Sponsor |  digits | May 24, 2007 11:44am | | Have you ever heard things that may be hard to explain or yet, you had the feeling that if you did, no one would believe you? Or that you may be crazy or the acid trip you took in High School was now throwing repercussions on you? |
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Sponsor | | Kanookie | May 25, 2007 4:38am | Kind of. I have had the experience of thinking someone spoke to me from a few rooms away, just calling my name, but when I responded, they then said they didn't say anything.
I think that is a fairly common type of occurrence. An illusion where other external sounds get mixed in such a way that for a split-second you hear a recognizable sound, or possible pattern of speech. However if you are actually able to hold conversations or hear actual words for extended periods of time then that would be an audio hallucination and something altogether different. |
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Sponsor | | digits | May 25, 2007 5:56am | Like an energy wave that brought the sound either "early" or "late"? Okay. Try this one on. My sister and I were 12. We were upstairs playing video games.
Our parents were out grocery shopping and when they come home they drive into the driveway which led into the back and they'd have to enter the downstairs door...walk up the stairs to the kitchen. They usually call us from downstairs when they arrive home to help them.
This day we hear the downstairs door open [the unlock and jiggle open] and our Dad say, "Girls!" [Like he had a hundred times before.] My sister and I kept on playing - which is normal cause we always had to be told like two or three times. We never said anything to each other cause why would we right - this was the routine...we keep playing.
The normal time between the first call and the second call had come and gone [...and today I don't remember how much time that meant but probably around 5 to 10 minutes] and I grew concerned or inquisitive as to why we weren't being harassed #1 and #2, why hadn't our parents begun making their way up the stairs? So when we got to a stopping point I jumped up and ran to the kitchen to look out the window. The car wasn't there and neither naturally were our parents. I went to sit back down and checked with my sister that she HAD heard something too right? She had.
Ten minutes later when we heard "Girls" we both shot up and ran to the window and of course they were home.
Without wanting to go off topic some background information is that I'd had issues with this house from when we moved in. I won't go into off topic details but will say that for me to hear things at night...I was often corrected in the morning. "No. we weren't up all night dear" [going up and down the stairs and creaking the bannisters that kept me awake and an insomniac from age 7 til we moved at age 12]. Because my Dad is alive I certainly can't chalk it up to anything haunting-like that made that "Girls!" occur.
But here may be something. I'd been studying enough quantum physics and how it could relate to spiritual manifestations or synchronicity or whatever... I am thinking there may be such a thing as a time/space warp where the past "sounds" could be just now coming in or echoing or repeating. We really don't know that much about space/time but Einstein pretty much said it was the same thing right?
A. So why couldn't we experience time wrinkles that bring like your "someone" speaking to you from a few rooms away? Maybe they had said the exact thing to you before and it was like a "replay" for whatever reason? [ie, the earth lined up as we're whirling through space and the sound bounced off something at a really great angle in order to shoot it back to our ear drums]
B. Sometimes I have answered peoples thoughts out loud thinking they had said them with their voice. In that case [and you, Kanookie, may not jive with this] I think I have picked up on their intent [received their energy] and maybe my brain just tricked me into thinking it was said aloud. [ie, "No I didn't say that but I was thinking it and about to say it."] |
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I've also had times where I've been trying to get to sleep and have heard someone I know say my name.. to the point where I have had to get out of bed to phone them and make sure they are ok. I freaked my Dad out so bad one night, but I just had to be sure. Can't explain why it happens. |
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Sponsor | | digits | May 25, 2007 6:40am | | It's fun to wonder why it happens. To me...that's the funnest part! I love a mystery!! ;) Thanks for sharing that Ashlyn -- and Kanookie - thanks for sharing yours too! |
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Sponsor | | lovingpoet | May 25, 2007 7:42am | 4) I can relate to that. You know the way a parent will say your name when they are a little upset with you? My mother would have a certain tone, and would state both my first and middle names.
Not very often, but once in a while as I am falling asleep I here my mother say my name that way. I am certain it is my minds way of telling me something...my mother passed away almost three years ago. I also hear my step father yell my name in the same manner...when I am dozing off. He has been deceased for eight years.
Now I am curious, is anyone out there in the opinion that this is something other than the brain replaying an audio memory? |
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| | | 41264 | May 25, 2007 7:45am | Perhaps, in your case, it's your mother trying to get you to notice that she's there? And by acknowledging that you heard her voice, you acknowledge that you sensed her presence? (thinking out loud)
That is the reason why i felt so compelled to phone my Dad that night (and forgot that we were 3 hours behind, so he was a little pissed when I called him at 2am his time!) |
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Sponsor | | digits | May 25, 2007 11:36am | Now I am curious, is anyone out there in the opinion that this is something other than the brain replaying an audio memory?
Well...I offered my two theories but in your case...ESPECIALLY in the hypnogogic sleeping state [where my astral projection happens to take off as well as "visions"]....who knows? Maybe you're then in the astral realm and your mom and stepfather are there trying to reach out. LoL
I have never heard anything in the astral realm that I know of except for one time...But it could have been a dream, a machination...whatever it was it was trying to wake me up - I know it was cause I asked it to - and whispered "Digits" loud enough for me to wake up and say "What?" No one was there...and I knew he wouldn't be as soon as I opened my eyes. |
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| | | 41264 | May 25, 2007 6:14pm | Digits, I used to 'travel' often but can't remember ever hearing anything. It was more sight, seeing all sorts of wonderful things, people and places, and I never knew if it was my imagination or if it was real, until I 'travelled' 6000kms to a friend, stood by his bed and watched him for a few minutes. I remembered his room vividly, even though I had never been there, and he even rang me a few days later to say he woke thinking about me. He said he could have sworn he woke in the night and I was standing there! When I went to physically visit him a few months later, I wanted to see what his room was like, and it was exactly as I had seen it. Freaked me out, and made me question if I had really been there, or was it just that I knew him so well that I knew what his room would be like.
I believe in all sorts of wild and wonderful things, but my rational mind always seems to convince me otherwise. |
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Sponsor | | digits | May 25, 2007 6:33pm | Ashlyn, that is incredible! I have never experienced anything so extraordinary as that and even if I had, I want to gush all over how I appreciate your sharing that. That's truly amazing. I do believe you were really there. Even more spectacular is that he woke in the night and SAW you!!
That is so something! I was coming out of sleep one morning and saw something that I wouldn't remember until nightfall came. When I remembered that I had seen a person standing there [transluscent and walking by eventually] I remember developing the theory that [like you said] our "rational minds" defend and protect us so much that I think it's natural we forget and we rationalize the fantastic away - even the creatives cause we're still human.
I believe if didn't - if our brains didn't have this amazing ability of filtering out the "unnecessary" our crown chakras would not enable us to function in this world on any level. It's very cool he remembered seeing you there. In my theory, an average [left brained maybe; non creative] person [who has no need or room for that in their life] would have fallen asleep and forgotten. Hence, certain people who are open to these experiences [the creatives....right brains... as I mentioned in another thread] are more readily able to remember and experience more based on the foundation they have gained from their past memories.
Oh and by the way...when we grew up and I would ask my sister if she remembered the "Girls" incident she had forgotten. My grandmother had also forgotten an incident we'd both witnessed. So...my experience that took me an entire day to recall was what pulled this together for my theory. |
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