What's the strangest thing that ever happened to you?

[_Sam Harris]

My first trip to the temple was actually a beautiful experience. It was the most quiet and most peaceful place I'd ever been in life up to that point, and perhaps that alone made me not really question the things I was hearing and seeing. Not to mention I felt my temple attendance to sort of be an "arrival" for me, I thought that then finally the LDS men around me would see me as worthy of them (clears throat), and I'd be able to marry and have the lovely eternal family I was promised.

Anyways...didn't happen. I frighten "gentiles", and only the most bold approach these days. But where I live the freaks come out at night and during the day, so there's plenty of them.

Cartman Gets An Anal Probe was by far one of the funniest SouthPark episodes ever.

[_The Nehor]

You didn't snort them did you?

No, tried, but do you know how painstakingly dull it is to crush them up one by one and snort them. I went to the milk and bowl process.

[_Jersey Girl]

I'd like to answer but my answer would involve family members in serious situations. GIMR's post comes close when she says:

"The strangest thing that ever happened to me was a dream I had when I was 12. I had a dream in which I was standing in front of a black coffin trimmed in gold. I did not know who was in it, but I found myself reaching for a red rose from the spread on top. My mom was dating a really nice man at the time, and a few months after the dream (which I found it hard to shake off), they came to me and told me he had been diagnosed with cancer. I knew then who was in that coffin.

I began to withdraw from this man, because I was tired of burying people I loved. Sure enough, he lost the battle to cancer. It started in his lungs and spread. They buried him in a black coffin with gold trim, and there was a spread of red roses on top. At the gravesite, I went and got one, and kept it for years. When we moved overseas, somehow I lost it."

I don't have dreams. I see it when I'm awake. I call it "flashes" or "precognitive events" where I see scenes that come true. Not alot though. Sometimes there is what I'd call an involuntary phrase that is associated with it that seems to make no sense to me until after the real life event happens.

Jersey Girl

Okay, I'll reveal the total weirdness of me. I also see things in my head like series of numbers numbers. I can recall phone numbers of people even from years ago and things like phone numbers or house numbers from work related directories (like little phone books) that go back about a dozen years. I had a job once where I dealt with a list of over 450 vehicle identification numbers. I could recite it in order including the make, model and type.

[_Gazelam]

Jersey, if it makes you feel better, I'd love to have your disorder. I myself live with CRS disorder. can't remember scat.

Heres my story, only I was 3 years old at the time. So I'm going off my Mom's story as well as others that were there that day.

My Mom was driving to her grandparents in Georgia with me in the backseat. (Oh the glory days of no seatbelt laws where a kid could ride safely in the rear window sill) As shes going down the road, a chrome colored egg shaped object came flying up behind the car, she sees it in the rearview and accelerates, only to have it gracefully come alongside the car. Apparently I was pointing at it saying "Airplane, airplane"

After she speeds up to the grandparents and carreens into the gravel driveway she scoops me up and runs screaming into the house. Those inside run out and see the object floating above the house, it lingers for just a moment , then zips off into the sky, never to be seen again.

The next day my Mom woke up with the side of her face all sunburned where the ship had been alongside the car. I'm assumeing this was the drivers side.

My being three I would guess this to have been about 1974.

Gaz

[_Sam Harris]

Y'all are some alien attracting individuals....

[_Jersey Girl]

Gaz

Jersey, if it makes you feel better, I'd love to have your disorder. I myself live with CRS disorder. can't remember scat.

Of course we'd call that something else in Jersey.

Jersey Girl
;-)

[_The Nehor]

I'd like to answer but my answer would involve family members in serious situations. GIMR's post comes close when she says:

"The strangest thing that ever happened to me was a dream I had when I was 12. I had a dream in which I was standing in front of a black coffin trimmed in gold. I did not know who was in it, but I found myself reaching for a red rose from the spread on top. My mom was dating a really nice man at the time, and a few months after the dream (which I found it hard to shake off), they came to me and told me he had been diagnosed with cancer. I knew then who was in that coffin.

I began to withdraw from this man, because I was tired of burying people I loved. Sure enough, he lost the battle to cancer. It started in his lungs and spread. They buried him in a black coffin with gold trim, and there was a spread of red roses on top. At the gravesite, I went and got one, and kept it for years. When we moved overseas, somehow I lost it."

I don't have dreams. I see it when I'm awake. I call it "flashes" or "precognitive events" where I see scenes that come true. Not alot though. Sometimes there is what I'd call an involuntary phrase that is associated with it that seems to make no sense to me until after the real life event happens.

Jersey Girl

Okay, I'll reveal the total weirdness of me. I also see things in my head like series of numbers numbers. I can recall phone numbers of people even from years ago and things like phone numbers or house numbers from work related directories (like little phone books) that go back about a dozen years. I had a job once where I dealt with a list of over 450 vehicle identification numbers. I could recite it in order including the make, model and type.

Wow, I wish I could pull that off. I only have a few things like that in my long-term memory: the code to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out 007-373-5963; the code to get 30 lives in Contra up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start; and the HP totals of most of the enemies in Final Fantasy........what I could know if I didn't play video games as a child ;)

[_Jersey Girl]

I'd like to answer but my answer would involve family members in serious situations. GIMR's post comes close when she says:

"The strangest thing that ever happened to me was a dream I had when I was 12. I had a dream in which I was standing in front of a black coffin trimmed in gold. I did not know who was in it, but I found myself reaching for a red rose from the spread on top. My mom was dating a really nice man at the time, and a few months after the dream (which I found it hard to shake off), they came to me and told me he had been diagnosed with cancer. I knew then who was in that coffin.

I began to withdraw from this man, because I was tired of burying people I loved. Sure enough, he lost the battle to cancer. It started in his lungs and spread. They buried him in a black coffin with gold trim, and there was a spread of red roses on top. At the gravesite, I went and got one, and kept it for years. When we moved overseas, somehow I lost it."

I don't have dreams. I see it when I'm awake. I call it "flashes" or "precognitive events" where I see scenes that come true. Not alot though. Sometimes there is what I'd call an involuntary phrase that is associated with it that seems to make no sense to me until after the real life event happens.

Jersey Girl

Okay, I'll reveal the total weirdness of me. I also see things in my head like series of numbers numbers. I can recall phone numbers of people even from years ago and things like phone numbers or house numbers from work related directories (like little phone books) that go back about a dozen years. I had a job once where I dealt with a list of over 450 vehicle identification numbers. I could recite it in order including the make, model and type.

Wow, I wish I could pull that off. I only have a few things like that in my long-term memory: the code to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out 007-373-5963; the code to get 30 lives in Contra up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start; and the HP totals of most of the enemies in Final Fantasy........what I could know if I didn't play video games as a child ;)

No, trust me you don't. I think it has something to do with visual being my modality for learning and taking in information. Visual learners tend to "see" things in their head. Wherever I've worked, people would ask me for random phone numbers instead of picking up the phone book. I don't mean to memorize number sequences, I don't even try to do it. It just happens.

I have a question for anyone reading this. Let's say you lost your car keys. When you realize where they are is it because you retraced your steps or because you somehow "see" them sitting somewhere. This happened to me yesterday.

I'm really just a freak.

Jersey Girl

[_The Nehor]

No, trust me you don't. I think it has something to do with visual being my modality for learning and taking in information. Visual learners tend to "see" things in their head. Wherever I've worked, people would ask me for random phone numbers instead of picking up the phone book. I don't mean to memorize number sequences, I don't even try to do it. It just happens.

I have a question for anyone reading this. Let's say you lost your car keys. When you realize where they are is it because you retraced your steps or because you somehow "see" them sitting somewhere. This happened to me yesterday.

I'm really just a freak.

Jersey Girl

I for one am pro-freak. Having been called it several times myself, I now wear it as a badge of honor.

[_Jersey Girl]

I'm going to do a "lost keys" thread and see what normal people have to say.

Jersey Girl
;-)