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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2679830" data-attributes="member: 13164">When I was 9 years old, I was sitting on the carpet in my bedroom and leaned forward to reach for a David Eddings novel (I actually started Eddings novels in 2nd grade).  The book was beyond my reach, but suddenly, it slid a full foot until it touched my hand (think the scene in The Empire Strikes Back when Luke pulls his lightsaber to him while he's hanging upside down, his feet encased in ice).  Scared the bazeejus out of me at the time, but I've never figured out how or why it happened.Since then I've had all sorts of impressions and premonitions.  I have an uncanny ability to sense bad experiences ahead of time, and I can tell when someone I know is suffering without having any sensory input that could hint at it, even in my unconscious mind.  I've also been able to make verifiably accurate judgements about the character and experiences of people I've just met.As for meeting "ghosts" or other manifest forms of the paranormal, I've yet to have it happen, though I've had the "otherworldly presence" experiences of sleep paralysis frequently.  Creepiest one was right after I'd seen The Grudge.  After the paralysis wore off and the image disappeared, I realized it was because my house was making a creaking sound that my still-not-quite-awake mind was associating with a certain sound from the movie.  That's not the kind of thing you want to have happen the morning after staying up late to watch a horror movie...  Needless to say, I stayed in bed for a few more hours with my eyes tightly closed. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />I like to throw false horrors at the characters.  Make them think they encounter something supernatural, but it's just a trick of the mind.  It's like crying wolf; they get desensitized and then are even more susceptible the next time, when it'll be real...</blockquote>

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