dubmeup wrote:
At the risk of getting tarred with the woo woo brush, I regularly see things that others would say aren't there. I started the "fairies" thread in the paranormal section to discuss such things. It's currently my view that this is nothing extraordinary. That what I experience is not so much a being from another dimension or whatever but something that is just as normal as a plant or a car. What I think may be happening is that I'm just experiencing things that are right at the fringes of our current senses. That they are here all the time but in the same way as we don't hear sub bass or see gamma rays we just don't perceive them. So I'm not inclined to say that Tesla was seeing into another reality but that his reality had expanded. Dunno though, this is all conjecture really.
I'd gladly paint you with the woo-woo or any other kind of brush, dubs.
I sometimes 'sense' things, particularly about locations. I don't know if I'm sensing the past or the future necessarily, but I often see things kind of overlaid onto what my contemporaries can actually see in front of them. Take my flat, for example. You know how stylish decorators can often be heard to say "let the building tell you what it wants done" or somesuch? I get this a lot. When I moved in here, I had trouble focusing on the place as it actually was, as all I kept getting from it was a really strong 50s vibe.
I happen to love all things 50s and 40s as those two periods in history have always resonated with me. As a result, the place now looks like a museum, but it just feels right for the building and I feel very comfortable here. I 'knew' that the bathroom walls had to be half and half (a darker colour on the bottom and a lighter on the top) for example. Interestingly, they were painting the common parts a couple of years ago and stripped back a lot of the paint to reveal just this style underneath, probably from when the place was first put up. There is no way I could have known that, but it just felt right.
Make sense? I get it really bad with derelict buildings too. Like I can see some point in it's recent history or even it's future where it has been repaired and is full of life. Kind of like echoes is another way to describe it I suppose. Interesting stuff nonetheless. I think our physical environment definitely retains memories of happier times (or even not so happy times) that are audible/visible if you take the time to look and listen. Many people pick up on this quite by accident too.
I'll shut up now.
EDIT: Just to add to that, my experiences definitely lend credence to the theory that everything is happening concurrently, for me. Time is far from linear, if it exists at all in any sense we as humans could actually recognise.