Supernatural experiences - an aspie thing?

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Olympiadis I could not agree more.

I'm a believer in the unexplainable. I've had dreams about events before they, some of them actually happen to other people rather than me. I remember how I scared someone out after they told me something that happened to them. I told them what room they were in, the location they were in within that room, how they reacted exactly, down to the speed and the look on her face. I'd told her I had such dreams before but that was the first time she believed me.

I try to keep an open mind because of this but still can be skeptical about what other people tell me though. I acknowledge that while something may be possible, there is also a good chance that it didn't happen.

Still, there are may things that are common knowledge to us today that probably would have been considered impossible over a hundred years ago. Who knows what will or will not be considered impossible in the future.

My two cents on the general subject of the thread:

I believe that beliefs are tools which we use to attempt to understand reality. They are models and maps which we apply to our experience in order to try and make some sense out of it. Like any map or model, they are useful insofar as they reveal and highlight relevant details and relationships, but in order to be useful they must necessarily simplify the subject they are representing. Therefore any model we might make of reality will by definition be incomplete and imperfect. And that's OK! The whole point of the scientific endeavor, as I understand it, is that "truth" is always relative and progressive. Any idea or interpretation is up for challenge and debate, although some are much more well-established than others. However, science is conducted by humans, and humans still fall prey to biased thinking and blind spots, even when we try to work actively against that tendency. One of the biggest blind-spots in modern scientific inquiry is that it deals primarily with repeatable, objectively observable phenomena. Those experiences which are more subjective in nature, and/or which are unique or at least very difficult to recreate are very hard to design experiments to test. And that's OK! Science is a very useful method for producing and analyzing certain kinds of reality-models, but it's not the only avenue of inquiry available to us, and the practice of science doesn't forbid other means of engaging with and learning about the world, and vice versa. By the way, as I understand it, the "laws" of physics are simply observed regularities in the behaviors of phenomena that we are capable of observing.

Now, as for me specifically, I've had a few strange experiences. Some might even be termed examples of the "supernatural" or of "synchronicity", though they've all been relatively subtle as these things go. Two that stand out: for a long while (and it will still happen occasionally) whenever I was driving and would pull up to a red light, it would change to green the instant my car stopped, or within a second or so. Interestingly, when I tried to actively test the phenomena, it stopped almost entirely. Awfully convenient, I can hear you saying. I offer no explanation for this, however, and there may well be some mundane cause (or simple coincidence, however unlikely) at work. Another very odd occurrence, which happened recently: a new friend of mine messaged me on Facebook saying she had just had a dream in which she and I were having a conversation, in the course of which I had casually mentioned that my birthday was quite close to hers, and that this could explain some of our similarities because we are both Capricorns. Now, for the record, I am by no means a "believer" in astrology, although Capricorn is indeed my astrological sign. Moreover, neither of us had any knowledge of the other's birthday prior to this (we became friends pretty recently and don't know most of those sorts of details). Anyway, she asks me IRL in FB messenger when my birthday is. I tell her that it's January 7th, and she says hers is on the 6th. Again, I repeat that neither of us knew the other's birthday before this conversation. Again, I have no definitive explanation, but this does seem to suggest that perhaps the idea of the "collective unconscious" or something similar has real merit.

Anyway, just some food for thought. Om nom nom...

Right now the limitations of our science describe the incident with the cow in terms of what could not have happened.

A much more advanced science would simply ask the cow what really happened.

I remember this topic coming up several times in my long, distant WP past.
I will simply say that I have had too many experiences to refute the existence of things I cannot explain by scientific means.
I will say no more as I can remember what happened to this sort of topic in the past when some did come on and share experiences of a supernatural nature, lol.

a certain metasyntactic variable may well consider me an "ignorant riffraff" for saying this, but I have had many experiences that I can only conclude were supernatural. I will own it.