Poll Has Ptsd Increased Any Physic Abilities?

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

I'd say I had to grow eyes on the back of my head just to survive; I voted yes.

This made me laugh! People have said that about my mom.., then my kids, but it wasn't anything other than the mirrors. Yup, I had mirrors placed in perfect locations so I could keep an eye on them. They thought I was spooky... hahaha. Nope, a little sneaky. It was four against one. I had to be.

 

[surviving_it_all]

I do not think so. I think this claim is ludicrous.

 

[Changing4Best]

I think this claim is ludicrous.

Please don't mock what you may not understand. Some folks experience these kinds of things and others don't. I accept that you don't, but I'd appreciate a more open mind on your part and not to have my experiences labeled "ludicrous" just because you have not experienced anything like this.

You could liken this to someone whose never had a weight problem in their life. They eat all they want to and never gain a pound. Tell someone who has a weight problem that you think their problem in not being able to curb their appetite is "ludicrous" and see what kind of reaction you get. I assure you it would be an unhappy or even resentful one.

"Until you've walked a mile in my shoes...".

 

[surviving_it_all]

I apologize. I never meant to offend. PTSD causes me be on alert at all time. This leads way to trust issues and questions. I should own this claim. I think I don't have any increased psychic abilities. I have the need to interpret my environment more. I have the need to analyze everything. If this makes me stumble across facts that others do not notice, this is not true psychic abilities. I do not know if I believe in psychic abilities as of yet in my life. I do believe, however, that many PTSD sufferers like myself may call hyper-vigilance a psychic ability.

 

[surviving_it_all]

I feel the need to add that I did not at all mean to dismiss your experience. I apologize for my words. I should have thought of what I posted before posting it.

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

I do not think so. I think this claim is ludicrous.

I wish it was. Yet, these things happened before PTSD was involved. I have had therapists and doctors, professionals in their fields, at odds within their circles over this... Some, have had similar experiences with this invisible world. Not all doctors, but some do believe it can happen and have had the experiences themselves. Not everyone is open to things they cannot control, they have yet to find faith within themselves and to trust their instincts. Also, I have four witnesses that experienced a prediction as it happened. We were at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood, Ca. My producer and I got on the elevator. I turned to push the button and all of a sudden, a dream like state came over me and I blurted out, "We're going to get stuck." And yet, I couldn't stop myself from pushing the damn button. Less than 10 secs, the elevator stopped between floors. We were stuck for 20 minutes. The look on everyone's face when I turned around, said it all. How did you know? The rest is in my book Stick & Stones (A monstrous life) which will be released in July.

 

[cookinggal]

For me both Yes and No. My event per say fine tuned my abilities.

 

[WillThereBeCake]

I am an atheist, science loving, skeptic who doesn't believe in anything paranormal period. Having said that, I have to say that this is absolutely real. No, I have no explanation, and hope that science will one day be able to explain it, but it has happened to me so often, and with such clarity, that I have to admit it. Being a science nerd, when these happen to me, I have insisted on documentation, at least in the amateur way I can get it. Mine came in the form of dreams, but not like other dreams. They are not emotional in any way, except for the awareness that important information is coming through (that is the only way to explain it).

As close to scientific method as I can get, I keep a journal by my bed and write down the details as soon as I can. Then, to prevent the Nostradamus effect (where people look back and try to fit details after the fact) I make my husband put the journal in his work bag and take it out of the house with him. If he is away, I call and tell him the detail first thing in the morning. Sure enough, usually before the day was out, events have transpired that fit my journal entries so closely as to rule out coincidence.

Now, the details never come clearly enough that I can do a damn thing about them, so it is not a fun thing - it is a freakin' albatross that I wish I could cut loose from. These were no small events, and I don't really think I "see" them, as much as there was some weird glitch in time and I feel certain details spill through. Really, I'm a science nerd and I'm reaching to explain it, but frankly, I can't.

One bizarre example was a "dream" that I even hesitated to write down. The imagery was so crazy, I thought my feeling of it being a message dream was distorted. I saw a shark coming out of the roof of a tour bus pulling up to my old office building (I worked at a radio station). The building was on fire, with fireworks shooting out of the flames. F-ing crazy until the next night when The Station Bar in Rhode Island burned down when the band Great White set off fireworks and around 100 people died.

I also "saw" the Columbia shuttle explosion, several plane crashes, the ferry sinking in NY, a train crash in N. Korea (I knew nothing about N. Korea at the time) and several others. I have never talked about it with anyone except my husband and my little journal.

Now, again, I don't ever use the word psychic, because it doesn't feel like that to me. I also am not sure it is related to PTSD in a true cause/effect relationship. However, I am open to the possibility that whatever part of our brains allow this may also somehow "prime" us for PTSD. Perhaps we feel differently and therefore perceive things differently? I truly don't know and doubt science and brain research will be able to answer these questions in our lifetimes.

The only possible connection I have noticed is that the dreams actually subside when my PTSD is at its worst. I haven't had any recently, almost as if my brain realizes that my cup is full and I can't handle any more stimulation. ????

Frankly, I only shared in the event there are others out there experiencing something like this and think they're crazy. For me, it is a frustrating experience only made worse by my heightened sensitivity to things. It only reinforces for me that there is so little we know about our little lizard brains. Out Damn Spot!

 

[Changing4Best]

Thanks, I accept your apology Surviving It All, and I do understand your point of view too. Maybe my "eyes on the back of my head" is just a heightened vigilance kinda thing, who knows! I've always thought of it as psychic, because I cannot pinpoint any specific thing that I'm doing that I can describe or put into words. I just grabbed onto that phrase ages ago as a kind of sort of thing that comes as close as I can to saying what seems to be happening.

I do believe in God though, and He speaks to us in unknown ways, ways that are so above our ways that we really have no words to express them either. The Bible is a HUGE tome that is maybe longer than any other book. And yet there is still so much that it does not fully explain. Jesus did things that no man or woman ever has been or is able to achieve. Many folks witnessed these things, wrote about them and swore to them. People saw Him raise a man from the grave after that man had been in there for four days! Jesus Himself was raised from the dead after three days of being in a tomb. No doctor today can do that. No one does things like coming back to life three days after having been in the morgue. And yet it happened. There is no explanation other than to know that God can do things that we cannot.

And I believe that when I become aware of some danger that cannot be sensed with the five senses, when I suddenly know something that happened far away from me, God somehow has let me know these things for my own well being, a well being that only He knows why I need at that moment. That is the only way I can logically explain it to myself and hopefully to others too.

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

This is interesting. New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests the anterior cingulate cortex, may actually function as an early warning system that works at a subconscious level. A study was done after scientists learned that aboriginal tribesmen had 'somehow sensed' the Asian tsunami danger in time to move to higher ground.

 

[surviving_it_all]

I also seen a documentary where the people knew about signs of famine. They didn't "sense" anything. They knew what they were going to high ground for. This could be an explanation. Perhaps, the know the signs or seasons when earthquakes cause tsunamis. It may be perspective that science has yet to explore.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Hmmmm...

The dream thing happened to me once. I had a dream about something that was so fantastical that it could only happen in a dream. And the next week I got a greeting card on the mail that was pretty much an exact duplication of the dream. I mean down to the details and all. Nobody ever believes me when I tell them. They say I must've seen the card ahead of time or something. But nope, I didn't! Very odd, indeed.

And I have experiences which deal more with energy fields rather than psychic abilities. But, I won't get into that as I'm still trying to figure it out myself!