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Highly Sensitive Person Qualities: Extrasensory or Paranormal Experiences
Let me start by saying that I do not know if this is every HSP. I do not know if every person who considers themselves HSP has had extrasensory or paranormal or mystical experiences. This is a complex issue to say the least. It’s akin – going back to the IQ Test example – to asking someone if having a 140 IQ enabled them to enjoy math more than the person with an 80 IQ. First, we would have to understand what having a 140 IQ symbolized or meant. Then we would have to study and interview a sample of the population within the entire range of IQ’s…
HSP Difficulties in Society and How this Relates to Difficulty in Delving into HSPness
But it’s more difficult with the HSP because it’s not like we’re born purple. It’s not as if they test us upon entering school. We look the same as everyone else and can speak and have eyes and ears. Take that and compound it with our social messages.:”Don’t be so sensitive” and “Don’t talk about your feelings” and “Get over it” and “Fit in” and “Keep up with the Jones’” and “Good boys do this” and “Good girls don’t do that.” Then add to that our external stimulation of 2010 and everything in the world that keeps even “normal” people in escape mode: Ipods, internet, alcohol, drugs, sugar, causes, activism, religion, anger, securing a mate, securing a family, procuring a divorce, paying the bills, working 50 hours a week, travel, video games… So even the “normal people” are numbing out in the world. How in the world will we – as HSP’s – ever come into our own understanding of self? Much less when we add terms like “paranormal” or “extrasensory” into the mix?
HSP Paranormal Qualities or Experiences
I had been recalcitrant in addressing these other “paranormal” qualities when I first set out to shine a light on the HSP because though I have had seemingly extreme, repetitive, paranormal occurrences in my life, and because expressing paranormal experiences as a matter of fact is still taboo in “earth circles” and “normal” company, I did not know – and still do not – if this is an HSP trait or something else. (Of course when you read further and get to the next page, I will have even more of a surprise that lends legitimacy to my own research and studies! But don’t rush it. Read this first. Absorb. :))
In conversations with other HSP’s one on one, it continually becomes addressed that they, too, have had extra-normal occurrences happen and some have even resorted to treating them as part of regular life. think this acceptance is in large part due to how readily they have known they were different or how early the paranormal occurrences began occurring for them. Perhaps these same people had never heard the term HSP or Highly Sensitive Person but after exposure to me, inevitably I will get that look or get that statement, “Oh! So that’s what I am.”
I will reprint my article, “Seeing the Paranormal in Everyday” here. Please keep in mind I wrote this article before I decided to make the Highly Sensitive Person the focal point of my website so some things may sound redundant at this point.
HSP: Seeing the Paranormal in Everyday
My recent article on Astral Projection and Dark Presence as well as the experience itself, has had my thinking of my HSP-ness with more depth recently.
HSP: HSP is an acronym for Highly Sensitive Person. In addition to being Sensitive to noise, tastes, smells, sounds, and even feelings, pain, or medicine, the HSP has a special light. Some people believe – as I do, after extensive interviews, research and a general watching and identification with others – that HSP’s are very “special” people indeed.
The major problems with being HSP can be, perhaps, obvious. Ordinary noise can be extra-sensory overload. Needing more quiet time than most other people could have social implications. Thinking and feeling more deeply than the other 88% of the population may have them wanting to commit you to your closest psych institution. Much fondness and identification for and with?animals causes extensive heartbreak at their loss. Disillusionment with society at large, based in others misperceptions of us could prohibit our good work. Feeling always somehow different as we watch the other so-called *normal* people function with relative ease; Where their left foot right foot day to day leaves us maybe in bewildered states of awe. How do they do that?
Well, now for the next phase of discovering our HSP-ness. Once we understand or can identify this as what we are, particularly with others like us, our social need is fulfilled. Our need for social understanding among our peers begins to take hold. Remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs [Diagram]? Okay so then we move into esteem/ego area. We’re now feeling more okay with ourselves. Finally, at long last we are understood and accepted. We seem to now have a bedrock of grounding that propels us into independence. We are now secure enough to move into the “I am.”
Now what does our HSP really mean? We’re done with needing “to fit in” because we do. We’re done with “learning how to cope” because we have the benefit and experience of our peers to help us. We no longer feel the need to be isolated with the “who we really are” and so now where are we? Who are we? What is our potential as human beings?
I believe HSP’s are “Light-Workers,” “Indigo,” “Gifted,” “Chosen,” “Psychic,” “Intuitive,” “Empathic,” “Enlightened,” “Called;” I believe that a culmination of terms could be used to describe the true gifts or qualities of the HSP.
If you think you may be HSP here are some qualities of myself and my friends that I have compiled. Ask yourself if you have ever had experience with any of the following:
- Dreams. Vivid dreams. Astral projection. Lucid dreaming. Prophetic Dreams. Highly symbolic. And of course you dream in color! (When the scientists said that people dreamed in black and white you knew this to be untrue for you and were baffled.)
- Paranormal sight. Seeing things that could be described as paranormal. Have you ever seriously ?seen a ghost? or ?energy? or ?aura?? Have you seen things move with no provocation? (Do you cringe when you hear people talk smarmily about ?ghost sightings?? Do you hardly ever relay your own experiences?)
- Paranormal auditory. [Clairaudience] Have you heard things that could not be explained? For example, laughter in the other room when no one was in there. The jingle of a cat collar behind you in the kitchen but you have no cats. [Yet you suspect it was your cat who passed away.] Your dad calling your name?from downstairs but he wasn?t home.
- Paranormal feeling. [Clairsentience] Have you ever met someone and known right then the condition of their spirit, mood, or life? Have you known a person’s ulterior motive yet their mouth was speaking differently than you were feeling? Contrary to maybe a group of people’s idea, did you know the idea to be different than what was being sold? Were any of your feelings later validated? [Yet you refused to say “I knew it!”]
- Thought reading. [Telepathy.] Particularly saying something that someone would confide “I was just thinking that.”? [I think everyone has. Among HSP’s we tend to exchange energy more freely with each other and perhaps occurs more frequently.]
- Influence. [Telekinesis] Have you ever for example had your television go out and then with a “Oh stop” it came back? Have you ever (probably inadvertantly) thought-suggested something and then your friend brings it up? (With my dog it was a game. I’d think, ‘Want to go outside?’ And there she was. Head perked and tail wagging.)
- Visions. Past, future or unexplained? Maybe you’ve had a dream, or a dream series that would later present itself. [Article of my biggest life-changing dream series.] When I say ‘past’ I mean to say that once – in twilight sleep, a hypnogogic state – I had a vision of me and my beloved in Egypt. We were Egyptians and we were saying goodbye to each other. Just a thought? A vision? Don’t know.
- Seeker. Seeker/Fighter. Always searching for the higher spiritual calling. Have you understood, since you’ve been a small child that there was a special connection between you and the Divine? Have you particularly rebelled at this for whatever reason? Have you allowed alcohol, drugs, or other human distractions to numb you from this calling?
- Coincidence. [Synchronicity] Have you been prone to noticing the ease with which certain things occur for you? Can you notice when the Divine has you on a certain path or mission? Do these coincidences seemingly happen to you more so than other people to the extent that you don?t bother explaining when a casual friend is in awe that something you absolutely needed to happen happened?
- Empathic. Giving and Receiving Energy, Spirit, or Emotions. Do animals, children and certain people seem drawn to you? Are there people you know who have physically made you sick or very tired? Have you often felt so open that anxiety attacks seemed only seconds away? Do certain situations seem to be okay with other people, yet you’re feeling like ‘What the?’ Have you been depressed for no apparent reason to discover a loved one was in pain? Do you have friends ‘on your radar?’
[Read the rest of this article: HSP: Seeing the Paranormal in Everyday]
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