please help me understand

[akasha]

Well lately i'v noticed that i'm always feeling how other people are feeling just by being near them and i'v been having dreams of different things with no concept of time but eventually happen exatly how it was in the dream.
Lately i'v just been wondering am i going crazy????

[Pirranth]

What you are describing sounds like empathy and dream precognition. I'd like to say you can never rule out the possibility that what you are experiencing is a hallucination, however that does not mean that you are going crazy.

Relax, take a deep breath.

It would be a really good idea to start or focus on working harder with a dream journal so you can record and date the dreams and possibly start making sense of them before they happen. As for the empathy, if you want to turn it off there are shielding techniques out there that should work, but I would also advise practicing using it with friends and family with their permission. It would be good to know how far away the empathy works, or if its based on familiar links so you can properly use the correct type and style of shielding.

And for the record, I resisted making a nut-pistachio pun.

[akasha]

Thanks alot.^_^

[kai]

As Pirranth said, it could be empathy. It can also be hallucination, try working it with a friend, try guessing what he is feeling, and then let them know and check the answer, that way you can know.

TC.

[LUNAAMOR]

both of thses people are right . i had been like that all my life until i realized that i was an empath.(heck i did not even new that existed, i tought everybody felt the way i feel but nooo). i had been practicing with freinds. but first ask for their permission. im still practicing and i always had been rigth on knowing what are they feeling. if you end up being a empath yourself then i had been told that citrine combined with smokey quartz and amethyst it can help you shield yourself from others feelings.
good luck and if i find any more info i will sure post it here .
bb
luna

[akasha]

well i'v asked about 6 of my friends and so far i'v been right on about how they are feeling.is that good?

[LUNAAMOR]

maybe you are an empath
this website might be of some help
http://www.the-auras-expert.com/highly- ... rsons.html

[LUNAAMOR]

i mean im no expert on empath people heck i just can barely now which feelings are mines and wich feelings are others people . but aything that i stump into that its about empath i will tell you

[Pirranth]

However, it is a good thing to worry if you are crazy, some types of empathy and precognition do come in the form of a slight to severe mental disorder or two. For example, my form of empathy runs through my sense of smell. I can smell people with strong emotions or those who project loudly from about a hundred yards away. Yes, I recognize that its a hallucination and that all of those senses are fabricated by my subconscious, but that does not mean that I can't put them to good use.

There are other types of empathy, the most common type is the internal sympathetic (please forgive the use of fancy wording, I'm working with what information I have not a textbook), which is to say you are literally feeling what other people are feeling. For example, if someone is angry, the empath becomes angry. There can be multiple sources for this type as well, allowing for some people to get very confused. This type of empathy usually forms through strong bonds of friendship or family, but not always, it can be based on everyone within a certain range like mine.

Now, empathy is not necessarily magical in nature, it can be psychological as well. Just because it may not be magical does not mean that its not useful for magic, in fact non-magical mental abilities usually make magic more effective and useful, and so far I haven't found a spell that is guaranteed to work at making anyone an empath, but I have heard of certain strains of psychological research towards that end that have had some success.

Now, precognition is a pain, and not an ability I have in spades. I only have dream precognition and only over annoyingly large periods of time in vague literal instances. There are other ways, to get access to the future without dreaming. There is instinctive precognition, which is the whole "I've got a bad/good/aliens are about to invade feeling about this..." which usually is extremely limited in time, like five minutes or less and is nearly impossible to use in an objective setting. My wife has that, which is why its so much fun to be around her. Divination spells are a whole bag of wax I stay away from, and there is a whole forum about that. Those spells may help manage and control dream precognition with the help of a dream journal.

That, is just about everything I know on the two topics.

[hedge*]

Well lately i'v noticed that i'm always feeling how other people are feeling just by being near them and i'v been having dreams of different things with no concept of time but eventually happen exatly how it was in the dream.

Good advice so far. You sound a lot like me akasha - empathic and precognitive. Is this something you've just been made aware of?
I've lived with mine for years and the best bit of advice I can give you is to shield yourself EVERY day. I'm presuming you don't know how to sheild, forgive for typing this if you do but it's a good practice for everyone to do who is affected by empathy.

Now there are a few different techniques for sheilding and I'm sure many people here will have their own ways of doing it, which ever works best for you is the way to go.

The one I use involves me visualizing a sphere of white light surrounding me - with me at the centre.
Ground and center yourself with your eyes closed and breathe deeply for a few minutes. Visualise your body and hold this image until it becomes stable. Now see your skin begin to glow with white light. See the white light radiating from yourself and reaching out to however much space you want to visualise. You are at the core of this white light, safe and calm and protected.
Hold this image firmly in your mind for several minutes before opening your eyes.

It will take a bit of practice but PLEASE keep at it, I promise it will get easier and easier and you'll be able to do it anywhere at anytime even with your eyes open.

The precognition is something I really don't know how to advise you on.
I just got used to it and stopped being surprised by it and it really doesn't bother me now.

[Pirranth]

Charm shielding is a good way to go as well, and for empath I generally support it, given once charged it should give a nice little thought about line of defense as well as a psychological trigger and block that is fairly easy to take off or on, like a ring, necklace, or hat. Yes, hat. No aluminum foil. There are a few ways to do that, but to be sneaky take hedgewitch's technique and wear the object, when you want the shield to go down, don't just let it go, let it flow into the object, then take the object off. The more used, the more charge it should build up, since the original technique is to call the shield up from scratch each time.

However, it would be a good idea to get an initial charging before using it: a blessing, full moon/sun/eclipse charge, soaking it in the sea, time spent in or on fire, time spent in a tornado, or fossilized... generally should do it. Mind, these are in order from easiest to the obscure.

In my defense I have heard of tornado thrown objects (that are not broken) are very lucky, fossilized charms are very fun to work with, and I like fire... my favorite oak staff was fire hardened.

[akasha]

Thank you all its kinda relief that i'm not going crazy