Hello all you special folks out there! I'm normally just a lurker, but tonight...
I'm requesting some comments/advice about some things that have been going on recently.
I'm 30 years old, and I've lived in over a dozen different places in my life, but this is the first place where I feel that something strange is going on with the environment itself. I am living in Japan, and I recently moved from Tokyo to a small city. I moved into an apartment building that was built in the 90's (middle aged by Japanese standards). The move was special in a sense that my girlfriend was going to move in with me eventually as well.
About two weeks after I moved in, something strange happened during the daytime when I was alone in the kitchen. I had hung a ladle days ago in one of the slots under the stove fan, and as I was leaving the room, the ladle abruptly started to swing back and forth like someone had pushed it. It stopped swinging naturally, and I checked to see if maybe the blades of the fan might have hit the ladle, but the blades weren't visible - not even close. I had never felt or heard any wind coming through the vent except when the fan was on of course. I thought it very spooky, but I thought it would probably be the last strange thing that happened. I didn't tell my girlfriend when she moved in a couple weeks later, because I didn't want to scare her.
Around a week after she moved in, I had an especially vivid dream the morning where I was observing my girlfriend's children who had especially green eyes (she doesn't have any children in real life). My eyes are green as well. It was fresh in my mind after I awoke, but I didn't tell her anything about it (I wasn't eager to tell her about a dream I had where she had children that seemingly weren't mine (although they had green eyes)). An hour or so after we woke up, we were both in the bathroom, and she commented "your eyes look especially green this morning", and I was shocked, because she has never said anything like that before. It was my first dream that had any premonition attached to it.
Fast forward to a few days ago.....I awoke in the middle of the night (at around 3:45am) to a noise that I immediately thought was the wooden sliding door (Japanese style) between the kitchen and the living room opening. As I awoke, my girlfriend made a "mmmmm..." sound in her sleep which I thought was because she heard the noise too....looking back, it could have been because I awoke abruptly. Anyway, I got to my knees and I watched for any movement (sans glasses) and listened for any other sounds. I then put on my glasses, and searched the apartment for an intruder - I saw that the sliding door was indeed open when it should have been closed. I didn't find anything, so I went back to bed. My girlfriend got up and went to the bathroom. When she was in the bathroom, I realized I didn't check the laundry room, so I got back up and walked past the bathroom and checked the laundry room and found nothing. At this point, she only thought I woke up because of a noise and was worried about an intruder. I went back to the bedroom again, and she came back in, and told me she got freaked out because while she was in the bathroom, the fan stopped for a second, and then started again (which has never happened before). The next morning, I asked her whether or not she had closed the door before she went to bed, and she said that she thought that she did (so the AC can cool only the side of the apartment with the bedroom at night), but she wasn't 100% sure of course. It was only then I told her that I thought something had opened the door. Because I might have been walking by the bathroom door the instant the fan stopped, and since my girlfriend wasn't living here yet when the ladle thing happened, I felt like these things might be directly connected to me, perhaps to my subconscious.
The last incident happened tonight, and it's the one I'm least sure about. I was watching a documentary that I'd downloaded on my PC. I paused the video so I could go outside for a bit (I occasionally smoke), and a few minutes later, when I was outside, I heard TV audio startup, and I thought it was strange because it was in English, and there isn't much English on TV in Japan. I thought it had to be from my neighbors, but when I went back into my apartment, the video that I had paused was playing. Now, normally I wouldn't think much of that, especially because....it's a PC, but it has never happened before and it seems too much of a coincidence that it would happen here and now.
So, because of these things, I feel the "heebie jeebies" when I think about it, but nothing has ever happened when I feel that way.
I did wikipedia research on poltergeists, and found that some claim that it is done through unconscious telekinesis, and some claim it is related to geology, and some say it is a combination of both. "Underground rivers" was mentioned, and this caught my attention as I live in the mountains, and there are small above-ground rivers running everywhere. But the dream premonition complicates things.
I'd almost rather these things stop, but I'm fascinated by them as well, and I'd like to approach this in the "right way". I feel like I have a responsibility to figure this out. I also am aware that, by chance, these things/coincidences could possibly somehow naturally occur, and my case is just a statistical outlier. But the ladle beginning to swing back and forth when I was across the room....the vivid dream with a future element...what do you think?
I'm requesting some comments/advice about some things that have been going on recently.
I'm 30 years old, and I've lived in over a dozen different places in my life, but this is the first place where I feel that something strange is going on with the environment itself. I am living in Japan, and I recently moved from Tokyo to a small city. I moved into an apartment building that was built in the 90's (middle aged by Japanese standards). The move was special in a sense that my girlfriend was going to move in with me eventually as well.
About two weeks after I moved in, something strange happened during the daytime when I was alone in the kitchen. I had hung a ladle days ago in one of the slots under the stove fan, and as I was leaving the room, the ladle abruptly started to swing back and forth like someone had pushed it. It stopped swinging naturally, and I checked to see if maybe the blades of the fan might have hit the ladle, but the blades weren't visible - not even close. I had never felt or heard any wind coming through the vent except when the fan was on of course. I thought it very spooky, but I thought it would probably be the last strange thing that happened. I didn't tell my girlfriend when she moved in a couple weeks later, because I didn't want to scare her.
Around a week after she moved in, I had an especially vivid dream the morning where I was observing my girlfriend's children who had especially green eyes (she doesn't have any children in real life). My eyes are green as well. It was fresh in my mind after I awoke, but I didn't tell her anything about it (I wasn't eager to tell her about a dream I had where she had children that seemingly weren't mine (although they had green eyes)). An hour or so after we woke up, we were both in the bathroom, and she commented "your eyes look especially green this morning", and I was shocked, because she has never said anything like that before. It was my first dream that had any premonition attached to it.
Fast forward to a few days ago.....I awoke in the middle of the night (at around 3:45am) to a noise that I immediately thought was the wooden sliding door (Japanese style) between the kitchen and the living room opening. As I awoke, my girlfriend made a "mmmmm..." sound in her sleep which I thought was because she heard the noise too....looking back, it could have been because I awoke abruptly. Anyway, I got to my knees and I watched for any movement (sans glasses) and listened for any other sounds. I then put on my glasses, and searched the apartment for an intruder - I saw that the sliding door was indeed open when it should have been closed. I didn't find anything, so I went back to bed. My girlfriend got up and went to the bathroom. When she was in the bathroom, I realized I didn't check the laundry room, so I got back up and walked past the bathroom and checked the laundry room and found nothing. At this point, she only thought I woke up because of a noise and was worried about an intruder. I went back to the bedroom again, and she came back in, and told me she got freaked out because while she was in the bathroom, the fan stopped for a second, and then started again (which has never happened before). The next morning, I asked her whether or not she had closed the door before she went to bed, and she said that she thought that she did (so the AC can cool only the side of the apartment with the bedroom at night), but she wasn't 100% sure of course. It was only then I told her that I thought something had opened the door. Because I might have been walking by the bathroom door the instant the fan stopped, and since my girlfriend wasn't living here yet when the ladle thing happened, I felt like these things might be directly connected to me, perhaps to my subconscious.
The last incident happened tonight, and it's the one I'm least sure about. I was watching a documentary that I'd downloaded on my PC. I paused the video so I could go outside for a bit (I occasionally smoke), and a few minutes later, when I was outside, I heard TV audio startup, and I thought it was strange because it was in English, and there isn't much English on TV in Japan. I thought it had to be from my neighbors, but when I went back into my apartment, the video that I had paused was playing. Now, normally I wouldn't think much of that, especially because....it's a PC, but it has never happened before and it seems too much of a coincidence that it would happen here and now.
So, because of these things, I feel the "heebie jeebies" when I think about it, but nothing has ever happened when I feel that way.
I did wikipedia research on poltergeists, and found that some claim that it is done through unconscious telekinesis, and some claim it is related to geology, and some say it is a combination of both. "Underground rivers" was mentioned, and this caught my attention as I live in the mountains, and there are small above-ground rivers running everywhere. But the dream premonition complicates things.
I'd almost rather these things stop, but I'm fascinated by them as well, and I'd like to approach this in the "right way". I feel like I have a responsibility to figure this out. I also am aware that, by chance, these things/coincidences could possibly somehow naturally occur, and my case is just a statistical outlier. But the ladle beginning to swing back and forth when I was across the room....the vivid dream with a future element...what do you think?
