When i was little, me and my sister were playing outside and i saw a strange man standing on the corner. The creepiest part was that he was completely black. I could only make out that he was wearing a coat and a hat. Last year i was talking to my mother about it and she said she once saw the same figure in the hallway when she was in her early twenties. I'm a science guy so i don't believe in the supernatural or spiritual stuff. But when i read somebody else on reddit had the same experience and people linked the urban legend of the "hat man", i became pretty creeped out.
There is probably a scientific explanation for it but it still scared the shit out of me.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hat-man-benadryl-tiktok-monster-1234620397/
I saw the hat man in my room one night as a child and I wasn’t on Benadryl. He just stood in my doorway and stared at me. He had no eyes but I knew he was looking at me. I called out for my mom and she walked through him.
I think it has to be some subconscious thing. I have also seen a hat man in sleep paralysis but i doubt it is something supernatural. Like i have a trick to get out of sleep paralysis, i did it and obviously my door wasn't even open like I saw. Also its interesting that so many diverse cultures have this myth like i am from south east asia and even i have this picture in my head.
What's your trick for getting out of sleep paralysis? It doesn't happen to me as often as it used to, and fortunately I've never seen anything during those episodes (only heard things like people talking or music playing), but it'd be good to keep a trick in my back pocket for next time. It's certainly not a comfortable feeling.
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Oh i don't need sleep anyways. I have smth similar, one time i woke up and was getting out of bed with one arm in the air and yawning and saw smth of light immitating me literally in front of me, that day i knew how quickly i would kick if someone did it with me. Still no idea if it was my imagination or smth else. Never had it again
Someone asked a similar question not long ago, I'll copy my story from that post here:
A relative of mine is into supernatural stuff. Like, ALL of it. Always offering crystals and essential oils to fix pretty much anything. I'm skeptical, but I listen, and when I think something is bullshit (which is almost every time), I politely say so.
This same relative teaches classes on how to communicate with spirits from beyond, and offered to do an automatic writing class just for the family. I'm curious, so myself and about 4 others agree to try. I'm expecting absolutely nothing out of this, but I will go in open-minded and see what happens.
If you don't know, automatic writing consists of a bit of meditation and you hold a pen to paper. You think your questions, and the "spirits" move your hand to write the answers.
I'm thinking about questions and my hand kind of drifts into random squiggles. I assume it's just natural fatigue, or fidgeting. After half an hour or so of pretty much nothing, I think "ok, let's reset, clear my mind, relax, and focus on one simple question." Most importantly, a question I can verify right here, right now.
How many pieces of fruit are in the fruit bowl?
I know there's a fruit bowl in the kitchen. I didn't buy the fruit, I haven't eaten the fruit, I have no possible way of already knowing the answer to the question, but I can find out very easily. Perfect.
How many pieces of fruit are in the fruit bowl?
I focus on this question and my hand moves a bit faster than it had up until this point. It slides to the right about 2 inches, and then down. It's a 7. I'm thinking pretty simple number to draw, could be coincidence that my hand just moved that way.
I stand up, walk over the bowl, and I count the fruit. And wouldn't you know... 7 pieces of fruit.
I'm skeptical, but I asked for something very specific and I got it, so I can't call it debunked.
After this experience, I attended another one of her classes, and actually got two more impressive answers. One being another "how many x are in y?" And when I asked if I would get a promotion that I thought was a sure thing, I got "no". So, I asked if I even wanted the promotion and I got "nononononono" I called bullshit at the time because, of course I want a promotion, and I thought I was the clear choice. But sure enough, I did not get that position, and a month later, somebody quit unexpectedly at an office that's 30 miles closer to where I lived and because I DIDN'T get the first promotion, I was eligible for this one, which I did get.
I don't know.
If you tell me you saw a ghost or an alien, I'm going to find 100 logical reasons why you probably didn't. Im not going to say that I channeled my dead grandpa to uncover secrets from the future, but something happened there and I don't know how or why, but it did.
Have you done any more 'writing' since then?
No. I think I might have unsuccessfully tried a few times after that on my own, but I don't sit still well, and I think being able to focus on a guided meditation helped it happen.
I have asked that relative a few pressing questions, and I usually got vague or confusing answers. I'm pretty sure some of her writing is her writing. But who knows?
Ill start, i keep having dreams that come true but they seem so random tho.
This is mine too - I used to record my dreams and kept a journal. Some of them came true, and it was always random piddly details, not things one could see coming ahead of time, never anything useful. Dreams of being in a particular place and situation and seeing a particular someone I'd not seen in years, so specific it seems unlikely to be random. Like I would see what they would be wearing, or other details like that. And no I don't expect it to convince anyone but me but because I was documenting the dreams I know for myself.
I believe you.
I always thought it was my head messing with me until i started telling my friend about it. And then they still come true and at least she knows that it is not my memories being faulty.
Have you ever tried changing the outcome? I feel like if we were to try this would cause a paradox and then we wouldn't get the dream in the first place.
I have thought about changing the outcome but I always come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be me if i did it. Like if i saw myself avoiding someone then it usually is that person does something later that i would avoid them anyways.
Really interesting stuff but yeah most people wouldn't believe us which is understandable.
When I was younger, right up through college age, I’d occasionally have precog dreams. Not dejavu — I’d dream an event, a place, a person, and then the event would happen, we’d go by that place, I’d meet that person. Our society does not believe in these types of things, so there is no way to learn how to maintain or build on these abilities, so they faded away.
Very first one I really remember, our TV was out for repairs and I dreamt we got it back and my dad was watching my favorite show. I told my mom that morning about the dream, and she said, “they haven’t fixed it, we don’t know when we will get the TV back.” Came home from school and the TV was back!
For me they briefly stopped but then started happening like crazy. But for me it is usually related to people around me like i dreamt about a boy playing in my house, turns out my sister was pregnant with a boy. She didn't know the gender and i live in a different country so i never knew she was pregnant. She said she wanted to give me some important news. I said i already knew and then told my mom the gender of the baby.
One interesting thing that i have noticed, sometimes video in the dream doesn't match when it comes true but audio matches more often, do you also feel this?
