Where do you stand on the existence of God?

[Excited Penguin]

Lol. Well, for what it's worth, there has been no history of any mental problems with me or in my immediate family. I've never had anyone suggest that I might be insane, or tell me that I exhibit signs/behavior of an insane person or a person with any sort of mental illness. It's never been an issue in any way. So do with that what you will I suppose. 

One does not have to be considered insane or have a diagnosed mental illness to have a delusion or hallucination.  For example, I am not insane (to my knowledge) and have no diagnosed mental illnesses but I experienced what could very well have been an extremely vivid hallucination in the bathroom at work a couple months ago.  (That makes it sound more interesting than it was. )  And there's no way for me to verify whether the event was real or took place entirely in my head so all I can say now was "that was weird..."

I've also had experiences with other people where, initially, our stories were really different and then, over time, get more and more similar, as well as the opposite, where our initially memories are really similar but after a while drift further and further apart.  Exchanging memories of a shared event with another person affects how everyone remembers the event (you start to create a group narrative that may or may not reflect what actually happened), which is why cops interview witnesses separately: so there's less likely to be cross-contamination of memories.  So having had an experience with someone who corroborates your memory of the event doesn't always mean a lot.

I'd have to actually explain what happened, which I would rather not do. But it was pretty clear.

That's like telling me you had this amazing experience with Big Foot and you totally have evidence he's real... but you can't tell me what it is.

Clear to whom? Only you? You shouldn't completely trust what you saw without verification from others first of all.

She mentioned that someone else had the exact same experiences so I suppose she uses that as her external validation.

On a non-related note, that explains why I oftentimes seem to be the only sane person in a conversation with many people at once. It's frightening how contagious stupidity seems to be, especially if you offend someone from within the group for doing the same to you - it doesn't matter who started what. From their perspective, you're the Devil simply because you dared touch one of them.