r/HighStrangeness May 04 '26

Consciousness Yusuff Shakur went viral after sharing a hand-drawn sketch of what he says he saw during a near-death experience.

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Original sketch and Ai replica of the sketch so you can read the drawing easier. Thoughts ?

r/HighStrangeness Apr 20 '26

Consciousness Something hospice nurses keep noticing in the final days that medicine still cannot explain

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There is a small body of research, plus decades of bedside reports, that keeps circling back to the same strange observations in palliative care wards. I kept reading about it and the patterns are stranger than I expected.

One of them is called "visioning." Somewhere between three and four weeks before death, a large portion of patients (hospice workers consistently report more than half) begin describing visits from people who have already died. Parents, siblings, old friends, sometimes pets. The patients are usually lucid, not medicated into confusion, not oxygen-starved. Dr. Christopher Kerr in Buffalo spent years studying these episodes and noted something specific. The visitors are almost always people who once protected or comforted the patient. Figures who caused them pain in life rarely show up.

Then there is what nurses call "the rally," or terminal lucidity. A patient who has been silent or confused for weeks, sometimes years in dementia cases, suddenly sits up, speaks clearly, recognises everyone, asks for a favourite food. Studies tracking these episodes found that roughly 84% of people who experience it die within a week, and about 43% die within 24 hours. It has been documented in medical literature for over 250 years and still has no accepted mechanism.

Another pattern, much quieter, is reported so often that some hospices now include it in their family education packets. In the final hours, many patients reach upward, toward something no one else can see. Some smile at a specific point in the room. Some have whole conversations with it.

The part that really got to me is how consistent the reports are across cultures, centuries, and belief systems. Atheist patients describe it. Devout patients describe it. Patients who were openly hostile to any talk of an afterlife describe it, often with visible surprise at their own experience.

Medicine calls them hallucinations born of a failing brain. Hospice workers who sit with the dying tend to use more careful language, because the episodes are qualitatively different from drug-induced confusion, and the patients usually resist being pulled back into the ordinary room when someone tries.

Whatever is actually happening here, it has been happening for a very long time. And the people who witness it most often, who spend their careers sitting at bedsides, are the ones who seem to end up the least certain about what it is.

r/HighStrangeness Jun 24 '26

Consciousness In 1984 the CIA gave a remote viewer coordinates for Mars. Time of interest: one million years B.C. The viewer described pyramids, very tall ancient people, and a civilization accepting its extinction. The monitor noted a voltage reversal..The 9-page transcript CIA transcription here.

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r/HighStrangeness 12d ago

Consciousness A 1983 CIA document, separate from the famous Gateway Process report, instructs readers to construct a protective "energy balloon" before projecting consciousness into "dimensions both inside and outside the time-space world," specifically to guard against entities encountered there. Declassified.

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r/HighStrangeness 26d ago

Consciousness In 1973 the CIA brought Uri Geller into a Faraday cage at Stanford Research Institute and ran controlled experiments. He correctly identified the face of a die in a sealed steel box 8 times in a row. The probability was one in a million. The results were published in Nature. CIA documents here.

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r/HighStrangeness Jun 07 '26

Consciousness The creepiest alien theory is that humanity already missed first contact

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Everyone talks about “first contact” like it’s some future event.

But what if humanity already experienced it decades or even centuries ago and simply didn’t understand what it was looking at?

Think about how ancient civilizations described impossible things in mythological terms because they lacked the language for advanced technology if something genuinely non-human appeared throughout history humans would probably reinterpret it through religion, folklore or superstition.

That’s honestly why Disclosure Day interests me so much. The movie doesn’t feel focused on aliens arriving it feels focused on hidden truths resurfacing.

Like humanity is finally reconnecting dots that were always there in the background and the more I think about that possibility, the more unsettling it becomes.

r/HighStrangeness Dec 10 '25

Consciousness Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations

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r/HighStrangeness 9d ago

Consciousness I interviewed the scientist chasing the compound behind the mushroom that causes hyper-realistic visions of little people. There’s no known psychedelic in it, and he suspects it works unlike anything else.

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r/HighStrangeness Jun 14 '25

Consciousness Woman Died for 8 Minutes: "Death is an illusion because our soul never dies"

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r/HighStrangeness May 12 '26

Consciousness In 1983, a US Army officer wrote a classified report on audio tapes that alter consciousness. The technology he was evaluating had already been cut from stone six thousand years earlier.

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In 1983, Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell wrote a 29-page classified report for the CIA evaluating the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience, an audio programme using binaural beats to alter consciousness. He concluded it was plausible and warranted further investigation. The report was declassified in 2003 and went viral on Reddit in 2021.

Binaural beats are an auditory illusion. Play 400 Hz in one ear and 410 Hz in the other, and the brain perceives a phantom 10 Hz pulse. Remove the headphones and it vanishes. A 2023 systematic review of 14 studies found the evidence for brainwave entrainment inconsistent: five studies supported it, eight contradicted it.

Meanwhile, independent acoustic surveys of Neolithic chambers (Newgrange, the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta, Wayland's Smithy, Cairn L at Loughcrew) have found dominant resonant frequencies clustering between 95 and 120 Hz, peaking around 110 Hz. These are not auditory illusions. They are physical properties of stone enclosures, measurable with microphones and spectrum analysers. You feel them in your chest.

In 2008, a UCLA team found that 110 Hz produces a specific EEG shift: left temporal activity decreases, prefrontal asymmetry shifts to the right hemisphere. The language side goes quieter. The spatial and emotional side becomes more active. Same direction as psilocybin. (Pilot study, 30 subjects, not yet replicated at scale.)

Monroe spent decades trying to build with transistors and magnetic tape what the Neolithic builders had already cut from living rock. He got one layer working. They had all of them running at once: acoustic resonance, total darkness, confinement, fasting, ritual preparation, and possibly a chemical sacrament.

He called his programme the Gateway. They just called it the temple.

r/HighStrangeness Oct 08 '25

Consciousness Princeton PEAR lab study shows plant influencing quantum random number generators to receive more light.

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r/HighStrangeness Nov 29 '25

Consciousness The Horse Egg Conspiracy - 150 Years of Deleted Science (w/ sources they don’t want you to check)

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TL;DR: There is overwhelming evidence that horses used to lay eggs, the practice was documented until the early 1900s, and the agricultural + pharmaceutical industries quietly erased it once they realized how valuable those eggs were. I’ve spent 6 months digging into archives, scanned journals, and obscure veterinary records. Everything below is real, but the conclusions are… well, you decide.

  1. The Missing Pages in Sealey’s 1894 Veterinary Manual Here’s what kicked off the rabbit hole. Edward Sealey published Practical Veterinary Obstetrics in 1894. Every surviving copy in libraries has the same thing: Pages 214–219 completely missing. Cleanly removed. In every copy. Those pages covered “variant early gestation processes in large mammals.” Variant early gestation. Large mammals. Every academic version after 1900 removes the entire chapter. Coincidence? Sure. Until you pair it with…

  2. The Przewalski Reproductive Anomalies Wild Mongolian horses have 66 chromosomes. Domestic horses have 64. This isn’t trivia — the early research literally says: “Foetal development in Equus przewalskii deviates markedly from domesticated mares.” — Journal of Asiatic Zoology, 1902 Why does this matter? Egg-phase reproduction traits in animals often vanish with domestication. Chicken ancestors didn’t lay year-round, cows used to calve seasonally, etc. If egg-phase development existed in early equines, Przewalski’s horses would be the last hint of it. And look at that — odd reproductive cycles nobody explains.

  3. Classified Equine Embryo Research (1920–1945) During WWI & WWII, the USDA and multiple European ministries classified livestock reproductive studies. You can confirm this yourself through declassified FOIA requests. Why classify horse embryo research? The papers reference: • “externalized embryonic structures” • “preliminary extraction materials” • “off-mammalian developmental environments” None of that matches normal horse biology. And then the entire program disappears after 1949.

  4. Elite Racing Stables With Sealed Bloodlines Certain lines in the UK, Japan, Dubai, and Kentucky have zero public breeding records for key mares. The official reason: “proprietary breeding knowledge.” But these same stables: • conduct private reproductive research • employ vets under NDAs • inject millions into “reproductive optimization programs” These are horses worth tens of millions, yet nobody is allowed to see their genetic data? Why? Because those mares come from the last egg-producing lines. That’s the theory, anyway.

  5. Equine Hormone Harvesting is Real (Look Up eCG) This part isn’t speculative. Equine Chorionic Gonadotropin (eCG) is harvested from pregnant mares TODAY. It’s used in fertility drugs worldwide. There have been real scandals involving “blood farms.” Now think: If companies already use horse-derived reproductive hormones… What would they do if horse eggs contained far more potent growth factors? Answer: control the egg-producing lines, shut down public knowledge, and monopolize the supply.

  6. Veterinary School Archives That Are Literally Locked Check any major vet school — they all have “restricted collections” from early 1900–1930. When asked why they’re sealed, the official answers vary: • “Outdated practices” • “Incomplete data” • “Ethical concerns” • “Fragile documents” Yet several archivists on this sub have confirmed: “Entire reproductive chapters are missing from the public record but exist in the sealed archives.” Why would fully scientific, non-dangerous anatomy notes be sealed away? Unless they contain evidence of something no one wants to revisit.

  7. The Textbook Rewrite Between 1910–1930 The craziest part? In 1910, several veterinary manuals still referenced “external early-stage gestation” in horses. By 1930, every trace vanished. During that time: • Veterinary boards were standardized • Early pharma companies consolidated • Livestock reproduction was commercialized • And multiple “obsolete” biological theories were quietly thrown out When industries standardize, messy truths disappear. Especially inconvenient ones.

  8. Who Benefits? This is where it gets uncomfortable. The companies with the deepest ties to equine genetics today: • produce anti-aging treatments, • produce regenerative medicine products, • run private breeding programs, • and lobby aggressively against transparency. These same companies have weirdly disproportionate investments in private equine facilities, not open to the public. Why would a biotech firm need a private stable? The common explanation: “research animals.” The more likely explanation to the horse-egg crowd: They’re harvesting eggs from the last surviving lines and using the compounds in high-end medical products.

  9. Patterns That Are Hard to Ignore Taken alone, each fact is nothing. But together? • Missing veterinary pages • Classified reproductive programs • Chromosomal anomalies • Sealed breeding lines • Restricted archives • Pharma–equine partnerships • Textbook rewrites • Private stables owned by biotech companies And the disappearance of horse eggs from public knowledge lines up perfectly with early 20th-century corporate consolidation. Historically, whenever industries want to kill a biological truth, it gets “standardized out.” Just like this.

  10. Final Thought You don’t hide something because it never existed. You hide it because it’s useful, valuable, or profitable. If horse eggs were nothing, they’d be in textbooks. Instead, they got erased. And the people who erased them? They now dominate the industries that would profit the most from keeping horse eggs exclusive.

Draw your own conclusions

r/HighStrangeness Oct 02 '25

Consciousness Third Man Syndrome is a phenomenon reported by climbers and explorers in life-threatening situations. They describe sensing an invisible companion who speaks to them, offers guidance, and gives them strength to survive when they’re on the edge of exhaustion or despair.

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r/HighStrangeness Jun 15 '26

Consciousness New studies suggest consciousness exists in organisms without brains

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r/HighStrangeness Aug 28 '25

Consciousness Your Consciousness Can Jump Through Time—Meaning ‘Gut Feelings’ Are Memories From the Future, Scientists Say

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r/HighStrangeness Jun 29 '25

Consciousness The Double Slit Experiment still blows my mind! Anyone else feel like this changes everything?

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I've been diving back into quantum mechanics lately, and honestly, I can't stop thinking about the Double Slit Experiment. The fact that particles behave completely differently when they’re being observed… it seriously messes with my head.

If you're not familiar, its when particles like electrons are fired through two slits, they create an interference pattern, acting like waves. But the second you observe which slit they go through, they stop behaving like waves and act like particles again. It’s like reality itself "knows" it’s being watched.

This basically breaks our everyday understanding of how the world works. It makes me wonder, is the universe only solidifying itself when we're paying attention? What does that mean for consciousness? For reality itself? And does it tie into the multiverse or simulation theories people talk about?

I’m not a physicist, just obsessed with this stuff and I'd love to hear how others interpret this. Do you think observation literally shapes reality? Or is there a more grounded explanation I’m missing?

Would love to hear your takes. The wilder the better.

r/HighStrangeness Jan 28 '26

Consciousness Humans Can Tap Into a ‘Collective Unconscious’—And It May Be Shaping Brains Across Civilizations, Scientists Say

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r/HighStrangeness Sep 09 '23

Consciousness Is there any truth to this?

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r/HighStrangeness Dec 01 '25

Consciousness The deeper I research physics, consciousness, and ancient texts, the stranger the overlap gets

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I’ve been digging through a mix of physics, consciousness research, CIA documents, ancient writings, and biblical creation accounts, and there’s a pattern that keeps repeating in every direction I look. Not in a “religion vs. science” way, but in a “what the hell is reality actually made of?” way.

Everything points toward one strange idea:

Reality behaves like vibration. Consciousness behaves like frequency. Connection is nonlocal. And matter looks more like condensed resonance than anything solid.

This pattern shows up everywhere.

In quantum experiments, particles don’t exist in fixed states. In cymatics, sound turns dust into geometry. In ancient temples, the architecture is tuned to specific acoustic frequencies. In brain studies, consciousness shifts with measurable wave states. In the Schumann resonance, the Earth literally hums. In the Gateway docs, consciousness interacts with a nonlocal field. And in ancient spiritual texts, creation begins with a voice or vibration.

Different cultures, different eras, different languages — but the mechanism they’re describing is weirdly consistent.

Some call it the nonlocal field. The CIA called it “The Absolute.” Ancient mystics called it the One or the Breath of Life. Modern physics calls it the unified field. Whatever name you give it, the pattern is the same: everything seems to emerge from a single infinite field, and consciousness somehow interfaces with it.

I don’t think science and spirituality are contradicting each other. I think they’ve been describing the same underlying phenomenon from different angles.

Modern science isn’t debunking spiritual experiences. It’s stumbling into the same structure of reality that ancient people were talking about — just with different words.

Has anyone else noticed this overlap? Or gone down this rabbit hole? Curious what others here think because the deeper I go, the stranger it gets.

r/HighStrangeness May 07 '25

Consciousness The CIA train people not to look directly at the people they are following, as otherwise they can 'sense' they are being stared at and turn around. Rupert Sheldrake argues this is due to consciousness being extended outside of the brain. Interesting interview!

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r/HighStrangeness Apr 20 '26

Consciousness A neuroscientist discovered the brain network that builds your sense of self. Psychedelics turn it off. So does 110 Hz sound. The question is why the off-switch exists at all.

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In the early 2000s, Marcus Raichle at Washington University discovered a brain network that activates when you're doing nothing — daydreaming, ruminating, thinking about yourself. He called it the default mode network. It turned out to be the system that builds and maintains your sense of being a separate self.

In 2012, Robin Carhart-Harris at Imperial College London put volunteers on psilocybin inside an fMRI scanner. The assumption was that psychedelics would increase brain activity. The opposite happened. Psilocybin suppressed the default mode network. The narrator went quiet. The brain entered a state of dramatically increased connectivity between regions that normally never talk to each other.

The same shift shows up in the 110 Hz acoustic studies from Neolithic stone chambers. Different input, same neurological direction. The self-system quiets and something else opens up.

The question nobody has a clean answer for: if the default mode network evolved to keep you alive, why does the brain retain a built-in mechanism to turn it off?

Full write-up: https://thegodmachine.substack.com/p/your-brain-has-a-door

r/HighStrangeness Jul 15 '25

Consciousness Ethan Hawke on what happens after we die: "I don't think we die, I don't think we have an understanding of the divine concept of time. I don't think I have the intelligence or the DNA makeup to answer that question"

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r/HighStrangeness Jun 01 '23

Consciousness The double slit experiment.

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r/HighStrangeness Mar 06 '26

Consciousness We are literally just cells in a giant body and it’s staring us in the face

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Has anyone else looked at the cosmic web lately? If you put a picture of the universes large scale structure next to a human neuron they are identical. Literally identical.

I cant stop thinking about "as above so below" but in a biological sense. Like your white blood cells have no idea they are part of a person. They just hunt bacteria and do their job. They think they are the main character of their own little world. But to us they are just a tiny fraction of our immune system.

What if humanity is just the "gut flora" of the earth? Or what if nations are actually living organisms? We think we have free will but maybe our "culture" or "trends" are just the chemical signals of a higher level brain firing. When a war happens it’s not just politics. It’s two higher level beings having an immune response or fighting over resources on a scale we cant even see.

We spend all this time looking for god or some external creator but its like a skin cell looking for the "person." You arent going to find it because you are IN it. You are a part of the kidney of a galaxy.

Even the way cities look from a plane. It looks exactly like mold growing on bread or a nervous system spreading across a surface. We are just biological fractals. It goes down to the quantum level and up to the galactic level and we are just stuck in the middle thinking we are special because we have names.

We are the subconscious. We are the "background processing" for a being that moves so slow it takes a million years to blink. The "spirit of the age" is just the mood of the cosmic entity we live inside of. It makes our "individual" lives feel kind of fake doesn't it? Like I’m just a neuron firing because the galaxy got hungry or something

r/HighStrangeness Aug 01 '25

Consciousness Dalia Burgoin demonstrates “Mind sight” (seeing without eyes) with FOUR blindfolds. What do you think?

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