There are a few threads that I wanted to post this to and instead of repeating myself over and over I am just doing it this way. Yes I believe ghosts, spirits or whatever you want to call them, I believe they are real. Some people are more open to the experience then others and that is why it happens. For a long time these experiences would just scare the crap out of me but now I am used to it but it still can be kind of eerie. I need to start logging my experiences because I have had so many things happen that I honestly can't remember them all at the same time. Here is one of them: Probably one of the most frightening...I was about seventeen when this happened and no I wasn't stoned or anything like that! It was a typical school night when this happened. I woke up at about 3 am to what felt like someone spooning me. You know where someone lays behind you and there body is pressed against yours and they have an arm across your stomach. Well I woke up to someone/something spooning me. At first I thought I was still asleep because I knew I should be alone. As I lay there I started becoming more awake and the panic started rising in me. I slowly moved my head to see the arm that was supposed to be wrapped around me and as I stared down there wasn't anything there! Now we had a street light outside for those of you wondering how I could see in the dark, okay? As I realized that there wasn't an actual arm around me yet I could FEEL an arm around me sheer panic got the better of me. I quickly rolled over and in the split second that my back hit my mattress the feeling of someone spooning me was gone. My heart was beating so fast I felt like I couldn't breathe. I just said as loud as I could to leave me alone and let me go to sleep. Since then I have never had that happen again. It was soooo crazy weird! I am so curious about the incident yet so scared at the same time. I mean you know how when you arm falls asleep and you get that weird tingly sensation well that is what the "thing" spooning me put off. It was tingly. All across the back of my body and across my stomach. WEIRD. But at the same time I am glad that I experienced it. I wish that I hadn't been so panicked so I could have asked what they wanted or just experienced it more. Not that I am inviting it to happen again mind you. lol Okay I have many more but thought I would start out with this one. Promise, true story! All of the homes I grew up in were "haunted" so to speak. There were strange things that happened and I was not the only one to experience these things. I think the reason our family experienced "hauntings" was because my Mother was mentally ill and in much turmoil. Spirits, or at least from what I have heard are attracted to turmoil. In my theory my Mother opened the doors for them. I would like to hear your experiences! Please write! Jules
There's a pretty interesting thread on ghosts on my personal forum, where some people shared experiences: http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19585
around 1990 i lived with a (wonderful) woman in nc. there wasn't anything special about the house, except she picked out a fleshy pink paint for the bathroom. there was a huge gap under the door, and with it shut and the lights on in there (standing outside the bathroom) it looked like hell was in there! but that's not my ghost story. this is. we were lying in bed one night asleep and i woke up, and allison was standing at the closet picking out a dress. i was pretty awake, but still groggy and didn't have my glasses on, but i could definately see a female form and the dresses on racks going in and out of the closet. i said "baby, what are you doing?" and the figure looked at me and stepped into the closet and was gone. allison was in bed with me. i of course got up and searched the room, but found nothing. i get goose flesh just thinking about it. i wasn't scared, just very startled. it had to be a ghost. i didn't dream it, and i didn't imagine it. it went on too long for it to have been lights from outside, and it was very detailed. i'd love to know who it was and what they wanted.
My husband and I have been "kind of" house hunting for awhile now. We live in a perfectly fine house but I don't like living out in the boonies so we have been looking around. Anyway, I always get feelings about whatever house I am in. Good vibes or bad. Flyingburrito: Did you ever get a feel for the house or was this just one random act? Sometimes that can happen. Oh back to the house hunting thing. My husband and I looked at a house in TN and it was an older home. Most people think that just because a house is a hundred years old it is haunted. Anyway, I never got a "feeling" about the house until I walked into the mud room on the back of the house. It was so weird. At first when my husband opened the door to the mud room I felt very nauseaus (sp) and sweaty. Then when I walked into the room I couldn't focus on anything because there was this red color over everything. I know that probably doesn't make sense but you know when you stand up too quickly and things go black well that is what it was like only red. I got a very bad feeling in that room and had to leave. Being in early pregnancy at the time I brushed those feelings off and continued the tour of the house. We then had to go back through the mud room to get to the back yard and the SAME thing happened. I don't claim to be psychic or anything like that. I am however a very sensitive person to things most people don't seem to be able to hear, see or feel. Take that however you want. lol All I know is that I have had my fair share of experiences!
Hi people: This is my very first post on this forum, which I heard about from another person who posts here called hippiewise, cool. So about those ghosts. I was just writing to my friend about this subject. Once I had a similar experience. I was lying in bed on my left side, and someone/something ran their fingers through my hair on the back of my head, a loving gesture, but still startled me, as I was totally alone in my apartment. It startled me so much, I jumped out of bed, searched the apartment, and realized it had to be a spirit, it really happened. I used to think that peeps who saw Elvis Presley's ghost were crazy, now I am not so sure, it only makes sense he would appear to those loving fans, they need and love him. So I was hoping that the ghost was John Lennon, since I love him very much. I could go on, I have actually seen other ghosts/spirits but I will leave this message and wait for your response, what do you make of this? Later, stay groovy people, Haircut called Arthur
hey haircut, good to see you on these boards, love our past discussions about the other world. love to talk about ghosts, goblins, angels, spirits and all that jazz. i am very psychic and love to chat with other psychic's, know you are too haircut. hippiewise
Hey Hippiewise and other peeps: Well, there may be spirits, I do think so when I dream, since I meet people in my dreams who I don't know in waking life. Who are these spirits who visit me in my dreams? Sometimes I know them from waking life, but some I do not know, but seem to know in the dimension of dreams, go figure! There are people who say that there are many dimensions, who knows, the universe is a wonderous place/time continuum! Later people, stay cosmic! Haircut called Arthur
i get my best poetry from dreams, usually in the wee hours of the night. i'll wake up and if i don't get the poems typed up immediately, i will forget them. i so believe in the power of dreams. how ya doing haircut? hippiewise
in regards to Jules impression of the *tingly feeling* ...it reminds me of when my daughter kelly, who was about 10 at the time saw a neighbors ghost cat in out kitchen and she put her hand out to it and touched it, (it natch went thru it) and it gave her a tingly feeling, like mild electricity. it makes sense. it's just another form of energy.
i saw my granfather who came to say goodbye to me, and what did he see? i was a bit drunk and masturbating in my bed and i saw him passing bye stoping at my bed.. but i couldnt stop masturbating.. kinda pitty but i think he was just a bit worried that i was drink, nuthing else..
jules, i wanto to talk to you... i have the same experiences, and my mum is also mentally, ill.. and i always think that it is her.... delusion that the spirits hang around, and toy with..a s a result im very pissed off with mishevisou spriits and fuling hate the creeps. i swear to god they hang around my mum like a disease.
Sometimes i can just hear them.... i cant explain how.. not a paticluar voice or sound... but...just the presence...i can 'hear' loud and clear. i said this already.. it pisses me off
Well, seeing your grandfather's ghost in such a state, must have felt weird, can't say I've been there, done that. I think the subject of ghosts or spirits who live on after life in another dimension is fascinating and a bit comforting to most people because it logically follows that we too, after we die, will live on in another form, and may even get to visit people on earth and possibly interact. It is a way of saying, hey, life goes on, even the afterlife. I couldn't say for sure, but it seems to be the case, from so many accounts of people seeing or feeling spirits or ghosts. Of course this is a mystery. I am an artist and so mystery is okay with me, life itself is mysterious more times than not. I have had the feeling, that when I go to the art museum and gaze on a brilliant work of art, a painting for instance, that I can feel, not only the subject of the art, as in a portrait and feeling the essence of the sitter, but also very much feeling the spirit of the artist, especially Vincent Van Gogh, and other masters who have made a major impact on the world. I very much felt ancient spirits when I attended the Tutankamun show years ago, the death mask was extremely intense, especially since it had rested on the very head of the boy King for over 2,000 years, lots of karma there! So gazing on this exquisite work of sculpture, this homage to a loved King, I not only felt the spirit of the King, but also felt the loving artists who produced such fine works of art and honor, those talented artists who were so dedicated to create such exquisite work, full well knowing that those fine works of art were to be buried and not seen for who knows how long, now that is dedication to art! I marvel at the precision and sophistication, artistically, of those ancient people and know for sure that they could teach modern day people a thing or two about being civilized! Let me know what you think, people. Another expample is in music, for instance, when a Bob Marley song just comes into my head, often times I feel that the ghost of Bob is with me, please stay, Bob, don't leave! He is Blessed and Holy, an Avatar, an Artist, He lives on, He is Alive! The spirit of the artist lives on in the music/art, don't you think? A special Hello to Hippiewise, and a Happy Thanksgiving to all, even though I am vegetarian and would not care to eat a turkey, and I know many of the readers/writers here are not from U.S.A., still it is a good excuse to feel thankful for being alive on this funky planet! Later people, Haircut called Arthur
Hi Keramptha, I want to reply that I do think there is a way to clear your space of unkind of bad spirits, they are probably really there and you do have a right to rid yourself of their bothersome presence. I suggest you get some real sage bundles and burn them ceremoniously all over your living space, a black candle which is specifically blessed for protection and/or banishment of negativity will also help. Also, take sea salt and sprinkle it all around your house. Also water, some sea salt sprinkled in with intention to cleanse and again sprinkle all over house while telling the bad or negative spirits to go out and never return. Open all windows in the house so to clear a path of exit, just like bad, musty smells in winter, one must open windows and doors to clean, cleanse the air/atmosphere. Lastly, a specific kind of volcanic rock, black tourmaline, is very good at absorbing negativity and dispelling it, and I would put this black rock at all corners in your house, and if you have a basement and attic, up there and down there too. I have not yet done the rock placement, but have kept the rocks in my sleeping quarters, so you can do that too. It all sounds kinda witchy or Native American or even Catholic, but really this will help, especially if you believe it will, hope to hear this has helped you. Happy England, and I love England since I am a Beatlemaniac from 1964, when I saw them on Ed Sullivan when I was only four years old! Thank you, England, for your fine artists! Later, Haircut called Arthur
lol! '64 ey?! I used to use salt, water and candles, and rocks, and crystals... i think i'll take it up again, it cant be a bad idea. i have ccrystal next to me now.
Hi and I am glad my age has given you a laugh, and out loud at that. If you are lucky, someday you too will be 45. Personally, I am very thankful and happy to have lived through such a magickal time as the 1960's even if I was a mere child, it was a great time to be alive and to really see and hear the culture changing before my eyes and ears. So many great artists came out at that time, like I just saw the Rolling Stones and they were fantastic! I started loving their music when I was five years old, since they came to the States in 1965. What a cool childhood I had, very fun and full of life! Actually, I felt sorry for people born after the sixties were over, they really missed out, and they don't even know it, lol! Later, English girl, blessed be! Haircut called Arthur
I wish I was born in the mid to late 50's, so I could see all the brand new muscle cars rolling off the assembly lines and to hear all the great music in the warming sound of a vinyl. I have records from the 60's, but they don't play as well as they would have new.
The only one distinctive experience I had was at my old house a few years back. I was in my room sleeping and my door was closed. It had to have been sometime between 2-4 in the morning when I woke up. And as soon as I woke up I had the feeling that something wasn't right. I was laying on my side facing the wall and I had the feeling something was in the room behind me. I had the butterfly feeling in my stomach and it was cold but yet I was sweating cause I was scared to death. I had no idea why I was so afraid it was just some ominous feeling or presence that I can't explain. Anyway whatever presence was in the room began moving because I heard slight noises. I was too afraid to roll over and look, I was deeply frightened at what I might have seen so I layed there hoping it would either go away or that I was in some sort of dream state and would wake up. The part that scared me the most happened next. I was contemplating in my head whether or not something was really there or if I was scared to death for no reason. I found out first hand that there was no doubt something in the room. I felt a cool swift breeze as if something walked by me and then I felt friction of someone standing against the bed right behind me and the feeling of someone looking down at me. I closed my eyes and at this point I was petrified, there was some kind of anomaly standing beside my bed breathing over me. Then all of a sudden in a split second every bit of fear I had just went away. I sat up with my heart racing and looked only to see the door closed and an empty dark room with nothing there. It was like I was in some kind of fear trance and I could not move and I was snapped out of it. At that point I turned on the tv and a light and did not go back to sleep the rest of the night. It was the most frightening, inexplicable experience I think I've ever had. But still I always wonder that if I weren't so scared and was able to turn around, what would I have seen? Or maybe I would have seen nothing and it was all some sort of trick my own mind was playing on me because at the time I was going through alot of stress and rough family problems. Which makes me think maybe spirits are really attracted to turmoil like many say, or maybe since we are in turmoil there are no such thing as ghosts and our mind is doing all of the scaring. Either way it was frightening. In that house I have witnessed many abnormal things that people might say is supernatural (the usual noises and houshold appliances going out of whack) but this was the only stand out experience that really frightened me.
that is creepy. crazy energy. I'll recount a time when i was drifting to sleep, i slept on a bunk bed and as i began to to chnage concisouness, I was abruptly stopped in my tracks my a feeling of the back of my neck turning to cement. It was absoloutely stiff, and this is the wired part...lol i know what this is going to sound like but anwyay... A woman started to use my voice box, as vibrations to speak to me... I don't think this this literally happened, i think that it was on a less denbse energy level..but she was still using my neck, and throat vibrations..to lock on to and channel her voice. SO I asked her...in a very clear state of mind...as happens with fear ususally, heightened awareness.and clarity of thought.... I asked her, what do you want?, and she replied, to take you on a journey.. basically i thought..fuck it, okay... and then i heard the wiredest sound, it was like a musical screaming...a huge pressure releasing from my ears..and kind of rapidly changing the vibration of my conciousness.it seemed like a travelling backwards in time. and the musical screaming dragged me through a tunnel with the sound of a roaring train and all the clicks of the bumps on the train track..i've now assumed those sounds to be impressions of being concious of my spine. Anyway, this was all good and dandy, but things turned nasty...I dont know if this was becuase I didnt have a clear enough mind, and I allowed some 'bad' spirits to come in but all of a sudden this woman was trying to strangle me, suffocating me with a duvet cover..and my body was paralysed. Then, this was really scary, there were lots of ghosts...but they were in an auric layer where they could create certain body parts...like arms...or legs...and they all were stroking me grabbing me, and they were all chatterin and talking.. They were saying things about me having left them to suffer, having let them die, and that they neede me to help them, and they were desperate and didnt have long becuase they'd only managed to 'break through' for the first time in lifetimes..and they kept asking me to help them. Begging and some were little children, some were old guys...and all ages inbetween. Then i cant remeber if i agreed to help or if i just wanted to get away... but they started retreating becuse i found them so repulsive..and they were saying things like.. 'you promised' and trying to make me feel guilty...SO i don't know.. the comclusion i've come to is that if they really want my help then they can makes themselves know to me, but i wont listen to any shit about guilt trips or having obligations to them. if they want help they better not fuck me about in the same way...with their..'you promised' things... if they dont ask for help again then i'll know that they were just pissing around... and they can suffer for all i care. anyway... that cleared out some deomns writing that out. cheers. seeya