Take off from Question About Empaths - Are You Psychic?

My husband would be the first to tell you: I'm not psychic. Except those days when I make a martini for him before he asks-- then he would tell you I had magic powers!

Interesting question...:)

I find the subject fascinating but from a different perspective. I take the science approach. See too many people think I am psychic and I simply am not. So why do people think that? It is pretty much intelligence. I make connections that most people ignore. That doesn't make me psychic, that makes me smart.

I have also studied the so called psychics, bag of nonsense. I love the TV ones. I see something important happening in the future...who doesn't have something important coming up. Then the sucker goes yes! my daughter is getting married. Okay so that opens up hundred of observations. I see you are not getting along with the future in laws....way to go out on a limb with that one, truly you are gifted. *rolls eyes*

Thing is you take your life experiences and you make connections. Premonitions are nothing more than your brain making those connections. The guy you are thinking of at Target, there were things about him that connected him to bad experiences in your past so your brain said avoid him. It wasn't anything divine it is how your brain works.

People attribute children to being psychic, they are innocent, ya know? This is only half true. They are not old enough to know that you are looked at as silly for articulating these thoughts. Same reason why they proudly tell the world you farted, they just don't know better. They are making the connections that we as adults keep to ourselves.

I read a crystal ball every day, people call it a database. This is what I do and I am very good at it. I am good because I am very smart, not because I am psychic.

No but I can read my husbands mind more often than not.
We've known each other for over 30 years and can finish each others sentences.
I think some people have more connections between their left and right sides of their brain and they can coordinate data in ways that other people can't.

I am a psychic/medium. I would say you are a psychic. A medium can 'speak' to the dead. You can hone your abiilities by simply sitting or lying on the floor, go into a meditative state and let your mind wander. I can transport myself into someone else's home and visit them if I wish. They don't know I'm there. It's kinda sneaky so I don't do it often.

I think the worst thing that happened to me is: my friend's daughter and my daughter's friend ( me friends w/Mom -- my daughter friends w/daughter) got married and she was over the moon in love and so very happy. I told her Mom it wouldn't last. She said but they are so in love and so happy, I said I know but it won't last. A week before their 1st anniversary he was killed in a motorcycle accident, we buried him the day before their anniversary. I was heartsick but their was nothing I could have done to prevent it.

I also saw a man I had worked with many years ago, I would run into him from time to time over the years. I had always liked him but not in any romantic way. I saw him and another man I had worked with both as flag bearers at a Memorial Day parade in '05, when I said "Hi, how you doing?" --- I knew it was the last time I would see him. He too was killed in a motorcycle accident about 2 weeks later.

My son dreamed the attack on 9-11 about a week before it happened but he couldn't see where it was or exactly what happened.

Before you start to hone yor abilities get yourself some protection stones. Kyanite -- citrine -- amethyst -- peridot --aventurine-- are all protection stones. They block negative energies. When you open yourself up to explore your abilities you open yourself up to negative energies invading you. Just like playing with a ouija board ----- you never know who you are inviting in. Ouija Boards are not a game and should always be used carefully or better yet not at all.

I think I am a sensitive but not a psychic or an empath. I feel things more deeply maybe or pay attention to signals more. I dont dream anything, I dont get signals, voices, or messages. I just feel something is wrong, or about to happen. Its like a flutter in my stomach, quickening in breath, ominous heavy feeling like a storm approaching, only mentally. I know when things bad are about to happen and generally the people who know me and well, follow my lead. There are many times we are able to avoid dangerous, and deadly situations. I also feel when people are sick. Just feel it. NOT see it. I smell it almost. I have told many to get check ups and I was ALWAYS right about the general diagnosis. have to be in the presence of the person. I some how am always around when terrible car accidents and general weird accidents happen. I have aided in some of the strangest, bloodiest and saddest accidents out there, and they I feel it before they happen. I dont like the ability I wish I didnt have it.

Where is the question about Empaths? Can't find it. Anyhoo, yes, I think that may be the name for what I've had my whole life. When I was younger (like a teen) I knew things were going to happen. I knew if a distant family member was sick, if someone was going to have a boating accident, I actually dreamed that I could see my lower spine and a small defect I had in the bones. About 15 years later, I was told by a doctor about this rare thing I have. I hadn't thought about my dream in all those years.

I also always had a specific date stuck in mind for years. I'd ask my Mom if anything specific had happened on that date. Every year from the time I was maybe 10 I asked about that date. Years later, it was the day I met my husband. Cue the music.

So now I'm an adult and my skills have changed. I randomly look at a person and I feel what's in their heart. I can feel the hurt they're carrying around from say, a bad childhood (much like me). I can tell if they had a family member hurt their self-esteem. I sometimes wince because I almost physically feel their hurt. Once in a while, the feeling will be so strong that it sends me into a short depression. I have no control over who I "connect" with.

I often tune into certain people who are new to our church. If that's the case, I try to pray for them - that God will lift their burden. If I talk to the person, I'm sometimes able to empathize with them without them knowing what I know about them. I like to think that God gives me the right words to say to make them feel better or at least not alone.

Most of the time, I wish I didn't have this particular gift. I'm learning as I'm getting older that sometimes you're given a gift so you can help others. I'm trying to focus on using it for that. Someone please post the link to the other question. Thanks!

I dunno about psysic , but I do have Deja Vu a lot. Where I know exactly what's going to happen before it happens , right down to the conversation, but I can't stop it from happening.
I also have a sort of 6th sense , I can "feel" there are spirits in a place. It's kind of hard to describe.

No, you're not crazy. Everybody experiences things differently. I never knew I was an empath, until my supervisor pointed it out. (She's an RA and really into all that "new age" stuff.) All I knew was I can feel/sense how someone else feels or that something's not right just like animals do. Here's my answers to your questions: (Keep in mind that everyone is different.)
1. Are any of you psychic? My supervisor calls me one, but I'd rather refrain from the word, "psychic;" since my info. comes from the deceased/angels/spirits.
2. How does your knowledge come to you - Heavy stuff comes in dreams. Other stuff I can hear. ("They" tell me and I prefer to call them angels.)
3. How are you given the information that you have about the future or spiritual world? Future is through dreams. Spititual world is OBEs and listening.
4. Do you see images, hear things, dreams? The dreams pulsate, so I know it's not "just a normal dream." "Hearing things..." Angels speak very softly so you have to be very quite in mind and tune your ears. Images, no....unless seeing spirits count.
5. Do you see things or know things about everyone you come in contact with or is it with certain people? No, not everyone. Wish I did.
6. Can you turn it on and off? No. Haven't figured that out yet, but my supervisor has taught me how to call upon "them."
7. Did you have to develop your psychic abilities or did they just come to you? Born with it and drove my parents nuts. I always knew when someone or a pet died, before anyone called us. It's just that the spirit would tell me the moment they started to leave the Earth. (My nephew's dog was hit by a car early in the morning just before it was time for me to get up for school. The guy came to the door and told my mom he was sorry. After I woke up, I even told my mom I knew who came to the door and the color his car. I knew when my grandmother died, I knew when my mom died, and I knew when the neighbor died. My dad was going to call the neighbor to tell her that mom passed and I told him he didn't need to, because she's there already. Sure enough, her obit. was in the newpaper. I just used the "them."

I do not believe I'm psychic. Never heard of an "empath"? I do believe that some people are not able to make connections that other people can make.....or at the same speed. I've sat in wonder and awe at how some of my friends can be so amazingly oblivious to things that are very front and center to me, things that are not special but just......how could you not pick up on that?

However, there have been some things that are a little different and have nothing to do with connecting what you observe. I believe that is God, telling me something for a reason. I also do not believe that God is a gossip, so I don't make judgements on things, I pray for them or try to help them. I know when I need to call someone or go see someone---it's not coincidence but a feeling of "Now"--urgent. I know when I should stop or go on, I have a gut feeling which I believe is God guiding me. I have stopped midstep and turned around and walked in the opposite direction, and further on, there was something bad happening. (An accident, a shooting, etc). We lived a "rough" life for a time, I lived on the street for 10 1/2 months and floated from place to place. My friends: every one of them was robbed at some point or another, but I never was. I'd say "No, I don't want to go there" and if my friend went, she'd be robbed. Another time I'd be with another friend and if I left because I didn't like an idea, something would happen to them but not me. I've jumped up because I thought something had happened and ran, and it had. Or I had a bad feeling that my son was hurt and something was out of the ordinary and I checked on him, and he was (and told not to go inside to tell me by his older cousin who had hurt him).
There were a few odd ones that made me feel stupid until later....I was in the fitness center in a water aerobics class, and I felt very strange, the word "ominous" came to mind. I got a bit nervous, and was looking around at all the exits and plotting my way out of there if someone say, walked into the gym with a gun. That's the main entrance, this is the way everyone goes, but if I went this other way, I'd be able to get out and be right by the daycare where my son was. That was stupid---I felt ridiculous. Who would go to a stupid fitness center and open fire randomly? But I felt it and wasn't able to concentrate on my class, so while exercising, I silently prayed. I didn't think about it again (except briefly to think I was a fruitloop), but THAT WEEK in the news, in another state but the same "brand" of a fitness center chain, someone walked in and shot people, who knows why?

One big event in my life, that changed my course for a little while, happened in Sept 1999. I was a youth pastor of a church in Ft Worth and it was my last service (I had put in my notice months before, and this was my last night). During the music, I felt antsy, nervous. I thought it was because it was my last message to these kids before leaving. But I was just sitting there and kept looking behind me at the door and the thought came "A church is such a VULNERABLE place" and I was arguing with myself like "what a stupid thought". But it kept coming back to me over and over, stuff like how a church is SUPPOSED to be open to any random people off the street, that is what it's supposed to do: welcome them. But what if someone had something bad in mind? A total stranger could just walk up in here and start shooting. What about the youth group? It's set off aside from everyone else...." and the logistics started in my mind. I was fighting them though because I thought it was just thoughts that were supposed to get me off track, when I should be singing and preparing for my last message. But then a different feeling got me, where I felt it urgent to pray, and my chest felt very tight. So I stopped singing, went to the back, and started praying over the church, the doors, especially the youth group. I prayed for them a lot. Then I felt released, I didn't have that tension and went on to class and taught just fine. I rationalized that I was feeling anxious about leaving this particular group of kids (they'd been through A LOT), and that's all. But after church we stopped for gas and a man came out of the gas station freaking out and saying he was glad he didn't go to church. I thought that was weird so I asked him why, and he said "Where have you been girl? Three miles away, there's been a big church shooting!" A strange man walked into the church and began shooting in the youth group, and the kids thought it was part of a drama at first. During church, that same day, so close. I was very upset thinking I'd prayed wrong or something (I don't feel that way now, but then, I did).

There's also good stuff though, not just protection. I learn things in dreams (like a step by step soccer lesson, or organizing my oral report and practicing it in my sleep until I feel confident with it, but ALSO I will have a weird dream and immediately the translation comes to show me the lesson there---usually something I'm being stubborn about and I'm being corrected). I've only had a couple "visions" in my life but they were very real, very vivid (way more vivid than a dream), the emotions (kinda like in dreams) were not exaggerated like a dream but were very real. Seen from both my view point and as a 3rd party observer. They both led to very big life changing decisions/lessons that helped me a lot. I get up sometimes because I know I need to pray about a situation, or a person, or sometimes Jeremy will make me wake up to pray about a dream he had. He gets dreams sometimes too. Once he wanted me to pray because he had a bad dream and was scared for my safety (I was pregnant with our first baby). I was tired so I just did a half little prayer and went back to sleep. I could feel him laying there tense, but ignored it. He woke me again and said "No really. WAKE UP." We found out there was a good reason later, but we were all safe.
I've also had experiences where I would do something that I had no idea why, they were a little odd and sometimes goofy, but it ended up being a very good thing. One example: I was in an uncomfortable situation where I was expected to handle something that I had no experience with, and wasn't very happy....I was in a small little village in Kenya and expected to help sort out a dispute that was getting a bit ugly. I was like "NO: I'm too young, I'm just an American and have no right to say anything, and it's not my place. But it was an important situation that was getting volatile...but during introductions, an old lady came in and I jumped up to give her my seat, gave a short little bow, and I took the seat across from me which was just as rickety as the one I was sitting in, no worse. I thought "wow that was stupid. what was the point of that?" but the people there were suddenly talking loudly and real fast, all at the same time, and I got scared that something was wrong (I didn't speak Luo!) but the translator looked at me and said "How did you know?" and I was like "Know what??" and before he could answer, the old lady stood up and basically said that I was a woman of God and understood things, and that I was free to speak and they would listen. They did too, and we were able to open dialogue and come to understanding on both sides, and a potentially ugly situation was made peaceful and everyone was happy. Not by MY wisdom or understanding though, I didn't have any experience there, I just spoke and acted as I felt in my heart to do. After leaving, the translator explained in their culture the mother and her son aren't to sit on the same side of the room once he's been married--he's supposed to stay with his wives now, but the old lady is the matriarch of that family and "the boss", and how I greeted her was perfect, and moving to another side of the room prevented an awkward seating arrangement and showed her cultural and personal understanding, a desire for peace, humility, and discernment (her words to him). We were able to discuss things and they were open to hear what I had to say about a situation, but that wasn't my knowledge. I feel that I was led by God 100% in that whole situation. There are many other day to day, less unusual things, but those were some I thought were interesting.

There have been times I have left because of a spiritual "feeling" (or turned around before going), there have been times I've been drawn to a place because of a spiritual environment. I do know or see things about people but again I don't believe that is just to know but to either help or give some grace to someone for what they're going through. Sometimes it's what they're going through now, other times when I start to feel mad about something, I feel that God corrects me and shows me why they're acting a certain way so that I can change how I come at them, or forgive them, or whatever. Because sometimes, I can be a jerk and get really mad at someone, but I do "listen" when I get corrected, and that has only done good: for me, if not for them.

Again, I don't know what other peoples' deals are and can't explain their experiences. But I firmly believe that God guides us and communicates to us throughout the day, if we'll just listen and be open to that. I don't believe in letting my mind be "open" because I do not want it open to just anything, but I do recognize God's promptings and have never been sorry to act on them.

I am not psychic..but I wish I was. But I think we all have the ability to be...at least a little...if we slow down, quiet our minds and try.

My great-aunt was taking a nap one day when she woke up and saw her husband in her bedroom. Usually he was out in the field at that time of day, so it was very strange and she thought it was a dream. Later she found out he'd died in a tractor accident at the same time she saw him in her bedroom.

My Grandmother was driving down the street one day near the church and stopped when she saw a funeral procession coming out. She saw my Grandfather was one of the pallbearers, and then realized it wasn't real. A week later she was at her father's funeral and it was exactly like she'd seen in her vision.

The only sort of thing I've experienced myself is knowing when someone is at the door or the phone is getting ready to ring. Although occasionally I get a feeling about a week before someone tells me that they're pregnant that I'm going to be hearing baby news.

Hi L.,
It's a fascinating subject alright! It opens the door to the metaphysical world and you could spend a lifetime examining that! (I have!)
Everyone's psychic. We just don't realize it. We're spirits in a body with access to a whole invisible world around us. Sometimes information "leaks" through in ways like you describe. If we set our intention to increase our awareness in this area, we can open ourselves up to greater experiences from this side of life. It's fun and oftentimes a lifesaver. I've had my life saved twice because of psychic intervention. Powerful stuff! Enjoy your exploration!

"Grams"
from the Pocono Mts. of PA

When I was married to my first husband we were asleep and I sat up suddenly and told him I needed to go use the payphone at the corner to call my mom. I knew something was wrong. I was crying and near hysterical. He told me to go to sleep, I had just had a nightmare. I got to work the next morning at 5:30 and there was a message that my mom was in the hospital. She'd had a heart attack during the night at almost the exact time I had woken up.

Things like this happen in my family all the time.

I don't know...I have had dreams of people who have passed as if it were so real. I will wake up refreshed as if I really had a visit with them.

I also have dreams that are close to being real. I mean they nearly really happen as my dream was. Sometimes I can only vaguely remember the dream, but I know it happened.

I have also had a few other type experiences. One where I woke up from a nap and left the house to go to the ATM and to get more soda. I watched a car go head on into traffic on the freeway. (We live near sun city and when the area was first built the elderly would often get confused) I could see the other side of the road where an SUV dodged the oncoming headlights and went into the dirt, while the little car behind the SUV squeezed between the two lanes. I had pulled over and watched this while I prayed for help. Soon my phone rang and it was my daughter crying and she said I wouldn't believe what just happened. I told her I watched the whole thing and I was glad she was alright. She was shocked how I knew what happened. (She was the little car that squeezed between the two lanes) Anyway, she asked me to come home and looked in the cupboard and said there were sodas at home. When I got home, I found cash in my wallet too. I really don't know why I got up and headed down the street.

I don't pay attention to it much, but I like the visits.