Hi..I'm new here & just received a suggestion from Knetauros to post a thread re: mental telepathy
other stuff based on my own experience.
Recently, a new DUer asked if there was a forum in which she could discuss the paranormal.
It resonated with me, as I'm a former skeptic who has experienced, quite by accident, it seems, some
instances of what I can only identify as mental telepathy. It first started when I was age 20, and it seemed to
occur spontaneously, as I wasn't even sure I believed in such things before it happened!
My only other significant brush with the "paranormal" was at age of seven when I saw a specter of a colonial
carriage while walking to school in an area the old colonial city of Philadelphia, PA.
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WhatheHell were you doing when you saw the spectral colonial carriage...Sorry, I couldn't resist, with your user name and all.
Do you remember what you were doing when you experienced the telepathy? Was there a common denominator to the experiences, like being in a certain frame of mind or specific place? Do you know if what you received was from a human (I mean a living person) or perhaps was the 'place' allowing you to know something. How did it make you feel?
I'm also curious about the ghost carriage. Did you get to see people on it or feel it pass by?
I know, that is a lot of questions as a first response, but these things are interesting. I have always (well, almost always - there are some things out there that can be scary as well) enjoyed my contact with this type of thing, so I'll happily listen and offer any tidbits I can.
at around 12:30 in the afternoon. My sister was five years older than me and she, at the time, was in the 7th grade, and I was
in the 2nd.
We both went to the same school then, and the way the school worked was, they let you "go home" for lunch at about 11:15 in the morning and expected you back at around 12:30...this was because most of the students lived within walking distance of the school.
The city was Philadelphia, PA, and, as I'm sure you know, it was the nations first capitol and played a HUGE part in the cournty's founding. The area we lived in then was not part of the city back in colonial times, but was part of the nearby countryside and our street was right off a very old colonial road called Bristol Pike at that time.
This neigborhood was completely residential. The streets were all paved, and there were blocks and blocks of tree shaded houses in rows, and, being in the late 1950's, very quiet and "dead" in the middle of the day, as most of the men were at work, the kids were in school and the women were all at home.
About a half block past my house, I looked to my left at the intersection of the two streets I was crossing -- the one I crossed and looked at every day on my way to school. On this day, at this crossing, I saw something I'd never seen before -- A colonial carriage with a couple of footmen at the helm, white wigs and all. It was strange sight in this 1950's neighborhood and it was "strange" in that, it was "there" but not "there" as other things were or are "there". It's hard to describe, but this "scene" had an ever so slight "filmy" appearance, and as I looked upon it, I felt a weird kind of "whirling" sensation, although I was NOT afraid, and even pointed it out to my sister saying "Look --There's a colonial carriage"! Her response was angry denial. "No, she insisted, there's nothing there"!...Now, my sister was a pissy sort at that age, so I didn't bother arguing with her, but I know what I saw.
I've never forgotten it, and when I've brought it up to my sister in later years, she claims to not remember the incident at all.
I have no idea why I saw this thing...I did a lot of reading as a kid and was interested in "olden days", and read children's historical novels about them. I especially liked the Middle ages and the Revolutionary War era, maybe because I lived in Philadelphia. In any case, I never saw anything like it again.
That's my "ghost story".....I'd love to hear your feedback on it and anything like it you may have experienced. We can go on to the telepathy after that if you like. 
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Welcome!
I appreciate it. 
I'm finally able to read and post something in this thread (my mental ability to comprehend and recount this kind of thing is returning after a lousy bout of allergies.)
I'm glad whathehell posted about this as I'm also interested in such things. I even have a brief experience with telepathy as well
It happened back when I was still at university, getting my graphic design degree (which I don't use now) and had met an interesting young woman in one of my classes (can't remember now if it was one of the art classes or art history.) Anyway, we were talking out in the parking lot about spiritual matters and she admitted that she had various mental abilities, including telepathy.
Behind me was one of the entrance-roads to the university (it's kind of "secluded" in a wild/natural setting surrounded by bayous south of here.) I could hear someone driving towards us, but didn't bother to look. She "proved" her ability by asking me what I 'saw' in my mind then. I described a small white car, maybe an old Datsun, and turned to my left to watch the very same car as was in my mind's eye following the road as it passed our parking lot. She'd put that mental image into my head!
I've never experienced that kind of telepathy since. We never did anything else like that, either, and drifted away as friends.
Whathehell, one impression I got from your description was that of a portal versus a telepathic experience. It may very well have been that; I don't know. Your "whirling" sensation just makes me think of what it might be like to either look into, or go through a portal. There might be some DUers in ASAH that can better explain it if you cross-post this.
Thanks for sharing and letting me know about the thread
was interesting, but how do you know SHE put the image in your head?...Had she looked behind
her to see the color of the car?.
Having said that, I HAVE "picked up" on the thoughts of others, and had others pick up on mine,
but, unlike your friend, perhaps, I had no control over the situation -- They just happened spontaneously.
I'll talk more about this after I take your excellent suggestion to post in ASAH -- Your thoughts about a
portal (I really knew little about them) had me researching the internet to find out what I could.
That is something I had not thought of at all, but, from the little I've learned, I can see how the
whirling feeling might be explained that way....My husband says if it's portal related, it would have been
just a "look" into a portal, because going "through" a black hole or whatever, would, of necessity,
be a very violent experience....He's the "science guy", so I'm guessing he knows what he's talking about
The whole concept is really quite fascinating to me, so let me post my story over there and see what
they have to say and THANK you, Kent, for your input.
due to the fact that we were facing each other and she was looking toward that road. So, I saw exactly what she was seeing at that moment. Even so, I didn't see more than a fraction of a second, enough to convey motion of the car, placement on the road, speed, and direction of travel. I received a visual record of that moment from another mind
My "understanding" of portals isn't based on science, or what you'd get from most science fiction. Rather, it's what new-agey and other spiritual people (like me!) would attempt to describe as more like a dimensional transition. And even there, it doesn't mean one is traveling from the third dimension to another one (presumably higher than '3'.) It can be a portal between universes, both of the 3D variety, or of dimensions not normally associated with science and mathematics. I know that's not going to make sense to a scientist, but they don't usually try to make scientific sense of spiritual matters, either
I also define it as a spatial portal (not flat, like say a toroidal black hole and 2-dimensional singularity as proposed by James Hogan in the "Gentle Giant" series) but a volume that acts as the opening. A person would appear to fade away or into being when crossing through it. That's why when you described it as "filmy" it made me think that what you saw was either a portal not fully formed, or an overlap of universes. I see the latter concept used sometimes in the otherkin communities for those of alien-kin (that's a whole 'nuther "world" there )
Now, here's another story I asked someone from a different message board to post, and it also sounds like a portal situation. (Disregard the replies except the one from "jinnitaur" as that's me.)
http://www.furry.org.au/aatheus/taurboard/messages/303.html
I'll have a look over in ASAH to see how your post is doing. I might have another item to add (then I'll add it here.)
I saw Francis Coppola's film "Dracula". I remember the comedian Sinbad doing a funny riff on it,
saying "You don't follow a man anywhere when he's walking with his feet off the ground"!
Sounds kind of scary....I've never seen a "ghost", exactly. I saw the specter of a colonial carriage, but that's it.
Can you tell me what you mean when you say you're a witch? (I'm new here!) and explain
how it allows you to see ghosts?
My husband, who, unlike me, is quite left brained, saw one when he was in the Peace Corps in Malaysia.
I certainly do believe in them.