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i just now discovered this site and have read many postings here, and i'm very eager to share my personal experiences. a lot has happened in my lifetime of 19 yrs, so i really don't know where to begin.... to tell u about myself, i am a person who reserves any judgement until all the facts are concrete beyond reasonable doubt. i consider myself to be very realistic--many ppl r too. religion is important to me, but u might wonder: how can realistic ppl such as myself have a religion if they cannot be satisfied w/out solid evidence that God exists? i've experienced SP many times, and i believe science has provided a very plausible explanation for SP episodes. however, i attribute my personal SP experiences not to science but to "an act of God" or to what an atheist would call the "supernatural." i do this primarily b/c of experiences i have had while fully conscious and not in bed sleeping. altho i have had a few of these experiences as well, the experience that i will share now is when i was 9. i was taking a bath, splashing water over myself. out of the blue, i began hearing the bath curtains rustling. i stopped splashing and remained motionless to confirm what i heard. the curtains continued to rustle, and when i look over the tub, i saw a black cloud of smoke moving next to the toilet. i yelled, "go away in the name of Jesus," and it went away. the time from me hearing the curtains to looking over to seeing the cloud and to yelling out was less than 3 seconds. this event left me dumbfounded and confused, but not at all scared like my other experiences. there's so much more i'd like to say, but i don't want to rant. i guess to wrap this up, i'll say that my experiences are evidence not that there conclusively is a God, but that there is definitely something out there. for me, i call what i saw a "demon," and if there are demons there is a God. this is my belief, but i always keep my mind open for other explanations. i hope this fit together ok, i'm pretty random sometimes. thanx for reading. 1 last thing i'd like to say: out of fear comes suffering, and out of suffering comes understanding. take care....