Actually, I am being really unreasonable. However I would like to ask those who have experienced Angel Feathers to....

[DioneTheDiabolist]

...answer a few questions that I have.

1). What does it feel like when you see that feather?

2). What are your thoughts when this happens?

And

3). What would you say are the long term (if any) effects that you would attribute to these encounters.

I understand that this belief has been the subject of some ridicule here. I have no intention of ridiculing anyone. This thread has been inspired by a previous AIBU thread, but is not a thread about a thread. I am not a journalist. I am not seeking results to use in an academic submission or publication. What I am seeking is knowledge and understanding in the hope that I can use it to help others.

IABU for the following reasons:
I only posted in AIBU for the traffic. If MN rule that I have breached guidelines, can it be moved and not deleted.

And I ask the skeptics not to put people off answering honestly. If you think it necessary, I can start another thread for all your thoughts to be discussed. Perhaps the scientifically minded of you could look at this as an information gathering excersise.

Absolutely, Anchoress.

Rockinhippy- as you're posting on an AIBU thread, I feel it's OK to ask you whether the tingling sensation you describe might possibly be something to do with the fibromyalgia and migraines you mention in your next post?

It's like anything else anchoress there will always be charlatans that jump on the money making bandwagon - you only have to look at the pseudo science wrinkle cream or gut bacteria enhancing yoghurt drink ads - it's just life

$300 for an angel statue for your garden!

You want to be careful of those.

My question, too, curlew. Although, if Rockinhippy has all that going on, health wise, I wouldn't begrudge her taking pleasure from some of the symptoms.

One of my friends had a miscarriage. After leaving hospital she was outside her front door when a white feather floated down to her from a clear sky.
She likes to think that it's a 'sign' from her dead baby.

I think a gull probably flew over hundreds of feet up so that it's feather floated down slowly and the bird had flown on by the time the feather arrived at my friend's feet.

I'm not going to tell my friend that because she probably deep down knows it's more likely to be from a bird anyway; and because I don't want to upset her.

If a belief in something helps someone and causes no harm, then that's fine IMO.

Aren't they just bird feathers, you know, like what we have knocking about in the sky?

Surely and angel feather would be FUCKING huge

Oh, and how come the angels have only started dropping feathers in the last 20 years? Up until then, a white feather was a symbol of cowardice.

No, I've always had it, way way before i took ill -

though I have at times wondered if I'm just more tuned into certain frequencies missed by others (& not yet understood by science) as a result of some sort of hypersensitivity of CNS, or something - I've always had a very acute sense of taste & smell - could recreate the recipe for anything I ate as I could accurately pin point al ingredients - my hearing has always been well above average & I used to have well above 20/20 vision, could in the past accurately tell you the fibre content of a piece of cloth, etc etc - so my other senses have always been very finely tuned - so it's an idea & I see this in my DD too & she is very sensitive whatever this frequency is too & just accepts it as a normal part of life - it is for us & others too

Either I have a very blingy guardian angel or my pet cockatiel is moulting again. I keep her feathers because they are pretty. I could become a Certified Angel Practitioner and sell them online.

White feathers appear at the stop of stairs under a hideous large picture from my gran's front room that I rescued from a skip because it is her favourite. The first time it happened I thought it was her saying thank you, she died nearly a decade ago it still happens although now I realise it is normally when I have changed the beds.
Being rational didn't stop me taking comfort when she first died but I don't think I ever truly believed.

I think that round my way the feathers are seen as not necessarily OF an angel but SENT by an angel.

Some people round here also believe in having to salute lone magpies. (I live near the countryside).

Also many here believe in spirits and mediums.

*BTW I don't believe in all that woo stuff myself, just saying what some of my friends and acquaintances believe in.

Angel practitioners read Angel Cards, they are just another version of Tarot cards, no great mystery & nothing new, neither is the concept of feathers as signs & symbols of the deceased or spirt guides or angels or whatever, comfort from beyond etc etc - it's just a resurrection of old Native American Indian beliefs etc etc its been around for ever

Angel practitioners read Angel Cards, they are just another version of Tarot cards

Well, Tarot Cards as re-imagined by Thomas Kincaid.

Really? Are there any references to native Americans thinking white feathers are messages from beyond the grave? Certainly in the UK, white feathers have been a symbol of cowardice since at least the 17th century..........

But he was born in the 1950s, Friday- that's ever so long ago..........

I think that if you ask for a sign, whether consciously or not, the likely hood is that you will find a sign.
Ever since I was a small child I have found unusual objects picked them up and taken them home. Currently in my kitchen there is a small multi coloured feather tucked into a cupboard door, a nut that I haven't yet been able to identify, a stone with a stripe through it, several fossils, a short stick that looks a bit like a fairy...
I am atheist, it has never even occurred to me that they might come from angels but they still make me happy.

I know I will likely get ridiculed, but, when we were doing our first carol service at school, my dad, when he got in from work, would sit me on the kitchen table and help me practice my songs. One I had particular trouble with was ‘silent night’. We went over it and over it and over it until I got it right.
10 years ago I lost my dad. it was awful and I still can’t fully come to terms with it now. At the time I worked in a shopping centre that had a theatre-y stage bit in it with a glass ceiling (waves to anyone familiar with Merry Hill).
The first Christmas after we lost my dad I got my lunch and took it to eat on a bench there, there was a nice Christmas tree and it felt really nice and festive.
At the time I was there there was a school choir, and when I sat down they just finished whatever song they were doing and started singing silent night. I tried so hard not to cry. After about the first verse I saw a small white feather float from the glass ceiling and landed at my feet. I know its all bollocks and coincidence, but you know what? For a moment it felt nice, and reminded me of all the good memories I have of my dad. Even now at Christmas when I hear that song, I think of him and it comforts me inside.

Filimou - oh my goodness, I am snuffling ridiculously into kitchen roll. Life can be so cynical and world weary these days - sometimes it is lovely to let a bit of magic in...

The links with birds & therefore feathers as symbols & messengers of the spirit world go way way back in time in many different, if not all spiritual & religious teachings from all over the world including Christianity (white dove, Angels) Ancient Egypt, Shamanic teachings & much more & is even born out in the very ancient Lascaux cave paintings, Angels are another manifestation of that - there is a lot written on it if you care to look, though I'd be here all day trying to google links as would need to wade through the crap to find anything you might read with an open mind, but it's there if it genuinely interests you - I CBA as I suspect it would just be ridiculed anyway

That's lovely Filimou personally I don't think it's crap at all - we've had a lot of the same & more too

Sorry nellie

Well, I think it's crap and I lost my daughter, age 9, 17 months ago.

It's a feather.

If people want to see it as a sign, good, but I think it's just a feather.

Filimou, what a beautiful story.:-) Thank you for posting.

Notsobad please do PM me.

Hi Expat. (waves)

Expat I'm very sorry about your daughter and can't imagine how awful such a loss must be. I hope you are very well supported IRL.

Hugs - Mumsnetty or not.