A ufo? A ghost? A monster?
What's the strangest thing you've ever come across? :comfy: :specter:
reminder for everyone here to drink water a lot of these stories are symptoms of dehydration :very-smart:
seeing shadows / lights, deja vu, and the feeling of 'seeing something' before it happens are all dehydration related. your brain acts weird when it doesnt have the resources to go the pathway it wants to use. gets even weirder when you sleep while dehydrated and is linked to insomnia and believing the events of a dream are real, and even more weirder when you consider daydreams
and then of course when you consider most gungho religions started in the middle east, a very hot place...
As the world's oldest gifted child, I can explain anything just using brain logic.
I once saw a female bear, and she was shaped like a hexagon. Really weird stuff. :brow:
No I've explained everything I've ever seen. Guess I'm just a better explainer than most.
cant explain how im attracted to men, ostensibly, i shouldnt be. like, theyre smelly and hairy and if i date one long enough i like that about them? if i'm smelly and hairy i hate it. doesnt help that a lot of them are misogynists.
"Straight women are the only animal attracted to their natural predators" - a lady on TikTok
Their eggs are parasites hijacking their survival instincts to enter their next stage of development.
Second part doesn't really carry any weight. I tend a bit angry, but I enjoy my calm friends' company. I like how dresses look, but I have no inclination to ever wear one. I appreciate and think it's cool when my friends make art, but I don't make art. Traits that look good on other people don't have to be ones you want.
I saw a dude and like I wanted to hug and kiss him??? Inexplicable
one time in middle school gym class I threw a basketball and I could have sworn it phased right through the backboard. I kept trying to throw it at the same spot after that cause I was so baffled. I wondered if I'd somehow discovered a space-time anomaly just like star trek :tito-laugh:
Oh yeah well i saw an albino deer a bunch of times in my front yard
Magnets. Magnets give me this magical feeling every time I see them doing anything at all. I'll often marvel at a pair of magnets, pushing them together against like poles to get a sense of the shape of the field, seeing how close they can get together before opposite poles overcome the friction of the surface the two magnets sit on, etc. They're excellent fidget devices!
Anyway, the common scientific explanation is that they are made of microscopic magnetic domains all aligned in the same direction, but that's just saying magnets work because they are made of a bunch of little magnets. And then those domains are explained by electrons all spinning in the same direction, but once again we've just reduced it to saying those little magnets are made of even smaller, subatomic magnets!
Apparently there's some quantum mechanical explanation involving the gauge symmetry of phase shifts in the wave functions of particles which together with special relativity apparently implies the entire electromagnetic force, but I certainly can't understand that and therefore can't explain it. So to me magnets (and also electrostatic forces) remain magical!
:gigachad-hd: using magic to hold pieces of metal together temporarily so that I can use magic to permanently fix those metal pieces together with wire that is converted into the join between the pieces by electricity (another magic)
the coloration of shit mostly comes from gut flora in the intestines
it mostly comes from bile.
Did you not consider that maybe the shit wasn't the friend's originally, and puked from eating too much shit from another origin
When I was maybe....6 or 7 years old, I was alone in my room going to sleep for the night. I heard a VERY distinct, detatched voice CLEARLY speak some disconnected gibberish words at me.
That's about all for me, but I do love ghost stories and other spooky stuff though! I do have plans coming up to visit a very famous haunted house soon, so really excited for that!
oh i get those all the time from ptsd and dehydration. when random people start shouting at me im like 'ah yes time to drink water' lmao
No shit? I've never heard of that being a dehydration thing before! This was almost 30 years ago now - I remember the voice very clearly, but don't really recall what sort of state I was in, so maybe you explained it!
When I was a kid, like mid single digits years old, every so often I would have this profound realization that I still find hard to put into words. It was like a sudden understanding of reality. You know how as humans we can work with the concept of infinity, but it's impossible to truly get the concept of neverendingness? This was like somehow grasping reality in a way that we should never be able to. To put it another way, I was like a fish who finally understood what water is. Or yet another way, it was like "zooming out" and getting a better sense of the big picture I was normally oblivious to.
There wasn't much too it beyond that. I could hang on to that feeling of for maybe a few minutes, just thinking "Wow, this is really real. I exist, my family exists, we're all alive and we do things" until something came along that demanded my attention.
I never thought about it that much until lost the ability to tap into it as I got older, and I don't know what to make of it now. If our reality can be understood in that particular way, are there other fabrics of being we can grasp? If that sensation was "hot", what would "cold" be? The ignorance I'm currently living in, or something else entirely?
i remember similar revelations when that age too. not much else but i remember that and also being in the crib and wondering if the world was a dream. seems the only way to bring back those feelings are with hallucinogens.
That's what I was thinking, might have to experiment and see what brings me back into weirdo brain zone
I had a realization when I was 6 that there's no evidence that anything else exists other than me because the only thing I've ever experienced is myself, and that everything I ever lived could be a dream and I could just be some random kid on a barren white space rock somewhere
Do you suppose that it was more to do with the obliviousness of youth, like now you don't have that big picture contrast feeling because you're more aware of the big picture's existence now?
I do think a big part was the relative simplicity of my life back then. I was blessed with a pretty easy, idyllic life until my parents split, after which things got much more complicated. Growing up fast and being immersed in that mundane complexity makes looking past everyday life very hard because everyday life demands more from you and you become more attached to it. I don't think I can uncouple myself from the material stakes of my existence without some kind of chemical intervention
In the dead of the night my partner and I both jolted awake and saw a large black wolfish silhouette with bright white eye lurking around the area where our terminally ill dog usually slept (just right in front of the back screen door). Luckily she was sleeping on the dog bed beside our bed (facing the screen door but a distance away). It was only a couple days later that she passed away, but we're both convinced that had she decided to sleep near the back screen door that night, she would have passed away in her sleep.
We both saw the creature, and it was definitely not a wolf proper because it's shape was kind of vague and changed a lot. It was only the next morning where we said anything and realized we had both seen it. It of course could've been one of those weird shared dreams that couples sometimes get or maybe a folie a deux, but I like the idea that it was a chupacabra or some doggie grim reaper stalking our dog down.
"Couple shared dream" is, from a logic perspective, on par with a spirit haunting your dog. People do not share dreams.
Edit:I actually find the haunting more likely because I believe in spirits but do not believe in telepathy/shared consciousness.
Well not a literal shared dream, but you don't think people who spend 90% of their day together, have similar processes of feelings going on due to both experiencing the same circumstance, consume the same media... you don't think there could be heavy dream overlap?
I see it the same way as when you take psychedelics with someone you know closely. Sometimes there's periods where you have conversations without either of you talking. It's not telepathy, but it might as well be. Body language and facial expressions communicate a lot. So there's a lot going on beneath the surface when you spend a lot of time with someone. I didn't think this was controversial lol
No. Young twins, so people experiencing as close to the exact same things at the exact same time as possible, do not have dream overlap generally. Therefore, I don't think it's something that happens all that often. The idea you both would pull forth the same image on the same night unless there was something specific to trigger it just is incredibly highly unlikely.
the twins study sound really cool. Do you know where I could look for more information on that?
And unlikely things happen all the time. And who knows what unconscious triggers are floating around us on a daily basis.
I must admit this anecdotal from the 3 or 4 sets of twins i have known, i don't know if there have been studies on it. I think it would be hard to study because dreams are just wildly inconsistent, it's hard to make someone dream without altering their mindstate. And that's fair that it's possible but I find it more likely one of you had a vague dream about the dog or morality and it morphed into the same dream the next morning, memory is malleable especially around dreams. I hope none of this sounds like i find your reasoning or senses worse than mine, I fully believe your account, i just don't believe the conclusion you drew. Less scientifically I could fully believe a spirit of your pet or some spirit awaiting it was what you saw.
You make good points and it's helped me to reflect on the experience. Sometimes in times of stress magical thinking seems to be the main thing that gets me through it. Sorry for any hostile tone on my part comrade!
No worries at all, I didn't get any hostility and I'm sorry if there was any aggression in my tone. And I have no issue with magical thinking, I have some strange beliefs and behaviors of my own. It just bothered me seeing that as the "rational" answer. My condolences for your dog.
