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Receiving occult symbology in psychic ways was (and still is) a big part of my awakening experience as an artist and the tree and lightning flash you mentioned just made me think of the kabbalah/qabal…

I designed an AI-powered path planner, but users lean toward heavy learning goals — need help rethinking the UX direction — Hi UXer! I’m a solo founder & designer, currently building a lightweight learning platform that uses AI to generate custom learning paths and micro flashcards. I designed it to support curious, self-…

Why do most tech billionaires avoid flashy lifestyles—are there any who embrace extravagance? I will not promote — I’ve always noticed the contrast between how different the tech entrepreneurs are compared to the others who are in finance, fashion, entertainment, or property. It is almost the expectation in the ot…

What’s the smartest business to start today with $50k–75K? — I’m 18 and looking to start a serious business with a budget of $50K–$75K. I’m not interested in quick flips or side hustles. I want something solid and long-term. Ideally, a real business with a phys…

What I learned building a quoting system for a construction company doing $10M+ a year — I recently finished a project for a construction company doing roughly $10M per year. They were quoting jobs using Excel and email threads, and while it technically worked, it was slow, error-prone, a…

Weekly Newcomer Questions, Support, Vents & Victories — As the community continues to grow and attract people who are just figuring this all out, we've decided to change the weekly thread focus to be more open and encourage newcomer questions and support. …

March 2026 Astrology: Transits, Key Dates, and More — **Last month’s write-up, I ended with this,** *“Let’s just say we end the month in a chaotic state of energy. Nothing seems real while at the same time, there is a sense of urgency that something need…

Song banned from Casinos cause 'it makes you win more' — There's a song trending back on TikTok videos and people claim Ring My Bell by Anita Ward is banned in casinos because the frequencies supposedly make slot machines pay out more the story going aroun…

When a tiny moment shows you the practice is paying off — I spilled my coffee all over the kitchen counter rght when I was about to leave the house. That kind of thing used to piss me off big time.. I’d rush to clean it up, cussing, mumbling under my breath,…

Cheated on after 10.5 years together, divorced at 11 years together. — Hi Everyone, This is half venting and half hoping for advice or people to listen. I'm at a low point right now so I thought reaching out to a community might be beneficial as opposed to holding it…

Knowing the exact time when waking up - psychic or circadian? — Recently again I keep waking up at VERY different times every single day (anywhere from the range of 7am to 11am - UPDATE: actually 3-11am as covered later in the post) and as I'm laying there in tha…

She snuck out with a "friend" while we were at a party — Hello everyone, this is all still very new since I just founf out about everything 3 days ago. I (24M) am in deep intense pain in knowing that my girlfriend of 3 years cheated on me at least 4 times …

Endogenous DMT activation in sleep? Spontaneous breakthrough-like state with fractals, death sensation, head pops, high-pitched noise — [](/r/DMT/?f=flair_name%3A%22Experience%22)So this is going to sound stupidly insane but… I need to put it somewhere for someone who might understand. Background: had a 6g mushroom trip a while back.…

Drifting away from stoicsm — Stoicsms changed my life, but now a days I find myself not connecting as much with the lessons and forgetting them even though they helped me lots in the past. I'm and avid student; I do flashcards an…

Overarching Energy of the New Moon in Pisces on March 18th, 2026 — Even if you are not an artist, philosopher or feel things deeply, the New Moon in Pisces could give you an open, dreamy quality, where you want to dig into more abstract subjects. You may be thinkin…

Unexplained flash of light — A few years ago my sister & I were laying in bed both on our phones & we saw what looked like a camera flash came from one side of the room. We both ignored it partially bc we hoped it was the other o…

I don't know the difference between what's real or not anymore — I don't really know where to start other than this experience was over the weekend, and it made me see things in a different way. On Saturday night, I took a gummy, I dabble in it to help with my anxi…

Had a shocking vision during a golden light meditation anyone else seen their 'future' family’? — I wanted to share something that just happened to me during a meditation that honestly shocked me. I was lying in bed, focused on my breathing, and imagined a golden light starting at my feet. I felt …

Mom! There's a Flying Car Outside the Window + And Other DR Memories — https://preview.redd.it/qg8vkwaixvpg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=ddddae1cd2fa8a918133c6c3655c21cd7e63afd6 https://preview.redd.it/am1xwmqjxvpg1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=2814916…

My girlfriend drove 10 hours to see me and my mom showed up at 3 am and ruined everything — Someone told me I should come over here and check this community out. I’m not sure if my mother is a narcissist or not. I just need some similar stories, advice, or ways to handle this going further. …

I typically never have nighmares, while I have terryfying emotional states and flashback during waking states. — Not really a question, but I recently realized that for all the life I live with crippling fears, anxiety, and depression, my sleep is kinda nice. The worst dreams I get are boring ones, like I am dre…

I Can't Stand My Mom — When I was younger, my parents basically used me as an emotional punching bag. Most of the memories I have of my childhood are them screaming at me over some minor mistake that I made. A lot of the ti…

Something I wished I had heard about sooner when I struggled leaving my now nex that would've made me leave a lot earlier. — Why we stay is because of trauma bond and hope even though they play on that and say to you "if I am abusive why don't you leave", unhealed empaths stay because we delude themselves on what they could…

Help! Feeling dread and doomed after sessions. — I’ve been using gateway tapes for over 5 years, not every day but I will say over 70 sessions or so. Over 2 years ago, I started to have OBE and I fought them (because I was worried about astral proje…

Dream about a vibrating UFO / Greys — After not thinking about UFOs or ETs for a while, I had a dream about a vibrating UFO last night. I could feel the ship's vibration in my body and I felt a bit scared and overwhelmed. I think the fea…

April 2026 Astrology: Key Dates, Weekly Forecast and Mundane Astrology World Events — April is one of the most active months we’ve seen. Not one planet is in retrograde. Aries fire and cardinal energy sets the stage for initiation, assertion and spontaneous energy. There is a bit of na…

My girlfriend (24F) and I (26M) just mutually broke up after an on/off cycle. Did we make the right call or did I handle this badly? — My girlfriend (24F) and I (26M) just mutually broke up after an on/off cycle. Did we make the right call or did I handle this badly? This is very fresh. We just ended things and I need honest outside…

Been trying for 6 years, only had one 5 years ago. Any suggestions? — I've been trying to lucid dream for 6 years and only ever had **one**, over 1400 days ago while on a vacation, about 5 years ago. It lasted about 2 or 3 minutes and I had full control. Flight, telekin…

Just figured out she was cheating today — So there's a long story, I met this girl a almost a month ago, she still to this day was the most beautiful woman ever, I love her so much. I was surprised I got her attention and quickly we got into …

My horrible mushroom trip by Jimmy Burnt — It all started during an environmental school excusion/protest. I had packed my lunch that day, drank my water, dressed well and expected nothing to happen. To preface I live in Sydney and lived aro…

A friend tried to reach me for a kiss during a bad trip at 300mcg acid — I recently posted about my trip and got to understand more about why things happened. So I think I should also post this scene. When he was having a bad trip i sat beside him and the first thing he h…

Wild Technique — So I have been lucid dreaming for years, but for a long time couldn't figure out a good technique for myself. Most of the times it was accidently or with a whole lot of luck. Just recently I am starti…

FUCK THEM!!!!! — They made me feel so shameful, guilty, sad, terrified and hopeless that I wanted to die. But I had to repress those feelings so I could survive my horrific childhood. And now I have suicidal feeling…

Initiatory Numinous Experience — I have been putting writing about this off for 11 years now. It was October of 2015; a lot of energetics were going on in and around me all at once. I don't know how to structure this entry/experience…

800-1000ug+ FIRST acid trip complete ego loss most terrifying thing ive ever had — Before I get into this, I want to make something clear right away. I am not encouraging anyone to do this, and I am definitely not presenting this as some cool or impressive story. This was not enjoya…

Why couldn't we get through it all together? — So my girlfriend and I recently broke up after two years. It's painful, my god it is painful to see literal flashbacks of our time together every 5 seconds of being awake. It's painful to do work beca…

Study on psychedelic experiences without (immediate) prior use of psychedelics — **We are a group of researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin and we look forward to your participation in our study!** **Have you ever taken a psychedelic substance?** **Share your opinion an…

I’ve Been Seeing Lights, But Only When I Don’t Have My Phone — Disclaimer: I was prescribed, marijuana for anxiety, depression, and fibromyalgia. I’ve been on it for about four years now. Marijuana really triggered a big spiritual awakening for me. I don’t want t…

“THE EARTH - A LIVING CREATURE!” This is the message of a brief video created from NASA satellite imagery. — I was a contact team coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative in Los Angeles from 1992 to 1998. “She is alive. She is awake and She loves us.” is the message that I received during of a kind of channel…

I still feel like all the abuse was normal — Three months ago I had a realization that my mother was abusive my entire life. Verbally and physically. Silent treatments. Emotional neglect. Hitting me in public as an adult. About a week after tha…

How many of you have been abused by psychiatry? — Basically the title. I've been abused, harmed, tortured by psychiatry for 10 years. Imagine hitting your most lowest, most broken point after decadds of abuse, only to have this institition abuse and …

Have any of you guys been to what I could describe as “everybody “ — When I was meditating, I think my ego died and wanted to connect more to everybody who has ever lived and I was getting flashes of memories that weren’t mine. I’m in a weird conscious state and I wann…

I have dreams of my future — This is something I've talked about with only one other person before, and they're my ex, but I will have dreams, flashes of things that will come true. I have vivid dreams, most of them are nonsense,…

Fire-like light flashed in the corner of my eye. Anyone else? — I was sitting watching videos & a fire looking blob of light flashed in the corner of my eye. I can’t even tell you if it was inside my eye or outside like in the physical (if that makes sense I’m sor…

I found out that my abusers lost everything because they k*lled a child and I don't know how to feel — I'm an institutional child abuse survivor and lived in an abusive boarding school for \~1 year (felt more like 5 years) when I was 13 yo. It was a terrible environment in which every aspect of our liv…

Embarrassed for feeling deep abandonment with small stuff like coworkers leaving or mutual friends hanging out together w/o me? — In my younger years this was a big problem, I wouldn't understand what I was feeling and would lash out like if a friend said they could hang out one day, but then said actually I can't something else…

Weekly Newcomer Questions, Support, Vents & Victories — As the community continues to grow and attract people who are just figuring this all out, we've decided to change the weekly thread focus to be more open and encourage newcomer questions and support. …

On reassuring my ex abuser — ​ I'm getting ghosted from a fwb I had an abusive relationship with this person and I trauma renforced our l relationship after opening up about a past traumatic event. This traumabond is hur…

Real of fake memory? — I need your help to understand whether I might have had contact with alien beings in the past. Ever since I was a child, I’ve been extremely curious about this topic. My father says I used to constan…

Do narcissists know what they're doing - an answer. — A question victims of narcissistic abuse often ask is, "does the narcissist know what they're doing?" This is a completely reasonable and understandable question. From my own lived experience with a …

I thought some people could relate... — Would love to hear any thoughts! I taught myself to read. I made flashcards with letters and drew pictures for the sounds – an apple for A – colored with red, yellow, orange, brown, an attempt to …

>Before you ban me, please understand that I’m not trying to argue with you, I was just pointing out that claiming people can’t think critically is not a wise move because it can easily be said of yo…

So, if I'm asleep... I should just wake up like I usually do? But I don't know when is the right time. 😬 Cause I'm basically hearing myself snore. I don't hear sounds or anything flashing or vibratio…

I know you’re supposed to see flashes of colours and things when it starts happening but it just feels like eyeball strain to me and kind of hurts my head.

I've asked two different entities, and they gave me partly conflicting answers. The self-proclaimed deity said most humans and all animals go to an enormous astral...warehouse waiting room thingy. Th…

There also used to be such a thing as a “heads up.” A discard comes out of nowhere. If an avoidant was run over by a car, I bet they would have appreciated a horn honk or light flash first.

It was difficult untill last summer when I joined a men’s group, and got some feedback to my story… at the same time I was deeply committed to learning about avoidant’s and how they manage (or more to…

You will find the answer here - Moonlight Mailed Me ! : The No1 reason why people fail with their alpha programming. *Hi Everybody, I am one of moonlight's new cubs and his best for sure. I have a …

My last astral projection experience well it's pretty intense. I was going super sonic speed up into outer space beyond the cosmos and all of a sudden I heard a pop and my eye was opened and I was in …

I don't think this person identifies as secure though. I think he does realize he has an insecure attachment style, but he doesn't realise that's exactly why he keeps getting attracted to other insecu…

Yea I get that, my point was that "self identifying as" only gets you so far. There's how we view and perceive ourselves, vs. how the outside world views and perceives us - and then there are objectiv…

I had this two years ago with someone who I’d lived with for 6 years after we moved out. It was so paintful and uncomfortable. There’s one main thing I would recommend… Letting time pass and filling …

Fairly common and explains the reason behind anxious behavior strategies in your attachment system. As I’m sure many of you struggle with fully letting go of the past and probably struggle with emoti…

This might be due to a lack of internal confidence perhaps. I know that when I was younger and would get involved with someone with an anxious attachment, they’d internalize almost everything while tr…

Yeah it is due to your hypervigilance. It is pretty understandable how you feel because of your past experiences. I think the best advice I can give you is to look for a therapist to help you. CBT an…

So, with insecure attachment, there’s comes a lot of misconceptions because of how our brains are wired. So, mind reading is common, so is dichotomous thinking, automatic negative thoughts as well. E…

For me it was essentially a ptsd flashback and they “were” the person hurting me if this was taking place. Like I was trying to control the damage that I believed (rationally or not) was coming. So a …

I have been in work situations where a lot of boundaries were crossed Indeed some people are really adept at being fruends in a work.setting Obviously this situation is bringing up flashbacks for …

Wow I am sorry. I have felt similarly before and it is such a terrible thing to experience. There was a time, even, where I was paranoid that I was NPD (despite being, if anything, the complete opposi…

I used to feel like this too until I realized that there is more to life than having someone love me. My biggest fear was being alone in the world. News flash, I did end up alone in the world. And hon…

That’s good for handling it with the person. Then there’s the fantasy part…if it were me (and it totally was at one time) I’d be asking myself why the fantasy is necessary in the first place. If it’s …

I type out messages with vulnerable content so that I can send them to my SO, but I end up deleting them because it feels icky and unsafe. Even if he's been supportive in a way that is both caring and…

In dating I will be straightforward with: are you single? Would you like to go out? While on a date and things are going well: Would you like to kiss me? Like I'm trying to be consensual too. It's m…

tips for panic? :( always get horrible panic seeing them be with my friends without me, instant hot flashes, nausea, genuinely horrible feeling and i will not value any self respect i will beg to be i…

It really is. I'm bracing myself up to rejoin eventually after an impending breakup and I've been having flashbacks of how bad it sucks. And I'm not dating men either, women are tough too.

I have a date tonight. My friend set me up with him. Her trusted friends have been trying to find him someone. She's met him once. All good things.  To be totally honest cause this is a ~safe space…

None particularly stand out that hard to be honest. When I tried to think of any the only memory was a flash back to 4th grade 😅 The holiday just felt very corporate when in relationships so we migh…

The man I'm dating suddenly fell off the Earth. He's never a big texter, he can really be present without checking his phone (which I sorta admire, I compulsively check my phone), so it's not that wei…

I just went through this for two months and reading what you wrote gave me quite a flashback. WE DESERVE BETTER.

I know when I got healthier I didn't feel a crazy electric spark of a crush at first. My feelings were quiet for my now boyfriend when we first got close and were flirting. I liked him, but I was terr…

Wow, I bow before this very scientific-minded deconstruction of this situation as described by some particularly mope-y fellow. Of course you are absolutely right that my "lens" through which I perce…

Run clubs have to end. I’m sick of getting mowed down by these packs of smelly people (and I say that as a singular smelly girl). I cannot even understand how this is conducive to meeting anyone! I’m …

To be clear, I'm not talking about falling in love, but just the most basic human connection. Apart from those two brief flashes in the pan, every other interaction has felt no deeper than it would wi…

Official as of last night -- went no contact with the person I can't get over. I spotted her with a guy at a bar and the flash of yearning and jealousy (an *extremely* rare emotion for me) was so, …

Chemistry without consistency is just a flash in a pan. Chemistry is the spark, consistency (in his behavior) is fuel for the fire.

No matter how hard I try, no matter how far I have gone on my healing journey, sometimes, flashbacks, setbacks, and the fear are so real. I am definitely in a happy relationship now, however, there ar…

I’m Jupiter Aquarius in 3H 🙋‍♀️ I get why Jupiter in Aquarius feels confusing. Jupiter is supposed to be warm, abundant, obvious. Aquarius is detached, future focused, and kind of impersonal. It doe…

Yes, to a degree. When I was younger, I was very strongly rooted in my Taurus, more specifically Venusian traits and interests. Beauty, luxury, money, food, comfort. Flashy things and soft, fine livin…

Saw Thoth last night in a dream - similar, short brown hair, very good looking middle aged man. Clearly leader. We had some positive interactions. He had a pretty extensive entourage of people and sai…

Woman here and I have experienced this from men. Some were responding once a day, so you're hardly getting anywhere with the texting. Some never asked me questions back or just very dry responses (yes…

This sounds like a group I've encountered that I refer to as pseudo-mantids. [I talk about my experiences with them in this comment, as well as my observations on and thoughts/opinions about them.](ht…

My great-Aunts biggest gripe was that our family used to have money but her uncle inherited the lot intrusted to look after it for the family & blew the lot- leaving the family dirt poor. She never ha…

Please be patient, english isn't my first language. "You're not allowed to feel. That's for them and that's for us to take care of. Shut up, ignore and hide your pain." Fuuuuuuuuuuck.... that '…

Asked if my mom who passed is ok and I got reaffirming images with symbols flash and dance in my eyes when doing the Questions exercise I think. They faded away and Monroe told me to ask again and th…

My ex's mom was a covert narcissist. My ex was always telling me how his mom favored his older brother. I assumed he was exaggerating but I was naive. One christmas we sat there and watched as his br…

It's not your height. You're average height. If you were 5'2 I could maybe give you something but any alarmism there is misplaced. Your lack of disposable income and frugality will be appealing to so…

You’re a night chart so your sect light is the moon. You may identify with that more than the sun. Moon in Taurus isn’t as flashy as Sun in Sagittarius. More subdued and concerned with comfort and sta…

I've only had one experience with something I can put down as cosmic in terms of astronomy. I was waking up slowly, still dozing and "flash tendrils" appeared in my vision. A blue/indigo star opened u…

Is there a laptop with messages app on it that someone else could be using ? The second phone thing sounds off to me. If it’s an apple phone, FindMy can brick the other phone in a flash. Does it o…

I think of it as turning of your thoughts an switching the tv on inside your brain ,almost waiting for the show to start , I sometimes see flashes of light while my eyes are gently shut and I try to f…

Right? There are so many different symptoms, it can last for up to 10 years, and they start so subtly. I didn’t recognize it until the hot flashes started.