AS and the paranormal/supernatural

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It seems to me that a lot of AS folks are interested in the paranormal and supernatural. So I thought I'd take a survey here, and hope for a decent number of results. Would you say you are strongly interested in such things, or not?

"Paranormal" and "supernatural" are just words describing phenomena NOT YET considered normal or natural. Stuff that makes people go "Well, that's simply not possible".
Speech was once paranormal, but is today quite normal. So was flight, space travel, x-rays, binoculars and photographic memory. As soon as a certain number of people starts exercising a habit or technology, it seizes being supernatural.

Same thing with Artificial Intelligence. As soon as scientists invent something that takes us closer to AI, such as a better working eye, or an ear, or the ability to answer questions, it seizes being AI and becomes old fashioned computer science. Simply because we have an explanation for it, we know what it is, and we can look into it without question marks.

There are quite a few threads around on this board with the topics of psychic phenomenae, reincarnation, the Human Energy Field, and other arcane subjects. From what I see, there seems to be a lot of interest in that amongst the AS community.

I had the pleasure of chatting with a very talented psychic medium about the issue of autism. His interpretation was that being high-functioning autistic was equatable to being at the gateway between the conscious and the unconscious. How else did such great minds as Einstein, Michaelangelo, and others have such great imagination to manifest what they did? Although there are still things I don't understand about being AS-autistic, that interpretation and that connection alone seem to shed light on the subject.

If there is an above-average presence of psychical abilities in the AS community, then it is worthy of exploring.

I've been brought up around psychic phenomenae, so for me it's something that I've always been interested in, and at the same time I'm used to it. I can see auras (although it took a long time for me to get the technique right, so I could see the colours of them properly. I used to think they were all just a centimetre big until I learned that you're not supposed to look straight at them... ) and I'm quite good with I Ching and tarot, and the rest of my family are quite skilled with things like mediumship, and tarot readings (my little sister's speciality ).

What that medium said sounds very interesting, and it'd be cool to see what everyone else has to say about this. I have heard that psychic abilities utilize different parts of the brain than most people would normally use, and if connections in the brain for people with AS are different than those without, then I guess it's possible that we could have connections in our brains that allow us to more easily utilize psychic parts of the brain.

That has never interested me one bit

i have been interested in the paranormal, especially ghosts and sea/lake monsters sine i was about 4
glad to see some others are

I have always been interested in things that are not well understood (or in the case of the paranormal, scarcely understood at all), whether that lies in things like cutting edge science such as superstring theory, or in things such as psychic phenomena. It is, in fact, one of my Aspergian obsessions, though my obsessions tend to cycle a lot in intensity, and I am most intensely interested in mathematics, drawing, and writing right now.

I do not have psychic ability significantly better than that of anyone else's, but it fascinates me nonetheless. Ironically, it is my unrelenting drive to fully understand the mechanizations of EVERYTHING (which usually would drive a person to thrive in what is more concretely known) that draws me to a field in which the mechanizations are totally unknown to me. It's not really paradoxical, but it seems like it on the surface, I guess.

One time, when I was doing homework and it was going slowly and I was getting bored, I heard a popping sound behind me. Then I turned around, and I saw the lampshade to the lamp behind me was swinging, knocked down from its place suspended above the lightbulb, the lightbulb exposed. Unaware of what had happened, I stared at it, looking to see if an animal like a mouse or something had knocked it down (there was a shelf next to it). I saw the lampshade jump above the lightbulb again, again making the popping noise, and at this point I was looking intently for any physical object to be causing this, but saw none.

It has been postulated that psychokinetic events such as the one I experienced above frequently are the result of stress or boredom, particularly with adolescents, perhaps to blow off steam or relieve boredom--well, it worked; as soon as I got done relating the story to my parents, I was no longer bored (especially since I am interested in these sorts of occurrences in the first place, it was particularly fascinating). I made a realization as to what I was having trouble with.

Who says psychic phenomena have to be scary?

hi all, I believe in paranormal as well. in this house we have a ghost who lives upstairs and sometimes comes down to knock something down at bottom of stairs. this is because the spirit of a woman or a man is still here because someone was pushed down the steps and they died at bottom of stairs(this happened all before my parents moved here in 1983). my mom has seen his ghostly image at night.

I have also seen paranormal activity at the tech school I went to. the school building itself was built in 1974. the unusual thing I seen there was back door of building and grounds shop(now landscaping and design) would making hissing noises while closing(like a storm door would do) the day of a fire drill before the drill would happen. only my teacher and me understood and seen a pattern but don't know what is making it do it. hmm maybe a death of an inspector or teacher in that area???

I also seen over same area of town I seen a ufo high in the sky in broad daylight.

I love watching ghosthunters on scifi channel. I don't watch it much because my dad watches things like csi and cops.

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I'm not interested in the paranormal anymore, but I was when I was younger, 12 years old or so. However, I ended up understanding that most of it was pure fiction and I gradually lost interest.

When I was a teenager I was obsessive about such things in order to mount up more and more "evidence" (usually from dodgey badly printed tabloids and magazines) to fortify my belief in such things. Now I am more obsessive about mounting up new evidence to debunk them. Especially anything to do with the supernatural like ghosts and deities. Aliens, I still believe in aliens but I find many anecdotes of their visits to earth highly implausible.

I was obsessed about the paranormal for years,there was a great magazine dedicated to the subject in the UK some years back called Xfactor [it got the name way before that crap talent..less finding show],my sister got it and I used to nick her copies,probably the most interesting magazine I have ever read as it was very focussed on the topic and every article was worthwhile.

Hmmm.

I too was brought up with psychicness and things like that. I believe simply because i can't see any reason why ghost, telekinsis ect. couldn't exsist, there are so many things about the world we don't understand. Growing up with it none of those things are perticularily scary to me. I expect i'm mildly psychic but in know big way.