Possible Psi Cases

[dema354]

I’m posting a small set of personal incidents that might fall under psi/PK, to get methodological feedback and ideas for future experiments. My background is Christian with a side interest in occultism, but I approach my own experiences with a “non‑supernatural first” heuristic.

Briefly about me as a subject:

• No psychosis, no mind‑altering drugs, no dementia/stroke, no sensory deprivation.
• Good memory, no history of attention‑seeking behavior around anomalous topics.
• I’ve studied some criminal law and have a habit of treating my own life as a case file: looking for timing, confounds, and alternative hypotheses.

Below are short versions of five cases.

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Case 1 – “Innate” aversion to mind‑altering drugs​

Since early childhood (before drug education in school), I’ve had a very strong, almost axiomatic aversion to taking anything that changes my mind state. This doesn’t feel like internalized anti‑drug messaging; it’s more like a built‑in “no” that predates any explicit teaching.

Possible models:

• Temperament + later rationalization (mundane).
• Some kind of intuitive/psi‑based aversion (e.g., sensing vulnerability or “opening” to external influences).

I’m skeptical that this is evidential, but I’m including it for completeness.

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Case 2 – Rapid animal bonding (possible empathic psi?)​

Across species, I seem to get unusually fast and strong bonds:

• Dog: unfixed male family dog, obeyed almost no one, scratched others out of excitement, but responded to my encouragement and didn’t scratch me.
• Pet rat (female, unfixed): bonded to me within about three days after I did basic husbandry research.
• Pet rabbit (male, intact Mini Rex): bonded in about three days; tolerated handling and nail clipping, showed strong affiliative behavior, and lacked many typical intact‑male behaviors (no spraying, humping, etc.). Loud/irregular sounds barely disturbed him.

On the one hand, this could be explained by temperament + good handling and some luck. On the other, I’ve read work suggesting that an owner’s presence can significantly reduce animals’ perceived pain and stress, and I wonder if there’s a psi‑like component in highly sensitive bonds.

Question: Has anyone here tested animal‑bonding in any PK/RV/psi protocols (e.g., double‑blind behavior changes with or without the bonded human present)?

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Case 3 – Brief perspective shift (“seeing through another’s eyes”)​

Age ~13. At school, I greeted a tired, irritated classmate. As we made eye contact, I experienced a brief but vivid shift: for a few seconds it felt like I was looking from her viewpoint, at myself.

Context:

• I had done empathy‑sensing exercises beforehand, but nothing involving mental role‑swap simulations.
• The event was too short to test motor control or anything more sophisticated.
• Nearly two decades later, she doesn’t recall anything odd from that day.

Question: In psi terms, would you treat this as a fragmentary telepathic/clairvoyant overlay, a misinterpreted micro‑seizure, or just a one‑off glitch not worth trying to replicate? If replication is worth trying, what would you instrument (EEG, eye‑tracking, etc.)?

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Case 4 – Michael Jackson death “guess” (precognition?)​

Age 14, cheap motel during a business trip, early morning of June 25, 2009. I woke with a sense that “something big happened.” Without being a fan or following his life, I said aloud: “Is Michael Jackson dead?” A neighboring TV announced his death moments later.

• I don’t habitually make death predictions; this is the only one I remember ever verbalizing.
• My mother was awake but does not remember this now.

Standing alone, this could be:

• A coincidence + memory bias (hit remembered, misses forgotten).
• A small example of spontaneous precognition.

Question: For people who do precog work, how do you treat one‑off events like this? Do you log them and then try to build controlled tasks (e.g., ARV) around the same “feel,” or do you ignore them as noise until you can get numbers?

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Case 5 – Staircase “time anomaly” with stopwatch data​

Age 16, during a blood‑red lunar eclipse. I was sneaking around at night, watching the eclipse outside and using a very squeaky 14‑step staircase to go between floors, trying not to wake parents.

On one ascent:

• I was around the 8th step, moving slowly to minimize creaks, using a stopwatch in my hand as an alertness aid (start/pause beeps).
• I experienced a sudden “jump”: I found myself standing on the 12th step, with continuous consciousness but no recollection of the intervening steps and—crucially—no creak sounds from those steps, which are normally among the loudest.
• My stopwatch showed 17 ms elapsed with a single lap. I am confident I did not reset it that night; resetting requires a separate button sequence I would have felt.

Afterwards, I did some crude testing:

• Typical start‑and‑pause reaction time when fully awake and prepared is ~13 ms or more; 5 ms is a hard minimum.
• Each creak on those steps lasts hundreds of ms, and multiple creaks occur for even modest movement across them.
• It takes on the order of seconds to traverse those steps, even when moving quickly.

Naively, 17 ms seems too short to accommodate either the necessary physical movement or the creak sounds that should have occurred. The subjective experience is: continuity of awareness, but an apparent “gap” in objective events.

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What I’m looking for from this thread​

I’m not pushing any particular interpretation. I’d really appreciate:

• Critiques of my methodology and memory handling: what obvious failures or biases do you see?
• Suggestions for future designs: if you had a subject with experiences like these and wanted to test for PK or precog, what low‑tech experiments would you start with?
• Opinions on whether any of the above are “worth” chasing in a lab‑style way, or whether I should treat them as background noise and focus on building a clean, current practice with logs and targets.

If this is too broad for one thread here, I can split off the staircase case as its own post with more numerical detail.

 

[Keldan]

These all are bias based cases.

Case 1. This doesn’t sound like psi at all. You dislike drugs because you’ve seen what they can do to people. Many people feel the same way like that.

Case 2. Try testing this with animals that belong to other people, random strangers and not just your family’s pets.

Case 3. Anyone with a strong imagination can visualize a scene like this. If it happens repeatedly (not just once when you were 13), that would be more meaningful. And if you could accurately predict what happens next in that person’s life from their viewpoint, then yes. Otherwise, it only shows you have a vivid imagination.

Case 4. At 14, kids can say anything. With premonitions, the key is things happen consistently, not a one off event.

Case 5. You were sneaking out, so your mind was on super high alert and not in a normal state. In that situation, it’s easy to interpret things as “signs.”

These are all one off memories from when you were a teenager and they’re tied to your own environment. Since they don’t happen again, they don’t really prove anything.

 

[dema354]

These all are bias based cases.

Of course they are biased. These are personal anecdotes, it comes with the territory. Granted I did use a neutral 3rd party to help gauge them and well let's just say it was really helpful in searching for mundane explanations and then comparing it to the anomalous.

Case 1. This doesn’t sound like psi at all. You dislike drugs because you’ve seen what they can do to people. Many people feel the same way like that.

A bit of a minor correction. I've never been around drug users however I have been around smokers so there's that.

Case 3. Anyone with a strong imagination can visualize a scene like this. If it happens repeatedly (not just once when you were 13), that would be more meaningful. And if you could accurately predict what happens next in that person’s life from their viewpoint, then yes. Otherwise, it only shows you have a vivid imagination.

There are plenty of people with drastically dramatic visualizations and yet you don't typically hear about it when the eyes are opened or where the vantage point is another person. That aside we shouldn't forget not every form of psi requires precognition. Having said is it possible for the human brain to spontaneously encode such an image through prediction? Yes. Is it likely? No but it is something to look into.

Case 5. You were sneaking out, so your mind was on super high alert and not in a normal state. In that situation, it’s easy to interpret things as “signs.”

Something tells me you don't know what the 5th case is actually purporting otherwise instead of "signs" you probably would've accused me of attention seeking, confabulation or just flat out lies. As for Case 4, well I guess we are in agreement of it being happenstance so even if something anomalous did happen, there's not enough to say from just that.

Since they don’t happen again, they don’t really prove anything.

Unless we consider spontaneous cases. Why? Well because in the field of parapsychology it's not unheard of for experiencers to only have one offs. Then again with one-offs it's hard to tell whether these are genuine events or mistakes. Sure, with process of elimination we could gauge their probability and even if we assume these are anomalous, it doesn't mean we can conclude whether they or rather I can control them or if they're just spontaneous &/ passive in effect though if you asked me, I'd say given how each of them emerged under the hypothetical scenario where I turn out to be psionic, I'd go with spontaneous given the collective whole. Again, I'm not making any claims that I am, just going based off of the evidence. If you're curious about the 5th case I do have some more information in this thread here:

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Just to clarify my own stance overall: I don’t think any of these prove psi, and I actually agree with you that Case 1 is probably mundane, Case 2 is at best marginal, and Case 4 could easily be a lucky guess. Where I differ is (a) I don’t think all psi has to be precognitive or predictive in nature, and (b) I think Cases 3 and 5 are “weird enough” to be worth discussing as possible psi or perception anomalies rather than just imagination.