Whoops, I posted this originally in the wrong thread...
Here are my experiences, as promised earlier in the week.
A few years ago, I was caught somewhat between a rock and a hard place. I won't go into detail, but suffice to say I was really struggling with making a decision that would hugely impact on my life and that of those around me. The decision I had to make was taking up a lot of my "thinking time" and I'd been struggling with it internally for months.
I don't believe in God per se, but I have often wondered if everything we are part of is just one astronomically huge computer simulation. Yes, I'm a fan of Professor Nick Bostrom's ideas...

Anyway, with that in mind, I was smoking a cigarette* at the back door of my house late one night, looking up at the stars as I smoked and pondering my problem. Without any real forethought, I looked at one group of stars and softly asked for a sign. I know that must sound insane, but I was getting desperate! I looked at my half-smoked cigarette and then back up at the stars and made the request much more specific. I said if I should take path 'A', give me a sign. Not anything that could be misinterpreted as a trick of the light, but a jaw-dropping "yep, that's a sign" bright sign in the sky. I went on(!), show me a shooting star but one that isn't a blue streak gone in a nanosecond, one that is bigger, brighter, whiter and more impressive than anything I've ever seen before. With that, I looked at my cigarette and drew on it, which is when I immediately noticed something odd. As I drew on it, it glowed bright orange, far in excess of a normal "drag" and everything seemed to slow down. I remember thinking it was weird, and I slowly looked up at the sky again. As I looked, an impossibly bright, white light streaked overhead and over the horizon. I say streaked, but it was much slower than a shooting star. I could follow its trajectory with ease and it must have taken a couple of seconds to disappear. It was much wider than a shooting star and much brighter, being white instead of blue.
Needless to say, I was completely stunned by what I'd just witnessed. My heart rate went off the scale and I was breathing like I'd just finished running a marathon. It was definitely real, what I'd seen was so bright I could still see the trace of it when it had gone, similar to what you get after looking at the sun.
At the time I didn't really know what to think, I asked a very specific question and I received a very specific answer right back! The thing is, I'm a skeptic so what was I doing asking the question in the first place...
Since that time however, I've come to believe that what I saw didn't really happen, in the sense that if someone else had been looking up at the sky at that precise moment in time, they wouldn't have seen anything.
It was real to me, but because of the internal wrangling I was going through at the time, I think my subconscious mind created whatever it was I saw in order to allow me to make the decision and move on from it.
Oddly enough, even though I asked for a sign if I should take path A, I actually chose path B!
So what do you guys think, should I be on medication?

*I no longer smoke, I've finally quit after 30 years of smoking. One month and counting...
PS I wrote "experiences" at the top, I'll let you digest this one before mentioning the other. That and I have to get the kids ready for bed!