How many of you Doubters and Disbeievers have ever had an experience that you feel that you can explain away?

Question

I am not talking about dreams or things like that, but thiings that go bump in the night or you just knew something.... how could you just explain it away?

My Dad was like that, he had countless experiences but he thought they were coincidence or jsut something that happened. Please tell me about you and your experiences.

Answer 1

I am not talented but I experienced the kind of thing that anyone can experience.

Two friends would come to visit my city, and I had promised to pick them up from the train station as soon as they would arrive. They were supposed to arrive in the evening, and didn't know where I lived.

At 10pm they called me, "sorry, the train is going to be very late, we don't what time we will be there. It could be 2am, 3am or even 4am. Just go to bed, we'll call you as soon as we're there".

I slept well but was focused on the possibility that somebody would call me in the middle of the night. All of a sudden I woke up, around 3am, knowing that I should be ready to do something. And 5 seconds later they called me. "We're at the station, finally. Did we wake you up?"

I think anybody who focuses can do it. I think this is how human beings communicated before we had devices, or even before we had speech.

Answer 2

I have always had experiences I have been able to explain away.  That is what convinces me we live in a world full of natural events such as coincidences, powerful imaginations and subjective misinterpretations.

Answer 3

Your Dad sounds like a very smart guy.I couldn't explain it any better then he tried to.

Answer 4

I read jetta's response and I have to say that baby binkies, or pacifiers, are probably the world's most supernatural objects. They disappear in a flash and reappear in the most unsuspected of places. The pacifiers in our house never seem to stay put and their locations and movements are completely unpredictable. Although I could blame much of the binky phenomena on ghosts, I think it all is quite explainable via natural means (e.g., babies). In fact, I've never had an experience which defied all natural explanations.

Answer 5

A personal experience I've had was when I lived in FL and my dog would bark at nothing but yet jump back like he saw someone go "BOO".  It happened alot and always at the same spot in the house.

THEN when my daughter was about 1 or 2 we lost her pacifier, couldn't find it anywhere.  I looked in the pillowcase and everything.  Of course she couldn't go to sleep without it and was crying.  We thought that she just cried herself to sleep when things got quiet.  I went upstairs to check on her and THERE WAS HER PACIFIER by her mouth!!!

It could NOT be explained at all.  We have NO idea how this happened.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, there are people who will not accept the unknown ever, no matter what the evidence shows. I suspect it is a matter of fear of the unknown or the fear of not fitting in with the norm.

Answer 7

i am no doubter or disbeliever - i believe there is an explanation for everything. it's just that some people try so much to explain everything through what they know or through what most would agree as 'natural' and they end up by missing the entire point.