Baffling Birthday

Today (January 29) is my late father's birthday. On his last two birthdays there were baffling anomalies:

• On January 29, 2024, as described here, I was lying in bed thinking of my father, wondering whether a dream I just had was a reference to him. At that moment the GFCI outlet in the bathroom mysteriously turned off with a loud sound. There was no one in the bathroom. Turning off the outlet requires a press of a button on the GFCI panel on the wall of the bathroom. 
• On January 29, 2025, as described here, around 12:50 AM, a structural panel in front of my sink mysteriously fell to the ground. The event was very surprising, as the whole floor had been remodeled a few years ago, and the panel was expected to stay undisturbed for many additional years. 

Today, January 29, 2026 I woke up about 1:00 AM, and went into the living room. I was surprised to see the thermostat showing a temperature of 67 degrees. I had set the thermostat to 60 degrees when going to bed at midnight, a temperature I keep it at when I sleep. I set the thermostat back to 60 degrees, and went back to the couch. A few minutes later I saw the thermostat was again showing a setting of  67 degrees. It was as if some invisible hand had moved the thermostat to the right, resetting it from 60 to 67. 

It is interesting that all three of these events involve a panel. The dictionary defines a panel as "a flat or curved component, typically rectangular, that forms or is set into the surface of a door, wall, or ceiling." The thermostat was in a wall panel, as shown below. The first syllable of "panel" is "pa," an English word meaning "father." 

Below is the description of this morning's event that I wrote on a notepad immediately after it occurred:

"1/29: Saw thermostat at 67 at 1:10. I turned it back to 60, which I had set it to at 12:00. A few minutes later it was mysteriously back to 67." 

The Google Nest thermostat has a Settings interface that allows you to look at changes in the temperature that get scheduled, under some capability of the thermostat to learn from your previous habits in switching the temperature. Around noon today I used that Settings interface to see whether there was any scheduled switch in temperature that could explain the anomaly described above. There was not. Below is what I saw when looking at the schedule for today (Thursday):

Postscript: On February 4 I had the 186th dream I have had about my later father since I started recording my dreams. I  dreamed that I was living in some high apartment tower, and that my late father was on the other side of my apartment's window, like some window washer working outside the window. The dream seemed to symbolize an idea of my late father being on the Other Side of an afterlife, while also suggesting the idea of lofty heights associated with an afterlife location. But at the same time the dream has a "nearby, just past the barrier" idea. It was the latest of more than 500 dreams I have had that suggested the idea of life after death, all of which are described in my frequently updated post here. 

As I Expected, There Was a Spooky Disturbance on My Late Father's Birthday

 Having witnessed a very spooky disturbance on my late father's birthday in 2024, I expected that there would be a similar spooky event on his birthday, today. It did not take long for my expectation to be fulfilled, with the event occurring in the first hour of my father's birthday. 

At about 12:50 AM I lay awake in bed, and heard a loud noise. I went into the living room to investigate. I found the front panel of my kitchen lying on the floor.  The photo below shows exactly what I saw, before I had touched the panel.

The kitchen and the room were remodeled a few years ago, and the panel had been firmly glued into place for about three years.  If the panel had just fallen naturally from its normal position (shown at the top of the photo), it should have landed on the opposite side of the side shown above, a side that had lots of glue on it. We may have some metaphysical symbolism in this aspect of the event: the panel landed not on its expected side, but on the other side, the Other Side. 

There is an interesting partial match between the name of the fallen unit and a word meaning "father." The English word for the fallen unit is "panel," a word that begins with the syllable of "pa," which in English is a causal word meaning "father."

I had expected an event like this to occur because on my father's birthday last year something similar had happened, as described here. On that day last year I had a dream about a papaya. While lying in bed wondering whether that dream had symbolized my father (because "papaya" starts with the word "papa"), a GFCI circuit breaker in the bathroom mysteriously went off (turning off the power in the bathroom), without any imaginable natural cause. That circuit breaker is in a little panel on the wall.  The same panel has a green light that has mysteriously turned off and on more than 40 times in the middle of about 40 nights, as I describe here. 

The spooky observation reported in this post may be causally related to the spooky observation reported in my post here. 

I predict (with only a little more than 50% confidence) that next year on my father's birthday (January 29, 2026), there will occur some other spooky disturbance or spooky manifestation. 

Postscript: Astonishingly, on January 3, 2025 I had a dream in which I described the beginning of this event to my deceased sister, and in the dream I stated the date of January 29, 2025 correctly. You can read about that dream here. The dream served to accentuate that the event described above was an important clue. 

My prediction above (about January 29, 2026) seems to have been fulfilled. To read about the details, see my post here. 

An Apport?

Just after mentioning that today was the 100th birthday of my late mother, I found this quarter mysteriously lying on a bedspread I had laid out a few minutes earlier without seeing such a thing. Massachusetts was her home state; and there is an "Ma" at the beginning of .Massachusetts.

This is only one of innumerable spooky things I have seen regarding coins. You can read of many more at my post here. The incidents include a case in which I saw a coin roll up from behind me, rolling on its edge, when I was alone in an apartment.  

Records of seances include very many cases in which people seemed to see things that appeared "out of nowhere." The technical term for such things is: an apport. 

Speaking of spooky things happening on a deceased parent's birthday, see my post here for a description of something very spooky happening on my late father's most recent birthday. 

Postscript: There were two other spooky things on the same day, both involving electricity. In the second one, at the end of the day I saw a green light in a bathroom mysteriously turn off for a second or two before turning on again.  Today (April 7) I also saw something very weird. I ran my microwave oven for two minutes to heat up some pizza. It made a normal "microwave running" sound during this time. When I opened it up, I found the plate and the pizza were cold, just as if no heating had occurred. On the second try, the plate and pizza heated up as expected.  I can never recall getting such an effect. The microwave is a fairly recent model, one with no spinning plate. 

Post-postscript: On April 9 I saw something very weird that had a kind of "apport vibe" to it. On my first look out the window I noticed a bagel about 15 feet above the ground, on a tree right in front of the house where I live. A few minutes later the bagel was devoured by a squirrel.  Below are photos of what I saw. 

I can imagine a squirrel carrying a bagel high up a tree. But what are the odds that it would then leave the bagel up in a tree, without even taking a decent bite out of it when the bagel was first carried up into the tree?

Post-post-postscript: On October 3, 2024 I  had a re-occurrence of the microwave incident described above. I ran the microwave for two minutes to try to heat a soy burger. When I removed the soy burger, I found it was still cold. The next time I tried to heat it, the microwave worked normally. 

A Spooky Event on My Late Father's Birthday

Today I had a dream that seemed to be a symbolic reference to my deceased father. Very often I get more direct dreams in which my father appears unmistakably in the dream. I have had 129 such dreams since I started recording my dreams in November, 2020. This morning (about two hours ago) after having the dream that may have symbolically referred to my father, I lay in bed thinking about my father. At that instant something spooky happened. I heard a loud "click" sound. The GFCI outlet in my bathroom had suddenly turned off, although there was no one in the bathroom.  This can occur from contact with water or steam or by someone pressing the Test button on the outlet. Other than water at the bottom of the toilet, there was no water or steam in the empty bathroom, which had been unused for more than an hour.  Nothing was plugged in to the outlet. So how could the outlet have shut off?  It was as if some invisible presence had pressed the Test button, at the instant I was thinking about my late father.  After waking up I realized that today is my late father's birthday. 

When I pressed one of the buttons, the outlet turned back on. There was no disturbance in a nearby digital clock, so no power interruption hypothesis can seem to explain the strange event. In the nearly two years I have been living at my current location, I have never observed this outlet shutting off when no one was in the bathroom (although on only one previous day last year I inferred that such a thing had happened). 

Postscript: Astonishingly, on January 3, 2025 I had a dream in which I described the event described above to my deceased sister, and in the dream I stated the date of January 29, 2024 correctly. You can read about that dream here. The dream served to accentuate that the event described above was an important clue. 

Dream Synchronicity

Since I started logging my dreams in November of 2020, there have been many dream appearances of my late parents. My late father has appeared in 50 different dreams I have had since November 2020, and my late mother has also appeared in 50 different dreams I have had since November 2020,  

This morning was unusual in that in my dreams I saw my father's face three different times. First he and my late mother appeared in a dream in which my father was doing some work in a living room.  Then I had a dream in which I first saw a framed portrait of my father lying on the street, and then saw another framed portrait of my father lying on the street.  This is the first time an image of one of my parents has appeared three different times in one sleeping session. While recording the dreams, I noticed a possible explanation: today is my father's birthday. I hadn't remembered this until recording the dreams in my log. 

Postscript (March 22, 2025): By now there have occurred two other remarkable hard-to-explain events on my father's birthday after he died  the one described here and the one described here.