I’ve never had a true unexplainable experience. I’ve seen ball lightening twice, which was more cool than creepy. As far as fear goes, dreams have given me the most terror I have ever experienced. Waking up with your heart pounding so hard you can’t hear anything else, the adrenaline surging through you, sweating profusely yet freezing cold. I’m not sure I want to experience that in real life.
Now I will say a close second to that is the terror my father would induce in me as an older child (around 10-ish). Around his mid 40’s his dreams became more vivid. According to my mom they had always been rather real for him even before this time. One night I was awoken to a scream, not like anything I had heard before. A human scream of terror, real terror, not an approximation like a movie, but real abject terror. The sound triggered a very visceral response of fear in me as well. Fast forward the 8 or so years until I moved out to college…it became routine enough that I’d be more annoyed than afraid.
(To those wondering, a lot of his dreams were triggered and associated by what he’d watch on TV…that being a lot of Discovery. I asked him about one and he said in this one half snake half human people were hunting him in the jungle. Think of a reverse centaur with the snake on top. They surrounded him and one of them threw a spear and skewered him. Now most people wake up right before or at the point of impact. My dad rarely did and would scream out from the pain and fear as they killed him.)
