Your Superstitions and Strange Beliefs - or how to ward off bad luck, wicked juju, and the evil eye

[failed mist]

My superstitious belief is that it’s catastrophically unlucky to behave as though luck is real. Rituals and talismans all seem to actively invite the ironic humiliation of still getting bad luck and looking like a fool. Whereas acknowledging that luck isn’t real will just give you the odds as they stand.

 

[fist_of_khonshu]

My superstitious belief is that the bed should never face your door feet first. I remember my grandfather telling me that it invited "bad spirits" to come in. It has something to do with how the dead are carried out through the door in most old world cultures.

My secondary belief is that if you have urns in your house, talk to them. I talk to my grandmother's urn every day just to let her know what is going on in my life. Not that I believe her ghost will haunt me or anything, more just out of respect and making her part of my daily routine.

 

[NoReturn]

My superstitious belief is that the bed should never face your door feet first. I remember my grandfather telling me that it invited "bad spirits" to come in. It has something to do with how the dead are carried out through the door in most old world cultures.

Your grandfather was on to something.
Feng Shui is one of those things where there's some truth to it without the need to accept any supernatural reason for it being true. A lot of Feng Shui rules, for example, just make things more comfortable.

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Even just offsetting the bed a little from the door (so your feet aren't pointing directly "out") can help.

 

[PandaChai]

the bed should never face your door feet first

Even just offsetting the bed a little from the door (so your feet aren't pointing directly "out") can help.

How would you place a bed in this room though? It might be a me thing, but I cannot sleep with my head next to the door, it just makes me super paranoid for whatever reason.
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Tangentially related, does the Farms have an interior design thread?

 

[NoReturn]

How would you place a bed in this room though? It might be a me thing, but I cannot sleep with my head next to the door, it just makes me super paranoid for whatever reason.

How big is the bed?
Assuming you have normal size doors, a twin bed would be about this big and would give you plenty of space for using other furniture and stuff to make the sleeping space feel more protected:

And even a king could be placed without your feet facing directly at the door:

This is because the "chi" goes like this:

So it's not hitting you head on.
In mundane terms, it means you won't be looking directly at the door as you sleep, and you're at a location where you can perceive the doors and the window without being overwhelmed by them.

There's a lot you can do to make the whole thing feel more comfortable.

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Tangentially related, does the Farms have an interior design thread?

I don't think so, but I'd join it if you start one.

 

[𖦹Junkpop𖦹]

I think singing can help ward off bad when you're alone at home. Helps the feeling of being watched.
Also never ever fuck with witchcraft or go to a graveyard at night.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

There's a myth that if you get wet on the first rain of May, it'll help you look young. I still do it for some reason.

 

[NoReturn]

I think singing can help ward off bad when you're alone at home. Helps the feeling of being watched.

It is also a good idea to do when alone in rural areas/hiking/etc.
1. It scares off wild animals
2. It makes you seem insane, so people leave you alone

Also never ever fuck with witchcraft

One of my favorite examples of "It doesn't need to be supernatural for it to be a bad idea" is witchcraft. I've sperged a lot about it in the internet pagans thread.

or go to a graveyard at night.

Also doesn't need to be supernatural. There's really no good reason to be there at night, so you risk running into dangerous living humans if you do.

 

[Otterly]

Let me be more specific. I know about the CERN thing, but why the recent uptick? Just the general vibe in the air since the inauguration?

I’ve also noticed an uptick in mainstream press stories about ‘weird stuff.’ In the papers the last month I’ve seen multiple past life, NDE/OOB, and now that thing with the ‘structures under the pyramids’ which I swear is some kind of test run for how things spread or something (I fully support digging though because that’s fun.)

There's a myth that if you get wet on the first rain of May, it'll help you look young. I still do it for some reason.

Yes this is an English one. You are supposed to wash your face in the dew in the first day of may.

 

[PandaChai]

Didn't know which thread best suited so settled on here. Reading the posts on the recent feature of Simply Sara's passing it got me thinking (if any of you were wondering where that burning rubber smell was coming from) about how sometimes it's said people can just give up living, that they simply lose the will to live and then they die. And inversely that some people who by all accounts should be dead twice over keep on living because they simply refuse to die, at times purely out of spite.
I feel @Otterly, you might possibly be able to speak on this (please)

 

[NoReturn]

Didn't know which thread best suited so settled on here. Reading the posts on the recent feature of Simply Sara's passing it got me thinking (if any of you were wondering where that burning rubber smell was coming from) about how sometimes it's said people can just give up living, that they simply lose the will to live and then they die. And inversely that some people who by all accounts should be dead twice over keep on living because they simply refuse to die, at times purely out of spite.
I feel @Otterly, you might possibly be able to speak on this (please)

I think this is true because I think many of us have seen animals do it. They just go "Yep, all done." curl up in a ball and die. It's like they know it was coming and have a choice to stop.

 

[Lords Greatsword]

I think this is true because I think many of us have seen animals do it. They just go "Yep, all done." curl up in a ball and die. It's like they know it was coming and have a choice to stop.

It seems especially prominent in spiders and insects, where they appear to literally curl up in anticipation of their death.

 

[Otterly]

Didn't know which thread best suited so settled on here. Reading the posts on the recent feature of Simply Sara's passing it got me thinking (if any of you were wondering where that burning rubber smell was coming from) about how sometimes it's said people can just give up living, that they simply lose the will to live and then they die. And inversely that some people who by all accounts should be dead twice over keep on living because they simply refuse to die, at times purely out of spite.
I feel @Otterly, you might possibly be able to speak on this (please)

I think there’s some truth in this. It’s probably multiple ways of going but you can just give up. I know there are studies ‘proving’ that positive mindset doesn’t help cancer and all that but I think people can just give up on living and it kills them, fast or slow.
You can die from shock or stress or grief. There’s something called a takotsubo event which is called broken heart syndrome - basically extreme grief or stress causes the release of catecholamines which sort of ‘stun’ the heart and make it balloon out (takotsubo is the Japanese word for an octopus pot which is the shape it causes.) it can kill you.
I think some animals seem to know when death is coming and resign themselves to it, cats in particular.

 

[LimeRikki]

A penny on the ground can only bring good fortune. A face up penny means that you will have something go really well within the next 7 days; a face down penny means something ordinary, but beneficial and convenient, will happen within the next 5 days.

 

[CoolFool]

It doesn't happen often, but every great once in a while, my left ear will start ringing incredibly loudly. It only lasts 15-30 seconds and then goes away. I like to think that something is trying to get my attention urgently. Whenever my ear rings, make note of the time, pay more attention to my surroundings, etc. and see if there is something important I need to be aware of.

I think the weirdest thing is whenever I randomly think of something obscure and it ends up showing up in my life . For example, I randomly thought of this old semi popular YouTuber from back in the day. I couldn't remember her name and I couldn't find her after a simple search, so I dropped it and didn't think much of it. Later that day, I'm randomly browsing reddit and come across a comment where someone talks about their favorite cookie recipe, and they share a link. I click the link, and it's a video of the YouTuber I had just been thinking about earlier.

But wait, it gets even weirder. Before thinking about that YouTuber, I have been trying to figure out which hotel I want to stay at for my vacation. I was thinking about this one hotel I found but wasn't sure if I should go or not. That link I clicked on not only showed the YouTuber I was randomly thinking of, but in another video of hers, she talked about a hotel she had her wedding at and how it was the best... It was the same hotel I was thinking of staying at.

It's like the universe wanted to give me a very long and convoluted answer to my simple question of "Should I stay at this hotel?"

 

[Burning Bridge]

I am a firm believer in premonitions, I think they are a skill you can, if not master, at least wield, and dreams are very odd things.

 

[NoReturn]

dreams are very odd things.

I have a lot of feelings about dreams. I think they're "real". Maybe not in the same sense as what we're doing right now is real, but there's a reality to it, and you can feel it sometimes, you know?

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

I believe in synchronicity because it happens far, far too often to me. Just two completely unrelated things happening at the same time like, a few examples. It'd be one thing if it was just every now and then but I have streaks where they happen days in a row, multiple times a day.

Which, I'm not complaining about. At this point it just rolls off my back. Whatever it is out there that doesn't like me so much, I stay cheerful out of spite. Don't really have any rituals that "improve" luck, I simply find it to be inherent.

I have this type of shit happen incredibly often. I try not to believe that it is anything because it does make me feel schizo However, my pet schizo theory is that such things happen to snap you back into a more wary state, where you are more cognizant of how peculiar consciousness is.

I have the exact same issue. Word for word, basically. I will have the most ridiculous situations happen to me, and it all resembles stuff out of tragicomedies. My schizo theory for this one is that being hyper-involved in your surroundings and hyper-aware of them will make you attract+notice situations like these way easier.

Synchronicity is real and can be gamed. It worked for my wife after we met.

Lady Luck, Fortuna, whatever you want to call her is very capricious. She must be courted to care about you.
I wrote about it in this thread last year. I recently had a kiwi message me out of the blue about it. Gave them some advice, and immediately their life shifted. Got a ton of free money out of nowhere, things improved.
But she doesn't like disloyal or cowardly people. In order for you to be worth intervention at all, you have to be someone who takes risks. They can be calculated, but the fearless the better.
But she's capricious. I enjoy unrealistically good luck. But like any woman, sometimes it flips and things go wrong for a while.

There's no point in her making bullets miss you if you hide in the trench.

 

[No. 7 cat]

If you return to your house having left to set out on your journey, you sit down and bless yourself.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Generational curses, I'm a Catholic, and my Mom and Dad really believe in this stuff as well. Check out Fr. Chad Rippeger, sorry If I am mispronouncing his name, to find out more.