It was obviously a girl, but it had this huge bloated face with no eyes or mouth. I remember it being so real, and I jumped back, and I lifted the .45 and pointed it at her face, and I was just about to pull the trigger...and suddenly the face turned into that of my sister's....
When I woke up from this dream, I remember being so shook up that I called my sister to check on her. I had this unsettling feeling that the dream was a premonition of something that was happening to her or was going to happen to her. But I didn't want to spook her, so I didn't mention it when we talked.
A few days later, perhaps a week, my sister and brother were involved in a really bad car accident. My sister got the worse of it, her back broken in multiple places, along with a lot of internal injuries. When I showed up to see her at the hospital, I remember looking down at her and not being able to recognize her, as her face and head were so swollen and bloated she looked like some completely different person. It struck me immediately, that her face closely resembled the ghost in my dream (though obviously she still had eyes, a nose, and a mouth).
Fortunately, my sister came out of that alright, and other than bad back problems and surgeries she has to get to remove internal scar tissue from time to time, she lives a rather normal life.
I've also had a lot of experiences that very much resembled a sign or a communication from a Higher Power. Got work to do but maybe I'll come in at a later time and write about them too.
Beyond All Seas
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