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Hello all, first time poster, long time reader. Your stories never cease to fascinate me. This is rather boring compared to tales of demonic Muppets and the like, but nevertheless, its my story.
A few weeks ago at the office, I was returning to my cube after a visit to the coffee machine. At the end of the hallway that I was walking down, there's the open office of one of our engineers. He's a pretty strange person: he mutters to himself, overreacts to the slightest provocation, and is generally regarded as an eccentric whom you must be carefull what you say around.
He sat on a standard desk chair, leaning back. As I walked towards him, I had the strangest feeling, like I was compelled to stare at him, or more specifically, his chair. Everything else in my vision "grayed out" except for Mr. Engineer and his chair. All around me, the air felt tight or tense, almost like there was an inaudible vibration centered around him.
*PING*
A bolt shot out from the bottom of the chair, hitting the floor. The seatback rocked back almost horizontal, nearly dumping him onto the floor. He grabbed the corner of his desk and shot a leg out to steady himself with, now straddling the flopping furniture. In any other circumstance, I would have laughed, but I was amazed that I had FELT this event happen before it did. I returned to my cubical, serenaded by a string of obscenities muttered under Mr. Engineer's breath.
(I'm assuming I just felt it, I'd feel pretty guilty if I'd actually CAUSED the chair to break by concentrating on it)
A little background: my fiance is Pagan, so she's always talking about energies and the elements and things like that. I'm a pretty rational/scientific person, but I've studied martials arts (as a spiritual/defense art, not as a sport) and have learned about the Oriental philosophy on energy (chi). Surprisingly, the Pagan and Oriental ideas are completely compatible, and members of my class and my fiance's group have done "energy work" together. I'm still unclear as to how it all 'works', but I see more evidence of its truth every day.
Anyone else ever felt something like that?
A few weeks ago at the office, I was returning to my cube after a visit to the coffee machine. At the end of the hallway that I was walking down, there's the open office of one of our engineers. He's a pretty strange person: he mutters to himself, overreacts to the slightest provocation, and is generally regarded as an eccentric whom you must be carefull what you say around.
He sat on a standard desk chair, leaning back. As I walked towards him, I had the strangest feeling, like I was compelled to stare at him, or more specifically, his chair. Everything else in my vision "grayed out" except for Mr. Engineer and his chair. All around me, the air felt tight or tense, almost like there was an inaudible vibration centered around him.
*PING*
A bolt shot out from the bottom of the chair, hitting the floor. The seatback rocked back almost horizontal, nearly dumping him onto the floor. He grabbed the corner of his desk and shot a leg out to steady himself with, now straddling the flopping furniture. In any other circumstance, I would have laughed, but I was amazed that I had FELT this event happen before it did. I returned to my cubical, serenaded by a string of obscenities muttered under Mr. Engineer's breath.
(I'm assuming I just felt it, I'd feel pretty guilty if I'd actually CAUSED the chair to break by concentrating on it)
A little background: my fiance is Pagan, so she's always talking about energies and the elements and things like that. I'm a pretty rational/scientific person, but I've studied martials arts (as a spiritual/defense art, not as a sport) and have learned about the Oriental philosophy on energy (chi). Surprisingly, the Pagan and Oriental ideas are completely compatible, and members of my class and my fiance's group have done "energy work" together. I'm still unclear as to how it all 'works', but I see more evidence of its truth every day.
Anyone else ever felt something like that?
