Poll Has Ptsd Increased Any Physic Abilities?

[Zef]

Rationalism is one of my defense mechanisms :) I don't think it is psychic, but I seem to have a very high success rate of knowing if someone has suffered sexual abuse (the feeling is, 'that person is one of us') or if someone is an abuser. (uncomfortable, extra hyper-vigilant, creepy feeling). In the cases where I've had follow-up confirmation, the hit rate is pretty high.

I do have a few experiences that my rationalism has a hard time with explaining. The one I'll share -- My wife and daughter are always wanting a white christmas. We live in an area where that is a pretty rare event. I think it was three years ago, my wife asked for a white christmas. I got into a special state of mind that I can't really describe and willed it to happen (mid-october). I knew it was going to happen, kinda of like knowing the sun was going to come up. (That didn't stop me from getting on-line the next day and ordering some fake snow, just in case. :) )

Of course, we woke up with snow on Christmas morning. She asked me this year and I told her I wouldn't do it, because it would kill people in SE Africa (had a visual of the area around the NorthEast border of South Africa) because it would change weather to something dangerous for those people.

Ok, now that I admitted that to the internet, perhaps I need to enhance my search for inpatient treatment. :)

 

[DeeDee]

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.

I always thought it was the hypervigilance...

 

[Middle of Nowhere]

Actually I miss the ability to block people out. I have always seen it as a pain in the patooty to have access to "regions unknown" but it does serve a person well at times. I'm not surprised by the responses that I have read, maybe mine increased and/or it's turned on stronger than normal. I am not happy about it because I can't interpret or hopefully it's going away. I've had enough.

 

[IamMe]

I have had many experiences that might be considered "psychic" but I am not sure if they are related to my PTSD or not.

One of the most notable experiences I had was when I was in my early twenties. I was down in my basement doing laundry and felt someone was watching me. I "saw" out of the corner of my eye a boy who looked to be about 15 years old. I dismissed it until the next day when I was speaking with my mom. She told me that the day before she has been speaking with a customer of hers who had lost his son. During our conversation a name came into my head. I asked my mom what the boy's name was and it was the name that popped into my head. I had never met the boy or his father before.

Another notable experience I had was when I was doing Reiki ( I am a Reiki Master) on a client and she came in with an open energy and asked me to tell her if I "saw" anything. I told her I would but honestly didn't expect anything to happen...boy was I wrong. During the course of our session I got many images, we were on the east coast and I got a vision of the seattle tower, turns our her ex-husband lived in Seattle. I saw a vision of a quail, she got married at Quail Lodge. I saw snow, she went skiing on her honeymoon...I could go on... It was so bizzare.

I have had more things like this happen too. Not sure what to make of these experiences. I know my first trauma occured when I was young and I spent much of my childhood living inside my head. Maybe it was all the time I spent alone sitting in silence thinking that allowed me to be more open to these types of experiences and allowed me to develop this "sixth sense" so to speak? Don't know.

 

[Whitneys story]

Oh my! Of course I can not say it has anything to do with PTSD. I have not been diagnosed. I have always considered it to be a high awareness. At a young age my mother told me her knowing when an Aunt was going to visit. My first experience was age 9 when my grandmother died. I don't talk about this curse. Occurance's continued of things I would know but not who it involved. About age 22 I started getting more facts. I have saved some lives with the details of who would be in need. I am now starting a serious panic attack. This might just be the key of whatever happened 6 to 8 months ago, that set off the uprising of everything. I was at the ocean and watched a Sandra Bullock movie. I think it was called Premonition. Basic premis of "you can lead a horse to water but you can not make them drink". Being born into the household rule of no one could do anything right. Blamed for brothers mental issues and actions. He was older and never was it acknowledged while parents were living that, he was challanged. I personally would not wish these capabilities on anyone. I am open to discussion regarding this as I feel safe here. I can only speak of my experience which may help others.

 

[Whitneys story]

If you're interested in testing your own interpretations, feel free to PM me, I'll be happy to give you the necessary information.

Hi I would be interested in this however I do not know how to pm! Thanks Whitney

 

[TSG]

I am so glad that I found this site, for so many reasons, including this thread. Usually people think I'm crazy...well, I suppose I am so never mind. Anyway, I don't know if it's PTSD-related or not but I know that I have been gifted. If the phone rings, I will tell you before the second ring who it is, not even just at my house. I will often grab the phone before it rings bc I know it's about to and it does within a second or two. I can tell if someone is lying but more than that, I can "read" people. I freaked one person out by saying that and he asked me to prove it. Man was a stranger to me before that very afternoon meeting. I told him that he went jogging on the beach and petted a dog. I told him that he had a healthy and light breakfast, probably yogurt. He said that was true and asked what kind? I said "strawberry-banana" and he dropped his fork, freaked out. I also told him he had that because his wife was not there since she usually made him eat bland cold cereal like Cheerio-s. He told me to stop. A new friend of ours said he had never been married, over and over. Finally, I asked what his wife would think if she heard him say that. He stared at me and said "I told you, I'm not married". I looked at him in the eyes and said "and I am telling you, you are a liar". He admitted he had been married for almost 2 years. I can tell what people are feeling and many things about them, more so if I touch them. I know it sounds sci-fi but it's true.

I also have other premonitions. One that even saved my life. The morning 2 years ago when I was attacked, I went into my room to get ready and had to go back and get the house phone. Very odd as I had never done that before. I just knew that I needed it. I also locked my bedroom door. First and only time in my life that I had done that and have not done it since. The man who was in my house to rape and murder me had tried to slowly turn the knob to enter my room while I was showering. It was locked so he had to call me, knowing that the home phone was always out on the desk...only it wasn't, it was in with me so I was not drawn out of my room undressed to answer the phone as he had hoped. I also projected because my husband knew at work that I was in trouble. He called and called and got no answer. He finally ran from his customer, literally, and drove home. He busted in the front door and tackled the man who had a gun pointed at my head, saving my life. I had projected that I needed help and he felt it.

I also cause electronics to fail, especially cell phones and watches and anything that works on wi-fi like laptops and printers. I have had the nickname "EMP" for 20 years and more. Dentist chairs and tools, tattoos guns, automobiles, microwaves...) I hate it and it makes me cry out of anger and frustration, as my job depends on these things. Most people dismiss me as a crackpot, though it's not me who tells them but either my husband or other people who know of it and blab. I am ashamed of it as I already feel enough a freak as it is. I didn't know there were others!

 

[Kimpersonal]

I think being traumatized somehow alters our electromagnetic frequency. Like a couple of you have admitted ... I too experience odd behavior in electronic equipment, radios, lights, batteries etc. My kids have noticed this and now point it out to me when they see something odd happening around me or us.

Poltergeist researchers have found that poltergeist activity is actually linked to people (mostly adolescents) experiencing crisis in their lives. So, it isn't ghosts moving objects but some sort of projected energy from the person feeling crisis/trauma/upheaval. The movie "Firestarter" is a good example of this notion.

One more thing ... I have a book called "The Idiot's Guide to Near Death Experience" and in it there is a list of aftereffects and symptoms that are remarkably like PTSD symptoms (let's face it, if you have died and come back to talk about it, you have experienced trauma, right?). Electromagnetic issues are one of the aftereffects of an NDE.

If a near death experience is akin to an out of body experience ... and if dissociation is akin to an out of body experience ... is it possible we are connecting to a different energy field? And if information is transmitted by energy ... who knows what we are learning/seeing or where this info is coming from?

Call it a "radar" or an "external feeler" or whatever ... it is a change in energy. We are sensitive to changes in our environment, whether within ourselves or outside of ourselves or an interplay between the two.

Take a peek at some of the common phobias people have ... heights, open spaces and water. Where does electricity strike? Why does the same dude get struck by lightning over and over again while the chances of being struck even once are very remote?

Just offering some added food for thought on this interesting topic. I might post more of my weird experiences in a while ... I'll see how this is received first. lol.

 

[Wordgirl]

I apologize. I began to post, and somehow hit the wrong button somewhere and I have no idea where it went.

What I was saying, is I believe in psychic abilities, but I don't think PTSD makes us MORE receptive, but rather increases our awareness. For me, hypervigilance plays a big part. I am so acutely aware that I see all angles of many situations in an instant, so that when one plays out, my mind has already processed it.

Wouldn't it be nice to dream of the lottery numbers? :p

 

[Kimpersonal]

You can only win if you buy a ticket! So, even if I dreamt the numbers I would second guess myself and talk myself out of buying the ticket ... then kick my butt knowing I could have been a gazillionaire!


Maybe increased awareness is a step in the direction of psychic ability. I could chase my own tail for hours thinking about this topic. lol

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

Since I have last posted - I have had a few vision dreams with happy results. I also have used my hyper energized state to improve my life... e.g., keep my mind focused on where I'm driving to and envision a parking space near the entrance and yes, when I get there - a space right in front is always available for me. We were desperate to find a house and after two months of no luck - I changed tactics. I told Marc we will find a place in Cottonwood, so let's just drive there ... we looked at a few places the realtor sent us too but it still wasn't right... as we were driving back to motel - I 'felt' it... 'turn here' I heard in my head and there it was, 'for rent' - not even listed in the paper, craigslist, or with a realtor. I have had the 'feeling' to play the slots and have won - nothing ever real big, no more than 1,800.

 

[Linda Lee Bogard - King]

Oh yeah, it would be nice to see more 'votes.'