Do you believe in any of the following...?

Just wondering how Wordforgers felt about certain phenomena.

Of all those things, precognition bothers me the most. Because it means that the future is essentially written or set in stone.

BTW, would it be okay to sticky this?? So people can vote for a while before it falls off the page?

I wouldn't rule many out as not believing in them at all. However unless I experienced any, I'm not sure I could say I believed in them either. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think most are possible but none have been definitely proven to me.

I've had experiences where precognition seems to have occurred, but whether it did in reality or not I dunno. Or how it did, if it did.

Time I don't know about. So I ticked it anyway

And I know some people have accounts of near death experiences, so it exists, if only in their imagination.

Not too taken with/convinced of any of the others.

I believe in anything as long as it has a paycheck.

None of those. I wouldn't rule out some form of limited time travel being invented, but there's no evidence for it as of yet, and it will probably remain impossible.

I believe in the existence of ET's, but not that the anicents were visited, which is what I think you're driving at.

How about "I've seen a lot of weird shit in my day that I can't explain?"

I believe in way to many things.
Then, I've experienced way to many weird-ass things.

And I do Astrology, numerology and tarot in anyone is interested.

Okay, we ned a working definition of wierd people here.

Wierd as in wierd actions done by people?

OR.....

Supernatural hapenings that cannot be explained by science.

Okay, now I'm curious. What sort of stuff have you seen?

Unfortunately, I've never had any sort of extraordinary experiences.

I've met some spiritual people but I never felt the 'charge' that others seemed to feel in their presence.

Almost all of those are within the realm of the "possible" . . . which is, after all, a very broad realm indeed.

I think our current knowledge of how the universe actually works has some great gaping holes in it, and there's hints of stuff that would make room for some of those things.

Basically, we don't know enough yet to authoritatively say what's impossible in every instance.

Telepathy in the sense that sometimes, people wake up in the middle of the night and know that something is wrong with a relative / a relative is hurt / a relative is dead.
Not in the sense of "I hear your thoughts."

Precognition in the sense that a person's attitude can pretty much set their future (broadly speaking, not specific moments but just the overall tone of their lives) in stone.

Near-death experiences in the sense that people's minds do create weird experiences for people who are near death.

And I forgot to mark faith healing. It's been proven that a happy person who has hope also has a boost in their immune system. Psychology and even hypnoses have reproduced the effects of faith healing, so I'd say it works (as in "boosts the immune system") for some devout people.


Now, as for seriously believing that stuff to be 100% true and real and absolutely to be believed no matter what... no, I don't think so.

I probably should have added clairvoyance, which is somewhat different from telepathy.

Does having dreams that come true 6 months later count?

I've had dreams that made no sense at the time, only to literally come true, down to the last detail, months or even years later.

I've always understood clairvoyance to mean the ability to know something just by wanting to know it. Like being able to tell if there's mail in your mailbox before you open it, that kind of thing.

How very odd!

Six months is the time frame on mine as well.


I think everything will be explainable by science, at some point, although that doesn't mean I can explain them myself.

Anyone read "beyond coinkydink" in the workshop?

True story, happened to a friend of mine, known her years, and remember her talking about for the year before it happened. Kinda lazy for me to enter it in a writing competition as fiction, but oh well!

Precognition. I swear I have had dreams and visions that have come true. It's weird, I don't like it. Why me?


I just hope I don't have any dreams where I die any time soon.

I've actually had two dreams in which I died. I actually find them comforting in the idea that we do indeed have a soul and something other than nothingness awaits at the end.

The nothingness doesn't scare me, but the whole dying with unfinished business does.

I knew you were going to say that.

I voted for stuff that is already a reality, therefore is possible.

Time travel/time shifting has been experienced by astronauts. The faster they travel, the faster the time around them moves. An astronaut may travel at a certain speed for 1 year, but back on Earth 5 years could have passed. However, the real trick is completely stopping time, and even reversing it.

I also remember hearing about scientists teleporting small molecules or light or something, so that is also a reality.

Teh baba is also a reality.

There are only two that I really have a problem with. Faith healing for the obvious ridiculousness of it all. "Throw some snakes on her, bop her on the forehead, and she's cured!"

Astrology because it's based on observations of the stars from thousands of years ago, when the stars have in fact changed locations in the night sky. So even if astrology were possible, it would be entirely inaccurate. Plus, they're both stupid.

I've mentioned before, having the same dream as daughter one night. If that ain't telepathy, I don't know what is...

I am not sure under which of these that Mystics would fall under, but they are most related to ghosts/spirits and whatnot so I guess they don't need their own spot.

I have had personal experiences when I could feel either presences or sense things. Being largely skeptical of most things I have picked through my own experiences and tried to rationalize them as over actions of my imagination to compensate for something in the situation. Some of the time it makes a flimsy cover for the experiences and other times I just have to disregard it entirely. It isn't that I don't want to believe that these things have happened I am just living in a world full of skeptics and I am expected not to believe it (yet religion is popular as ever ).

One of the more recent (and less bizarre) experiences I've had was when I was driving North on rte 28 through Pittsfield. I couldn't even see the traffic backed up around the bend, but I already had a looming bad feeling. It felt as though something bad had happened and something worse was happening. Coming around the bend I could see the cars bumper to bumper for about a quarter mile, but could not as of yet see the car wreck that I knew was there. When I got closer I could finally see it, one of the cars was completely wrecked, mangled and came to a rest on its roof. The other car was nearly as bad and resting in the ditch.

At this point it can be taken rationally that my mind calculated the likelihood that someone would die in a wreck of this nature and because of this I was given the feeling the someone had died. So I can assume that the feeling I had in my gut long before seeing the wreck was just an extension of my presumptions of a wreck this severe. So I can completely discredit myself if I have no faith in my own feelings. Except being who I am I know that I rarely rush ahead mentally and the feelings I get have not once steered me wrong. I could feel that someone was dead or dying and it gave me a sick feeling.

As soon as I left the area I felt better entirely, got to Alton and had a good time visiting my mother. Later on that weekend I heard mention of the wreck on 28 and that someone had died out there. So no matter if it was my mind making an assumption on evidence or if it was my senses that felt the dying call of the person's soul I still had known ahead of time that the person was indeed going to die. It can be said that the sight of the wreck and its severity could cause such a presumption, but I have seen people survive worse.

Fairly sure about telepathy and precognition, to a small degree.

Firmly convinced of reincarnation.

I don't necessarily believe in those things, but I don't disbelieve in them either. I firmly believe that anything is possible.

Having said that however, one morning The Warden woke me up talking in her sleep. She was mumbling what sounded like, "911" Later that morning, she was telling me how she was troubled by a dream she had the night before, and she couldn't shake a sense of dread it gave her. In it, she saw intruders in our across the street neighbor's home through the windows. The intruders were armed with box cutters, and they were going after our neighbors. She felt helpless and kept screaming for me to dial 911. She was screaming over and over, 911...911...911...then she woke up. She told me all this that morning. I didn't think much of it, and went off to work. Shortly after getting to work, I heard that a plane slammed into the North Tower of the WTC.

"All of you that believe in Telekinesis, Raise my hand!"

"I need psychic help. You know where to apply."