Once, back in high school, I had a printer cable coiled up and laying on my computer desk. I put my keys in the center of the coil, and for some reason a piece of paper over the top. (Random desk clutter.) When I went to grab them the next day, I lifted the paper, and they were gone. This was the inside of a coiled cable, a circular area maybe 4 inches in diameter, so it’s not like I could just overlook them somehow. I figured that I must have moved them and forgotten about it, but when I searched again a few hours later, they were inside the coiled printer cable, under that sheet of paper. My family swore that they hadn’t moved my keys, and really, how would they even have found them in such an odd spot in my room?
I grew up in a house where a lot of weird things happened, and this reminds me of the time my wallet and a few other important articles of mine went missing. My mom had laid them carefully on my bed at the time. She was the only one home. When I got home later, I wasn’t able to find them. She helped me look everywhere, but they were just inexplicably gone. She was convinced I had moved them.
Weeks later, I had lifted my mattress for whatever reason (bed was in the corner against the wall) and they were wayyyy in the back corner, lying between the box spring and the mattress, as carefully arranged as she had laid them out on my bed.
I have a wooden hand mirror that’s made with a thick circle of wood that surrounds two mirrors (regular and magnifying on either side).
After several months in the humidity next to my shower, the seam in the wood came apart, leaving about a 2cm gap in the frame. I tried to fix it using a belt vice grip thing, but couldn’t get both mirrors to seat into their grooves so I could cinch the gap closed. No matter what I did, one mirror would unseat and be in the way. Cheap mirror, I gave up trying, and it’s been that way for more than a year.
About a month ago I picked it up to use it and it’s fixed itself. The gap is totally gone, with the seam perfectly tight, like it had never broken in the first place. I stood looking at it saying ‘what the fuck?’ for several minutes. It makes no sense at all.
e: it’s been in that same environment next to my shower this whole time, with no changes, so it’s not likely to be an environmental reason. So weird.
I had a dream that my coworker died in a skiing accident. Two weeks later, he didn’t show up for work. Was in the ICU because he took his helmet off during lunch on the mountain and hit a jump wrong and went into a rock field. He died a few days later.
To be fair, I’ve had other dreams where people were hurt or died and it didn’t come true. But this shit shook me to my core. It still haunts me.
Rest in peace Justin. You were such a great dude. My favorite memory of you is how you’d flip out every time I’d pump up a bike tire in the shop and you’d freak out thinking it would explode, because of the one time it did.
I was on a psylocibin trip at home and decided to put on my blindfold and lay in bed for some introspection and closed eye visuals. For reference, my blindfold consists of a layer of leather with a padded fuzzy lining. It’s very thick because it was intended for kink, but I like it because it’s comfy and blocks all light.
While laying in bed, I realized I could literally see through the blindfold. I could make out my hand in full color and could even see the ring I was rolling between my thumb and index finger. I could see when I waved my hand and could tell which fingers were up and which fingers were down. I could only really see my hand and whatever I was holding, surrounded by a black aura. It was super cool but bewildering as all hell. My partner was with me and even she was in disbelief.
My best guess is that the psylocibin turned my proprioception into visuals, like a form of synesthesia.
It happened to me when in the middlw of falling asleep, no drug involved except for some good sleep deprivation. You can see with your eyes closed, pretty trippy
I have that as well when I’m really tired. It’s more like dreaming of the situation you’re in though. When I actually open my eyes, some stuff is different and people are somewhere else.
This happens to me all the time. It hasn’t happened for a while now, but it used to happen more.
I saw a video of this martial arts class in the US, where they learn a secret technique from the (seriously) Thai royal family. They can see with their eyes closed as well.
I searched for it after many nights, while trying to fall asleep, seeing with my eyes closed. I had to look for some explanation, and I found the video and the Thai secret royal martial art…
And I only believe the video above because this happened to me many times. Otherwise I’d think they’re just full of shit and peaking through the blindfold.
Yeah me too, but brains are weird. There’s no reason not to think something that happens to some of us, but is clearly not common, can be “unlocked” or “stimulated” by taking a drug like psilocybin.
Ah no no, sure. I’m not saying shrooms can’t do stuff like that. But I think it’s a natural ability humans have, that we can learn to do without shrooms. Like, the people in the video I shared above literally learned it. Some are blind y’know.
What would you say is the synesthesia part though? When it happens I can see things, like my hands, the room around me etc. not “shapes” or “colors” or anything.
Yeah, that wouldn’t be synesthesia, and I’m not exactly sure what it would be. What I do know is that we don’t have enough understanding of how how our brains work, and we need more research on stuff like this. Is it a positive or negative experience when it happens to you?
I think it’s pretty cool. The first time it happened I thought I was just “naturally tripping”. Or that I had a “super power”. But after the second or third time I just felt like it couldn’t be a thing only I ever experienced. So I searched online and found some people talking about it, their experiences very similar to mine, and eventually someone linked to the video I shared above and talked about the secret Thai royal martial art. All in all, I feel it’s indeed an ability all humans can have. I’m not sure on the mechanics of it, but if even blind people can “see” like this, I feel it must be something more than just “seeing” with the eyes closed, you know?
All in all, I feel it’s indeed an ability all humans can have.
I completely believe this. My patients who are on ketamine or psilocybin often say they discovered through psychedelics that everything they ever needed to heal was inside themselves the whole time. I think psychedelics simply give us access to what lies within. It’s also a state that can be achieved with things like Holotropic Breathwork.
It’s awesome that there are people who can connect with those abilities without psychedelics or any special preparation. Wish I was one of you!
I was walking in flip-flops on asphalt when I sneezed. I opened my eyes after sneezing and my flip-flops were now behind me but facing forward and neatly arranged. What happened when I sneezed? Did I put my feet together, slide the backward to release the toes, jump up and then forward about 18”? All without noticing and in the span of one sneeze ?
I have almost supernaturally good luck when it comes to getting tickets for things, but in no other area of life. This probably isn’t the kind of thing you meant, and yet everything spooky I’ve eventually found a mundane explanation for. The ticket thing on the other hand? No idea.
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