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One time on a summer day as a teenager I went to the grocery store with my Mom.
We parallel parked the car a ways away from other cars. We secured the car as normal and went on a short shopping trip.
When we came back out after maybe 15 minutes, all of the cars windows were rolled down completely.
We both know for a fact all the windows were rolled up when we left, and even if we had them down, there would have been no reason to have the back windows down.
Nothing was stolen, no one was around, everything appeared untouched.
This was a Nissan Murano if I recall correctly - it did have power windows, but at the time there was no fancy stuff to remote control car features outside of having a remote starter installed, which we did not have.
There was only one set of keys.
We still have absolutely no explanation for this to this day.
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago; neighbor texted me to say all my car windows were open. I had to put the key in to wind them back up. Neighbor said he once had a car that kept doing that - some controller unit had somehow gotten water/moisture in, so he had the part replaced and that fixed it.
Seems you are looking for “supernatural” experiences however the following probably sounds supernatural to some:
Contentment in the serenity of what appears to outsiders to be a boring situation.
I’m not looking for anything, I was describing an experience I can’t explain per the thread which was probably mechanical or electrical in nature. Unsure how you got that impression.
You are not OP.
Time to put the spliff down brother.
If you think that one can only enjoy serenity with a spliff then my comment was for you. It took decades for me to get to this point.
Nah I was just making fun of how weird your comment sounded.
Fair enough, especially since I wasn’t responding to OP as I thought I was.
Ahhh that explains it lol. Fair enough.
Even back then some door lock remotes had the option to hold down unlock to roll down all windows. Not super useful feature and remember using it.
Why I’m in this flesh robot to begin with.
It’s easy to have inexplicable experiences when you are bad at explanation!
As kids we had a few “must have been ghosts” experiences.
Me and my brother both woke up at the same time because we heard our mom shout on us from downstairs. We got up to see what she wanted but she wasn’t there. Went back upstairs into her bedroom and she was asleep.
Our bedroom TV once turned itself on in the night, loud static channel. It was unplugged before we went to bed and didn’t have a remote control.
“Must have been aliens” one. Was watching an airplanes blinking light in the sky flying along. It stopped moving and kept blinking for about 5 seconds. Then shone really bright and shot towards the horizon in about a second. This was about 15 years ago and nobody believes me. I still don’t have an explanation for it. I assumed it was brand new military tech but I still haven’t heard of anything that can move that fast.
I wonder if it was actually a satellite rather than a plane? If, rather than speeding away, it actually halted its orbit, then what you saw was the earth’s rotation spinning away from it
Yes and no.
I explain because it’s useful to do so. But no explanation ever really fits anything.
It’s like fitting a shoe to the Pacific Ocean. I mean you can toss it in and say “look, it fits”. And to a degree it does. But not really.
Last year I was watching this show and and something odd happened. The camera turned to the fact of one of the characters and I don’t know why but it was like she was directly at me and she was talking about militias which was weird because I had just watched a video about one. As the vid went on I could have swore that one by one the characters just came out at me like that old Nintendo ad.
This happened about a year ago I still think about it. It wasn’t like I was tripping. I was a little drunk but that was about it.
My grandfather came to me in a trip in the shower and told me I’m wasting my life. I puked up steams. Quit my “finance bro” job moved to New Mexico and became a farmer. He’s been dead 20+ years.
One time while reading on my phone in bed with the lights turned off a single solitary firefly-like point of light appeared and drifted across my field of vision. It had depth, so I know it wasn’t a phenomenon originating just in one eye, and wasn’t constrained to the screen. There is also a zero percent chance it was an actual firefly. My only explanation is that it might have been a hypnagogic hallucination, but I’ve never seen one as bright and clear as this was. Like an ember from a bonfire.
A few weeks after my mom passed, I was reading a book winding down for the night. I set the book down in the middle of a very large coffee table and went to bed. Maybe 20 mins after laying down I heard a loud bang in the living room. I shot outta bed and grabbed a bat and went to investigate. In the living room, on the floor about 5 feet from the table, was the book I was reading. There were no animals or other people in the house and all the doors and windows were locked. This was a heavy hardcover book, so I don’t think wind or something like that picked it up and threw it. Im skeptical by nature but I still can’t come up with an explanation for that one.
Of course, I’m terrible at explaining 😅
My whole life, also it is hard for me to explain my emotions and feelings.
The hot water tap in my shower turned itself completely off one day.
The whole gender thing? And I say that as a trans person. It’s real, but I can’t explain it…
Totally, I was at the beach, and this guy walked up…well, I say “walked” but he didn’t really use his legs all the way. And as she, wait did I say it was a guy?, well anyways they turned the thing on and it was SO LOUD and I swear, all the waiters dropped their watchamacallits. Wait, maybe it was at a restaurant? Hmmm…
Can you explain how you recognize someone’s face? Can you explain how you balance your body and move your feet correctly as you walk? Can you explain how you speak in grammatically correct sentences without consciously thinking about the rules of grammar?
The vast majority of our experiences are fundamentally inexplicable—basically, everything that isn’t part of our internal narrative.
Uhhh, but the three examples you gave are not inexplicable.
How generative natural language works has been highly debated for over 60 years—there’s certainly no consensus most linguists would agree with. And while we have a pretty good idea how the process of facial recognition works, we know that process isn’t conducive to extracting a conventional explanation of how to recognize a particular face. (The best you could do is to make a list of features that would allow someone to eliminate all but one candidate from a small group, but that’s distinct from the process of actually recognizing someone.)
That feels off somehow, or at least, the unsolved problem part isn’t as narrow as that makes it seem.
I can recognise a place, just like a face. I don’t eliminate options, I just recognise it. I can recognise voices the same way.
I don’t understand how faces are different in this context?
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Two stand out. While under the influence.
The experience of time stopping or freezing after bumping into someone at a music festival, it was only for a perceived 5-7 seconds. As I swung off this dude and began to lose my footing everything stopped. Sounds, people moving, the trees swaying, everything. The external physical world stood still as did my physical form but my brain and thoughts was still moving at regular speed, able to understand the outside world had stopped but do nothing about it. The closest I’ve found to explain it is a guy having a seizure in the shower and perceiving that the water had frozen, I simply cannot explain this one.
On a separate occasion, fish made of little black dots, almost like flies, swimming around my living room. They were perfect in form and movement, like being inside a fish tank. It was the strangest thing because they were full external visual hallucinations that I seemed to have no control over but could perceive as real. They appeared as real as the room around me.
Maybe the first one is a (very extended) processing illusion? Perhaps something like https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120827-how-to-make-time-stand-still but much rarer.
