I would like to take the time to ask the following:

1. Are you empathic? (Able to sense other’s feelings and or moods just by being in the same room with them?)

2. Have you heard voices? (Your name being called out when no one was there, full sentences, ect. Ect.)

3. Can you perceive the world differently than others? (Shapes and lighting? Knowing something when everyone is oblivious, dreams that come true?)

It is my little study and I have on other boards found that ADD people like myself have more of these traits than the “normal” people in the world. I have experienced all of the above. And no – The leprechauns never tell me to burn things.. J/K LOL…

yes to all of the above!

funny, how lucky (no pun intended) to have found an Add'er with these abilities. . . there are probably many who do. . . .
what i find incredibly fascinating (sp?) are how many Add'ers i've met here, who seemingly don't, or might not have these "gifts".

I am glad that there is at least one like me. It is difficult to explain to people that just don't have it. Hospitals and Airports are very difficult for me. The more I have huge groups around me the more I "see" the more I become spaced.

OMG Mystica...i hear you loud and clear.crowds when i am not in the right "space" are overwhelming and draining.And for me too...yes to all of the above.also my life partner,also 30yrs old has ADD as well and is ultra sensitive.our friends refer to us both as psychics....though i wouldent go quite that far..lol..but its a close description.i have wondered sometimes if some people who have ADD are just extremely sensitive people who receive more of every kind of input than most people...and then of course,unless you have highly developed skills and boundries...what can one do with all that extra input??

Yep, I think sometimes I have a sixth sense. I tend to absorb the feelings of others in a room or crowd, too. I can't tell you how many times I've connected with a friend or family who tells me they were just thinking about me. And vice versa. I think we do have some special "radar" or whatever you want to call it.

I think it's a good thing.

I always suspected this may be a trait common in ADD'ers. I have always been described as very empathetic, that I have a big heart. I don't know why but I seem to become quickly in tune with peoples feelings and moods when I enter a room. I like it because I genuinely enjoy people and this makes it easy to truly listen and understand them. This is so core to me that I cant imagine not being able to feel this way.

I tend to go with my gut feeling about people or things to do, it is usually correct. Sometimes I have to resist letting my mind over analyze something and just go with what feels right. There is a lot more that has happened but I think it is better related when sitting around trading stories and experiences than trying to get it written down in a thread, so maybe one day at a picnic or something we can do that.

I too have always been described as very empathetic...as in people sense I am an excellent listener (which I think may be part of my hyperfocusing as an ADD'er and partly other) and right away are drawn to me and want to share with me and see me as immediately trustworthy....I think it's an aura we send out to the universe that we are special in some intangible way....

Interesting about picking up emotional energy of others in a room...definitely...I can sense angry energy a mile away! not just in the same room....but seriously there is that intuitiveness about us....

Joan

My daughter is adhd. She senses things when the rest of us can't. She hears voices and she can see things that she has described in detail. Sometimes it is scary. When she was small she would tell us things like that.... and most times we didn't believe her, but she persisted. To this day she can sense the feelings in a room.... tension in a room gives her headaches. Some of you may not believe me, but she has described people she has never seen or seen pictures of.

When she is high strong and mad.... things have happened that are unexplainable. (has this ever happened to any of you)?

Now since my Mother has passed, she says something out of the blue like hi Grandma. I know you're there. They were very close. I am not making any of this up. It is quite real in our lives. Let me know.

I to do all of the above. DarkHound and I have been discussing this in another post.

I have the ability to tell when things are about to go really bad..or really good. I also can feel the mood of a group of people. I have a couple of friends who I refer to as psychic vampires because after visiting with them I feel totaly drained.

The funniest thing that has ever happen to me with this ability to tell when a phone is about to ring is when I was in a Therapy session. I was in deep discussion, when all of the sudden I had the feeling the phone was going to ring. I stopped in mid-sentence and turned to the councelor and stated that Not to be alarmed but your wife is about to call, not to worry, she has gone into labor. (I had no idea that he was married let alone that they were expecting until at that moment.) He looked blankly at me like I had just stepped off in the deep end mentally and then the phone rang. He almost jumped out of his cloths. He answered it and looked up sharply at me and turned ghost white. After he was finished he appologectically told me that he needed to get to the hospital, and that he would see me next week. The poor guy was really shaken up.

I have saved my dad's life twice. The first time he didn't take me serious until the event occured exactly has I told him. I had, had a dream that he would get in an accident on the highway between the town where he lived and the one where he worked. I described the curve, the other car, the car he was driving, and the apporximate time it happen. He didn't listen to me that time, but just has this car crossed the center line it dawned on him what I said and he was able to avoid a head on collision. The second time he listened to me. But as fate would have it. The spot and car that I described that would of hit him, ended up in a collision with another vehicle. (Or maybe both vehicles were supposed to be there and he would of been the third) These things tend to freak people out, but to me, it's a little piece of a glimps that has helped me make good decissions.

I hear my dearly departed Grandmothers voice at times, especially when I really need to be paying attention. She always calls out my full name. Which in my family is seldom said. Most family member call me Donna unless I'm in trouble or my Aunt Donna, or my Step-mother Donna are present. The ones I hate is the middle of the night jerk you straight out of bed voices.

Also has any other ADD'ers ever felt a presence that no one else can see??? I get these all the time.

These feelings is why I am exploring the Shamanic aspects. So far it has really explained a great deal to me.

Huggz:)

Every now and then I hear one of my kids say "mom" when they're not even around. I always thought it was my imagination. I never realized until I read these posts that others experienced the same thing.

When I'm with other people I usually feel what they feel, and I meld into it. I act differently around different people because of this.

I don't usually have premonitions, but there was one time when my oldest was an infant. I woke up in the middle of the night and rushed to her room. I didn't know why, I just did it without thinking. When I got there, she wasn't breathing, and I was able to get her breathing again. To this day, I have no idea what made me wake up and do that.

Another time, when I was living alone, I woke up at night and felt someone standing over me. I never opened my eyes, so I don't know if anyone was there or not, but the feeling was a strong one, and I felt panic going through my whole body. I know it wasn't a dream, because I couldn't get back to sleep that night.

Sometimes when I walk through the hall I can see something out of the corner of my eye, but when I look there's nothing there. I always thought this was my imagination until my son mentioned that this happens to him in that hallway.


This is just too freaky!

I can see through walls and woman's clothing. Just kidding!

All joking aside, my field of vision always picks up on the slightest movements or irregularities. Cant tell you how many deer collisions I have avoided because I saw them moving through the trees just before they bolted out in front of my car. Or how I can see the smallest details and pick them out when others only see the "big picture". And my eyesight isnt that good, I wear glasses and have corrected 20/20. But its something about the movement or distraction that always catches my attention. Same goes for sound or noise. The tiniest little sound will grab my concentration and pull me away from whatever I'm trying to concentrate on at that moment. Best example is when I am shopping in a store. Sometimes they have the loudspeaker system that gives off a series of beeps or tones to let employees know they have a phone call or message. Not really loud enough to annoy most people. But for MEEEEEEEE, its the most gawdaweful grating irritating sound imaginable. I've often caught myself shouting out for them ("the sounds") to be quiet! Weird, huh?
(plays music theme from Twilight Zone.......)

All I can say is wow. All of this is just too familiar. I am in tears right now reading these posts. ADD is new to me....new as in only a few days. All of a sudden I'm finding people with the same traits...the traits that have always made me feel alone or like an outcast...and here you are. If there are so many of us, so the statistics say....how come I've never met anyone like me? Maybe I just didn't listen long enough to find out?

I dunno, I"m just really grateful to be here. It's kind of two-fold though.....in a sense, I've always thought maybe if I'm not completely insane, maybe I'm just special.....but I guess I can accept that I am not the only one who's special:) At least with you guys around, I'm not as frightened that one day I will be taken away by men in white coats!

Thank you everyone.

Now that I have composed myself after reading marks post,almost peed myself when i read first line,lmao,too funny. My husband senses things ,he's the adder,actually it ****es me off sometimes,he just knows things, I could never get my head round how he can tell when I'm in a rotten mood,or something is wrong with me,the very second I walk into a room(without taking the door of the hinges),after reading these posts I can see that being very sensative to sitautions is common amoungst adders,something I was completely unaware off.

Kate x

what's wierd,
is that i only have a little empathic ability, to the point it ****es ro
off, b/c i won't let live until he tells me what's wrong.

However, he's ability to see "little creatures",
convinced that when he lived at home, the sprites would move stuff on him. . . . .

trippy
he

sometime I can vision things and they happen moments later and I can think the same thoughts of people. Sometimes My visions are terrifying and long term but they are long term and the situations are simular to the visions.

I'm tired right now, but glad I ran across this...

I used to come running in because I heard my mother's voice calling me, but she's say, "No i was just thinking about you..."

I matched a guys walk in my highschool hall between classes.. suddenly i got a whole bunch of information I didn't really want... he was really upset and his girl friend was pregnant...

I was more scared that i had seen inside his head by walking like him than I was about what would happen to him, her, and the child... i guess it just freaked me out.

I have deja vu, but i also get long shot pictures... one that worries me a little is... deleted.

There was a church that i cleaned... the guy before me cleaned it was also in high school. He told me it was a haunted church, and that the only reason he was telling me was because i'd find out myself anyway. He was right. Even my dog "heard" and "saw" stuff that wasn't "really" there (I took my dog for company after some disconcerting experiences there.)

The scientist in me has real trouble really reconciling this stuff... luckily, my life does not depend on explaining it right away.

When I was very young I used to talk with ants... at a certain point they wouldn't talk to me anymore. My mother was smart enough to commiserate and tell me maybe I could just listen in.. i did but it wasn't any fun anymore if they wouldn't talk to me anymore, so i quit.

I used to know who was calling or stuff was happening to people out of town. My mother did this even more than i did.

Heh, wheel still think it is not ADD linked? I think that is awesome that you can see into ppls heads. Me and Mom have phsycic link between us...she is ADD as well whether she wants to admit it or not. We always think the same thoughts.

I can tell when people have negative intentions or thoughts, without it being psyically obvious (Yet on the other hand; I'll percieve negativity when it really isn't there either!). Sometime's I hear my friend's thoughts and get visions as I'm falling asleep (rare); and they will prove to be true later.

I can make myself warmer :D (Comforted knowing that neuropsychology is keying into this with biofeedback!). And I used to see bands of color around people, but havn't been able to very much of late.

I have experienced similar to all mentioned here as well, but I think that being ADHD actually interfere's with my 'reception' and ability to rely (and focus) on these perceptions, as opposed to having these qualities strengthened, by being ADHD (or even being predisposed to these by ADHD). I think it's more directly related to being human :) But these perceptions could also be related to intelligence, and people with AD/HD are marked by high intelligence.

Uh, about the ants... I have memories of sitting in the drive way as a little kid and naming all the ants that skittered around the ant holes; and my sister would come along and stomp on them!!! :eek:

Science will catch up! There are theories; it's energy, all of which supposedly vibrates at identifying frequencies which can be felt- because we are perceptual creatures (well, I'm not always very perceptual ;) )

Originally posted by melanie_cartner
Heh, wheel still think it is not ADD linked? I think that is awesome that you can see into ppls heads. Me and Mom have phsycic link between us...she is ADD as well whether she wants to admit it or not. We always think the same thoughts.

I don't go looking any more...

Scarry stuff in there....

Just as glad to let it stay where it is....

But i do use the ability to see into peoples' heads when i teach... I get a very real sense of being able to tell where they are in a process and when i check it out i am very frequently correct.

I could imagine much of that being contextually divulged, but in truth, some of it that I am right about I don't see how it could be.

Anytime anyone older (read: grandmas & grandpas, not simply older than myself) has died, I've known almost immediately. If I was awake at the time, I felt that the person was physically there saying goodbye.

I didn't hear them with my ears, just my mind. I couldn't see them then, but if I was asleep when the person passed on I did visualize them in a dream. Each time I made note of the time and told someone around me that so and so just passed.

I (morbidly:rolleyes: ) verified times of death and have been accurate within a few minutes. I did not feel sad, just happy to see them and comforted. On grandma still visits me. In dreams, mostly, but at special times, I have felt her in person.

My grandma always said I was "fey." She was the only one I have ever heard used this term. Has anyone else ever heard of it and if so, how?

y

fey

\Fey\, a. [AS. f?ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.] Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

fey

\Fey\, n. [See Fay faith.] Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

fey

\Fey\, v. t. [Cf. Feague.] To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] --Tusser.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

fey

adj 1: slightly insane [syn: touched(p)] 2: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: elfin]


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton Universit

I speak pretty fluent "dog". I've trained dogs and horses but dogs read me like a book and I don't often miss their cues either.

I know I'm having fun when an owner says something along the lines of. "I've never seen him behave like that before". Usually eye contact is all that's required to find out whether we can play or whether it's an issue of dominance.

I think I have a four year old American Pit Bull Terrier ***** comming to live here soon. I've had pits before but my wife is not anxious to have another dog in the house. Too bad I can't give my wife the "eye" with any success..
< vbg >

Animals are great people..
anthropomorphising recklessly..

Back in my high school, guys would call eachother fey as a reference to being "not manly".

She may have meant Fey as a name of someone you reminded her of. "Fay (Fey) Dunnaway" (sp.)

I'm going with Wheel's last definition. I really hope she didn't mean the first one.:eek:

Reluctant to draw any supernatural connections because it is the reason why I am atheist, I always looked for some supernatural connections between Gods and reality (including spirits).

Refering back to the original post:
1. Are you empathic? (Able to sense other’s feelings and or moods just by being in the same room with them?)

I get drained as well from some people,. Strong detector of moods and other stuff which nobody seems to care about.

3. Can you perceive the world differently than others? (Shapes and lighting? Knowing something when everyone is oblivious, dreams that come true?)

Reference back to my my atheist beliefs coming from an all christian family.. lol

I am unable to stay in a crowded room because I "feel" the other people. It's almost like the energy is so chaotic, it's more than I can bear. I know when my neighbors are out in their yard without hearing or seeing them. I have had precognitive episodes, where people or things pop into my head and then either call or appear, "as in show up or play on the radio not magically appear".
Also have had dreams about events, and then years later when they happen, I can recall where I was when I woke up from that dream. I see and hear everything it seems, which would account for the distraction I guess.

This long term thing happens less to me since i was in my 20's... i used to dream something, then years later would be shocked while doing something that i had dreamed about some snippet I was actively doing, from years before.

All of the above... I alos have my own personal ghost.... He is an old man. He was with with me in OKC and I guess he moved with me to KS.. I am not joking even my neighbors have seen and asked me who he was. One lady thought he was real. Recently, I had the most actaul contact experince with him that I have ever had. I was leaving home to out on evening. As, I was getting in my car my screen door litterally exploded and ripped from the frame. I heard this voice in my head (very deep and maculine) screaming at me NO!!! I saidd NO !!!. Needless to say I stay home freakin out cause I thought I was going crazy. And the next morning I got a call from the mother of the girl I was going out to party with that she had been found raped and dead in a park about 3 am that morning. And that I needed to talk to the cops about what we had planned and where/who else she might have been with since it wasn't me. I now have an agreement with my ghost, he warns I listen......:eek:

Originally posted by Wheel1975
This long term thing happens less to me since i was in my 20's... i used to dream something, then years later would be shocked while doing something that i had dreamed about some snippet I was actively doing, from years before.

This happens to me all the time! I often forget my dreams; yet somethings happen very often that will cause me to remember those dreams and I will find they were nearly identical; and that I can even remember how old i was when the dream occured. This always makes me wonder how significant the event really is, especially if it's just me doing my usual stuff like crossing a street or getting a drink from a vending machine :confused: But these dreams stick out from just commonplace activities, because for example I'm thinking about something I read or someone I met while at the vending machine; which I will remember was also in the dream from so many eyars ago. This has been normal for me since I was 10. But so far; there seems to be little obvious use or benefit from this!

Sixes, what a gaurdian! Sorry about your friend :(

Mark, I can see through women's clothing too! If I have my Sony Nite Shot digital camera, but everything looks green...

I'd say my personal unusual trait is that I can tell what kind of fish is on my line before I even see it.

Hear voices? Are you familiar with the symptoms of schizophrenia?


http://www.schizophrenia.com/

Wow. Just had a revelation after reading this post.... My boyfriend and I both have adhd. I also sense emotions of the people around me. I just started meds a month ago; he is still not treated. Before I started meds I would have major anxiety about our relationship. He is very inexpressive with his adhd and I could never tell where his head was. I always felt like he sensed my anxiety too which I'm sure confused him as (I know now) he totally loves me. It was VERY dysfunctional.

He has been reluctant to get help and get on meds. He's very self-conscience about his adhd. (He's been outright avoiding the issue). But since I've started Strattera and am doing better, he has made an appointment to get evaluated. Maybe he sensed my happiness and is feeling less embarrassed about it now? Very interesting.....

I can sense people's emotions without feeling them. Kind of hard to explain. I am a bit of a non-sensitive person, so people's moods don't bother me. If anything I get irritated. :D I know what people are thinking and feeling just from looking at their faces or hearing the tone of their voice. I can read tarot cards with fair accuracy but I don't "predict futures" because I believe in free will.

I don't play with my cards anymore because I did a reading for someone 2 days before 9/11 and I sensed that something bad would happen to people close to him soon. He blew it off and laughed at me because he didn't believe in tarot or anything. I didn't even tell him that something bad would happen - just that I had bad feeling and was concerned. I asked if he had concerns about anyone he knew and he said no. I didn't even know where this guy lived because it was online in a chat room. 2 days later he lost a few friends in the towers (he lived in NYC). Heh. It's funny because in the spread was the tower card. But anyone who knows about tarot knows that the tower card doesn't refer to real towers. :P

Deceased loved ones like to visit me in my dreams frequently. My mom bugged once because I had a dream about my grandmother. She died when my mom was 9 so my mom grew up without a mother and I had no clue what my grandmother looked like. The dream was set in the 30's or 40's and my grandmother kept calling me "girl." My mom said my grandmother never called anyone girl but the next part freaked her out. In the dream my grandmother had short curly hair and it's my understanding that she had long wavy brown hair. Because my grandmother died after having a tumor removed from her brain, they stuck a short brown curly wig on her for the funeral.

Edit: Forgot to add that my man & I seem to attract "ethereal" creatures, too. LOL. :D We had an incident a couple years ago with an old man who died in this house sometime in the past 15 years. He still dwelled in the house and we decided to have him removed so he could go HOME. He decided to throw a hissy fit in our room and chuck my baskets filled with beauty supplies across our room. It was 1:00 in the morning, the kids were sleeping, and our door was closed. No way the kids or animals got in there to throw things around. He made quite a mess of my belongings and left a very negative energy in there! We slept on our couches for 3 weeks until the room had a good vibe again.

Well.....I'm pretty good at writing, and have great vision. I tend to make a lot of silly mistakes in terms of grammar, sentence structure etc, as well have have organizational issues. However, I still manage to get Bs and Cs on papers because they have good content.

Woa ? That's a very surprising thread this one !

So on this forum were many subjects turn around serious work and organisation and stuff like that there are people too who feel different and have a stronger empathy than what's it's common?


Well it's have been a long time since i think about all of this ?

It's like an kind of fresh wind in a dusty room

Yes how do you cope with your empathy, whith your sharper sensitivity ?

I don't care if you use tarot cards or if you had strange dreams or any other weird feelings.
What i like to discover is how do you protect yourself from the feelings of the people around you ? It take me years to be able to act as if i don't feel their concerns !
I hate TV because i m not able to make a difference beetween mysel and the different characters.
My first memory of empathic feeling dates back from when i was 6 year old : In school i said directly to a girl what's she think about a boy I was wrong because it s was not of me that's she was in love :D but she was infuriated because i expose her intimate feelings to everybody :mad:
Since then i was learn to shut my mouth ( a little ) but how do you purge yourself from other people feeling ?

Originally posted by Mystica
I would like to take the time to ask the following:

1. Are you empathic? (Able to sense other’s feelings and or moods just by being in the same room with them?)

2. Have you heard voices? (Your name being called out when no one was there, full sentences, ect. Ect.)

3. Can you perceive the world differently than others? (Shapes and lighting? Knowing something when everyone is oblivious, dreams that come true?)

It is my little study and I have on other boards found that ADD people like myself have more of these traits than the “normal” people in the world. I have experienced all of the above. And no – The leprechauns never tell me to burn things.. J/K LOL…
I can say #1. I don't know about #3 and especially #2. I think that #2 is more common in schizophrenia. Hearing voices is NOT an ADD thing! :eek: :o :eek:

I at first thought no I don't hear voices ever. Then I remembered I do and have. I have felt they were my higher self speaking to be. Once I felt a force like a rock hit my head, and a voice said "Don't go back get on with your life" I then realised it ws right. I thought someone threw a rock at me. But since I was in a tent all alone. Theres been smaller incidences as well. I had little creatures living all over my room. That were invisible yet moved and played in makeshift swimming pools, swung on bracelets, built hghwys to get around my room. They told me they were Hoblins. They left me when I was 11ish, broke my heart. They said my dad was threatened by them and they were in danger. I thought he pushed my book shelf down in his usual temper. The Hoblins lived in multistory housing in an oak bookcase. I don't remember telling anyone in the family. The Hoblins communicated at my insistance with a tiny miniature pencil that I provided. I made a graph where they each listed their names and highth.
I had a doll that put its leg back on at night. He would jump down the crack between the wall and the bunkbed. I saw him once. He couldn't hardly fit it was like some weird trick with physics. Everymorning his leg would be back on. Poor guy maybe I should have glued it on for him. Years later I married a man with the same name and who had a baby face that looked just like the only doll I had. I asked for it. At nine as a tomboy I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on anything.


I dream very lucid and often precognitive.
I seem to have trouble listening to myself as so much static and stations are playing here. I think it has made me really strong and if my head ever really clears up I might be super perceptive.

I do feel I am more empathetic toward's others but thought it was just cause I'm a nice person. Guess I was off by a long shot on that one. I find that my son and I have a bond that goes beyond the normal son/mother relationship. I can literally feel what he is going thru whether it be extreme happyness or sadness,,,I just KNOW with him and he seem's to just KNOW with me.

I work the graveyard shift and sleep during the day while the children are at school. I have jumped out of a dead sleep because I could hear one of my kid's screaming MOMMYYYYYY. When they get home I ask about their day and have consistantly found they were having a really bad day and thought about me and thought about being home soon. On 9-11 I had worked an 18 hr. shift and was dead to the world,,,when I suddenly could hear my daughter screaming over and over NO MOMMY NO I jumped out of bed and crashed thru my screen door looking for my baby. I realized she was safe at school but the feeling of paranioa would not go away so I finally just got dressed and went down to the school only to find my daughter in the office in hysterics. She was a kindergardner and all she knew was I worked in a big building so she was terrified that I had been killed. It seem's the teacher's decided to let the children watch the news not a big problem as they need to know their history BUT 20 kids with 1 teacher trying to explain something as unexplainable as terrorism--NOT COOL!!!!!!!!!

I have had dream's that have freaked me out; but, felt I needed to warn the person in my dream. I dreamt my brother was decapitated and I was trying to sew his head back on. I can't control my urges to call them and warn. He went riding three wheelers later that day and tried to take a hill that was too steep, he say's he kept hearing me yell DUCK and tucked his head in at the last minute. Result was a crushed shoulder, many abrasion's and burns--doc said if he hadn't of moved to that position at the last minute he may have very well lost his head. (FREAKED ME OUT)...I dreamt I could hear the baby brother of the family screaming I could not get the sound out of my head even when awake so I called and asked how he was doing and of course being my baby brother he made fun of me. Two hours later I got a phone call from the hospital trying to locate his wife, while working on an elevator both his feet were caught and crushed when his partner accidently set the elevator in motion. I could hear his screams in the back ground. I have also dreamt about my adopted father and knew he needed to rest and kept telling him but he didn't listen. After riding a extremely fast ride at the county fair he started to feel nausious and dizzy so we all decided to go home. In my dream I kept yelling don't go over the bridge. When my father got to the bridge that goes over the Platte river he told my mom to take him to ER instead. He ended up having a heart attack in the parking lot with no lasting damage becuase he got there in time. My family now listen's when I call out of the blue and ask how they are doing. But, I do admit this TOTALLY GIVES ME THE WILLIES AND MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A FREAK!!!!!!! I have only spoken about his too my family because I"m afraid other's would percieve me as a freak. Nice to know other's have the same experiances.

Wow that is some serious stuff Cherity!!
What a life saver.

I dunno I still find it freaky,,,something I could probably do without.

Hey - I thought I was the only one. I am very empathic and am slowly learning how to use that ability to help others (especially the kids in my classes that no one else really wants to bother with). I cannot stand crowded places ~ it feels as though a million feelings and issues are tearing their way through my mind. I've completely freaked out some of my students (ask Boogiebut!) with what I can tell about them without knowing that much about them.

My mother has told me many times that I've said things or done things that has reminded her of her dad. Things I couldn't have known since he died in '75. My late grandmother also commented on that many time.

She may be dead, but I have felt grandma's presence around me at odd times. I'm still not too sure what it means, it usually quite comforting.

I drive my wife nuts because she'll be aggravatedd about something and I'll just latch on to it until she tells me what's going on. What aggravates her is that she doesn't like sharing things she considers "her" problems.

I could go on and on - but y'all could tell that. :)

David

lol David I'm willing to bet while it frustrates your wife she also appreciates the fact that you care enough to ask and keep asking until she feel's comfortable to tell you. Sound's like a good skill to me.

I get deeply offended and easily angered by a lot of the lazier nurse's at the long term care facility that I work in. Some (stress on SOME) seem to keep putting off giving pain meds. While I know most the meds are narcs these ppl are all over 80 and dying of something (usually some form of cancer) Who died and gave them ability to FEEL another's pain? I get so angry when I hear "O she ain't hurtin that bad". And OK I'm going somewere else with this lol can you tell I had a bad night at work? Sorry.

yes

never heard voices

certainly perceived the world differently; sometimes to my advantage. and sometimes not;)

I'm beginning to see some sort of correlation here. I'm figuring most people believe that as humans, we don't use a large percentage of our brain. It would make sense that some people are able to tap into other parts of their brain that most people cannot, hence extra sensory perceptions. I never used to believe in psychic abilities, but I think different now. I am an empath. I am also ADD. I've only recently realized my empathic abilities in the last few years. I'm 38 years old. I have also experienced telepathy and mind control, and only in the last few years actually had some questions answered about myself from childhood that had puzzled me greatly. I've had to open my mind to things I never would have even thought of 3 years ago. And now I'm seeing some similar patterns in other ADD people. I'm not ADHD, because I don't really have the hyperactivity part, even though I do fidget sometimes. Most everyone that knows me would consider me 'hypoactive'. I can be superfocused if it's a task I'm interested in. I can learn things astonishingly quickly. Yet, it was the negative aspects of my ADD that had been causing me problems in my adult life. I'm newly diagnosed with ADD.

Anyhow, if any of you can keep an OPEN mind, I want to send a link to a website I found several years ago before I found out I was ADD. I'm wondering if a lot of the people on this website are also ADD and may not know it. Certain patterns prevail. Creativity is one big one. Anyhow, before you all take me off to the crazy house, hear me out, and actually read the site I'm talking of. You might just learn something else about yourself, if you have an open mind. The site is about 'real' vampires. I'm not talking about anything ever portrayed on film or in books. I'm talking real live people who have energy defiencies and need to obtain energy from other living beings in different ways. It's not a glamorous lifestyle or anything like that. The site discusses different ways to obtain that energy from others, usually willing donors. The word 'vampire' has so many fictitious connotations to it, that it's really not the best word to use, but it does make sense in some ways because of the way the energy has to be obtained. They don't manufacture enough themselves so must take from others that do. These type of people are also generally very empathic or have amazing psychic ability, and when you get to talking to a lot of them, you might even wonder if they also have ADD, but just don't know it. There's certainly a lot of similiarities there and I feel it's worth taking a look at, if nothing else.

The site is: www.drinkdeeplyanddream.com

My personal weblog (for those interested): www.20six.co.uk/felinevamp (that is my personal journal only)

I LOVE THAT CAT ANIMATION ABOVE -


First off I hope I dont offend anyone with my comments. Appologies if I do.

After reading thru this tread I cant help but think many of these "experiences " are more or less isolated cases - and are quite common to the general population. Obvioslly there are some exceptions.

Almost every person I know has 1 or 2 "special" experiences... Most however are reluctant to admit some of the more off the wall ideas.. voices - ect..

I feel we all - normies included, have a built in phyco ability. It is trained out of most of us at a very young age...Were told we cant have invisible freinds ... Funny we get older and were told to pray to one??? Never have figured that one out yet??



The empathy thing - not being able to handle all the worlds emotions - I have noticed in quite a few ADDers.

Does this count as an odd ability:

I can find minerals in crystal form almost anywhere I go. I have many "museum" quality specimens to show for it.

I'll be driving or walking somewhere ...and out of nowhare get a overwhelming "urge" that i follow and run right to the jackpot- If you collect minerals this is a great gift to have.

Now if i could just find gold. (I had an armed escort off of a gold mine dump site once)

I read somewhere here about Lucid dreaming.... Havent heard anyone use that term in a while -

YES, YES, YES, AND YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the nurse at work loves me as i know when someone is about to have a 'problem' before they show signs of it. my sister is the same, but she is not ADD.

Interesting website
Hey about the crystals, :cool: my son is like that he found watermelon tourmaline in our sand/dirt driveway in florida and also a big chunk of amythest nearby recently, I mean about 4 incheswide. Weird.
I am a rockhound as is he. But since being in florida I don't bother.

Originally posted by janine
Interesting website
Hey about the crystals, :cool: my son is like that he found watermelon tourmaline in our sand/dirt driveway in florida and also a big chunk of amythest nearby recently, I mean about 4 incheswide. Weird.
I am a rockhound as is he. But since being in florida I don't bother.

Tourmaline and amythest in drive way? Lucky find. I have to dive 4-5 hours for that stuff and spend 3-4 days - Its quite rare in our area.
Are these minerals usually found in Florida? I know theres lots in New Hampshire - even in Vermont... Whats available down that way?

Ever hear of Bancroft? Oh no Im off on another quest again....Stop me before I hert myself!

Originally posted by SandiRella
I can't tell you how many times I've connected with a friend or family who tells me they were just thinking about me. And vice versa. I think we do have some special "radar" or whatever you want to call it.

I think it's a good thing.

Sometimes someone I have not seen or heard from in a while, pops into my head...and I'll bump into them when I'm out the next day, or they call me out of the blue.

My mom gets that too. Interesting.

Cyndi (neuroangel)

IMHO..I too believe that everyone has certain abilities. But I feel that being AD/HD we are more open to it. Adder's are very open minded people, heck we have to be to live among people who feel and think that they are higher in the food chain then us.

As for what I have experienced being isolated. No it's not. I'm very much in tune with my abilities. It is what has helped me to survive from various abusive relationships, and other hurdles thrown my way. My earlier post was just a few that was either funny or had some definite message with it.

The thing that aggravates me at times is, I'll sense or feel something but it's like a jig saw puzzle. And then I'm left to put the clues together to make sense of it.

Yes to all of the above. Esp number one. I seem to pick up on people easily. Meaning I can almost tell them whats bothering them without asking a thing. In high school there was a girl I had met just 3 days eairler. I didn't know her that well because we only had one class together and it was choir so we didn't have much time to talk we were to busy singing. LOL
Anyway, I pulled her aside on the 3rd day and asked her what was wrong. She said what are you talking about I am fine. I knew she just wanted everyone to think she was fine and as far as I could tell everyone was falling for it but me. She tried to lie and tell me nothing was wrong but I was persistant with her. She said can't you see I am laughing and joking around with everyone? She said I am fine. I didn't buy it. Part of why I didn't was just plan old knowing how to read body language. I have been able to read body language as long as I can remember. I was a shy kid so I spent most of my time at school observing everyone else.
I told her that I knew something was wrong and I could understand if she didn't want to talk about it at school. I told her it seemed to me whatever was bothering her must have happened a long time ago because she could mask it pretty well............................Thats when she broke down and told me I was right. She thought I was reading her mind LOL!
Anyway she ended up giving me her number because she didn't want to talk about it at school. I won't say what she told me thats personal but I got to know her over the next few weeks and later found out she was cutting herself. I talked to her about that and she said she had never been able to talk about it with anyone else before not even her best friend. Over time I helped her quit Cutting and its now 8 years later we are still close frinds ( even though the last 2 years shes lived in another state) and she hasn't cut herself since I helped her.
Thats just one person of a few I have been able to be like that with. That story is just the one I am most proud of.

Sorry that was so long. :frog: :p :dizzy:

Thank you Thank you Thank you!! I love all of this thread.
My "gifts" as we call them at home?

itschaotic- You might talk dog, but I talk cat. My kids get such a kick because I have a half siamese cat, and she'll come up and tell on the kids to me. I will yell, "Guys, Squeeker says you two are being mean to her, who pushed her off the bed" Without thinking. And guess what.. that is what exactly happened!

I can tell what any person is feeling, better is I know them and/or touch them. I also feel presents in homes. I think they are ghosts or spirits but I could be wrong.

I can tell what a person is suffering from by touch. For example if someone banged their arm, I can taste coppery in my mouth if they brused a muscle or chalk like if they brused a bone. I can tell a muscle tear, and a pinched nerve or stomach from Intestinal trouble.

I also do the telephone thing: I'll say "Jen pick up the phone, its your friend Wes" and it is.

As for why, I think its because of intelligence, problem solving, and creativity that typical ADDers have. We don't think of a solution to something as being one answer but a bunch of correct answers.

When I was young I used to "touch" peoples minds and help them sort out and understand things when they were feeling all messed up.

That stopped long ago for some reason that is unavailable to me, other than to remember that a few friends and I started getting seriously into having mind experience exploration.

Nowdays, Rather than get drained, I can absorb other peoples pain and worries. Sometimes in crowds, it is like being plugged into a generator with lots of extra energy.

Sleepz

I like these things. Paranormal activities are facinating!

1. Are you empathic? (Able to sense other’s feelings and or moods just by being in the same room with them?)
Sometimes, not all the time. I can feel other ppl's feeling on my skin if the feeling is directed to me. But It's not as easy to see if two ppl hate eachother if I'm not involved. But I'm very good at reading bodylanguage... I think it's more "body-reading" then actually feeling.


2. Have you heard voices? (Your name being called out when no one was there, full sentences, ect. Ect.)
Well... having tourettes I hear voices and shouts all the time... but they're all mine! *lol* I did hear my name being called when I was depressed and suicidal (early teens). Someone called my name over and over... I hated it.

3. Can you perceive the world differently than others? (Shapes and lighting? Knowing something when everyone is oblivious, dreams that come true?)
I somtimes know what ppl are going to say before they do. I sometimes know what is going to happen, like if I've read the manuscript before the show... I've also had dreams that had come true. I dreamed about sept 11'th 8 hours before it happened. I also dreamed about that ship in the Filipines that sunk in the harbor (last year??)!

One time, shortly after I had my first child, I was feeling very depressed and had suicial thoughts. Now I am certain it was post partum depression, but when you are in it, it is so difficult to be scientific and objective. I felt especially terrible and tired one night and got the bottle of painkillers the doctor prescribed after my cesarean section. There were quite a few left over. I quit taking them after one day home even though I was in awful physical pain, because I didn't want my new baby to get any of the drug from my milk. I think the physical pain had quite a bit to do with the deep depression coming on. Well, I lied downstairs on the sofa, away from my dear husband and sleeping baby. I planned to take all those pills at once. The next thing I can remember was a beautiful blond, blue-eyed, freckled girl about age 10 or so. She told me I must not hurt myself. She said she would not let me because she was my angel. I don't know if it was real or a dream. I sat up and drew a quick sketch there in the dark. I still have the sketch and it looks as though my oldest daughter had could have sat for the portrait. I now have four other freckled angels.

One time, shortly after I had my first child, I was feeling very depressed and had suicial thoughts. Now I am certain it was post partum depression, but when you are in it, it is so difficult to be scientific and objective

If ya'll can remember during my post partum period I was a complete and total mess. It seemed like my online friend's would not leave me alone Man they made me sooooooooooo mad :mad: . Calling me or leaving message's all the time. Couldn't they see I needed to just be done with it. And I will admit to being really mad at FG for bringing up post partum a lot. I mean the nerve of that woman lol. Well, ALL of my online friend's are also ADD'ers THANK GOD :D they were so intuitive and KNEW I needed them and KNEW how to keep me going. I hate to think what I would have missed out on. WHAT A WONDERFUL LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big hug's and ton's of love for all of ya who supported me for the first two month's after Garrett was born.
Cherity

Hee Hee I proudly list "necessary irritant" as one of my finer qualities. :D

Its okay if you were mad at me. I think anger is the most motivating and often the most useful emotion. So glad you are better now. Pals?

Hello All,

I've been thinking about all of this since my first post and I've begun to remember some other oddities that I've encountered in life. As a teen, I didn't like being around people my own age. It wasn't like they were mean or anything, it just hurt. A school dance would overwhelm me - it was like I could physically feel the emotion within the room. As a result I avoided that type of shindig like the plague. I tried going to prom - stag of course - but couldn't stay in the room. People asked me why I left, I could only say I felt ill. This penomena would surface again. At our wedding reception, I wanted to leave as quickly as possible. Drove my blushing bride nuts. Just a few years ago, my wife and I attended my school's prom to keep one of the chaperones company. Darned if it didn't happen again and we left fairly soon after we arrived.

Another spooky thing happened when I first met my wife. She was teaching at the school I had just been hired at and came over to introduce herself. I was already nervous, but after seeing her, I felt my stomach drop to my knees and my skin broke out in goosebumps. At first I didn't know what was going on, but later that night I figured it out. You see, I had been dreaming about her since the 9th grade. In every dream involving love, sex, marriage, etc., her face was the one I saw. It was her I was with. Some might say that I'm just transferring stuff over to her, but I swear it's true. As we got to know each other better, the more I was convinced I was right. When I proposed (which is another ADD moment I'll tell you about later) she almost refused because she felt she couldn't be what I wanted her to be. After reassuring her she already was - she agreed. I didn't tell her about my dreams until after we had been married a couple of years. I was right - she is the girl of my dreams. Everything a wife should be and more of a lover than perhaps I deserve.

I believe that ADD has done nothing more than let me sense many things that others have either learned to ignore or never see in the first place. If only evverybody could be so blessed as we are.

toodles
David

I've had a conversation with a ghost and encountered something I still really can't explain, both when my father was stationed in Caracas, Venezuela in the Air Force. Very interesting time, that was...

I know all to well about feeling over whelmed in a crowd. I also have this same feeling when I'm around one of my long time friends. It's called psychic Vampires. They do not know they do it, but they draw on your energy. I read about this in a Celtic Shaman-ism Book.

This subject has always fascinated me as well.

I have many of the other areas that deal with extra senses as well.

BTW..My add Spirit is not just because I can raise other peoples Spirits..it is also because I can communicate with others as well as feel everything they can feel. Also, John my hubby & I can communicate to a point like this as well, but I like to play mind games with him, and make him think I'm in another room doing something when I'm actually sneaking up on him to scare him..LOL

I'm so bad..:dizzy: :wacko: :bowl: :frog:

LOL..Almost for got to respond to the speaking animal part of this conversation.

I too speak CAT, DOG & Horse. :D But being in tune with nature like I am, I feel like I can understand all living things. Now if I can just make these darn spiders understand that this is my house not theirs, and they need to vacate the premises. LOL

i have never been diagnosed with anything my kids are the add'ers.....but ever since i was a kid(am 30 now) i would have dreams and in a matter of time(could be days, weeks, or months) i would be doing something or see something and feel a de ja vue feeling. and it is always something everyday like once i remember i dreamt that i was sitting on a orange blanket with my phone and cards in front of me. and a few months later i was sitting on my bed...orange sleeping bag with my phone and tarot cards in front of me.....just little things like that. i believe i have gifts but have no clue whatso ever on how to come in tune with them....they scare me to say the least. anyhow that is my perception on it

I have noticed that I have the ability to 'read' situations. Not necessarily predicting the future, but...being able to feel trends.

I have two specific examples, one depresing, one fluffy and fun!

When it came out I went and saw the movie Pearl Harbor. Good movie, even if the love story sucked. I was walking out and I looked at my Mom and my friend and I said, you know, that's going to happen again. The attitudes in that movie--that's the way we are now. We're too full of ourselves, we are arrogant, and we're ignoring the rest of the world and we're going to wake up morning and find it's all gone to pieces. And I told my Dad too and he argued with me about the world being stable and there wasn't going to be a war and I said watch: we'll be at war by the end of the year. And he laughed.

I went to school and two months later woke up to look outside and see the Twin Towers burning. I went back and read that, I had recorded in in my journal, and just kinda went...woah.

The more fluffy example is that I have been for the past two years meaning to write a romantic comedy featuring an American girl who falls in love with royal while on vacation. And she doesn't know who he is and there is of course conflict and all that fun stuff, but it works out...now imagine my surprise when I saw the previews for the new movie The Prince and Me! I went...HEY! Y'all stole my idea! :)

My thoery is that it's the ADD. Even when I (we) are trying to concentrate or focus, we are still picking up and registering all the stuff going on around us. And so we pick it up and mull it over and think about it, consciously or subconsciously and so we are able to get a better sense of the world than someone who is focused on just one thing at a time.

It's kinda funny, my major is political communications and one of the things they harp on is learning to be able to sense what is going on and to notice everything...and I'm going, I need to LEARN this?? No, no, I need to learn NOT to sense everything for a while....

i dont know if it is just the add ppl who have these experiences but i am sure that they are more in tune with there emotions and face it most ppl who have abilities whether it be actual psychic or are into wiccan/pagan or witchcraft are into meditating and nature and all of that stuff.....i think it is all the sensitivities that add'ers feel....

Hmm..I guess what I am thinking (but not so much with articulating well....that seems to be the order of the day for me) is that....

Other people who are psychic or into paganism and alternative or new age spirtuality (as I was) go to a lot off effort to try to open their mind and widen their perception. They do things such as meditation and exercises to open their mind and senses.

Whereas at least I (I don't know about other ADDers) don't have to do that. It just is. I can't turn it on or off, not really. Though I can sort of screen it out (more so now with medication), I can't ever completely turn it off.

One theory I've read (I think) is that when part of your brain is underactive or the neurotransimitters aren't as effective (as in the case of ADD) other parts of the brain try to compensate and pick up the slack. So while you may not be able to think through a problem in a linear fashion, the creative part of your brain takes a hold of that job and becomes more developed...So perhaps this part of the brain is being more active to compensate for the ADD and other people are trying to 'force' or encourage that part of the brain to be more active....like going to the gym, but mentally. :)

If that makes any sense at all.

that could be very possible too... i guess it also depends on what you believe is the case....if you are someone who doesnt believe in psychic abilities then no matter what you tell them they are not gonna believe that they have any kind of gift....and i agree that is what i meant by being more 'in tune' with emotions and such....emotions are on one side of the brain....not sure which side but......LOL anyhow i enjoy reading your perspective on this.

I didn't believe in psychic abilities until I experienced them first hand. So sometimes experiences can change your perception of things. I have a much more open mind now than I used to, although I still had strange dreams and other unexplained stuff that happened to me.

kool cat flvampgirl....how do you get it to be a moving pic instead of just a still photo???

Hi

Sometimes when one hears voices...it can be their guardian angel calling out to them (for those who believe in that spiritual/paranormal stuff) and yes I can relate to the other things you state in your post such as the empathy bit etc etc

Selena:)
I would like to take the time to ask the following:

1. Are you empathic? (Able to sense other’s feelings and or moods just by being in the same room with them?)

2. Have you heard voices? (Your name being called out when no one was there, full sentences, ect. Ect.)

3. Can you perceive the world differently than others? (Shapes and lighting? Knowing something when everyone is oblivious, dreams that come true?)

It is my little study and I have on other boards found that ADD people like myself have more of these traits than the “normal” people in the world. I have experienced all of the above. And no – The leprechauns never tell me to burn things.. J/K LOL…

I'm the quiet, observant kind everywhere and always kind of monitor everyone and have an idea of how they are feeling or thinking... I also was very empathetic until I developed social anxiety... I often hear my name in music and sometimes in silence, but sometimes I am somehow able to figure out that it really didn't happen... weird. One time I thought I heard a door open and close when nobody was home and that really freaked me out and I actually hid... Today I heard my mother having a conversation with someone who wasn't there..

I've considered that I've had Schizotypal personality, but I doubt it's the case. It's more of a hyperactive imagination probably, and that sounds ADD like. :D