Vicky, I understand what you told, but I am just as surprised as you are.
I really don't know what to say about it, but I do believe you.

It does show your consciousness is open or sensitive enough to such strange experiences.
It's one thing if you are dreaming and the experience is so real that you can't distinguish it from Earth reality.
But being just flat awake and then have an experience of being completely alone is very different.

I know that spirits of low energy see earth people with a higher attunement as a sort of white haze or bowl that they cannot penetrate. The higher attunement provides such a cloud of energy around them.
But this is totally different, seeing no people at all while being fully awake. How can you switch to a level where you see no people at all? Beats me.

I wonder if it would have happened if you had taken the stairs. Probably not. Too much stairs and taking the stairs keeps you too much focused on which floor you are.
The elevator allowed your conscious to change somehow.

By pushing the wrong button without noticing you entered a floor which was usually not the floor your work on, I guess. I guess it was a kind of otherwise unfamiliar environment.
You expected an empty environment, the basement, while in the elevator your mind already attuned to that. So in your susceptive mind that got so real that when you stepped out on the fourth floor you didn't see any difference. Your expectance of seeing nobody in the basement had the upper hand.

I think these kind of things do happen more often in various situations.

Vicky-

I've mentioned this before, but it's similar to your experience.

My mother's nephew was a customs agent in upstate NY bordering Canada.  From all I knew about him, he was definitely a pretty grounded guy.

One day he was relaxing on his front porch, casually watching the traffic go.

Suddenly the whole scene shifted.  Instead of cars there were horses and buggies, and there were people but they were dressed as would be expected in the early 1900s.  The pavement was now cobblestones.  He could clearly hear the hooves of the horses and the clattering wheels going over the stones.

Then just as quickly the scene shifted again, back to the present.

He swore he was not sleeping or dreaming, but wide awake at the time.

Assuming it was not a lucid dream, could it be that Seth was correct in that all reality is really unfolding at once, past/present/future is really just One?

And somehow he was able (albeit without effort) to peer through whatever veil separates these time frames?

R

Dear Carl,

You did the same to me over a year ago, accusing me of being some kind of gonzo feminist (like......what ?!), of making money from my afterlife experiences (when? where? how?...not one friggin' nickel) and of never having any verifiable evidence or proof of the afterlife (sure).

What's your problem, Carl? Don't you know that your childish participation here smacks of envy and immaturity that should embarrass you?

Yes these are all great responses.  Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts. 

Kathy, were you scared as a child when that happened to you?  I think Mogenblue is right about consciousness being open to these types of experiences.  I've had more than a fair share for one person, but I think I must be wired this way.  Kathy, I always think of your experience with the car, you should have crashed but instead went right through it, right? 

Rondele, that's remarkable.  I know that none of you really know me but people who do would also say I'm pretty grounded too.  I can't say that I have any idea what opens me up to these experiences.  All I know is, they come when you're least expecting it to.  Which makes sense I guess.  I think Mogenblue was alluding to the fact that the elevator ride worked as a vehicle to "transport" my consciousness.  As with your mother's nephew...sitting on the porch watching the traffic go by is one of those activities that allows the mind and consciousness to shift so subtlely you don't even notice anything happening. 

You reminded me of an experience I had when I was pregnant with my firstborn.  I was at work.  I do medical transcription.  That kind of work is also perfect for allowing the brainwaves to shift into alpha waves I think.  What I mean is, you can really just tune out what you're doing and completely be somewhere else.  One day while typing I was completely awake and aware of what I was doing when suddenly everything in my physical visual field shifted and what I was seeing was as if I were standing inside a hotel room.  I knew my eyes were open, and I blinked many times to try to shake away the vision.  I even waved my hands in front of my face, but couldn't see them.  I could still hear the normal office voices and activity and could even place my hands on my keyboard, desk, and chair but could not see what I was doing.  Physically I knew I was still at my desk at work.  I turned my chair to get up and get help, but being pregnant I didn't want to fall or cause anyone to panic for me.  So I remained calm and watched the vision as it unfolded.  Visually I was in this hotel room.  I watched a scene unfold before me which I knew to be completely a symbolic scene, not literal.  The visual lasted at least more than a minute, but probably not more than two and suddenly my vision went back to normal.  The vision was like watching myself in a dream.  It seemed to signify that many years in the future I'd be divorcing my husband, coming out on the other side of a death, and allowing my baby to go forth.  At the time, I had no idea what these things meant but felt they were going to happen many years in my future.  By the time I did divorce my husband about 15 years later, I had to go through quite a transformation, like a death of my old self, in order to have the courage to stand up to him and leave him.  He was very abusive.  And "my baby" going forth, to me means my passion of studying the spiritual and the paranormal and writing my books, something my husband tried to prevent me from doing while we were married.  What was remarkable to me about that strange experience was not what it told me, but the fact that the vision took over my ability to physically see.  It was like having a dream while being completely wide awake.  It was too intriguing not to just sit there and watch, but I know for a fact that if it had gone on any longer I was already planning to try and get up and walk to the next cubicle and tell the person sitting there to please call 911.  I thought, "if I don't get my ability to see physically soon, I'm going to be really scared!" 

Dave,

Yes I have "Time Storms" by Jenny Randles and have read it many times.  It's an fascinating read.  Another similar "altered-time/reality" story I have is one that I actually emailed to Jenny Randles asking her what she thought.  I can't remember her exact reply, but I have the copy.  But her opinion was that I was witnessing a possible future event.  The event was one afternoon while driving to work I was stopped at a light.  A truck ahead of me in the middle lane suddenly caught on fire and was engulfed in flames.  I panicked and was about to ditch my car and run as fast as I could away from the area before all our cars exploded.  But I could see that no one else was reacting, not even the woman right behind the truck who was looking right at it.  Just before ditching my car, I took one more look at the truck and saw the whole event go in reverse as if being rewinded.  The flames got sucked backward until completely gone and all was normal again.  I have to agree with the author of that book...that I had witnessed a possible future event.  But I'll never know if it actually happened.  I lost the truck in traffic and didn't know what else to do. 

I hate to make it sound like I have these kinds of things happen all the time, I don't.  They are rare.  I'm quite a rational, reasonable, logical, and normal person and don't do drugs, drink, or have any mental illness.  But I trust that there's a reason for what I'm experiencing even if I don't have answers to them all.  Most of my visions and clairvoyance are common experiences which end up coming true in the near future, giving me that direct and immediate verification that tells me I can trust my clairvoyance to be a real sense of perception.  Like I said though, there are a few of the really weird ones that still don't make sense to me.

Thanks Ginny---I'm tempted to try and go back to that same elevator and area, although I don't work in that department anymore.  But I don't expect the same thing to happen.  It seems that once you become aware of something, trying to recreate it doesn't work. 

Thanks for all your responses. 

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   Even though that was 3 months ago, do you remember this post? I see you are continuing to pick on members of this board. I guess you let me off very lightly compared to your cruel remarks to Vicky on this thread:



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   I consider the gross comments that you make as a form of Malware all by itself. I bet many of us are hoping that you do something stupid to get kicked off of this conversation board and relieve us all of your non intellectual attempts at non humorous verbal abuses.

   I'm sorry Vicky for spouting off on your thread like this but I just had to say something. You don't deserve to have verbal bullies like Carl saying nasty things to you like that.