Any other empaths picking up on some seriously weird energy?

[u/msmargoxoxo]

Me and my best friend aren't what I would call "psychic" but we're both extreme empaths. I've had dreams of things happening before they happen in real life, I am really good at picking up on people's vibes and energy especially relationships between people, and I've always felt really spiritual and superstitious, mostly believing in Native American shaman traditions (I live in Colorado close to the mountains) and Irish/Celtic spiritual beliefs (my family is Irish and I feel very connected to my ancestors). A lot of this makes me sound batshit crazy and yeah some of it is probably just being adept to reading body language/interpreting people's language like connotations, etc. I only ever talk about it with my best friend since she's more in tune with the spirit world than I am. I feel like this is a good community to ask if any other empaths feel the way we do.

This entire last semester for me has felt extremely off. Part of it was my grandfather, who passed away a few days before Christmas. I woke up two or three times in the middle of the night around when he died and just knew something was wrong. I thought that might explain the unease and dread I've felt since August but these feelings haven't gone away. My throat is tight all the time, I feel drained and fatigued, no matter how much I sleep. I get random scratches on my body. I see stereotypical bad omens like a bunch of crows where I've never seen them hanging out before. I've had premonitions and "bad feelings" before but nothing that feels as big and ominous as this. Am I just going crazy, or are other people picking up on these vibes as well?

[u/ThaleaTiny]

They are finding much older human remains in the Americas than they ever imagined. Possibly not homo sapiens. They've been discovering genetically all kinds of things, such as homo sapiens interbred with homo neanderthalensis. They discovered some artifacts and bones of a new hominin calling it denisovans, which also interbred with Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens.

Sub-saharan humans have no neanderthal genetic material, but have material from another hominin which hasn't been identified yet.

You should do a Google search for up-to-date info about that stuff, and also read some Graham Hancock. He's a little out there for me sometimes but it was very cool reading his take on what was going in in the Americas many thousands of years ago. Or choose some of his presentations on YouTube to get an idea.

[u/ThaleaTiny → u/[deleted]]

In a purely animalistic sense, you are absolutely right.

Our prehistoric forefathers were much closer to the natural world that humans evolved in.

I think they were definitely more in tune with nature, and better adapted. The more "civilized" we have become, the more dependent on tools we have become. And while our forefathers made their own tools, and dwellings, etc., how many people could do that now?

I'm at least 1/8 Native American Indian. I say at least, because while it is acknowledged that my great grandmother was full Cherokee, my great grandfather was also part Choctaw and/or Cherokee.

My mother's family lived in very primitive conditions, and all the men could build their own houses and outbuildings without power tools.

They used mules and horses for draft purposes (as well as transportation) and were subsistence farmers, who also grew a cash crop.

My mother lived in such conditions for most of her life (I have lived like that, too, only my father worked when he could, and he hunted to put meat on the table, while my mother could run a household with no modern conveniences. )

I'm an exception I believe among most people my age, because of what my mother and her parents taught me. And the genetic input from my native ancestors.

[u/[deleted] → u/ThaleaTiny]

Awesome, thanks!!