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Ever get that creepy feeling...

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It's some type of intelligence

I am not a big believer in "feelings" in the sense of people thinking their feelings are more importantant than rationality.I believe that the "feeling" is some pre intellectual computation that your mind is performing below your concious awareness. The gift of fear is an interesting book about situational awareness even if the author is anti-gun.

pete
 
When the hairs on the back of your neck stand up its for a reason. Your body
is reacting to something that your mind needs to be aware of. Ignore such feelings at your own risk. From a Darwinian point of view we are descended not from the brave primates who laughed at danger but from the fast little ones who ran at the first sign of danger. They stuck around long enough to propagate. The brave laughing ones were dinner for a carnivore. Nature spent a lot of time and wasted a lot of protoplasm developing our instincts. When we ignore them we are courting trouble.
 
When the hairs on the back of your neck stand up its for a reason.
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Many years ago I was driving home with a girlfriend after dark. We were in an area we had not been to before. We entered a length of road that was sunk below field level, high banks on both sides, and lined with trees. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I felt really cold.

When we left that stretch of road my girlfriend, who had been unusually silent, said "I'm glad were out of there. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up".

Me alone, imagination. Both of us, wierd.
 
I heard stuff on that late night radio show where they were talking about how animals all ran away from the tsunami long before it hit, because animals are smart and have an intimate connection with nature. Being a fool I believed it, without questioning.

Then I saw on Discovery channel that they had tracking devices on some elephants who were right near the beach, and they just wandered around aimlessly until the wave hit. Lol.
 
anyone heard of the Global Consciousness Project? they have random number generators, and, supposedly, these number generators show non-random results before and during big events, such as 9/11 and the indian ocean tsunami.
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That seems a lot like the "bible code" theories. You can pretty much make the numbers say anything once you know what you're looking for after it happens.
 
I usually have a good reason for feeling dread. Like when I am out on ice and it cracks underneath me or walking down a trail and see a variety of large paw prints, or fresh human tracks in a remote area. :scrutiny:

I go on alert if I hear suspicious noises around my place at night but I don't go looking for trouble. I'm perfectly happy waiting for it to come to me.

I began surfing the Summer that Jaws became a big hit. High anxiety every day but the only thing that kept me out of the water was sight of a fin... Excepting that one time I was treading in 12' of water and brushed the top of my against what felt like a Buick covered in sandpaper. :what: Never got a look at that one.
 
If I felt my foot rub the back of a shark as you did, I would've pulled a Jesus and ran across water all the way to the beach!
Good Gawd, what did you do?

Biker:uhoh:
 
The Almighty gave you instincts for a reason. More often than not my instincts have been dead on.
 
at the age of 12, my mom and dad and I took a long drive to grandpa and grandmas house. On arrival I would NOT get out of the car. Little did I know they were both dead, covered with blood inside the house. Or did I? Somehow?
 
Yes I have gotten that feeling and learned to listen to it like the others .

I shared a house with my sister and her daughter when I was in my early 20's that was down the street from our parents .
Our washing machine had broken down and we would wash our clothes at our folks house . One night in the winter I went to take a couple of baskets down there and for some reason when I started out the door the night just seemed unusually dark and ominous and the hair on my arms raised up . I stopped and went back in and went to the basement which was my domain there and got my Combat Commander and loaded it and put it in the breast pocket of my coat .

I walked outside and had crossed half of our yard when I heard a noise behind me and to my right , I stopped and turned and there was one of the largest Dogs I have ever seen in my life coming out of the bushes and toward me . It appeared to be a cross with a Sheppard and a chow but unusually big , I put down the baskets as it approached and reached inside my coat for my gun before I could even draw the pistol it suddenly turned and ran away .

It was seen from time to time for a few weeks until one day my sister and I were in the living room talking and waiting for my niece to get home from school , it was a warm day and we had the front door open watching for her when we heard her scream . We both jumped up and ran for the door she was there before me because she was closer , as she opened the screen door I saw my niece in the driveway with the same stray about 15-20 feet away chasing her , as I did my sister was bowled over by our own dogs a pair of Sable Sheppard's , brother and sister named Saber and Sheba before the stray could cover 10 ft they were upon him . I have never been into watching dog fights but it was a sight to behold , they attacked in complete unison as if they had been trained to do this all their lives , the fight lasted perhaps 3 minutes as they were tearing this thing up pretty good .

Finally they let it get away and chased it all the way off of the street and then some , nipping at its hindquarters as it ran away . Never saw it again .

I am convinced it would have attacked me that night if I hadn't had the gun and that it's sixth sense warned it that I had the gun .
 
The Creeps

Survival Instinct Creeps:
I’d just gotten off a 32-hour shift, was burned out and nodding off at stop lights. When I got to bed I could not sleep. Something kept telling me not to. Got up, opened my bedroom door and found a strange man in my home threatening to kill me.
Family Intervention Creeps:
I was kid and on the bus on my way to school when I got this feeling to go back home. The further away I got, the stronger that feeling became. I hopped off the bus, caught another home, ran inside the house and found my older brother showing off in front of his girlfriend with a pistol. He had it to his temple with his finger on the trigger. I told him to put it down. He pointed it away and said, “What for? It’s not loaded,” pulled the trigger and POW! The bullet went through the first layer of sheetrock and lodged in the second layer at the exact level where our little brother’s head was in the other room.
 
More Creeps

Kitty Creeps:
I have a cat who is an excellent judge of character. I’ve found over the years that if he approaches a new acquaintance in a friendly manner, that person turns out to be pretty decent. If he shuns them, they’re no good. If he’s openly hostile, that’s the end of any involvement.
Supernatural Creeps:
I rented a room from a widow a long time ago. She kept a certain door at the top of the stairs dead-bolted, padlocked and chained up from the outside. I came home early one day while she was out getting her hair blued. Walked past the stairs to get something from my room, glanced up and that saw the door locked up tight as usual. Got to my room & got the creeps. Stepped back out, looked up the stairs and that door was ajar. Chains and padlock gone, no one in the house but me and I hadn’t heard a thing. Started halfway up the stairs to investigate when the creeps became a silent shout: DO NOT GO UP THERE! I didn’t. Hung out in a park until the lady got home. Told her what happened, we checked the door and it was all locked up again.
 
Back In The Day (tm) when I was in college, I was in a small martial arts club. One of the exercises that we did was called "Intent Exercise".

In turn, each student was required to kneel down in front of Sensei, with his back to her and his eyes closed. She would stand there with a shinai, and clear her mind of all thoughts. Then she'd wait. Anywhere from 10 seconds to more than a minute later, she would concentrate a feeling of rage and malice toward the student, and would bring the sword snapping down toward our shoulders.

Our job was to sense the aggression, and roll out of the way before the sword came down. Sensei was fast enough with that shinai that if you weren't moving already before the sword started, she'd still catch at least a little piece of you. You got no points if you started to move before she'd decided to strike.

There were a couple of us in the group that got pretty good at it; most only got lucky about as often as chance would suggest. Years later, I still have that "sense" when someone intends me or mine harm.

-BP
 
They don't call me MISTER Oblivious for nothing. What's a creepy feeling feel like anyway? And if my dog barks I tell him to shut up, it's only a monster come to kill us limb from limb.
 
easy on the supernatural stuff

Y'all don't go too far afield. Just because "that feeling" exists doesn't mean it's supernatural. My own opinion is that it is just your subconcious mind working over something you've heard, seen, or smelled, but your concious mind has forgotten or ignored. Kind of like hearing a song on somebody else's radio at a stoplight but not paying any attention to it. A few minutes later, you are whistling the song, and you turn on the radio in time to catch the tail end of it. Amazing! How did you know that song was on before you turned the radio on? You heard it, but you forgot that you heard it.

When you get "that feeling" you may have noticed something odd out of the corner of your eye, but been too preoccupied or distracted to put it into words. You know something is out of the ordinary, but you've forgotten why.

The more you get used to paying attention to your surroundings, the better this sense will work.
 
Hmmmm...nothing supernatural, right?

Okay. We had two large husky dogs years ago when we lived in the far north of Canada. These critters had lived with us as housepets since puppyhood, and we knew them well.

They slept in our bedroom on mats of their own, and were normally aware of things in and around the place, just like most good dogs.

One night, after all were asleep, the two dogs suddenly erupted into an astonishing display of defensive alarm/aggression. Savage, deep-toned, endless snarling and growling with bared teeth, and the hair on both was standing straight up from ears to tail. They were both fixated on a spot just outside the bedroom door, and for the life of me, I couldn't see why. I walked through the area and called them to come, but they would NOT move past that particular point. I even went outside, but everything was normal there, too. And then, very suddenly...it all stopped! The hair on their backs went back to normal, and they both came forward and sniffed the place they'd been watching and snarling at.

Anyone want to tell me that there was nothing there???? There sure as hell was SOMETHING that the dogs feared or resented! Especially with TWO veteran pooches, both reacting at the same time in the same way.....

Nothing supernatural, of course. (Riiiight)
 
I had a beagle once that would get "that" look now and then, and then she would want to go out.

I have no idea how she knew a squirrel, cat, or rabbit had come to visit her yard, but it was really creepy sometimes.
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I have 2 that do that. When the dogs bark, something's wrong.

I trust my gut more than I trust "logic"--if something seems wrong, it probably is. I'd rather follow an oversensitive gut than ignore it when I shouldn't.
 
Wow I'm convinced. Now I know what my cats are doing when they stare at a spot on the wall. It's a supernatural spot!
 
(As JE223 tries not to step too far into the 'X-Files' territory)...

Two things I would like to add... There are creatures out there that can see into different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. IE, you and I can see from blue light to yellow to red light. Anyone with 'normal color vision' can see this as well. Have you ever seen an IR illuminator on a night vision scope? Chances are good then that you can see into the tail end of the Near Infrared wavelengths. Creatures with good night vision can see far into this region - I believe that pit vipers can actually form an image from low temperature sources (Extreme infrared wavelengths). With what little we know about science, right now, who is to say that we completely understand visual imaging (we're not even close), and that some animals cannot percieve the same reality, in a way that you or I cannot?

Second, what about 'intent to harm' as a pheromone (sp?) ? IE, a chemical telling everyone around what you are feeling? Could that creepy feeling be a chemical wafting through your surrondings from a POS intent on hurting you? I would be very interested to know whether anyone has gotten that feeling through a strong cross wind. Seriously. If the chemical could not physically reach you, then that fear has nothing to do with chemical signals.

JE223
 
There was a good bit of scientific study on serial killers... many victims that got away noticed 'they smelled weird' -- not in a disorganized shambling haven't bathed way... but a tangible scent that put the would be victim on edge.

You have 5 senses... you use them all without knowing sometimes.

I think we have a 6th... is it tuning the other five, or picking up on something else?

Trust your 6th sense.
 
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