Hey everyone. I don't really know what to call this or if it falls into the realm of the psychic, but I don't know what it is, and I have never met anyone who has this to the extent I do. So hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction, or even better relate!
I'm a 20-year-old young woman, and I don't know exactly when this started happening, but I can recall the first distinct instances when I was maybe 9 or 10.
I feel weird talking about this. It makes me feel really arrogant. But I need to figure this out.
I can "read" people. Highly accurately, within a few minutes of meeting them. I know their hopes and fears, if they have experienced trauma or abuse and roughly what kind, I know if they are lying or hiding things from me, and I know, from the moment I first lay eyes on them, if they are basically good or bad. I can predict what people will say. I know what their home life was like. I know what their weakest point is. I can also do this with people I meet online, to an extent, without ever seeing or speaking to them.
I have very occasionally seen auras (more on this in a bit), but usually, I can more sense them.
I used to tell people what I saw in them. But I discovered that it frightened people, because I was so accurate. I would scare people off because I saw so much of them, before they'd had a chance to see any of me.
I learned not to tell people, because it frightened them. But I loved "reading" people because as a writer, the more of the human experience I understand the relate to the better I write.
My writing often makes people cry, and I wonder if it is related to this.
When I got older, I started accidentally manipulating people. I don't think I'm any more manipulative than the average decent person - I certainly never try to be. But people tend to just do whatever I want, even if I don't ask for it outright. Even if I've only thought it.
This has caused problems for me. The first is that I feel guilty - I often don't realize I'm doing it. I think I have average degrees of selfishness. I can have selfish thoughts, but I know they're selfish and I don't try to push them on people. But I feel like I have to be extra careful, because if I give even a slight amount of leeway to my selfish thoughts, I can manipulate people without even knowing.
The second is in relationships. I often don't know if the people I date actually love me, or if they've become entranced by me. I had an ex, not long after we broke up, say that I could "make anyone fall in love with me." Since then I always feel unsure in relationships. I don't want to make someone love me - I want them to love me on my own merit.
I tend to be the person people come to with their problems. I have... A feeling, or a personality maybe, that I can project when someone is hurting. People often tell me that they feel like I am the first person to "completely understand them."
I used to get very burdened by this, to the point where I would snap and hermit away because of all the pressure. I was diagnosed as having an emotional disorder around this time.
Since then I feel I've grown, and I can handle it much better. I don't take on as much of people's emotions, and my social circle is smaller. I feel like that is much more comfortable to me, and I've become much more stable and happy. Now I wonder if I was ever really "sick," or if it was related to this.
And the last thing, which I'll try to be as PG about as possible, is sex. Once I started having sex, I realized that when I touch someone's bare skin (even if it's not overtly sexual), I can see even more of them. This is when I tend to see auras. I love to touch people's skin, because they instantly open up to me.
This is how I found the person I'm currently... Shall we say, very much smitten with. He likes me, and he's a wonderful guy. His aura is bright white. And I can't manipulate him. I can see his soul as clearly as anyone else's, but I can't manipulate him. Which, I think, means he must like me for me, not because I've somehow molded his mind. That is such a wonderful feeling to me, because it's so rare.
What would make someone immune to this... Something, that I have? Does anyone know?
I guess that's enough of my rambling. As you can see I'm pretty confused about it, and I don't even know if this all ties together!
Can anyone help me?
Does anyone know what this is called, or how to train it to be controlled?
BabyEyes - I think different people experience the concept of "true love" differently. I think maybe people like us can perceive love on a different level that not everyone has access to. I've tried to describe what makes me so drawn to someone who is immune to manipulation, and can talk with me on my esoteric level, and actually understand me. But I've had limited success trying to explain it to people.
If someone doesn't possess the ability of manipulate or perceive people on an intrinsic level that I do, how would they have any way of understanding?
I don't think this makes them any less capable of love, but it does make the way they love "different" from me.
Aquaxamatista - It's harder online, and I have to talk to them for a few minutes. Not about anything in particular, it can just be shooting the breeze. But I drop into a sort of mindset, and speech, and how people react to it opens them up to me, if that makes sense. It feels like "unlocking" a type of deeper mind. Talking directly to the subconscious.
I don't know if I can do it on command yet or not. I'm feeling a bit of stage fright.:3