Have you ever had any mystical/magical/unexplainable experiences? If so, what were they?

Joanne's favorite answer:
The only thing that comes to mind right now is that when I went to do a season of summer stock many years ago, I had a pretty unexplainable experience. I hit it off really well with my roommate, and that first night I had an incredibly vivid dream. It was a house, and a heavy set blonde woman was coming out of the house... When I woke up, I told my new roommate about the dream and described everything. She said, "Oh, my god - that's my house and that's my mother." I thought that was pretty weird, but things got even stanger. She then told me that she had had a dream about me - about a man who was too attached to me and what he was like. Her descriptions of the man and the situation were very accurate. I must note, at this point, that we had discussed none of this the previous day. Also, speaking of dreams, I once had a dream that an older co-worker (that I had a big crush on) was inconsolably sad...something had happened...something about his father. I told my co-worker about this the next day at work and he looked completely stricken. He told me that it was the anniversary of his father's death.

Joanne's answer:
As much as I totally believe in (and am petrified by) ghosts and the like, I've never really had any super mysterious things happen to me. The closest I've come was in Jr. High, my friend Hannah & I used to play with the Ouija board...I swear that I did not move it and she swears she didn't, but damn if it didn't move!! One morning, we were playing with it in her living room for a good long time - probably at least an hour - and there was no clock in the livingroom. We asked the Ouija board what time it was, and it answered, "11:14". Right away, we put the board down, ran into Hannah's room, and looked at her digital clock....which read none other than...11:14!!! That was pretty creepy.

And the other answers!

1. One "unexplainable" experience I had was when I lived in Japan with my husband who was in the Air Force at the time.. I will tell you up front that I truly believe I had a ghost that followed me around. But you be the decider of that. Here is one of my "ghost" stories: The car I had in Japan was a standard transmission. There was something wrong with the gears. Every now and then, you just never knew when it was going to happen, the gears would just go into neutral when shifting from 1st to 2nd and lock there. We, my husband and myself, would have to pull over to the side of the road so my husband could get under the hood and wiggle something and get it back into where it needed to be. Now when he did this, I could watch the gear shift lever moved up and down and listen to it click back into position. One day he was going to take me on a trip, it was to be a surprise. We went to the base to gas up and on our way out he was getting ready to pull over at the gate to get out of the car to ask directions so I couldn't hear where we were headed. He was slowing down at the gate when the gears slipped again. Since my husband was pulling over anyway, it was no big deal, he'd fix it when he got back to the car. Well, while he was gone I heard a clicking sound and watched the gear shift lever move up and down and click into place while my husband was across the street getting directions. When he returned, his mind was on the directions he has just received and completely forgot all about the gears locking. He just got in the car, put it in gear and off we went. I knew that the ghost was with us that day and had unlocked the gears when my husband was out of the car. I watched the lever move. That is only `1 ghost story in one place. I believe I've lived with two other ghosts at other times in my life and I have story after story.

2. Over the years Joanne ( as I grew up ) I can say there hasn't been any mystical happenings. I wish there had been..However for [my daughter's] wedding I wanted a particular dress for the Mother-of-the-Bride and I went to every store imaginable!!! You see for [my son's] wedding I had no choice in color and the Bride's mother wanted me to wear sequins on my dress. I found a dress that I had saved a picture of 5 years ago. I was elated to have found this dress. I was happy! Now comes [my daughter's] wedding and I do not want sequins this time! I wanted English soft Lace. I could not find any dress with that type of lace. I tried ever so hard. It was making me dream about it and in color too. I could actually see this dress! I drove to many different towns to go to many different Bridal Salons. No luck! Then one day I entered the very last store I could go into! Really! They had nothing...the lady there was soooo nice and offered me her books to look into. I looked with no ecpectations at all. After 3 pages I turned only to find myself looking at the very dress I saw in my dreams! Color and all!!!!! And I mean the VERY dress!!! I ordered it and it and wore it to [my daughter's] wedding and it hangs in my closet to this day. If I never wear it again I don't care. Let them put it on me when I die!!! Oh how I loved both dresses!

3. Three years ago when [my wife's] dad died I was at the funeral home before everyone else got there. I went over to see [my father-in-law] in his coffin and said a few prayers for him.When I got up to leave the coffin, I touched him on the shoulder to say goodbye and his shoulder seemed to move. It freaked me out, but I didn't say anything to [my wife] because of the circumstances.A few months later [my wife] and I were talking and I brought it up in the conversation. The real freaky part of the story is that the exact same thing happened to [my wife] when she touched her dad's shoulder a few minutes after me.

4. i sadly haven't had anything "unexplainable" happen inthe sense that you're referring to, but the nearest thing to magical/mystical was that even though [my boyfriend] and i were involved(not seriously in any sense of theword) with others,we both found that we were really into each other and have been together for close to a year now. i guess thats more like fate,or simple mutual attraction, but hey, its magical and mystical to me.

5. I woke up one night and there was a gray mist at the end of my bed. I knew it was my Dad. I said 'Hi Dad' I got a warm feeling and the mist disappeared. In another similar instance, this time a dream, my mother passed away while I was away from home and I hadn't had a chance to say good-bye. In the dream she came to me and kissed my cheek and said everything was OK. I woke up and the spot on my cheek where she has kissed me was warm.