Waking With Mysterious Cuts
I woke up this morning with a couple of strange cuts directly above my ankles. Interestingly enough, these cuts form a nearly perfect “X”.
Were these cuts created by my toe nails? Maybe, but I keep both my toe nails and finger nails clipped pretty short.
Keep in mind that I’m not jumping to some conclusion that this was caused by something paranormal. I would need more proof than this to say that there’s something spooky going on. On the other hand, I thought that some of my visitors may enjoy speculating over a situation like this.
You’re invited to come to your own conclusions about these photos. 
Later all.
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Dream: Cover Being Pulled Off
Last night I had one of the strangest dreams that I’ve ever had. It was so vivid that, for several minutes, I was convinced that it was absolutely real. This is the only reason why I’m posting a dream here as I prefer to keep this website focused on what has actually happened to me, but this dream could actually help other people who have experienced something similar.
I was, of course, in bed asleep. I have the vague recollection that I had been dreaming at this point but I don’t recall about what. This didn’t matter too much however because of what was about to happen: I felt my covers slide across my body toward the side of the bed.
This startled me to wakefulness, and as I startled the covers suddenly stopped moving. I lay there for a moment and kept my eyes closed. I maintained a steady rhythm of breathing that matched the rhythm of sleep. I thought to myself, “Did I just feel that?” I decided to lay there and think about the situation. “Maybe I was dreaming,” I thought to myself, and I didn’t want to over react over some silly dream.
Yet as I lay there awake thinking about this, my top most cover began to slide off of me again. It was not a terribly slow pull either. It wasn’t being ripped off of me, but it was being pulled off of me at a steady clip.
Crap. Okay. I couldn’t believe that this was happening to me. Okay sure, I have had some very strange experiences, but this took the cake. I had never had a spirit physically manipulate my surroundings before, and of all things it was pulling the cover off of me. This is something that you see on TV shows and read about books. This isn’t something that actually happens to you!
The cover stopped moving brief moment. I lay there still with my eyes closed, maintaining a steady breathing rhythm and appearing - for all intents and purposes - to still be asleep. Despite that, my mind raced. My first inclination was to fly out of bed, prepare for some kind of assault, and to assault something or someone else if need be.
A moment later the cover slides off toward the side of the bed again, sliding across my body at a continuous speed. I could hear it move as well as feel it move.
“Screw this,” I thought to myself. I nearly sprang out of bed at this point, but instead of doing that I just opened my eyes a crack. I didn’t want the thing standing next to my bed to know that I was awake, so I opened my eyes as little as possible. It couldn’t be a person doing this, my bedroom door is always locked. Always. I have a dog (in the other room) that goes jumping out of bed at the mere touch of the front door’s handle. There’s no way someone snuck into my room.
So I opened my eyes a crack. The room seemed to have some sort of lighting to it, but this didn’t strike me as strange at the time. It was as though I had a reading lamp turned on at my desk, and through the crack of my eyes I could see my room. I could see some of the objects that lay across my room, I could see..
…hells, I could see the cover slide off of me.
They stopped moving again after I had cracked my eyes open and I glanced around as best as I could. I could see a fold in the cover resting up next to my face. The fold had been caused when the force pulling the cover let go.. the tension relaxed and caused the small fold. It mostly blocked my view of the room opposite my feet, but I wasn’t too concerned about that location anyway.
I glanced up next to my bed beside me. Did I see a figure? I think I did, but it was blurry; I couldn’t see very well. I didn’t have my glasses on. I think I saw something there. If so, it was short, about four feet tall, and peach skin colored. It would have been standing at around the location of my head.
Nah, I didn’t see anything. Couldn’t have.
The cover began to move again.
I thought about it as rationally as possible. “Could actually be happening to me?” Instead of jumping out of bed, I thought about it. I mentally yelled at myself to think about it rationally. To try to come up with some sort of reasonable explanation for it.
The cover continued to slide off. I thought. They were pulled some more. A minute or two later I finally realized: “This is a dream!” That’s right. My covers were tucked up under my legs and knees. I could feel them there. They were always tucked there. I done it every night before going to sleep because I’m a tall guy and I don’t like my feet to be come uncovered and cold as I sleep.
The cover continued to move, but so did my thoughts (finally). If this situation were real then obviously the cover would have been pulled completely off of me by now. It wasn’t being pulled off of me length-wise from my feet, but side ways. At the speed that it was moving there was no way that I would have had any of this cover left on me.
So in this admittedly incredibly strange and very realistic dream that I was having, I realized that I was dreaming. I instantly relaxed, shut my dream-eyes, and “went back to sleep” in my dream.
For the rest of the night my dreams were troubled with subjects of the paranormal. My previous Abnormal Psychology instructor even made an appearance in my dream as I continued to dream of incredibly strange events happening, and I was attempting to convince him that I wasn’t insane.
It was a strange night, but I feel mostly rested this morning.
I’ve spent my morning since waking to write about this and eat my breakfast, and now I have to get ready for the day.
Later, all.
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P.S.I. Paranormal Scene Investigators
This post is a shameless plug for a a pal of mine who is a member of a paranormal / ghost hunting team in North Carolina. The group is called P.S.I. (Paranormal Scene Investigators). The team attempts to be as scientific as possible when investigating a potential paranormal scene.
This is not a group that goes about with a psychic that speaks with the invisible critters. Rather, they’re more akin to Ghost Hunters in that they use various tools and methods in an attempt to capture some sort of evidence of the “paranormal”. Whatever that may be.
There’s not much to be said about the appearance of the site itself, but you can find videos and EVP from their investigations there. They enjoy receiving feedback from their visitors, so if you have any thoughts about what you see or hear from their paranormal investigations then by all means, send them a message!
I don’t know much about the others involved, but the guy that I do know has been interested in and investigating the paranormal for a very long time. We also used to run a paranormal forum some years back.
Drop them a message if you’re in their area and think that something odd may be going on at your house or business.
Later all.
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Another Phoenix Lights?
This is way outside of the scope of Shadows In Motion, but I find this fascinating enough to share with everyone regardless.
I’m sure that most people are familiar with the Phoenix Lights incident, but now it appears as though there could be another, identical situation that occurred around New Years. This one occurred in San Diego, California. Watch the San Diego Lights by clicking that link.
What do you think? Is it another Phoenix Lights or is it something else?
While this does fascinate me, I don’t actually consider UFOs to be paranormal. To me, the existence of other intelligent life is a given based on the unfathomable size of the universe. If others were capable of visiting this planet then, to me, it would be somewhat similar to meeting someone from another country. It wouldn’t be paranormal. It would be really, really cool, but it wouldn’t blow my mind.
Later all!
~Steph
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Beltane Celebration Video: A Lovely, Spiritual Video
Beltane is one of the main eight sabbats on the Wheel of The Year. This festival is held on May 1st, though some will light bonfires on the evening before.
Beltane is a joyful celebration of life, Spring, light and renewal. Songs, dancing, fire jumping, and the wrapping of the May Pole are all very popular customs of Beltane.
This Beltane celebration video was filmed and edited by a friend of mine in 2006. He recently received permission to release it to the public, and I think that you’re all in for a treat. It was obviously a beautiful Beltane celebration, and this video does well to express that. I’m a bit envious that I wasn’t there to enjoy the sights, myself.
The fellow who made the video will be best able to answer your questions. If he’s unable to respond then you can throw them my way and I’ll do my best to answer them.
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Asian Ghosts In A Western Culture?
If you have watched The Ring or The Grudge then you know what Asians think of when they think of a malevolent ghost: A woman wearing white with long dark hair draped over her face.
That’s not just a thing of horror movies, that’s directly from their folklore. It’s also not limited to the Japanese; the Koreans have a tradition of marrying such a ghost to a male ghost in an attempt to exorcise both spirits.
Is it possible for such ghosts… these long haired female apparitions… to manifest in our Western culture? What about to a white person born and raised in a Western culture? If not, then why not? What would prevent them from doing so? Are the visual manifestations of spirits determined by the belief of the local people, or do all spirits from all over the world take all forms regardless of the ideas of the living? Read the rest of this entry »
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Real Life Update #2
Welcome back to Shadows In Motion,
First let me apologize for my recent silence. There’s not much that I can do with my blogs when I have no computer to use for posting, but thankfully I now have a (mostly) working PC. I could have used a public computer but I don’t feel comfortable with their safety & privacy. Anyway, most of my posts to this blog tend to be long and thoughtful, and you can’t occupy a public computer long enough to write those kind of posts.
The next few weeks are going to be quite busy for me. This semester is coming to a close and, as you can imagine, I have some finals to deal with. One of those finals is our Korean Language test, and I very much want to pass this test. All of my time is going to be consumed with studying, university life, and as much personal life stuff as I can manage.
The semester comes to a close on December 20th if I’m correctly remembering the date off of the top of my head. I’ll catch you folks at some time around that date.
Take care out there, and best wishes to everyone.
~Steph
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Real Life Update
Hello folks,
Just to let my visitors know, my computer has been down for the past 30 days or so. Obviously I have been unable to update any of my blogs.
I will skip the technical details, but I hope to have the system fixed either this weekend or early this next week.
Good day all,
~Steph
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Dreams & Childhood Religions
Last night’s dream makes me think of primal fears and I wonder, just how deeply rooted are the religious ideals taught to us as children?
This isn’t the time to get into detail about the dream because I have to leave this morning, but the general idea is that there was a stereotypical demon that had come back to “haunt” my brother & I. When the demon showed itself my dream self became incredibly frightened.
This demon character had every intention of killing my mother and basically everyone else that we cared about. This can give an idea of the emotional situation that my character faced in the dream.
There was a brief moment that I thought of the name of my goddess, but for whatever reason my dream self chose to revert to my mother’s religion. I would like to think that I wouldn’t be such a kid in real life (though I was a child in the dream). In the dream I was so over come with fear that I decided that I had better not test my pagan ideals (wha..?) and “went to a safe place” in the form of my mother’s religion.
It was a security blanket of sorts.
To be honest it bothers me that some part of my mind would do that; that it would choose to hide behind something from my childhood that today I see as nonsensical and full of holes. I also have to admit that there’s a twinge of guilt that some part of my subconsciousness would make that kind of decision.
Anyway, I thought that the questions that this brings to light would be interesting to think over:
- Have you abandoned your childhood religion?
- If so, have you ever been placed in a situation where you reflexively returned to it?
- Is there a part of our subconscious that we’re not aware of that still clings to the (sometimes silly) notions taught to us by our parents when we were very young?
- How do you reconcile the situation with what you believe today?
I have to go for the day. My apologies that this post isn’t as thoughtful as I try to make posts to Shadows In Motion, but I have 10 minutes before I have to hit the shower.
~Steph
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Apologies For Down Time
The problem seems to have been fixed. I’ll keep an eye on it off and on for the rest of the day to make sure.
Shadows In Motion is currently experiencing a mysterious technical problem that is preventing the front page as well as category links from loading.
I have written my host in hopes of fixing this issue, and I am trying things on my end as well. I apologize for this technical problem and hope to have things patched up as soon as possible.
~Steph
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