Physiological

The experience of leaving one’s body, floating above a room, and seeing the world from a great height in conjunction with an event that causes the person to be at or beyond the point of being legally dead. Experiencers of this phenomenon report moving through a tunnel of light and/or seeing deceased relatives, Angels, or a divine being.

The Mandela Effect is a popular culture theory of parallel universes based on the idea that, because large groups of people have similar alternative memories about past events, these collective experiences are true. In order to then explain alternative memories they deduce that the fabric of reality must have shifted at some point in the past and that therefore, not only do parallel, inhabitable universes exist, but that we are constantly switching between them. The key example of this effect (and the effect’s namesake) is that many people believe that former South African President Nelson Mandela died during his imprisonment in the 1980s. They have clear memories of his funeral and the news, yet as of the time of this writing, he is still alive. This involves potentially false memories and the Glitch In The Matrix super pattern.

A visitation by a supernatural being including angels, Jesus, Mother Mary or other religious figures. Examples include the visitation of Our Lady of Lourdes and Moses’ encounter at the burning bush.

Mysterious strangers, usually but not always dressed in black, who appear and disappear at significant moments in history. In the twentieth century they were mostly observed in association with UFO sitings and the silencing of witnesses to UFOs.

The phenomenon whereby a person speaks in a language without any prior knowledge of the language structure, vocabulary, or pronunciation. Sometimes occurs during spirit possession.