When I was younger, we lived in a house which all of those in my family inclined to believe in such things were convinced was haunted; a baby's cries would come from the child monitor when no one was home, water would come from the faucets when no one was near them, and my younger sister, 2 at the time, would find herself in the hallway, having miraculously climbed over the child-gate in her doorway. Also, she would wake up nearly every night, for a period of time, at 3 in the morning, regardless of when she went to bed.
To my family, this was clear evidence of the paranormal. To me, it was evidence that the plumbing in the house wasn't of high quality, forcing the water out at odd times; that there were, shockingly, other families in the neighborhood who used child monitors (in a later house, we could hear our neighbors chatting on their cordless phone, and in my own first home, I was able, on more than one occasion, to have a conversation with neighbors because the lines were so crossed [I believe I unintentionally interrupted some phone sex]); that something in the neighborhood made a sound at the same time every night, or that a neighbor worked late shifts; that my little sister was able to climb the child-gate in the room.
Similarly, by your description I'd say you experienced some hypnagogic dreams, and your wife may have, either (this is not uncommon). Also, vivid dreams are not paranormal. Also, the grid burst? We had sewage problems in the house we're in currently, but that's because the roots of a tree grew into our pipe, not because of anything supernatural.
This isn't to say that the involvement of "paranormal" forces are impossible, just that more mundane explanations seem to fit better.  |