(November 26, 2017 at 12:10 am)Haipule Wrote: What is the weirdest thing that ever happened to you? Something that defies explanation.
About ten years ago, I was driving home late from work in a residential area near my home. I was driving my wife's new Ranger when all of a sudden a cat darts right in front of me! I slammed on the brakes and nothing! I just kept going! I let the brake off and reapplied them and stopped. I then got out of the truck to see if I could help the cat. There was no cat.
Continuing home, I kept slamming on the brakes to make sure they worked as it was my wife's vehicle. They worked every time. When I turned onto my street, it dawns on me that the reason the brakes seemed to not work was because the truck was in flight!
I hate the phrasing of this question. Not having an answer to what you perceive, or not wanting to consider that a natural answer is there is the real issue. This phrasing allows the religious and superstitious to stupidly say "SEE SEE SEE, since you don't know, my gap answer is the explanation."
Certainly I have had things happen to me I didn't understand at the time. But the real reason wasn't anything super natural, magical, or wooish. I simply was not aware that the human brain gap fills.
When I was a kid, I "saw" my dead grandmother standing at the foot of my bed. Another time I "saw" my dead father standing at the foot of my bed. I even once had that "floating outside my body". They were only real in the sense my brain was fooling me.
Point is, there is no magic, nothing supernatural going on. It simply freaked you out.
