Once, a few Summers ago, at the theatre camp I went to (and hopefully will be a counsellor for), I had a very strange experience. It has happeend to me only this once, but once was enough to scare the bejeezus out of me.

Now, the situation I was in was a large group of theatre people with most or all of our emotional walls lowered, which is my explanation for why this happened. I looked into the eyes of one of my fellow campers, and all of a sudden I was physically rocked with the impact of a flash of a vision from her mind. It was a memory, clearly, but I saw her--SAW her--standing against a grey brick wall (you know, those big ass cement bricks) with a black coat, grey shirt, and a hat on, and she looked absolutely petrified.

I was scared quite a bit by this experience, but I think part of it was the fear I felt from her that overlapped onto my own feelings. I asked her about it later that evening, and she told me that she had indeed been thinking of that memory when I locked eyes with her. I didn't ask her about the rest of the memory, I didn't want to know.

Even now, when I think of that night, it gives me a little bit of the creeps.

Wow, that is pretty weird.

Do you think something supernatural occured? Or perhaps had she leaked the memory to you beofre and you subconciously remembered?

No, she'd never told me before. I don't know about supernatural, I think it was just my empathy (which I consider hightenend natural sense) at work with no emotional barriers in the way.

Originally posted by Manu
Wow, that is pretty weird.

Do you think something supernatural occured? Or perhaps had she leaked the memory to you beofre and you subconciously remembered?
Linking, as I call it, to another person is common when an emotional connection is made. I'm not sure if it includes "visions" and whatnot, but married couples tend to do it a lot.

You could have unknowingly done some astral traveling...I'm sure guitaro will chime in on this one. But basically, you could have entered here and seen things through her...

You might find books by Dr. Henry (Hank) Wesselman interesting. There's a series of four or so books that discuss in detail experiences like you had.

Cool.

Was it just visual, or did it affect your other senses too?

I felt her fear--almost petrifying fear--as well as the visuals. I don't remember if it was auditory or tactile as well or not, too long ago.

heh, I remember the way you acted that day.

I've had simular experiances, but nothing to the point of actualy viewing, I mean I can look at somebody and have a gernaral Idea of what sort of thing their thinking about, or what kind of emotional state their in, and sometimes people have robot eye, completely blank, "anybody home, hello?" buts thats pretty much it.

That's very odd... not in that it's a wierd thing to have happen, but that I never knew anyone else had that happen to them besides me.
Ever since I was little I've been EXTREMELY sensitive when it comes to perception of others' feelings and thoughts... whether it has to do with subconsciously noticing slight changes in body language or sometimes I just... feel stuff. I've kind of tuned it and experimented with it and I get the strongest sensations and often wierdly surreal and totally random (not from MY mind that is) when I'm looking into someone's eyes.
Every year at Bravo, Zach... I cry when we do the enya walk because I get the most incredibly wrenching images just... imprinted into my mind when I look people in the eyes. There are some I sometimes wish I didn't remember. But such is the downfall of being perceptive... I often know things about people that nobody else does... and sometimes I can tell them things about themselves that they had never thought about.
So... no, it's not wierd... just amazing that I'd actually know someone who had ever felt the same thing.

Peace
~Meredith