Thoughts on the Afterlife, ghosts, and spirits.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by fringed n fab

That's so weird Louie! How come we didn't point any of that out before when you showed us the pictures? (smh) but I totally believe you. And I don't think you're nuts. From what you've described it sounds very much like some kind of guide or guardian angel has been watching over you. We're all supposed to have them and I'm sure if you ever asked a noted psychic* (lol) they can tell you the names of them and most likely describe these beings to you to a "T" without you having to say a thing. Too many people have had your experiences so please never think you're delusional or nutty. I'm just glad I'm not the only one who's experienced some of these unexplained things and I'm glad you made it out safe both times. Sounds to me you're definitely being watched over.

I've actually had quite a few things happen to me throughout my life which have been affirmations of an afterlife, God, angels/spirits, psychic knowledge, etc. I think I'm probably more sensitive/in tune than most to such things.

For starters, I tend to have psychic dreams. The problem is they're totally pointless. I'll have a very vivid dream of a red house next to a strange field strewn with large boulders... then several years later I will drive past that exact house and field while visiting a state I'd never been to. That kind of stuff happens to me all of the time. Totally random, useless images are fed to me in my dreams... and years later, they'll come true. It's never anything pivotal or even meaningful. They just turn out to be exact impressions of places I've never been before... and one day end up in. Never famous places I've read about or seen on TV, just totally pointless random places.

On another subject, the house I grew up in seemed to have a poltergeist. One day when I was 15 I was in my room, bending down to pick up a sock, and I felt a hand give me a shove in the middle of my back. I turned around screaming and cursing, thinking it was my Mother trying to scare me. It was then I realized that my Mother was out of town shopping for the day... talk about chills. 10 years after that incident, I had taken one of my college friends home to meet my family. Over breakfast the next morning he said the most interesting thing happened when he was about to get in bed the previous night. He said he felt a hand on his back shove him down when he was about to turn off the bedside lamp. I never told my friend or ANYONE about the hand incident that happened to me 10 years earlier, so this wasn't something planted in his mind.

The last house I lived in also had a ghost whom I affectionately called Robert. Some people saw him, others didn't. I was single at the time... and I'd bring lots of new people into the house. I never told anyone about the ghost at first. Some people would sense him as soon as they walked in the door... and would say so (without me ever having brought him up). They'd point over towards the bedrooms, and say they feel or see something over there. Which is where Robert always was. He would always be seen walking in the little hall between the bedrooms and bathroom. Never anywhere else. Robert was fairly vapory and indistinct and was always just a flash... but everyone unequivocally knew he was a man. What's interesting about Robert is just as soon as several months had gone by, and you forgot he was there... boom! He'd walk out of the bathroom and go into my bedroom!

The funny thing is, even after all of these encounters, I still don't entirely know if I believe my own experiences. Years and years later I'm still questioning whether or not they were what I thought they were. Was I simply seeing flashes of light or reflections? Was my poltergeist just a twitching nerve, or an overactive imagination? What about the other people who experienced the same things? Whatever the case, this is the stuff that makes life worth living. The unknown. I'm glad not everything is literal, tangible, and measurable. There needs to be some mystery out there, unsolved answers. We need to always be asking new questions. People who think they have all of the answers bug me. We all need to accept there are things out there we just know nothing about.