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05 January 2006
Have you ever had ESP? Please share your ESP experiences here. →[More:]You knew I was going to say that, right?
I regularly have dreams of the future, but they're on par with deja vu -- no premonitions of important events, just mundane bits of everyday life that I dream of months in advance.
I get little flashes all the time. Some could be attributed to coicidence, but it happens too often and too frequently for me to completely discount the fact that we're all dialed into the cosmos. Everyone can be a little psychic if they just pay attention.
I actually had a vague ESP type experience once. When I was home sick as a kid, I watched an episode of The Dick van Dyke show where Rose Marie sang a song called "I Wish I Could Sing Like Durante." I don't recall ever seeing it afterwards.
Then one day at work in the bookstore, roughly 17 years later, I found myself sing that number to myself. Pips asked what the song was and I told her. Later that night, we flipped on TV Land (the cable rerun network) and guess what was playing? That very episode. Freaky.
Who is the comedian who does the riff, something like "A woman wakes up with a strong burning sensation in her right hand... Amazingly at the same time a thousand miles away her daughter is giving some dude a handjob"?
Sorry McGraw, I don't have any paranormal phenomina to report that haven't been well explained by science, I keep wishing I would see or experience something that would convince me, but nothing yet. And I have a vivid internal fantasy life, so it's fuck all to do with a lack of imagionation or whatever.
I'd be curious to know how you'd separate ESP from coincidence. I mean, the world is due one bona fide, honest-to-goodness miracle a month, by coincidence. Nothing mentioned here is a bona fide miracle, so heck, these things are going to come even faster.
My cousin and I had "ESP." We knew each other really well, and could thus finish each other's sentences.
I think right now, he is ... working. Damn! I'm good. ;-P
Apparently when I was about 5 the family was driving to visit my aunt outside Philly. Out of nowhere, I piped up and asked "Mom, does Aunt Penny have a shower that sprays on all four sides?" We hadn't ever been to her house, but when we arrived at her house (an old victorian) we found she did indeed have a shower that consisted of 4 vertical pipes that sprayed from the side. My mother recalls having been quite spooked by that.
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