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Message: [QUOTE="Get a Job, post: 4357803, member: 9775"] It is wild to make the claim that I bolded. What reason(s) do you have to think that mankind's current understanding of reality can't account for your experience. Again, just to illustrate my point, I go back to the possible explanation of the perception being mostly or completely created inside your brain. Such an occurrence is completely understood to be a thing that human brains do, and to claim this as an explanation is not extraordinary at all. Alternatively, perhaps there really was a person there, and, for whatever reason, you perceived the time between when you first noticed him and the time you turned to look in that direction to be too short for him to have walked away, when in reality it was long enough for him to do so. This is another ordinary claim. I do not claim that either of these example explanations are likely correct. I am merely saying that they are plausible, and your claim is vastly less so. Regarding precedent, I have never heard of reports like yours being substantiated, but I have heard of plenty of such accounts being debunked. If you take anecdotal reports of such experiences to be evidence of phenomenon unexplainable by our current scientific understanding, then we need take this conversation back a few steps and deal with that. [/QUOTE]