Telepathic? Spiritual Connection? Or??

OceanBlue · 07-31-2007, 09:22 AM

Ever call a friend only to find out they were going to call you?

Ever just have a name pop into your head for no reason and then that person calls you or you run into them somewhere?

If you talk with or see someone frequently you could argue that this isn't strange at all. But take today for example... I sent a quick email to Jennie to see if it was convenient to have a conversation some time today. So I didn't think much about it when she called me. But then, later, she replied to my email. she hadn't gotten my email before she called me!

I find that there are certain people in my life that I have some kind of 6th sense about. Mom for example. Every once in a while I get a nagging feeling I need to call her. These days, I just call her up and ask why she wanted me to call. 99.999% of the time she says, "wow, I was just thinking about calling you!" Actually, she isn't even surprised anymore.

How does that happen? Does it ever happen to you?

CATCH AND EAT · 07-31-2007, 09:57 AM

Hummmmmm................

Swamp Puppy · 07-31-2007, 09:59 AM

it's called a "coincedence".....

Woody · 07-31-2007, 10:08 AM

Coincidence. How many thousands of contacts have you had with these people over the years with no other reason than to just call and chat. But, the few times that you just happen to think of each other some time during the day and then call.........oooooooh, magic.

OceanBlue · 07-31-2007, 11:08 AM

I guess I wasn't very clear. It can be months between contact. When was the last time Jennie and I had a conversation? Umm... probably more than 3 months ago.

Call it coincidence if you want. I call it cool.

You probably don't believe in bigfoot either, huh?

PIR8 Hook · 07-31-2007, 11:08 AM

Ya know....call it what you want...believe or not....I do believe.

Just one case of too many to list:
I used to have a hunting buddy. He was a ex-Marine range master who suffered from tenitus, (ringing in the ears). Right before he would drive up or call, I would get a ringing in my ears. When I told him in passing once, he ask if I could hear it then. I concentrated and could.....then he said, "tell me if anything changes." The tone changed & I told him.. He said that he had different tones in each ear and he was concentrating on the other ear tone at that time.

We tried to whistle the tones simutainously we could "hear"...... and both of us "heard" the same tone.

Ok, so now you say "power of suggestion" or hypnotism, right? How about this?

One time he found me in Salem, having NO idea where I was... He was driving from Albany to Monmouth,..He just drove to the spot where I was & we are not talking G.I Joe's or some logical spot.......I was parked in a residential area visiting someone he didn't even know.... (We both lived in Monmouth at the time).

Just my

From time to time I will still get that same ringing. When it happens now, I just think, "Howdy, Red...How are you doin'?"

Swamp Puppy · 07-31-2007, 01:01 PM

wow...i ran into 3 people from my highschool (i went to high school in maryland) when i lived down in the bay area california. none of us knew the others were there, but WOW!!! we all ran into each other at a Sharks game. must have been divine intervention. i mean seriously..there is no way that could have just happened.

..and my ears are ringing.....right now.

julezilla · 07-31-2007, 01:12 PM

I have a friend this happens with. I can go weeks without talking to her, then just get a feeling that I need to call her - it's always when she's just getting ready to call me. And she has a knack for calling me at the precise time I need someone to talk to, or am in a funk or having a bad day.

cimfl · 07-31-2007, 01:43 PM

My father is a twin. His brother lives about 50 miles away. One day when I still lived at home, he came home from work at the sawmill, and mom asked him what was wrong. He said I don't know, I think something is wrong with Johnny. (His twin brother) Mom said well, call and find out. He did, and sure enough, his brother, who by the way NEVER misses work, had left work that day with stomach cramps and had checked into the local hospital for tests.

I also live near twin brothers who are in their mid 30's and still live together. Needless to say, they are very close! We were all fishing on the Siletz, I was near one of them, but the other brother had gone upstream out of sight. All the sudden like a bee had stung him, the twin I was near dropped his rod and starts running upstream, saying, "Something is wrong with Brent!" I followed, and in a minute or so, there we were, and Brent had slipped on a rock and had fallen and hit his thigh. He had a massive bruise the size of a cantaloupe on it. He had to be helped back to the truck, we thought that his leg was broken, but it wasn't. How did he know that his brother had fallen? He couldn't see him, couldn't hear him, not over the rush of the river......How did my dad know his brother was very sick? Many stories like this out there, this is just my experience with a couple of them.

negoc8 · 07-31-2007, 03:59 PM

Once I started putting tin foil in my hat, it all stopped!

Kidding.

We've had many experiences with my Grandma knowing when someone in the family is sick and or dying. It always made a call from Grams a bit scary!
Once you see this kind of thing happen over and over, it becomes impossible to disregard. I'm a believer.

STGRule · 07-31-2007, 06:06 PM

My daughter and I have it too. We both know when something bad has happened in the family. We end up calling each other to see who knows what it was first. Doesn't happen very often with my husband, but all the time with my daughter. And yes, we talk often. 3-5 times a week. We've only had one time that we both felt it and never did figure out where it came from. But many, many, many times when it was verified. Don't know what it is, but I don't mind.

But the thinking of somebody thing did happen a few weeks ago. I was thinking about a old friend that we hadn't seen in about 20 years. Don't even know why I thought of him. I googled his name and found him. He is very high up in a construction company which makes sense because he was a building contractor when we last saw him. I told my husband I had found him and we thought it was cool, but left it at that.

Then about a week later my husband showed me the newspaper article about the Extreme Makeover Home Edition show that was done down the Valley. I was reading the article and there was the name of the company that our friend works for that built the house and that night on the news they showed our old friend meeting the family that moved into the house.

All a big coincidence I'm sure, but since I haven't thought about any of the old friends but him in years and never have I googled any and I don't watch that news station (I don't even know who turned to that station), it just seems weird.

BCF · 07-31-2007, 06:14 PM

Honey....honey?.......HONEY!!!!!!......have you see the Reynolds tin foil????????? I can't seem to find my hat anywhere. And I need to make a new one right now. Jennie might be trying to reach me.

Now where did I leave it..............???????

BCF

P.S. It happens all the time to me, my mom could do it also. we know who is calling before we pickup and we don't have caller ID either.

PapaHog · 08-01-2007, 04:25 AM

I am a believer also.

My sister in NC had not called in a couple months. I reached for the phone to call her and the phone rang. Guess who.

I have too many examples not to believe something is available to us that we don't understand or know how to use.

reelbigfish72 · 08-01-2007, 07:55 AM

intuition......some people have more than others, but we all have it.

cptdarel · 08-01-2007, 08:11 AM

I belive it's the patterns we live, we cross paths all the time in the way we conduct our lives.
I belive Silvia Brown is a HOAX
and Bigfoot is real.

p

garyk · 08-01-2007, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by OceanBlue

How does that happen? Does it ever happen to you?

OceanBlue, you might enjoy these to books by Sheldrake who's researched this interaction between people, AND between people and pets.

The first book begins with examples, including persons in battle whose sense that somebody was watching/looking saved their lives.

Interestingly, the second book's subject - pets and their perception - seems more acceptable to the overall public.

The Sense of Being Stared At
by Rupert Sheldrake

In his latest book, biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have imagined. Most of us know it well - the almost physical sensation that we are the object of someone�s attention. Is the feeling all in our head? And what about related phenomena, such as telepathy and premonitions? Are they merely subjective beliefs? Basing his conclusions on years of intense research, Sheldrake argues persuasively in this compelling, innovative book that such phenomena are real.
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Chrome Bumper · 08-01-2007, 04:07 PM

I was thinking the exact same thing!

PIR8 Hook · 08-02-2007, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Chrome Bumper

I was thinking the exact same thing!

On this thread, that there is funny...I don't care who ya are

TroutGirl · 08-02-2007, 06:05 AM

I have a more mumdane explanation. I think there are some people that observe the world very similarly. I think some people near, or far, monitor the sunrise, sunset, moon phase, weather, and seasons and those things wthin in us create a "mood" or an instinct. I think this explains those long distance calls.

A few weeks ago, I had had a bad week. I had not been posting online much. Hadn't said anything to anyone, but, possibly that was observed. On Sunday that week, I woke up in a real funk about things about 4am. I decided to head for the hills and "get lost". Realizing I probably should have some company, I was lucky to get hold of a fishing buddy who could go with me. On the way out of town, my phone rings. A good fishing buddy called. He said he had one of those awful dreams and needed to know if I was alright. I asked him what time he woke up. He said 4am.

He was calling from 180 miles away. He's someone I see 2-3 times a years to go fishing. We talk maybe 5-6 times outside of those trips. He's someone like me, that has that lil inner voice that gets really loud and tells him to head for the hills. He's someone that has some demons to wrestle with.

Yeah, I guess I sorta believe, but not in a crystals and magic way. I believe that we are more observant of some things and people than we realize. I think that with some people we know their inner clock from instinct and observation and we know when they are not "on time" from coming back around the bend, or something.

And yes, there is probably something more there. I have experienced some things that seem bizzarrely coincidental. I just think there are instincts in us that we don't always understand. I think people who hunt and fish and are in the outdoors, trusting themselves, they probably work those instincts a little more and are a little better at observation than the rest of the folks.

cptdarel · 08-02-2007, 08:09 AM

I am just relying the story from my wife, in which she told me, knowing I DO NOT belive in the supernatural etc.
My Daughter in law Nancy's Mother passed away about 6-7 years ago, she misses her very much, last week while inside of their apartment, on the second floor, she tells my son Scott she smells her Moms perfume, within moments one of those floating/flying Dandilion seeds bumps her on her nose.
Thats all I know,

she belives and my Wife know it was the Mom that did it.

I'll stick with Bigfoot.

Bonita · 08-02-2007, 10:02 AM

I think this type of intuition, esp, whatever you want to call it is something we are all born with - some of us just pay more attention to it throughout the course of our lives, and some ignore it.
Ya'll are gonna think I'm a nut job now, but...
My own personal 'sense' was much stronger as a child, but between myself and my father is still quite strong. Even when I'm on another continent, he knows when it's me calling - never says, "Hello?" to me, it's always, "Hey , Vic".
For me, I hear the person talking to me - not just get a feeling or thought about them. As a kid I'd hear my mom calling me to come in, even if I was at a friends house across town. Now, I'll hear it as if the person was in another room or across the yard or something. It could be someone I haven't seen or heard from in years, but is most usually people I am close to but don't keep in touch with regularly.
I have crazy dreams, too. They have consistently preceded (usually the same day) major unexpected events for my family or friends. I mean, things like car wrecks and major injuries happening the day that I wake up screaming from a dream involving that person. They're not premonitions, exactly, I don't see a car wreck before it happens - but I have some strange nightmare in which that person is the main character.
It's weird, but it happens to me all the time - and it's been like this my whole life.

Thumper · 08-02-2007, 10:12 AM

Well, this is creepy, but for a coupla years I would freak out when folks would answer the phone with my name. Scary coincidence......

Then someone told me about caller I.D.

SteelheadBum2 · 08-02-2007, 04:44 PM

Your thoughts and feelings shape everything and everyone in the universe around you. The only reason all this happens usually with loved ones is because you are better in tune with them in a sense. Just like how a mother is compeltely in tune with their child; a mother's intuition is legendary. Intuition is just paying attention to the vibes put out there by other people and things. We are all connected once you think about it.

I can't tell you how many times that I have gotten a vibe about something, followed my "gut feeling" and had it turned out for the better. Always go with your gut feeling, there is nothing crazy about that.

Once you realize that we are only a creature that can percieve a 4D world (4thD being time) and scientists have proved there to be many more deminsions we cannot percieve, the supernatural doesn't seem all that laughable. Just think about what all goes on around us, but we cannot sense it, or sometimes can for a split second.

Chrome Bumper · 08-02-2007, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by SteelheadBum2

Your thoughts and feelings shape everything and everyone in the universe around you. The only reason all this happens usually with loved ones is because you are better in tune with them in a sense. Just like how a mother is compeltely in tune with their child; a mother's intuition is legendary. Intuition is just paying attention to the vibes put out there by other people and things. We are all connected once you think about it.

I can't tell you how many times that I have gotten a vibe about something, followed my "gut feeling" and had it turned out for the better. Always go with your gut feeling, there is nothing crazy about that.

Once you realize that we are only a creature that can percieve a 4D world (4thD being time) and scientists have proved there to be many more deminsions we cannot percieve, the supernatural doesn't seem all that laughable. Just think about what all goes on around us, but we cannot sense it, or sometimes can for a split second.

That's all fine and dandy, but then explain why on the subatomic scale photons react to what you do in the future.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19875410/site/newsweek/

baltz526 · 08-02-2007, 07:56 PM

archetype personality. ever been in a crowd when a new person enters and a wave of awareness spreads that the person is here

baltz526 · 08-02-2007, 08:00 PM

or how about going about your buisness and all of a sudden you see someone you dreamed you would see in that exact setting

SteelheadBum2 · 08-02-2007, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Chrome Bumper

That's all fine and dandy, but then explain why on the subatomic scale photons react to what you do in the future.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19875410/site/newsweek/

No one knows why Chrome Bumper, but this little video explains what you are talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

The observer changes matter from a wave into a solid piece of matter...just the simple act of you looking or measuring matter, you are influencing it! Crazy stuff...

feisty's wife · 08-03-2007, 04:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TroutGirl

I have a more mumdane explanation. I think there are some people that observe the world very similarly. I think some people near, or far, monitor the sunrise, sunset, moon phase, weather, and seasons and those things wthin in us create a "mood" or an instinct. I think this explains those long distance calls.

A few weeks ago, I had had a bad week. I had not been posting online much. Hadn't said anything to anyone, but, possibly that was observed. On Sunday that week, I woke up in a real funk about things about 4am. I decided to head for the hills and "get lost". Realizing I probably should have some company, I was lucky to get hold of a fishing buddy who could go with me. On the way out of town, my phone rings. A good fishing buddy called. He said he had one of those awful dreams and needed to know if I was alright. I asked him what time he woke up. He said 4am.

He was calling from 180 miles away. He's someone I see 2-3 times a years to go fishing. We talk maybe 5-6 times outside of those trips. He's someone like me, that has that lil inner voice that gets really loud and tells him to head for the hills. He's someone that has some demons to wrestle with.

Yeah, I guess I sorta believe, but not in a crystals and magic way. I believe that we are more observant of some things and people than we realize. I think that with some people we know their inner clock from instinct and observation and we know when they are not "on time" from coming back around the bend, or something.

And yes, there is probably something more there. I have experienced some things that seem bizzarrely coincidental. I just think there are instincts in us that we don't always understand. I think people who hunt and fish and are in the outdoors, trusting themselves, they probably work those instincts a little more and are a little better at observation than the rest of the folks.

My "little Voice" has been yelling at me to prep, prep, prep,...TSWHTF....soon.

Thumper · 08-03-2007, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteelheadBum2

No one knows why Chrome Bumper, but this little video explains what you are talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

The observer changes matter from a wave into a solid piece of matter...just the simple act of you looking or measuring matter, you are influencing it! Crazy stuff...

Oooookkkaaayyyy. Now I gotta headache.:frown:

baltz526 · 08-03-2007, 07:14 PM

when the crank house three blocks north west of my house is jumping, i know it. like right now i wild say three users just injected meth in the last 5 minutes

WaterDog · 08-03-2007, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by cimfl

My father is a twin. His brother lives about 50 miles away. One day when I still lived at home, he came home from work at the sawmill, and mom asked him what was wrong. He said I don't know, I think something is wrong with Johnny. (His twin brother) Mom said well, call and find out. He did, and sure enough, his brother, who by the way NEVER misses work, had left work that day with stomach cramps and had checked into the local hospital for tests.

I also live near twin brothers who are in their mid 30's and still live together. Needless to say, they are very close! We were all fishing on the Siletz, I was near one of them, but the other brother had gone upstream out of sight. All the sudden like a bee had stung him, the twin I was near dropped his rod and starts running upstream, saying, "Something is wrong with Brent!" I followed, and in a minute or so, there we were, and Brent had slipped on a rock and had fallen and hit his thigh. He had a massive bruise the size of a cantaloupe on it. He had to be helped back to the truck, we thought that his leg was broken, but it wasn't. How did he know that his brother had fallen? He couldn't see him, couldn't hear him, not over the rush of the river......How did my dad know his brother was very sick? Many stories like this out there, this is just my experience with a couple of them.

I have friends who are twins. They joke about knowing what the other is thinking. They joke about sending each other telepathic messages. The scary thing is they do it. I've seen it and just shake my head in disbelief. Some if it is really knowing the other but they've done a couple things that defy normal.

My wife and I seem to "connect" a lot. We've sent emails at the same time to each other asking the same question or saying the same thing. It happens quite a bit.

baltz526 · 08-03-2007, 08:30 PM

another one at the crack house has taken off

Old Coot · 08-03-2007, 08:32 PM

All I know is, if the sixth sense weren't real I'd have been dead 43 years ago, at 17.

It was spring vacation of about 1964, so that would have been mid-March. Lee and I had been crabbing, and coming back upriver that evening I managed to submarine the boat. There we were, sitting in water up to our chests, motor still ticking. The whole boat was underwater but upright. I had one leg immobilized because I had dislocated a knee a week or so earlier. It was late evening, in an Oregon March. We were both wearing heavy wool jackets and hip boots strapped and snapped to our belts. We didn't need no stinkin' life jackets, because we were both water rats with years of independent boating behind us. I had even done a mile swim for Boy Scouts 4 years previously. We were bulletproof.

I killed the motor, the boat immediately rolled over, and it went down stern first with just a few inches of the bow above water. When it rolled, I got my good leg tangled in the anchor rope with the anchor hanging below my ankle and the bitter end tied to the boat. Lee was able to grab the remote tank, it floated. I treaded water for several minutes trying to save the boat and then all at once hypothermia hit and in two seconds I was completely done.

I remember sinking under the surface and struggling back up a couple of times, and then I realized that the water was actually very comfortable and I was really tired so I just let myself sink. There was no pain, no discomfort, no panic or distress, I was just really, really tired. I became aware of something poking me in the head and face a couple of times and I sort of pushed it away, and then it jabbed me again, HARD! A little spark of anger flared and I reached out to push it away again and either I grabbed it or it snagged my coat sleeve, but suddenly I was moving through the water up towards the surface.

My mother and father had been home, reading, listening to the radio and enjoying the sunset. Suddenly my mother became very agitated, jumped up and said, "Joe, something's wrong. Let's go down to the river and see if we can see the boys coming up the bay." Now, the house fronted the river, and you could see downstream half a mile or more. We weren't even late yet, but she wouldn't let it go and finally my father realized there would be no peace until they went for a ride.

Three minutes later they got to Fisher's Landing, and looked upriver, downriver, nothing. It was late dusk, and the river was just a golden-orange mirror gleaming in the gathering dark. She insisted that he get out of the car and walk thirty feet to the river's edge and look again. As soon as he opened the door, they heard my buddy Lee weakly calling for help. They looked over the bank at what is now known as Guardrail, and there was Lee and a bit of the boat. The incoming tide had pushed us a good 300-400 yards upriver. My father found a 20 foot piece of driftwood and got busy with a rescue. He figured that Lee was OK as long as he was floating. Lee pointed to where I had gone down. That pole was what kept jabbing me.

He couldn't get me all the way out of the river, because the anchor -which was around my leg - snagged on something, but he got my head and chest on the bank, waded in, seized the rope and used it to pull the boat towards shore. Lee's gas tank was tethered to the boat by the 10-foot hose, so he came in, too. Neither of us could walk to the car. The next day we measured the water temp at 39 degrees.

Everybody lived, virtually all the personal property was salvaged the next day and the whole affair became a grand campfire story. But if it hadn't been for my mother's premonition, it would have ended in a couple of obituaries.

Thanks, Mom. Dad too. Rest in peace.

John

PIR8 Hook · 08-07-2007, 07:03 AM

Ok, I'll try my explanation for this phenomon: Ever watch fish in an aquarium? When one moves the others are aware of it's movement through the medium of water & lateral line. Are fish aware OF their medium any more than we are aware of the air that we live in???? I think that some of us are more aware of this "lateral line" than others.

How do I know this???? I talked to the fish

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(And they said, "you're using the wrong colored lure").

Jaws · 08-07-2007, 08:16 AM

Old Coot, That was one amazing story! Glad you're still with us!

garyk · 08-07-2007, 08:18 AM

Heck of a story there, Old Coot.

Glad you shared it.....and are still around to do so!

Jennie@ifish · 08-07-2007, 10:06 AM

Interesting story. Wow!

I have a feeling like I'm hungry... Wow! I am!

OceanBlue · 08-17-2007, 07:44 AM

Cool stories here!

Something weird just happened this morning. I'm working on the '08 Salty Dog Convention, but really haven't done anything lately. I was just thinking while in the shower this morning, "hmmm, I should give that guy a call about catering... what was his name? What was the name of the catering company... oh yeah. Well, maybe if I have a minute, I'll call him today."

I've never talked to him before.

That is, before just a minute ago.

When HE called ME.

Coincidence? Maybe, but I've got goosebumps nonetheless.

Maybe we're both just very aware of our "lateral lines" :grin: