Hello everyone. I have come across this forum somewhat accidentally but reading all of your posts has sent shivers down my spine and certified what I have suspected to be true for quite some time now - that I am different. It is also a great comfort to know that I am not alone, and I realise now that it was probably far from accidental that I stumbled across this site.

I will now explain my story.

Starting from the very beginning - I remember the day I was born. I don't remember BEING born but I remember being in the perspex cot in the hospital with faces peering over me. I remember looking up at people wondering who they were, and the feeling I attach with that memory is one of slight annoyance or that I had been disturbed or imposed upon. It didn't feel like the beginning of me though, if that makes sense. It was as if I was just beginning another phase in my journey.

Throughout my childhood I had very intense, very vivid and often lucid dreams. These dreams were often prophetic, for example I once dreamed of a huge house fire and sure enough, the next day the house behind ours caught fire and was ablaze for hours. Other times include mundane things such as dreaming of family friends who we hadn't seen for a while and them turning up at the door unexpectedly the next day, etc etc. I'm not sure if I felt 'different' at such a young age because I was less aware of other people, so I didn't know that this sort of thing didn't happen to everyone.

As a child I was also very intuitive about people and places. It was almost like I knew who was good for me and who was bad. There were certain friends houses I loved being in, based on nothing but a certain presence that I felt in those houses, but there were also houses or places that felt uncomfortable and I tried to avoid those ones, even if the family were lovely and welcoming I was always able to feel a different presence.

I was not a reclusive child as such, I had plenty of friends but I always felt alone (and still do, for that matter), not in a lonely sense but in a sense that I never felt any true connections with my friends as a child. They didn't get me. I had an intense, obsessive obsession with the paranormal which I would try to infringe upon my friends but they remained largely uninterested! I was forever researching ghosts, aliens, spirits, telepathy etc etc and according to my parents it would be my main topic of conversation.

Growing up I continued to experience the same things - intense, prophetic, long, vivid, lucid dreams, feelings of remarkable intuition, being able to read people etc. Oh and another thing is that I have a very very highly developed ability to draw people. I can draw people's faces with incredible accuracy despite never having been formally trained. I am good at drawing in general but it is in portraiture that my skills are most prevalent.

When I was 13 we had gone, as a family, up to Scotland because my grandmother had become very ill and it was likely she was going to die. We had been there for a few days and then one night I awoke suddenly, bolt upright and looked at the alarm clock next to me which was glowing (it was one of those ones that glows up if you press a button so that you can see the time in the dark, however I hadn't pressed the button) and the time said 4.24am. I just looked at it, thought nothing of it and then fell back to sleep. The next morning my dad informed me that my grandma had died early that morning... at 4.24am.

The past 2 years of my life I would say have been the most intense period in terms of these otherworldly feelings and experiences that I have. About 2 years ago I went through a period of intense, severe anxiety and depression, undoubtedly due to my feelings of disconnection to other people (despite on the surface coming across like a normal person... it becomes incredibly draining to feel this way, as I'm sure most of you will understand). It was around this time that I started experiencing the 11:11 phenomenon - something which I also knew nothing about until a few months ago, after I had been seeing 11:11 for over a year already. It got to the point where I was seeing 11:11 every day, and that has continued ever since. I have periods where I will see 11:11 every day, sometimes several times a day, and then periods where I see it less. I am not sure what it means for me but I know that since I have started experiencing 11:11 my life has been through some significant positive changes, for which I am incredibly grateful.

It was also 18 months ago that I had my most intense and vivid dream of all time. It is too long to go into the detail of it, but in short it was a dream in which I was given a message by a stranger that something terrible was about to happen in the form of a global disaster, and it was down to me and 3 other people to put a stop to the incident, or else the entire world was f*cked, essentially. Anyway we didn't manage to stop the incident, and the majority of the dream was set in an awful dystopia where the people at the top were trying to whittle down the entire human race by 95% in order to create a new 'super-race'. There were conditioning centres set up all over the world where everyone had to go in and if you passed a series of tests and clinical trials you were released into the New World, but if you didn't pass you were killed by being drowned in acid.

Anyway since that dream I have felt more different than ever. I truly feel like I have some sort of purpose for being here, like there is going to come a time when I will be needed for something big. I can't help feeling like that dream was a signal, as if to say 'be ready'. I KNOW something is going to happen soon because I am becoming more and more aware of my strengths every day. Prophetic dreams are so regular for me now that I base decisions on them. I use my intuition to guide me in everyday, mundane decisions. I am seeing 11:11 most days. I have intense deja vu regularly.

I am hoping that through getting to know some of you a bit better through these forums, and hearing your experiences, I can prepare myself even more for whatever it is that is inevitably going to happen, and that we have probably been put here for. Please, if anyone wants to PM me and discuss our stories and experiences in more detail I would be more than happy to do so.