I'm psychic and have been since childhood. I noticed my gift got much stronger in 1968 after I had my son. He says my brain is "weird" and promptly tell him it's his fault. LOL I've always felt the need to tell my premonitions (some frightening) which often came in dreams and some via "knowings" to someone or some people. And when the events happened, the comments would always be that they remembered when I told them about it. The most frightening "knowing" was that someone I loved dearly, a male, was going to die. For three months, I was so frightened about the impending event. I went out partying one night with my then BFF and told her about it. She thought I was crazy. The next day my beloved cousin who was like a brother to me, drowned. And at his wake, where I was crying so hard, suddenly it was like these giant arms encircled me and calmed me immediately. When I turned around to see who it was, there was no one behind me. I have too many other examples to get into at this time.
I found out that I can also do psychometry when I attended an 8 week paranormal course at an adult night school. I didn't even know psychometry existed until we did the practice exercise in class. I got several points correct about the woman I was paired with, whom I didn't know. Holding the subjects' objects in my hand, I see words and visions (like moving pictures), some represent the past, either recent or awhile back and some the future. Had much success with doing my co-workers telling them things I could not have known and even they didn't know (yet).
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I never thought I'd see a ghost although I'd talked to people who had seen them. One was my ex-boyfriend, a Jamaican who formerly ridiculed those who believed in duppies (ghosts), until he saw one sitting on his toddler daughter's bed one night. We had remained friends and he called me in a panic asking what to do. I saw one myself one evening while primping in the mirror. Suddenly there was this man with a blue, black and white plaid shirt, mixed gray hair, either a tanned White man or light skinned Black man...there looking at me. I didn't turn around but observed him in the mirror for about a minute. Then he seemingly just floated sideways into our studio (right across from where he "stood"). I never saw him again. I surprised myself because I was not frightened.
One of my BFFs said her young son used to tell her he was afraid to go into the basement because there was a ghost there. She shrugged it off. By the time her son became a tween, she saw him herself....a man in a top hat. So they nicknamed him Top Hat. One day we were on the phone and she suddenly said "Oh
sh*t!" When I asked her what happened, she said she saw Top Hat going through her front door. She and her son were not the only ones who saw this ghost. A friend of hers who was helping her clean out the basement (and had not been told about the ghost) told her he saw a man in a top hat in her basement. I have other friends who have recounted their ghostly encounters. They are all very intelligent, no nonsense people not prone to lies. I know it's hard for people who haven't had paranormal experiences to understand and believe in them. But I've lived them so long that they are normal to me..not paranormal.
