Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Lauren Hunt


1.  Have you ever had a transcendent experience?  If so, what happened?

I once saw 30 seconds into the future for a period of 5 minutes. It was one of the strangest experiences of my life. I was about 12 and was sitting in the waiting room of my small-time family dentist looking out the window. In my mind I imagined a truck pulling into the parking lot and one of my former camp councilors getting out. I was in shocked when just a short time later that very thing happened. But it didn’t stop there. As the truck was parked and the camp councilor was exiting, in my mind I saw another truck pull next to the truck and the councilor get out of that truck too. Impossible, right? Well, imagine my shock when another truck pulled into the parking lot and the councilor got out of that truck too! (Actually, it turned out that the second councilor was the real one and the first was his twin that I didn’t know existed.) The experience was overwhelming and frightening, but it really has made me a much more open-minded person when it comes to the paranormal. After that day I knew that there were things in this world that go beyond the realm of explanation. I have never had another experience like I did that day.


2.  If you had to pick one sense and lose all others, what would it be?
I suppose I would pick hearing as music has always been an extremely important part of my life. Also, I need to be able to communicate with people and I know would be WAY too lazy to learn ASL or how to read lips.


3. What is your favorite attribute in a person?
Understanding. The world is a big place and people are bound to disagree on many points. I think it is important to listen to all sides and understand where they are coming from. Different views makes the world a much more interesting and rich place.


4.  Describe your happiest accident.

In about the spring of 1998 I stumbled into a MSN chat room on a whim. There I met a young man my age and we began chatting and talking on the phone. We would lose touch every couple of years and then pick up again where we left off. In 2008 we finally met in person after almost 11 years of long distance romance and have barely left each other’s side ever-since.

5. If you had to choose one personal object to leave behind when you are gone, what would it be?

I am stumped on this one. I don’t have any personal items that I feel deeply connected to. I guess I would choose a necklace that was my grandmothers because it reminds me of her.