r/self • • 14d ago

A cool guide on how to spot some common styles of bots on Reddit

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r/self • • 2h ago

Rockerefeller tree makes me sad

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They announced that the Rockerfeller tree has been chosen and will be transported to NYC soon. I’m not an over the top environmentalist but this always makes me sad.

-150 year old majestic tree being cut down.
-Propped up and decorated as the ultimate symbol of shallow capitalism and shameless marketing.
-“It’s a tradition” makes no one question it.
-A reusable synthetic tree would be literally the same thing.

I get that it makes kids smile and is a big part of Christmas in the city but it always feels like a sad waste that ends up in a landfill.


r/self • • 5h ago

I tipped a server at a strip bar $20 just because she said hi to me.

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San Antonio. 45m, single, divorced. Ridiculously lonely. I went to a strip bar the other night and after sitting and a server took my order (just a coke please), I watched the entertainers walk around and sit with other men. At most gentleman's clubs i go to, girls usually come over and sit with me and chat and i love that. At this place i felt very awkward and just watched the stage with disinterest. I suddenly saw a very pretty server wiping down tables and she smiled at me from afar. She walked over, introduced herself with a handshake and a beaming smile, and offered to "get me whatever I needed." I smiled and thanked her and she walked away. After a little while longer i decided I'd rather just leave, but before i did, I found her and handed her a $20 tip. I told her "Hey, you're the only girl that came over and made me feel welcome. It's not much but here's something." She smiled and thanked me and i just took off after that.

Do with that what you will.


r/self • • 12h ago

Does anybody else notice that clothes everywhere are ugly now?

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I went to shopping recently for clothes and tried Walmart, Ross, Marshall’s and old navy. I couldn’t find anything! Everything was ugly! Has anybody else noticed this?


r/self • • 5h ago

A stranger told me to go back to my country, and I’m so fucking tired

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Let me start by saying that I’m not here to discuss politics, immigration, or debates about who belongs in this country. I just need a place to vent about something that happened to me.
I’m a lesbian Desi woman, and one of the biggest reasons I moved to the US was because I wanted to find a place where I could be myself. Ever since I realized my sexuality, I’ve struggled to imagine a future for myself in India. I wanted the freedom to live openly, meet people who understood me, and build a life where I didn’t constantly feel like I was different.
For most of my life, I’ve carried this feeling of not quite belonging. I thought moving here might finally change that.
But recently, I’ve been feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the way Indians are being talked about and treated. I understand that people have different opinions about immigration and the economy, but it’s difficult to watch an entire group of people become targets of hostility because of their nationality.
Today, a random stranger shouted at me to go back to my country.
I was just going about my day. I wasn’t bothering anyone or doing anything to provoke this person. And yet, someone felt entitled to look at me and decide that I didn’t belong here.
Honestly, I’m still upset about it. What bothers me most is that the experience has made me feel scared to go outside. I never expected a random encounter with a stranger to leave me questioning whether I feel safe simply walking around in public.
The irony of my situation is that I moved here because I wanted to find a place where I could belong. As a lesbian woman, I wanted the freedom to be open about who I am without constantly worrying about how society would treat me. And while I’ve found acceptance here in ways I struggled to imagine back home, experiences like this remind me that I can still be judged for something as fundamental as my skin color or nationality.
It’s exhausting to feel like you have to navigate different kinds of rejection everywhere you go.
I’m angry that someone could make me feel unwelcome in a place I’ve worked hard to build a life in. I’m hurt that, despite everything I’ve done to create a future for myself, a stranger can look at me and reduce my entire existence to where I was born.
I know people have their own struggles, frustrations, and concerns about what’s happening in the world. But I wish more people understood that there’s a real human being on the receiving end of their hostility. You don’t know someone’s story just by looking at their face.
I’ve been seeing so much hostility toward Indians lately, and experiencing it personally has made it feel much more real and frightening. The growing acceptance of openly expressing prejudice against people based on their backgrounds genuinely scares me.
I don’t want to spend my life feeling like an outsider. I don’t want to be afraid of going out because someone might decide that my presence is a problem. And I don’t want to feel like I have to prove that I deserve to exist somewhere.
I’m not looking for a political debate, and I’m not asking anyone to agree with every opinion I have. I just needed to get this off my chest because today’s experience really affected me.
I moved here hoping to find a place where I could live freely, love openly, and feel like I belonged.
I just wish I didn’t have to keep wondering whether a place like that exists for me.


r/self • • 7h ago

Seeing how rich people live feels me with a dread I cannot describe

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I don’t really know what I’m looking for in terms of replies I guess. But I just wanted to talk about this with someone.

My Pinterest is completely flooded with pictures of luxury lifestyles. The old money kind. And then when I log onto Reddit I see similar things too. I see people talking about those people live such completely different lives to the average person and idk. I guess it just gets to me.

I try to be grateful for what I do have but it’s not like I have much. I’m broke, and my job hunts are going no where. Just rejection letters over and over. I just barely managed to pay for my first ever skating and ballet classes this season, I had to borrow money to do it. But I’m so in love the with sports and I thought I’d be able to make the money back once I got a job, but of course no one is hiring me.
Then I see online that amount of kids would get to the things I dream of because their parents were rich and can afford classes. How they dress, what they eat. It’s so different.

I don’t want to be sad about this, I try my best to make the most out of my life but it’s just so discouraging. The person I’ve always wanted to become is out there being able to exist because they’re wealthy enough to live that life. And no matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, I just won’t ever be able to get lucky enough, or work hard enough to achieve that at an age in which I can enjoy it.

I cried at a bus stop after work once. My job was 2 hrs away by public transit. It was dark and cold, in the middle of winter. My toes were almost frostbitten because my boots had holes in them, I’d had those boots since grade 7. And this Porsche drove bus the stop, and its engine was roaring. I watched it drive away and I guess it all just got to me at once how miserable I was. I was so sad and embarrassed, but ultimately depressed about my situation.

I don’t need another lecture on how rich people can be sad too. I don’t doubt that. I’m not even angry, I’m just so defeated. Honestly, I just wish someone could sympathize with the people who have so much less and dream of a life where they can afford happiness. I’m just tired of waking up and hating who I am, and not even being able to afford to change.


r/self • • 5h ago

Should really I tell my friends when I’m “not doing well”?

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TW: suicidal thoughts

I’ve had major depressive disorder for about 20 yrs now. I have absolutely horrid suicidal thoughts at times, and I have to put so much work into not turning those thoughts into plans, etc. I’m at a much better place than I was even a few years ago. But I usually keep these episodes to myself (aside from talking to my therapist and psychiatrist).

Both my therapist and my psychiatrist say I should tell my friends and family when I’m not doing well. They want me to make sure I don’t isolate myself from the people around me when I’m already going through a difficult time. And I get it, but it also doesn’t feel worth it?

I have the emergency plans in place and I call the suicide prevent hotline when it gets real bad. My friends can’t jump into my brain and fight the thoughts for me, so I’m not sure why the point is in telling them??? I’m also not great with taking outside feedback when I’m really in the thick of it. Like people saying how much they value me and love me is genuinely nice, but, when I’m literally fighting for my life it doesn’t really feel essential.

I remember when I went through an extremely horrible episode a few years ago and I told a couple of friends. They felt so bad for me and I felt so guilty for putting them through that. I even had to give one of these friends my therapist’s number because she was super worried. I went to an outpatient psychiatric program (basically the experience of being in the psych ward without having to sleep there). These were 8 hours each days of being locked in a facility doing different group sessions with different purposes until I got better. It was really rough. I get why I would need to tell people in that case, but when I’m not in that headspace, I don’t get why anyone needs to know. I remember a conversation I had with the friend who talked to my therapist. He basically said he’s responsible for me if I end my life. Like it’s on him basically. I never want to put anyone in that situation again.

So my question is: is it worth telling others when I’m going through a tough time with suicidal thoughts? Especially when I know I can get through it alone? I mean ultimately, if I can’t get through it alone, it’s best for no one to have known I was in that headspace before hand, right? So they don’t feel guilty if I go through with the thoughts.

I’m hoping for honest feedback. Also not sure if this is the best subreddit for this question. If there’s a better one, please let me know.


r/self • • 7h ago

I’m 30 and I regret all the opportunities I lost because I was too scared to take them.

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I’m 30M, I regret so many moments in my life where I could have done something, taken a chance, or put myself out there, but didn't.

I was always a shy kid. School bullying made it worse. Somewhere along the way, I developed this fear of being judged, embarrassed, or rejected.

In college, I wanted to participate in activities, make friends, and try new things. I love movies and drama, and I always wanted to participate in college plays.

But I never had the guts to audition or even approach the people organizing them.

I would watch other people do the things I wanted to do and convince myself that maybe I wasn't interested anyway.

But the truth was, I was interested. I was just scared.

And this happened in so many areas of my life. Opportunities came and went, and I kept holding myself back.

Now, at 30, I look back and feel this overwhelming sense of regret.

Not because I failed at something, but because I never even gave myself the chance to fail.

I know people will say I'm still young and it's never too late. And logically, I understand that.

But you cannot go back to college and participate in that drama competition. You cannot recreate those moments you missed because you were too afraid.

I wish someone had told me when I was younger that being embarrassed for five minutes is better than regretting something for the next fifteen years.

I wish I had been a little more bold, a little more reckless, and a little less concerned about what people thought of me.

I'm trying to change now. I want to take more risks and stop letting fear make decisions for me.

But sometimes I wonder how different my life would have been if I had just been a little more confident.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Do you have regrets about opportunities you missed because you were too shy or scared?

And if you managed to overcome this later in life, how did you do it?

I don't want to spend the next 30 years looking back at my life with the same regrets.


r/self • • 1h ago

I am a big cryer and I hate it!

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Like the title says I pretty much cry at everything. I cry when I’m frustrated, when something moves me, when I’m really excited, when I’m upset, etc. I absolutely cannot control it no matter how hard I try to and I just want to be able to have a hard conversation without tearing up. Does anyone else relate and what have you done to stop yourself from crying?


r/self • • 1h ago

Anyone else in their 30s feel like life is just passing them by?

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I'm 33 and honestly thought I'd have life a bit more figured out by now. I work as a delivery driver, don't have much of a social life, and sometimes feel like I'm living the same day over and over again. The last few years haven't been easy either. I had a serious accident in 2024, had to learn how to walk again, and I've since lost both my dad and stepdad.

Anyone else feel this way?


r/self • • 10h ago

i’m without my kidneys at 20

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What incentive is there not for me to undergo hospice? Since i’m not paying rent my mom is gonna kick me out on the 31st. I’m debating on giving my body to science or making her pay for my funeral to make her suffer a bit more


r/self • • 4h ago

I want to live far away from my family

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I feel so alone in my thoughts.

In three weeks, I’m moving to the other side of the world, and I’m honestly so excited to get away from my home country and my family.

It’s not that I hate my family, but I just don’t want them physically close to me. I’ll most likely stay in daily contact with them. However, now that I’m moving, I want to keep my life a little more private.

I’m 30. Single. No kids. I dream of meeting the love of my life and possibly having a family of my own someday. The thought of letting my parents meet my future children makes me feel sick, and I don’t know why.

I think I just want to have my own life, for myself? A life where I get to choose who I let into it. Traditions are one of the things I dislike most in life because they make me feel so trapped. Being far away from home gives me an incredible sense of freedom and independence, which is extremely important to me.

I’ve never heard anyone express thoughts like mine, which makes me feel incredibly alone and wonder if there’s something wrong with me.

Does anyone else relate to this?


r/self • • 31m ago

So used to not having money

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If I have any left over I have this urge to spend it, it's bad.

But yeah I have a lot of debt no savings, living check to check.

It's not that I can't save/pay things down I just waste money.

So yeah I'm trying to fix it but yeah hopefully that urge goes away where I'm like "Ooh I have money time to spend it".


r/self • • 21m ago

When you're never given a serious chance to say "no," some people and communities will force you in their most terrible, "yes."

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...meaning, some people will take pleasure in your obscurity. They'll defend their horrible decisions and immoral actions because "you didn't say no. You must have liked it." ...and you and your real relationships will suffer.


r/self • • 19h ago

I took a step to leave my addiction

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I am grossly addicted to doomscrolling, and it hit me like a truck two days ago where I was waiting for an elevator to come from 3rd floor to Ground floor and in those few moments, hardly a minute, I took my phone out, opened insta and started scrolling, not even consuming the entire content. That was my bubble burst moment that I am addicted, so I have deleted it, it's been 2 days, so far no relapse. I am feeling terribly bored the entire day tho, maybe that's a sign, I have picked up cyberpunk 2077 as my getaway from reality every day after work, if anyone has any other advice on tackling this, please let me know


r/self • • 4h ago

Do you look at words and think. This means nothing, random assigned meaning we happen to grow up with..

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Yeah, this is one of those, 'what is the meaning of life?' Things young stoners say. I am not a stoner but..

Letters, and words have random assigned meanings.. if you didn't know you would look at gibberish. Ancient language. Code is all gibberish til you can find the rosetta stone.. one day it'll all be gibberish again. There might be a new English, like with old english. Or everyone moves on to using a different language we don't know about yet.. but thats not doom and gloom, general internet theme so, we'll prob all die before then to stay topical .

Yeah, well never know the first language spoken. Yeah, well never know the first Sound people made in object association. And Yeah, we might never know the Official first language written.. so far its sumarian but there could've been something else that used material the disinterested rather than tablets..

Also, different words, or the Same word meaning different things. Tablet, is a pill, an iPad, or a stone rectangle.. orange is a fruit, And color ? we really couldn't make uo any other word. Tablet had to be pill And stone rectangle. Kind of like Canada has two football teams called the rough riders.. there wasn't Any other combo ? Really? Though on the other side.. there are so many words most average speakers don't know half of them. Like Effervescence. Or ineffable . Most words, You, in fluency. Dont Know

So I get it, reusing words. Still pisses me off though. And through, though, throughout, trough.. thats a combo that's been said. But really shows how words have random meaning where That, doesn't sound similar. At all

Also, Apparently if you don't learn language by 7, your brain has trouble processing the concept.. I know there was one situation where someone was found apparently raised alone on the woods 300 y or so ago.. they got Some basic words but once they were found as an adult. Was never able to fully grasp language.. as well prob some other horrifying studies

Medical Science is also the conglomeration of horrifying acts that eventually benefited society.. no one really talks about that.. science in general is mostly, well see if that does something.. Oh it did. It killed it, or exploded ..

Anything that has a set pattern or specific way of doing something is weird. Especially medical, because people are so complicated we prob haven't figured out Half the ways to cure, or heal most things even though we moved from using coal tar as a asthma medication to gene therapy in a decade, theres prob things Now people would think barbaric not too long from now.. you used to do what?? Cut people Open?? You just get a shot now.. What?? Shots used to be Needles !?


r/self • • 1h ago

I’m so afraid for my safety. idk i need help

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I just want friends to talk to. I want people to understand my suffering. I don’t want to pay rent or struggle anymore i just want friends i want to be loved


r/self • • 1h ago

Delivery

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When my great uncle was young - back in the 30s almost 100 years ago, things were... The same. The same you say?

Yes! They had refrigerators that used fresh ice cubes and it was delivered. Milk? Delivered. Coal for your furnace? Delivered.

I bet groceries are now being delivered just as much as 100 years ago, and I don't think it's a coincidence...


r/self • • 1h ago

I want to be masculine in the most feminine way possible

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I look at how other women dress then look at myself. I’m thicker, uglier, act or my mannerisms are more boyish, but I want to be feminine. I want to be skinny and dress the way others do, I want to have good looks to the point where it doesn’t matter how I dress.

But at the same time I want to be masculine, in the most feminine way possible, I feel uncomfortable trying to fit into something that doesn’t suit me, trying to be different when nobodies even paying attention to me to begin with. I want to dress like a guy sometimes, and not have to worry about the way I’m walking, standing, or sitting. I don’t act like a woman either, as sexist as that sounds, it’s really just my body language, I also have a pretty deep voice a lot of people online mistake me for a guy, so to add onto that I just feel out of place when I try to be feminine.

It all comes down to looks in my opinion, I really believe that if I had been more feminine looking and beautiful, I wouldn’t have a problem dating both women and men or dressing however I want, instead of fearing that I look like someone who doesn’t like men at all, and trying to uncomfortably prove that I do by talking about them.

I mean believe it or not I don’t think the words ‘they’re so hot’ have never came out of my mouth. A little of topic but I find men attractive but not enough to say it out loud because in a way it feels depressing you know? I don’t get romantic attention so to speak in that way feels uncomfortable like it’s hard to believe it’ll ever happen, idk how to explain it. So I avoid doing it, like those words feel cringe coming for me. I also find some women attractive as well, but it’s the same thing with men and to add onto this I just don’t want to be seen that way with my appearance. (There’s nothing wrong with being gay either, just to clarify).

If I was attractive I also wouldn’t have a problem with people looking at me like I’m trying to be too masculine or something, or trying to define me just because I don’t look feminine enough to fit those standards you need because it looks like your trying to be a certain way. Like I want to be pretty and handsome but still be seen as a woman.

And if I were people wouldn’t care, that’s the privilege of beauty, you can act how ever you want, dress however you want, date whoever you want, and at the end of the day nothing else matters because your beautiful and that’s all they see.

Also I get that something’s may sound a bit rude, but that wasn’t my intention and I’m sorry if it did.


r/self • • 2h ago

First car

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Recently moved out and still don’t have a car, ik that’s bad but I’ve been js living off my friends giving me rides and my sibilings, I want a mustang gt 5.0 2017 but everyone has been saying I’m too young for it and that maintenance will cost me a lot, should I get it, it’s my dream car and I have enough to buy it rn, and if I should, is there any head ups I need??


r/self • • 5h ago

Many of my peers have done drugs at some point in their life and have gotten black out drunk but I haven't and it makes me feel like the odd one out

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I'm 21 and many of my peers younger or older have either done multiple drugs, or gotten so drunk that they ended up sleeping at god knows where, like a strangers house, on the street, some of them threw up on themselves etc etc now I drink a bit but not too much i know my limits and im not really a party person and it makes me feel like im the odd one out, it makes me feel like a boring weirdo that out of so many people im one of the exceptions, now it's am entertaining the idea of getting drunk at some point in the future, in a safe environment of course but under no circumstances do I plan on ever doing drugs, however sometimes I have passing thoughts of 'what if' just to have stories to tell like everyone else 😞😞


r/self • • 9h ago

Looking for advice.

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Good evening.

I made a comment a few weeks ago and one reply really stuck out to me: They said I was a narcissist.

I went and did a google search and it seems they are correct. I think I might be a vulnerable narcissist. But I wanted to see what others thought and even if this is the correct subreddit. I don't trust anyone but myself. Eventually everyone will hurt you so I don't let anyone in to protect myself.

I am the oldest of my siblings. I have always thought I was better than everyone else. That I was going to be great and succeed my peers.

Then it hit me. I am in my mid 30s. I have failed so many times. I am behind my peers. I literally have nothing. It's just me and my dog.

But I want money. I want power. I want to succeed. I hate being wrong. I hate being the butt of a joke. I can't stand being criticized. It makes me so angry. So angry that I am just average. I hate it so much that I can feel it burning inside my soul that I am just average and not good at anything.

Anyway, thanks for any feedback. I honestly have no idea where to go from here. I can't afford to see anyone for mental health but I would love to see what others think and how I can try and improve my thinking and accept that I am just like everyone else.


r/self • • 2h ago

I just need some kindness.

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Title. 26M, USA. Burner account after I nuked my old one. Ever since my 20’s started, it’s been one thing after another in my life. I had my immediate family outcast me and die, I lost my house to really terrible advice that I shouldn’t have listened to, moved in with said abusive piece of shit who ruined me financially and emotionally, went homeless, lived in a place that alienated me for so long, and I moved back to home more in debt than I ever have been. Trying university again, and while I know I can do it, I’m having trouble paying for it. If I can’t get into another university with better aid prospects or find an alternative path forward, that’s it. I’m back to being homeless and with nothing to my name again.

It all feels hopeless, and the worst part is that I don’t have anybody to lean on. I’m shouldering all of this myself. I can’t go crash on a couch, I can’t have somebody to cry on. I’m not loved (familial or platonically, to be clear) by anybody, really. I’m by myself.

I want to stop struggling and have something stable, for one. Obviously, I just want some stability to my life to plan my next moves. But you know what I want too? I just want love. Again, not the romantic type, the “I want to see you succeed” type. It’s really fucking hard being my own spokesperson, especially when I get really jealous of my peers for having families that actually care about them.

I just want someone to care about me, I guess.

(NOTE: I really, seriously do not want advice. No “join this, go do that” (unless you wanna suggest schools to send my FAFSA to, actually, I don’t care as much about that). And if you’re gonna call me stupid for going into university while poor, thank you but no. I’m trying to fix my life by doing something to actually move forward. That’s not fucking dumb. Also, I’m not begging for financial help. That’s not really the point.)


r/self • • 19h ago

What does it all mean?

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I am married with three girls. I work a professional job and my husband and I are financially secure. We live a pretty cookie cutter life. Every area of my life is simple and predictable , I don’t deviate from what society would say is normal. These experiences don’t show up anywhere else in my life which is why I have come to the conclusion that I’m not experiencing a psychiatric illness or episode.

It started in December of 2023, I was on 12 hour road trip back home from Christmas break. I had run out of podcasts and my brother had a book on audible I hadn’t listened to, so I started it. It was the 4 agreements by Miguel Ruiz. It was a short book but it struck something in me.
I started to question life. I became more open to secular beliefs.

At the time, our family had relocated and it was the first time I was going to stay home. The kids new school schedules were not conducive with working full time. In my newly found free time I started reading, something I’ve always enjoyed but never made the time for. I had a book a friend had given me years ago but I had never read it, as it wasn’t the type of book I read. It was just The Silva method of mind control. Really it was a guide to mediation and with my ADHD , it was something I had never tried. Uniterrupted time was something I had plenty of so, I practiced mediation. Every day I made time, within weeks I could drop into a deep meditative state within minutes. My mind was clearer , I was in full control of my emotions and It felt as if someone had sharpen my mind like a blade. I didn’t have to think before answering questions , the answers just came and I was able to verbalize them with precision. I enjoyed my mediation time so much that I had started mediating for two hours a day.

A short time after bringing this routine is when the dreams started. Now I have always dreamt , every night and I almost always remember them. They were never significant , dreams like everyone else but these were not that. I started dreaming in what I can only describe as 6 dimensional. It was more real than I sit here typing this. They made waking up in everyday life feel like I was living life through a sketch book. The dreams were vivid in color and everything had energy, there was never words exchanged verbally , it was all telepathic but with feelings behind the messages: there was no room to misinterpret , I even felt what I was thinking in the dreams but with the knowledge of why I was feeling that. Every night I went beautiful places, I swam under water with new ocean creatures I had never seen before, I flew over what looked like old Roman buildings but they were grand libraries. My deceased mother visited me in one but she was a hummingbird , flying at a standstill right infront of my face , carrying conversation with me. I loved going to sleep.

Then I was given the opportunity to go back to work full time. I had become bored at home and I desperately wanted human interaction so I jumped at the chance. Time no longer permitted me to mediate for 2 hours a day but I made time here and there. The dreams did not stop but they became sporadic. At work I had heard a co-worker talking about her crazy ( her words ) mother in law who thought she could speak to her spirit guides. She explained that her mother in law spoke to her spirit guides in her dreams. I was intrigued , so before bed that night I prayed my usual prayers and I asked that if I had a spirit guide, they would reach out to me. That night I had one my 6D dreams. There was an Indian man who was showing me a phone. When I looked down at the screen it was a message that I had blocked him from contact. He then was showing me an image of him putting mail in my mailbox but someone was then removing it. He told me he had to go to work and walked into an office where I followed. I looked around and he asked me his name , I told him I did not know his name and he told me I needed to call him by his name. Then poof … he disappeared and I awoke. I’m not going to go into my interpretation of these dreams as I have no idea if I’m correct or even if it matters. I knew the following day I wanted to know his name though. So the next night , I said my prayers and I simple asked him to tell me his name. Another 6D dream came, this time I was walking down a dirt road and trailing behind me were three dogs. They were protective , I could feel that. I turned back and looked at one of them when the it’s collar caught a ray of sun and gleaned “ OLLIE”. From this point on I called my spirit guide Ollie.

I did not dream of him again after this , even after prayers asking to. Life got busy and I pretty much stopped mediating all together. The dreams became scarce. A year later I had dreamt I was at a funeral and my husbands family was there but my husband was not , I could see the casket but not who was in it. I woke up concerned that maybe it was my husbands funeral. A couple days later we recieved a call from my sister-in-law, her husbands cancer had become aggressively terminal, they gave him weeks. We packed up our lives and we moved back home. My brother in law passed away in the winter months , my husband who had to finish a contract back where we lived was flying back and forth , leaving myself and the girls to live with his sister on a farm in the Midwest. My husband was there when he passed away but the ground was too frozen to bury him, my husband had to fly back and he missed the funeral. There I was , just like the dream. I also found myself jobless again. I was living with his widowed sister whom I really did not know well and I was besides my children, alone. I took care of the animals and tried to help her through this time, but I hated it. That sounds so selfish but I hated the Midwest , the cold , being a single mom , taking care of farm animals, I just wanted my old life back. I started mediating again. It helped me cope.

Then one day as I was mediating, something happened. An image , but a 6D image , again more real than this life. It projected from the space between my eyes right infront of my face. It projected out with a golden hue. It rotated 160 degrees and then 160 degrees the other way , so I never saw the back of it , if that makes sense. I am going to describe it but I don’t know what it was so I apologize if it makes no sense. It was most definitely copper , at least in color but it appeared to be copper metal. It looked like some sort of machine but there were not buttons or gears , just like smooth metal. It was the shape almost of cabinets? If you put one tall set of cabinets next to a shorts longer set. Like this —I but it had some kind of valve .. or tap. I was startled and that brought me out of my meditative state. I tried to meditate on it again and again but I never saw it after that.

Life got really bad , things were terrible. Details of it won’t make a difference in the story but I was in the low of my lows. I started to dream of things again and this time , those things started happening. Not exactly how I dreamt them but they were definitely happening. Just a few example , I dreamt my aunt had come to me and asked me to take her to a friends house, I drove her to a house on a hill with the lights on. A beautiful smiling woman came out to greet her. I could hear them laughing inside. I walked back up and told my aunt that it was getting dark and we needed to go , she smiled and said she was staying and I could leave. She passed away that week. I then dreamt of having dinner with an old friend and his wife and my husband. My husband and his wife had gotten into a heated argument about money and we all left upset. I woke up from that dream with a text from the previous night , my old friend reaching out for my husband number. He later asked him to join a business he was starting, we declined.

Strange things were happening , too many to name. In the midst of a crying session I’d recieve a text from an unknown number telling me everything was going to be okay. While in mediation I would feel this vibration, like I was on the inside of a gigantic bell that someone had just rang. My entire body , every cell would vibrate. Then one night, I started to think about my first dream of Ollie. Was I blocking him from messaging me? I gave permission. That night I said out loud that I gave permission for Ollie to reach out. I awoke around 3am to a voice , not male or female . An echoing announcing voice saying “ HELLO” the entire room filled with the smell of tumeric , ginger … Indian spices? I was sitting up , groggy , scanning the room , I saw nobody but I know what I heard . It woke me up. Maybe my sister in law was cooking I thought but then realized it’s the middle of the night and my sister in law has never cooked , certainly not Indian food in the middle of the night. I was frightened but then a wave of calm and Tranquility came over me and I laid back down and went to sleep. That’s the last time I heard or saw Ollie. So much has happened since then but nothing remarkable , until last night. Which is what has led me to tell a world of strangers the mental box of strange I’ve been keeping for the last four years.
I have questioned the Bible… not god but I like to read and I know much has been lost in translation as well as intentionally manipulated, last night I asked god in my prayers if I’m living the right way and if this god consciousness that I believe in is some sort of new age evil. I was asking if I should folllow the Bible to its word today or accept my own beliefs that I love god and Jesus and maybe the written word has been rewritten by men with something to gain. As soon as I fell asleep I began dreaming. I was walking up to my home , there was an exposed top water slide curving around like a lazy river into my pool. A neighbor has come over , I had never seen this boy before but I knew he was a neighbor. He brought his dog , his best friend. My dog had gotten loose and ran toward the neighbors dog , the two dogs were fighting , they had made their way into the water by this point , I yelled for my husband who walked over calmly but did not break them up. My neighbors dog because so Angry , it has turned on the boy , repeatedly biting his face. LUKE LUKE I screamed. But luke grabbed the dog by the neck and hugged him , while the dog was actively biting his face , he was hugging him with love and compassion and I understood that of course he wouldn’t let go , he loved this dog and this dog was provoked to be angry but did not have intention to hurt the boy. I knew that the boy understood this dogs intention was not to hurt him and he wasn’t angry but loved the dog the same before he had hurt him. I then woke up but the strangest thing happened. When I opened my eyes I was in my dark room but when I closed them , I couldn’t see my iris , every little slit like the under side of a mushroom but in the middle where I would see what blue sky and clouds , as I moved my head around my room with my eyes closed I was scanning the daytime sky, looking around and seeing different clouds but surrounded by my iris.

I know this was long and maybe nobody will read it and I had to get it out. What does it all mean.