Have you ever had a supernatural experience?

[Angra]

Wow, this is deep.

Are you guys smoking weed?

[The Bloofer Lady]

Originally Posted by rachMiel

And ya gotta love the numbers stations, henna?

I'm curious. What do you mean by "henna"?

[MichaelMyers]

There is no past, present, or future. Words to tell my bill collected.

[rachMiel]

Originally Posted by Angra

Wow, this is deep.

Are you guys smoking weed?

Not at the moment ...

[rachMiel]

Originally Posted by The Bloofer Lady

I'm curious. What do you mean by "henna"?

I learned it growing up in PA. "Henna?" means something like: "Right?"

[The Bloofer Lady]

Originally Posted by rachMiel

I learned it growing up in PA. "Henna?" means something like: "Right?"

You just broadened my world a little!

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by rachMiel

By that reasoning, consciousness doesn't exist. Yet it is the only thing we ever directly experience.

Remember, in my first sentence I wrote,

Originally Posted by Sculpt

When I say time doesn't exist, I mean it has no substance, no energy, no conscience, no matter, no position in space/existence. It exists as a concept, like the number one, or the concept of 'nothing', etc.

Time has no consciousness. You can't assign time that characteristic (or should I say, you can't lump those two together like that). I think we can prove consciousness exists with logical arguments &/or the empirical method. But we're not considering if consciousness exists. Let's keep this to time. Maybe you can rephrase your question/argument/proposition.

Originally Posted by Angra

Wow, this is deep.

Are you guys smoking weed?

It has often started that way, hasn't it?

[rachMiel]

Oooh I just remembered another very strange experience I had way back when I lived in Germany in the 70s/80s. I had just seen The Last Wave ... which left me in a kind of daze ... and outside the theater, I saw wet shoeprints that led to a spot in the middle of the sidewalk ... and then stopped, mid-stride so to speak, with no sign of turning around. It was a dry night, no rain. This was particularly spooky after seeing the movie (as anyone who knows it will understand). I never came up with a rational explanation. :-)

[anglewitch]

The closest thing I have to anything supernatural is seeing stuff in my dreams and see the things I saw in my dreams in real life. What we call predictions.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by rachMiel

Oooh I just remembered another very strange experience I had way back when I lived in Germany in the 70s/80s. I had just seen The Last Wave ... which left me in a kind of daze ... and outside the theater, I saw wet shoeprints that led to a spot in the middle of the sidewalk ... and then stopped, mid-stride so to speak, with no sign of turning around. It was a dry night, no rain. This was particularly spooky after seeing the movie (as anyone who knows it will understand). I never came up with a rational explanation. :-)

Sounds like a good one for Sherlock Holmes.

There's certainly plenty of simple non-supernatural possibilities. They all would probably seem unlikely, but no more unlikely than what you saw.

Your 1st clue is the dry night. Second is wet shoe tracks that immediately stopped. Without a lot of dripping, or other wet spots, the water was likely isolated to the shoes. So, someone may have stepped in a pool of water, or a deep puddle you hadn't noticed.

One rational explanation is the person walking in wet shoes stopped, removed the wet shoes & put them in a bag, and then continued to walk with dry feet or other foot attire. They may have been met by a friend who gave them dry sandals/shoes. They sat on their butt, and switched footware, or had good balance, causing no wet smudges. Or someone simply gave them a towel to dry their feet, & they walked away with dry bare feet. Sounds a simple & rational explanation, far less unusual than what you saw. A less likely option is someone carried them at that point.