Great thread, btw!!!
A little bit of history, i'm a ridiculously religious person (hindu), and as it stands in my faith, paranorm / mind powers / all that junk is perfectly legit. (even ufo's fit into the cosmology of my particular branch of hinduism)
I don't want to go too long, but things like this always happen to my family.
My mom is a ridiculously empathic person. (we are usually on the brain wave deal, but partly due to use spending alot of time with each other) My dad, he is reliably clairsentient. more often than not if he has a hunch you have to listen to him. (from airplane disasters to what to study the day before an exam)
we lived in a very remote rural area. it was a good 5 hours to the city with a hospital in it. my mom was 7 months pregnant with me, and was coming in to town for a check up. she wanted to come back with dad that same night, dad said no, and that she has to stay in the hospital that night. needless to say i was born that morning around 5, mom was having a complete renal shutdown, and we both would have died had we not been in the hospital then.
other things just about my dad: he has accurately influenced the name of 95% of my cousins and siblings. (even to the point that when all the family was picking a name out of a hat for my cousin (who was just born) when he was not around they picked the name he wanted. then tried again another two times -- of course the name my dad wanted popped up each time. and after then they decided not to fool around with my dad's powers)
again, dad on the road at night in a rural area of canada (in newfoundland), mom sleeping in ottawa. (almost the distance of los angeles to milwaukee - with a body of water in between) the car he was driving was hit by a moose and he almost died. of course, mom was having a dream that night about a moose.
dad also gets 'feelings' of ancestors watching over us, and communicating to him their feelings. out of no where at breakfast he'll casually announce that his father in law visited and said things are a-ok. or whatever.
while alot of this is interesting ... it only gets more interesting.
my olderbrother used to get tons on nosebleeds as a kid. (this is usually a sign of alien abductions, along with missing time) back when we were little kids in that remote area of the world dad, and his psionic buffer wouldn't always be around. brother used to wake up in the middle of the night (3 am, btw) alot. these things would never happen if dad was around though. {also of note when i really got big into exploring ufo's etc i used to be so crazy paranoid that i would had to take medication. i would never have to when dad was around because i knew his 'powers' would protect me no matter what.}
also my dad seems to have passed on alot of things to me too. i get ridiculous deja vu, 4 out of 7 days a week. i also have some minor testible esp (as opposed to his major testible esp). no psychokinetic powers though (unfortunately). but dad and i do share a common psychic link -- similar to luke and darth vader and how they can sense each other when no logical explaination exists for them to do so.
dad lived and worked in another city. he would just drop in to visit without telling anyone. those days i'd just know not to go out, but wait for his call from the airport so i could pick him up. (not even miss empath / mom could pick up on it, but i could)
as for missing time, i think we all experience it, but are kind of told, mostly by our logical brian, to disregard it. countless times i'd wake up in the middle of the night at the same time each night. (usually 3am or 2:59 or something like that . . .) also during highschool, i suffered a head injury during a rugby match. silly things like that can jog latent talent. (esp. with it being around puberty and so forth)
after the mri's and ct scans things kept on popping up and out of my head. (but not like alien implants, just like growths in my head in areas of the brain which were ill-defined --non-traditional areas, like the underunderstood limbic system) a little after that i went through a phase where i have a very low will to live.
or something like that.
very poor will saves.
up till the end of highschool to a few years ago i'd feel crushing sensations which pinned me on my back in bed, when awake, when resting, when on the phone with my then g/f, when asleep. in my dreams i felt like i had no option but to just let things 'happen' to me. i felt hopeless. it felt like i was drowning. i just want it all to end, i wanted to just, well, i guess, die. somewhere along the line i developed this will to live and fight though. i kept reading my holybooks and meditating. i kinda also picked up on 'new age' stuff (which is actually quite old stuff -- much of it in the vedas). i turned to 'lucid dreaming'. i made it so i was able to control my brain when i felt this drowning / paralysis.
i remember (sorry i'm rambling right now) that i also felt incapable of speech, i couldn't make a sound if my life depended on it, and it lasted moments after i regained use of my limbs. it was so terrifying, i wouldn't even be able to call out for help if i needed it.
eventually all the meditation / mind power harnessing helped and i was able to immediately wake up / move about / shout out / wriggle in bed whenever it used to happen. (like mom would be cooking in the kitchen, making breakfast, and out of no where there would be this commotion upstairs) (yes, mom used to make breakfast at like 3 am . . .)
those things don't happen to me anymore. (and back when they did, didn't happen when dad was in the house)
since then i've really been trying to harness the latent ability i think all people have.
my wife and i are a bit telepathically linked, though i feel like our offspring would be so much more diluted than i myself am, from the obvious power my dad seems to have. (he's also very charismatic, making trusted friends and people willing to help him out of strangers)
as far as other stoopid stuff, well, back in the late 90's there was a dedicated miracle, as it was called, which occured to faithful hindu practicioners accross the globe. in india, the us, canada, uk, australia and africa sold stone, bronze, marble, etc statues of the various avatars of Hindu gods and godesses began to attain a funny ability. if offered holy water / or milk from a spoon to their mouths the statue would 'drink' it.
funny stuff.
absurd stuff.
and it happened to me too. of course, the first few tries failed misrably. (going in order of the Gods one must when performing rituals) after a while i said "c'mon..." at how dumb my luck was. here i was, trying to get some miracle to happen, feeling stupid. and so forth. i got to the statue of the Lord Shiva (Shankar, Mahadev, Bolenath...) and took a deep breath. the day hindus are supposed to devote to the Lord Shiva is monday. i was born on a monday. i was also named after one of the avatars of shiva. his sacred mountain in the Hymaliayas has a naturally occuring formation which is also his symbol. he is also supposed to be really really easy to please.
regardless of my past failures i was going to go on with my ritual. of course, because God felt my faith waning, the statue of the Lord Shiva drank the purified offering i gave him.
cool stuff, huh?
too bad i didn't really go nuts over it like i should have. i felt more like homer simpson in the 'poochie' episode where he is auditioning for the part of poochie. "ooh, so i get the job now, huh?"
i pretty much said aloud in english (ceremony i was performing was in sanskrit) "OOhh, so now you drink the milk, eh?"
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anyway, regarding the people who get the flickering of street lights . . . usually happens to very positive people, upbeat people, usually to people who have something like a 'guardian angel' over them, but not mutually exclusive to those people.
all people do radiate a specific 'aura'. yours just is attuned to something more electro-positively charged i guess . . .
all this psi/ghost/ufo/parapsych stuff is fascinating, and with the internet there is alot of info on it, if people are really interested in it.
check out
http://www.rense.com
archives are great, also has live streaming radio programs with jeff rense. good stuff.
and thanks again for starting this thread.