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I Have Been Seeing Dead People Since I Was Born

Personal Encounter

Born with the gift? Prior to turning 13 I was scared to sleep in my own bed. I shared the room with my sister. I would see black tall slim figures surrounding my bed or constant unexplained movement around the room. Going to sleep was horrifying. Every night I would crawl in between my parents to sleep. It was the only place I felt safe. At 13 everything changed. I had a dream of my Grandfather dying from a heart attack. It was like a movie. The entire event laid out in front of me. I told my Mom. Three days later it happened. Exactly as I dreamed. It's happened several times after. I hate dreaming of someone. It always come true. More to come

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u/aloafaloft avatar

I also experienced this, and then I turned 27 and went into psychosis and got diagnosed with schizophrenia.

I don't think they have schizophrenia.

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Me too,but always people I do not know, I need to leave a notebook beside my bed so I can detail them. My husband’s correlated my sightings to always seem to be when there’s a higher magnetic field during solar storms. He’s geeky so follows that type of thing lol

Have you been seeing more recently?

No I haven’t but I wonder if it’s because of a new anxiety medication I’ve recently been on it makes me sleep a lot better. Not sure if it’s why.

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u/Equivalent-Sink4612 avatar

This other commenter had a very good question, because there has been an uptick in solar activity recently- you might've heard about the Northern Lights being much more visible, much further south, as in this past Friday? That's soooo interesting he's noticed that as a pattern. In fact, the solar cycle is ramping up, I believe it's heading towards its peak in the next couple of years. I saw your reply about the new med (glad it's helping you!) that is....also very interesting. Now I know, "correlation is not causation", but still...

u/NatPortmanTaintStank avatar

Tell your husband '73

Could you explain what this mean please

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u/SherbetExact3135 avatar

Same here. My earliest memory my mom said I was 2 1/2 talking and playing with the “driver” then from there I would see the same nurse growing up her uniform was back in the early 50’s she had bleach blonde hair and red lipstick. She always would cover me at night. Now that I’m grown I don’t see “things” as often. But I still do. They never speak and they always look happy like they are just passing thru. I still get frightened no matter how many times I see something or someone I know shouldn’t be here it still scares me even tho they are not scary themselves I think it’s just my senses know it’s not normal. My great grandmother was institutionalized because she kept seeing “dead” people and mentioned it to her physician at the time. Back in the 40’s they would put you in insane asylums so after my grandfather finally got her out he forbade her from ever telling anyone outside the family again of her visions. I realize a lot of people won’t believe it and that’s ok! But thats why I don’t tell anyone but my family and close friends know.

u/hamcarpet avatar
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From your post, the things you see seem to be surrounding sleep. This aligns with hypnagogia. In all likelihood, what you’re experiencing is caused by what is your brain sort of getting stuck between sleep/wakefulness, which can cause people to essentially dream while awake for a moment. Because you are half awake, these dreams can seem real as anything, and it’s very common for the experiences to be frightening. Seeing ghosts, “shadow people” etc. it’s more common than people think, and sometimes people don’t even realize it happened because the event was mundane, like feeling your cat walk across the bed. Also without more info we can’t really rule out just regular dreams either.

I think because of these experiences and belief in being in tune with the supernatural, it causes people to attribute significance to something not so significant and explainable. It’s common to dream of loved ones dying, especially loved ones who are old, like grandparents. Sometimes coincidences in life happen. This claim of being able to predict the future in your dreams isn’t a novel one, and when it comes down to it it’s always much more likely that you’re counting the hits and ignoring the misses, and your presupposition is steering you toward sort of twisting what happened in a dream retroactively in order to fit with an event. I’m not saying you’re lying, just that id wager you’ve convinced yourself of something untrue and it’s encouraging more to come after. You said it always comes true, but I’d wager if you were being brutally honest with yourself, it’s likely not the case, and the list you have of these occurrences is much shorter when you’ve written them down and look at them objectively

If you think about it, the claim here is quite outlandish. Believing you regularly see ghosts is one thing, and then we get to believing you have psychic abilities/can tell the future, an entirely different very extraordinary claim. Considering we haven’t yet found evidence for the possibility of these concepts, and how this is very explainable, if we’re trying to be reasonable and care about what is true, we have to acknowledge what you’re claiming is much more likely untrue

How much do you know about the Spiritual World, without the Science and 'Evidence'?

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This question isn’t really coherent. I’m not quite sure what you’re asking

It seems like you’re asking what evidence of I have of things that have no evidence? I’m not going to assume that’s what you’re trying to ask because it doesn’t make sense, so I’ll let you clarify

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This is too far from the context but, I can't fathom the thought of being "used to" on seeing ghost your whole life. Is that possible?

u/grazyaboutcats avatar

My late mum used to have visions.She said she didn’t know if it was a gift or a curse.She had a vision of her friend dying.Few days later her friend went to a doctor and was told that she had terminal cancer.The thing is,most people will think you’re crazy if you talk about these things.People can be very sceptical.I believe you.May God bless you.

u/Routine-Homework5433 avatar

Have it and it's both sadly. Knowing you can't help people out a lot of the time.

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u/Kitkutsuki avatar

I've had 2 dreams when I was 4 that were very bizarre. Both involved dead people and were too specific for me to just make up at that age. Sometimes I get imagery of it at random. Sometimes I'll hear chatter right before I fall asleep and dreams are very vivid with meaning. I learned later on all of those things have a connection. If it isn't schizophrenia or something then dive into your family history and look into past life regressions. You could also find a medium/psychic, but there's a lot of them who are just trying to make a quick buck. Keep in mind it could be something important to you or it could just be an illness you need medical help for. You might even have a paranormal thing going on. The only thing you can do to find out is to look within yourself and figure it out at your own pace.

There's too many variables on what it could be for you individually.

I understand your situation bec. the same happened to me a several times, warnings during dreams. Thank goodness quite those were quite spaced out in between. I wouldn’t want to even believe to be psychic, or schizophrenic. Neither would be easy to live with. So I take in stride like, weird sh*t happens. And IMO, that’s what paranormal would encompass: just unexplained weird occurrences. [Probably takes place more often than we realize bec. we usually aren’t fully paying attention.]

There are lots of us :-)

r/hypnogogicvision Honestly, I hear sleep paralysis here (then). Did anyone else see it? 

Dreams can be disturbing, can’t they? I get one - very troubling- never talked about it. I’m in a Shakespeare play, something I’m familiar with. The play will be one that contains an answer to a problem that is eluding me.

The cast and crew are my ghosts, friends and rivals who've ‘joined the choir invisible’. It’s a pleasure to work with them again.  And so is the audience - and someone new. The latest version solved a family problem, but then my old theatre teacher entered, just throwing me under the bus. 

“Oh, man, Rex, I’m so sorry”, I looked up his ex- wife, she hadn’t even heard heard yet. With great talent comes great responsibility, doesn’t?

This sounds like a precursor to psychosis, maybe even schizophrenia. If you truly believe you are seeing these things you should seek medical attention immediately. Those kinds of signs are serious and should not be displaced or justified. I'm not saying ghosts aren't real or that precognative/psychic abilities don't exist, but at the frequency and the age they started is concerning. Teens to early 20's is when schizophrenia tends to exhibit. I would chalk the earlier years to imagination of youth, but beyond teens you should be questioning. If your family is very religious or you experienced trauma you should seek medical attention if you still see and are able to communicate with the deceased.

This rational explanation is going to get hate. For most people it’s hard as heck to admit it’s not something supernatural, but something wrong. Getting checked out by a doctor to make sure things are okay is indeed the best bet.

It's not schizophrenia.

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I have dreamt of events in the past, preset, and future that turned out to be absolutely true. For example, I dreamt that my car which was parked in front of my house got vandalized by an ex of mine. In my dream, he and a friend of his were putting holes the rear right tire.

In the morning, I woke up to take my daughter to daycare and go to work. My rear right tire was flat! I took it to the tire repair shop and he found two punctures in the side of my tire. I dreamt of this as I was happening.

Ghost shadows.

u/readerleader10 avatar

Are you like psychic , remote vision ?

Like others have mentioned here your first thought should not be that you see ghosts or have special powers. Neither of these things have been proven to even exist. Your first thought should be to try and see a specialist and get a diagnosis as this kind of thing can be linked to problems like schizophrenia.

As for seeing the future. I once had a dream about a big tanker lorry crashing and spilling some kind of liquid all over a road. That day I turned on the news to see a oil truck had crashed. Can I see the future too? Obviously not because our brains forget the thousands of other times we have dreams about things that never happen. Coincidences are a thing.

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Why are you a member of Ghosts if you don't believe? I am the 3rd person in my family with this ability. I am now 50. No signs of mental disorders. Still seeing and conversing with Spirits.

Ability, illness or sleep paralysis? Pls go see a doctor. Its ok to be curious about ghosts and stuff and be in this sub.

Ability or illness? Pls go see a doctor. Its ok to be curious about ghosts and stuff and be in this sub.

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For the 3rd time now, it's NOT schizophrenia! You science jocks and your 'let's see evidence' or 'Ghosts are not real, there's no evidence' or 'There's no God' really are a close minded bunch. Time you guys opened your minds a little more about this stuff.

There is a Spiritual World, many ancient Civilizations speak about it in their languages and cultures, put your science textbooks down and go into the world and learn about them, get some experience of the Supernatural and Paranormal, speak to people about their experiences and be open minded about it.

u/Routine-Homework5433 avatar

As someone who has this ability, been to Doctors to check me for mental health issues. Some tend to believe you after telling them things, no one outside them and a dead person would know.

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