Hi everyone!
Sorry this is a bit of a long one.
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I'm new to witchcraft and am not even comfortable to say I'm practicing yet. Part of what drew me was that as a kid I had really vivid dreams. Sometimes about scary things, awesome things or completely innocuous things. Most were just the normal kids stuff that I forgot after a while but every now and again one of them would actually happen.
As far as I know, its only ever been harmless stuff - doing specific activity for the first time, reading a specific passage in a book that hadn't been written at the time, a chance meeting a had with a stranger who I never saw again. Whenever it happened I'd lose my train of thought/stop whatever I was doing for a couple of seconds or even minutes and sometimes get asked by people what was wrong.
For a few years a told them the truth and always get told that it was just my over active imagination and they were normal activities I could have come up with. The thing is, although innocuous, they were always too specific with details that i couldn't have known about or made up. No one I've talked to about it has been able to give me a satisfactory answer so I stopped asking by age 10.
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The above stuff hasn't negatively affected my life so I've basically ignored it but a few weeks ago I had an experience which seriously spooked me.
So I was sitting in my classroom doing an assignment when it suddenly felt like something yanked me out of my body and then shoved me back in. The whole thing took less that a second but afterwards I had to leave the room and went into shock in the stairwell. Even once I calmed down, I still had the shakes for at least an hour.
I'm not sure if these two things are related but advice or examples of similar experiences would be greatly appreciated!
I have premonitions in various ways. I see and hear things. Or I just know. It doesn't happen in dreams so often. But I was talking with the spirit of my grandfather in dreams. But sometimes they enable the communication. Like I took a nap one afternoon and had a dream. I saw my dog running and a voice said: “She's on fire.“ Then I found out that our dog ran away and my mother went to look for her and our dog was very hot because it was a hot summer day. It happened more often when I was 14. Now it's more of a subtle voice of intuition. But the last three years I have problems with OCD and anxiety. I have to found the inner voice again because a lot of anxiety and fears pretends to be intuition.
Hi! This is a really interesting point you brought out.
How to distinguish between your intuitive higher self and the voice of anxiety?
Ive had this same thing forever. Always mundane. Ive learned to ignore it but praise it internally for happening, I want to see if I can find a way to use it, I want it to keep going. But I just cant.