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Posted: 05-11-2009 01:05 Post subject: parallel dimension incident?

hi!
I hope nobody minds that i`m posting this in IHTM, i have searched the forums as best i can and have been unable to find anything recent relating to parallel dimensions. But i had a strange experience and felt the fortean times forum would be the best place to tell people, just to confirm that i`m not going mad lol or to see if anyone else has had a similar experience! : )

About 2 weeks ago i was at work (i work in the west end of London) in the stock room putting some stock away. I was very aware of what was going on around me, i could clearly see and hear my colleagues bustling around, attending to customers and generally working from where i was situated. Suddenly the atmosphere in the stockroom changed and i could hear my colleagues speak what could only be described as backwards German. The customers they were serving were also speaking this strange language and at one point two of my colleagues who were due to go on their lunchbreak entered the stock room chatting amongst themselves and speaking the same language. This language episode lasted for about 3 minutes before everyone seeminly reverted back to speaking English.I know London isn`t adverse to tourists and such and many of my colleages speak more than one language but the colleagues in question were all born and bred in the UK and to the best of my knowledge could only speak English. Needless to say, it was an incredibly weird sensation. Is it possible that i`d somehow passed into a parralel dimension?

Posted: 05-11-2009 01:36 Post subject:

wowsa this may be a cause for some concern.

I'm leaning towards dementia, some sort of Schizophrenia.

From what I would gather, if you were awake and concious the entire time that you were in the room and that when you came too 3 minutes later, you didn't come to by going through a hazy feeling proceeded by opening your eyes I don't really know what to tell you other then you should make sure you get yourself checked out just in case?

As far as I have read, demensions are there but invisible to the naked eyes. Some believe that through meditation you can astrally project yourself elsewhere, beyond demensions or though them not that I have personally experienced, I have only had a feeling of floating during meditation and a few right bad experiences I don't care to share as without evidence it sounds like a fantastic made up story Very Happy

Posted: 05-11-2009 02:16 Post subject: Re: parallel dimension incident?

Posted: 05-11-2009 03:33 Post subject:

It could be that the language centre of your brain went on the fritz for a little while... for some reason?

Posted: 05-11-2009 06:17 Post subject:

Sounds like the sort of symptom associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.
Neurology and psychology being such as they are it's probably not called temporal lobe epilepsy any more and there will be no consensus on it's causes or treatment, so I'd suggest investigating further with a hefty pinch of salt within easy reach.

Posted: 05-11-2009 11:03 Post subject:

I've had an "other-worldly" experience similar to what you describe, and I can only concur that you see a doctor, just to be safe. In my own case, I was simply suffering from exhaustion and a touch of heatstroke - possibly, the atmosphere in you stockroom was having a similar effect on you?

Of course, none of us are saying that you didn't switch to an alternate UK where everyone was briefly speaking backwards German! We'd all love that to be true, I'm sure, but your health comes first.

Posted: 05-11-2009 13:11 Post subject:

Yup, I too think you should pop along to the doctor. If it happened to me, I'd be doing that.

If you're interested, we have a couple of threads on TLE and related subjects. People have very strange experiences during what some doctors call brain-burps. Wink

Posted: 05-11-2009 13:27 Post subject:

Just to be on the safe side you should go to the doctor. But who knows? Maybe it was a slip in the Multiverse!

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Posted: 07-11-2009 00:59 Post subject:

wow, it didn`t occur to me that it could be a health problem but i`m going to get myself to a doctor, just in case! thanks! : )

Posted: 07-11-2009 01:21 Post subject:

Let us know what the doctor says, if it's not too personal. Very Happy

Posted: 07-11-2009 23:27 Post subject:

This has happened to me on a number of occasions, and I'm pretty sure that in my case it had nothing to do with illness of any kind.

I speak several languages and travel abroad fairly regularly and I sometimes find if I've been thinking in another language for a while or become used to hearing it around me I start hearing people speaking that language even when they couldn't be. That has happened on occasions where I've been walking in crowds of English speakers who suddenly sound like they are speaking French, for example. I think it's just your brain assuming that the indistinct mumblings around you are in that foreign language because that's what it's become used to.

Your situation differs somewhat from what I'm describing, but what I'm interested to know is:
1.Whether you do in fact speak any foreign languages to any great degree or had
2.Recently been in a non-Anglophone environment for any length of time (for example a busy Italian restaurant or a foreign holiday)

My mother also had an odd experience where she suddenly started speaking to a cashier in German, despite the fact she hadn't lived there for 5 years! Maybe a glitch in the brain matrix, rather than a dimensional portal, but still an interesting happening.

Posted: 08-11-2009 16:39 Post subject:

Abendstern, I have the same. When we go to Germany and come back, there is an overlapping time, where I can't tell if people are speaking German or English and I have to really concentrate as I speak both languages fluently. Also when I am angry or excited, I find myself speaking German becasue it is my native tongue.
However I find those instances easily explainable. If you are truly bilingual, both languages reside [in lack of a better word] in the same brain area. If you learned a second [or more] languages later in life, the new languages are found nowhere near the mother tongue, even if you are fluent and are thinking in your second language.

The above post though sounds more like a little fit in Wernicke's area, where we compute spoken words. People with strokes in that area are able to speak normally but understand others as garble. A stroke in Broca's area, where our speech is made, results in understanding others perfectly but speaking garbled [even though they think it sounds normal].
So I'll still go for medical reason for this one, even though it would be far more exciting if it was a different dimension.

Posted: 09-11-2009 22:58 Post subject: