I just wanted to post something that I just wrote in my journal--just to hear people's thoughts, and see if anyone has similar experiences.  (For those of you who don't "know" me, when I talk to spirits I don't normally hear their voices--no doubt a good thing!--I see what they're saying written out in front of me...kind of a slow method of communication sometimes, but it works...usually!)

David is the spirit who looks out for me, teaches me about talking to spirits, and other things, and got me through a really terrible, confusing time last year when all of this really started to "open up" and I first started to "hear" what seemed to be what every spirit within 100 miles was saying...not all of it pretty.

So hear it is:

For many years (or maybe my whole life), I’ve seemed to hear bits of conversation just as I’m falling asleep.  It’s not like dreaming; I just hear things being said that seem to come from nothing at all in my own life, as if I’m overhearing conversations through the wall in the apartment next door, and they have nothing to do with me.  Lately I’ve also sometimes found myself in what look like scenes from other people’s lives—again, it’s different from dreaming.

It has, of course, been happening more often in the last year or so.  I also almost always wake up feeling as if I’ve been talking to someone almost the whole time I’ve been asleep.  Usually I’m pretty sure it’s David, but I remember very little or nothing of what’s been said—sometimes I get to hear just the last few words as I wake up.  Once, the spirit whose voice I heard saying something like, “Do you think I’m crazy?” (there were other voices in the background, as if I was on the phone with him—maybe doing some kind of counseling like the old days—and they seemed to be taunting him to kill himself) did continue to talk to me when I was awake for a few weeks, but he gradually disappeared.

Last night I was somewhere between being awake and asleep, but I woke up completely when I heard myself (I think) saying something about a “Wilson automatic.”  It seemed that I’d been having a conversation about guns with someone.  Now, I’m clearly not a gun person.  I’ve heard names of guns like Colt, etc., but I really don’t think I’d ever heard of a “Wilson automatic”—or even a Wilson.  I can’t imagine what I could have been talking about, or where that came from.  (I knew it had to be a gun as soon as I woke up, but I Googled it later anyway and saw that there is, in fact, a “combat handgun” called a Wilson semi-automatic…guess I missed the “semi” part.)

Today, of course, I asked David if I’d been talking to him.  I think he said, “You have such sensitivity.”

“So I’m hearing spirits’ voices?”

“Yes.”

“Was that you?”

He said something about testing me, so I gather he was trying to see if I could “hear” him in my sleep.  At first I wondered why he’d use the name of a gun, but it makes sense—since guns are something I know nothing about, and I’m not likely to talk about just off the top of my head, it would certainly stick out so that I’d remember it and he’d know that I’d heard him.  (Earlier I think he said, “Only boys know those things.”  I bet Sarah Palin knows.  Ew.)

So that's it...love to hear others' thoughts!

Doe

Perhaps it would get a broader audience in another thread like Psychic where more people are posting?

Thanks, Spiritalk.  I thought of that, but it does seem that, since I'm talking about hearing spirits' voices, the topic fit in better here in Mediumship.

Doe

As a course in mediumship it is intended to answer questions of method and direction.  Did you wish your entry critiqued?

I thought that this was just the forum--a place for anyone to share their experiences relating to the spirit world with others of the same interests.  I was under the impression that the course was separate, and run under the two sub-forums.  There are many other posts in the forum that don't seem to have been posted for the sole purpose of getting critiqued by the moderator.   Is the "Psychic" forum only for "critiques" of one's psychic abilities, too, or is it just for open discussion?  I don't quite see the difference.

Yesterday you seemed concerned that my post wouldn't get enough responses here in this forum--was that not the problem?  Can't I post where I wish to post, as long as it's appropriate?

Am I missing something?  I'm not sure that a "critique" is necessary, but I certainly welcome people to respond as they wish.

Doe