AIBU?
To ask if some houses are unlucky/give bad vibes?
Artofhappiness · 23/10/2018 14:25
I don’t believe inanimate objects can be ‘unlucky’ or ‘negative’ but starting to think there’s something a bit off about my house.
Bought it five years ago after being in three generations of the same family since is was built in the 1950s. Ex-council, nothing unusual about it, it does sit at an odd angle to the street e.g sits north west to south east but I’ve had the most extraordinary run of ‘bad luck’ since moving here!
My life, five years from moving in is totally unrecognisable - illness, pregnancy loss, career loss, money problems, family illness, losing friends, relationship breakdown, random accidents. Pretty much the works. Nothing is interlinked either i.e job loss was due to bullying rather than illness. It’s almost like I’ve been living someone else’s life by accident!
It sounds nuts, I know, but wondered if anyone else has had a run of bad luck in a particular place?
Any ideas what I could do to improve things with the house, even just to shake off the ‘unlucky’ feeling (moving not currently an option)
bigKiteFlying · 24/10/2018 11:59
Houses can hold on to energies. When I worked as an estate agent, I could tell as soon as I walked in to a house of the couple were divorcing, just by the energy.
Atmosphere not energy and I'd agree - probably lots of little things that are registering at subconscious level that show there been a lack of care about the surrounding or show some level of conflict.
Our current home was divorce couple selling - but she'd been here for years with the children both girls now grown and moving on so it was a look after house that did suggest happy family home.
It appealed more to my daughters and me than DH and DS though it was best one they'd seen and that was down I think to colour scheme - warm purples and yellows though didn’t register that till we moved in and were thinking about decorating.
flamingofridays · 24/10/2018 12:27
lipstick youre the only poster that's come on here and said its all bollocks. you've pretty much said you're right and everyone else is wrong
everyone else has said what they think it is, or how its affected them or there is "something" about their house.
and yes that "something" could be nothing, it could be imagination alone that makes people feel this way - who knows. Even if it is, its still a legitimate feeling, and if you can sort that feeling out, then why the hell wouldn't you give it a go?
the point is nobody really knows I don't think, everyone feels and experiences differently and I don't think we know enough about the human brain to entirely rule out everything that could be considered a bit "woo"
LipstickHandbagCoffee · 24/10/2018 12:32
Don’t paraphrase me wrongly to substantiate your points and you’re over personalising this
I have not said anything is “bollocks” I’d be more erudite
By all means disagree with me,but no you can’t direct that I leave or refrain from posting
And this genuinely cannot be the first time you’ve envountered challenges about energies,and such like
flamingofridays · 24/10/2018 12:36
maybe you didn't use the word "bollocks"
but by saying the following
No of course not.bricks and mortar don’t have a memory
But locations of ghastly events or notoriety will put off potential buyers
So may reduce price for the less woo who don’t feel dem vibes buyers
you may as well have done, and also your last sentence was clearly taking the piss, wasn't it?
flamingofridays · 24/10/2018 12:49
ok then lipstick you must be right of course. There is no point arguing with you because you have some sort of superiority complex, clearly.
pick
op also asked
It sounds nuts, I know, but wondered if anyone else has had a run of bad luck in a particular place?
Any ideas what I could do to improve things with the house, even just to shake off the ‘unlucky’ feeling (moving not currently an option)
but lets just ignore that shall we.
littlemissmanchet · 24/10/2018 12:57
I lived in an absolutely dreadful house as a child but I believe it was the energy of the place rather than the house. No one who lived on that hill had any luck. Several neighbourhood children died of cot death/inexplicable illness/car accidents - there were suicides too, domestic violence, the lot.
A couple came round to view as we were selling up and thought they'd have a nose waiting for the agent, she tripped and fell though a cracked paving slab that hid an underground walkway alongside the kitchen, breaking her leg and getting it trapped, and as her husband ran up the garden to call for help he had a heart attack and dropped dead right there and then.
My mother used to say she could see hands reaching up through the grass of the garden in her nightmares. I don't say the word lightly, but that hill is evil.
keepingbees · 24/10/2018 13:05
I believe houses and places can have energy and vibes.
I know someone who's house has always given me the creeps. She's a nice person and very devout Christian. Her house is a normal ex council terrace. But inside it feels dark and sinister and I can never stay long.
I've lived in a house where you always felt you were being watched and some odd things happened. It wasn't sinister as such, but just a bit eerie, cold and uncomfortable and my DS hated it.
Some houses you just walk into and feel right at home.
My current home has no vibe at all, it had been rented and felt a very blank canvas. I feel very safe here. On a slightly different note, it's number is my two lucky numbers. There seem to be recurring patterns with numbers through my life that seem to bring luck/bad luck.
Twork · 24/10/2018 13:06
I don't know about energies but things can sonetimes not "sit right" and leave you unsettled, even just subconsciously eg a corner that's a bit darker than the room because of where the windows are might not register with your conscious mind but might make you feel uneasy when you sit in a chair there.
I say this as someone who bought a house with a bit of an "history" and which has a habit of things being a bit "odd". It took years for the house to co-operate -I guess is the word- with us and our plans.
flamingofridays · 24/10/2018 13:22
lipstick who are you trying to impress with your varied vocabulary? or are you hoping that I am too dense to understand?
villanelles to me her comment just entirely shut down the discussion, and she took the piss as well which I think just wasn't needed.
like I said, nothing wrong with disagreeing, it was more how she said it and the taking the piss..
Ontopofthesunset · 24/10/2018 13:22
Well, to answer your first question, you yourself admit that you know that you are being unreasonable to suggest that your bad luck has anything to do with the house. Of course most people, if they have a run of bad luck, have it in a particular place; most people aren't moving every few months, so it stands to reason that they will be in the same place for a series of unhappy events. In your case, the run of bad luck seems to coincide with moving to a new house, so you are making a connection which you realise is spurious.
In answer to your second question, short of moving so that you leave the house which is associated with these unhappy experiences, I don't really know what you can do. You could try the placebo of blessing or smudging, but then you would have to believe that the house really does have something to do your luck. And since it obviously it doesn't, I don't know whether it would have any effect. I mean, the smudging etc clearly wouldn't have any effect on future life events and 'luck', but it might make you feel better which might affect decisions you make and thus in turn have an effect on your 'luck'.
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