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To ask what your wackiest belief is?

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cupthejunction · 07/06/2017 23:43

I got involved in Buddhism in my early twenties and some things have resonated/ stayed with me.

I really can't help but believe in rebirth (obviously with no evidence)

My mum died last year when I was pregnant and my sister and I have both thought about her a lot today.

I really think she's been reborn as a human (9 month gestation could have taken place)

My own baby (5 mo) I can't help thinking that she is being grieved for by people who knew her in her previous life and I want to tell them that she has a lot of love and a lovely life!

What are your wacky beliefs that you'd never tell anyone in rl because they'd be too weird for people?

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TitsalinaBumSquash · 11/06/2017 18:01

Robins here too, I always have a robin in the garden whoever I live and my mum always told us Robins were people that had died spending time with us.
I also randomly live in a house that we lived in when I was a young teen (as in the family left and then it came back to me at random) the lady who lived here before I did this time said that there's a rose in the garden in never blooms so just chop it down if you want,
My Dm planted it years ago when we lived here and now I live here again it blooms the most fabulous roses every year, my Mum loved roses and had so many that I like to think she makes it grow for me every year now I'm back 'home' as it were.

CherriesInTheSnow · 11/06/2017 18:08

Has anybody read His Dark Materials?

I believe in the explanation behind dark matter and its consciousness.

I can't articulate as well as the book, but I always believed in something similar.

BlackCelebration · 11/06/2017 18:10

I'm finding this is such an interesting, fascinating, sad but overall comforting thred. Share several beliefs on here. But my totally potty one - I believe Winona Ryder is an angel in human form. And that sometimes at night,when the moon is out, I imagine my Dad is flying around it and I wave at him (he died 3 years ago)...

Runny · 11/06/2017 18:21

I'm another Robin believer here! My nana always used to say that a Robin was a visiting loved one in spirit. There was a lovely video that went viral a few months ago where the mother of a little boy who died of cancer visited his grave on the anniversary of his death and found a Robin sitting on his head stone, it then landed on her hand.

I'm certain aliens exist. The universe is so vast that the conditions for life must be right somewhere other than Earth.

I think there is so much about the world that we don't yet understand.

Littlereddevil3 · 11/06/2017 18:35

I believe that angels come into your life when you need them, as people or animals. I got asked to take in a stray kitten, she was with me through one of the most difficult periods of my life, very undemanding just sat and kept me company whilst I cried. It ended abruptly one day, the next day she was gone and I never saw her again. I like to think she was an angel taking care of me.

lemondropcake · 11/06/2017 19:03

I believe that I died once and woke back up. I was only about 14 and my mum was shouting on me to get up for school. I couldn't wake up. I could hear her. I could see myself but I couldn't break through and wake up. I started to panic and a man's voice saying it's ok I just wanted to tell you to keep going and never give up....all of a sudden I saw myself sitting by the radiator which was my favourite place even though I was still in bed and I managed to wake up. I was exhausted from trying to break back through my own body. It was really bizarre and I remember it like yesterday.

When I tell people they say it was just a dream but I was fully awake and knee everything going on around me but I just couldn't wake up.

Also when I was four I remember sitting on a black couch and this woman who had curly black hair sat next to me and gave me a framed photo with a poem on it called why god loves little girls. She told me to always take good care of it. There was an ambulance outside the house and she said she had to go now.
I told my mum years later that I knew how nana died and she saw me before she died.
She told me that's not right because she died on holiday and her body had to be driven back home. She said nana gave me that picture when I was a baby. I have it in dds room now.
I believe my nana visited me as a spirit or in a dream to say goodbye.

Shakey15000 · 11/06/2017 19:28

As a child/teenager I was convinced I was an alien that had been put on Earth as some kind of social experiment and would be collected to share my experience.

As an adult I believe it less mainly because they haven't bloody well picked me up yet I'm going through a bad patch at the moment and feel irrationally angry at the world/universe today.

I'm prime fodder for those "Does anyone want a reading" threads

lisalisa · 11/06/2017 19:30

I suppose my religious beliefs sound funny when looked at in isolation too . Reincarnation including as a plant or animal and resurrection of the dead at the time of messiah

lisalisa · 11/06/2017 19:30

Oh and on a non religious vein - I used to believe as a child that no one was alive but me and everyone else was some sort of robot

Kit30 · 11/06/2017 19:35

Not mine SIL's - reiki, angel therapy (we all have a personal angel watching us (creepy tbh & makes me think of the Jiminy Cricket character in Disney's Pinocchio) cleansing everyone's house with burning birch twigs ....

IamHereButAreYouThere · 11/06/2017 19:37

lemondropcake have you ever heard of sleep paralysis? I used to get it a lot and still do occasionally. Sometimes you hallucinate during it and the hallucinations feel very real. Your body is paralysed but you can sometimes hear and/or see your surroundings. Your description of the time you think you died and came back sounds very much like it could have been this.

ConfidentlyUnhinged · 11/06/2017 19:42

My DGM suffered from dementia for many years. My DDad was her least favourite child and she was very uninterested in him in life. When she was ill he did more than any of his siblings. She died at a time which lead to his cancer diagnosis much earlier than it otherwise would have. I believe she died at that time to apologise for how she treated him in life.

PenguinDi · 11/06/2017 19:43

This is going to sound crazy. But I believe that I had a dream conversation with john Lennon during my art gcse, he told me about his family and how much he loved his children. It was in the room that George Harrison used in 'got my mind set on you'. John returned with George the night George died to say that he was ok and was at peace.

I do believe that I have had many experiences though my dreams like talking to loved ones and for telling my grandfathers cremation a few months before he died.

I was raised Christian but after a rough couple of years became pagan and a lot of those beliefs have stayed with me.

Gertiegoolash · 11/06/2017 19:51

I'm pagan/wiccan so a lot of my beliefs are seen as a bit 'wacky' I suppose. Crystals, tarot, astrology ect I'm into all of that stuff and have been since my teens (in my 40s now). I also have a couple of little robins that visit me in my garden on a regular basis, they are the spirits of my nan and grandadSmile

Cleanermaidcook · 11/06/2017 19:53

My dad died when i was 10, before he died he said he'd be there in the brightest star when i looked up at night, I know its Sirius but i kind of believe he's there.

On a lighter note... I believe in Father Christmas. I mean I know he doesn't come to peoples houses any more but i can't not believe he once did, I was told there was a family called Claus that used to give gifts of food to poor people in a village in Norway and that's how the myth started, i like to believe (totally unfounded) that this is true and maybe they still do it.

upperlimit · 11/06/2017 19:59

When I was a child I thought that if I had any particular thought about the future then it definitely wouldn't happen. So, if I saw a fire engine drive by I would have to think, 'I wonder if my home is on fire?' so that I could be sure that my house wasn't on fire and, as it never was, I was convinced this was sound reasoning. I tried very hard not to think about getting a horse for Christmas one year, clearly I failed in this task because no horse was forthcoming.

Babyroobs · 11/06/2017 20:06

Definitely Robins here too. I can often be thinking of my late mum and one will appear in front of me.

theotherendofthesockportal · 11/06/2017 20:13

I believe I slipped into a parallel universe when I was 5. I felt a sense of everything looking the same as before but no quite belonging since then.

SunshineDeLaSoul · 11/06/2017 20:18

I'm psychic and often talk to people who have passed, or see them.

My dad is the same. No one else knows except my dad, sister and best friend.

QuestionableMouse · 11/06/2017 20:19

What's drawing down the moon?

I also believe that there are wild big cats living in the UK.

Apart from that I don't have any strange beliefs.

imjessie · 11/06/2017 20:21

That we all get re incarnated, I have a complete no kill policy and if I accidentally kill it really bothers me .. I believe animals have feelings and emotions ( my fb thinks I'm bonkers ) I can tell what my 19 year old cat is thinking by his expressions ( yes really) .. I am viewed by some as completely bonkers ! .... had my son been born a year later I would have thought he was my dad coming back again to be fair . But it just can't be 🤔

QuestionableMouse · 11/06/2017 20:27

Thought of something else. I believe I'll never have kids of my own. Don't know why (I'd like them at some point) but I've been convinced of it since I was about 14.

ollieplimsoles · 11/06/2017 20:27

I love this thread

I wish on eyelashes, i found three in one day while we were trying to fall pregnant, i wished on all of them that i would fall pregnant in January with a little girl (i had no preference its just what i visualised when i wished) and sure enough, i did get pregnant in January with dd. Since then i aways wish on them.

I salute magpies always too,

I'm a rational person, hardline atheist and i love thinking about the reasons why we lean towards superstitions and religious belief sometimes.

I'm psychic and often talk to people who have passed, or see them

Has anyone ever told you what its like been dead?

phoenixtherabbit · 11/06/2017 20:28

Haven't rtft (am about to) but I think I believe in reincarnation. I'm not even really sure why I just do. Some children are wise beyond their years and I sometimes think, you've been here before.

Also I have a magpie that sits outside my office same time every year. Realistically I know he (dunno even if he is a he!) comes back to nest or mate or whatever but for some reason I feel like it's someone I know/knew. Weirdly, nobody else in the office has ever noticed him. (He is definitely there im not hallucinating! Maybe everyone else is working rather than staring out the window eh!)

phoenixtherabbit · 11/06/2017 20:30

I feel this offers an explanation to déjà vu. I've seen it before because I'm currently living it, when I see people who are spitting image of relatives/friends who have died, they are still living one of their other lives

Genuinely thought this was just me. I have mentioned this to many people and they all look at me like I am crazy.