What's the creepiest/weirdest thing you've ever seen?

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Anonymous wrote:When I was a tween (we didn't call it that back then!), I got a book from the book fair about dreams and what they mean, etc. It was actually very deep and inspired me to keep a dream journal. I kept reading the book, and one afternoon was home alone, reading the book and fell asleep on the couch. I woke up and felt really wierd. Off. I walked outside, don't know why. I felt a panic. I didn't know if I was awake or asleep. I thought maybe asleep and all of a sudden it *terrified* me to think anything scary could pop up, and yet I felt all the reality of being so awake. I must have just been dreaming about dinosaurs (thanks Jurassic park), and I was so afraid they would show up. Full of straight up fear of dinosaurs. It sounds silly, but even if you as an adult really felt that, you'd be scared out of your mind. Again, no one was home so I was even more afraid. I ran back inside and 'woke up.' I hid that book somewhere because i never wanted to find it again. Creepily I could never find it, even though I wanted to a few years later. I have no idea why I wanted to hide it, persay, or where I put it.

Fast forward to several years ago and I heard of lucid dreaming. I think that's what was happening. It was a scary feeling at my age.

I'll add: when Newtown happened, I heard about Lanza being interested I lucid dreaming. I think the news mentioned it but not much was made of it. However, I knew my young experience, and I knew the strange feeling it can cause. My heart breaks for all involved, and I just want to say that if believe if lucid dreaming was related somehow.

I heard something about navy yard too, and it pricked my ear. (And I'm sorry if anyone you know was affected in that.) I don't bring these up to politicize or to hurt. Just found a connection to my experience in those events, and many people missed that detail, but I sure noticed.

Last little comment on this topic, I promise. Or else I'll get kicked off to start a new forum.
I found sources re: loughner the Arizona shooter. And I found mention of Adam Lanza in one article but not more than a mention
Obviously there are mental issues like schizophrenia, etc. but I think a few have had interest in lucid dreaming, and it's strange to me having had a negative experience. And seeing mention of it over the years in mass shootings. Ok I'm officially done with this topic now.

OK seriously person get a handle on this : the only reason they would've been interested in lucid dreaming was perhaps they wanted to kill people only in a dream. Even if you're mentally ill it's not like you actually want to go around killing. Probably if they had been able to successfully only lucidly dream of killing they would've. Lucid dreamers are aware they are dreaming. It's not like you're sleepwalking and killing people and able to say that it's the lucid dreaming that did it. Seriously get a handle on this.

[Anonymous]

Ghosts. Lots of crazy stories here. Once, as a young adult (living at home after graduated college), I kept meaning to visit my aunt in the hospital as she was ill. She passed away the day before I was planning to go. That night, I saw her next to my bed. I called to my mom in a panic - I couldn't get my body to stop shaking I was so terrified. Believe what you want. I believe in them.

[Anonymous]

That IS creepy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was a tween (we didn't call it that back then!), I got a book from the book fair about dreams and what they mean, etc. It was actually very deep and inspired me to keep a dream journal. I kept reading the book, and one afternoon was home alone, reading the book and fell asleep on the couch. I woke up and felt really wierd. Off. I walked outside, don't know why. I felt a panic. I didn't know if I was awake or asleep. I thought maybe asleep and all of a sudden it *terrified* me to think anything scary could pop up, and yet I felt all the reality of being so awake. I must have just been dreaming about dinosaurs (thanks Jurassic park), and I was so afraid they would show up. Full of straight up fear of dinosaurs. It sounds silly, but even if you as an adult really felt that, you'd be scared out of your mind. Again, no one was home so I was even more afraid. I ran back inside and 'woke up.' I hid that book somewhere because i never wanted to find it again. Creepily I could never find it, even though I wanted to a few years later. I have no idea why I wanted to hide it, persay, or where I put it.

Fast forward to several years ago and I heard of lucid dreaming. I think that's what was happening. It was a scary feeling at my age.

I'll add: when Newtown happened, I heard about Lanza being interested I lucid dreaming. I think the news mentioned it but not much was made of it. However, I knew my young experience, and I knew the strange feeling it can cause. My heart breaks for all involved, and I just want to say that if believe if lucid dreaming was related somehow.

I heard something about navy yard too, and it pricked my ear. (And I'm sorry if anyone you know was affected in that.) I don't bring these up to politicize or to hurt. Just found a connection to my experience in those events, and many people missed that detail, but I sure noticed.

Last little comment on this topic, I promise. Or else I'll get kicked off to start a new forum.
I found sources re: loughner the Arizona shooter. And I found mention of Adam Lanza in one article but not more than a mention
Obviously there are mental issues like schizophrenia, etc. but I think a few have had interest in lucid dreaming, and it's strange to me having had a negative experience. And seeing mention of it over the years in mass shootings. Ok I'm officially done with this topic now.

OK seriously person get a handle on this : the only reason they would've been interested in lucid dreaming was perhaps they wanted to kill people only in a dream. Even if you're mentally ill it's not like you actually want to go around killing. Probably if they had been able to successfully only lucidly dream of killing they would've. Lucid dreamers are aware they are dreaming. It's not like you're sleepwalking and killing people and able to say that it's the lucid dreaming that did it. Seriously get a handle on this.

I can lucid dream. Less often now than I could when I was a kid, but sometimes it still happens. All it means is that I know I'm dreaming and can make things happen in my dreams. It made nightmares much more bearable when I was young, because I could problem-solve them. Lucid dreams have absolutely no bearing on my waking life though.

[Anonymous]

Great thread.


1) when I was young and living in Europe, my family was driving back from vacation and we were passing through a very rural area. There was an old guy riding a horse and buggy in front of us and all of a sudden his horse went wild and the buggy flipped. The old guy flew off the buggy and didn't move. My parents stopped the car and immediately ran over to him. His whole face was bloody and swollen and he was unconscious. A bus stopped as well and my parents put my sister and I on the bus to take us home and they took the guy in our car to the hospital. I felt so bad for him.

2) I was probably 8-9 and was with a friend and her mother. We were going somewhere and we're getting on a bus. I was wearing a dress and as I was getting in I felt someone lift my skirt and touch me. I looked back and it was some older guy. I was so freaked out and didn't know what to do. He got in and stood behind me and touched me again. I moved and stood next to my friends mom with my back to the window. I didn't say anything because I was so freaked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not exactly creepy, but rather weird. i was living in Washington and involved in an on/off again long distance relationship with a guy in New York. I was in my early 20s, not happy with how things were going but still felt very attached and unable to let go. One evening when we were talking on the phone he mentioned that he was going to be in Baltimore for a very quick work trip but would not have time to get down to D.C.

Because i was feeling so attached and, yes, a little desperate, I got in my car one evening and drove to Baltimore. i wasn't doing this in a stalkerish way ... I just needed to go out and do something. I did not know Baltimore at all ... I just sort of drove to the downtown area ... I did not even know the exact days he was going to be there or where he would be staying.

Anyway, when I parked my car and started walking around, i ran straight into this man. I've often thought since then about the things we call into our lives. No, it didn't work out, but I was so focused on him then.

This isn't really creepy, but when I first moved to DC I had an unpaid internship and waited tables. I was between shifts during a double downtown a few blocks from the convention center, and my mom was in town for a conference but I hadn't seen her yet. Something happened that set me off. On my break I sprinted to the convention center and despite the gargantuan size of the place, I ran inside into one of the ballrooms and I sat down in a seat...right beside her. My mom and I aren't super close, but at that moment I really needed her, and somehow I was able to immediately find her.