Re: Skeptics allowed, but no ridiculing or scoffing
Posted: 02 Jan 2011, 12:55
Sceptics don't accept personal experiences. My experiences with sharing personal experiences on similar threads on skeptical collectives have been extremely negative. Kind of like 'well for all I know you could be lying' when the personal experiences I made the mistake of bringing up couldn't be explained by more 'rational' explanations. Considering these experiences were extremely vivid and very personal since they involved the deaths of family and friends that were very close to me I prefer to not go down that road again.
However I will be a little brave and mention some of the minor things. When I was much younger (between maybe 6 and 10 years old) I used to have what seemed like random events occur with 'esp'. This usually involved a loud buzzing feeling in my head right before the phone would ring. This was almost like I knew the phone was going to ring a few seconds before it did, I can't really explain it any better. This happened to me quite a few times but occured randomly and it seemed I had no control on when and where it would happen, for it would just happen. Esp or something else? Who knows. I also had an odd happening involving my first pet dog named Lady. One day while walking home from school a massive thought just rushed through my head that something bad happened to my dog. This never happened to me before and I had no reason to be paranoid about anything involving Lady. I was 8 (I remember this event vividly) and I remember once this thought came to me (again I can't explain this feeling, it would be like trying to explain a color you never saw before with nothing to compare it to) running as fast as I could to my house and I was about a quarter mile away from my house when I got this rush of fear in me for no reason seemingly, I remember being about one small block from my house and watching Lady lying in the ground still alive but in obvious pain. The neighbors told me she (Lady) got hit by a pickup truck that kept on driving away. Lady never got out of the house before and we had a completely fenced in yard. I later learned that Lady ran out of the house when my grandpap was visiting unexpectedly that day (he would sometimes visit randomly since it was only a half a mile walk for him and he enjoyed walking) and left the sliding door open by accident. She died later that night from internal injuries.
However I will be a little brave and mention some of the minor things. When I was much younger (between maybe 6 and 10 years old) I used to have what seemed like random events occur with 'esp'. This usually involved a loud buzzing feeling in my head right before the phone would ring. This was almost like I knew the phone was going to ring a few seconds before it did, I can't really explain it any better. This happened to me quite a few times but occured randomly and it seemed I had no control on when and where it would happen, for it would just happen. Esp or something else? Who knows. I also had an odd happening involving my first pet dog named Lady. One day while walking home from school a massive thought just rushed through my head that something bad happened to my dog. This never happened to me before and I had no reason to be paranoid about anything involving Lady. I was 8 (I remember this event vividly) and I remember once this thought came to me (again I can't explain this feeling, it would be like trying to explain a color you never saw before with nothing to compare it to) running as fast as I could to my house and I was about a quarter mile away from my house when I got this rush of fear in me for no reason seemingly, I remember being about one small block from my house and watching Lady lying in the ground still alive but in obvious pain. The neighbors told me she (Lady) got hit by a pickup truck that kept on driving away. Lady never got out of the house before and we had a completely fenced in yard. I later learned that Lady ran out of the house when my grandpap was visiting unexpectedly that day (he would sometimes visit randomly since it was only a half a mile walk for him and he enjoyed walking) and left the sliding door open by accident. She died later that night from internal injuries.