Gives me cosy goosebumps just remembering it. We had no radio or tv on and nobody else was in the house to stimulate her response.
I'll never forget it.
posted by Owly1
2 months ago
I have always had this ability with my 3 children - much to their annoyance. They didn't enjoy me being able to get inside their heads & know what they were up to. I tried explaining that I didn't do it intentionally - that the information literally pops into my head & I just "know" what's going on.
As an example: My children & I met at my sister's home for a birthday celebration and I hadn't seen my children in weeks due to their busy work schedule & mine. My son was sitting at the kitchen table talking to his 2 sisters about how tired & lethargic he was feeling & how he wished he was home in bed right now. I said to him (due to information popping into my head immediately) "that's what happens when you get stoned" and his eyes got big as saucers & he looks at his sisters and says in frustration "HOW DOES SHE KNOW THIS STUFF!"
Another time my oldest daughter came home from work & unbeknownst to me had a huge fight with her boyfriend. She came in the kitchen where I was cooking dinner & kissed me on the cheek & said she was going to get out of her uniform, take a shower & then join me for dinner. That was all she said to me. As I continued cooking, I could hear loud angry words coming from the bathroom & I thought to myself - "good, she's getting it out of her system". But as I continued to fuss around the kitchen, her voice got louder & angrier & I began to become concern. So I went over to the bathroom door & knocked on it and said loudly "Jen, are you ok sweetie?" She comes flying out of the shower & swings open the bathroom door and yells at me .... "MOM, you've got to stop getting inside my head all the time!" I told her I was concern because I heard all this loud yelling and she said that she had not said anything out loud - that she was rehashing her argument with her boyfriend inside of her head!
It truly is a goose bump kind of moment when it happens. You and your Mom must have a close connection Owly!
Love,
Theresa
Hi Theresa,
Mum and I have been more like sisters or best friends all my adult life. Your experience was definitely like mine.
You must also be empathic as I think that enables us to do this with certain strangers too, have you had any experiences of that ?
My most amazing one if I can say that was when I got into a lift to go down to the ground floor and there were just two people in there already when it got to my floor. Neither was talking to the other and I didn't even know if they knew each other.
So I stepped in and turned to face the doors which meant my back was to them too and there were no mirrors in there. I was in a happy ok mood but as the lift went down I had the feeling I was growing angry but had no idea why. I wasn't angry with anyone.
Anyway when we got to the ground floor and all got out, as we walked across to the main doors the two people behind me started to argue and it became obvious it had been a row they'd been having before they had entered the lift.
I was stunned that I had detected this from nowhere.
posted by Owly1
2 months ago
In my experience thus far, people who are empathic can have a wide or narrow range antennae, and/or a long or short range. Some people pick up on stuff half-way around the world if there has been a previous emotional connection and some people pick up on the stuff of people who are in the same room. Some can pick up on the emotions of strangers, while others pick up on the emotions of co-workers, friends and family. It might be neat to keep a little diary of each of these instances, noting physical and emotional distance of each 'read' and then after a year, see what the full range of the empathic antennae are. The further the reach, the more it would behoove to have protection tricks - like visualization or yarrow flower essence. Well, come to think of it, the way families can be, maybe the most protection is needed from them! lol. Protection, by the way, doesn't mean blocking out, it simply means awareness of but not absorption of the emotions of others. Wouldn't want anyone harboring anger (which negatively impacts the immune system) if it isn't necessary!
Sometimes people have genuine ESP and pick up on people's thoughts, not necessarily their emotions. Two of my sons were quite intuitive and would pick up on what I was thinking -- when I hadn't said a word. Like when I was wondering were the next gas station was and my two year old popped up with, "Mom, there's a gas station just two blocks up on the left hand side." I never said I was wondering where a gas station was -- but he popped out with the answer to that as well as at other times. My last son, similarly, often knew what mom was thinking -- when there was no emotion behind it, too.
According to some who know me, I pick up on their thoughts, not their emotions. But this is so subconscious on my part and the validation is so not forthcoming in everyday life (they just run scared I found out), that I have had no way of tracking it. The empathic stuff though seems very track-able as it is very feel-able. Well...I am strongly kinesthetic as I believe most empaths must be, so that makes sense. And I'm usually out of my mind, so it also makes sense that I'm not aware of mind reading! LOL.
My son used to say I would think of what he was going to do before he could even do it! My husband and I both yell at the other one to stay out of the others head. Sometimes it is funny and sometimes it is a pain in the butt. LOL
It does help when people understand you and accept you, doesn't it? :)
