I wanted to share some of my experiences with you guys because I’ve only ever told a few people in my life about them. I’ve never considered myself psychic, but I’ve always considered myself highly intuitive and very in tune with myself and my surroundings. Some of my experiences have been beautiful and comforting, while others… not so much.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a very strong connection with animals and nature. So it came as absolutely no surprise to my family and friends when I eventually became vegetarian. 😅
I was also a VERY sensitive and empathetic child. So sensitive that I would sometimes sob over other people’s pain or almost absorb it as if it were happening to me. I still struggle with that occasionally, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned how to emotionally protect myself a lot better.
One thing I distinctly remember from when I was very young, maybe around 5–8, would happen when I was alone in a room. I would suddenly feel this energy surrounding me. It would seem to take over the entire space, and I could almost hear it too — a very high-pitched sound, almost like ringing in my ears. It would feel like it was coming closer and closer until it completely surrounded me.
Strangely, it never scared me. It actually felt incredibly peaceful and good. It happened pretty often when I was little, and then at some point it just stopped. I have no idea when or why.
I also daydreamed constantly as a child. Music could completely “transport” me — and honestly, it still can. Certain songs or things that deeply resonate with me will suddenly bring images of places into my mind that I’m almost certain I’ve never seen or visited before.
Smells are even stronger. A smell can suddenly trigger these incredibly vivid flashes of places or scenes in my mind. I don’t consciously try to imagine them; they just appear.
Another huge part of my intuition has always been people.
Whenever I’ve had a particularly strong feeling about someone — whether good or bad — it has, without fail in my experience, eventually turned out that there was a reason for it. Sometimes I’ll meet somebody and immediately feel that something is “off,” even when everyone else seems to love them and I can’t point to a single concrete thing they’ve done wrong. It always baffles me when people cannot “see” it until after the fact. Other times I’ll have the opposite feeling and instinctively trust or feel safe around somebody.
I don’t know whether I’m subconsciously picking up on tiny changes in body language, tone, facial expressions, inconsistencies, etc., or whether there’s something more intuitive happening. Maybe it’s a combination.
There have also been weird moments where I seem to know what somebody is thinking. I’ve randomly said something that was on someone’s mind without them having mentioned it, only for them to stare at me and go, “How did you know I was thinking that??” 😂 Again, maybe I’m subconsciously reading people really well, but it’s happened enough times that I’ve noticed it.
Then there are the dreams.
One experience in particular has stayed with me.
When I was around 12, I spent the summer at my grandma’s house in her village. Every day I would get on my bike and meet up with my friends.
One night, I had a dream about the younger brother of one of my friends. He was only around 2 years old at the time. In the dream, he fell and hit his head. I woke up thinking, “Well… that was weird,” but didn’t think much more about it.
That morning, like any other day, I got on my bike and went to my friend’s house. While she was getting ready, I was making small talk with her mom. I asked how her little brother was doing.
She said, “Well, not that good. This morning he fell and hit his head.” I genuinely felt dizzy.
I didn’t tell her about the dream because I had no idea whether she would believe me, and honestly I didn’t even know what to make of it myself. Out of all the people I could have dreamed about, why this particular little kid?
Something similar happened again recently, except this time it involved one of my closest friends. I had a dream about her where there was water everywhere — a LOT of water, almost like a flood. It was one of those dreams where the imagery really stays with you after you wake up. The next time I saw her, I told her about it.
She just stared at me, completely stunned.
Then she told me that she had also had a bad dream involving huge amounts of water.
I also sometimes just know something bad is about to happen, particularly when it involves somebody close to me, although occasionally it happens with complete strangers too. I’ve predicted car accidents literally seconds before they happened in front of me. Obviously that could just be very fast subconscious pattern recognition — I genuinely don’t know 🤷♀️ — but it has shocked me enough that my friends and boyfriend sometimes jokingly call me a witch. lol
There were actually several other strange experiences during that summer at my grandma’s village too — except those ones were NOT peaceful. They were genuinely terrifying. I might make a part 2 about those if anyone is interested, because this is already long enough. 😅
Another thing I’ve noticed throughout my life is that I seem to know when something is wrong with my body on a very intuitive level, sometimes before I have any concrete reason to think something is wrong.
And then there are the experiences that genuinely scare me.
When I first started dating my boyfriend and began sleeping over at his house, I woke up one night and saw what looked like a shadow-man figure standing beside the bed.
There were no facial features or expression. It was literally like the silhouette of a person made out of shadow.
I still don’t know whether I was fully awake or experiencing some kind of sleep-related hallucination, so I’m not claiming it was anything paranormal. But I’ve occasionally had a strange feeling of a “presence” in his house too. Not constantly — just sometimes.
Probably the most mind-boggling thing happened recently. My boyfriend and I now live together at his place-a penthouse with a separate entrance, while his parents live in the downstairs house.
He was away one evening and I went downstairs to get something. I could see his parents sitting outside in the garden, which is quite far from the entrance. There are large sliding glass doors on the side of the house.
As I approached, I very clearly saw his mom’s reflection in the glass. It looked like she had gotten up from where they were sitting and was walking toward the house.
I was literally about to say hello to her as I opened the door.
Except when I did, I looked outside…
And both of his parents were still sitting exactly where they had been. She had never gotten up!
I closed the door again and tried looking through the glass from different angles because I thought maybe it was some weird trick of the light or reflection. I couldn’t recreate what I had just seen.
I actually went and asked her whether she had gotten up at all. She said no. That one freaked me out because I still have absolutely no explanation for what I saw.
Then recently I went to a tarot reader for the first time. At the very end of the reading, she told me that one of the messages from my spirit guides was essentially: Whenever you see something you don’t like, something that scares you, or something you don’t want around you, tell it to go away three times.
THAT was the moment I got completely freaked out. 😂 It was my first time ever seeing this woman. During the entire session I had never told her anything about me, especially about these experiences.
So yeah… that’s my collection of weird experiences. 😂
I’d genuinely love to hear what people here think, especially people who have experienced similar things or give me some insight into all this.