Weird things that you can’t explain.
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I can accurately tell you when my eldest child has fallen asleep. I formed a strong bond with her when she was a baby because I always put her to bed and held her hand until she was asleep, now she is 8 I can still tell the moment she falls asleep, its a feeling and a certainty that is accurate, she can be awake when I check on her and a few minutes later I will know she is asleep before I get to the door to check on her.
Its freaky because I can be in the living room and suddenly know when she is not awake.
Its freaky because I can be in the living room and suddenly know when she is not awake.
S1KRR said:
2) Grumbled on another thread about a girl I know constantly texting me. Was suggested by other posters to mention this. Was planning to when I saw her next. But since that post, she's cut back massively. I've never mentioned PH. I've been replying as normal, just re-read the messages and nothing subconsciously will have said "calm yourself love"
That post. Can anyone explain it???B17NNS said:
colin_p said:
USB plugs, 50% / 50% chance, but it always seems to end up at 150%+
I don't always plug my USB in right on the first try. But when I turn it over, it's wrong too.Also, they're usually plugged in when you can't see both connectors, so that adds to the disproportionate number of efforts.
davhill said:
colin_p said:
USB plugs, 50% / 50% chance, but it always seems to end up at 150%+
Easily solved at minimal cost. Take a paint marker pen, scuff the top side
of the plug with sandpaper/w&d,
apply two coats, fixed.
Bright yellow works well.
The worse are the USB 'c' or whatever they are called, the ones that plug into android phones.
But we mustn't grumble, I remember the world before USB and it was electronically grim. My first CD burner ran through the LPT printer port, as did my first scanner, as did the ZIP drive!
DrSteveBrule said:
Yeah, he was a sod like that.
Of course you can explain it. Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18
I had a petrol pump fail once, near Birmingham airport. It’s just one of those things - bits of cars break or drop off from time to time.
You are only saying you can’t explain it because it happened in a grave yard. Given the millions of visits to grave yards every year it’s highly likely failures (some of them a bit odd) will happen.
If your lights had popped out on your driveway you would have been surprised but not attributing it to supernatural causes.
It’s this kind of thinking that holds back the human race.....
jdw100 said:
DrSteveBrule said:
Yeah, he was a sod like that.
Of course you can explain it. Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18
I had a petrol pump fail once, near Birmingham airport. It’s just one of those things - bits of cars break or drop off from time to time.
You are only saying you can’t explain it because it happened in a grave yard. Given the millions of visits to grave yards every year it’s highly likely failures (some of them a bit odd) will happen.
If your lights had popped out on your driveway you would have been surprised but not attributing it to supernatural causes.
It’s this kind of thinking that holds back the human race.....
I did astronomical mileage in that car, at least 170,000 miles, so the lights had plenty of opportunities to break at speed on any number of bumpy B roads or high-speed jaunts on a motorway. I mentioned the graveyard because that's precisely where it happened. With regards to the context I make a light-hearted comment about it being a 'sign' and now you think I'm convinced my friend is signalling from the afterlife?
I'm sorry you're struggling, let me rewrite my post so you can concentrate on just the facts;
As per the title of the thread, here is my recollection of a weird thing I can't explain. The glass on all 4 of my headlights fell out at exactly the same time as I went to drive out of a carpark. For further clarification NO GHOSTS WERE INVOLVED.
I had an odd little one just now - just a coincidence but a funny one.
I was looking for somewhere on Streetview got distracted by something and left it up on screen, by chance pointing at the building of one of my firm's clients in the same road.
That client - who I haven't spoken to in a couple of years at least - rang me up!
I was looking for somewhere on Streetview got distracted by something and left it up on screen, by chance pointing at the building of one of my firm's clients in the same road.
That client - who I haven't spoken to in a couple of years at least - rang me up!
DrSteveBrule said:
jdw100 said:
DrSteveBrule said:
Yeah, he was a sod like that.
Of course you can explain it. Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18
I had a petrol pump fail once, near Birmingham airport. It’s just one of those things - bits of cars break or drop off from time to time.
You are only saying you can’t explain it because it happened in a grave yard. Given the millions of visits to grave yards every year it’s highly likely failures (some of them a bit odd) will happen.
If your lights had popped out on your driveway you would have been surprised but not attributing it to supernatural causes.
It’s this kind of thinking that holds back the human race.....
I did astronomical mileage in that car, at least 170,000 miles, so the lights had plenty of opportunities to break at speed on any number of bumpy B roads or high-speed jaunts on a motorway. I mentioned the graveyard because that's precisely where it happened. With regards to the context I make a light-hearted comment about it being a 'sign' and now you think I'm convinced my friend is signalling from the afterlife?
I'm sorry you're struggling, let me rewrite my post so you can concentrate on just the facts;
As per the title of the thread, here is my recollection of a weird thing I can't explain. The glass on all 4 of my headlights fell out at exactly the same time as I went to drive out of a carpark. For further clarification NO GHOSTS WERE INVOLVED.
“Hand on heart, every year when I lay flowers I head back to whatever car I’ve owned at the time half waiting for the doors to catch fire or some such. The friend who died was always tinkering with cars. I don’t believe in religion or heaven but if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.”
I think you believed that and are now backtracking because a few questions proved how ridiculous it is to even contemplate this being supernatural.
I had driven 30k miles in my car befor the petrol pump failed.
Your lights did have plenty of opportunities to fall off and this was one of them as the glue or whatever it is holding them on finally failed.
jdw100 said:
DrSteveBrule said:
jdw100 said:
DrSteveBrule said:
Yeah, he was a sod like that.
Of course you can explain it. Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18
I had a petrol pump fail once, near Birmingham airport. It’s just one of those things - bits of cars break or drop off from time to time.
You are only saying you can’t explain it because it happened in a grave yard. Given the millions of visits to grave yards every year it’s highly likely failures (some of them a bit odd) will happen.
If your lights had popped out on your driveway you would have been surprised but not attributing it to supernatural causes.
It’s this kind of thinking that holds back the human race.....
I did astronomical mileage in that car, at least 170,000 miles, so the lights had plenty of opportunities to break at speed on any number of bumpy B roads or high-speed jaunts on a motorway. I mentioned the graveyard because that's precisely where it happened. With regards to the context I make a light-hearted comment about it being a 'sign' and now you think I'm convinced my friend is signalling from the afterlife?
I'm sorry you're struggling, let me rewrite my post so you can concentrate on just the facts;
As per the title of the thread, here is my recollection of a weird thing I can't explain. The glass on all 4 of my headlights fell out at exactly the same time as I went to drive out of a carpark. For further clarification NO GHOSTS WERE INVOLVED.
“Hand on heart, every year when I lay flowers I head back to whatever car I’ve owned at the time half waiting for the doors to catch fire or some such. The friend who died was always tinkering with cars. I don’t believe in religion or heaven but if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.”
I think you believed that and are now backtracking because a few questions proved how ridiculous it is to even contemplate this being supernatural.
I had driven 30k miles in my car befor the petrol pump failed.
Your lights did have plenty of opportunities to fall off and this was one of them as the glue or whatever it is holding them on finally failed.
Two weird ones from me:
Had a friend; my first and best friend from a nipper. He moved to another part of town as we both started (different) secondary schools and we lost touch. A few years later, I've started work. I would have been around 17/18 and bumped into him in a pub and just picked up on the friendship where we left off which we were both pleased about.
Some months later, I'm in London having a lunchtime drink with another buddy when I'm overcome with a strange pain in my upper left chest. Difficult to explain but felt like it wasn't 'my' pain but still hurt enough for me to need to sit down.
Got home that evening to find out my other friend had died. He was still in Sixth Form and collapsed at lunchtime of an aneurysm in his upper left chest.
And the other involved another very good friend.
He was in LA on his wedding day, wearing an Omega watch that his dad had given him just before he died about five years prior. The watch was a long-service gift from his Dad's former employer. My friend was about to marry a lovely girl but not right for him at all, a fact only he seemed not to notice. On the way to the wedding, he looked at the watch and noticed it has stopped. He tried to adjust the time and wind it up but the dial appeared to have become disconnected from the gubbins inside. He kept looking at the watch all day trying to shake it into working and others tried to coax it back to life - all without any joy.
Later in the day with the wedding done, he looked at the watch to find it not only working but showing the correct time. He later took it into a watch repair shop who could find nothing wrong with it at all.
The time it stopped at was the time that his Dad had died.
I also had an overwhelming feeling that Johnny Herbert would win the 1995 British Grand Prix. I never gamble but was going to put a tenner on him that I never ended up doing.
Had a friend; my first and best friend from a nipper. He moved to another part of town as we both started (different) secondary schools and we lost touch. A few years later, I've started work. I would have been around 17/18 and bumped into him in a pub and just picked up on the friendship where we left off which we were both pleased about.
Some months later, I'm in London having a lunchtime drink with another buddy when I'm overcome with a strange pain in my upper left chest. Difficult to explain but felt like it wasn't 'my' pain but still hurt enough for me to need to sit down.
Got home that evening to find out my other friend had died. He was still in Sixth Form and collapsed at lunchtime of an aneurysm in his upper left chest.
And the other involved another very good friend.
He was in LA on his wedding day, wearing an Omega watch that his dad had given him just before he died about five years prior. The watch was a long-service gift from his Dad's former employer. My friend was about to marry a lovely girl but not right for him at all, a fact only he seemed not to notice. On the way to the wedding, he looked at the watch and noticed it has stopped. He tried to adjust the time and wind it up but the dial appeared to have become disconnected from the gubbins inside. He kept looking at the watch all day trying to shake it into working and others tried to coax it back to life - all without any joy.
Later in the day with the wedding done, he looked at the watch to find it not only working but showing the correct time. He later took it into a watch repair shop who could find nothing wrong with it at all.
The time it stopped at was the time that his Dad had died.
I also had an overwhelming feeling that Johnny Herbert would win the 1995 British Grand Prix. I never gamble but was going to put a tenner on him that I never ended up doing.
I can give you a story of coincidence rather than me not being able to explain it.
I was good mates with a lad at college back in 1991/1992. We lost touch when we went to different universities and he left the social scene when his girlfriend got pregnant. About 10 years ago I was reminiscing with another friend of mine about the good old days as you do. His name came up and I searched Facebook to see if he was there to add as a friend. I didn't find him (common name) but the very next day as I was at the pizza counter in Asda, he walked right up to me and and said "Hey, not seen you in years, how's it going..." Turns out he had moved to the same town as me and was living about 5 minutes away. He often cycled past my house without me knowing. We're best mates now and see each other every week.
I was good mates with a lad at college back in 1991/1992. We lost touch when we went to different universities and he left the social scene when his girlfriend got pregnant. About 10 years ago I was reminiscing with another friend of mine about the good old days as you do. His name came up and I searched Facebook to see if he was there to add as a friend. I didn't find him (common name) but the very next day as I was at the pizza counter in Asda, he walked right up to me and and said "Hey, not seen you in years, how's it going..." Turns out he had moved to the same town as me and was living about 5 minutes away. He often cycled past my house without me knowing. We're best mates now and see each other every week.
Johnspex said:
jdw100 said:
DrSteveBrule said:
jdw100 said:
DrSteveBrule said:
Yeah, he was a sod like that.
Of course you can explain it. Edited by DrSteveBrule on Monday 6th May 12:18
I had a petrol pump fail once, near Birmingham airport. It’s just one of those things - bits of cars break or drop off from time to time.
You are only saying you can’t explain it because it happened in a grave yard. Given the millions of visits to grave yards every year it’s highly likely failures (some of them a bit odd) will happen.
If your lights had popped out on your driveway you would have been surprised but not attributing it to supernatural causes.
It’s this kind of thinking that holds back the human race.....
I did astronomical mileage in that car, at least 170,000 miles, so the lights had plenty of opportunities to break at speed on any number of bumpy B roads or high-speed jaunts on a motorway. I mentioned the graveyard because that's precisely where it happened. With regards to the context I make a light-hearted comment about it being a 'sign' and now you think I'm convinced my friend is signalling from the afterlife?
I'm sorry you're struggling, let me rewrite my post so you can concentrate on just the facts;
As per the title of the thread, here is my recollection of a weird thing I can't explain. The glass on all 4 of my headlights fell out at exactly the same time as I went to drive out of a carpark. For further clarification NO GHOSTS WERE INVOLVED.
“Hand on heart, every year when I lay flowers I head back to whatever car I’ve owned at the time half waiting for the doors to catch fire or some such. The friend who died was always tinkering with cars. I don’t believe in religion or heaven but if he was sending a sign then that would be it as far as I’m concerned.”
I think you believed that and are now backtracking because a few questions proved how ridiculous it is to even contemplate this being supernatural.
I had driven 30k miles in my car befor the petrol pump failed.
Your lights did have plenty of opportunities to fall off and this was one of them as the glue or whatever it is holding them on finally failed.
So nobody else would have joked about it being a 'sign' after laying flowers at the grave of someone who was always messing around with cars? Every single coincidence that you experience is deftly explained to anyone else who witnessed it using impeccable logic and faultless reasoning?
I was with 2 other friends, we were in our early 20s, it was the first anniversary of his death and we made a joke about it because it was an odd thing to happen. At any other time we'd have thought 'That's odd' and given not a second thought about mechanical tinkering from the afterlife.
I do head back to the car thinking 'I wonder if anything will break?' but only because every time I'm parked in the same carpark I'm reminded of that day. I don't have the car exorcised before getting into it.
So I take it that whenever one of you lot revisit a place where something memorable happened, you never ever recall that event?
This is getting ridiculous.
StevieBee said:
Some months later, I'm in London having a lunchtime drink with another buddy when I'm overcome with a strange pain in my upper left chest. Difficult to explain but felt like it wasn't 'my' pain but still hurt enough for me to need to sit down.
Got home that evening to find out my other friend had died. He was still in Sixth Form and collapsed at lunchtime of an aneurysm in his upper left chest.
This'll be interesting considering the flak I've had for mentioned coincidences and death in the same breath.Got home that evening to find out my other friend had died. He was still in Sixth Form and collapsed at lunchtime of an aneurysm in his upper left chest.
Decided This morning to do a late spring clean, so headed for the supermarket. I bought a few bottles of cleaning stuff, sponges, gloves, dusters etc., went to the checkout. £10.65.
Then I had to get some fags (b&h blue...cheap) whilst there I bought a lottery scratch card as I occasionally do. "That's £10.65 please".
Then I had to get some fags (b&h blue...cheap) whilst there I bought a lottery scratch card as I occasionally do. "That's £10.65 please".
NoVetec said:
Nope.
The glitch is when you actually die in a dream, instead of waking just before.
I died in a dream over the weekend, I was driving a car at night, in a storm, on a dual carriageway and I was overtaking another car doing about 90 (I knew in my mind it was too fast for the conditions but I didn't seem to care) then the wind took hold of the car and I veered off the side of the road, despite steering as much as I could to counter it, I went over the edge of a bridge and ended up headed toward a massive concrete support holding the bridge up sideways, still at full speed, I remember the calm in my mind, the car hit, and I didn't wake up with a fright, I just woke up feeling immensely calm and aware, like I'd been reborn, but I knew I'd definitely died.The glitch is when you actually die in a dream, instead of waking just before.
Strange.
Both my mother and I tend to instinctively know when the other one is going to call - she will literally pop into my head for no reason 20-30 secs before calling me, and vice versa. And that's not to say we have regular calls at the same time - she lives 100 miles away and I could call her on a Tues morning, then maybe a Thurs night, then not for 5 or 6 days - it's always random. This has been the way since I first moved away from the family home and we got into the habit of ringing each other. It's a running joke amongst siblings now as she'll actually tell them I'm probably going to ring about 30 secs before I do.
With that said, I generally don't subscribe to a lot of the things that people label as weird but which can usually be attributed as a coincidence if you examine it closely enough. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet, we are assaulted daily by media and information and each person can experience millions of singular events in their lifetime - the chances of repetition amongst these things (or what we call Deja Vu) is probably quite high.
On occasion though, coincidences can be so strong, so frequent and so obvious that it does make you question if reality is all random and chaotic or if there's an element of design at work. For instance, it's on record that in the summer of 1913, Adolf Hitler & Joseph Stalin & Franz Josef (collectively responsible for over 79,000,000 deaths and cemented forever in history) all lived separately in Vienna and frequently took walks in the same park. People put this down to coincidence, but I would hazard a guess that if a few modern day dictator types (let's throw in Kim Jong Un, Al Assad & Mugabe as examples) all lived in the same city at the same time, conspiracy theorists would be going into meltdown.
With that said, I generally don't subscribe to a lot of the things that people label as weird but which can usually be attributed as a coincidence if you examine it closely enough. There are 7.5 billion people on the planet, we are assaulted daily by media and information and each person can experience millions of singular events in their lifetime - the chances of repetition amongst these things (or what we call Deja Vu) is probably quite high.
On occasion though, coincidences can be so strong, so frequent and so obvious that it does make you question if reality is all random and chaotic or if there's an element of design at work. For instance, it's on record that in the summer of 1913, Adolf Hitler & Joseph Stalin & Franz Josef (collectively responsible for over 79,000,000 deaths and cemented forever in history) all lived separately in Vienna and frequently took walks in the same park. People put this down to coincidence, but I would hazard a guess that if a few modern day dictator types (let's throw in Kim Jong Un, Al Assad & Mugabe as examples) all lived in the same city at the same time, conspiracy theorists would be going into meltdown.
carguy45 said:
Both my mother and I tend to instinctively know when the other one is going to call
My Mum and my Aunt (her sister - but not twins) will more often than not be knitting the same knitting patterns and cook themselves the same thing for tea despite living 250 miles apart. They know when the other isn't well too. It seems easy to get people to believe weird s
t that makes no sense and usually without providing a scrap of evidence (and despite there being lots of evidence to the contrary e.g. any religion, astrology, the power of healing magnets etc) yet lots of people are sceptical of and refuse to believe facts supported by science and evidence e.g. that the earth is a globe or that vaccines are safe.
t that makes no sense and usually without providing a scrap of evidence (and despite there being lots of evidence to the contrary e.g. any religion, astrology, the power of healing magnets etc) yet lots of people are sceptical of and refuse to believe facts supported by science and evidence e.g. that the earth is a globe or that vaccines are safe. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff