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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Thank you Gordon...I do appreciate that.
As a two year old I experienced some strange happenings.....this is before the age that a child can reason...at that age you accept what your eyes and your other senses tell you.As my life has progressed other strange occurences have happened too...not just to me, but to people I have looked after, people who mean a lot to me......they haven't been frightening experiences.....in some ways they are enriching.
I do not seek to persuade those who do not believe in the paranormal. I just know what I have seen.
During my career I was taught to observe and to note things carefully...and I believe that skill once taught is not lost.
I feel that for some reason, I must be a receptive person.
I think perhaps we all start out like that, but maybe as we grow older perhaps some of us lose the ability to 'tune in'.
After all, a TV set that is untuned is useless to receive broadcasts.
I don't want to sound too eccentric, because I feel I am grounded and sensible......that is what other people tell me anyway.
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I don't think for a minute that you are batty or barmy -probably just more empathetic than the average person which is quite a different matter. You pick up the human vibes probably more than most having worked with people who were often vulnerable/frightened/sick/dying etc....some try to hide their feelings and only perceptive people will see through them and know how they really are.
Memories and associations of smells etc with certain people are perfectly normal - I sometimes get that shivery sense of Dejà-vu too. It's always triggered off by one of the senses, for example the smell of Imperial leather soap immediately brings to mind my grandad who always used it. If I close my eyes when i smell it I'm in his bathroom and can see it just as it was.
It can work the other way round too -you are thinking of someone consciously or sub-consciously and you can practically smell, see, taste or hear something you associate with them. This is what I believe happens in those moments you can't explain -I may be wrong of course, but the brain is an incredibly complex and powerful organ and not really that well understood.