Your Most Mysterious Experience

[cronus]

I was waiting for a bus one day. A double decker turned up. Sat down. No shit it was a single decker on the inside. Tardis bus. Cannot explain this. Hadn't been drinking - really with it in mind spirit and body.

[tattuchu]

Stopped over my friend's house after school. We were coming home from the bus stop and he stopped at his house to change out of his school clothes. I sat on my bike outside and waited. Five seconds later, he emerged. It was impossible. His room was up a long set of stairs and down the hall on the second floor. For him to go up to his room, get undressed, get changed, and then come back down outside would've taken several minutes easily. And he wasn't running when he came out, nor out of breath. Basically, he went in the door and seconds later came right back out completely changed. As I said, it was physically impossible. And yet it happened

[pErvinalia]

His secret twin brother?

I once woke up in the middle of the night while staying at a friend's house and swore there was someone standing at the end of the bed. You know, ghost like and all. Scared the bejesus out of me.

[tattuchu]

His secret twin brother?

No. That's when I was abducted by aliens. That's the only explanation for the missing time.

I once woke up in the middle of the night while staying at a friend's house and swore there was someone standing at the end of the bed. You know, ghost like and all. Scared the bejesus out of me.

I once woke up in the middle of the night while staying at a friend's house and swore there was someone fucking me up the ass. I knew that was crazy, of course, so I went back to sleep. The next morning, my bum was sore. It's amazing the tricks your mind can play on you. The dream seemed so real. At breakfast, my friend's father was super nice to me. Later, he brought me to the toy store and let me pick out anything I wanted. I wished my father was as nice as him.
I slept over there a lot. Funny, I always seemed to have that same strange dream. But I had a lot of fun over there. My friend's dad was super cool. He liked to wrestle a lot. It was fun wrestling but he always seemed to have something hard in his pocket. He told me I could reach in and take it out if I wanted to see what it was but for some reason I never did. Anyhow, eventually my friend's dad went away. I never knew why. Everyone seemed really upset. And then my friend moved away.
I still have some of the presents his dad gave me. Every time I look at them, my bum hurts. Isn't that weird?

[rachelbean]

Child rape. Hilarious.

Back when I was about 10 years old and a devout Christian this woman came over to pray for us (don't know why, it's the sort of things evangelicals do). I was standing up and she told me to close my eyes and she pushed on my head a tiny bit and I went backwards (my mom was behind me so she caught me). I was laying on the floor but I felt like I had risen out of my body and was floating up against the ceiling and didn't weigh anything. Obviously it was just psychological but to this day I can remember how it felt and how strange it was, and how at the time for me, it was absolute proof that God was real and interacted with us.

[tattuchu]

Rape jokes are cool.*


*You have to read this in Matt Smith's Doctor Who voice.

[cronus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic_susceptibility

Had a similar experience with a Muslim one time saying a prayer in Arabic or something. Kept needing to turn to one particular part of the room we were in. Spooked out when told it was the direction of Mecca. Obviously micro body movements and intonations in the warbling dialectic had influenced me. Our free will is always under the spell. Takes both knowledge and a strong mind to move on. Most succumb to their cultural superstitions and believe in ghosts and gins and voodoo. Some go to the opposite extreme becoming hyper-cynical and stop questioning reality and situation that way.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic_susceptibility

Had a similar experience with a Muslim one time saying a prayer in Arabic or something. Kept needing to turn to one particular part of the room we were in. Spooked out when told it was the direction of Mecca. Obviously micro body movements and intonations in the warbling dialectic had influenced me. Our free will is always under the spell. Takes both knowledge and a strong mind to move on. Most succumb to their cultural superstitions and believe in ghosts and gins and voodoo. Some go to the opposite extreme becoming hyper-cynical and stop questioning reality and situation that way.

I believe in gins. Tonic is our proof.

[tattuchu]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotic_susceptibility

Had a similar experience with a Muslim one time saying a prayer in Arabic or something. Kept needing to turn to one particular part of the room we were in. Spooked out when told it was the direction of Mecca. Obviously micro body movements and intonations in the warbling dialectic had influenced me. Our free will is always under the spell. Takes both knowledge and a strong mind to move on. Most succumb to their cultural superstitions and believe in ghosts and gins and voodoo. Some go to the opposite extreme becoming hyper-cynical and stop questioning reality and situation that way.

I believe in gins. Tonic is our proof.

And proof is our tonic!

[Hermit]

Plunged my hand into my right trouser pocket. No keys there. Panic! Keys gone! Must call locksmith to get into my car. Went to get phone out of my left pocket. Found keys. I am mystified to this very day about how the keys made their way into the wrong pocket!

[Svartalf]

Mine must have been when I took part in a hypnotic regression experiment, nominally to live your past lives... and found myself in the skin of a character I had entirely made up for RPG gaming, experience complete with out of normal human spectrum perceptions... 25 years later I still don't now what to make of it.

[JimC]

I was camped out in the desert with friends many years ago, sitting around the campfire. We spotted moving lights in the sky, several of them. They were fast, and they made sharp, right-angled turns without changing speed...

[pErvinalia]

Were drugs involved, Jim?!!

[JimC]

Were drugs involved, Jim?!!

This was in the 70s...

Naturally, we were all stoned, but only a little dope, no hallucinogens that time...

I don't think it was an artefact of altered consciousness, but I suppose it's always hard to be sure...

[cronus]

Were drugs involved, Jim?!!

This was in the 70s...

Naturally, we were all stoned, but only a little dope, no hallucinogens that time...

I don't think it was an artefact of altered consciousness, but I suppose it's always hard to be sure...

Landsat or something military being tested. Australia is the place to test anything that might blow up and shower the people.