Unusual encounters in the wilderness
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I was out on an eery, windy night and felt a very distinct tap on my back. I turned around, but nothing was there. I was trying to convince myself that a large bug had flown into me or something, even though it was too cold for bugs, when I felt it again. It was so spooky that it made my hair stand on end. The third time I felt the tap, I figured out that I had put the bow from my friction fire set in my back pocket, and when I moved a certain way it would slap my back. 
I have to disagree, not sure about the rest of you but I wasn't taught how to use my eyes, nor do I believe that the majority of people have damaged their sight due to a so-called one track way that we use them.
I haven't had any unusual experiences whilst out hiking or camping, nothing that couldn't be rationaly explained with further inspection.
The biggest spook I've ever had in the woods? Disturbing a deer up close without seeing it in the dark and having it bark at me with what seemed like a raw at the time! Scary in the instant it happened, but a perfectly natural experience
When i say taught, i don't mean sat in a class and give lessons. What i mean its what we do naturally given the instructions we all get like reading etc. Look at the word, so we all focus our eyes on the word. Rather than being told, don't look at the word look at this spot some 6 inches away and while looking at that spot then read what it says etc. Diffefrent parts of the eye see things differently.
This is from wiki
The distinctions between foveal (sometimes also called central) and peripheral vision are reflected in subtle physiological and anatomical differences in the visual cortex. Different visual areas contribute to the processing of visual information coming from different parts of the visual field, and a complex of visual areas located along the banks of the interhemispheric fissure (a deep groove that separates the two brain hemispheres) has been linked to peripheral vision. It has been suggested that these areas are important for fast reactions to visual stimuli in the periphery, and monitoring body position relative to gravity [1]It is used to see dangers coming up besides you.
Peripheral vision can be practised, jugglers that regularly locate and catch objects in their peripheral vision do have improved abilities. Jugglers do not follow the paths of individual objects with their eyes, instead they focus on a defined point in mid-air, so almost all of the information necessary for successful catches is perceived in the near-peripheral region. Some juggling patterns and disciplines require extraordinary peripheral vision.
BTW our eyes do get damaged by constant focus. Especially when staring at a tv or computer. Hence the dramatic increase in spectacle wearers over the last century or so. Lots of office workers end up having to wear glasses/contacts etc when they didn't before.
This is from wiki
The distinctions between foveal (sometimes also called central) and peripheral vision are reflected in subtle physiological and anatomical differences in the visual cortex. Different visual areas contribute to the processing of visual information coming from different parts of the visual field, and a complex of visual areas located along the banks of the interhemispheric fissure (a deep groove that separates the two brain hemispheres) has been linked to peripheral vision. It has been suggested that these areas are important for fast reactions to visual stimuli in the periphery, and monitoring body position relative to gravity [1]It is used to see dangers coming up besides you.
Peripheral vision can be practised, jugglers that regularly locate and catch objects in their peripheral vision do have improved abilities. Jugglers do not follow the paths of individual objects with their eyes, instead they focus on a defined point in mid-air, so almost all of the information necessary for successful catches is perceived in the near-peripheral region. Some juggling patterns and disciplines require extraordinary peripheral vision.
BTW our eyes do get damaged by constant focus. Especially when staring at a tv or computer. Hence the dramatic increase in spectacle wearers over the last century or so. Lots of office workers end up having to wear glasses/contacts etc when they didn't before.
When your in the woods at night and its dark and you look at something it kind of dissapears from view, you look to the side or above/below it to see i clearly, correct? This is the damage caused by how we use our eyes. The peripherals work far better than the centre of vision for certain things.
This is entirely down to the placement of rods and cones in the eye and is not some form form of damage - this is also why the centre of your vision is in colour and doesn't work so well at night and the periphery is in black and white and is good for low light.
This is entirely down to the placement of rods and cones in the eye and is not some form form of damage - this is also why the centre of your vision is in colour and doesn't work so well at night and the periphery is in black and white and is good for low light.
I once went off running/jogging in the middle of the night (I like the quiet darkness), and at a certain point I heard something behind me, as if someone was following me. I raised my pace a bit and the sound disappeared. A bit further the sound came back, I raised my pace again but so did the one following me! He/she/it was only a couple of meters behind me. So I stopped and looked around, couldn't see nothing... Probably was nothing at all, darkness playing with my mind, so I continued my work out. I had only just gotten back at speed when the bloody sound was there again, I abruptly stopped, turned around and stood there in quite an aggressive defensive position, :borgsmile: only to see some leaves falling on the ground a couple of meters behind me...
I'd been hearing the leaves hitting the road behind me after they had been thrown up in the air because of the turbulence my running body created...
Great topic btw! More stories please!
I'd been hearing the leaves hitting the road behind me after they had been thrown up in the air because of the turbulence my running body created...
Great topic btw! More stories please!
Yet another reason to leave my IT Job then
Ahar!... yeah that sounds right, jogs my memory back to Science class anyway!
That is indeed a very interesting theory. My own experience is was vivid enough that I either have to accept that some sort of psychic phenomenon was at work influencing us both and the dog, as we both saw the same thing and the only words exchanged during the entire encounter were 'what the f***' and 'don't freak out, lets move slowly this way' and I don't believe this would be enough to suggest or convey what either of us was seeing to the other, most of all it was the bizarre little details of the event that make me think something more than just a joint brain malfunction was at work, for example we both noticed that not only was the creatures head much smaller than a humans (despite the fact that it was about 12feet tall) but the top of it's head seemed to be slightly flat, when it walked we also we both noticed it's strange gait, it would swing it's long arms in big slow pendulous arcs as it walked. Then again if the quoted theory was at work I see no reason why it couldn't affect two people at once and a dog if the conditions somehow 'amplified' the 'signal'
If I don't accept that psychic phenomenon exist then I have to accept that strange beings we don't even begin to understand do, either conclusion is pretty frustrating for me as I'm painfully aware of a total lack of evidence for either theory other than personal experiences.
I know you wouldn't guess from my insane story but we're both actually very skeptical guys who had no 'paranormal' beliefs prior to this but that's exactly why I still have the odd sleepless night thinking about this thing because It's an experience that contradicts literally everything I 'knew' before hand and just doesn't fit within the realms of the explainable.
When that time comes I hope you stand tall for us hill bill.
That's a truly amazing story, I'm glad you had such a life affirming experience, I'm going to Africa later this year to the site of some of the oldest cave paintings in the world, I can't wait to get my hammock up under the African night sky now.
There's alot of "unexplained" things out there in the woods, wilds and moors. Some of it explainable, some of it not.
I've had a few experiences when i was younger, and a few as recently as last year.
I'm not a believer of the usual paranormal rubbish you see strewn across our screens and the internet, but i believe there are things out there that have a purpose.
The human mind is an incredible thing and so are our eyes.
I've had a few experiences when i was younger, and a few as recently as last year.
I'm not a believer of the usual paranormal rubbish you see strewn across our screens and the internet, but i believe there are things out there that have a purpose.
The human mind is an incredible thing and so are our eyes.
And yet, with space travel we are only opening ourselves up to way more of the same. We don't understand our own planets ways and mysteries. I wonder how much the infinite realm of space will test our knowledge and beliefs.
theres somethng about living wild up here in the north of scotland that forces you to stop asking questions and just accept tis funny im a fairly solitary person by nature but i never ever feel alone when im back country and over the years theres definatley been times when i should have paid a bigger price than i have for mistakes but ive always felt looked after...methinks the world is watching and that it definatley notices....
event horizon :BlueTeamE now that is a good space age ghost story, or there is ghosts of mars yes i am a geek
In the light of a torch in that lonely place it initially raised the heartbeat just briefly too, launditch..
It's all explainable when enough facts have been gathered.
Follow the advice of Einstein, Nietzche and the Buddha regarding anything that can't be directly perceived: Be very skeptical.
When I was younger, someone told me about what capacitors could do, and I didn't believe it. My dad explained it in a manner that passed the tests of logic, reason and experience, and then he showed me one. I became a believer.
I need the same sort of solid evidence, or at least logic, before I put faith in any ghosts, gods, demons, chupacabras, yeti, leprechauns or unicorns. Why can't magical beings with superpowers seem to make direct contact? Even my insurance company sends me a birthday card.
Why doesn't anyone ever get a cell phone pic of these things?
because they are vibrating at a different rate to our own universal plane, they are only visible to our eyes as we have the ability to percieve the extra dimensions in which decayed energy from physical and psionic events goes onto inhabit.
obviously
Maybe not cell phones, they do get pics with a normal digital cameras though.
They usually show up as orbs of light.
It's got nothing to do with out-of-focus dust reflecting the flash back at the lens and everything to do with digital sensors being capable of picking up the supernatural.
There's also the kind that shows up as an ecto-plasmic fog in photographs from time to time.
It has nothing to do with the flash reflecting from exhaled moisture and everything to do with the presence of paranormal beings.
Honest.
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