Call me Dark or Velvet either is fine. My name is Ashley irl though.
Age 23 I am married but have no kids yet I am hoping to wait on that a while.
Been very aware of spirits all my life I used to see them but now I mostly feel them and occasionally hear them.
I would have to say if I identified with any element it would be water. I am a very relaxed individual that always seems to endure and adapt.
I think in some rights I have the gift of seeing signs (but I suppose its pretty generic and it doesn't happen all the time just on occasion.)
I will put some things here into spoilers to conserve space.
Spiritual experiences
(this is not an exhaustive list however so I may add as I remember other stories)
well i have several stories but most of them are just ghosts/spirits that I have seen. My mom was going through a divorce process so we would repeatedly move every few months/weeks to stay away from my angry father since we lived in a town about 3 miles from his country house. Well one of the houses we lived in I had to sleep on the top of the bunk bed and I was laying on my stomach looking out into the living room. My mother had a lamp that had one of those small internal lights so my mom used it for a night light. One night I saw a mom a dad and a little boy sitting on the couch not moving or anything it was almost like a picture.
On another occasion when we moved to another town a few years later my room was in the basement only my mom refused to let me sleep down in my room without an egress window. So i had to sleep on the upstairs couch. It was early morning and my mom had the hallway light on and I woke a bit to see a portly older gentlemen sitting in one chair of our dinning room table and a girl almost too small to be real she looked more like a tiny doll. Again they just looked like a picture kind of frozen.
In college I had a room mate who i was close friends with and she told me she had an imaginary friend. I thought ok what ever strange quirk nothing weird about that. Well when I moved into the room with her it was about a month in when I started getting this poking sensation in my cheek it felt numbing like a finger poking me when i was fully awake and no one was there. I just kind of ignored it and was fine. Well a few days later the strange poking happened again so by this point i was convinced that my friends "imaginary friend" was not imaginary and was fully real. So i told her to get her friend to stop bothering me she said that it wasn't him but called the shadow figure by name and asked it to either stop bothering me or stop the thing from bothering me. So the poking stopped but then i felt like a hand went from the back of my knee to my ankle and i felt like something bit the back of my leg really hard. I jumped and as soon as I could i switched rooms I couldn't room with her anymore after that.
I have also felt things at times. One was just the other day, the place that I work has had several deaths of men over the years i believe both were heart attacks. I am a guard there and so is my hubby who also sees things late at night. But one night a few months ago I was driving one of these metal golf carts around the plant when no one was there and I could feel and kind of see a dark human shaped body at the end of this one lane. Well bring it back to a few days ago. I am being trained to now clean the same plant I am a guard for and we went to drop our trash in a giant bin that was right where I had seen this shadow figure before. So I was dumping the trash and my trainer was bsing with a guy she knew by the trash so I was standing there when i feel a pinching sensation on the back of my arm and a pulling of my arm hair so i turned and thought wtf and there was nothing and no one behind me and its not like my shirt was pinching my arm because it was a T-shirt so idk but it was odd to say the least.
I have also seen/felt that same shadow figure a few times while working in my guard shack he stands outside some times watching me I'm not super afraid or anything and I think his grabbing me was more of a cry for help.
I also used to see a spirit cat running around my house (prior to me owning a cat at all) which i felt was strange but didn't bother me.
Had an instance where i felt someone was behind me in my house I knew i was home alone turned and no one was behind me that I could see at least.
Dreams
I have been having some strange dreams lately
A cat I got right before my wedding anniversary died the first of August. It was very sad we had her 2 months and she passed suddenly she was young and it made me and my hubby both very sad. Well on Wednesday and Thursday I had dreams about my deceased cat we got a new cat who looks a lot like her but in my dreams I knew it was my cat who died. She kept showing up kind of loosing fur or having muscle showing under her skin (sorry don't want to gross anyone out.) But she was all loving and sweet still and I mostly felt sorry for her.
I didn't really know why i was having dreams about her because I never dream about pets or people i know in general. And to have two separate non reoccurring dreams with my cat was odd. But tonight talking to my hubby he told me he went down to the spot where we buried her and i guess in the last few days an animal had been digging at the spot we put her but the animal couldn't get to it and seemed more interested in some mollusk shells I put on top of her than the box that we buried her in.
So I feel like maybe in some way either she is still attached to me or she wanted me to come and rebury her. After that though my hubby had a dream about the deceased cat too he thinks it was due to him burring her but I don't know maybe she was appreciative of him recovering her grave.
On Friday as well I had another dream. I had a dream right before I woke up about walking into a mall like atmosphere but it was dark and I walked into a shop well lit with candles that were red and white on Gothic candelabras and only women were walking around it. It didn't seem to sell much but the women were dressed in darker clothes (I didn't make out too much detail because of the lighting) and all had on black nail polish. I did too but the nail polish was chipped and they all kept making a big deal about my nail polish being chipped and saying I shouldn't be there because of my nail polish. I told them it was my job that made my nail polish come off really badly and the shop owner finally settled the argument and told them to let me stay. I felt these women were pagan but I wasn't intimidated by them I didn't like them yelling about my nail polish however.
Well the shop had this puzzle and they called it "The Witches Railroad" I believe the shop keeper was an artist of some kind and this was a picture she had done. But this puzzle was strange each piece was rectangular and was sitting on a pedestal that made it stand up right so it put a two dimensional puzzle in a three dimensional plane to throw you off. It was very strange and I didn't get to the end of the puzzle but I found one of the first pieces which was the beginning of the railroad tracks. And I guess the idea is to break up into teams and try to complete this like 8-10 foot puzzle kind of strange but I guess there was a prize at the end. I feel like it was the start of something I guess.
I don't know to me it felt different than a dream it almost felt like i seriously walked into a spiritual meeting place
Questions- you may need to read the segment with the designated color to answer.
Q. Is there a possibility that my deceased cat is now a spirit guide for my dreams?
Q. I feel like in some sense the cat was kind of a familiar I suppose she and I were very close so is it possible that even after death she wants to remain close to me?
Q. Is there a possibility I may have walked into a spiritual meeting place of some kind on a spiritual plane while sleeping without realizing it?
General Questions (not based on any information posted above!)
Q. What would be the best kind of incense to burn for trying to focus, or possibly meditate?
Q. Would anyone be willing to do a tarot card reading for me?
Q. What are some things that you would recommend for a novice to do to become more in tune with their spirit?
Q. What element do you feel most in tune with?
Q. Have you ever met with another person or group of people while sleeping before?
Q. What do you believe your strongest ability is? (I'm not sure if ability is the right word maybe gift?)
Q. Are there any ways of enhancing your own gift and making it stronger? Is there any advice you can share on the matter to help me?
