I somehow missed this thread until now. It is amazing the number of people who have had brushes with the supernatural or unusual.
My life is full of psychic happenings - so much so that I could post pages of stuff I have experienced.
When I was in my teens (I'm 48 now), a metaphysical society came to town and beside doing some lectures and exhibit stuff, they did some ESP/PK tests. Curious, I undertook the tests and was told that I score high in the ESP/Precognition and usually high in the Psychokinesis (PK) tests.
I've played D&D for nearly 30 yrs. I have noticed that I have an uncanny (one person even went so far as to say 'unsettling') knack for controlling the dice or predicting what the dice will roll.
People who I have played with have noted this. My 'dice control' is such that I have been accused on more than one occasion of cheating or using loaded dice, only to prove to the accuser that the dice are normal and that cheating is impossible (like affecting their dice that they roll for me!). I consistently warp normal probablity statistics. I've even demonstrated my ability to seemly control the dice or predict the outcome to dozens of people over the years.
Several months ago, I was asked to demonstrate my uncanny ability to influence the dice to a group of people who I was playing a pickup game with and had noted that I (openly and witnessed by players beside me) rolled 2-3 times the number of natural 20s of the rest of the group combined. I spoke about my 'gift' with the dice and someone proposed a challenge - roll two d10s and have the numbers match each other (ie. roll a 3 on both dice). I don't know normal probability for that is, but I did it 7 times out of 25 rolls (rolling both dice counts as 1 roll) - a fact which amazed the on-lookers.
The ability is tied to my well-being - emotionally, mentally and physically. If I am stressed out, overly tired or feeling ill, I can't do it at all.
When I was in my 20s, there was a little demonstration that I did. I would hold my palms several inches above their palms. Then I would concentrate. About 75% of those I did this with would described a feeling of cold on one palm and a sensation of heat on the other. Interestingly enough, which hand felt the cold and which felt the heat was dependent on the sex of the person I demonstrated upon. Some women (I am male) reported the most intense experiences - the cold was almost like holding on to an icecube and the heat was almost a burning sensation. I had one woman actually claim I 'burned' her. In all cases, I don't tell the person what they might feel, to avoid the phenomeon of 'suggestion'.
A few people reported a sensation like crawling ants over their bodies; or a sensation of nausea or vertigo. I stopped doing this when the last person I did this to (a woman) fell unconcious - a event totally unexpected and which frightened me. The woman took a few minutes to recover and when she recovered enough to recount what had happened, she stated that she felt an intense 'electrical' shock and felt very light headed before everything went black. Needless to say, I don't do that demonstration anymore.
People joke about hauling me off to Vegas for the weekend and camping at the craps table....
edit: after checking my journal, I reported an number in error. Damn swiss cheese memory
