Hi,
I'm new here...
I felt compelled to find a Ning Community that talked about these issues... well other people in my life want me to find an outlet for people who understand because this is just kinda weird and they don't know what to tell me.
I started having experiences as a young child - I think my first memory of it is at around 3 years of age. I would say things, know things, talk about things and see/say/convey things with such authority and candor about subjects I shouldn't have been able to grasp even...
I wouldn't say that my parents were accepting and the older I got the more it wasn't cute anymore, they would have preferred throttle me for talking about their business like that... They also didn't like it when I knew someone was going to pass and it would hit me and I'd demand to see that person, to make my peace - i'd tell them "We'll be back in so many days..." and it always happened. I knew a few days before my mother passed that she was going and I was inconsolable, no one could figure out what my problem was, I wanted to stop it - she did indeed die in that period and I was grieving her for three days before the news even got back to me. (She was found under Jane Doe by an ad in the paper that a relative saw and knew I was going through this.) I was 15.
Another thing I seem to intuit is when my siblings/relatives are having their children. Someone would call and say 'has so and so had their baby'? I'd be like 'no but I have a feeling we'll hear that they had it today... and that it's a girl...' Two days later - a phone call - Guess what? Then I say 'so and so had a baby girl the other day around lunch time?' Their reply.. Who told you??!!
Those experiences have continued all through my life and have come about in various ways.
One way that is kinda weirding some people out is knowing precise details of things that I wasn't 'there' for' but often think I was - I know when, where, what, conversation details and comments, etc and among those things is occasions when I hear of a tragedy or a missing person and I turn to whomever is there with me and say, "That person is ...... and ........., thats what I think happened to them anyway..." And then the news comes on hours, days or even weeks later, and confirms everything I said.
One lady I wrote something to on a paper and handed it to her - it said something like "I just wanted you to know that whenever you fly you should always check yourself and see if you feel right about getting on that flight or not and if you don't feel right - don't fly." She glanced at it and looked at me with a disparaging glance. She considered herself prophetic and didn't need my help. One day about 7 years later or so I was watching TV and saw the breaking news about a plan crash with no survivors and had a gripping feeling that someone I knew was on that flight - while I watched the coverage later they were showing pictures and highlighted the couple I gave the message to. She did die on a flight, the parents of six, she was coming home from charity work.
The people I say things like that to are begging me to find someone who can tell me what to do with this.
When I get an impression of something really strongly happening to someone and they call me and I answer the phone saying "Thank goodness you survived that thing with the ....!" It sorta takes their breath away. They don't mind that so much but when I know other things they'd rather I didnt know it starts creeping us both out. If my friends say 'oh lets make a pact to eat a certain way' or whatever and I feel stupid details about what they were eating and they call me and say 'You know don't you...' I'm like 'ya but i'm not here to police or judge you or anything'. I can often know, where they were, what they had and when they did it... it's so stupid!
For a long time I prayed for all of this to go away because it was messing with my interpersonal relationships, but I am starting to recognise that there must be a reason that this is happening to me. It's definitely felt like a curse and will continue to do so as long as I deny it.
I'm not one of these over-affectatious 'woowoo' types who's always looking for a 'feeling', I kinda run from them most of the time, but I want to find a happy MEDIUM lol.
I can't shake the idea now that of the many times I've reached out to people to 'be careful' over something I was seeing, I also accept that maybe these things were for me to 'be prepared' that something could happen. In either case I need to find the 'right way of dealing with this' because I find it a responsiblity now more than ever. As I age I am recognising that those things that I know may help people who could be in trouble and for me to try and get away from it any longer just feels irresponsible now.
Over the years I've tested pretty high in various studies but the study makers have never offered me any perspective on how to handle it or what to channel it into.
I'm stuck in several areas of my life and I have an idea that squashing this is part of the problem.
Any thoughts?
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