Sensory Awareness......?

[Rick]

Right. I'm not the guy that got ran over by the city slicker. Nope, not me.

[rebel]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1487269/girl_attack_by_demon/

As I was saying in post #4. In the attached video, the sound in the video is close to what I heard one night. It was next to my ear and I couldn't see anything with my light.

[wareagle69]

may the force be with you

[DOGMAN]

I have this type of thing happen fairly often. I call it being in tune with your surroundings. To me it is something primal in all of us, but we lose it due to all the distractions of modern life that take us mentally away from paying attention to cues from our senses. But, when you spend enough time trying to focus on your surroundings, you can tap back into this regularly. Applied focus to your senses brings you back to the realm of being an animal...which after all is what we are

[backtobasics]

OK, You set the stage, so I'll go for it. First let me be clear I have no understanding of how this happens. And this it the only time anything this over the top ever happened to me. I was not on drugs, I don't do drugs, I was not drunk, it happened at about 10:15 AM and I had not drank anything the night be for. This happened in the N.E. part of the South Island of New Zealand. I had been hitching around NZ for about a month. I spent the night in a youth hostel, and at breakfast asked if anyone was going toward the ferry terminal. Two young men (late teens/very early 20's) agreed to give me a ride, but they had a appointment to para sail off a mountain at 9:AM. OK, that works, so I went with. This was Dec. 89' I was near 43, and the adult.

We meet these two guys out of town that have a para sail business, you run off a high Mt. in the morning as the thermals are raising and float around.

We get up the Mt. on a very crude trail in a ratty old jeep. One instructor stayed down below in a field, the so called landing area. The other instructor is strapping one guy in to this para sail thing, and explaining about what to do.

I am sitting on a rock 20' away. I am listening to the instructions. And as lukegail said in the above post, I found myself about 6 to 10 feet above and behind my body, detached and mesmerized by watching myself and all that was happening from this detached weird experience.

Next I get this clear communication, that he is going to crash into the yellow house at 11:20 in 37 minutes. I think about it, how strange that thought is, and if I should tell them. Next thing I am watching my body tell them about this. My voice sounds strange to me. The kid is freaked out, the instructor is mad, and telling the kid It is safe they have been doing it for 4 years, and no one ever got hurt. So the kid makes a run when the breeze comes up strong, but the breeze stops and the instructor stops him because the chute is not full of air.

The kid asks me to repeat what I said, I do, I feel like a jerk, in some surreal dream. I can't believe I am saying this. The kid does not want to go, there is three walkie talkies, each instructor has one and there is one attached to the para sail harness system so they can give him instructions in the air on how to steer the chute. There is another long discussion about the yellow house, and how it it a mile away and he could not go that far, bla, bla, bla.

Both kids had paid to do this, and the one ready to go wants out and wants his buddy to go first.

The wind comes up, both instructors are raving how safe it is, the instructor is yelling go, go, go, run. He goes. Everything is fine. He is sailing, the landing instructor is telling him which rope to pull to steer which way. We on the mountain are relieved, the other kids Say's he does not want to go. I get a small ration of crap from the instructor up top who blames me. We are listening to the landing instructor, as the gear up top is rounded up and put in the jeep.

Everything is wonderful, I am a jerk. Next thing panic, the instructors are yelling they can't see him, then the upper instructor Say's he is over there by the cows, instruction are given, a lot of panic, and you guessed it he crashed into the yellow house which was in a close cluster of about 20 houses that were no more than 20' apart. He is hanging off the chimney of the yellow house. Down the mountain, over to the village, he is alive we that him to the hospital.

And hard as this may be to believe it got much more weird after that. I have no explanation for what happened. I often think about how weird it was for me, and realize it was much more so for the two young men. Needless to say the Doctor could not get wrapped around it either. I caught the ferry a day late.

I've had simular experiences. Everyone alway says i was high, because its a well known fact that i use to have a drug problem. But since then i have read a few books on astral travel and in these books they say that people that are high or drank even the day before cant do it. It's happend to me twice, the first time I had just layed down to go to sleep, but was not sleeping. It scared the crap out of me. I had never heard of this stuff and I thought i was dieing. Why else would i be leaving my body? Most people don't believe me so it's very few that i tell the story to.

[backtobasics]

Which raises the question: "Who Are You"....."Who Are You".....are you the the body or are you that which is out of the body...? My experience has been that, I can "NOT" leave my body at will, but the few times it has Just happened, I could control moving back and forth while it is happening.

There are books that can teach you how to leave your body at will useing meditation. It just takes practice. I have not attempted it because I'm a little afraid. Do a search for books on astral travel.

[Gray Wolf]

Some mushrooms and peyote buttons will have this type of affect... So I hear...

[Rick]

About the only time I step out of body is just to shake the dust off of it. Me and my body are usually pretty close.

[nell67]

Some mushrooms and peyote buttons will have this type of affect... So I hear...

Maybe Nell needs to go where the peyote grows

[Sourdough]

I wonder what else there is to learn....? But there is no room in a cup that is full. We miss so much, because if we can't put it in a existing safe file in our brain, we dismiss what might have been a breakthrough key piece of knowledge with, O' he must have been on drugs.

[DOGMAN]

I have this type of thing happen fairly often. I call it being in tune with your surroundings. To me it is something primal in all of us, but we lose it due to all the distractions of modern life that take us mentally away from paying attention to cues from our senses. But, when you spend enough time trying to focus on your surroundings, you can tap back into this regularly. Applied focus to your senses brings you back to the realm of being an animal...which after all is what we are

Just elaborating a little more here. A good time to tap into this "sixth sense" is while hunting. Entering the woods in the role of a predator, can lead to this connection. Focus on your surroundings, don't just look through your eyes, but focus on what you smell, what you hear, start looking for clues....what does the ground feel like....what does it sound like when you step on it. How moist or dry is it, what is the temperature like...What would your prey be doing right now....what are their basic needs...where should they be at that time of day to meet there needs, etc...

It is amazing how many times I've had these connections to wild animals after days of searching and obsessing over them. I've been walking along a game trail before, following a track...and then out of no where, I get the sense to turn around and look through my bino's at a particular spot on a hill, and sure enough a bull elk is standing there. Its crazy really. It always really impressed my clients though.

So many people go into the woods, and walk, drive or ride like they are watching TV....they just look at the scenary, but don't don't use their other senses to take in whats going on. The just travel along having images pass by their eyes, but they are thinking about work, past arguments, future engagements, Seinfield episodes they've seen etc... Basically, thinking about everything and anything other than their surroundings.

But, when you focus on the NOW, and focus on your surroundings and apply that focus to sensory awareness....the world seems much more pure and primal.

[DOGMAN]

OK, I get the current time, sense of danger. But how do you explain an awareness of danger that will happen in 35 minutes. With no current clue's sensed or not. Where does that come from....?

Wal-Mart. They got everything down there!

[Sourdough]

With the full moon, and all of the new members in the 13 months from the birth of this thread.......any new experiences of this type.

[gryffynklm]

Ya I get it now and then. Nothing as exciting as posted. Most memorable wastaking a drive I have done a thousand times, side streets in Oak Park Illinois to church. I stopped at a corner that had no sign for no apparent reason. A car traveling in the cross direction doing at least 45 in a 20 went right past me before I came to a stop. I would have been hit. I listened that time.

Just tonight I get to the front of my house. My son's friend was parked in the drive. So I park in the street and thought I should just make him move the car and park in my own drive now just my luck he'll back into my car. So I go in and tell him to move. I'll move later. I should have listened. I now have a new dent that has to be pulled. I should have listened. I got off cheep this time. It works in all sorts of situations. Listen to that prompting. There is likely a good reason.

[Camp10]

Back when I installed church pews for a living (all stories should start like that!) we were working in Ohio during a storm. We were set up in the church already and there were a few people coming and going through the day. The secretary walked by the room we were working in and I just had a strange feeling. I told the guy I was working with that she was going to get hurt. He laughed at me. A little while later we heard she was going out to mail some things and go to the library. I still had that feeling but the guy I was working with talked me into keeping quiet about it. She didnt get hurt bad when she crashed but she was bad enough to miss work for the rest of the time we were there. It is worth listening to this feeling.

[gryffynklm]

I get a feeling about people, I call it the hand when someone seems off. Its a feeling that tells me to keep a distance at arms length and a close eye on them. Something about body language or a look in their eye. like shop lifters or my daughters room mate who seemed to be career homeless preferring to sponge off of people by guilt and a twisted sense that it was owed to him and his partner by those more fortunate. I warned my daughter. With two month to go on the lease she couldn't take the manipulation the hemorrhage of savings, the promise of finding jobs and reasons for not getting it. Got a phone call at 11:30 pm on a Sunday and had her moved out by 1:30 am monday. Four cars and three vans. The scum made it all her fault. I could go on. Just waiting to hear him being arrested for some twisted reason.

I get that feeling about some who show up here, they don't last too long. Thanks Mods Admin.

[Rick]

Always trust your gut, gryffynklm. It never lies. You might out think yourself or you might let your heart get in the way but your gut always knows.

As for those "other halves" the daughters hook up with. They are never good enough but you really have to be careful what you say. I remember once, years ago, my daughter and I were talking about some guy she was dating. I meant to say, "Honey, are you sure this guy is right for you?" and what slipped out was, "Are you out of your mind? This no good bum is worthless and I'm going to choke the livin' @#$ out of him the next time he shows up." I just misspoke but it did hurt her feelings.

[crashdive123]

....and now you call him son-in -law????

[Rick]

Actually, the SIL is a hard worker and just got a promotion with company car. WooHoo!

[gryffynklm]

No, he was never a romantic interest. I always taught my kids to be part of the solution, help others stick up for the under dog. I failed to teach her how to recognize when you were being taken advantage of. The first clue was Wife and I purchasing about $250 for nice clothing so he could present nice for supposed new job. He saw that he had extra at his first pay check and got a Tattoo. Then there was the vet bill for mousey you guessed it pet rat several hundred plus meds. He is very intelligent and actually bragged about playing the game of manipulation to the point of seeing how far he could take it before my daughter stopped giving. It was the threats of violence against her boyfriend and attempts to drive them apart.

Long story short. She got her lesson on caution in giving despite what the heart might say. Lessons in Fight or Flight and a few other things. She married her boyfriend (history teacher). Lives in Colorado and enjoys outdoors and camping.