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reply posted on 9-12-2011 @ 09:55 AM by transubstantiation
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As soon as i read about you being fingerprinted etc on a field trip it brought back memories of being fingerprinted at primary school (i was about 7). The reason they gave us was that their had been a break in and they needed to see which fingerprints belonged to the school,surely our fingers would have been smaller than any burglars prints found so no need really. We didn't have to get our parents permission or anything. I am going to ask my friends who went to different schools if they remember it happening to them. Mine took place in Yorkshire in the early 70s.
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reply posted on 9-12-2011 @ 02:32 PM by insanedr4gon
When I was around 7 or 8 I had a dream that I still remember vividly today.
At my elementary schools playground there was a little jungle gym at one end, a soccer field, and then finally pavement for various sports. There was an entrance to the school in the pavement part of the playground, as well as by the jungle gym.
In the dream, I had stepped into some other world. This was before I read any H.P. Lovecraft, but now I think back and it looked like a dark R'lyeh covered in some black slime. For those that have not read any of his work, it is a cyclopean city, and I imagined it as with large, tall buildings, with a barren feeling, and roads that seemed like they were made of stone. I was extremely afraid of this place and wanted to get back. I then remember falling through some portal thing and falling by the jungle gym. I then looked back and saw these small, black, formless things coming out of the portal, which looked like just a hole in the middle of the air. I immediatly ran towards the entrance on the pavement, trying to warn people. I ran into one of my friends and tried to get him to run. He called me a liar and did not believe me. I abandoned him and as I ran into the building I looked back and saw the little things mutilating him. I made a left into a tiled open space in the hallway. I then saw some of the things coming straight towards, and I then remembered about a closer entrance by the jungle gym. I turned around to run but they were coming from that way as well, an up some stairs that were nearby. Before anything happened, I woke up.
The only reason that this is remembered now is because of how real it felt, and the intense sense of fear I had.



reply posted on 10-12-2011 @ 02:43 PM by ZacharyW
To this day my memory of my childhood is not that great but I keep getting the feeling that, to remember my childhood, would help me understand myself better these days.

I do remember little things and feelings...up until I was about 11 I felt/knew deep down that trees and rocks were alive...I would look at trees and kind of 'look up to them' as if they were teachers or grandparents or something...I felt their energy in a limited sense. Same with rocks I felt like different rocks had different energies or 'personalities' (as I would say when I was younger). For a good portion of my life 'common sense got to me' so I stopped noticing stuff like that but now I am back to seeing the consciousness in rocks and tress.

I've always felt like an old soul...and not in an egotistical way, I dont feel that I am better than anyone else. But I've always felt like my role in this lifetime doesn't match my true nature in the sense that I feel more like a leader deep down than I actually am in this life. I used to ask my mom why people couldnt fly and be like super heroes... I really felt like thats how it should be and it really bothered me I couldn't do stuff like that. When I was younger.....I felt like most kids my age wern't concious. I remember saying to my mom (when I was in first grade, or around then) "I feel like Im more concious than most people". Just the way kids my age acted around eachother and treated eachother didn't vibe with me...seemed primitive. Also for a large portion of my life I would randomly become homesick and I would say to my mom..."mom I feel homesick but I am home...I dont understand"

I also remember very vaguely being very very young and kind of saying to myself "thank god your here!" (refering to my mom) as if I knew her before I came into this life. For most of my life I was a mommas boy.

Another thing is throughout my childhood I would have routine BAD dreams...like dreams of being tormented and made fun of by what I would now call 'demonic beings'. I know kids have nightmares but I think this was a little different. Also I have a little theory that astral beings target young scared kids in their dreams and feed off the fear. Looking back now I feel as though I was a target of some negative force.

My uncle told me about a year ago he used to see a little witch (witches) that would fly around his head and appear/disappear...he is an honest sincere guy too, he wouldn't lie about that. He has good parents who raised him and his brothers/sister well. His grandpa either gave him or read to him one of carlos casdenadas books at a young age because he was having trouble with negative astral beings...and after reading that you should literally 'tackle your fears' one night when he was just about to fall asleep, which is when you are more receptive to other realities...he literally got up and tackled an astral being that was bothering him...and after that he was left alone...I don't know if he tackled the being in his astral body or what but he said he actually TOUCHED it it wasn't just a dream...I found this interesting.

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reply posted on 10-12-2011 @ 10:36 PM by DeadlyBlueRose
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I felt that rocks and trees and even the wind was an entity in itself when I was a child as well. I remember wanting to control the breeze whenever I was walking in woods. I thought I could but got discouraged by people around me.
I would sometimes talk to the trees and get an answer so to speak. I was always apologizing to them for cutting them down, sometimes I would hug a tree and cry.

It's also funny that you mention having an old soul because I remember a thought I had in elementary school about a boy who was constantly teasing me, I thought: "It's ok his soul just came here he doesn't understand how it works"

I've had many experiences with ghosts when I was a child, I would always feel that something was in my bedroom and sometimes I would refuse to sleep in there. But then again maybe I was just scared of being alone


I have seen a few ghosts as a child, I saw my cat walk down the hallway a few days after he passed away, and a scarier experience was seeing a black hooded entity floating in my basement.

I also asked my parents about things that I know happened to me and they would tell me that no such thing happened or that it was just a dream.

-Blue


reply posted on 11-12-2011 @ 01:57 AM by timidgal
I honestly don't know where to start so I'll just type up a few that come immediately to mind.

1. From as young as I could remember, I've been able to see energy in its physical form during periods of high emotion (and have learned to work up that emotion if really needed). I later learned how to manipulate certain types of energy (I thought it was an intrinsic part of everyone's natural abilities) but stopped being open about it when I realized that it was not. This realization came about following the discovery that certain people (either conscious or unconsciously aware "psychic vampires") were naturally drawn to me because they wanted to use my energy for their selfish purposes.

2. Also from as young as I could remember, I could pick up on others' emotions and true motivations with a mere glance. Again, a lesson learned the hard way made me guarded with this ability and I still spend a great deal of time trying to repress it. It's not always a good thing being able to look at a person and intuitively know how he/she is feeling or what they're thinking (and I'm not talking about reading someone's mind - other empaths will know what I'm describing).

3. Have been able to sense and feel lots of "spirits" and other "entities" which are really just forms of energy, either residual (mostly) or active. Every place I've lived has had at least one of these spirits and I can't figure out if they follow me or if I'm drawn to them. I usually can't define a physical shape (at least not well defined features) so I can't identify them as being the same or different.

4. Have, at times, been able to see the cords or pixels of energy (for lack of a better description) that connect everything and everyone. I can see it most clearly when I'm outside, calm and introspective.

5. Have always had a calming affect on animals and squirrel, chipmunks, etc. will slowly approach me if there's nothing else present to scare them away- again, I think it all has to do with energy which all living creatures are aware of.

6. People have told me that they feel very uncomfortable around me when my emotions are high or if I'm really upset or anxious about something. They have likened it to an faint feeling of static electricity.

That's it for now. I don't think that any of these abilities are unique; I was just for born more attuned to them for some reason (or never lost the awareness as most adults do). I believe that everyone can develop many new senses if they're open to it and work on developing them.


reply posted on 11-12-2011 @ 02:05 AM by tangonine
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timidgal,

That was a really cool explanation. I'm not as sensitive as you, I don't think, and sometimes I'm on the other end of what I perceive as other empaths, and it's funny: I know they can spot me... it's REALLY uncomfortable when that happens.

Our social (non-empathic) ubringing teaches us how to respond to others, but it's normally never in an honest way, and when I'm around another empath, I know when I've been "made" trying to use (I really don't know how to describe them...) "normal" human social cues? because most of the time our physical cues are so very dishonest, even when we don't mean them to be.

You say around critters, you connect (summing up). I do as well, because I don't have to use the human social norms and it's just me and them. I own birds, dogs... I have quail walk up to me... wild rabbits, mice... they're so much easier.

Would love to talk to you about this more. I think you're more sensitive than I am and I want to pick your brain


reply posted on 11-12-2011 @ 02:27 AM by timidgal
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Tangonine - feel free to u2u me if you want to continue the conversation in private or post your questions here. We're anonymous and should have nothing to fear (other than the occasional troll).

Interestingly enough, I'm not sure if I've ever been aware of other empaths being around. As I said, I had some really uncomfortable experiences when I was young and am very guarded with reveiling my abilities to anyone in person (other than a very small select group of people). There was a point in my life (when I went through puberty) where I actually had to perform a protection visualization before I could leave the house because it seemed as if everyone I came into contact with managed, somehow, to drain me. Perhaps because I'm so guarded, I block off my own ability to pick up these abilities in others. You say you've had a quail approach you. That's very cool. I once had a whole family of slugs following me by the front steps of my building. If I moved to another step, they adjusted their slimy movements. One of my neighbors, with whom I was sitting and chatting, was amazed but chalked it up to a strange coincidence (though I knew differently).

One of the very coolest things that happened to me was when a circus was arriving in my town (they come every summer) and the circus staff, in their full garb, and some of the more domesticated animals, paraded through the town, right by my house, toward the fairgrounds where they set up their tent. The elephant, on which its handler was riding, spotted me and started down my circular driveway. I approached it and stood face to face with it before the handler became nervous and I think used methods (I don't want to discuss) to make it move along. It was, without a doubt, one of the most spiritual and awesome experiences of my life.


reply posted on 11-12-2011 @ 04:51 AM by kano1417
I can remember when i was 4 years old and i used to wake up about 2.00-3.00am and hear evil voices that turned into physical creatures.they were about 1 meter in height with large yellow eyes, 2 small horns and i could remember quite well that they had thin body's because i could see there ribs and they had a very scaly texture . they could disappear and appear around very dark places as like a type of portal and i would only see them at night.i would wake and hear them and i was soo frightened that i could not move or run for awhile until my mind would stop freezing. i can remember running in my mums and dads room crying and asking them to cheak under my bed ,behind my door and outside my window (because they could come and go from any of these places) and the things would be gone.i knew it was real because it happened every night until i turned about 12. i would be conscious every time these happened and i would urine my self. well one weekend my grandfather and nana and their dog stayed and my grand father an i stayed in my room and that night i felt more safe until i awoke to my grandad yelling and being frightened. i was stunned to see this reptile looking demon standing on the end of my bed, my nana rushed in the room and we were all starring at it until the dog lunged toward it and attacked it. the thing would make intense hissing noises at the dog until it rushed under my bed and Disappeared,the dog ran around sniffing and could not understand were it went. we had never talked about that night and now i am 29 and both grand parents & their dog are now deceased i have no real evidence. i remember those nights were as real as things get and im still shaken to this day
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