some years ago i was sitting on my back porch and i looked up and saw a person standing there maybe (at most) 30 feet away in my back yard. they were dressed in light colors and had their hair back in a pony tail. the weird thing is i couldnt see the face. it was like trying to see a face throuh water, constantly shifting, even though i could make out the shapes of leaves on the the tree right next to them ( i was using the tree to test the focus of my eyes). weirder still, i remember thinking "that looks like me". i wore all black then and still do, and yet i saw that as me (but older). i was 16 and home alone so i didnt dare turn my back on a total stranger standing in my backyard in a very rural area. so i opened the slider and looked away only for a second to step up into the house and when i looked back--the person was gone.

i was an even more devout skeptic then and i didnt become acquainted with the concept of a future self until 2 years later.

i still dont know what it was. there was no place to hide or run to in the backyard. i should have at least caught sight of them running away!

could it be some reverse residual haunting of a future me?

Could have been a kind of doppleganger. Or maybe it was a "vision" instead of a "sighting". The way that the face was changing seems like it could be a metaphor for something else. . . .then again, it could be an evil you from an alternate dimension. . .or a demon trying to shapeshift into you. . . but those are the pretty far fetched ideas that someone is going to throw out there sooner or later, and it might as well be me. hahaha.

Haha, that is weird.... but I don't get how people could see the future and stuff tho? Does that mean our lives are destined?

Oh man i hate the idea of destiny too.

I think that we make our future but again u can never be sure about it.

That IS a deep question in which we will never have the answers...

It could be a doppelganger though.See my link for info on them:

Doppelganger

(Sorry for bad english )

It sounds very similiar to a doppleganger experience I heard from another person, only the face eventually came into focus when they went closer to it. I am glad you did not do that.

I'm confused as to what a doppleganger is exactly. I've heard so many different theories. .I've heard the theory that they are a different part of us that separates from our body naturally, even when we're fully awake, and I've heard that they are demons, and I've heard that they are spirits taking the form of another person. . .so, which one is it, if any?

Who knows for sure except inevtitably seeing their face seems to the begininng of a bad time in life or for the rest of their lives.

Try to avoid getting caught up in concepts of linear time - especially when considering your higher selves.

Your 'Spirit' is a time traveller

Randy,

Did you simply have a feeling about the identity of the entity? To think that the spirit was you, having not clearly seen the face, doesn't figure. It could have been your higher self, a departed relative hoping to communicate... who knows? A lot of relatives have similar appearances due to that pesky DNA. When I was 19, I looked exactly like my dad when he was that age.

No physicists and philosophers know what Time really is. I think that the Future and the Past are at about 2 seconds apart, expanding away from each other and I’m in the middle. There is 3 sheets or D-Branes (universes), the past, the now and the Planke lengthed Future.,.. I cant believe that you have seen yourself in the future, it would be impossible bec of Entropy or foam. The universe wont stop for you. If something changes drastically with in the universe by any mass of an particle. The universe would be different or will disappear all together. So what happened to you was something I cant understand. Look up "Suprachiasmatic nucleus". And if you did perceive something Paranormal, well I’m kinda jealous and why you?


*Has anyone seen the Bizarre Baby Born In Nepal?

Yes, that was so sad

thanks for your posts. i wish i knew why it happened but i am truly sure it was me and i cant for the life of me tell you why.it was just pure recognition.
i do agree that we should not think of time in a linear manner. maybe there are tears in time and i just happen to catch one. or maybe it was a form a precognition.
or maybe 16 year old me and the future me connected to each other across time at a point of significance that i just cant see right now.
i wish i knew!!!!

thanks again

Anyone watch Family Guy? This reminds me of the episode of "Stewie Griffith - The Untold Story". It's about the baby who see's himself as a older man in a news report and thinks it's his father. So he goes searching for him to find out that it's himself from the future and was on a vacation and decided to go back to the place where he grew up. Gosh I love that show.
No but seriously it got me thinking and then reading this post. What if in the future we are able to do stuff like this. I am always constantly reading about anything paranormal and I run into to stories about people that are working on time travel machines and one day they just disappear. I'm sure some of them have accidentally spontaneously combusted due to the electricity etc they were using, but I'm sure there are a couple that have been able to do it.
Also thinking about it, if you did build your own time machine, would you want to go to the future or past first? I personally think a majority of people would want to go to the future to see what's going on and now there's a bunch of those TT stuck in the future and can't get back to us. LOL Who know's but I do believe that it will soon be possible. . . .
Yeah I don't believe that baby story. Looks like some good puppeteer work. . .

I see no reason why you would think this 'another version' of youself, but so far your reasons for believing that is the case are far from sensible. The more likely reason the face was 'blurred' would be affected sinus, or even perhaps some chemical in the air. Many exhasut emmisions will cause watering eyes, creating somewhat blurred vision and trouble with focus. Blurred vision, or trouble focusing or other foreign objects on the eyeball are more common than portals to other time dimensions. By statistics anyway.

Higher self. Home brand hypothesis on time. (future and past 2 seconds apart, using time to measure itself, yet saying that nobody understands the medium to measure it by - do you realise how this sounds to someone who can read? ) People, look at yourselves. Making stuf up as you go along, you just set youself up for someone to come and point the finger and yell WHACKO. You know what, you would not be able to prove then wrong. All you will be able to do is say Im not whacko prove that I am not go on you can't. Men in white coats will end that argument.

I saw the story on the Baby in Nepal, just like ther poor souls that start life with Harlequin's disease, it looks like this poor soul started life with a case of anencephaly.

Anencephaly

This poor victim looks very much like the Nepal case

Anencephalie sufferer


Anencephalie Cases

Pretty sick how they paraded the corpse throught the streets though.

Now if this was yourself from the future, that would make you double anti-matter right, so if you touched him in anyway, you would dissapear in a loud bang right? Good thing you didn't meet.
Geez people, there are half a million ridiculous 'theories' on this board that discredits all the good work done here. How about some research before diving into these far fetched silly theories? And backing any posted with some even partly credible links.
Future self, really.....................

BTW, I am pretty sure the Simpsons did it before the family guy.

'Higher self' was one possibility, psyche101, and it was discussed rather frequently by a spiritually learned woman who knew every thought and feeling in my head, and every memory from my past. Personally, I don't like the "spirit guide" concept, and I've seen too many people lose sight of their own lives getting caught up in what usually ends up being trivial or pride-based.

If we do have manifestations of ourselves in spirit form (higher selves), it would help in comprehending the nature of empathic transmissions, not to mention the ability to travel out of body without losing control of it.

Note that I ended the remark with, "Who knows?"

Thank goodness. I was getting the impression you believed in this. Thank you for pointing out that remark, I missed it. My mistake.

How does one become spiritually learned? What criteria does one need to fill?

You are dead right, and that is what feeds my terse attitude is people losing sight of what is important to try and find what they want. Everybody seems to pay for these mistakes. If there is a spirit form/travel to consider, I think we are a very long way from understanding even the most basic concept of it. We still use cars to get around, is it strikes me as a colossal waste of time and energy trying to understand it. Sort of like homo florensis stumbling across a new car and trying to decipher it. More likely to kill himself in the process. People are trained in this, we should allow the experts to make the hypothesis. We sound plain ridiculous in comparison.
Sorry, constant on the fly made up theories annoy the heck out of me (seems to be a rash of them lately), just like that darn silly line

Anything is possible.

Meh. I have an immense personal dislike for that saying.

you must admit, the theories in this thread are getting, let's say 'a little out there?" Even the title story, meeting a future self? Come on people, we should not be encouraging such delusional behaviour, lets offer the person some possible theories and a small dose of reality

Suffering appears to be a prerequisite. Some are practically born experiencing spiritual phenomena, and they will tend to deny the depression/suffering angle. However, what they don't consider is that depression can be not only chemical, but also spiritual. The cases of bipolarity and schizophrenia not aided by anti-psychotic medication are strong evidence of more elusive conditions. Past life emotional baggage, or karma?

Browse pages 22-24 of the "Spirit Possessions" thread if you'd like to see my thoughts of how 'wacko' psychotherapy can be in its attempts to understand and control everything relating to human behavior. Medicating without benefit, or increasing doses as a patient worsens, is malpractice at the very least.

Spirit Possessions
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...showtopic=52037

Hey psyche did u meant antiparticle?

I don't think that antiparticle has to do with it.

If there was another antiparticle of ourselves then there had to be another whole universe who would be the opposite of this one.

But that can't happen because then the two universes would "contact" each other and then BOOOOOM!!!! Everything would just dissapear...

Let me set an example...

it's like an electron meets a pozitron...they attract each other until they meet...when that happens they collide and make light...

I want to explain to u that if the "antiparticle universe thing" existed then we wouldn't... it becomes more complex as u talk about other antiparticles for ex. antiprotons,neutrino... it has to do with what they consist...

That is not a very good theory psyche.You must know some things about it before u write down.

So please erase the idea of double-matter...it would be more logical to think that it's a doppelganger...

But again...u can believe everything u want.What I've wrote above it's not my opinion is physics and it's a theory from the scientists Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman which won the Nobel price.

(Sorry for bad english )

If that was indeed your doppelganger, i hope for you it wasn't pointing at a place, since it is said they can actually tell you where you are going to die... another legend had it, that when you and your ganger meet each other, you die. But i don't think it's a ganger, since you're still here.

No, everything would not disappear. Everything will stay intact, except for our universe. Because once our two universes come in contact, some things from the other parallel universe will spill into this universe, like future selfs, for example, and some things from this universe will spill into the other parallel universe. Then they will separate from each other and continue on with what they were doing earlier, until they come in contact with another different parallel universe.

I was talking in case the other universe was antiparticle of this one.

Your theory is right morodin and i think is very good.

Anyway what i said above is something other scientists have explained.

Yes, I know, I was saying that if it was antiparticle of this one too.

The Paranormal section in About.com has some stories of time fluctuations...people seeing images from the past or future...but that sounds a bit difficult to believe...