Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: I love a good ghost story [View all]Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Like I said, I love a good ghost story. I guess that I can't relate to how it would feel or what I would think if anything supernatural ever happened to me. Nothing has. Not even dreams that came true.
I do remember being told once by a cop about that "sixth sense" that people believe that they have because of how they avoided disaster. This cop told me that we have the ability to see so many things that our conscious brain does not register. But we still see things. Imagine that you pull up to a convenience store and you have this strange feeling of foreboding...for no apparent reason. But what really happened is that "something" wasn't right...like there is another car there, and there is no one in the store where you can see---no clerk at the cash register, no customer. Your instincts have kicked in. Your unconscious mind has gathered all this information and registered it as off. So you get this feeling that something isn't right, but you are not thinking this. You just get the feeling that you should just drive away. The point of the story was that if you feel that way, do drive away. There may be something to it that you are not paying attention to. I took from it that it is not supernatural or clairvoyant, it is just your subconscience....but imagine how the believers would go on and on about god protecting them or how spiritualists will say that they have special powers.
It's science.
But your stories are strange occurences.