I used to be able to create energy balls when I was a kid!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This forum is probably the closest I’ll ever get to leaving a journal of my life, so I’ll post this story here.

When I was a kid, guessing between 6-9, I used to lie underneath our upright piano and when I closed my eyes and raised my hands just right, I could create a ball of “something”, that grew until it was the size of a softball. I could feel it and it had weight, I could toss it up and feel it land in my hand, but if I opened my eyes it would disappear. I think I once called out to my Mom to look at it, but she didn’t respond. Sometimes I’d fall asleep, but it wasn’t a dream, because I could do it almost every time I laid under there.

Note that this was in the mid to late 60’s and there was nothing in the comics or TV (that I can recall) about energy balls. I didn’t even know what to call it, just that I could do it at will. But only in that certain spot under the piano. I remember asking my friends if they could do it and they looked at me like I was…well you know! :smiley:

One day, when I could barely squeeze myself into the space beneath the piano, I tried and couldn’t create the ball anymore. I tried once more and gave up after that. It’s always been in my memory, but it wasn’t until a few years ago, after I’ve seen Dragonball Z years earlier that I realized that what I was creating was an energy ball.

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Just to be clear, are you saying that you feel that these were actual objects and not just something you imagined as a child?

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I used to lay in the floorboard of my Daddys Oldsmobile and catch ‘balls’. I told my sibs about it. They thought I was insane. I tried to explain it to adults. They never understood.
I also saw auras around certain peoples heads. I always, somehow, thought they were connected.
The last time it happened I was on a ferris wheel at a carnival. I was a teen.
I believed something was really there.
Or, I really am crazy. Who can tell?(:))

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Anyone can create energy balls:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9HMej4NmBw

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We all have our ridiculous fantasies. Enjoy yours. It’s harmless.

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If the underside of the piano ever caught fire when you did this, then you know it was real.

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Imaginary? Of course not! :smiley:

Like Beckdawrek, unless she’s pulling our legs, I thought everyone could do it and it was real for the time that it happened. I still believed in Santa Claus, so some things weren’t impossible. Maybe I couldn’t do it after my friends looked a me like I was nuts when I told them about it.

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What I can’t wrap my mind around is… how much space was under your piano? Our upright has less than an inch clearance. can you link to a pic of an upright piano with room for a kid underneath?

And if the piano is still in the family, do check the underside for any evidence of energy balls on the bottom! That’d be cool.

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https://www.letgo.com/en-us/i/brown-yamaha-upright-piano_602698a6-0301-4793-99c5-299fbe19cb26

I would lie between the leg and the body facing upwards. I was small kid. I could even lay under the stool.

Edit: Changed pic to one that’s more like the model we had.

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People have claimed to be able to do all sorts of amazing things:

Unfortunately they are never able to do it in front of anyone else.

As you said in your original post “I think I once called out to my Mom to look at it, but she didn’t respond…”

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There was a woman here once, a practicing nurse, who said she believed in reincarnation because when she worked neonatal urgent care she saw souls going in and out of the babies- sorta deciding if the baby would live or something. I assume she still managed her clinical duties based on the charts. At least, I hope.

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Not pulling your leg. I couldn’t prove it so I quit talking about it, after awhile. Like you, I was looked at as weird.

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‘Hey, Cindy! Wanna see my “energy balls”?’

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I think it has to do with the fact that a child’s imagination is almost endless. I remember that around the age of five, when lying in bed just before falling asleep, I saw parades of cartoon figures (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck etc.) parading at the opposite wall. They were as real to me as the bed I lay in, but today I know they were hallucinations of a receptive imagination. I think the OP’s and **Beckdawreck’s **experiences were similar.

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The really interesting thing to me, is like Beckdawrek, I could only do [it in a certain place, in my case it was] while under the piano. I had to be in a certain spot, body half in, half out, sometimes having to wiggle just so until I feel the ball begin to grow in my hands. Other than mentioning it that once to my friends and possibly once in passing to my ex, I’ve never spoken, much less written about it in 50+ years. If there’s any question about my memories, when my brother and sisters reconciled a few years ago, I brought up things that they were surprised I remembered, some going back to when I was 2 or 3 years old.

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lingyi I would like to know if you have had other strange experiences when you were younger?
(Of course you’re not obligated to tell me.)
We should compare notes.

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I used to see ghosts/apparitions that became clearer as I got older. They started out as vague white shadows, but as I got older I could clearly see a face, but never a full body. The most memorable one was a ghostly pirate ship rising from the floor in my late 20’s to early 30’s. It was so vivid that I woke up my girlfriend who was sleeping behind me to look at it. Of course she didn’t see anything and confirmed in the morning that I really did wake her up. I still see things occasionally, but don’t get scared anymore. Other than that and the energy balls, nothing extraordinary when I was young.

These should go into a supernatural events thread, but in my 30’s, I was madly in love with someone that never lead anywhere and one night I felt her lying behind me and felt her giving me a nice hug. She then turned into a skeleton and began to squeeze the breath out of me (this was definitely from a Chinese movie I saw). I said a prayer and it immediately let go and disappeared. BTW, this wasn’t the usual sitting/choking ghost, which I’ve seen a number of times as a black shadow descending from the ceiling in a dark room. I was lying on my side and not on my back. I felt the shape and warmth of her body before it turned into a skeleton.

Again in my 30’s, a guy I worked with at the mortuary (we weren’t close at all) claimed his wife was psychic and he said she insisted on meeting me. I went over for dinner and as soon as I sat down, she said: “You know and see things others don’t.”, I said “Yes”, and she said she knew it even before I met her.

Not the latest event, but the strangest and longest. A few years ago, after a coworker who was studying to be a homeopathic doctor and claimed to have psychic powers was let go from the workplace at the same time I was, she texted that she had Christmas gift to give me and asked for my home address to send it too. I refused and she texted that since was a a former debt collector, she could find me anyway. I blocked her number and right after that I’d feel her presence violently pushing down on the side of my bed. This continued for a month, day or night, almost immediately after I laid down, even if I was awake with my eyes open. It stopped as suddenly as it started.

I thought she was just angry at me, but months later when I talked to my former boss asking for a referral, she told me my co-worker fired of an angry letter to the GM claiming she was discriminated against, despite my former boss being on the nicest I’ve ever worked for.

Oh, a few months prior to leaving, she said that I had astral projected to her bedside and was yelling into her ear for several hours the night before. The odd thing is that I have a feeling I’ve left my body before, but don’t remember any of the details.

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Hoo boy, can’t wait to see how this thread plays out. This board is full of scientists, rationalists, and skeptics; announcing a belief in paranormal phenomena is like admitting you’re an evangelical Christian, or a Trumpista.

Just for the record, I also think the OP just has a vivid imagination. And nightmares, too; the cute girl turning into a skeleton does sound pretty terrifying.

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I live in a particular area that has been known to have ghostly sightings. Lights, apparitions and floaty things. A few times I’ve seen things myself. I never talk about to my family. At first the kids were small when we moved here. I didn’t want them frightened.
Just recently as this past November, Son-of-a-wrek(31yo)claims he saw a see-thru thing floating up in the trees at the low point on our long driveway. I never let on, but I’ve seen that before.
I’m not prepared to say they are ghosts. I don’t know what it is.

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Yeah, OP, I think there are going to be a lot of scoffers. I try to keep an open mind. Some of the experiences you’ve described definitely sound like hypnogogic hallucinations. Others don’t. I’ve had a few inexplicable experiences in my life that I can’t explain away. I don’t think I’m psychic or anything. That sort of conclusion would be foolish. I just think we shouldn’t dismiss out of hand all we can’t explain.