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to think we just saw something supernatural??

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LilacWine7 · 17/04/2015 13:35

I went for a short walk with a friend along country lane, sunny warm morning, we were chatting away happily.
I should point out I've recently been really ill with HG so haven't been outdoors for weeks, also I'm on medication that makes me a bit drowsy, so if I'd been alone I would have assumed this was my imagination or a hallucination!

Anyway, we were walking along a deserted lane, pine woods either side, when 'something' came out of trees to our left, went quickly across the road and disappeared into trees on other side. I say 'something', it was more a sudden movement of air and light, more sensing than seeing, a bit like a shadow (but not dark like a shadow more like a heat-haze) and it made rustling sound in trees. It moved with the height and speed of a person crossing road.

My friend and I simultaneously froze, grabbed each others arms, and said 'what was that?' Thinking I was seeing things, I asked her what she just saw. She described it exactly as I had experienced it. We weren't particularly scared, more bewildered. We are both quite skeptical about this kind of thing but can't explain what this was.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is there some scientific explanation we haven't thought of?

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toffeeboffin · 17/04/2015 21:18

Black panther?

Crocodopolis · 17/04/2015 21:25

No idea what you saw, OP, but am enjoying the conversation.

sonjadog · 17/04/2015 21:44

I think there is also something with what your brain is expecting you to see and if it isn't expected then you won't see it. It might have been an animal moving.

I have an example of this from my life. I live in the Norwegian countryside and there are lots of moose around here. When I moved here, I didn't see a moose for seven years. I knew what they looked like, but at the same time, not in real life. Then one day, I saw one (it was in the middle of the road in front of my car so unmissable). Since then I have seen them about once every couple of weeks in the winter. The number if moose hasn't shot up, it's that now my brain has registered "moose shape" and I see them more.

42RedBalloons · 17/04/2015 22:14

Marcipex - is he?

LurkingHusband · 17/04/2015 23:29

Marcipex

Grin that's a load of old toot ....

Hakluyt · 17/04/2015 23:35

"Eddies in the space-time continuum."

No he's not, he's in The Bull........

letitlinger · 17/04/2015 23:50

Well I have learned something from this thread www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/people-in-columbus-time-did-not-think-the-world-was-flat/

laughingcow13 · 18/04/2015 07:42

what are you taking, and what atr the documentrd side effects ?
I took stemetil for hg and that made me hallucinate. I think it was a deer and your mind is playing tricks on you! as for your friend? suggestion is a powerful thing!

CaspianSea · 18/04/2015 19:45

I took stemetil too and it made me feel spaced out. Tho that doesn't explain why OP's friend saw exactly the same...

CactusAnnie · 18/04/2015 20:16

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PelvicFloorClenchReminder · 18/04/2015 20:20

Is that why if you go into Lidl and hoot like an owl you can hear George W Bush laughing? I had wondered.

MyArksNotReady · 18/04/2015 20:51

The ancient people thinking Earth was flat is a myth?

CactusAnnie · 18/04/2015 21:00

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Catsize · 18/04/2015 21:27

By shadow, do you mean cheesy 1970s electric guitarist? Wondered what they were up to nowadays...

WhoreGasm · 18/04/2015 21:30

"On here you're not "allowed" to believe in the supernatural. It's as though people are afraid of things they don't understand OP."

It's not that I 'don't understand' at all. Quite the opposite in fact. I have a very good understanding of how the physical world actually works and a decent grasp of basic physics.

WhoreGasm · 18/04/2015 21:33

sonjadog you make a very good point. The brain can be very selective over what it choses to see/not see.

I bumped into a work colleague today. Someone I work with most days. But because I wasn't 'expecting' to see them on a Saturday afternoon in Sainsburys it took my brain several seconds to recognise them. Even though they were standing right in front of me and smiling expectantly.

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