Reality Accentuates My "Mind Over Matter" Post

This morning after awaking I rose to take a quick scan of a post I had auto-scheduled for publication this morning. It was a post you can read here entitled "In 1923 an Editor of Scientific American Confessed the Reality of Telepathy and Mind Over Matter." Not wearing any glasses, I passed by my television set to get my I-Pad, noticing nothing unusual on the floor.  After making a quick scan of the article, I took a shower and got dressed. Upon returning to the living room, I was very surprised to see two rubber bands on the floor, in front of the TV. One was small and yellow, and the other was very noticeable, being red and about three inches in length. How, I asked myself, could they possibly have got there? No one else was around this morning, by wife being away on a trip. My strict policy is to immediately pick up from the floor any and all objects I see there (such as coins, pens and rubber bands), as soon as I see them. I had watched TV the previous night without noticing any such rubber bands on the floor in front of the TV. 

I have seen spooky-seeming anomalies like this  involving rubber bands more than 28 times, on various days, and some examples are reported in the series of posts here. I  have speculated that this may be some type of spirit manifestation effect, noting that if some invisible power had a slight ability to move matter in our world, such a power might show itself by moving very lightweight things such as rubber bands or coins. An alternate explanation is that of a subconscious mind-over-matter effect coming from my own mind.

I admit that this effect is "peanuts" compared to the effects that reportedly occurred involving Daniel Dunglas Home, who I dreamed about last night, while correctly recalling in my dream that quite a few witnesses had reported him levitating. On the same night I saw yet another example of the spooky "light turning off and on" anomaly reported here, which I have seen more than 65 times since 2022, with 95% or more of the cases occurring while I was arising to go to a bathroom in the middle of my sleeping hours.

Postscript: As if all of the above was not strange enough, on the same day (February 13, 2026) there was another strange event. Standing right next to the white power strip that you can see a bit of in the photo  below, on the far left, I used the button on the power strip to turn off the power to my TV. At that very instant (the exact same second) I saw a 4-inch-long feather jump from my TV stand to the floor. At the time I was standing motionless about a meter away from the feather. No one else was in the room, and the windows were closed, with no fan running. There is no heating system producing air currents, and the room's heater is several meters away from the TV stand.  The feather is one that showed up a few days earlier in a rather spooky manner.  Below is what I saw after this strange jump of the feather. 

I can speculate about a symbolic significance to this strange sight. If you interpret the turning off the power as a symbol for physical death, which involves a shutdown of electricity,  the movement of the feather at the exact same instant may symbolize a flight of the soul occurring at the moment of death. 

The photo below shows the position of the feather on the TV stand a few hours before this strange event. (It is from a photo I took to document the anomaly of the rubber bands, mentioned above.)  You can see the feather was not at all on the edge of the stand. These two were the only two feathers on the TV stand. 

   

A Precognitive Dream?

You probably know how Youtube.com works. Somehow it presents video clip choices that are good guesses for what you might want to see, based on whichever videos you have previously clicked on or searched for (particularly recent clicks and searches). I remember something odd a few months ago. I was telling someone that one of the videos YouTube had presented in my list of suggested video choices was one that matched the very specific content of some dream I had that day (I think it was a performance of the same song I had heard in my dream that morning). I joked with the person, saying, "What, can YouTube read my mind now?"

Today something similar happened. This morning I dreamed of the rooftop dance scene in the 1961 movie West Side Story. This evening I saw in my list of suggested YouTube video choices a video of exactly that scene, a very good musical number you can watch here. Now, you might rather easily explain this coincidence if I had in recent months searched for songs from that musical, or clicked on songs from that musical. But I have not done that in more than a year, searching instead for other things on YouTube almost every day.  

One hypothesis to explain the coincidence is precognition. I should keep an eye open on whether there are any further strange matches of this type. 

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed today. It's kind of semi-green. 

Mysterious Green Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 3)

Below is Part 3 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious green orbs.

Below we see a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

Four days before taking that photo I photographed a mysterious orb with the same "curvy Y" pattern consisting of a curved stripe and a straight stripe. Below we see that orb:

We see below mysterious green orbs that I photographed on different days.

We see below two mysterious orbs that I photographed in June, 2019.

We see below a mysterious orb that I photographed indoors.

The photo below shows a mysterious green orb that I photographed indoors. See here for 37 photos of mysterious striped green orbs.

The photo below shows a mysterious orb I photographed indoors.

Mysterious Red Sky Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 7)

   Below are some photos I previously took of mysterious red orbs in the sky. All of the photos were taken in clean, dry air when there was no fog, mist, rain or precipitation.

My photo below shows a red orb floating above a skyscraper in New York City.

My photo below shows a monolith about 10 feet tall. It's an art work (probably temporary) placed at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York. When you look at the words carved into stone, you see they are something that produces a chuckle: a shopping list. We see at the top a mysterious orb floating about. Did it laugh at the joke?

My photo below shows a yellow orb, a red orb, and a blue orb that made a fleeting appearance above a building in New York City.  The yellow orb seemed to have a red aura.

The photo below shows a red orb I photographed above a building in New York City. 

My photo below shows a red orb and a purple orb floating above a building in New York City.

My photo below shows a very unusual striped red orb floating above a building in New York City.

The photo below shows a strange red orb I photographed near a building in New York City.

They Said Apparitions Materialized Right in Front of Them

 I think it is very important to keep a list of surveys trying to determine how common are reports of paranormal experiences. Publishing such a list helps to show how common such experiences are, and helps to disprove false claims that only some tiny fraction of the population report such things. My list of such surveys appear as a bullet list in my post here. 

This afternoon I added a very interesting addition to that bullet list:

"A project entitled 'Investigation of the phenomenology and impact of perceived spontaneous and direct After-Death Communications (ADCs)' was conducted from February 2018 to January 2020, with results described here and here.  About 1000 people were surveyed. 460 of these people reported a 'visual ADC' which often corresponded to an apparition of the dead. We read, 'For 61.6% of our sample, the deceased seemed solid like a living being, for 12.5% the apparition was semitransparent, and 11.3% perceived a foggy silhouette.' We also read, 'For 59.8% the apparitions were already there when they perceived them and for 28.5% they were materializing right before their eyes. After a few seconds or a few minutes, they were fading away gradually (14.4%), dissolving instantly (28.1%), or not there anymore when respondents  blinked (18.0%). 79.8% claimed that the apparition conveyed a message, either in words, telepathically, or by expression of the face.' "

Just after adding this passage to my previous post, there was a strange synchronicity. In Season 4 of the very dry and down-to-earth TV series I was watching ("The Lincoln Lawyer" on Netflix) -- a season which thus far is something you might say is something that only a lawyer or a law student would love -- the main character suddenly starts talking to a ghost. It is the ghost of the father-figure character played by Elliot Gould, whose death we had been told about only a few minutes earlier. We soon learn it is a dream sequence. 

I thought this was a good moment to take a few photos of my TV, in hopes of getting an orb photo -- maybe something like the photo here in which I got an orange orb above the TV while my TV screen showed a depiction of fairy magic. So I took five photos of the main "Lincoln Lawyer" character talking to the ghost. My hope about the orb photo was not fulfilled. There was nothing unusual in the photos. 

But at the very instant I finished checking the photos on my camera, I kind of go, "What on Earth!" I notice that in a very noticeable spot about a meter from where I am sitting, right in front of me, is a yellow rubber band on the floor. I had worked at the same spot for 5+ hours that day, with only me in the room, and had not touched any rubber bands in that room previously that day. My strict policy is to pick up from my floor any and all out-of-place items I see on the floor (things like coins, pens and rubber bands), as soon as I see them. So how, I ask myself, could there be a rubber band right in right of me, one that went unnoticed by me in the previous five hours I was working from that spot, where the rubber band would have been very noticeable? 

It seemed rather as if the rubber band had teleported to the spot I saw it at, at the very moment I was taking a photo of the TV ghost. I have seen similar anomalies involving rubber bands more than 27 times, and I report some of them in my series of posts here. An interesting speculation is that an invisible power may leave hints of its presence by moving or teleporting very lightweight objects such as rubber bands or coins, perhaps with synchronicity involved. I know (as I reported here) that only a few minutes after audibly stating that it was my late mother's 100th birthday, I was spooked to see a quarter on top of a bedspread I had just laid out a few minutes before making the statement.   

Postscript: The next day there was another spooky event. Standing in front of a sink, I ate a few mini-marshmallows from a bag. A few minutes later I was very surprised to see one of the mini-marshmallows on the other side of the room, about 2.5 meters away, aligned to the wall. I asked myself: how could that have happened? I came up with an explanatory hypothesis: maybe I dropped one of the mini-marshmallows, and it rolled 2.5 meters. I tested the hypothesis by taking a mini-marshmallow, and rolling it on the ground, rather as you might roll a bowling ball. The hypothesis failed, because friction caused the rolling to stop after much less than a meter of rolling.  We have in this strange sighting some possible "Other Side" symbolism. 

Post-postscript: The next day I had a striking dream that may be relevant to what I report above. I dreamed that I had forgot what street I lived on, and that I remembered that I lived on "Numen street" (which is not the actual street I live on). Very strangely, in the dream I thought something like, "It is important that I remember this word numen, so to help me remember I will recall that it sounds the same  as the Newman character on the Seinfeld TV series." When I awoke I did not know what the word "numen" means, it being a word I had never used. After awaking I looked up the definition of the word, which is: "the spirit or divine power presiding over a thing or place."

Post-post-postscript: Rather striking sights followed in the next days after. I noticed a light on the other side of my front door was on, which I could not explain. As I walked by a refrigerator, a piece of paper on its top (above all the food) mysteriously fell to the ground. A large triangular formation of honking geese flew over me as I was on my walk. When I came back from the walk, I noticed nothing unusual in the door area. Shortly later, a package was delivered. When I went to get it, I discovered a 4-inch long feather between my outer and inner door. 

A Blue Orb

 Photo date: February 4, 2026. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. If you see the top left circular features as eyes, and the bottom curved feature as a mouth, you may start to see a faint face in the image. 

Mysterious Blue Indoor Orbs: A Retrospective (Part 12)

Below is Part 12 of a retrospective showing some of the better photos I have taken indoors of mysterious blue orbs photographed indoors. 

The photo below shows a transparent blue orb that I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York.

We see below a mysterious blue orb I photographed at Grand Central Terminal in New York. Look to the left of the orb, and it looks rather as if light from the orb is reflecting on a marble surface.

The photo below shows a mysterious blue orb I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York.

I took the photos below on February 26, 2018 and March 13, 2018.  In both we see mysterious blue orbs in the center of a stairway.

The photos below show two mysterious orbs I photographed in Grand Central Terminal in New York on January 5, 2018 and February 12, 2018.  The photos were taken with different cameras.

The photo below shows  a mysterious orb that I photographed in Grand Central Terminal.

The photo below shows two mysterious blue orbs I photographed near a temporary  advertising sign in Grand Central Terminal.