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Originally Posted by metal68
That's a lovely story and its the things like that that give an agnostic like me so much hope!! I know I question a lot but its just in my nature - I find my lack of faith at times disturbing myself. I do have 2 other cats that are around; one is mine and the other is a regular visitor so it helps but I miss my old Leo. Ill try and put a pic on my profile or something.
I think what I really need is my own paranormal experience but i'm aware that my scepticism may be blocking this
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Like you, I was very sceptical. I still have a streak of it in me.
Gosh! When I look back I can see very clearly I was given after 'death' contacts from my husband, and from a good friend who passed. My husband always said he would find a way to let me know if, when he passed over, he found there was a continued existence.
Well, some months after he'd gone I clearly heard his voice! Yes -in my head -but clear and distinct, as if it had been in the room. And no, he didn't say "I am in Heaven and there are wonderful things here....etc, and I live after death!" Instead, he was warning me about someone who had been a good acquaintance during his life! They had always been friendly and played chess together. He had always seemed like a nice enough fellow.
I could not understand this. But only a couple of weeks later caught the chap out trying to diddle me!
Oh boy! Now I would just simply take that to mean what I now know it meant. But then....I had a hundred different explanations for it! (None of them made as much sense as just accepting that my husband spoke to me! But never mind.)
A while later, I had a peculiar nightmare where I was desperately trying to find our dog. (He had passed away about 9 months after my husband.) I heard my husband call out to me -as if he was trying to get his voice to carry through a thick wall "He's HERE!
He's here with me! The piddler (our nickname for the dog) is here with me, love!"
Now during that I was actually waking up, and even though I could see the room clearly, I still heard his last phrase, shouting out to me.
Sceptic as always....I dismissed that as wish fulfilment and a dream.
With my good friend, I was about to visit him in hospital, but had to take my dog for a walk first, and hospital visiting time wasn't until 2pm. Initially, in the morning at my house, there was no phone signal. Then I took the dog in a place where there was no phone signal.
Around midday, I suddenly and strongly sensed my friend. It seemed very urgent, though not unpleasant, and lasted for a few minutes. I imagined he might want me to bring something, and I wondered if somehow he'd 'tuned in' to me mentally because he was impatient for me to turn up. I acknowledged his connection, laughed to myself and thought "Oh just hang on. I won't be long." Basically, it was him -clear as anything.
Then I got in the car and drove to go to the hospital. A mile or two on, I must have hit a signal-zone because my phone bleeped with an incoming text. It was from my friend's sister. The text was timed at something like 11am, and said he had passed away that morning at 10.30.
I have learned a lot through personal experience since those days. Now in hindsight, I know those were contacts. But then, I was sceptical of most things!