Knowing someone is there.... Curious Question

This could sound really "woo woo" (borrowed from another thread) but I just wonder if someone else knows this too.

I can be in my "space" doing something and I can feel when someone comes into my space. It's not like I see them, I "feel" them there. I don't know how to describe it, but it's almost like a vibration maybe. Maybe like a "knowing" ?

I want to delete this, but I'm really curious if anyone else feels/experiences this.

It's like an alert feeling, if that makes sense.

Hi, I'm catstarhawk

Yes, that happens to me. I sense another one of them around on the outskirts sometimes.

I have flt exactly that way. I can feel their eyes on me when they are staring at me. But yet your in this room filled with people, even some interesting and some sexy, but you still feel "All alone" it seems no matter what you do or say , the loneliness is always there and you don't know what to do about it.

yes sometimes I could feel another there. my treatment providers called it co conscious, by that my treatment providers were saying I was aware of what is going on outside my body (knowing I am sitting here watching tv, knowing what the tv show is, what I am thinking and doing) while at the same time aware of whats going on inside my body (aware of the alters and other internal things that come from having DID in me)

yes. i get this a lot. i don't always know who is around all the time. sometimes i can feel them close enough to know. other times, i don't know but can feel them there.

Yes. I think we are connected in many ways we cannot explain. In music school to train my string quartet to play in a more deeply connected way, not so reliant on vision, the teacher would ask us each to stand in a different corner of a very big room, facing away from each other. We could play together perfectly, no issue. We could just sense.

yes. happens a lot

Yep. Me too.

Yep. We are aware...always watchin...always changing...

I get these feelings like someone is standing not behind me...but through me...like an inch off of taking the body over....hovering...

Sometimes our conscious space switches back and forth that it feels like I step back in to the head watching to then fronting again. It doesnt help that everytime we switch our blood pressure seems to spike when it happens....it just adds to the effect in a scary way.

I can feel another there sometimes. That's always internal.

I do however have moments when it's not internal or one of the others. It's someone unknown and outside of me. Someone dangerous or simply unknown.

I'll always rather have the former over the latter. The latter is why I take olanzapine.

Thank you for your replies!

Last week I went out to go shopping for two of my younger parts. I just wanted to have some time to think and invite those parts of me to be with me.

I was driving and a part wanted to go by a drive through coffee shop and another part wanted to go to another place first. I decided to go through the coffee drive through.

I remember driving to the coffee place and rounding the curb and then.... I ran into a light pole in the parking lot. I didn't see it. That is not like me. I don't know if it is a blind spot in my vehicle or what happened.

I do know that there was a "disagreement" on what we were going to do.

I felt the weirdness right before it happened.

It's kind of really bothering me.

I've had one other incident of driving and loosing time but it didn't involve a crash or injury.

The airbag exploded and I'm so thankful it didn't break my arm. I thought it had but thankfully it didn't. It still hurts.

I just don't know what to make of it. It could have been a blind spot.

The more I'm learning about what I'm walking through, the more it makes me question what happens. I realize that I really do loose time more than I thought.

I did feel a feeling of another part of me there.

This probably makes no sense.

I had an accident last summer because of a similar dynamic at play... I had a thankfully minor accident that could have been very very serious if I hadn't come to and braked just in time. It came just after a few major uncoverings about my past- stuff that someone else was in charge of remembering but suddenly integrated and became known to me, maybe too quickly to be safe?

I'm glad you're ok

I had a really therapeutic conversation with an insurance rep when they called to get the report since there was another driver involved. Oddly enough. I managed to have this convo without outing myself too much, but anyway, she reminded me that it's called an "accident" because that's exactly what it is, everyone has moments of lapsing at the wheel that are unique to them, and sometimes it ends up unluckily. For me it was lost time which is an unsettling feeling, but everyone has their own ways of "checking out" in times of stress, too.

Omg...we practice distracted driving....it gets so scary at times. I can be driving along and then it gets chatty upstairs triggering a daze and before you know it....we've done gone a few miles.....not remembering if the lights were red or green....

Thoughts can trigger switches, so an Other can front and not realize that they are actually driving. Too many close calls. So we granny crawl trying to stay behind the pack...then there are race car drivers that front.

Thank you! My arm is still bruised and sore but I am thankful that is all.

It's really causing me to me anxious about driving. The other time something like this happened, I was driving to see my counselor. I was on my way there and all of a sudden I didn't know where I was. I had passed the street I was supposed to turn on and found myself at a dead end traffic light and didn't know how I had gotten there.

This happened with the light pole and I keep going back and trying to mentally backtrack to see what happened. Was it really a blind spot or was there a "shift"? I can accept the blind spot explanation. Accidents do happen. If there was lost time there, I'm having a problem.

I'm not sure what or how I feel about it.

Exactly!! I'm wondering if this is the only 2 times it's happened or if it's the 2 times that I'm aware of. I'm getting ready to go and visit my mother in the hospital about an hour drive from here. The hospital and my mother are triggers by themselves. Now I'm concerned about driving there. I've never been to this place and I'll set my navigation to its address. Hopefully that will keep me on track.

Trail maybe you have tried these things but... just in case, since I have to drive a lot for my work (three and a half hours daily on average, sometimes four or five) I thought I might share a few tricks I have that help me feel safer...

I almost always have my gps on as a safety net, except for very short and familiar trips, so if I dissociate I won't be lost. It also helps me stay present to keep an eye on the screen. For the longer highway trips, no matter how many times I've done them, if I try to just drive by memory, pretty soon I am very far from where I started with no clue. I get frazzled and confused and then the near-accidents happen because I am distressed.

I also have music on-- hum along, keep the noisiness in my head at bay.

On extremely bad days I try to have something nutritious or low calorie to chew on, just another thing to keep me from disappearing, different flavors and textures. Jerky, a weirdly flavored gum, dried fruit, etc

If I do none of these things, before I know it- no idea where I am. It's crippling and I feel like I shouldn't be on the road. But in combination it works for me, and I somehow manage the massive drives ok.

Thank you again! Your post hits home with me. I made the drive today and I was trying to be conscious of "changes" and I did feel/experience them. It was kind of weird that I was looking for them, with all that was on my mind. I DID feel it though.

Just being aware of it called my attention to it and I acknowledged it. That was really weird, but it calmed it.

I guess I'm thinking that if I can feel it coming, I can stop it. Maybe. If that makes sense. I just don't want to be a victim anymore. It really feels bad to be a victim of myself.

It happens to me so fluidly and I don't realize it until after the fact. Today was empowering that I felt and saw it.

so happy for you. yes it makes sense that if you can feel it coming you can stop it. in me my treatment providers called this a great progress and healing, why because with recognizing when it was happening I was able to use my grounding tools (breathing, focusing my attention and other grounding tools that I use) which in turn would calm the automatic reaction to dissociate.

Oh, yes. I frequently feel someone/s near me. Usually it's someone I love who has died, like my sister.