I used to love these threads on reddit. I'll go first.
This one is kinda mundane and is most likely a hypnogogic/pompic hallucination but it used to happen A LOT when I was younger and I kinda realised earlier that it's been a long time since I last noticed it.
So from about the onset of puberty till my early mid twenties, at least a few times a month I'd be falling asleep, drifting in and out of sleep, or even woken up by- my bed shaking.
Usually it was a steady-ish rumble, almost like being on a train, but like 1/10 times I'd wake up to my bed rocking like someone was shaking it.
It scared me a few times when it was particularly violent, but as I freeze up when scared I'd just be lying there terrified, wondering why the fuck this was happening and hoping the bed didn't start squeaking.
Usually when this shaking happened though it was just a thing I noticed, filed away as a curiosity, and tried to go back to sleep.
This happened in probably every place I lived (which was a lot of places as I was moving like 2 or 3 times a year most years from about 11 till 16, then less so as I got older) and mostly around the south east of England. And I very rarely lived on a main road with heavy vehicles on it or by railways either, so it wasn't environmental. We do get the occasional very minor earthquake here every ten years or so, and it's a similar feeling!
2 Jun 2026 14:22
I was born. Which has been a very trippy and -one might argue- paranormal experience.
2 Jun 2026 14:44
Some sort of sleep paralysis maybe? Some people hear noises and/or experience strange bodily sensations during them, I believe. Quite normal, albeit unpleasant.
2 Jun 2026 15:12
This one time when I woke up, my glasses weren't on my desk where I left them, they were on the nightstand!
2 Jun 2026 15:22
unexplained shit that's happened to you.
I came into existence.
"Why" is a pretty open question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_is_there_anything_at_all%3F
"Why is there anything at all?" or "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,[3] Ludwig Wittgenstein,[4] and Martin Heidegger,[5] who called it "the fundamental question of metaphysics".[6][7][8]
2 Jun 2026 16:46
I was invited to an Automatic Writing class.
For anyone not familiar: You relax, do a little meditation, and put pen to paper. You think about what you want to ask, and watch as your hand writes the advice or answer your spirit guides need you to see.
That's the story at least. We could debate the forces involved, but that's how it was presented to me.
I went in with an open mind and followed the directions. After about a half hour of nothing, I decided to give it a test. I spotted a fruit bowl in the other room, I could see that there was fruit in it, but I couldn't tell how much, so I asked how many pieces of fruit are in the fruit bowl. My pen slid across the page and down. Clearly, I had drawn a seven. I went over and checked the bowl and there were exactly 7 pieces of fruit in the bowl.
I later also asked if a promotion that I was sure I was going to get, was going to be good for me, and I wrote "nonononononono" which I thought was nonsense at the time. About a week later, I did not get that promotion, but because I didn't get that job, I was able to take another, better position that opened up at a location much closer to my home.
I can't explain it, but it's all true.
2 Jun 2026 17:04
I was walking with a couple of friends at night in Pennsylvania. there was this absolutely GIGANTIC insect that was in the shape of a moth.
it was like 3 feet large and we couldn't get a clear picture of it since it was so dark, I figured it was a shadow being casted by a light somewhere else.
that was when, all of a sudden, the "shadow" started to fly up! all 3 of us just ran away... that happened like 15 years ago, now I want to research gigantic insects in the shape of a moth lol
2 Jun 2026 17:47
That's just because your mom and dad had the sexy time. Before that your grandparents had the sexy time. And that process continues all the way back to Mitochondrial Eve.
TLDR a lot of sex was had to eventually produce you. So no pressure, but don't screw up all that effort that was put in over the ages.
2 Jun 2026 18:20
I don't know if this is spooky, fucked up, or just really funny (in my twisted sense of humor)
In college. I was a workaholic and didn't sleep a lot, and I lived in a student dorm (layout was like a hotel, each student had their individual room) that was fairly well-liked by upperclassmen. Anyways there's a random girl I know outside of class with a friend group. Generally a bright and upbeat person, quite well put-together, also an international student, etc...
There was one night when I was just passed out on my dorm bed. And at 3am in the morning, I saw that particular girl standing in front of my dorm room with the door open. Crying, being really sad and all... Later was escorted away by the RA.
What I still couldn't comprehend is... First of all, why the heck was my door unlocked. Second of all, why was this random person standing in front of my door. Did she want anything from me. Also later I never heard from that girl again, what happened to her
2 Jun 2026 18:48
You saw the Mothman. Or maybe Mothman Jr.
2 Jun 2026 21:21
You're saying I should have the sex?
2 Jun 2026 22:25
Yes all them other peoples had the sex so you could also have the sex.
2 Jun 2026 23:23
I was reading late at night in the living room. Decided to go to bed, so i put the book down in the center of a large coffee table. I went to bed and just after falling asleep, i woke up to a loud bang. Ive dealt with exploding head syndrome my whole life so i thought it was that at first but it sounded different. I got out of bed to make sure all the doors were locked and stuff and saw my book on the floor of the opposite side of the living room. There were no animals in the house, i was completly alone and all the doors were locked. Also, it didn't sound like the book fell onto the floor. It was a BANG, like it was thrown flat on the floor hard. The book was in an open area about 10 ft from the coffee table. By the way the book was a thick hard cover book, not like a magazine or something light.
3 Jun 2026 02:32
Hi OP. Can you please tweak your title to make it a question (Rule 2)?
3 Jun 2026 05:28
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