What was your first paranormal/UFO experience like?

[truth4me]

My first paranormal experience was dealing with my great grandmother. She died in December of 1967 when I was 7 years old. I remember going to her funeral yet I didn't understand what was really going on. All I remember was there was a bunch of people in the church and seeing my grandfather crying. A day or so later as I was laying in bed I felt someone shaking my right foot and I looked at it and it was my dead great grandmother! She had a white gown on and she had a glow about her! I couldn't talk,scream or nothing! I covered my head and was shaking then it stopped. I never mentioned it to my father but I did tell my sisters and they didn't believe me....

My first UFO experience happened out side a small town called Osecola in Northeast Arkansas. A friend and I were riding down a dirt road,I was 17, and all of a sudden the sky got bright,this was at night, and I looked up as my friend Terry did and 2 white cigar shaped ships were sticking out of a cloud. One was sticking out longer then the other and they appeared to have windows in the front. I remember saying "Terry ,what is that !?!" and he said "I don't know!". The ships pulled back in the cloud and everything appeared normal again. We got off that road and fast!

Those were my 2 and I still remember them fresh in my mind....

[gooty64]

The following is an email I sent to a friend after my first "paranormal" experience, it happened April 17th, 2011.



My left palm lay face up with a beam of glowing Light searing into it........

I am sitting in a chair by the kitchen counter working on a small project. Next thing I know, a gentle force has my left hand laying facing palm up on the counter. As i watch in awe, a beam of glowing Light is coming straight down from the ceiling and is penetrating into my hand at the base of my left palm.
As the light sears into me, my palm gradually swells up to about double its size and my fingers swell too. I sense this to be a benevolent beautiful Light that is coming into me. I had no fear and i don't think I could have moved away even if I had wanted to but, I didn't want to.
It was a narrow brilliant beam that flared up at the point of entry into my palm just like the light on a sparkler firework.
It seemed to last for a couple of minutes-not sure though was sort of suspended. And the Light faded away and I came back to my regular senses.
There was no pain involved and no blood either. Although there was a small scar left on my palm that lasted for a couple of weeks before fading away.
Had there not been a scar on my palm, the next morning it would have been hard for me to believe it really happened.

Immediately afterward, I was pretty shocked and a bit hysterical even though the experience felt loving. Being back in the 3D it was really shocking to have my world shook by this Light Infusion.
The telephone rang just a minute later and my spiritual friend Alex got an earful. I remember having a remorseful almost sad feeling when talking to him about the way I had lived my life and like things were going to be different/better now.

Then I took a bubblebath, wrote in my journal and got into bed. As I got into my bed the lamp that I keep on in the corner popped and went out. I remember getting goosebumps when the light popped out and thought-geez, i am just going to sleep now.
The weird thing about this nitelight was that it was a week later when I noticed it was out and when I went to change it, the moment I touched it, it came back on. more goosebumps, because i assume that the reason the nite light popped out, on the night of the Light Infusion, there must have been a highly charged energy current in and around me.

To keep this brief, the next day when I caught my eyes in the rear view mirror while driving, I had the thought, "oh, this is totally different".
And for a few weeks or so afterward I was on a spiritual high which was then followed by a deep melancholy for all life for much of the summer.

Marique, to give some context beforehand, I was being very healthy. I was exersizing, I was meditating, I was even in loving place with a new romantic interest. 10 days before the event happened I had created 2 little meditations that in retrospect may have opened the "window of opportunity" for the event to happen.
It was a warmer than usual April day on the 7th in the 70's so I opened all the windows and doors on my cabin and said this meditation. "I welcome all beings, allspirits, all Light, all energy into my home and into my being."

The other meditation was focused on the earth. And specifically in my neighborhood-semi-rural vicinity.
***I had been considering moving and getting away from where I lived because across the Mississippi river in MN there is a nuclear power plant only 5 miles away as the crow flies. Also, I was concerned about a large rock mining pit 1 mile away and livestock nearby and Nestle/purina plant all within 1-1.5 miles.
But instead of focusing on moving, In the meditation I said: "to please heal the earth in all of these wounded places in my neighborhood and right in my yard too and to bring safety to all animals, birds, sky, trees etc."

I had never meditated like that before in my entire life so, I am guessing it was being heard out there...?

[ghostrider]

I was in the Army onpost at Ft. Bragg, 2 am waiting on the drop zone for a tank drop , we would do parachute recovery duty, my head is on the steering wheel of the hummer( you cat nap when you can) my squad leader is standing next to the passenger side of the vehicle. I look over and he is waving at the sky, a deep red light surrounds 30 feet around us, pitch black every where else. The light fades and I ask what the ?? His reply , the only thing I could do was wave, they had me. we've seen every craft possible, this was different, no sound , and it came from nowhere on one of the most highly technical division combat first to deploy bases the army has, it houses navy, air force, marines, and army and foreign troops at times. the sky had to be cleared by radar because a tank drop is the most dangerous chute drop we do, as far as radar it was clear , but we on the ground on site know different. 1986 was the year. A month later I met the shadow people (EBE) i nearly killed everyone in my neighborhood with a mini 14 w a folding stock running around outside my house in a cold sweat looking for that being , the neighborhood was known for people with newborns checking on them at night the folks would say they saw a man in a black cloke holding a pitch fork standing over the crib , then I had the experience of the EBE standing in my room , protecting my son was the only thing on my mind....I was prepared to shoot everything or anything that moves. Mess with a soldier and you get a machingun in your face at full auto, the comon sense part of the brain is switched off. This inscription was on our dayroom wall at the barrraks, ( Join the Army , travel to exotic lands, meet interesting people, and KILL them).

[SKAWF]

it was a summers evening.

i cant remember how old i was. less than 10.

i was upstairs in my room. i heard an almighty roar, like a low flying jet, only much louder.
and this 'thing' flew low over the top of my house.
from my window i could see all the way to the malvern hills
which were 17 miles away, and to the left.
this thing traveled towards the city.
its altitude was really low

it wasnt a saucer shape.
nor did it have wings.
it was more like a pod, but i only saw it from the rear
i spose it couldve been a sausage shape,
but the impression i got was that it was much shorter.
there were four big thrusters on the back of it, and four smaller ones.
the main thrusters were arranged in a square formation,
with the smaller thrusters positioned in the gaps between the main ones

the noise was so loud it shook the house.
i scrambled underneath the bunk bed.
it was a small gap, and usually it would take a few seconds to get underneath it,
but i was under there quick time!

i got back out soon after though.
i could still hear the noise, and see a dot in the distance.

i went downstairs. i was shaking and shook up by it all.
not one of my family heard anything.

What!!!

how could you not have heard it?

this freaked me out even more.

it was the loudest thing i'd ever heard.

(on another occasion i remember being out at a country pub with my brothers, we were only kids.
the family had been to a market, and my brothers had walkie talkies (crappy things but they did they job)
and an RAF phantom had flown low overhead
my eldest brothers legs gave way. i wasnt bothered by it)

the noise of the UFO was much louder than that..

and the family had heard nothing.

my brother tried to suggest that i hadnt seen a UFO,
and that it was light refracting off of tin cans

(that didnt explain the noise though did it paul!)

anyway that was that.
nothing more said.

then years later, i was at secondary school.
every morning, i would walk to the home of a girl called shelly,
and we would both then walk to school.

at the time she was seeing my old next door neighbor colin.
and one day he was waiting outside school for her,

we got talking, and he told me that he'd seen it too from his window.
there would have been a wall separating us,
but even so, we would have been stood less than 3 ft from each other.

how could we both see it...
and it be the loudest noise i have ever heard,
but the family were completely oblivious to it?

thinking back on it still freaks me a little bit.....

but some of that is my own recall of the event itself.



there was something else when i was very little.

it was a black disc. stationary, up in the air like the sun would be.....
but black.

my mother called us all in from the garden, and we ran in scared.
nothing more to say about it than that though.

steve

[SKIBADABOMSKI]

Other than black magic experiences and ghostly experiences ...

When I was about 12/13 I looked out my bedroom window and it was noon. Like a summer sky just before it got dark. I saw what looked like earth. It was huge and was green and blue. I watched it for a while thinking it was the moon in some new light that I hadn't seen before and then I went back in my room and fetched my brother to come have a look and it was gone. All I know was that it was like 7 times the size of the moon and it had color.

Didn't think much of it at the time and haven't really thought much about it. Anyone have any idea what that could of been?

I was also starring at the clouds when I was about 10 years old and I swear I saw a giant black spider climbing on a cloud and I just gawped at it until it went around the other side of the cloud and I waited and watched for ages but it never reappeared. Yes it was a blue sky with all white fluffy clouds. Thing is I was starring at that cloud for ages before the spider appeared. Yup that was a strange one.

Good idea for a thread. Maybe it's been done before but I'm very keen to hear what others have experienced. Lets try and keep this thread honest.

[D-Day]

Ok, my first UFO sighting/experience happened when I was about 10 years old. I was staying the night at a friends place whose parents lived on a mango farm out in the coutnry. Being kids we decided it would be fun to spend the night sleeping out under the stars on a trampoline in the backyard.

At about 10 pm that night we were still awake and talking when all of a sudden we were startled by a large and extremely bright flash of blue light about 150-200 meters away in the paddock adjacent to the farm house. We were both taken back by the bright flash which immediately drew our attention and caused us both to sit upright on the trampoline at once. From the direction the flash came from we then saw a large, blue, glowing, orb of light - approximately 15-20 meters in diameter hovering about 100 meters above ground level over the paddock. The orb just sat there, hovering silently for about a minute as we both watched it in a state of awe, excitement, and (to some degree) fear at what we were witnessing. Then all of a sudden the orb shot out what looked like a red, laser beam (the same width as the orb itself) straight down towards the ground and it stayed there for what must have been about 10 seconds. At that point the red beam retracted back into the orb and it suddenly shot off at lightning speed straight up into the sky. It was literally there one moment and gone the next.

After seeing all of that we were both a bit freaked out so we ran into the house to tell our parents what we'd seen - they were oblivious to the whole event as they'd been drinking and partying inside the house. We told them the whole story of what had happened and they pretty much just said we must have been imagining things. When we pressed the issue further they started suggesting that we were making the whole thing up. They eventually refused to listen to us any longer and ended up telling us to go back to sleep/bed and stop being so childish. Needless to say, we decided to spend the rest of the night inside the house in my friends bedroom - which remained UFO/ET free for the remainder of the evening (as far we know anyway ;))

[Valley]

My first UFO encounter took place when I was about 7 years old, with my one year the younger brother, outside in our yard in Long Beach, CA. It was just after dark and we were playing among the many "parts cars" my dad used for spare parts in his mechanic business. It began as a distant twinkling multicolored light in the western sky, towards the ocean from my perspective, and it slowly began getting closer and closer until I could clearly see that it was circular shaped and covered with rings within rings of multicolored, blinking, and rectangular/square-shaped lights... I would say hundreds of lights... covering the whole underside of the craft... which was the only perspective I saw. It slowly continued perfectly silent and in a straight line across the sky towards the southwest. As a young child I thought this was the best thing I had ever seen in the sky, and I wanted it to come back, so I had an idea and ran to get the portable chalkboard which we used to practice our ABC's on. I quickly sketched out a drawing of what the craft looked like in maybe 30 seconds and ran with the chalkboard and jumped up on top of one of the junk cars and started waving the drawing to the sky in the direction of the now somewhat distant UFO... and to my delight it stopped in its tracks and began to slowly move straight back towards me until it actually stopped directly overhead. It then began to descend slowly until it was probably just a couple hundred feet exactly overhead. (I would estimate its diameter to be around 75 feet.) Then it began to slowly lift back up and move back towards the west again from the direction it first came from. I then quickly noticed a helicopter flying straight towards it followed by several other aircraft all triangulating on its position... but the UFO just seemed to casually drift away in the distance and continue to gain altitude, and stay a comfortable distance from all the other aircraft now in the sky until it faded into the distance, with the string of helicopters and planes in pursuit.

While this was all taking place my teenage sister, who was babysitting us, was freaking out and calling my mom and dad, who were out bowling at the time. She was thinking that I was going to be taken away and she was going to be in big trouble. Another older sister of mine was there and also saw the craft.

[bogeyman]

1976 or 1977, something told me to go to the window so I did and there was a glowing block, silent and the white light was self contained. I was told by my mother when I was much younger probably about 5 years old, I woke up in a trace like state, and said to my mother "your going to die". My mother found out a short time later that she needed an operation for a gallstone removal, which if left would of killed her. I do not remember this second event at all.

[markpierre]

When I was a kid, up until 6 or so I would sleepwalk down the stairs 4 or 5 nights of the week, and wake up hysterical on my moms lap. I'd stay there and cuddle and calm down while my folks watched TV.
I'd watch bright dense vapor forms pass through and in and out of the walls and ceiling. Nearly every time. They felt like they were like people, not like clouds. But like they didn't notice us.
It wasn't disturbing or odd, just something to watch. I was a creepy kid. The hysteria was from a recurring nightmare of being assimilated by light. Write a book about that.
I've complained about that to a lot of therapists, but those were probably the least disrupting of all the experiences I've had. The nightmares were horrible though. It felt like dying.

The only true aliens (never human) that I've met were speaking through my girlfriends mouth at strangely odd or inappropriate times. Two distinctly different.
One was a group that spoke through a single spokes-voice. Maybe 7 or 8 times? They were blue with no faces and positioned like a rack of billiard balls. (Hey, that's what I was given.)
I asked after a couple of times who they were, and they said "why, we are one. Is there another?" Cheeky bastards.
I felt like an idiot. But I only said it because they offered the opportunity to ask questions and I couldn't think of any. I literally asked for it.
They knew a lot, but they knew nothing whatever about inconvenience. They seemed to know me quite well, but I didn't know them.
I couldn't engage with them, mostly just listened. But I felt like I was regarded very tenderly, so I grew to love them quite deeply. It was weird, but enjoyable.

The other was a one off. He joined us in the bathtub one evening and spoiled some fun we had planned. But he gave me something personal that made it worth it.
That one just looked like my naked girlfriend.

It's fun to tell these stories, thanks. It seldom feels safe to.

[Lifebringer]

The ability to know when someone in my family was going to passover. There's a tall mulato balding stocky man, that reaches for the person to pass. He comes in my dreams and if I don't want to go, he still gently guides me to witness what is going to happen. As I stand there as a "presence", he proceeds to reach for the family member, some don't want to go, but he still ends up with them in his embrace. He then takes them in a dance hall, and embraces them and they spin and dance and spin and then i wake up. Usually within 24 hours, message of a parting happens among the family of that person.

We lost quite a few in our family due to bad health choices and desperation of poverty and a non-visible American Dream which always ended up reduced, as just a constant nagging thought.

[RunningDeer]

About, 2002-3, I was in the parking lot. I reminded myself to hold focus on my heart light flowing. Then a tall man, in a full length brown coat, and wavy shoulder length hair, just nodded while passing me by and I heard in my mind from him, “Yes”, as a confirmation. I smiled and turned back and he wasn’t there. For just an instant, I remember thinking, "Hey, I know that guy."

There was nothing else to ponder about it. On some level there was an inner knowing that left my thoughts soon after. And a cool uplifting memory when I relive it even years later.

[DNA]

At age 17 me and my family moved into a new nieghborhood, a new house. I took the attic room. After being there for a month and a half, my mother, myself,my sister and one of my best freinds were all convinced the house was haunted. There was a constant sense of something watching you in that house, it was,,,, unnerving.

At times the presence would be so powerfull the only metaphor that works is that it felt like it was screaming at me to get out of it's house! It felt like it was right up on me, screaming at me!

After being in the house for a couple of months, we became aquainted with our next door neighbor, a jolly talkative woman in her late twenties who was pregnant at the time. After becoming aquainted she wasted no time in telling us that the previous occupant of the house had run into some trouble with the law, didn't wanna go to prison, and hung himself, in the attic room, which was now my bedroom.

This made a lot of sense, because by far the worst of the manifestations would be in my room. There would be times when by myself that I would be engaged in a game if you will. I would feel the being yelling in my face, and I would pretend I didn't notice it. I can't explain why I pretended, I don't know who I was trying to fool, myself or the ghost.

After being there for about seven months, I had this lucid dream. And I feel the interaction I had in this dream with this ghost was real. I know that doesn't make it real for the reader, but for me, it was real.

I was on my way home, walking back from a freinds house through the quiet back streets. I realized I was dreaming. Immediatly after I realized I was dreaming, a short, smallish built gentleman in his late fifties approached me. I never saw his face. He was wearing a field workers hat they would wear in Mexico with a colorfull blanket draped over his shoulders. The man never spoke a word to me, and yet he demanded my attention. He was exactly how I imagined Don Juan to look like from the Carlos Castaneda books.

Instead of saying anything, he pointed in my direction (6 Oclock), and as his arm pivoted towards another direction (3 Oclock), I experienced a wooshing sound, like I was in the middle of a cyclone, and after his arm stopped moving, we were in my room.

Before I had a chance to ask what we were supposed to do there, he loaded up his pointed finger again turned his arm towards my bed, the wooshing sound took place again, and instead of my bed there was a cocoon with a moldy corpse inside of it, kind of looked like a mummy that had been unwrapped.




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At this point, I felt an ah ha in my heart area, and I turned to him and said, "ohhhhh you want me to wake him up". (Don't ask me how I knew this, I just knew it).

So I put my hands on the cocoon with the mummy inside of it and started cradeling it back and forth. After moving the cocoon back and forth like you would rock a baby in a cradle. It didn't take long before the corpse looked like an old man.
After rocking him for only a little bit the cocoon disapeared and I put my hands on the old man. He was starting to be animated and he was talking to himself like he was dreaming. After a little while he now only looked about 28. He was now very irratated, and perturbed, like he would be if I was waking him up out of bed. He finally roused and said "what, what do you want"?

Now it was my turn to use the wooshing pointed finger arm motion gesture. I pointed to the foot of the bed and when the woosh was over, a pregnant woman was standing before us, and the 28 year old guy was standing beside me when I told him " you have to wake up, because you have to be born".




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At this point the Don juan dream guide, or spirit guide, (or I don't even know if he was my personal spirit guide he could have been the ghost's spirit guide),,,came up to the man and they began to talk.

At this point I was appreciating the lucidness of the dream I was having, I kept staring at my hands and then staring at the walls, for some reason, I then jumped off the roof of my house, staring at my hands and feet while falling. The 28 year old and Don Juan were looking over the side of the roof down at me while I was falling. The 28 year old asked, why is he doing that?(Refering to my slow motion fall off the roof) And the Don Juan, of whom this is the only thing I heard him say to me through the whole dream replied in a resigned, exasperated tone, "because,,, he's an idiot".

As a last note, I never ever felt the unnerving presence in my house after that, and I never heard any one else note of the presense after this either.

[conk]

I was a young 20ish married man in the 1970s. My then wife would come home to visit me during her late shift working at the telephone company. Oh yeah, she left her physical body at work during these visits. She was my first paranormal experience. She was very gifted. I could not lie to this woman. She knew EVERYTHING I did.

[Cartomancer]

My prom date was a shape shifter. At least I thought so by the end of the evening. The rest is history.

On the serious side I once saw a large unexplained reptile while fishing. There was another witness as well. I later checked to see if any lizards in that area got to 6' in length but there were none in that region. I even looked up a herpetologist online and he checked too and said no the largest there should have only been about 3' including the tail.

Never had any truly paranormal experiences but life is full of synchronous events that always amaze me.

[ED209]

My first UFO encounter took place when I was about 7 years old, with my one year the younger brother, outside in our yard in Long Beach, CA. It was just after dark and we were playing among the many "parts cars" my dad used for spare parts in his mechanic business. It began as a distant twinkling multicolored light in the western sky, towards the ocean from my perspective, and it slowly began getting closer and closer until I could clearly see that it was circular shaped and covered with rings within rings of multicolored, blinking, and rectangular/square-shaped lights... I would say hundreds of lights... covering the whole underside of the craft... which was the only perspective I saw. It slowly continued perfectly silent and in a straight line across the sky towards the southwest. As a young child I thought this was the best thing I had ever seen in the sky, and I wanted it to come back, so I had an idea and ran to get the portable chalkboard which we used to practice our ABC's on. I quickly sketched out a drawing of what the craft looked like in maybe 30 seconds and ran with the chalkboard and jumped up on top of one of the junk cars and started waving the drawing to the sky in the direction of the now somewhat distant UFO... and to my delight it stopped in its tracks and began to slowly move straight back towards me until it actually stopped directly overhead. It then began to descend slowly until it was probably just a couple hundred feet exactly overhead. (I would estimate its diameter to be around 75 feet.) Then it began to slowly lift back up and move back towards the west again from the direction it first came from. I then quickly noticed a helicopter flying straight towards it followed by several other aircraft all triangulating on its position... but the UFO just seemed to casually drift away in the distance and continue to gain altitude, and stay a comfortable distance from all the other aircraft now in the sky until it faded into the distance, with the string of helicopters and planes in pursuit.

While this was all taking place my teenage sister, who was babysitting us, was freaking out and calling my mom and dad, who were out bowling at the time. She was thinking that I was going to be taken away and she was going to be in big trouble. Another older sister of mine was there and also saw the craft.

I live in Long Beach...you can still see the thing you are describing.

[Valley]

My first UFO encounter took place when I was about 7 years old, with my one year the younger brother, outside in our yard in Long Beach, CA. It was just after dark and we were playing among the many "parts cars" my dad used for spare parts in his mechanic business. It began as a distant twinkling multicolored light in the western sky, towards the ocean from my perspective, and it slowly began getting closer and closer until I could clearly see that it was circular shaped and covered with rings within rings of multicolored, blinking, and rectangular/square-shaped lights... I would say hundreds of lights... covering the whole underside of the craft... which was the only perspective I saw. It slowly continued perfectly silent and in a straight line across the sky towards the southwest. As a young child I thought this was the best thing I had ever seen in the sky, and I wanted it to come back, so I had an idea and ran to get the portable chalkboard which we used to practice our ABC's on. I quickly sketched out a drawing of what the craft looked like in maybe 30 seconds and ran with the chalkboard and jumped up on top of one of the junk cars and started waving the drawing to the sky in the direction of the now somewhat distant UFO... and to my delight it stopped in its tracks and began to slowly move straight back towards me until it actually stopped directly overhead. It then began to descend slowly until it was probably just a couple hundred feet exactly overhead. (I would estimate its diameter to be around 75 feet.) Then it began to slowly lift back up and move back towards the west again from the direction it first came from. I then quickly noticed a helicopter flying straight towards it followed by several other aircraft all triangulating on its position... but the UFO just seemed to casually drift away in the distance and continue to gain altitude, and stay a comfortable distance from all the other aircraft now in the sky until it faded into the distance, with the string of helicopters and planes in pursuit.

While this was all taking place my teenage sister, who was babysitting us, was freaking out and calling my mom and dad, who were out bowling at the time. She was thinking that I was going to be taken away and she was going to be in big trouble. Another older sister of mine was there and also saw the craft.

I live in Long Beach...you can still see the thing you are describing.

Can you elaborate please?

[Carmody]

Take your experiences, and try to remember the specifics of the environment, in totality. then run them through this kind of filter:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?37892-Psychic-Attacks-Marijuana-Retirement&p=457653&highlight=radon#post457653

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?41014-Is-Radon-a-tool-used-to-see-other-dimensions&p=434229&highlight=radon#post434229

Radon is considered to be an element, yes, but it is prevalent in many psychic experiences.

One must look at how 'looking glass' works. ("looking glass", Dan-Burisch--who's testimony in this area, I consider to be very solid)

....and how the entire cosmos is a charged plasma/gas, and thus is a dimensional bridge (involved in time but also outside of time--highly effective, dispersed effectiveness, like a dye--why astrology works). (~95% of all matter in the universe, is in a charge plasma state, not as solids as seen from earth)

A situation...one where the idea of a physical atom, may be no more than a dimensional energetic cluster of 'vectors' of different dimensions ---- combining.

[Mike]

selfishly resurrecting this thread even though i have nothing to add to it really.

but i'm really enjoying some of these stories and hoping for a few more.

[Jules]

Paranormal experience: paranormal means experience that lies beyond the range of "normal." My grandmother and grandad lived at an old farmhouse in Missouri, and I had a few experiences there. The first experience was when I was 2-3 years old. I was put into one of those square cribs on the ground. It was in the mid 60's, and I was upset because I didn't want to go to bed. I was crying because I heard grown-ups laughing in the background, it was dark, and all I could see was the light switch was lit like a night light. I continued crying, upset with the talking in the other room. When I noticed figures in the night light, like animals, kids on a tricycle, and animated shadowy objects moving in a circular pattern. I looked at the objects, and it was interesting, so I looked at it until I went to sleep. I have not seen anything like that before or since, I felt conscious, but being 3 years old, did it really exist? It seemed very real. I still wonder what that was really. Actually it was pretty cool.

[Jules]

UFO experience: UFO mean unidentified flying object, which could be from another planet or from earth, you just have no way of identifying it. Approximately 1996-1997ish, I woke up early for work, due to the fact that I had a job at a bank that I had to be there at 4 am doing data entry. As usual, I rushed to get ready and left about 3:25 am in my car headed for the highway. Before I even got from the road to that highway, I could see an object with red and white blinking lights come down from the sky toward me and a few other cars. The object wasn't a plane or helicopter, it wasn't noisy like that, and had more control to go the direction that was chosen, even at different angles, and flowed smoothly. I looked at the other cars to see if they were reacting, there were only a couple of cars due to the early hour. No one honked their horn or veered or acted abnormal. I thought, am I the only one seeing this? I never see crazy stuff like this, and I know I'm not crazy, am I? The object went next to me following me on the highway, it was triangular shaped, dark grey with lights on the edges of it, and few toward the top. It flew right next to my car as I was driving! I'm not kidding. I could not see who was in the craft, because the window was completely dark and you could not see through it. But I sensed they were looking at me. I then thought, yes this is freaky, but I am on a highway, I have to watch the road, because I don't want to be in an accident, so I paid attention to the road. After about 3 miles on the highway, the craft then soared up a little, then faster than I have ever seen, it was in the sky beyond what I could see. I wondered why there was no noise, but a slight vibration. I looked on the news to see if anyone reported anything. No one did, and I didn't want to, because people would ridicule me. Well a few years later, I found out people in Arizona discussing the same type of craft, and had it on camera, I thought, yes that was it. I didn't feel so crazy. I believe this was anti-gravity, and beyond what people comprehended with current technology. I am in Las Vegas, so it could very well be military (Nellis is right by LV, or the test site nearby), or it could have been something else. I've told family (who laughed), and a few friends, but this is the first time I am telling outside of that.

[Mike]

i once lived in an apartment complex that was directly under the flight paths of many incoming passenger jets. if you exited my courtyard and took an immediate right and walked 50 or so paces you'd wind up in a small clearing under some telephone lines where my buddies and i would sit and drink beers and enjoy the summer nights.

depending upon where you were sitting during one of these pow-wows, the approach of the plane could be a little misleading. on this particular night our angle put us almost head on with the jets, so any view of it's body was obscured. all you could see was an approaching light. there was very little depth perception.

around 1am we all saw an approaching light, and naturally assumed it was an approaching jet. however, there was very little if any noise accompanying this jet, and though a few of us were laughing and joking about a possible ufo encounter, the tension was undeniably rising with each passing second. there came a point when the jet was almost directly above us, and still we heard nothing. and we saw only this ominous light.

i rose from my chair and approached the light, and slowly made my way thru a small field of knee-high weeds to get a better view. this was to be my moment, when the wondrous space people would send a beam of light to rescue this suffering genius. i'd endure their anal and frontal orifice probes if only they'd take me with them to their home planet, where pain and suffering and premature male pattern baldness were but dreams of another reality. oh, i was really in love with this vision...let me tell you. and oh, i was wildly drunk too.

now, i was peripherally aware of some vague commotion surrounding me; i heard folding chairs crash to the ground and scurrying feet and cries of "holy sh#t! lets get the f#cking hell outta here!" we *really* thought a ufo was approaching, and while the crew of 6 scattered like a pack of frightened rabbits, this idiot kept moving forward with what he felt was his date with cosmic destiny.

i don't remember the rest of it really. i was told by my now hiding friends that i was slowly walking thru this field with out-stretched arms, as if welcoming the returning Gods with a glorious bear hug. "take me with you!!!", i was alleged to have screamed, but again i remember none of it. funnily enough, i do recall seeing the belly of the jet fly over though, accompanied by that all too familiar jet engine roar. i do recall embarrassed men returning from various hiding spaces, claiming to have known all along it was really just a jet. and i do recall a slight pang of disappointment, wishing like mad that i'd really seen something otherwordly.

[Carmody]

selfishly resurrecting this thread even though i have nothing to add to it really.

but i'm really enjoying some of these stories and hoping for a few more.

Ok.

I was 3, I was 4, I was 5, 6, 7, 8 etc.

I cannot separate it from my every day life, they are one and the same. usually at least 1 to 3 in a given 24 hour period.

For example, I will go to sleep soon, and when I wake up, I will have had perfectly accurate precognitive dreams. Possibly other experiences. Astral projection. Dream sharing with others, some of those folks are in the here and now thread. all kinds of things. Play with the weather, talk in people's heads in waking daily life, voice of command, speak with animals, and so on.

If I want to shut it off, I smoke some weed in the evening. (small amounts is all that is required)

As soon as I stop smoking, it begins again.

Welcome to the next level.

Some lives are like that. I am far from unique, and many whom cannot handle it or hold this type of wiring together..are in our asylums, drugged, or on the streets, drugged out. I know several people, including relatives, who see dead people, things we call ghosts. I've been known to send the odd ghost off into the light, and so on.

It's all there, one just has to be able to turn and face it, and hold themselves together in the face of something that feels initially, like the self is dissolving or unable to stay together. too much change - too much difference. So the universe takes it easy on you, until you might be in a condition to deal with it, or have advanced to that stage.

the odd UFO, as we like to call them, maybe 3, 4, 5 times, maybe more? Oh yeah, past life recalls in the mix as well...

[TelosianEmbrace]

I've had a few, and can't remember in exactly which order they occurred. Here are some.

*Missing time from a Grey abduction. A whole lot more on this subject.

*Consciously willing myself out of my body and looking down on it, seeing a golden glow coming from my eyes and partially open mouth.

*Seeing Sai Baba materialise a necklace out of thin air. Also vibhuti (Holy Ash)

*I was meditating in the Mandir and Sai Baba was reading my thoughts and answering them with hand gestures. Afterwards I was talking to Rem, who was sitting right behind me. He recounted that Sai Baba was talking to him in his head, and then Sai Baba said "Give the young guy a go"(Meaning me). As Rem turned towards me, he saw a misty blue aura around me that was so strong, it almost knocked him backwards.

*I had ummm... self pleasured the night before. I had this incredible dream. I was in a room and people were singing out of tune. There was a pair of sandals on the wall, which were Christ's. Sai Baba then entered, went to put the sandals on, and they were his. He then came to me, took the same hand and looked directly into my eyes. He telepathically sent me an energy, which translated in my mind as "You are the first true believer. You are the greatest believer ever". I woke from this dream, and my hand was pulsating with energy. I took quite a while before it returned to normal.

UFO- I was driving in central Victoria at night through open undulating countryside. I looked to my left, and noticed this huge, irregularly shaped object. It looked like a huge rock (Probably a hundred metres or more across) and it was burning with this strange green flame. It wasn't going incredibly fast. I would imagine a comet would speed through the sky, but this object wasn't moving much faster than a plane. I pulled over and watched it until it passed behind some low hills, and waited to see an explosion of impact, but none came. I read the papers and watched the news the next day, but nothing. No reports whatsoever.

*I had the strangest experience. I was walking along the beach, and looking out over the water. Then I got this strange feeling. I saw the image of a nude woman coming up out of the water, walking towards me with a smile on her face, and hugging and kissing me. I energetically felt this. She then disappeared.

*The most beautiful dream I had involved a cross. I had had low energy for a while, feeling drained all the time. That morning, I had a dream. It was all black. Then, as I was watching, A light came on and drew a shape in glowing, flickering white light. It was the shape of a cross. I awoke with the most incredible feeling of strength and wellbeing.

[Selene]

My earliest psychic experience? Hmmm. They tend to blur together, but one early one: I must have been about four and dreaming that I was falling off the top of the stairs that led to our basement, hurtling over the open side toward the concrete floor below….

In the middle of my panicked “fall” I suddenly realized “Hey, I’m only dreaming here and this can’t hurt me!” My dream suddenly became lucid. And now totally enjoying the ride, I floated giggling and delighted toward the floor.

And, as Carmody said, life has been one big carnival ride ever since.

I didn’t become seriously ‘psychic’ until I was about nine and began to develop real clairvoyance and precognition. But that’s another story….

Cheers,

Selene

[1inMany]

I was four, my brothers eight and ten. We were at my grandparents' house, upstairs in one of the bedrooms playing Lincoln Logs. The windows were closed, and there was no wind. But the doorknob moved several times, then the door opened. My big, brave brothers ran screaming and left me sitting there terrified. Sometime during that visit, we wandered into another bedroom to explore. In one bedroom, the closet was long and narrow, and had two small steps leading up to it. When we opened it, there was no back wall to the closet.

In later years, actually in the past few, I have had dreams of flying through that closet, and I have not found the end of it yet. I think it is a vortex of sorts, as do my brothers. I have also dreamed of a small passageway in the walls downstairs, and have traveled through it. I have found that reality changes quite a bit through that passageway...caves and "people" and ... well, another world.

That was some house.

[ulli]

I recall at age four I had an argument with my older cousins.
The were eight and ten then and insisted that I was lying or fantasizing when I tried to tell them that I had seen the dark side of the moon.
I remember clearly the feeling of conviction that came over me, and also how devastated I felt at being ridiculed.
I knew that I had been in a craft when I had seen the moon close-up, and it was not in a dream.
Of course, now I know that I was deluded...unless....unless...

[ulli]

I was four, my brothers eight and ten. We were at my grandparents' house, upstairs in one of the bedrooms playing Lincoln Logs. The windows were closed, and there was no wind. But the doorknob moved several times, then the door opened. My big, brave brothers ran screaming and left me sitting there terrified. Sometime during that visit, we wandered into another bedroom to explore. In one bedroom, the closet was long and narrow, and had two small steps leading up to it. When we opened it, there was no back wall to the closet.

In later years, actually in the past few, I have had dreams of flying through that closet, and I have not found the end of it yet. I think it is a vortex of sorts, as do my brothers. I have also dreamed of a small passageway in the walls downstairs, and have traveled through it. I have found that reality changes quite a bit through that passageway...caves and "people" and ... well, another world.

That was some house.

Wow, I just posted about being four, and my cousins being eight and ten, when I saw your post, and your own 4, 8 and ten...
what a number synchronicity...

[Poly Hedra]

Amazing thread, its so cool to hear about everyone's experiences. These experiences may be the reason we are here talking about these experiences. Mine.. One of my earliest memories is the feeling that I'm being watched. I was sure the people who were watching me were not from Earth. I still remember that feeling perfectly. I'd say I was about 2 maybe. As the years went on and I became a kid I thought about that feeling and decided that it must have been just a fantasy. After learning about things like ETs and Dolores Cannon etc I think its quite possible that it was real.

I wouldn't call this paranormal but it was quite weird. I have woken up more than once thinking in a very odd way. It wasn't the usual way of thinking. its very hard to explain. It felt like I was thinking in numbers, calculations, shapes, logic. So clear.

When Dolores Cannon's book goes into other life forms, especially the part about machines with consciousness, it struck a chord.

[Blake Elder]

I, too, am loving this thread. My first paranormal experience was a ghost/poltergeist type of experience when I was 15. The house I lived in at the time, had no history of hauntings (it was a relatively new house).
I started hearing footsteps in the kitchen often when i was alone. No one else seemed to hear it, so i didn't think much of it. A little later, my sister and her friends and I decided to hold a "seance" (although none of us knew much about them, except via hollywood lol). I remember asking the "ghost that walks the kitchen" to give us a sign and flicker some candles. The candles instantly began flickering violently, everyone gasped, and a large Huntsman spider ran from the corner of the room and crawled all over me (I lost any fear of spiders from that moment on, so I can feel grateful for that).
Following that night, strange events occurred much more frequently - I would be alone and doors would open or close themselves, lights would turn on or off, objects would move by themselves when i was nearby and i would hear frequent strange noises. At one point i walked up to my desk covered in papers, and one piece of paper began to flutter violently with no visible force or wind to make to make it do that.
While in bed one night, i looked up in my semi-dark room and i saw a mist above me. I rubbed my eyes a few times to make sure i was fully awake but it stayed there. I leapt out of bed and walked to the side of my room and looked back. The mist was still there floating about a metre above my bed. I looked outside but could see no fog. it was a clear night. Then the mist began to move out of my window and down towards a garden in our backyard. The mist seem to grow as it descended, covering several square metres. I checked around me and there was still no fog anywhere in the neighbourhood.
After that, these events stopped, for no reason.