Below is a photo of my shower drain. The sieve device is over the drain to prevent hairs from getting down into the drain hole. On top of the sieve I have placed a large bottle of mouthwash, which helps to press down the sieve, minimizing the chance that hairs will get through it.
A large bottle like this is quite stable when placed as shown below. Water from the shower will not cause it to fall (particularly given a shower head like I have, which spreads out the water evenly across an area about the size of a large pizza platter). Prior to yesterday I had showered on many previous days with the exact arrangement as shown above, with the bottle never falling. So yesterday I was surprised to see without any apparent cause the bottle falling down while I was showering and standing behind the bottle.
At first I thought: maybe I accidentally kicked the bottle over, even though I had no memory of even touching it and no memory of doing anything unusual. But then I realized why this was basically impossible: the bottle had fallen towards me, not away from me, as it would have done if I had accidentally kicked it over.
Early this morning there was another strange tumble. First I used the tube shown below, which was on the rim of my bathroom sink. I walked about 15 feet away, and then heard a sound coming from the unoccupied bathroom. I went back to the bathroom to investigate. The tube had fallen from the rim of the sink to the center of the sink. This happened about 8 seconds after I had left the bathroom, 8 seconds after anyone had touched the tube.
Now, it is just barely conceivable that an object like this could fall by itself in a windless bathroom with no window, 8 seconds after anyone had touched it, if the object has been very specially placed on the exact edge of the sink rim. But that would require a positioning so careful that it would be like balancing a pencil on its point. The chance of it accidentally happening seems like 1 in a million.
Rather than having any concern about such spooky events, I look for signs of a positive indication. The mouthwash bottle had large words across it: "MAXIMUM PROTECTION." Was its strange fall a hint of some protective presence, perhaps? On the same day I had a dream of a figure of cardinal importance standing directly behind my back, a dream suggesting a motif of spiritual protection, reminding me of that phrase "I have your back," referring to support or protection. As for the tube on the sink rim, it had an upward arrow symbol marked "Up & up." A spooky movement of such a tube might have been a hint about a future "up and up" progression of the soul.
Postscript: Within the same hour I first published this post, there appeared on my front walkway the feather below, about 5 inches long. I almost never see pigeons in the front yard, making the appearance a striking one. I had used the front walkway an hour earlier without noticing such a thing. Some interpret improbably positioned feathers as spiritual signs, an old association stemming from traditional depictions of angels as having wings.
Post-postscript: Another day, another spooky tumble. The day after writing the post above, I found the little round cap of an almond milk container in a refrigerator shelf was strangely off of the container, and on the other side of the internal space of a refrigerator. I can't explain how this happened, although I know it happened also on a previous day. We have here some possible symbolism that may hint at the metaphysical concept of the Other Side of an afterlife.
Last night (besides dreaming of being at a funeral) I dreamed window curtains were being moved horizontally across a window space, by some supernatural force. In English "curtains" is a slang term for death. The curtains being moved in a supernatural way from one side of the window to the other side also may have hinted at the concept of the Other Side of an afterlife. It was one of 500+ dreams I've had that seemed to symbolize or refer to life after death, dreams all described in my post here.
Post-post-postscript: A few days later I again saw " the little round cap of an almond milk container in a refrigerator shelf was strangely off of the container, and on the other side of the internal space of a refrigerator." The distance between the two was about 12 inches. This is the third morning in recent weeks that I have seen this effect, illustrated in the diagram below. Even the laziest quarter turn of the cap will prevent it from falling off the almond milk container.
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