[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Wizard Pics" (was:Re: Irrational childhood fears)

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Amber-
> Needles---not the sewing kind....the stick them in your skin for evil
"healing"
> purposes, i.e. shots, drawing blood, etc.  In high school, my health class
had
> a textbook with a picture of someone with a hypodermic needle in their
> forearm...nobody was on the other end....and keep in mind this is prior
(about
> 5-6 years before) to reading HP...and the needle in the picture was
MOVING!!!!
> I swear it was.  It was a wizard pic, I know it.


Iggy here:

Actually, that's not as uncommon as you'd think.. (Well, I hope not... even
though I'm the only person *I* know who does this...)

When I was a kid, I used to have a poster my mom had given me of Rio de
Janeiro.  I would stare at one picture, it was a beach shot, and it would
come to life as though I was looking through a window, including people
leaving and entering the scene.  And we're not just talking movement, but
also sounds.  For some reason, I've had this happen to me a number of times
in my life... where I look at certain photos, and it soon becomes that I am
actually watching what was happening when the photo took place.  People,
cars and animals all begin to move, sounds can be heard...  It's rather
interesting, and unnerving to some who can't see what I am seeing.  (I'm
just glad that my wife loves me as much as she does and takes these things
in stride.)

I don't know if it's just that I have a particularly vivid imagination that
simply takes over and "completes the scene" for me, or something else.  They
say that mental/psychic abilities can awaken in people sometime after severe
head trauma... and I fell out of a treehouse into a thornbush on a rocky
mountain when I was about six.  I landed on my head and neck and was out
cold for a good five minutes or so.  Since then, I have experienced
precognitive deja-vu with startling regularity, hunches and/or warnings that
have proven true on too many occasions to ignore, and I used to predict
earthquakes in California with startling accuracy... I always knew they were
coming 2 days before they did, and with a rough estimate of their
severity... and have had flashes and visions of people's pasts with no way
of knowing in any regular way, especially if they've never told anyone else
what happened. I've even been able to focus energy from myself to help ease
pain and tension for others or produce other effects, including mild
hypnosis, with no formal training.  So a part of me wonders if it's tuning
into the "post-cognitive" impressions of the scene I am viewing and actually
witness it.


Iggy McSnurd
(who hopes this type of revelation doesn't make TOO many people think he's
off his rocker... but figures it's safe enough to talk about considering
what type of fan group this is...)