Poll Has Ptsd Increased Any Physic Abilities?

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

For some reason with each traumatic event I've endured I have developed certain 'gifts' such as warnings in dreams of things to come, the phone rings and I can tell if it's a bill collector calling or the all is for someone else and I say, "it's for you." I also pick up thoughts. It's weird, but true and scary at times.

 

[Kintsugi]

I don't really believe in being psychic or having premonitions, but now that you mention it, I had two vivid dreams of attempted kidnappings before they actually happened. One happened to me but involved a friend of mine, a certain road, a certain man with a certain coat holding a brown bag, and bicycles. All of the details were intact in the actual scenario a couple of weeks later. The crazy thing is, I told my friend about the dream and then she saw the whole things from a distance. It really freaked us out. Less than months later, new dream about a little boy, also a specific place and time of day, car, same man. A couple of weeks later, same deal. A man in a car allegedly tried to kidnap a little boy exactly where my dream had taken place, which I only heard about because I wasn't allowed outside on that road for several weeks.

I don't think this is necessarily psychic, though. I don't know what it is. Extreme coincidence? These are odd and unexplained occurrences, but psychic, probably not. Maybe a strong sense of intuition?

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

What I'm leaning towards is when tragic events occur to people they have premonition dreams and that their 'strong intuition' is a form of self-preservation. I have been having these dreams and intuitions for over 50 years with proven results. I was warned of the deaths of both of my husbands and told this dream to others before they died. I even had the date of one husband, July 16...

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

Okay, here is just what happened in the last two weeks - I looked at my partner when we woke up and told him he was a hot tamale - he replied, he was thinking about tamales the moment I spoke. Then, I was thinking of someone - they called within moments. My granddaughter (17) was riding in the car with me on the way to school and I asked her if she had stolen something from the store because I had a visual and a feeling she did. She said, no... how could I think that... and I was weird - then I get a call from the store to tell me that a few days before I asked her about it that she stole candy and had to pay a fine. This is a constant in my life - sometimes I wonder if I am living in the dream world.

 

[freakofnurture]

I think it's more likely that the symptoms of trauma make you more vulnerable to the cognitive biases that produce the impression of you having psychic abilities. Fear, a need to feel in control and problems with memory for example.

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

Granted, this may be the case for those who cannot face what had happened to them, but not so with me. If that were the case it would be easy to dismiss the outcome of these abilities as such. However, the fact is - these visions began as a child and have opened a window to the unknown. Whenever this dream revealed itself (it was a reoccurring dream), bad things happened to me. E.g. Black crosses coming out of the sky turning into tiny tornadoes as they struck my forehead... the next day, I was in trouble with the nuns for writing my name on the bathroom wall (which I did not). Other kids remember me being tossed against the bathroom wall. I had other experiences such as these with the nuns. Another e.g. of cognitive abilities: I was with my ex-fiance and as we drove by the home of a friend whose wife was pregnant I blurted out: She had the baby sometime after 8 this morning! - it's a boy - Jim hated that I could do this - it went against everything he believed.

Now, explain what triggered this? As for memory, lawyers and cops know it's accurate down to very explicate details. I am known for my memory... my sister-in-law jokingly defends it too, "You can ask Linda what you were wearing on a certain day and she will tell you."

 

[freakofnurture]

It's hard to think up a reply to your post. I don't want to appear dismissive or arrogant, because that's not how I feel towards you or the things you experience.
There are different ways to interpret your experiences, and there are some simple methods to test which one of them is closest to the actual happenings. If you're interested in testing your own interpretations, feel free to PM me, I'll be happy to give you the necessary information.

I don't want to derail or end another thread with my skepticism, so I will retreat from it now :)

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

freakofnature don't worry. I don't derail that easy. Firmly planted on the ground with my vision to the heavens hill gracefully accepting skepticism others may feel or believe to be true. This gift runs in my family on my mother's side, and I hate saying this part we are Hungarian Gypsies, known for the spirit world and music. Rock on!

 

[caliaviator]

Every now and then something pops into my head out of the blue and it happens shortly. But it's nothing that I can control or anything. Like sometimes a word pops into my mind like "siren" and 30 seconds later an ambulance turns on a siren around the corner. Or sometimes I would dream about something bad happening and it happens. But like I said it's really nothing that I can really control it just happens. Not sure if it's just good observation and guessing or something psychic; I've long been pretty skeptical about such things.

 

[The Albatross]

Fudge, I wasn't gonna write here. I am a long time care giver, and in my reporting I learned early on some "got it" some don't. I'd report to check on Mrs. So and so because she was grey, or blue, or yellow and green. Some got it, and checked... usually finding an underlaying cause. Some didn't and ignored me which usually resulted in a trip to ER. When sharing with a holistic nutritionist, who had helped me learn to manage my nutrition challenges, I shared about my mother, "she looks blue", and my husband, "he looks green".

She took me aside into her office and asked me what other colors I could see. I replied, grey, yellow, blue, green, white and clammy. She replied that she could only see "black, white and grey". It took a moment to sink in that she seemed to think that I was a medical empath. In So Cal I was doing medical theta at 16 and was 96% accurate with just a name an age and a city.

I have had accurate visions, and other situations where I have avoided accidents that were life threatening. My husband is very respectful of my impressions. He even asks me now when we travel, which route we should take.

I don't know how I feel about this. I don't know if it has anything to do with the PTSD or not. I know I fry batteries, mess with the electronics in my car and have to stand back from magnetic equipment or I'll skew the numbers. I had a job where we had to measure the silver in film and this was demonstrated on a kahn machine. To read accurately, I had to stand 10 feet away from the machine. My supervisors couldn't explain it and neither could I.

I started my mom's car with the starter disconnected three times, once for her mechanic. I'm a weirdo.. an anomily but does this have anything to do with PTSD? I don't tend to think so except that perhaps I'm extremely sensitive to sight, smells and I sense things off of people that ward off trouble. Usually.

 

[Tosh]

I never questioned whether having PTSD increased abilities, that's interesting. I was just told the intuition through dreams ran in our family. It could have something to do with going through trauma.

 

[The Albatross]

Doubled back to say...that I have had opportunities to "develop" this and have refused. Though I am surrounded by "healers" and they think I haven't commited to a "calling" I have not been moved in this area. I don't subscribe it to anything except "radar".

Husband is home, he says the one that freaked him out the most was we were on our way home from south Florida, and I woke up and told him to slow down or he'd hit the buck.... twice. And both times, within a half mile on 19 there was a buck standing in the road. Same night/trip home. I became visibly aggitated the second time and insisted that he stop the car the second time on a curve. Just around the bend was another buck standing in our lane on the road.

At 9 after my grandmother died, I started seeing her in my peripheral vision. She looks over me, I think.

P.S. I am also part American Indian, Lakota. I attribute a lot to my native American side.