I'm a borderline pyschic. I'm not one of these phonies you see on tv. I'm not some crazy guy trying to take your money. I don't see dead people. But my greatgrandmother was very religous and got 'visions from God'. From the stories I've heard...she was basicly pyschic. I have demonstrated psychic abilities on multiple occasions. I'm not talking about getting a'feeling' something was gonna happen...I'm talking full length visions (that are always true). I do get 'feelings' sometimes but its more 50/50. I also have a knack for knowing what people are thinking (No, I dont hear their thoughts) but it could be I'm just good with people.

For years now I've had 'memories' surface of things that have never happened to me. This is tied in with a girl that I have dreamed about yet never seen before, with who I feel the strongest connection I've ever felt. Is she my soulmate or are my psychic powers devolping to the point where I can see into the past or what?

On one occasion I was standing in the middle of a room. I was nowhere near any source of heat what so ever. Suddenly I felt very warm...like someone had jacked up the heat. I went into the living room to see what was on tv and thats when my brother started screaming I was on fire. Sure enough, somehow my shirt had burst into flames. We put the fire out...and when the smoked cleared is when things got interesting. We were able to assess the 'damage'. One shirt. Nothing else. I was on fire for my shirt to be engulphed by flames that stretched all the way to the ceiling...yet there were no scoarch marks on the cieling (or anything else...inlcuding papers and plants I had walked by) and I had no burns (not even burnt hair).

On two occasions I have cut myself VERY badly while doing the dishes. Both times there was blood everywhere. Both times the peole who say the cut (including nurses and doctors) said I was going to need multiple stiches. But both times by the time they doctor took the badages off to sticht me up I was COMPLETELY healed. (Although the first time the doctor was able to see the wound befoe it healed. He said it had just been blood that we thought was a cut. He has yet to explain where said blood came from)


Ok. Now, I was wondering what people think. (for starters) Am I a freak or just crazy (Note: These things were/are witnessed by multiple people with credible reputations)

Does anyone know how I could better control these things? (so I dont burst into flames at random, etc...)

I'm not out to proove I have powers. I would like to better understand these things that have happened to me from a more scientific view.

Couple things I should note that might be useful....

1. I dont dream. Ever.

2. I have to be extreamly cold when I sleep however. If I get even slightly warm in the middle of the night I have horrible nightmares/night terrors.

3. In a below room temperture room my temperature rises to the point of fever while I sleep.

4. I have a photographic memory and lots of artistic talent (Music, drawing, etc...)

5. The more tired I am the more my psychic abilities apear to present themselves. Even to the point of me being able to guess any card taken from a deck of cards. (this was done in a room full of people at 3 in the morning after going over 24 hours without sleep.) People would hold up a card and I could say what it was even if I was faceing the oppisate dirrection with my eyes closed. We did three spereate decks, 7 times each. I never got one wrong.

just a hint: its spelled p-s-y-c-h-ic



good luck with the tests Supes.

What kind of proof can you present for your claims?

Most things like this have simple explanations.

Yes, it's a very complicated world and things happen which are inexplicable
and an individual can attract or be a part of these things.

I once discovered the ability to see cards, but after a lot of experimentation
I discovered that I was simply seeing through them. I could only tell if they
were a face card and their color. I could separate clubs from spades a lit-
tle and tell the little number cards from the bigger ones. The clues were very
subtle but by adjusting the light and such things, the clues were much stronger.

Odds are good that one of your friends holding cards wore glasses in which
you saw the reflection without noticing it.

There are chemicals which burn at very low temperatures. Skin is able to pro-
tect itself from heat. This is a learned trick but not rare.

I've seen skin heal very rapidly but this sounds different. I don't have a clue
here but even I once grew back a finger tip after an accident (of course it took
a while).

May all your good visions come true. It's probably best to not let yourself become
obsessed with these ideas. At the very least treat your experiences as skeptically
as you would someone else's.

Well that's extra kewl. Why control your your superpowers? there's money to be made. Your first stop should be the nearest casino, for a few hands of blackjack. Since you know what all the cards are without seeing them, you should win pretty good. With a bit of experience, you can graduate to winning at high stakes poker, and no one will be able to figure out how you're so lucky. Be sure to wear fireproof clothing so that you don't upset the other players.

Of course, you can always take the Great Randi's challenge and become famous, but then all the gamblers will be unwilling to let you play.


Yes you do, all humans require REM sleep. If you don't have any, you eventually die.


That's proof that you do dream. Nightmares are dreams too.


Sleep deprivation does strange things, can make you think strange things. But just in case, make sure you're dead tired when you get to the casino.

Unless of course, you aren't old enough to enter a casino. If thats the case, let me know the win, place, and show positions of any horse race for tomorrow, and I'll attest to your superpowers. And cut you in for 50% of my winnings. All in the name of Science. The risks I'm willing to take

Sounds like a genuine person. I wish there was some genuine proof. In any case, I'm sure a bunch of people that claim to have similar super-powers will pop up here soon to take you under their wings. Good luck with that.

Maybe you have really vigilant guardian angels.
Other than that, maybe you're an alien. Try getting in touch with Stan Lee from Marvel comics, maybe you're related to the Human Torch. j/j

all joking aside, good luck with that and keep everyone posted.


There was a girl on the television show "Heroes", who could do exactly the same things. Walk through fire without getting burned, get cut and heal within minutes, and walk through solid matter.
If I were you I'd get a good running start and see if you can pass through your bedroom wall.
If you can, then yes, you're a superhero.

It's funny all of this "I'm a superhero!" talk began after the show Heroes premiered.

Just like to say anyone can do that if they in they right mind frame no super hero powers there.

As for SupermanPJ4444 i'm afraid i'm the kind of person see it to believe it but goodluck on your search for answers.

LOL....

Good observation....

Your not a superhero...you have to do something heroic with your powers to be deemed a superhero.

Ok....a couple things


"I've seen skin heal very rapidly but this sounds different. I don't have a clue
here but even I once grew back a finger tip after an accident (of course it took
a while)." - Cladking

These were deep cuts so I'm pretty sure this doesnt apply...but I know that punture wounds appear to heal rapidly. Also...I'm not sure how much of your finger grew back...but I remember reading years ago that humans can regrow their fingers as long as it was cut of at or above the knuckle just below your nail




"It's funny all of this "I'm a superhero!" talk began after the show Heroes premiered." - Vague

I'm not claiming to be a superhero. I dont run around in a cape and tights with my underwear on the outside. And what happens to me has been hapening all my life (well...mor elike since I was 5 or so...) So that also cuts out X-men and Harry Potter developing powers in their teens....I just want to better understand what is happening to me




"Walk through fire without getting burned,"

I didnt walk through fire without getting burned. I randomly burst into flames in the middle of my living room. Big difference (And I wasnt around, nor do we own any, slow burning chemicals) If I was able to walk through fire and not get burned I would think it was a fluke or a regenartion type power (like my cut) But since the flames came from an unkown sorce and I didnt get burned I belive it was either A. Pyrokenisis or B. A reverse spontanious human combustion (Which I've never even heard of)



I dont consider nightmares to be the same as dreams. Yes, the most likey are closely related...but when I say "dreams" I mean normal, everyday (well, night) dreams. GIrls, flowers, money...whatever it is people dream of at night. NIghtmares, however, are the 'dreams' that make you wake up screaming in the middle of the night fearing for your life. (And just because I dont dream doesnt mean I dont exerience rem sleep.)


"I once discovered the ability to see cards, but after a lot of experimentation
I discovered that I was simply seeing through them. I could only tell if they
were a face card and their color. I could separate clubs from spades a lit-
tle and tell the little number cards from the bigger ones. The clues were very
subtle but by adjusting the light and such things, the clues were much stronger." - Cladking

Being able to see through cards is one thing. being able to know what the card is before they even pick it up while facing away, blindfolded, after 3 diff people had shuffled the deck is entirly different.


And even though I may have been tired at some of these times, the people around me however were not.


"If I were you I'd get a good running start and see if you can pass through your bedroom wall.
If you can, then yes, you're a superhero" - Thozzman

If I had a running start I could run through my bedroom wall...but it'd make a pretty big hole...lol




I do not have any proof at this time (believe me...I wish I did). But thats why I would like to know how to control these things so I could be tested (instead of them just showing up at random points)

yes i would say without a doubt you have some sort of supernatual powers there

but please remember to use them in a positive way.. do good things.. please do not abuse these powers, it may seem like a very attractive idea at the time but ive seen this go wrong time and time again.

first of all, you're NOT supposed to eat those mushrooms growing in your front lawn, do NOT play with matches, and for your safety, please keep a fire extinguisher at hand at all times. let's ignore those ortographic mistakes you made, you say that you never ever dream, yet you speak of this soulmate that you've met while dreaming. so either you really dream or you've been watching too many girls gone wild movies at night. you could've just said that you read cards or predict events or even that you read minds, but noooooooooooooooooo you had to say you were on fire and that you self-heal, that's sooooooo cool, it doesn't make you sound crazy at all. call me when you get to be on that new movie "chronicles of spontaneous combustion: a self-healing psychic's journey" but joking aside, if i was to take what you wrote seriously, you say that you don't ever dream, that's impossible, it would be like saying you don't breathe. maybe this stuff that supposedly happened to you are you dreams, but you don't know how to tell them appart from reality. i've had dreams that seemed so real i had to lay in bed for a while until i made sure that they were just dreams, maybe you are merely confused and you're not crazy or lying, and trust me, no doctor is just gonna say that it was only blood what you saw without doing some more tests, if you were truly a powerfull psychic you would already be on all the news stations in the world telling your story, not on some internet forum. please if you really do believe your story, get yourself checked

cheo,

I was going to add a reply to SupermanPJ but you stole all my good material

cheo_vl,
Even though I admit that even I had trouble taking PJ's narrative at face value, it seems rather hostile and unfriendly to include comments implying that the person you doubt must be using mind-altering substances or otherwise be mentally unsound. Not that you're the only one, I've noticed more than a few of the skeptics/atheists here doing so. But it's quite possible to remain skeptical while writing logically and informatively, and I always sense that discussions tend to lose a certain something when it comes down to personally attacking the messager.

How much would you approve if all skeptics and atheists were pre-emptively declared mentally unsound and/or drug abusers? What if they were told to see a psychologist before their posts would be considered? What if someone said that skepticism was just a result of all the coffee, alchohol, and tobacco they'd been consuming? It would certainly spoil things, wouldn't it?

Perhaps a more 'scientific' explanation (seeing since so many people believe they would die if they didnt dream) would be that I am unable to recall any of my dreams the following morning

When I 'dream' about my soulmate (which I've only done a few times) its more like an out of body experience. As if we assend to a higher plain of existence....

Also, I should not that I have a friend that doesnt dream. In his own words "I dont sleep. I hibernate." He too must have it very cold in order to sleep. He says he lays down, closes his eyes for a few seconds and when he opens them again its morning. It doesnt remember being asleep because he didnt have any dreams...

But now that I think about it...could the cold have something to do with it?

When I say I need to be cold to sleep...I mean COLD. A couple years ago I froze the pipes because on the coldest night of the year I shut off the heat, had two ceiling fans going on high, had an airconditioner on high cool and a giant fan blowing on me. When I woke up (after having the best nights sleep I ever had) it was actually colder in my room then it was outside!

first of all, i didn't mean to insult or ridicule supermanpj, that's just the way i talk. about implying that he uses substances to alter his mind, i didn't mean it seriously, i was just saying that in no way i believe he was on fire or that he heals himself, being psychic is one thing, but the body needs time to send all the signals when you cut yourself and start creating new tissue, it would be like growing ten inches of hair in one night. supermanpj, if you don't dream it means that your brain shuts down for a few hours and i think this is not possible. not remembering your dreams is pretty common, but not having any isn't. i stand by my theory that you don't know how to tell dreams appart from reality. i'm truly sorry if i offended anyone(which i don't think i should be because if you post something here it means that you expect people to comment about it and people's oppinions are not always going to be favorable to you), but please next time you have an "episode" stop to think for a while if it really happened or if it was a dream.

Hello all.

Hello SupermanPJ4444.

(LOL and not unkindly.) First of all s-l-o-w down. I can tell by reading your post that you are very excited, (which is good) but try to compose yourself and your thoughts so that you can say exactly what you mean to. People on this forum are very keen on facts and logic based statements. They will and do pick apart that which doesn't fit, most are kind about it yet there are others who aren't.
That being said.....
Your story is quite interesting and I believe that there are different levels of dreaming. (of course all these terms weren't thought up by me.)
My idea is that there are normal dreams: dreams that most of us don't remember on waking and are just the brains way of clearing out the clutter of the day.
Problem solving dreams: dreams that might reoccur or not but are intense enough that we do remember them when we wake. But the language of dreams may obscure their meaning.
Precognitive dreams: dreams that foretell of a precise future event. Again the language of dreams may obscure the meaning.
Lucid dreams: dreams in which our mind is aware that we are dreaming and in those the dreamer is able to change the circumstance in the dream.
Nightmares: I think anyone who's had one knows what they are.
This is a loose list and dreams seem to overlap categories for example, what starts out as a nightmare can be changed into a lucid dream.
Start keeping a dream journal. Just a notebook by your bed with a pen/pencil to write down your dreams as soon as you wake and your memory is fresh and date them. A dream journal can be an insightful tool.
The room having to be cold sounds like it may just be a personal preference a little extreme but a personal preference none the less.
The other events, well it sounds like you are enjoying them and aren't scared of them so that's good. Take time to make a mental note of the things and write them down as soon as you can. Observe what's going on around you is the best advice I have for them at present.
Warm regards, Mabon.

spelling error. rrrrrrrgh.

The fact that you dub it "Superhero" means your crazy either way.

Welcome to Unexplained Mysteries.

I still wish you would see a doctor or exhibit some proof. It's just that this sounds like a script for an X-Men style comic or Movie. Or maybe FIRESTARTER: REVISITED.
No offense intended, just an observation.

boundries mr gumby ...we had boundries....





Barek Halfhand
BOM

I vote we set him on fire and see what happens

That aside, I find it totally bewildering that some of you are such hardcore believers, that you are willing to believe all of the BS that is on this forum

My apologies for coming across as hostile but you need to get out of your fantasy worlds. I'm not even a sceptic and I do actually believe that quite a lot of things are possible, however I draw the line at the ridiculous and insane

There are a couple of good ways to look at the different skills you may have in a manner that would not only help identify your skills, they would offer the proof so many people are looking for, and to top it off, one of the ways would earn you a cool million dollars if you can reproduce any of your skills in a controlled environment.

I am not sure how old you are, but if you are confident that this is something you really can do, then go to James Randi's website and take the "million dollar challenge". Basically folks make claims of a supernatural ability and Randi will test those claims in a verifiable testing environment so that any skills that are performed can be documented and made sure that they are on the level; a lot of folks have tried to trick the people giving the test in the past, so that is one of the things they often look for.

If you can reproduce any of your claims, randi will hand you a check for one million dollars and be able to certify your skills to the world. Pretty good work if you can get it...

On a smaller scale, you can work with folks that have a good understanding of the scientific process; professors fit the job and I would imagine if you went to them explaining your situation in earnest they might be willing to setup a scientifically based test to look into your claims; it depends on the professor, but I think most professors would love to be able to use you as a subject of an article/paper to their scientific journal. It will add credibility to your claims and a better understanding of what skills you may or may not possess...

however I draw the line at the ridiculous and insane

One man's ridiculous and insane is another man's everday existence. I don't know if the writer in the OP is telling the truth. However, my own experiences lead me to believe it is a possibility. Whether the experiences were "real," even if truly experienced, is also open to debate. However, there are stranger things under heaven and on earth, than are dreamed of in our philosophies/scientific realities, Horatio.

My vote's with Fluffybunny. I WANT this to be true to at least some degree, but am unwilling to accept it carte blanche.

I dream every night, I must be immortal!