Personal Stories

This is something I find hard to pin down. In meditation or energy work, people talk about heat, pressure, tingling, movement, colours, all sorts of things. But the body can create sensations for lots of reasons. How do people tell the difference between imagination, nervous system stuff, and something they would call energy?

A lot of unusual experiences seem to happen when people are children, or at least people remember them from childhood. I wonder how much of that is because kids are more open, and how much is because memory changes over time. Would be interested to hear how people think about old memories without either dismissing them or accepting them too quickly.

Some places just feel off straight away. I know that can be lighting, smell, old buildings, stress, all of that. But sometimes it feels more specific than just "this room is creepy". Do you think that kind of feeling is intuition, memory, body language, or something else? I don’t really have an answer, just interested.

I like asking people this question as everybody has had different types of "introductions" to these experiences. For me, it personally started with a book I read (i can't remember the title anymore) a few years ago which was talking about auras and electromagnetic fields and all of a sudden I remember being able to see colors around people since I was a kid. And after practicing this for a few weeks, I started to see them again...

Most of the times I think about people, I happen to meet them or they text me. But even crazier story, yesterday, I suddenly thought about a girl I met like 20 years ago, I have never ever seen anymore in my life. I just remember her face as a kid and her first name. We have not spoken in YEARS and not kept in touch at all! Long story short, I was in London and I went to the most random cafe, I never …