Welcome To The Mothership!

[Truthful_Whispers]

I read something a while back that said people with MI's are more sensitive to and are in touch with the subtle and hidden realities of this universe than 'normal' individuals are. Maybe it is true..

 

[Fadeaway]

Paranormal experiences are fascinating, but I am either too obtuse to notice them or ghosts don't like me.

 

[Chava]

I feel like I died in the hospital when very young (in Canada) and woke up in India. I don't know how else to explain it. Also, every person I care about corresponds to a color in my mind.

 

[Changing4Best]

I went into shock by an allergic reaction to a new medicine. I went unconscious. When I came to, I was terrified to try any other new medicine, but eventually I had to be prescribed one.

My therapist told me she could walk me through what happened to me to desensitize it and ease my fears, so we did.

I didn't go with what my body went though. Instead, I recalled that I (in spirit) went to the gates of Heaven and saw my miscarried daughter there, just outside the gates. She called me mommy and begged me to stay, but I came to and came back to earth instead. I guess I still had things here that I needed to do.

 

[jaccat]

@The Albatross so do I. A great aunt told me it's something I inherited from my great grandmother. Someone at work told me I'm a 'natural born sensitive'. Not that I try to do it. And some of the things I just know are completely random.

 

[Ronin]

I'm quite happy to be in this corner of ya loonies but... people. For real, people have been the craziest thing I've encountered in my life. Nothing sprite comes close.

 

[Ronin]

Also, every person I care about corresponds to a color in my mind.

Synesthesia much? ;) Albeit it would be atypical fairly lot for synesthesia that I know of / it'd be more generalized otherwise, but might be worth checking out as a phenomenon.

 

[Neverthesame]

Got another one.

A few months ago I was heading home from working late, 2am-ish.

I live fairly close to where I work, so on days when I work late I often just walk. I enjoy it, helps lessen the stress of the day.

So here I am walking down the street, when I see this big looking guy, about 6'3" about 40 metres away, walking in my direction down the sidewalk. Then I noticed that this guy appeared to have glowing red eyes. I am beginning to get somewhat nervous at this point.

There really wasn't anywhere else I could go from this road so I took a deep breath, steeled myself and kept walking.

As I get closer I see that not only does this guy have glowing red eyes, he is also wearing what looked to be a modified version of an SS officer's uniform, helmet and body armour. I didn't know what else to do but stand there staring as he walked past me without a word.

I then carried on a bit further wondering if I saw that, or if I had finally gone off the deep end? Wound up sitting down on the curb for a while pondering my newfound insanity, or was it a German invasion, or was it some lone nutter on his way to commit atrocities in the name of some long dead bohemian corporal? But the eyes? I must be hallucinating... Right?

I pulled out my phone texted a guy who I know was up at that hour. Stood up, then cautiously went home.

Couple of hours later, the guy I had texted replied with. "Ha, ha. You know comicon (a convention for fans of comic books) was today right? It was probably some guy doing a cosplay of Iron Sky or something."
:facepalm:

Yup, I got the shit scared out of me by some bloke dressed as a moon nazi. Still. Bloody weird thing to run into at 2am.

Damn kids and their hobbies. :grumpy:

 

[Peach]

Ha, ha. You know comicon (a convention for fans of comic books) was today right?

Ha! That was the first thing I thought of as someone who definitely doesn't :whistling::whistling::whistling::whistling: attend scifi conventions and dress up in elaborate costumes! :D There is no SG1 uniform in my closet upstairs and I didn't attend one of my school's Spirit Week days as Agent Mulder...:roflmao:

 

[Chava]

Yes @Cashew , some example of synesthesia, though I've never heard of people being connected to colors (though I assume there are some others who do this, even if it's not very common). It's weird I'm pretty hyper-sensitive to sound, but there aren't sounds that correspond to people. Just colors. I didn't realize I felt more free in my artwork until I started using "my" colors and not ones that feel like they correspond to my mom. :blackeye::O_o: Those colors were dragging me down.

 

[Ronin]

@Chava, aww you. Opposite experience, here; virtually everyone I've talked about this with, has connected people to colors (and a great other things to colors), so just sharing that, it really is about people you meet & experience you have, may be that and may be not, in every case it's not something utterly unheard of.

(I feel like such a party spoiler here, cough. It's just that I tend to pin a lot of E.S.P. phenomena on the miracle called our brains, and perception of things is ultimately more fascinating to me to poke at than how far can reality get stretched or not, even though it's interesting, philosophically, as well.)

 

[Chava]

@Cashew ...that's really interesting. So these people were "synesthetes"? I looked it up a bit and it would fit but isn't a clear cut category (like the sound-color association, which seems very common). Colors correspond to feelings, which feels very obvious. But those feelings aren't the same for me as colors associating with people. Their personalities connect to a certain color. Someone I really like might even be associated to a color I never liked much before, but feel drawn to because of my association to that person (also note they never wore the color or anything that would create the association). Often the color(s) I associate with a person also would look very nice on that person, but not always, so that's not it either. I have one friend who is "yellow" and she'd look terrible in yellow. Her personality is just yellowish.

I also probably have a lot of tactile-color associations that I don't even realize might be different from what other people experience...and also tactile-personality associations, like my mom is hard and icy, my dad is like snot, one of my sisters is soft but a little prickly (like wool), my therapist is more like soft fleece, and my AA sponsor is probably like stiff suede. I'm a musician and could describe colors of something like a Tchaikovsky symphony if I had to, but I don't think of sounds in terms of colors, but it terms of gestures and movement (which I assume is common for musicians). Okay, that was a little kooky but fun to talk about! Thanks @Cashew