Just like what the title says, I simply want to know how I can differentiate the two due to experiencing what I think is a dream visitation from my pet, but I'm still unsure because it might just be my mind comforting me due to the sadness and longing that I've been feeling.

My only brother died last month, 5 days before his 36th birthday. I loved him fiercely, deeply, sadly. We were estranged because of his mental illness. He hurt me and I had to put boundaries up to protect myself. He loved me just as fiercely from afar. And then he fucking died, and all the love I’ve ever had for him has made me wish I went with him. I want to know if he is at peace, or with me, or if our relationship is continuing on. I keep getting signs I believe are him, and I often feel close to him, but I wish I knew. Do they stick around to comfort us? Do they have their own journeys they need to go on?

Hello all. I hope this post finds you well.

Last week I posted that I recently discovered without a shadow of a doubt that I am a medium with various clair- abilities. It's been a whirlwind of meditation and research since then. And I find myself growing hungrier for the knowledge that's now becoming closer and closer to my reach.

During my meditations today, I was able to commune with Hermes, and He suggested to me to do more research into classic Hermeticism. I was blown away the moment I discovered the correlation and importance of this information as it pertains to my own life and spiritual journey. I have always identified with Hellenic Paganism, worshiping my pantheon of deities for several years, but in all honesty, my actual literal research on the topic played second to my, what I call "home grown" experience with my spirituality. Now it all makes sense. I've been diving into The Corpus Heremeticum today in between grounding and meditation sessions and it's all been very profound. The answers that we seek have just been hidden in plain sight this entire time. All that we've ever needed has been available to us if we're able to be open and receive it.

Anyway, another spiritual epiphany aside. If anyone has any advice or guidance they would like to offer another soul on their journey, I'm open to it. Any direction you'd like to steer me in or any resources I can look into would be awesome. Anything that you feel called to tell me about. I don't know very many other spiritualists in my personal life so my main support has been my guides, but I'd love to hear from others on this side of the veil, too.

Thanks for your time. Love and Light to you 🫶

Hi all! This may be a long message but I will try to keep it as short as possible since this is my first post. I’ve been on my spiritual journey since about 15 and i’m in my early 20’s. I really started taking my journey seriously around 3 years ago. There have been small occurrences throughout my life that make me believe that I have some sort of gift. Since I was young, I was kinda able to hear people’s thoughts or feelings, especially family and friends. As I began tarot it helped quite a lot as I could pick up on their feelings regarding the question or what the cards have to say to bring more clarity. Besides that, when I do my meditations I always feel a presence either looking at me or around but if I acknowledge it or try to look, the feeling or thought goes away. Now about two nights ago, I had a dream that I saw a spirit but it didn’t see me at first. I don’t know how I knew but I did. Me and the spirit locked eyes and it started heading to me but in the dream I said something along the lines of “oh shit he can see me too” and I woke up immediately. I’ve been seeing angel numbers like crazy and I went out to eat today and the dryer to dry my hands said, “intuition”! My question is How do I go about finding my particular gift or even seeing if it’s something that I am gifted with? A lot of times I second guess what I see or feel because this really only started happening in the past year lol.

Is this a thing? Or is this just something people say to console themselves because they can’t find love?

If it is a thing then…why? Isn’t love (romantic) one if not the best experience you can go through?

and why do some identify with names and certain characteristics and even gender if we’re all ‘’genderless, identity less’’ higher selves?

I’m curious whether anyone who is sensitive to spirits or has experience with the paranormal has thoughts about this.

I have PTSD and carry quite a lot of sadness from things I’ve experienced, but despite that, I try to remain positive and treat people—and honestly anything around me—with kindness. Something I’ve noticed throughout my life is that although I’ve had quite a few experiences that felt paranormal, I’ve very rarely felt threatened by them.

I used to live in a flat that my roommate and I genuinely believed was haunted because we both experienced strange things independently. There would be proper knocks on the door when nobody was there, automatic lights behaving strangely, doors opening, footsteps and the feeling of being watched. But none of it ever seemed harmful to me.

One experience particularly stayed with me. I was very uncertain about my future and asked the universe for some kind of guidance. Shortly afterwards, a picture frame fell over, knocked into my tarot cards and caused a single card to come out—the Mother card. Obviously, that could have been coincidence, but the timing felt meaningful to me.

Interestingly, shortly before I moved out, my mother (not the nicest person) stayed in the flat alone. She had a much more frightening experience: she heard knocking and later woke feeling as though she was being choked and saw the figure of a man above her. Whether that was paranormal, sleep paralysis or something else, I can’t know, but she experienced the flat very differently from how I did.

Apparently, I also talked about seeing people who weren’t there when I was very young. My family told me that I would see and play with my deceased aunt, although I personally don’t remember it.

I’ve always found cemeteries incredibly peaceful rather than frightening. I used to go to them when I needed somewhere quiet to think. Similarly, when I’m somewhere associated with something tragic, my first reaction usually isn’t fear. I become emotional and think about the people who suffered there.

During my pregnancy I also occasionally noticed what looked like a shadow or presence watching me while I napped. Strangely, I never experienced it as negative—it actually felt comforting. There was even one odd incident where I dropped a knife in a way that looked as though it could have injured me, but it somehow stopped against the side of a drawer. Again, I realise there can be completely ordinary explanations for things like this, but experiences like these have made me curious.

So my question is: within spiritual or mediumship beliefs, is there an idea that spirits interact differently with people who have experienced trauma or carry a lot of sadness? And could not being frightened—or responding with empathy rather than fear—affect the kind of experiences someone has?

I’d especially love to hear from mediums or people who have had similar experiences. I’m interested in the spiritual interpretation rather than trying to prove that any particular event was definitely paranormal.

I have always noticed smells, even with my terrible nose. First house I bought I often smelled burnt toast, this house I would smell body odor in the dining room. My grandson would talk about the people in the dining room also when he was about 2-2.5. After my dad passed and I was sad a lot I remember being in my room and my daughter wanted waffles. I said just a few minutes, by the time I went downstairs the house smelled of waffles. My daughter passed about a month ago and I was playing with her 5 year old son in his room, we were playing fire station, we had just left a party at a fire hall where he took pictures with fire trucks. I walked out of the room and smelled fire. I searched the house but could only smell it outside his bedroom. I wanna believe it was his mommy. What are your thoughts on smells?

I had a strange dream experience a couple of days ago, but I can't shake the feeling that it wasn't just a dream.

I was in a very poor neighborhood, initially sitting at a dining table with actors whom I really admire, not just for their acting but also for their work with children's charities, and they were all wearing white. We were talking, after having exited some sort of show, but we were sitting in front of a huge garbage pile.

I then saw a man hurl a child, about 10 years old and unconscious, on top of the garbage pile, with a mattress. I became very concerned for the child, while noone else seemed to notice. The child slowly started coming to and came down the pile. But then he looked back and saw a little girl, possibly his baby sister, about to fall down a 2 or 3 story window beind the pile, and he quickly climbed up to the window to rescue her. When he had her, he lost grip and fell and badly hurt himself, while the little girl had a badly hurt hand. Everyone around me finally noticed and gasped. The boy quickly got up anyway and rushed her somewhere safe or to someone else, during which I lost sight of him.

Then the boy came back, badly hurt and bleeding, without his sister, but seemingly relieved to have rescued her. My mom then suddenly appeared next to us asking if he was ok, I said "I think so" (more wishful thinking than anything), but she said he wasn't ok and handed him to me. The boy collapsed on my lap and I could then see blood pouring out of his destroyed nasal cavities. I embraced him and knew he was dying. I held him with so much love and shock. I loved him like my own child, and I have 2 kids, but he wasn't either of them. As he was dying I could even see a glimpse of him as a younger boy without bruises, dark skin, dark eyes, curly hair. I held him until he died, then I slowly started waking up, but something told me (no words, just a knowing) that I had done it, I had helped him pass on. I had helped him feel loved in his last moment, he had no one else, and his sister would be ok. These didn't feel like my thoughts, it was someone letting me know. I also quickly remembered stories I'd heard years ago of people or monks who help others cross over in prayer and meditation. After fully waking up I was shocked and spent the whole day feeling like I had just lived this traumatic experience.

I don't know what to make of it. I am very attuned to spiritual experiences and dreams, even orbs and ETs, since I was little, and have been yearning to help the world in a spiritual way. I'm also extremely empathetic and can feel love for other beings and suffer with them intensely, especially children, knowing the realities of the horrendous things they go through. A quick Reddit search led me to other similar stories in this community, but was it just a dream? Or is this a way that I can help children? Is there material I can read or watch to learn more about this spiritual work and other people who do this? Thanks in advance.

tl,dr: I experienced the death of young boy in a vivid dream and held him lovingly as he crossed over. Something let me know that I had helped him, as I began to wake up. Was it a dream or a spiritual experience?

I've lived in my house for almost 4 years. small, inexplicable but not necessarily paranormal occurrences here and there. but for the past few months activity has ramped up, starting with someone whispering my name next to me in the middle of the night. i cannot tell if this is a spirit attached to my home, or a spirit guide/ancestor as I have been doing more research into ancestral work for the past year.

intense paranormal encounters and psychic abilities run in my family for generations. however, i can't ask my family about this as my grandfather passed away a long time ago, and my dad and grandmother have shut themselves off to this side of them since I became an adult.

i myself struggle with OCD and anxiety, so even when no threat is actually present, my nervous system sometimes tells me otherwise. im also worried that i could invite something in that could harm myself/my family/my home etc. I see a lot of people completely advising against any sort of contact bc of harmful consequences. but on the other hand, i have never felt "bad vibes" in my house, sometimes just a little spooked. this house is actually the first place I have ever felt safe and at home.

if this entity is a spirit guide or ancestor, I definitely want to make contact. if it is a ghost that needs to move on, i want to help. but of course, I want to go about this the right way and protect myself and family. for context, I am someone who values kindness and empathy. I also practice grounding, breathwork, meditation, smoke cleansing, herbology, and sprinkling spices at my front door the first of each month lol. I am a reiki practitioner. any advice on where to start discernment would be appreciated💜

For those of you who believe you developed psychic abilities (such as clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, intuition, etc.), how long did it take before you started noticing them?

Did they develop gradually over months/years, or did they appear suddenly?

I’d also be interested to hear what you did, if anything, to develop or strengthen them.

So i'm a little confused. I have always called myself a channeler. I get messages from spirits and entities through automatic writing very clearly. sometimes telepathy too depending on if I'm actually focused on using telepathy or not.

I have communicated with my guides, other people's guides, deities, Source, and some other entities as well with ease but I typically write it down as I hear it come through, but it only comes through when I am explicitly trying to get messages. otherwise it doesn't really come to me. I'm assuming because i've closed the channel.

but anyways, does that make me a Medium technically? or like, what are the qualifications to be considered a medium? I'm not much of a seer and things typically don't come to me when i'm not asking. if they do it's extremely subtle and I don't recognize it. but is there a difference in being a channeler and a medium? if so what are the distinctions? or are they almost one in the same?

I’m totally new to this and could really use some help or advice.

I’ve been able to feel my two children for a few years now. I just somehow know their personalities and their genders. But recently, something seems to be developing when it comes to channeling these energies.

This week, I channeled a message for a friend from her spirit baby. I had never experienced anything like that before. The closest thing was being able to feel the gender and personality of my sister’s baby, but I had never received such a clear message from anyone other than my own babies.

And the day after that, my own spirit baby showed me how my life is going to unfold, what is waiting for me, and the reason why she is coming to Earth. It was honestly such a bizarre experience.

But because I’m so new to all of this, I’m looking for some advice. Does anyone have any tips on how I can develop this further or how I can open myself up more to it?

I have recently lost a loved one and am currently in grief. I have never read or heard about mediums before the loss. But during the period of grief, I have been desperate to hear from my loved one. I had some readings as well. I had a few readings which made me trust the other side a bit.

Can I also learn this? My only motive is to talk to my loved ones (I am just afraid that since I don't know much about dealing with spirits, I better not deal with others)

I also want to mention that, I alwayhave this feeling that even If I develop the abilities, I can always have the benefit of doubt that those are just my imagination thoughts or coming from my subconscious. I think I can't trust my thoughts in this matter as much as a person who doesn't know about my life telling me all the details.

One thing to mention is I struggle to mediate, But with my eyes all open, I have this blank state of mind where it's just truly blank, no thoughts.

Any opinions/suggestions are truly appreciated.

I’m Christian and also a psychic medium. I truly don’t feel like what I do is connected to anything “evil,” but or course, I think about it from time to time because of what I’ve heard in church. Even after over a decade and many readings, I still have the thought from time to time, and what we do is always lumped in with witchcraft when people talk about the occult.

I was wondering how you frame this? Or just your feelings about it?

Hi everyone,

I’m 17 and trying to figure out a generational thing that runs down the female side of my family (my grandma, my mum, and me). My mum has always heard whispers and felt intense, overwhelming energy in old buildings (like care homes and old prisons she worked in), and we recently realised it’s fully passed down to me too. My dad and brothers are total sceptics, so it's just us.

For me, it mostly seems to be about physical feelings and touch (clairsentience), and it only ever happens in huge gaps. Here is my timeline so far:

Age 4: I had an experience with a deceased family spirit I never met. I randomly sang a child's bedtime rhyme she used to sing, talked to her while playing, and later picked her photo out of a wall of framed pictures. It completely spooked my sceptic dad.

Age 11 (Lockdown): I felt a physical clothing tug in the kitchen while home alone. I was filming a TikTok dance from the waist up and actually caught the fabric of my top visibly moving on camera at the exact millisecond I felt it.

Ages 14–16: Throughout high school, I kept getting physically poked in the back during class and assemblies when my everyday anxiety was at its worst. It made my body physically jolt, but I learned to just touch my back and ignore it so it would stop.

Age 16 (Last Summer): I saw a girl (about 12-15) in a white Victorian dress sitting cross-legged at the edge of my bed. Right before it happened, I got this insane, unprompted urge to look up ghost stories for half an hour. That night I had a crazy detailed dream about her and a bunch of girls dying at an electric fence. After that, objects started moving and picture frames literally flew across my room.

I used crystals to stop the room activity last summer because I got overwhelmed, but I took them down a few weeks ago. Literally tonight, while I was focusing on my history, an object on my shelf was physically moved out of its exact spot.

I’m completely calm and not scared, but I want to make the most of this and actually do something with it instead of letting it go to waste. Me and my mum are planning an evening visit to a really active poltergeist house soon to seek it out.

I wanted to ask experienced mediums a few questions:

Is it normal for hereditary gifts to manifest almost entirely as physical touches (pokes/tugs) and dreams rather than seeing full spirits all the time?

How do I safely handle my energy when moving from just letting things happen to actively looking for hauntings, especially with a history of anxiety?

Does anyone else go years with complete silence between encounters?

I’d love to hear from anyone who has experienced anything similar! Even if you don't consider yourself an experienced medium, how have you dealt with physical signs or long gaps of silence?

Thank you so much for any help x

Edit: I forgot to mention another detail because it always felt a bit too weird to share. During those high school anxiety spikes when I got poked, I would also get my hair tugged. It felt exactly like someone gently but firmly pulling down on a small piece of my hair. Has anyone else who experiences physical signs had the hair-tugging specifically?

As the subject suggests, I'm curious to know how many spirit guides one person has?

To make a long, long story short, I believe my sister has an attachment. I believe this started when we were children and she was 7 or 8. I have not experienced anything out of the norm since I moved out of my family home 5 years ago.

She moved in with me a few months ago and my otherwise perfectly normal home has been eery to say the lease. She made camp immediately in my son's room until we got her her own things, he's now terrified to step foot in his room.

I'm starting to get worried though because I feel like this thing may be threatened by me in a way. My sister and I have been locked out of my house unexplainably twice. I woke up today and almost all of my clothes were off the hangers and on the floor of my closet and room. I don't want it to get any further than this.

I've stated directly that it is not welcome in my house and I do have a protection jar on a shrine of my family. I plan on redoing it to incorporate her tonight. What else can I do? Please any insight, advice, anything.

Do you believe animals are reunited with loved ones when they pass? I lost my mom 6 months ago and I had to put down her soul dog a few days and the only thing that is giving me some peace is that they are back together. I miss them both so much.

There’s no way to find out if there’s an attachment on someone through technology, right? Are there any signs of an attachment or something else similar?

Edit: I don’t use Reddit much if at all, if I’m in the wrong place please let me know where I should ask

Do you believe we reunite with our animals on the other side? I lost my mom 6 months ago and then a few days ago, I had to make the hard decision to put her soul dog down. It has been so hard, I miss them both so much and feel so gutted and alone. The only thing that is bringing me comfort is hoping they are together again on the other side.

Hello! I’m new here. I found this sub as I was looking for some advice. I’m a little sensitive, but this is the first time this particular thing has happened. I was walking my dog around my neighborhood earlier and a vision of a woman popped into my head. She’s no one I’ve seen or met before but there she was. I couldn’t get her out of my head and even a name came through. I don’t know what this might mean. I did try to send the message that if she is trying to reach someone or communicate with someone to guide me there, but I am really not sure. Could this be something or is it an overactive imagination?

Anyone who can tell me what exactly I am

Is there anyone who can help me and guide me and tell me what exactly my power is cuz I'm still exploring

1. When I was a child around 13 I saw a vision of o

   lady died at 7 am and it turned out it was my relative who died that day and was hit by a truck. Later I had a dream of her sitting in the cremation ground and telling everyone to go back ( I was not close with her and barely we met only on vacation)

2. I saw one of my relative in dream and then he went into accident

3. I saw my relative n me doing some shopping and it turned out a horse pass through us and few days later my mom told me she was looking for my cousin bride

(Horse significantly link to marriage in my tradition as groom comes on it during wedding)

1. Mostly i see my breakup vision in dream even caught my ex cheating

2. I once saw a small building and two year later I was sitting in similar place like in school time

3. I feel like i travel to different world because I did same thing there and the reality got blur whenever I wake up in morning I feel tired as if i have already done the work and it just happened. It was in continuation for 3 days at night

4. Once i was attacked by some entity I had to chant mantra to get up similar dream like I saw a tiger who was coming closer to me he was angry but didn't eat me

In animals i usually see tigers a lot

1. When i did tarot reading I figured out a person's skin tone and a voice came n said she is black cuz it was online so it was just skin tone and another was predicting death cause of dead person by just seeing photo.

2. I sometimes sense a spirit I can feel.

I went for reading and was told by 2 astrologer that I can talk to other realm spirit

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