Report your Unusual Phenomena: paranormal incidents. I have a number of unusual phenomena to report. They have to do with some psychic abilities I seem to have, however these abilities come and go and I can't always bring them on at will. REMOTE VIEWINGIt all started when I was really little. I can still remember certain things about my past that most people wouldn't.

When I was just old enough to talk, me and my mom would sometimes have what I like to call shared brain phenomenon. It's a term I invented, because I find it is the best way to describe this sort of occurrence. Calvin Richardson Country Boy Rapidshare Download. She would be in one room of the house, minding her own business, and I would be somewhere else in the house, well, actually we lived in a trailer, minding my own business. I would be playing with blocks or something like that, and my focus would drift.

The next thing that would happen was really beautiful. I would be either next to my mother, as if I were really standing beside her, or I would be able to see through her eyes. But even more interestingly, I knew what she was thinking, and she knew what I was thinking. The degree of love that I felt in those moments was incredible. But please note that I'm not all too sure about what love is, but I think it was love.

We could talk like this for hours. One time, I was in that state, but my mom was not and she called me. I wanted to tell her I was standing right beside her, but when I tried to talk, my body wasn't there and then I realized that I was actually somewhere else in the house.

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I knew what she wanted to ask me. I can't remember exactly what the question was, but I answered it before she asked it. This made my dad kinda freak out, I guess because he didn't understand it. But not really freaked out in a bad way. Also, I used to be able to see around corners and know that someone was coming over without anyone telling me.

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Once my mom asked me if I knew who was in the driveway, and without having to look, I said the name of who it was, because I could see them. It was like I just had to concentrate on the driveway and I would just be there, looking around. Sometimes I was the only one in the family that knew who was outside, without having to look. I would spontaneously say who was coming over and then the doorbell would ring, because I could see them coming. Unfortunately that power seems to have left me for the most part.

However, I started meditating a few years ago, and it seems to be coming back, but it seems different now, and a little bit harder to understand. Just over a year ago, while I was dreaming, I dreamed that I was on a boat, and the boat tilted, and I fell in the water. But it wasn't me. It was as if I could see the world through someone elses eyes, although not very clearly. Anyway, I fell into the water and for some reason I couldn't swim, it was as if I were falling through the water.

The water was also really bubbly. I knew I was going to die all of a sudden.

But I felt like there was another presence in the water with me, and it made me feel warm and safe. Then the dream changed and became utterly random and confusing, but the feeling that someone was being mourned remained constant throughout the confusion. When my dad got home from work the next day, he told me that one of his colleagues had drowned and I told him about the dream, but I don't think that he really believed me. Another time when I had a friend over and my dad and his girlfriend were out driving I suddenly got really tired, these sudden fatigue spells are usually when I enter my deepest states. In my daydream, I was sitting in the backseat of our car and my dad and his girlfriend were in the front.

A few cars ahead of us there was a silver car, and left of it, in the other lane, there was a black truck. The black truck was trying to get into the right lane and for some reason nudged the back of the silver car. The silver car spun sideways, after swerving back and forth for a few seconds, and once it went sideways, it rolled multiple times and got completely smashed up. When they didn't get home when they were supposed to, I was worried.

It had felt so vivid and real, that I told my friend about it, who pretty much looked at me like I was a crazy person. But when they got home they started talking about how they saw a car crash and I blurted out the details of my dream. And they looked at me like I was insane also, and I told them I just knew when they wanted to know how I knew. PREMONITIONSSometimes I have a gut feeling that I can't shake. Since I have trouble discerning it from normal worrying, I try to forget about it.

But if I can't forget about it, or if it just rings too true to ignore, I usually know. The first bad premonition I had was when I was little. We had a good friend of the family over and his wife was there and we were eating pizza. All of a sudden I started crying because they were so happy together now, when the man was going to die of cancer. I was still pretty little then. My parents asked me what was wrong, and I lied to them and told them I didn't know.

They did die a slow, and painful death of cancer a few years later. My parents wondered why I was so emotional about that, but the thing is, I don't need to know a person very long before I start to really feel warm about them.

Sometimes I can just look at someone's picture, and feel like I know them. I also had a premonition that someone else my dad knew was going to die. This one was strong. They were over at my dads place. I got a really bad vibe. Then it was suddenly like something had put a thought in my head from outside.

I was suddenly thinking about telling them that they were going to die soon. The urge got so strong, but I resisted because I was scared. They died within a week of this incident. I had the same thing happen with one of my friends, who got hit by a drunk driver, and that was the worst, it still impacts me.

This is all actually very painful to write about, but I am finding relief in getting this out there. I hope that other people will be able to relate to my experiences and feel less alone. Anyway, my friend was in my class on the last day before a long weekend. I spent the whole class in a state of unrest. I kept thinking that they were going to die.

I looked so distraught that one of my other friends asked me what was wrong, and I told them that the guy was going to die. He told me not to say crap like that, not in a mean way, I guess he was just worried for my sanity. But sure as heck, the guy died that weekend, and it started a series of problems for me. That weekend I was trying to sleep, but I was totally restless.

Something was making me want to walk in a certain direction out of our apartment. I knew I could prevent disaster, but I didn't want to be a maniac, running around on the streets like a fool.

It was so selfish of me. And I'm so sorry. Then I kind of blacked out and I heard a dull thud, and I woke up screaming a startled aahh! I couldn't sleep for the rest of the long weekend, I was actually awake for something like 3. And then I read in the newspaper that a teenager had been killed, and I knew who it was, but I was still in denial. Then my sister told me the school had called and that they were dead, and I lost it for an extended period of time.

I wanted to hurt myself and stuff because of the event. I actually ended up forgetting it happened altogether.. I guess I'm gonna cut this story off here because it's not really going anywhere. ELECTRICAL STUFFSometimes at night, I will wake up feeling like I am being electrocuted. Sometimes, when I wake up after dreaming very deep, my whole blanket will light up like Hiroshima when I get out of bed.

Sometimes when I am angry or frustrated, my computer will freeze. Sometimes, when I'm really really angry, the pvr(its sort of like tivo), will stop working properly. Also, sometimes I feel electrically charged. I am also extremely sensitive to thunderstorms. A while ago we had that solar flare and I was extremely sensitive to that.

Metal Gear Solid 5 PC review. Need to know. What is it? Open world sequel to a previously console- only cult stealth series. Price: $6. 0/. Each attempt, while searching for an enemy informant who can tell me where my target is, I'm almost immediately spotted by an enemy guard tower in a nearby camp. Spooked by the sudden gunfire, my potential victim makes a prompt getaway by helicopter. The chopper moves too fast for me to hit it, and it’s gone.

Mission failed. But how about this: screw the informant. Forget the objectives. How can my target escape if I make sure there’s no helicopter to begin with? The getaway chopper I’m looking for doesn’t just spawn out of nowhere—like everything in The Phantom Pain, it’s part of the environment, circling a hill some distance away, waiting for its passenger. I search the helicopter out based on its flight path from my three previously failed attempts and hose it with my grenade launcher until it’s in flames. I just got rid of the problem. No escape. Within five minutes, I’ve killed both my target and the informant by accident, firing rockets randomly at anything that moves.

Miller, my mission handler, isn’t pleased I killed the informant without interrogating him first, but the game doesn’t mind. Mission complete. Metal Gear Solid V celebrates your choices and ingenuity more than any sandbox game I’ve played in years. This mission, and so many others, enables players to figure out the strategy that works for them and run with it. This is a reinvented, systemic Metal Gear Solid with an almost Far Cry- like open world structure, elevated significantly by the choices and subsequent one- off moments you’d encounter in a Hitman or Deus Ex.

Crucially, too, The Phantom Pain retains the oddness, detail and some of the character of the MGS series. A few of my stealth playthroughs that suddenly went wrong became my favourite moments in MGSV. I forfeited a perfect kill- free stealth run of one mission because I couldn’t get a good enough sniper angle on my target before he took off in a chopper. Sprinting up flights of stairs to the helipad, my victim spotted me just in time for me to throw every grenade in my inventory under the chopper, destroying it, vanquishing him and knocking me over, before I made a ludicrously frantic escape on horseback. It was amazing, and I’m not sure it would’ve been vastly improved had I silently shot the guy and snuck out. The punishment for a stealth mission going wrong is an exhilarating set piece in a constantly surprising open world. I’ve had weird and wild battles of unending nightmare gunfights across giant bases, battling reams of soldiers, mechs and even a chopper as an ill- equipped one- man- and- a- dog army.

Nighttime battlefields fill with smoke, flares and explosions. I’ve had to hide from swarming troops and mortar fire behind buildings, patting my dog for reassurance while I call in more ammo drops, preparing for my second wind as the night turns into morning. Some hardcore players will never want to find themselves in that position: Metal Gear has always been a stealth- focused series, after all. But when the controls are this good, when your tactical options are so extensive, it’s in no way a bad thing to be part of these escalating, huge- scale battles, which offer the sort of moment- to- moment thrills most action games would struggle to script. Embrace it when things go wrong in MGSV.

Nothing boring ever happens when it does. Performance and settings. Graphics options: 4. K resolution, V- sync, motion blur, depth of field, model detail, texture settings, texture filtering, shadows, lighting, post processing, effects, ambient occlusion, volumetric clouds. Remappable controls: Yes. Gamepad support: Yes Like Ground Zeroes, The Phantom Pain’s PC port is really well- optimised. My PC’s specs are pretty decent, but my GTX 7.

I didn’t notice a framerate drop beneath the low 5. Dropping a couple of the settings here makes a consistent 6. Like Ground Zeroes, though, the lack of mouse control in the menu screens means this is better played with a controller.

The goal that guides every level (and every Metal Gear) is to sneak through environments without being caught by the enemy—if they spot Snake (or Big Boss), an alert phase ensues until you can lose his attackers. The Phantom Pain’s story missions take Snake to one of two enormous military sandboxes: the cliffs and plains of a Soviet- populated Afghanistan, and later, the swampy Angola- Zaire border. Out in these environments, MGSV throws together smart AI, uncontrollable weather situations and varied types of locations in ways that frequently generate new stories. The mission objectives tend to be a bit basic on the surface—extract this guy, assassinate this informant, stop this convoy—but what happens along the way is often unexpected and almost always exciting.

Heading into a mission, you pick Snake a limited loadout of two primary weapons, one sidearm, and explosives. Importantly though, you can also have anything from your armoury sent to the battlefield at any time via Snake’s i. Droid device. Crossing the ten- hour mark, this range of instantly accessible options expands into AI companions of varying skillsets, airstrikes that let Snake summon fire from the skies, helicopters that can provide supporting fire and lots more. As someone who’s enjoyed the entire series, I see this as a natural progression from Metal Gear’s mini stealth sandboxes into something that realises the potential that was there all along, without any compromises. As a result, the balance between game and story has now shifted significantly in favour of the former. It’s so different to previous numbered Metal Gears in its lack of cutscenes that it takes some getting used to. The narrative that’s here, too, is pretty sobre and convincingly serious for a series known for elderly snipers, vampires and men who can fire killer bees.

In The Phantom Pain, it’s 1. Snake is attempting to rebuild his military offshore haven Mother Base following its destruction at the end of Ground Zeroes (I strongly suggest you play that before this). Having been in a coma for nine years, he’s seeking revenge on those responsible. After a deliberately confusing, scripted intro set in a Cyprus hospital, in which Snake escapes a horrific military attack, story is limited to a few brief cutscenes and a lot of optional audio tapes, the latter of which I only found intermittently interesting and easy to ignore.

The lack of an intrusive story and focus on unscripted sandbox action makes The Phantom Pain feel very contemporary and easy to recommend to new players. That modern approach extends to basic things that MGS has always struggled with, too, like the way Snake moves and controls. The Phantom Pain shares Ground Zeroes’ intuitive third- person control scheme, which means it’s as much fun to play MGSV like a shooter as a stealth game.

It’s important that they got this right, because there’s a lot to consider at once here: marking enemies in nearby settlements using the binoculars, switching to first- person aim with a gun and sneaking up behind soldiers to interrogate them all feel really easy to pull off. While you can remap the keyboard controls, I recommend using a controller for MGSV because the menus were clearly built with that in mind—there doesn’t seem to be a way to navigate the pause screen or i. Droid using a cursor, meaning you’re stuck using the keys, which is a bit of a disappointment. The Phantom Pain is a long game that takes upwards of 5. In the field, visibility is affected by the day- and- night cycle, and when you’re deep into an enemy base and the sun comes up, it can be the difference between a perfect stealth playthrough or the final set- piece from an . In one base I smugly switched the power off at night to take out a few lights that risked exposing me, only for the sun to come up moments later and a patrolling guard to spot me immediately.