Have any atheists ever had a 'weird' experience?

[Trolldor]

I'm fully convinced the first religion started out from flawed science.

As for a 'weird' experience, no. Everything I've experienced can be explained, and while it may not be common, it is still very normal.

[nellikin]

The closest thing to "weird" in this sense that I've ever experienced would be someone calling me when I was about to call them. Falls well within any reasonable co-incidental boundaries I'd care to define...

[A Monkey Shaved]

One hallucination. I was not taking anything, but graduate school was causing anxiety. This devilish woman appeared on waking up. She sat in a chair in my room, then evaporated in seconds. I was awake, sitting up.

That sounds like an "hypnopompic hallucination" which is the opposite the an hynagogic hallucination because it happens when you are coming out of sleep rather than going into it as the case is with with hypnagogic hallucinations.

[JimC]

I was lying in my sleeping bag one night in the Australian outback, looking up at the brilliant stars, when several moving lights appeared, which proceeded to move across the sky, several times appearing to turn very suddenly at right angles without changing speed, before moving off at high speed...

[Clinton Huxley]

I once hallucinated that I was a book but I had had a lot of painkillers. Other than that, nothing.

[chaggle]

I once had an experience of time not flowing correctly. I'd gotten off the school bus with my friend Michael, and we stopped at his house because he wanted to change his clothes. I waited outside and sat on my bike. I watched him walk in the front door, and then walk back out seconds later in a change of clothes. It was physically impossible. His bedroom was on the second floor up a long flight of stairs, and down the hall. There was no way he could've gotten up there that fast, found clothes, changed, and been back out the door. Not in the span of several seconds

p.s. There was only one logical conclusion to draw from this: I was abducted by aliens. You can read more about the experience in my autobiography, Percy Gets Probed

That sort of thing has happened to me quite a few times times. I missed a bus once. My schoolmates were already on and watched me just staring into space as the bus left. I can remember two occasions where I 'came to' confused and with people watching me and waiting for me to answer a question or waiting for me to finish a sentence.

I wonder if I have Petits Mals

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 000696.htm

Yours sounds a little long for a petit mal - they usually only last a few seconds - but sometimes longer

[mistermack]

The closest thing to "weird" in this sense that I've ever experienced would be someone calling me when I was about to call them. Falls well within any reasonable co-incidental boundaries I'd care to define...

Nope, that has never happened to me. But I'm sure it happens to women all the time.

[Tero]

cool..
more on hallucinations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

I have migraines and the visual effects (such as not being able to read text), but nothing really cool there.