A Visitation Dream?

I had a vivid dream last night. In the dream I was lying in bed alone in a dark room, when there was some kind of visitation that seemed supernatural. In the dream some figure was behind my bed, and reached out and grasped my hand. The figure was like an indistinct glowing haze. I had the feeling the visitor was a mother, possibly my late mother. I had an intense feeling of love coming from the mysterious visitor. 

Then in the dream I sat up looked at the wall of the dark room. First I saw green lights glowing on the wall. Then I saw stars glittering on the wall. In the dream I exclaimed:

"I saw it! The green lights! The stars!"

I then awoke, and audibly said to myself: "Wow!" Strangely, I sneezed twice, although I don't have any cold. But I felt a chill, and added some coverings so I had two sheets and two blankets on top of me. 

Do the green lights followed by the stars signify that I have been "green-lighted" for some supernal or other-worldly experience to come? Only time will tell. 

See my post here for a discussion of hundreds of other dreams I have had suggesting the idea of life after death.

First an Orb, Then an Apparition

A book offering some startling evidence for the paranormal is the book "Materialisations-Experimente mit M. Franek-Kluski" by Gustave Geley and Albert von Schrenck-Notzing M.D.   The title can be translated as "Materialization Experiments with M. Franek-Kluski." The book is in German, but with the help of Google Translate it is fairly easy to get an English translation of any page. 

On page 58 we have this remarkable account, which may be of great interest to anyone getting mysterious orbs in photos:

"I asked him if he could see my sister in the 'Astral' who has been dead for 3 years. Answer: Yes. At the same moment I felt a woman's hand gently placed on my forehead, making the sign of the cross there and encircling it with a circle, as my sister always did when she was alive when she said goodbye to me. I recognized her hand, dimly lit, against the edge of the fluorescent screen that lay on the table in front of me. It moved several times before my eyes, and more and more I thought I recognized it. She squeezed my hand, patted my face. I can no longer doubt that it is her hand that I feel. A short time later a glowing orb forms in front of my face and moves away; then she comes very close to my face and to my great astonishment and also to my great joy I notice the fully recognizable facial features of my sister, who smiles at me as in real life. However, she seems much younger to me, about the way she was when she was 25. She died at the age of 54. The upper part of the head is surrounded by cloudy veils."

Was the idea here that the orb turned into an apparition of the narrator's sister?  It is hard to tell whether that was seen or whether the orb was a kind of harbinger of such an appearance. 

A Mass Sighting of an Orb at Fatima?

 At www.archive.org, readers who have done the free registration with the site can read the very interesting book Miracles: A Parascientific Inquiry Into Wondrous Phenomena by D. Scott Rogo, who died an untimely death at the age of only 40. On page 227 Rogo describes events of September 13, 1917 at Fatima, Portugal, a month before the more famous October 13, 1917 event involving a disk-like sky anomaly. We read this account of September 13, 1917:

"The sun began to dim mysteriously around noon, stars could be seen in the sky, and an orb of white light appeared and settled in the tree. One of the witnesses was Monsignor John Quareman....He was one of many observers who actually saw the mysterious orb of light that had often appeared when Lucia claimed the apparition was arriving at the oak tree. 'To my surprise,' he later testified, 'I saw clearly and distinctly a globe of light advancing from east to west, gliding slowly and majestically through the air.' "

On page 106 of the same book we read this about someone having out-of-body experiences (OBEs): "Blue Harary usually perceives himself as an orb of light or as a speck of awareness free-floating while undergoing his OBEs." On page 209 we read this:

"Maximin Giraud (age eleven) and Melanie Mathieu (age fifteen) were playing when suddenly they saw a large orb of glowing light approaching them from the heavens. As it neared a small stream bed, it opened to reveal the figure of a beautiful woman."

Use the link here to read 49 other accounts I have collected of people saying they saw mysterious orbs with their own eyes. Rogo's research work with Blue Harary (Stuart Blue Harary) is described in Chapter 8 of his book Mind Beyond the Body: The Mystery of ESP Projection, which can be read here. 

Puzzling Pennsylvania

A web site documenting reports of the paranormal tells us "encounters with small spheres low to the ground and in some cases approaching near witnesses have reportedly been taking place for months from various areas of Pennsylvania." The site's latest report is entitled "More Mysterious Close Encounters with Ground Level Orbs of light (Mini-UFOs) Reported In Pennsylvania-October 23, 2022."  One witness says he saw a "glowing white ball of light" outdoors 10-12 inches in diameter, and another witness reports seeing indoors a strange blue sphere about a foot and a half in diameter.  

A New Poll Tells Us 22% Report "Seeing Unexplained Orbs of Light"

A new poll by YouGovAmerica surveyed 1000 Americans about any paranormal experiences they may have had. More than two-thirds reported having some type of paranormal experience. Some of the most common experiences were:

"Feeling a presence or unknown energy": 37%

"Hearing a voice of someone who wasn't there": 29% 

"Feeling an unexplained change in temperature": 28%

"Seeing lights or other devices turn on or off without explanation": 25%

"Seeing an object move without explanation": 22%

"Seeing unexplained orbs of light": 22%

"Seeing a door open or close without explanation":  20%

"Seeing a ghost or spirit": 20%

"Seeing an angel": 13%

The page describing the poll gives one interesting bit of testimony from one of the people polled:

"I was in a 100-year-old hotel in Brazil with abandoned floors that were accessible. As my friend and I explored, the temperature dropped and we saw orbs of light."

I myself have had several of these experiences. I once saw a locked door open when no one was near it. I have more than once observed objects move inexplicably. I have repeatedly witnessed inexplicable activity regarding lights, including either a turning on by itself of a light or a light turning off inexplicably and then quickly turning back on. My post here mentions recent observations of this type. 

Puzzling Playstation

 Photo date: October 20, 2022. Photographer: Mark Mahin. 

We see below a mysterious orb I photographed indoors. 

Spooky Serenade

Since I started keeping a log of my dreams in November 2020, the number of times my dreams have referred to deceased people seems to have greatly outnumbered the number of times my dreams have referred to living people other than myself and my two daughters and wife. Since that date there have been about 430 times that I dreamed about deceased people. Besides 76 dreams about my late mother and 79 dreams about my late father, I have had over 200 dreams about a vast variety of deceased people. Five of the dreams were about the late opera singer and actor Mario Lanza. 

This morning when I woke up I logged into my computer, and brought up a fresh instance of the Chrome web browser. I had not yet logged in to my Google account. Very oddly, before I did anything, the fresh new instance of the Chrome browser had a tab set to a Youtube.com URL I had not previously accessed. It was for a clip I had never seen before, showing two of my favorite movie stars from the 1950's: the late Kathryn Grayson and the late Mario Lanza. The clip was below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbG-daRLPRY

Why was a Youtube.com URL showing in my just-evoked browser when I had not done anything to go to Youtube.com? In my experience the Chrome browser never behaves this way.  My default URL on Chrome is www.google.com, and that is the only web site I ever see when bringing up a new Chrome browser (except for this day's event, which I could not replicate). You can configure Chrome to bring up multiple web sites on startup, but I absolutely had not configured Chrome to act in such a way (as a check of my Settings showed). My "On Startup" settings were as shown below:

 

I haven't searched for a long time on youtube.com for clips featuring either Mario Lanza or Kathryn Grayson, which makes this event all the more mysterious.  I almost get the impression here of some kind of "shout out" from the Great Beyond. It's interesting that the song sung in the clip refers to death, dreams, eternal love, and "a rapture that's all divine."

Searching for insight on the possibility of Chrome opening with two tabs, I find a page telling me to set my Settings as above (which have always been my settings),  to disable all extensions (I had no extensions installed),  and to install an anti-virus software (I already had Norton Antivirus installed and active). I am left with no explanation as to how this morning's event occurred.