A Strange Feeling as of Late...

reply to post by SolarE-Souljah


Let me know if you're ever coming to Vancouver BC. Ill hook you up with the local events of that genre.

With respect, perception is all.
If I dent my car, I find myself looking more at other cars on the road and suddenly it seems that every other car has a dent! Similarly, if there is something happening with ourselves, it begins to seem that it's happening all around.
These forums attract a variety of people including those who are mentally 'dented'. They meet others similar and their mental state is confirmed and mis-labelled as an objective reality. It's a vicious cycle.

reply to post by starchild10


While I agree with you on the dented car analogy, I gonna have to disagree with you about the "Strange Feeling as of Late."

This is real. This is something that people from all walks of life are feeling. People are waking up. They are seeing that the world is not as it should be. That all this technology is really hurting us more than helping us, and it is disconnecting us from the source, the Mother Earth.

yeah.

Hey all,

I have a couple things I want to post:

1) I finally had a dream that I could remember that made me think there was something to it. Last night before bed I had that ringing in my left ear and then it would feel like my ear was clogged. It happened several times last night and my ear still feels a bit like that today. Just wanted to add that as some others here get it too.

Well, I fall asleep and in my dream I was practicing moving things with my mind (yeah I know but it was cool lol) and eventually I got it. I was able to move plants back and forth and other simple stuff and then someone else who was there (don't know who it was) asked me to grab a lock and unlock it with just my mind. At this time I was also talking to someone (same person?) about the soul/higher self and learning to talk to that part of yourself when 'Click', the lock unlocked and opened up. I remember feeling really good about that and then the conversation continued but I woke up then and couldn't quite catch anything else.

This morning I woke up feeling pretty good (especially for a Monday lol). Just thought I'd share as it felt like a really positive dream.

2). Yesterday we had family coming over and before everyone showed up it was just my dad, brother, and I and we started talking about the world and all that was going on and it really felt like they were aware of a lot of the stuff that gets discussed around here whether they knew it or not. It made me think that maybe people are coming upon whatever is going on individually and that there are A LOT more people out there than we may think who are noticing the differences these days.

Just wanted to share with you all. There is some other stuff, but I'll try to post that later

Hope everyone else is well. I'm still playing catch up on the thread but welcome to the newcomers.

- Dredge

Originally posted by starchild10
With respect, perception is all.
If I dent my car, I find myself looking more at other cars on the road and suddenly it seems that every other car has a dent! Similarly, if there is something happening with ourselves, it begins to seem that it's happening all around.
These forums attract a variety of people including those who are mentally 'dented'. They meet others similar and their mental state is confirmed and mis-labelled as an objective reality. It's a vicious cycle.

I'm going to echo Sol's sentiments on this matter. I agree with you on the dented car analogy. I also have another one. When I bought my new truck last year, I had never seen one like it on the road before, literally. Shortly after I purchased it, that is all I saw: the exact same make, model, and color of my own. It is very weird how it works like that.

As far as your other comments, well, I respectfully disagree. This thread wouldn't have lasted this long if there wasn't something strange going on. I don't know if you are suggesting that we are all mentally "dented" as you put it, but I'm going to vouch for all of us when I say that we are professionals, students, and parents in many different walks of life. We are people who would never talk about these things out in the open (although I have begun to do just that whenever I'm around town), yet we have found each other and can relate these experiences. It is synchronicity at its finest. You may nay-say our work, you may think of us as or even call us "mentally dented" but the fact remains that empirical evidence does not lie. There is something real at work, and while we may not have a name for it or any "scientific proof" outside of empirical evidence, it still does not take away from the fact that we are collectively feeling a shift of sorts. There is something to this, and there is no amount of suggestive terms that anybody can call us to detour us from what we are feeling.

You have your opinion, and I have mine.



Peace be with you.

-truthseeker

Originally posted by truthseeker1984

You may nay-say our work, you may think of us as or even call us "mentally dented" but the fact remains that empirical evidence does not lie.

Oh I'm definitely mentally "dented" but then who isn't? You have to be at least slightly barmy to get through things these days

- Phoenix

Originally posted by phoenix_zephyr

Originally posted by truthseeker1984

You may nay-say our work, you may think of us as or even call us "mentally dented" but the fact remains that empirical evidence does not lie.

Oh I'm definitely mentally "dented" but then who isn't? You have to be at least slightly barmy to get through things these days

- Phoenix

Indeed.

reply to post by truthseeker1984


Can you clarify what "mentally dented" means? Also can you give more description to how you and others like you get feelings to things? Is this something your born with or can you learn it?

Originally posted by amc621
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Can you clarify what "mentally dented" means? Also can you give more description to how you and others like you get feelings to things? Is this something your born with or can you learn it?

I was referring to star child's post about being "mentally dented" so you'll have to ask him what his definition of it is.

Honestly, there isn't a proper way to describe how I personally get feelings about things. For me it is just something that I "know." I can describe the sensations that I have when I do get those intuitive feelings, however. It starts as almost a tingling sensation at the crown of my head, and slowly makes its way to just below my brow ridge, just about to the bridge of my nose. I will see something in my mind's eye that will make me, at the very least, pay attention to what is going on around me. I'll give you an anecdote of one of my more powerful intuitive moments:

A few years ago, while still in grad school, I was sitting in my philosophy of education class. While taking some notes, I got that tingling feeling, which led to a horrible migraine. The pain I felt was unreal and I felt as if my mother was in some sort of danger. I saw a car wreck and I saw my sister's high school. I saw my mother in the car and it wasn't a pretty picture by any stretch of the imagination. I immediately excused myself from the lecture hall and hastily called my mother. I begged and pleaded with her not to pick up my sister from the basketball game that night, and that she should send my stepfather to get her instead. Trusting my intuitiveness since I was young, she agreed to stay home. As expected, nothing bad happened. Upon receiving the local newspaper the next day, the front page headline was "Car crash in front of "---" High School." I read the article and I just about puked. Right about the time that my mom was slated to pick up my sister from the high school, a young kid was driving his car down the steep hill next to the high school. He reached an estimated speed of almost 60 MPH on a 25 MPH school zone road. He barreled through the stop sign and tee-boned a vehicle- the same exact make, model, color, and year of my mother's- causing severe injury to the driver. The driver survived, the kid survived, and was charged with reckless driving, and a bunch of other offenses. These types of intuitive moments don't come often for me, nor can I control them, but when they do, I listen.

As far as anybody being able to do this, yes, I believe that all humans can tap into their intuitive centers of the brain at some level. While I have not found an exact science in helping others to unlock these tools, I have found that meditation and intent is an important part in training your brain to be able to "listen" to these signals. A very easy exercise that I tell many people to use is the telephone game. The next time your phone rings, without looking at the caller ID, guess who is calling. Record your results for two weeks (right guesses and wrong guesses), every time the telephone rings. If results show that you are more than 70% accurate in your guesses, then for another two weeks, do the same, except remember what your mind felt like when you correctly guessed who was calling. It is sort of a muscle memory exercise for the intuitive portions of your brain. Just like I practice my golf swing, people who want to learn how to use their intuitiveness need to learn how to memorize the feeling associated with it. If you are truly interested, I would try doing that at first.

As far as being born with it, well, I do believe that certain people are born with it, and others have to work at it. I am a musician, and I was just "born" with my musical talent, while my brother is very analytical and does research. He was a musician as well, but had to work ten times harder just to play the same things that took me a half hour to learn. Without getting into the esoteric side of things, I believe genetics is a factor in who is intuitive and who is not. I think it also has to do with upbringing, whether or not you came from a religious family (many religions demonize what myself and others can do), whether or not any of your family members are intuitive, etc. I can tell you that an overwhelming majority of my family is in some way, shape, or form, more intuitive than your normal person. My grandmother used to read tea leaves (yeah, I know, but keep reading), and was amazingly accurate in her predictions. She predicted the death of two of my father's friends when they were kids. She got it down to the time, date, and place where they would die, and the method of death. The two boys were found on that date laying on the train tracks, mutilated from being hit by a train, just as she predicted. My cousin can "sense" a baby's sex before the mother knows. Another cousin of mine, much like me, can sense moods, emotions, and things of that nature by just looking at a person. My mother has an uncanny sense of when someone is going to die. She worked as a trauma nurse for 23 years, and maybe her training had something to do with that, or maybe it was something more, but she could usually predict right down to the second when someone was going to check out.

I understand that there is no "real" scientific data on any of this phenomena, and to a skeptic it must look like we are all crazy, but I do believe there is some underlying fundamental thing that we have yet to understand about human physiology and the human brain. One of my best friends from college, who just completed his PhD in Psychology did a study on this type of phenomena a few years ago. I had related many of my more intuitive moments with him, and he asked me to be part of a test he was doing. The first part of the test had to do with Zener cards. If you are not familiar with them, they are the shape cards: circle, square, wavy lines, etc. He hooked me up to an EEG machine to monitor brain activity while I was doing this test. My results were about a 71% accuracy rate over 500 cards. He said that he had monitored very abnormal patterns in the EEG machine while I was "divining" the cards, but since I do not understand that tool, I couldn't tell you what they meant, only that the patterns were abnormal and that he deemed them as inconclusive. The second part of the test was to try and picture what was in the room next to me. They had purposefully set up a mock remote viewing room next door to the room he was testing me in. My job was to describe what was in the room: location, type of things, etc. Once again, I had about a 71% accuracy rate, and once again the EEG produced abnormal results. Overall, he stated that the findings were abnormal, but inconclusive and that if he had more time and money, he would do more tests on me. The control person that they used only had about a 40-45% accuracy rate, which is to be expected in these types of tests. He stated to me that anything over standard guess rate (about 58%) was something to be documented. I do not know what he ended up doing with his research, but he's a practicing psychologist in southern California now. I haven't talked to him since the tests other than one follow up phone call.

I can appreciate a healthy sense of skepticism when talking about matters such as these. I was just like that before I started having the really big experiences in my life. Sometimes it takes actually experiencing it for yourself to truly realize that there is something that human science can not yet document or understand. I hope I answered your questions in a way that makes sense. When you have been doing this for as long as I have, it's sometimes hard to put words to the feelings.


Peace be with you.

-truthseeker

why when I start to reach some degree of spiritual peace and centering, something happens in my life and ruins everything?
Now my aunt is trying to make me leave the house without saying it, just doing random vile acts when I'm not here (like leaving dirty toilet paper over the trashcan and not in the trashcan in the bathroom?) Geez, I was about to write a nice post on my blog and start a tale when I came home, and now I don't feel like doing it... I really want to leave this house now but... I don't know where to go... maybe my mom's home? I'm tired of coming home and found things she would never do in the past

Cags - Are you sure she's really trying to make you leave? Maybe she's having some issues that she hasn't voiced to you? Just a thought. But if I were you, before I make any rash decisions, I would speak with her and find out for sure that's what is going on. Smile honey, you'll find your peace.

she isn't atn home usually. She is finally dating the man who has been after her for like 50 years, and doesn't seem to care about me anymore... the other day she said "well, your uncle (the one who had the brain stroke) is coming living here, so we (she and his new bf) are next year" and guess what... we just have 2 big bedrooms and the third one is now a reading room...

I have been having some extremely interesting things happening lately.

Last night, I watched the night sky, and it was truly incredible. A really strange thing happened where I closed my eyes, and something "changed" and then I opened my eyes back up and it looked like the stars had changed position in the sky, as in time had elapsed...

It was like when I closed my eyes for those couple seconds, I went up into the sky for about 30 minutes or so. I don't know, it was a very interesting event.

-SES

2 Lucid dreams \o/

Managed to gain partial lucidity, kept myself calm so as to stop myself waking up. Just stood and surveyed my surroundings. Remembered that I would try and make manifest one of my dream regulars/visitors in an attempt to gain more control when lucid. I attempted to but partially woke up. Went over in my mind key bits in the dream to trigger remembrance for when I got up. I then realise I'm back in the same dream and don't remember the transition between wake and dream.

I stand there and manage to will into appearing one of my dream regulars/visitor, he looks the same as one of his guises but when I ask him who he is, the voice is wrong. He says it's complex as to who he is. I ask again and again as to who he is and why he's here. I pick him up by the collar and light as a feather I swing him and put him up against the wall. He then comes out with “Don't do the negative hand thing.” sounding scared. ( I have no idea what he's referring to )

It then transitions to another dream and I lose the lucidity. All I can remember of that dream is getting a deep cut across my right hand from angrily smashing it on an old fashioned hand held mirror. Later in the dream the cut starts to open again slowly, no blood, and on the far right it opens out into an Egyptian style eye.

I'm slowly starting to make some progress with lucid dreams which is awesome Interestingly, my other half remembered 3 dreams last night, 3 whole dreams! Whilst this may not seem that important, this is a guy who barely remembers a handful of dreams a year, let alone 3 in a night.

Hope everyone is doing good

- Phoenix

Originally posted by Caggy
why when I start to reach some degree of spiritual peace and centering, something happens in my life and ruins everything?
Now my aunt is trying to make me leave the house without saying it, just doing random vile acts when I'm not here (like leaving dirty toilet paper over the trashcan and not in the trashcan in the bathroom?) Geez, I was about to write a nice post on my blog and start a tale when I came home, and now I don't feel like doing it... I really want to leave this house now but... I don't know where to go... maybe my mom's home? I'm tired of coming home and found things she would never do in the past

It sounds like your uncle becasme a priority when he was no longer capable of caring for himself after nearly dying, and we think 'we' are having a bad day?

I look at this situation and think how would I respond if my brother had a stroke and needed care immediately, would I pressure my sisters child to leave my home so I can care for my brother? Probably...

I would sincerely talk to your aunt about this and put everything out on the table, speak calmly without buying into her traps and leads that will trigger your emotional fallout, keep your wits about you and as a grown human being stake your claim in this world, whether it be there, with you mom, or elsewhere.

The river is calm for a time, then surely it flows into rapids unto a waterfall where the turbulance would seek to tear us apart, but if you hold on and swim to the surface the river will assume its gentle flow again.

I would sincerely talk to your aunt about this and put everything out on the table, speak calmly without buying into her traps and leads that will trigger your emotional fallout, keep your wits about you and as a grown human being stake your claim in this world, whether it be there, with you mom, or elsewhere.

The river is calm for a time, then surely it flows into rapids unto a waterfall where the turbulance would seek to tear us apart, but if you hold on and swim to the surface the river will assume its gentle flow again.

Well said. Just try to be calm and rational. I know this is your home/living arrangment and it can be very stressful. But I don't believe that anyone is trying to hurt you with this. If this is what's going on, it seems to me that she may be between a rock and a hard spot. I know it sounds silly but when I need to have a difficult conversation with someone - I find it a little easier to do if I seperate myself from the situation. As in ... it's sort of like you pretend you're playing a role. Imagine you are someone else who has the characteristics of what you need to be at the time. Stick to the role and don't let the emotions take over. I don't know how else to explain it. Speak calmly and confidently with no nonsense. Ask for the truth so that you all can work through this.

You have to believe and have faith that everything happens for a reason and in the end, it's for the better. Maybe being with your Mom again would be a good thing. Weren't things progressing nicely last time you were there? I know how much you adore and need her. As a mother of 3 myself, I know she adores you just as much if not more.