I have always felt that I'm more "in tune" with the environment and energy in locations than most people are, and I seem to get sensory overload much more easily. I suppose I should start out with my experiences and go from there.
From the ages of 10 to 15, I lived in a house with my father and grandmother. It was an older house, built sometime in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Even before I had any experiences in my room, I had the feeling that I was not wanted in there and became uncomfortable spending any extended amounts of time in that room. I always felt as though someone was watching me, despite having the blinds and door closed. I got the same feeling in the basement of that house. It wasn't the "creepy basement" feeling -- it was just a feeling that I shouldn't be in there/that something didn't want me there.
When I was 13 or 14, the undeniable experiences started. I was standing in my room one day, and watched everything except my TV fly off my dresser and hit the wall on the opposite side of the room. I had a terrible feeling and trusted my instinct to just leave the room. Things would go missing from every part of the house and turn up days or weeks later in places where we KNOW we did not put them. I would hear footsteps outside my door every night around 9pm. I would open the door, thinking it was my dad going to bed, to say goodnight to him. No one was ever outside the door, so I'd call up asking if he just went to bed and he'd tell me no, he'd been in bed for an hour or so.
Then, one night a few weeks after seeing everything fly off my dresser right in front of me, I was laying in bed. I remember that I was talking on the phone, and all of a sudden, my bed started shaking. It obviously scared me, and all I could do was lay still and wait for it to be over. I hid under the covers and had this feeling that, if I opened my eyes and pulled the covers down, I would be face-to-face with something. After that, the energy in that room was so uncomfortable that I refused to sleep in there. I wasn't a young child being scared of the dark, I just felt EXTREMELY uncomfortable being in there at all. The sensory overload was so much that I would get nauseous, what I believe was due to the feeling of uncomfortableness and not being wanted and generally just feeling afraid.
I moved out of that house when I was 15, but my dad stayed there for awhile. I had brought my new dog over to meet him. When I tried to take her in my old room, she stood in the doorway in the defensive stance, growling and barking, and she absolutely refused to go in. She was fine in other areas of the house. During that time visiting him, he told me that he had also experienced his bed shaking and had no explanation for it.
After I moved to another house, I didn't have any experiences like the ones before, but I still got that feeling like someone was watching me every now and again. It was particularly strong after the elderly lady who lived in the house next to mine passed away. She had died alone in her house, and I had a feeling that something just wasn't right those few days before someone found her.
The only other experience I've had is after my grandmother (who lived with my father) passed. I was in my room at the house I was living in at the time, which she had never been to, and I caught a whiff of her perfume. It was a quick smell, gone within a few seconds, but it was a very distinct smell and I immediately recognized it. That night, I had a very vivid dream of my grandmother. She told me that everything was going to be okay and not to worry about her. That was the last time I've had an experience similar to the ones before.
Other than those experiences, it's always been feelings. Either picking up on a sad/distressed energy, or just feeling that something was watching me. I still have the feelings of someone watching me every so often in the house I live in now, particularly right before my dog stares at a corner (where there's nothing visibly there) and starts barking.
I've also always been good at picking up on peoples' emotions, even though they're not showing it. I can get easily distressed by a lot of loud noises, bright lights, etc. all at once, and need to remove myself from the situation if at all possible.
If it helps, I'm 19, female, and have been having experiences since the age of 12 or 13. However, there's not a time I can't remember being extra sensitive to feelings, emotions, stimulus, and so on.
I apologize that this is so long, but I figured it would be helpful to give as much information as I could. I'm not uncomfortable with the possibility of being sensitive, I just wanted to see if other people thought I could be or if it was something else. I'd also appreciate any information on how to work with the sensitivity or where to go from here if you do think I could be sensitive. Thank you
