Unexplained Experiences You Remember As A Child

Personally I think you are using out-dated computer metaphors, perhaps you need to update your computer metaphors to include such things as holographic neural networked artificial intelligence quantum computers for your new computer metaphors to express consciousness.

Strangely I can warp time to be both fast and slow now that I am 59 and have both senses at the same time.

Hate choppers (Work are used to my Oddities)

Ditto, I have experienced that, but my memories of it are not vidid but rather vague.. "Did I or Didn't I, I could have sworn I did, but did I?"

As a child I had a waking dream that I was in an extremely odd room. It reminded me of a cross between a hospital and a computer lab. I awoke kind of fuzzy. There were a few tall "people" around that were concerned and surprised that I woke up during my "programming". The was no hostility and almost a parental concern in their emotions which I could somehow read. The next thing I remember was traveling very quickly through some type of corridor or tunnel that was lit by an eerie light green light. The feelings and sensations of that experience have stuck with me for over 25 yrs.

That reminds me of being able to float down the stairs in our house as a small child. I mean, I would literally jump from a standing start above the top step and I would "land" in the hallway without having touched a single step. There is surely no physical way a small child could do that not to mention the dangers if it went wrong with solid walls and glass doors/windows around!!

A guy friend of mine saw something like that (evil clown)looking through his window when he was a kid (6-8 years old). Scared the crap out of him. He became afraid of clowns after that and even as an adult he doesn't like them. He figured it was a criminal/clown from an circus that stopped near town, but he doesn't knor for sure.

Yes, Hot Lava -- and sometimes the ocean with sharks!

I remember seeing a lit up sleigh with reign deer attached to the front of it flying across the sky as a kid, me, my and sister were in the car in a parking lot and my dad saw it too, he pointed it out. And it was around Christmas time at the time. Not sure if a false memory or what, my dad just casually pointed it out, I didn't think anything of it at the time since I believed in Santa but thinking of it now, why would a grown man casually point out a lit up reindeer sleigh in the sky lol

So glad this thread was created. I used to experience AIWS but did not know what it was until I saw this thread.
I would feel like everything around me was so small, when I looked my hands or feet they would appear to be far away, very odd feeling.
Also, as a kid I would sometimes feel like the world around me was muted somehow. Sounds were not crisp and it was as if I were observing life going on from a different reality, very hard to articulate the exact feeling. I would also have terrible feelings of dread come over me like something bad was going to happen but 99% of the time nothing did happen. I used to live in a house that was haunted by my grandfather, he died before I was born. His presence would scare the daylights out of me, my brother and sister. Many was the time I would jump from half way down the stairs to get away from what was behind me!!! One day I was in the upstairs toilet, must have been about 11 years old and there was an almighty pounding on the door which scared me so much that I stayed there for about 90 minutes at which point my mum, who was the only person in the house other than me came to find out where I was. I told her what had happened but she didn't say much really. We would always have things go missing only to turn up weeks later in a place that had been searched many times.
I also remember as a 5 year old I once saw what can only be described as a classic "white sheet ghost", the kind you see in some movies, at the end of my bed. I pulled the cover over my head and asked it what it wanted but got no answer. After a time I peeked out and it was gone.
Anyway, back to the haunting. None of us kids could stay in the house alone and would stay with friends if ever our parents were away. After my siblings moved out I was the only kid left there as a teenager when one day my mum asked If I had felt the presence recently. In fact I had not felt it for a few weeks at that point and she went on to tell me she had asked her father to leave me alone as he was frightening me. Why the heck she let it go on that long I do not know!!!
I had a few other strange things happen when I was young such as having a dream that I would see a guy at the local cub scout camp who was showing us how to use axes and knives. Sure enough when I got to this camp he was there, complete with all the badges on his shirt and a big grey beard just as I'd dreamt it. I can still see him in my minds eye as I think about it now.
Been great reading some of the experiences here

Maybe the car had some sort of sensor, and sensed you guys, and thus followed you? Though if it only followed you around all day one time, might be safe to say it was possessed, just throwing a logical explanation in.

I've posted this experience before about 2 years back. Can't recall the thread.
When i was about 4 or 5, i often used to sit and stare at the light bulb (old type with tungsten filament). The filament was arranged in a C shape, like a horseshoe. I would stare at the burning filament and then close my eyes, and i could see the horseshoe shape with my eyes closed, burnt onto the retina of the eye i suppose. Works with any bright light.
Anyway i kept doing it and i heard "ping" "ping" at my side on the floor.
I looked, and there were two brass coloured horseshoes on the carpet! About the size of a coin, and they had "good luck" written on them. I seem to recall keeping them a while but don't know what became of them. I am convinced i did not dream this!
Can we have the power to manifest objects? As children i believe yes. And then we get dumbed down with all the bullshit that life offers, as well as being poisoned with flouride etc etc and any ability is quickly lost.

Not directly related but I used to have real bad dreams/nightmares every time a filament bulb blew, but it was not like I was left in the dark or even afraid of the dark. (well other than when "paranormal" stuff was going on) I wonder if a blowing filament gives off strong emf's or something?

Believe me, should you ever find success with this it will totally blow your mind. It is not like the reports of Astral Project or even any other kind of OBE you will likely have heard up. The second time I did this, the first time that I was successful in deliberately doing this, in my 'out of body consciousness's body' I reach out and touched my wife on the shoulder. I was physically laying on the bed our bedroom.. Whne my out of body 'body's hand touched her on the shoulder she let out a scream, I snapped back into my physcial body and the bed and got up and left to roof and asked her what had happened.. She told me, that she had felt a hand on her shoulder and whipping around there was no one there. Then I knew something marvelous had been going on.

Yes, I believe we CAN manifest objects, and other realities in our visible surrounding. The science is called kriyashakti, I believe.

I have those sorts of problems, like I can't wear a traditional watch because they slow then stop. My aunt has the same thing and apparently it's known to be linked to epileptics (she has petit mal) I'm not epileptic though.

I just had that very weirdness happen a couple a weeks ago.

I saw a beetle crawling on the window and when I got the fly swat and whacked it, it dissappeared from under the fly swat. Nothing there, nothing fell off the swat or window. I held the fly swat on the window to be sure I killed it but it was not under the fly swat. Nothing.

Actually laughed out loud. Thank you.

Interesting thread,by the way..

You might even consider that we choose to do this. That our perspective once we leave our bodies might be a little different than it is when we are here and we know we are doing it for our own good or whatever the heck reason it is that we keep coming back for more (if that is indeed what happens)

Holy crap, that's creepy

CIA probably does look for that, but these are some pretty amazing stories, am loving reading them.

When i was about five i remember seeing an alien being. He was small and whitish almost clear. He was friendly and told me to get on his shoulders and he was running up and down the stairs. My mom found me laughing in the hallway.

I pulled fire alarms when I was 6.

Loved all the sirens, truck noise and firemen running up to the fire box and me standing there looking scared shitless. I did it many times and the firemen got to know me so well they knew where I lived and when I pulled the fire alarm, again, I would run home and hide under the bed and fall asleep as they knocked on the door and my momma answered it.

OP:

I think this is the type of experience you were hoping to here about:

When I was four years old, my grandpa was walking me down the sidewalk to go to the store. I saw a bunch of kids ahead. and all of a sudden, I knew exactly what they were going to say to each other when we passed them.

It was like we passed through them, then time slowed down, and somehow we passed through them again. I still remember it to this day. Total de javu.

I knew some things that were going to happen before they happened.

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yes, that's true, but that's not what some of these people were talking about.

plenty of odd stories from childhood and later and my great grandfather founded the Masonic lodge in a large-ish city in the east..why do you ask?

When I was 8 years old I dreamnt that I was standing outside the local funeral home and everyone was crying. I had no clue who had died and my fathers brother was there and he took my hand and led me inside to the open casket. My father was in the casket. I was shocked and very upset to say the least because I was very close to my father. The one thing that stuck with me was a funeral spray with two fake doves stuck on it.

I never told anyone about the dream. My father took his life when I was 18 and his funeral was at the same funeral chapel that had been in my dream. Granted I grew up in a small town and there were not many funeral chaples there but the kicker is my two cousins set a spray with two fake doves stuck on it. I've never seen another spray like it.

I have three. Pretty mild compared to some of the stuff I've read here (great creepy reading btw) but here goes:

Once I woke up very suddenly very early in the morning. I was sleeping on my stomach, and jerked up my head to stare straight into my own eyes. I saw my own face except that it was all lit up in patches, staring back at me directly into my eyes, a multi-colored patchwork face, kind of in glowing pastel colors. It was very vivid, very clear. I tried to draw it later, but I couldn't quite get it; all the colors were kind of melting into one another and were blurry, but separate, and yet my features were quite distinct. I ran into my parents' room screaming. Maybe that was just a dream, but I've always suspected I caught my soul coming back into my body after being out wandering. The next one is a little harder to explain.

I was about 9, maybe 10. My whole family (including a young cousin about 5, who was sitting directly next to me on the couch) was in the living room watching a Disney movie on our brand-new VCR, which was still a marvel back then. We were watching Dumbo -- I remember this quite clearly. I had to go pee, so I got up from the couch to go to the bathroom. I was heading towards the kids' bathroom, which was down the hall and around the corner, when suddenly I got very dizzy, so I turned abruptly into my parents' room and sat down on the edge of their waterbed (this was the early 80s) until it passed. I remember rising from the couch and walking down the hall, then getting dizzy, going into my parents' room and sitting down on the water bed, very vividly. I felt the hard edge of the wooden frame against the back of my legs, and I saw the shadows in the room and the light in the hall and everything. But suddenly there was this piercing scream right in my ear and I was sitting right in my 5-year-old cousin's lap. I had not moved even a step. I asked everyone about it and they hadn't noticed a thing. Maybe it was a hallucination, maybe not.

This third one is even harder to explain. I have this only from my parents, as I don't remember it. I guess this happened when I was about 18 months and had been walking for about 8 months (I was an early walker, in fact I learned to walk before I learned to crawl). This would have been in the early 70s (Gawds, I'm old). We were living in an apartment in Santa Monica, and according to my parents, one day, as a record was playing (no idea which one) and I was dancing, I suddenly stopped dancing, looked at the blank wall above the record player, started to cry, and ran out of the room. My parents didn't think much about it at first, but then I stopped being willing to walk through the living room alone (you had to walk through the LR to get to the kitchen).

Before, I'd always done so. After, if my mom or dad was in the kitchen and I wanted them, instead of just walking through the LR like I'd always done, I'd stand at the edge of the LR and call, look at the blank wall, and cry. One of them would come to get me and I wouldn't walk -- I'd demand to be carried and whimper and cry and cling to them, always staring at the wall, until I got to the kitchen, where I was fine.

It got to the point that they called an elder in their religion to find out what to do, and after his first visit, he said on no account to ever leave me alone in the apartment, and gave them a few spiritual cleansing prayers to try. A few weeks later, when my parents' efforts to do their own cleansing hadn't worked and I was still freaking out, they asked him to do a cleansing, which he did. After that, it stopped and I was fine. Later, they asked me what I'd seen, and I said it was an eye. Again, I have no conscious memory of this, but both my parents told me the same story.

I still wonder what it was I saw. I've often been tempted to go through hypnosis to find out... but having been through one horrific past life regression, I think, on the whole, I don't want to know.

I also remember my older cousin (not the one I sat on) telling me that once she'd been able to fly, and describing to me very vivid images of lifting off her street corner. She said she did this many times. Then, she told me, she told my aunt about it. Her mom said people can't fly, and that was the end of it.

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Very close account to what I experienced on a regular basis between about 5 to 8 years old.

when i was about 3 or 4, i had this very strange experience. i was standing at the top of the stair case in our house. all of a sudden i felt compelled to jump, so i did. i slowly floated all the way down to the bottom. excited by this i went to go show my sister who is a few years older than me, but when i tried doing it again i was too afraid.