I doubt this is a paranormal experience but...

[Derik]

Since I was about 6, I have had pretty horrific nightmares and night terrors. Anyway, since that time, i have always paid attention to my surroundings (especially after joining the Marines). I have noticed that when I have my worst nightmares, I am not drinking. When I have my most meaningful, it always follows something that happened in real life. For example, my cats, lately, at around 8 or 9 PM have always stared at my ceiling, on the south west corner of my room as if something is there. They keep staring, even when I put my hand in front of their face, they move their stare around my hand, and still stare. It's strange. It's as if they see something that isn't there, and that something is taunting them (playfully or not) as if they are a real person. Maybe I am just crazy. [edit:] Forgot to add the part about how this relates to my dreams. Anywho, sometimes when my cats exhibit this sort of behavior, I will be I think falling asleep and I will hear noises like someone is running at me from across the room, and it startles me and I wake up and it is dead silent.

[Edit]: I cut out some irrelevant junk.

 

[ProphetofOccam]

As a lifetime cat owner, it's my experience that that is just something cats do. Bare in mind that they are evolved to catch movement, shadow and inconsistency, where we may not. If they're doing that at the same time, every night, it's one a few things that are pretty mundane.

The most likely is that there are cobwebs, or even a very small spider, that happen to catch the shadows at that time of night in just the right way to draw the cats' attention. It's too small for you to see, notice, or care about, so you may have never noticed it. This is the biggest reason my cats stare at "nothing." Standing on a chair or a ladder, closer inspection usually reveals one of these things to be the culprit, during dawn and dusk hours.

One of my cats' favourite things, at certain times of the night, usually soon after the sun goes down, is the reflections from passing car lights. I live on the second floor of a duplex, on a corner lot. When cars go down the one street, it sends a sliver of light across the corner of the ceiling in the dining room that they'll just sit, stare and wait for, sometimes for ten or fifteen minutes at a time. This is the second most frequent reason my cats stare at nothing.

Other times, cats will stare at areas where they hear noise. Sometimes, it could be ants or bees in the wall; other times, it could just be the next door neighbor's TV, or whatever, that they can hear and it catches their attention for a while.

In your case, I'd bet it's headlight slivers or cob webs. Even if you think your window is nowhere that car headlights can cast, really pay attention the next time one goes by your house at that time of night. You'd be surprised, sometimes.

If you don't find webs or light slivers in the room, you might want to put your ear up to the spot that they stare. You could have termites or carpenter bees.

 

[Derik]

Yeah I kind of figured that. I thought I would share anyway. You have been a good Accountability manager Prophet. Many thanks. My next move is to see if maybe the paracast would cover dreamstate situations. Many folks concentrate on ghosts, aliens, UFOs, etc. Has anyone ever concentrated on what happens when we dream? Do we go anywhere? Is it just an information dump? Can dreams be warnings as in the case of Joseph? (Gen 37, etc.) Or are they just garbage?

 

[boomerang]

Derik, thanks for your honesty. Just be careful, man, and don't wreck your health.

I don't know what cats seem to see. But after 35 years of living with them I will absolutely assure you they are capable of forming psychic links to people.

 

[ProphetofOccam]

If you're talking about from a paranormal perspective, have you ever read anything about the Australian Aborigine people's Dreamtime? If nothing else, and you have never looked into it, it might just be some neat storytelling, if you're into dreams.

 

[Derik]

If you're talking about from a paranormal perspective, have you ever read anything about the Australian Aborigine people's Dreamtime? If nothing else, and you have never looked into it, it might just be some neat storytelling, if you're into dreams.

No but I will check it out.