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What is something you have experienced that no one would believe?

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Wishuponastar5 · 25/10/2022 09:35

I'll start.
I've told no one this but my partner. I'm 24 and think Snt Nicholas/santa is real. Why? Because I distinctly remember hearing him. I was at my family members house and it was Christmas eve. I don't know why but my eyes shot open and it must of been around 2am. I could hear the soft chime of bells and it got louder and louder until it was audibly clear what it was. Then I heard a bang on the roof and I kid you not hooves! Loads of hooves and bells. The odd thing was that I wasn't excited as you would expect to be seeing Santa. I suddenly became paralyzed with this weird sense of fear.

I remember hiding in my bed and pulling the blanket over my eyes. I thought if I pretended to sleep he would go away. I then heard heavy sounds of footsteps around the house and a man's voice grunting. After what seemed like forever the noises of the man stopped and the hooves took off. After I was sure the coast was clear I ran to my bedroom window to see if I could catch a glimpse but I saw nothing. That morning I didn't tell anyone but simply asked all my male family members if anyone had gotten up over night. They hadn't (all are quite elderly). I know what I experienced. My partner thinks it was a delusion or one of those realistic dreams. But the experience was so vivid and unusual that I know it was real. No one would believe me so I don't bother saying it!

Okay your turn

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Jusmakingit · 25/10/2022 21:35

I woke up in the middle of surgery once, that was weird.

also had a premonition about mine and other peoples futures, years ahead but I do tend to tell people anymore but most the time I know what’s coming .

Woke up at the exact time my grandmother passed away.

sometimes with people I can feel what they are feeling, like an extreme version of empathy.

Jusmakingit · 25/10/2022 21:36

** don’t tell them

RobertaFirmino · 25/10/2022 21:37

I realise that this is probably just confirmation bias or coincidence but whenever I read an auto/biography, someone in it dies before I've finished. I know this cannot possibly be my fault but I can't even bring myself to name the books, it makes me feel so awful.

I'm sticking to the life stories of 1930s movie stars from now on...

Openmouthinsertfood · 25/10/2022 21:37

AuntieDickhead · 25/10/2022 21:08

A saw a UFO as a child. My mum insisted it was a cloud, but it wasn't.

I've "experienced" God.

Hi, Would love to hear about your experience with God if you don't mind?

CherryIce · 25/10/2022 21:38

ZeroFuchsGiven · 25/10/2022 09:42

Are you in the throws of a Mental health crisis?

How rude. Mental health is not a joke..maybe to you it is Shock

TurquoiseBeach · 25/10/2022 21:43

MRSE20 · 25/10/2022 10:28

Does anyone else swear they remember being able to fly when they were a child? Obviously lucid dreams but I’ve spoken to a few people who agree they used to believe they flied too.

So I have hypnagogic hallucinations and one evening had one where I saw lots of jumbled up numbers… googled them the next day and found out they are all angel numbers. Never heard of it or seen it in my life. I don’t know, something about it still makes me wonder.

Not fly, but I swear I could float down the stairs! I'd miss out a few stairs at a time, but not by jumping - more like passing just slightly above them smoothly - a bit like after you push off slowly from the bottom of a swimming pool. I remember telling my mum about this in a matter of fact way (as assumed everyone did it sometimes). She asked to see and I tried, but couldn't do it! I was around 3 or 4 and it happened on several occasions. After I told my mum, I don't recall ever doing it again. Aware this makes me sound batshit!

AuntieDickhead · 25/10/2022 21:46

Openmouthinsertfood · 25/10/2022 21:37

Hi, Would love to hear about your experience with God if you don't mind?

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Of course. And I'm sure some people will find a way to dismiss my experience and that's fine.

About 10 years ago I was suffering very badly with depression. The only way I can explain it is like I was stuck at the very bottom of a very deep well. I could see and hear people walking past. Some days their voices were distant and unclear, others I could hear them perfectly. Friends and family could, and did, talk to me from the top. Someday if I stretched really hard I could grasp their hands, but they couldn't pull me out. It was very lonely.

And then one day I just felt this 'presence'. I knew I wasn't alone because someone was with me. I knew they loved me and would look after me. And they helped me find the way out. It was reassuring and peaceful. And I just knew that that someone was God.

So that's my experience. Like I said, people might brush it off or try and explain it away. But I honestly believe that was God's way of telling me I'd be OK.

ScreamingMeMe · 25/10/2022 21:48

BettyPaws · 25/10/2022 16:59

I once walked into my bathroom and found my cat perched on the toilet seat doing a wee. She does spend lot of time in the bathroom (likes to sleep in the bath) but I’ve never managed to catch her doing it again and no one believes that I actually saw her doing it!

I had a cat who did that too, so I definitely believe you.

Hawkins001 · 25/10/2022 21:51

Reading with intrigue, but as me personally, nothing I couldn't explain myself.

ArcaneWireless · 25/10/2022 21:53

I have struggled with faith auntie

I was bullied relentlessly by a man of God and would have welcomed an experience like yours when I was totally broken. I think I am still lost as it was not forthcoming.

I’m glad you had the experience you did though. I envy (is that the right word?) those who find that comfort in their darkest hours.

AcrossthePond55 · 25/10/2022 22:07

This would have been in the late '50s, Mum and my aunt took me into Los Angeles with them to go shopping in one of the big department stores there. I was around 3-ish. I was sat in my stroller and according to Mum they looked away for a few seconds, but when they turned around I was gone. I was eventually 'found' in another store. These are big department stores, not little shops. Mum always marveled that I could have gotten out of my stroller, gotten through a revolving door, walked half a city block, and entered through another revolving door into another big store alone, unharmed.

I didn't. I have always had a distinct memory of walking next to a man as if I was being led. I can see his leg, and remember his trousers clearly. Then I remember being alone in a store. Then I remember being back with Mum. The rest is a total blank. I honestly didn't connect Mum 'losing me' in a store with this strange man until decades later. I don't know why he 'left' me. Did he take me and get scared or did he actually find me in the second store and turn me over to security and I have being with him and being alone mixed up. All I know is that it would have been impossible for a 3 year old to get from one store to another like that, unnoticed, on their own. Someone had to have taken me.

AuntieDickhead · 25/10/2022 22:09

ArcaneWireless · 25/10/2022 21:53

I have struggled with faith auntie

I was bullied relentlessly by a man of God and would have welcomed an experience like yours when I was totally broken. I think I am still lost as it was not forthcoming.

I’m glad you had the experience you did though. I envy (is that the right word?) those who find that comfort in their darkest hours.

I still struggle with my faith. I 'know' God is there but I don't always understand him.

I'm sorry you had that experience, sadly not all religious people are good people. I hope (and pray if you don't object) that you find peace and comfort in whatever. Be that God or something else.

TortolaParadise · 25/10/2022 22:16

@IroningThrone it may have been a rat that attacked you in bed; I saw this type of recount once on the news.

ArcaneWireless · 25/10/2022 22:26

No objection to that at all auntie.

Thank you.

MyMonkiesHerCircus · 25/10/2022 22:27

Ahhh, poor Julie and her ugly perm.

UneFoisAuChalet · 25/10/2022 22:29

😁 I also ‘saw’ Santa until I was nine. One of my uncles dressed up as old Saint Nick and came down the stairs holding a bag, sat down and proceeded to give my cousins and I gifts. I believed it was real and my mother (who never had any problems bold face lying to us) claimed Santa only came to our family because we were special and all the other plebs had to be satisfied with sitting on an impersonator’s lap in a shopping centre.

I reiterated this ‘fact’ in the playground and scoffed when they said it was our parents who gave the presents. Until I was nine and got into a fight with someone about Santa.

I’ll never forget it, I was sitting at my typewriter, preparing my ‘88 Christmas list and my mother came in and told me the truth. It’s probably the most powerful moment of my childhood (which I’m grateful for) - my parents had lied to me for years, my list was now subject to a budget and if this wasn’t real, what else wasn’t as well?

HelpMeGetThrough · 25/10/2022 22:30

I've seen one too. Along and through a hedge line in Cornwall.

The Beast of Bodmin?

Bentley123 · 25/10/2022 22:32

I had a very detailed dream the night before an awful world event, a premonition type dream I guess.
It was so clear and similar to the actual event I felt absolutely sick when the news broke as knew I had already dreamt/seen it.
I also don’t believe in the supernatural really so very odd. I was 15 at the time and it still gives me a very strange feeling now.

LemonSwan · 25/10/2022 22:35

A ball lightning once formed in my friends living room before zooming off into a wall and disappearing.

I don’t think anyone believes me when I tell them that. There were 2 other people who witnessed the ball so certain that one wasn’t a delusion.

TerfQueen · 25/10/2022 22:38

Another one here with dream premonitions. They destroyed most of my childhood and early adulthood. They are lesser since I’ve had children but my daughter now seems to be getting them more frequently. I know from many years of trying that I can’t stop any of the things I see from happening, so I never never tell anyone anymore. Instead, I write them down and put them in an envelope and hand them to my husband to keep in his safe at work that no one but himself has access to. When the thing happens that I saw coming I ask him to go and check through the envelopes and confirm it for me. It’s partly to stop myself going mad and partly so just one other person knows this is happening to me and can see it with their own eyes.

Want2beme · 25/10/2022 22:39

I loved Alice in Wonderland when I was little and regularly dreamt of jumping from the top of the stairs to the bottom in slow motion, in my Alice dress. It felt so real at the time.

A few months ago, I woke up to see my DP standing at the end of the bed, in the form of a hologram. He was away at the time. It didn't freak me out, it was just so bizarre. I know that I was definitely awake.

Gihi · 25/10/2022 22:53

OP when I was younger, can't remember exactly how old but definitely at that age of - I'm not sure Santa does exist but still had all the excitement (so maybe around 8yrs or 9yrs?). I was in bed Christmas Eve, very very late - gone midnight and I heard bells outside.

It definitely wasn't anyone in my house because everyone was in bed and I was waiting laid for ages to see if I heard anyone walk upstairs and they didn't. I distinctly remember - oh my goodness he really DOES exist!

But, alas, my adult self decided it was probably neighbours outside ringing bells for their children and I just happened to hear it too.

But, haha, who knows now after reading your story?? Haha.

I think it's a lovely thing to still hold on to. Why not be an adult and believe in Santa 😘

Floomobal · 25/10/2022 22:57

LondonWolf · 25/10/2022 09:57

Its a genuine question, not unnecessary at all, if it was a close friend or family member spouting they had heard santa and he was REAL then I would seriously be getting them help for their delusions.

I think you're just being sneery actually, on what is clearly a light heated thread.

I don’t think it’s particularly “lighthearted” that an adult genuinely believes they heard Santa on their roof.

Gihi · 25/10/2022 23:01

AcrossthePond55 · 25/10/2022 22:07

This would have been in the late '50s, Mum and my aunt took me into Los Angeles with them to go shopping in one of the big department stores there. I was around 3-ish. I was sat in my stroller and according to Mum they looked away for a few seconds, but when they turned around I was gone. I was eventually 'found' in another store. These are big department stores, not little shops. Mum always marveled that I could have gotten out of my stroller, gotten through a revolving door, walked half a city block, and entered through another revolving door into another big store alone, unharmed.

I didn't. I have always had a distinct memory of walking next to a man as if I was being led. I can see his leg, and remember his trousers clearly. Then I remember being alone in a store. Then I remember being back with Mum. The rest is a total blank. I honestly didn't connect Mum 'losing me' in a store with this strange man until decades later. I don't know why he 'left' me. Did he take me and get scared or did he actually find me in the second store and turn me over to security and I have being with him and being alone mixed up. All I know is that it would have been impossible for a 3 year old to get from one store to another like that, unnoticed, on their own. Someone had to have taken me.

Wowser!

I bet your Mum had a heart attack. How long were you missing for? How did she find you? If you were in a totally different store, were police called?

So many questions!

But you were so lucky!

Calandor · 25/10/2022 23:06

Sounds like a waking dream/ night terror. I've had them when I was a child. Once woke up and thought there were loads of wasps in my room, could see them clearly. Screamed and ran to get my mum - she came with me and couldn't see the wasps but I could.

I've had the same with massive spiders the size of my head. Mum again couldn't see them, but they were right there.

Have confirmed that my mum was awake and did come in on these occasions. I was just part awake and part asleep and so I was kind of... dreaming awake.