How did you know you had psychic abilities?

[Margaret]

Follow up questions for anyone who wants to answer:

-How old were you when you first had an experience that you knew wasn’t “normal”?
-How old were you when you realized it was actually a psychic ability?

I was raised very evangelical and always told psychics don’t exist. As I’ve gotten older and started realizing a lot of things I can “do” or that happen to me are not normal, I’ve begun wondering about myself. So this would honestly be super helpful for me in my own journey. Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!

Discussion

[joannab623]

I don’t remember how old I was but I couldn’t have been more than 7 or 8 years old. Probably younger. It was nothing profound, it’s actually kind of silly, I just had a very vivid dream that my sister was holding a pair of pink pants and asking me if I wanted to wear them that day. When I woke up the next morning, my sister volunteered to help me get dressed and did just that. And everything was exactly as it had been in my dream. I told my sister and she said I must be a psychic like Raven from our favorite TV show (That’s So Raven). But as years went by the incident just faded into memory.

Fast forward about a decade. I was 16 years old and on vacation in Hawaii. I was getting ready to go to this stupid tourist luau my grandma signed us up for, and was very nervous getting dressed. Something told me I needed to look nice, because a very pretty girl would sit next to me at this event. Sure enough when we got there, we had to share a table with another group. Beside me sat a beautiful blond girl, also sixteen, and we spent the evening talking. Though I never saw her again, it is still a fond memory.

Three more years passed. I was 19 and starting an internship at a national park. This is where things took a turn, suddenly my experiences were not predictions of the future, but interactions with the spirit world. I was hiking, learning the trails of this park, and caught sight of a young man sitting in the grass off the trail. I did a double take, and when I looked again he was gone. I continued to feel that someone was with me, and being in a new job in a new town I was feeling a bit lonely, so I said aloud “You are welcome to join me on my hike, so long as you don’t do anything that might frighten me.” From then on whenever I hiked alone I would sense his presence. He would leave gifts for me–flowers, shells, and such–in the trail. Eventually I was able to communicate with him using a pendulum and learn who he was. He was the spirit of a young man who had passed in a hiking accident a few years back.I helped him cross over, but to this day I will see him on occasion if I hike alone. I suppose this is when I truly realized I had psychic abilities and my past experiences weren’t a coincidence.

That was two years ago. I’m 21 now and still in the early stages of developing my abilities. I’ve connected with other spirits, but I’m still learning to control and channel my abilities. I often doubt myself and wonder if this is all real, but my heart tells me it is.

Thank you for letting me share this and good luck on your own journey 🙂 If you need a friend or someone to talk to, please don’t hesitate to reach out. My PMs are always open. I love talking to other people with these abilities. I find it very helpful and rewarding.

[SaresTarot]

– Around 8 ish
– around 25/26

[bittentoes]

Oof. First experience was early, little bitty, I had “shadow figures” kind of guard my bed nightly. I realized it wasn’t normal around middle school roughly 11 years old, kids don’t like truth tellers.

[goask_annie]

Claircognizance, empath/medium shit started as soon as I could talk, for my oldest daughter too.

Had my first vision the same day I “became a woman” weirdly enough lol so around 11.