Two years ago I started meditating. I've had visions I experienced during meditation come true, and quickie visions or thoughts I had while awake come to pass. I've realized that I'm clairvoyant, though so far this is nothing major - just the occasional prophetic dream, vision, or sense of when things will happen. I'm highly imaginative, can visualize anything, and am a strong empath. For many years, I've noticed that as I'm falling asleep, I'll have these very quick but clear images or visions. I'll hear and see a scene just as if it were a clip of a movie or a commercial. There are many of them and then I'm awake again, remembering the images. This happens within a minute of me turning the light out and also when meditating. Then my eyes slide open again, so I'm not asleep yet I'm not awake. I heard once that the name for this is hypnagogic images. Of course, the scientific theory is that it has nothing to do with psychic information, though many people claim otherwise. Is this a common experience? Is it clairvoyant information? If so, what am I to do with it? I was born 5/21/68.
Kathy
Astrea:
People born on your birth date are especially gifted in the very ways you describe. Being born on that Gemini/Taurus cusp makes you three times more receptive than most of us because you have both of your Gemini twins and your Taurus to weigh and evaluate the things you see and hear on a psychic level.
If they take the time and use their energy wisely, most cusp people prove to be very psychically adept. This comes from having more than one personality perceiving and evaluating the things they psychically pick up. Tuning in is the hardest part, but the Taurus in you should be able to quiet the Geminis enough so that you can get to the bottom of things.
Between the time we are awake and the time we fall asleep, our minds enter that hypnogogic phase. At that time, we lose touch with waking reality and move into the world of psychic vision. Everyone experiences this but not everyone notices or learns how to consciously work with it.
Many people may disagree with me, but based on many years of experience, I NEVER discount things like those images you receive no matter how trivial they may seem at the time. Even if a specific situation or event isn't revealed clearly in those momentary visions, something can always be gleaned from the things we mentally see as we are falling asleep or waking up.
I experience these sorts of visions more often right before I wake up, which is fortunate, because it makes it much easier to write them down right away. I assume you're saving yours on paper too. It's extremely important to record those visions so that you can learn how to use them to your best advantage.
Since the things you see in those moments tend to come true, it would be wise to expand upon them by stringing them together so you can figure out what they're trying to tell you. Even the tiniest thing can be important in the big picture of your life, so write down everything you see under the assumption that everything is valuable.
Sometimes it's better not to ruminate too much on the MEANING of things, and to allow insights and understanding to come about naturally. You'll learn to sort things out as more information comes in, and soon you'll be able to string whole visions together from the tiny gleanings you receive from day to day.
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Susyn:
The period between being awake and asleep is known as the alpha state. Powerful insights, visions and psychic messages tend to appear during this stage of consciousness. Though scientific theories may try to explain these experiences away, most of the visions we perceive during this state can't be dismissed as meaningless because they often prove accurate.
Though this is a common experience, most people pay little attention to it. Now that you've become aware of it, the accuracy of your visions should increase.
One of the most powerful experiences I had during an alpha state came in the form of a dream
in which I was talking with my mother who had died a few months before. In this state, she called me on my cell phone and we carried on a conversation. I was very aware that she was calling me from the spirit world, and could actually feel the phone pressed up against my ear.
When our conversation ended, I awoke and could still feel the phone against my cheek, but when I went to reach for it, it wasn't there. I realized right away that this wasn't a dream, but rather an experience in which she was able to communicate with me. I asked her if she was all right and whether she could call me or if I could call her on my cell even though she'd passed away. I was awake but not awake, and profoundly moved.
Your emotional state is one way to identify if what you are experiencing is a dream or clairvoyant vision, for normally, these events will create strong emotions that stay with you throughout the day.
You can develop this gift by recording the images you receive and monitoring how often they come true. As you do, their frequency may increase. Once your subconscious mind and spirit guides realize you are paying attention, more information will come. As you work with these messages, your abilities will increase, which will make it easier to determine if you should share your insights with others or keep them to yourself.
Continue to develop your meditation abilities, and watch for evidence of astral projection, another practice that tends to arise from this alpha state. This is just the beginning. As more of your psychic powers emerge and you continue to awaken, the transformational process you're involved in will point you in a clear new direction.
Astrea:
Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.
Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!
While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!
I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!
As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.
I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.
You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!
Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.
A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.
You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.