Archive for November, 2005

More “Active” Deja-vu

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

Monday afternoon was another deja-vu adventure for me. Unlike the previous time, this was not as strong.

I titled this entry “active” deja-vu since I immediately recognized the effect. Deja-vu is the feeling that you’ve been somewhere or done something before. Up until recently, my experience with deja-vu has always been after the fact. I’ll be somewhere and see something and only after its gone do I recognize it from a dream or memory.

Last February I had the unique experience of being in a deja-vu. It was like a walking dream, lasting well over five minutes! I marveled at the feeling later on, feeling powerfully psychic the rest of the day. It was a landmark event.

Monday’s event was a far tamer, but interesting nonetheless. I was surfing the Internet at lunchtime, catching up on interesting news stories when I noticed the deja-vu feeling again. As I studied the news, I knew that I’d seen them before at some point in the past. Some office conversations were also “reruns.” This went on for a number of minutes

This experience was not nearly as vivid as the previous one, but I have no doubt it occured. The important part is that I recognized a deja-vu occuring and continued to recognize it for a prolonged amount of time.

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Twenty Years Of Psychic Dreaming

Monday, November 21st, 2005

I was doing some cleaning around the house today when I discovered an old journal I kept twenty years ago. Back in the days before blogging, people used to keep “journals” made of “paper.” I kept mine for a little while but then abandonded it for other pursuits. If I only knew then that I’d be writing almost every day, and sharing it with the whole world!

Around that time of my life, I had a series of prophetic dreams; dreams so captivating that I could not ignore them. I was stretching my psychic wings – and discovering I was quite good.

I was sixteen years old, on the verge of adulthood. I had my first job and had recently learned how to drive. My world was ruled by hormones, emotion, and a powerful curiosity about the world. I was finding out who I was. I suppose its natural I would explore my psychic side.

Here’s a quote from one such dream, recorded exactly twenty years ago today, November 21, 1985:

Morning Dream: Sitting in my sister’s car in backyard. About to start it, and go somewhere. I remember my brother beside me. The door open. Dad leaned across me to fiddle with the stick. I said it was okay, closed the door, and put the car in gear. The alarm buzzed as I drove off.

Reality: Today, during auto mechanics, Arte D. [a fellow student] pulled his Mustang into the shop. It had a problem with the shifter. It wouldn’t come out of second gear. Arte and I, in the front seats, disassembled the shifter, reconnected the stick, and, with Mr. Owens’s [the shop teacher], advice, sufficiently repaired it. Mr. Owens,
in order to inspect our work, leaned over me repeatedly. Then, with it bolted on, Arte let me test it. Mr Owens asked Arte if he trusted me (Dad said it in my dream). He did, and I shifted his car through all five gears. I then realized what had happened [the deja-vu part]. P.S. Arte has eyes like my brother’s. It is the first time I’ve driven a stick shift in months.

I still remember the amazement at having my dream unfold before my eyes that day.

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It’s 11:11. Again.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Those of you who used to watch the old (old?) X-Files series know that clocks on the sets were always showing 11:11 as the time. It was some sort of joke I suppose. Lately, though, I seem to always be looking up when a clock says 11:11. It happens so often that I have to chuckle.

No, I don’t know what it means. But it’s silly. And sometimes that’s enough. :-)

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So-Called Expert Claims UFO Era Is Over

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Doug Kern, a contributor for the website Tech Central claims that era of UFO sightings is over, ironically thanks to the Internet. Says Kern:

The UFO cultural moment in America is long since over, having gone out with the Clintons and grunge rock in the 90s. Ironically, the force that killed the UFO fad is the same force that catapulted it to super-stardom: the Internet. And therein hangs a tale about how the Internet can conceal and reveal the truth.

Kern follows a long line of skeptics who blindly believe that if some claims of unusual phenomena prove to be false, all claims must then be false. The conclusion must fit the hypothesis and damn any evidence to the contrary. Never mind that reported sightings have continued at a steady pace at the National UFO reporting center, one such authority.

While certainly some events could be explained away with a reasonable explanation, many cannot. When you rule out every possible so-called rational explanation, what have you left?

You cannot seriously study this field without first having an open mind. Without an open mind you become a zealot, whether skeptic or believer.

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