Poll Has Ptsd Increased Any Physic Abilities?

[The Albatross]

I haven't had any pings lately... but my normal circle of peeps are "safe people". Linda Lee... I'm consciously shifting my focus toward being in the moment, in my body... instead of being a sponge for negative energy and "being" outside my eyelids (if that makes any sense). I am though more and more comfortable in my body and the sense of it being a safe place is returning. I'm finding, in the interest of anxiety reduction... I don't have to throw the radar around myself as much.

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

It would be easy...but, it never is the norm on my end...always a trigger.... neighbor who shot our dog called landlord, now must move and then, the other night, a major trigger, a trooper shows up flashing his light in the driveway, then aims it in the house... says he was looking for 'William Ferrell,' (not kidding) but I remained in the house while Marc went outside to talk to him... the cop sees me wearing sunglasses in the house and it is night time... then asks Marc if I always wear sunglasses at night. He tells the truth, 'there prescription... the dog ate her regular glasses. (It's true!) The cop says, "I used that excuse in high school." My panic button went off... what I didn't say about the screen dream was part of it showed the flashlight from the outside the house lighting the floor... which confused me until, the cop showed up flashing his light in the window on the floor. Two events in one... lol

 

[The Albatross]

Linda girl... why consign yourself to believing "never"... and drive yourself into an endless loop of action/reaction? Ditch it when you can and practice... proactive and self actualizing... is where the peace is. Radar is useful but when it's a source of anxiety... any benefit you get takes a physical toll. Save it for emergencies.

 

[LizBeth1]

I've had increased intuition for sure since I started unpacking all this stuff. Not seeing future events, but just an increased awareness of deeper levels of things; increased 'knowing,' I guess you could say. I look at it as heightened awareness. An interesting read is Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis, by Stanislav Grof.

 

[Emilie]

I don't know if I want to say yes, I don't know if it's healthy for me(myself) to think that way. I like to believe in what I can prove but yes there has been many incidents where I swear to god I predicted it. Like that other person said, maybe our heightened sense of awareness influences the strength of our "intuition" because after awhile of being vigilant, you become extremely aware of every detail around you. Whether you realize it or not as well, subconsciously, you pick up on so many things. Like a subconscious Sherlock Holmes....lol. Someone on the outside might say humph....that guy must be psychic! But when you look closer, he's just picking out the details and drawing reasonable conclusions. More data, more accuracy.


Just my take, I fluctuate on my feelings too though. Sometimes I really believe I'm psychic-other times, I tell myself to think scientifically.

 

[jo may]

For some reason unknown to me I can now look at a person and pretty much get a sign be it a person who knew them or just my mind playing tricks I don't know. But more offen than not i get it right which really does scare me.

 

[SadDreamer]

My dreams have been very predictive lately. More and more, I dream something so vivid that I know it to be true, and it usually comes true that day. very weird. The night of march 10... actually it was probably march 11, 2011 as it was 2 or 3 in the morning. I had a a terribly vivid dream that I was in a box shaped car, with a little boy of asian descent sitting in my lap. He had long brown hair, a few little curls. He must have been 1 or 2 years old. I immediately felt a urge of panic, and i changed my glance from the little boy, to outside of the car. I was in water, the car was rolling up and down with the water....as if the water was racing up and down hills. I remember the only feeling i had at that moment was to protect the child. I felt so terrified, that I woke up. I remember feeling how weird and strange that dream was. Definitely out of the ordinary. I opened my eyes in my room, I turned to find my phone and glance at the time as I always do if I wake up in the middle of the night. I received a text message from TWC (The Weather Channel) 6.9 earthquake hit off of the coast of Japan. Tsunami warnings have been issued.

Can I tell you how freaked out I was that day as I watched the news? I felt as if I had been there. And these video clips on TV were just confirming and re-living my dream. I was glued to the TV for days, weeks even. I felt very connected to what was going on there.

Sine then, my prophetic dreams have become more frequent and more accurate. Mostly about personal life. I don't know what to think of this, but the chances and percentages of this happening to me (as frequently as it does) are way to low to be a coincidence.

Starting 3 weeks ago, I had many dreams about my ex's girlfriend (about 5 or 6 all together)... (which is really odd). He wasn't even in the dream the first time it happened. In the first dream, she was panicked, angry, and yelling at me. but something was clearly wrong. I tried to comfort her and ask her what was wrong but she kept running away. I woke up and texted my ex and asked him: "Is everything ok? ... I had a weird dream..." He called me to tell me she was pregnant, he also told me that 5 of her friends said they had dreams about her too. Very strange. I am still having dreams about them both, and now their child. It is odd, and strange.. and considering one of my triggers is abortion (and they were considering it), these past few weeks have been very un-pleasant for me. I haven't spoken to him in 2 weeks. This is very overwhelming to me...

 

[jimmy-joe]

I just want to point out, that as far as we know, everything is made up of energy. When you break it down, protons, neutrons, electrons, and then whatever makes up those. Rocks, trees, aircraft carriers, diamonds, people, clothes, air, ozone, water, drugs, cars, you name it.

 

[NutritionNerd]

I keep an open mind on all sorts of things. This one made me go hmmmm

The other night I had a panic attack out of the clear blue sky. At the time I was looking a cute pictures of puppies (2nd to cats in my books) and listening to Pandora - the song "Don't Stop Believin" by Journey came on. I was trying to figure out what could have been the association to start the familiar heart racing anxiety sequence. The puppy pictures wasn't anything like the dog that bit me - and I can look at his pics without getting activated so that wasn't it and I couldn't recall any associations with that song.

Anyway I went out and got blackberry cobbler and ice cream and just felt semi miserable for a few hours. Next day in the news was a story of a woman who was killed by her husband with a baseball bat. She'd just got back from a Journey concert.

 

[ClairBear226]

I wouldn't say "psychic". But I can be surprisingly intuitive sometimes. I seem to pick up on the nonverbal cues, the voice inflections, and the body language that other people don't. I seem to see pain that other people miss (it's always in the eyes. And what they DON'T say). But it's also made me incredibly untrusting. Rather an odd combo, I guess.

 

[redflashlight]

I didn't vote because I don't consider my empathic and intuitive eccentricities to fall into the category of psychic abilities. You know, I never thought about a connection between unusual sensory acuity and PTSD. I agree with the posters above who said that living through trauma that lead to PTSD, we develop a set of survival skills that may make us more sensitive to stimuli that other folks don't or can't perceive.

 

[Anna]

I have more of a sixth sense in that I have gut instinct feelings about people. I tend to be able to judge people very well. Spooky is when I think about someone and they may call me or turn up....