Hi Everyone!
I saw this in one of the other forums, but I wanted to both ask a question and post an experience.
First the question: has anyone else experienced odd animal behavior that accompanied their experience(s)?
As for the experience, in a nutshell I feel that my dog knows and actually participates in looking out for me. I know this sounds a little odd, but I definitely feel that he's tuned in to the whole experience. As soon as things start to kick in he runs to my side and presses himself close to me. Several times I have even felt a psychic connection: not like exchanging mental "words," but rather instantaneous empathy and understanding that goes both ways.
What's really interesting to me is that I read several other posts on the topic and several folks were positing that the reactions some have noticed from their dogs was a result of body language or somehow sensing a change in body chemistry. This would make sense to me except today my dog was outside. I'll spare you all the details -- I'm still integrating and am not totally sure what happened yet-- but it was a very heavy, somewhat scary experience. However, as soon as things began to calm down and I began to sense myself again, he started barking to be let in. I didn't have to get up because he opened the door with his paw and ran inside. He immediately took up a "guarding" stance and began to bark directly in the direction of where I sensed...something in the corner of the room. I soon began to feel a lot better and the "gloom" (dimness?) lifted from the room and everything seemed brighter. As the brightness returned he visibly relaxed and I got the distinct impression that he was "guiding" me back.
What really intrigues me about the whole experience is that he was outside behind a closed door and could not have sensed my body language or smelled anything changed about my body chemistry. But he knew. I have no doubt about that.
Anyhow, I thought the whole experience with my dog was fascinating. It seems to open up whole new realms of thinking about how reality is experienced by humans and animals and who knows what else.
Anyone else ever experience something like this?
I saw this in one of the other forums, but I wanted to both ask a question and post an experience.
First the question: has anyone else experienced odd animal behavior that accompanied their experience(s)?
As for the experience, in a nutshell I feel that my dog knows and actually participates in looking out for me. I know this sounds a little odd, but I definitely feel that he's tuned in to the whole experience. As soon as things start to kick in he runs to my side and presses himself close to me. Several times I have even felt a psychic connection: not like exchanging mental "words," but rather instantaneous empathy and understanding that goes both ways.
What's really interesting to me is that I read several other posts on the topic and several folks were positing that the reactions some have noticed from their dogs was a result of body language or somehow sensing a change in body chemistry. This would make sense to me except today my dog was outside. I'll spare you all the details -- I'm still integrating and am not totally sure what happened yet-- but it was a very heavy, somewhat scary experience. However, as soon as things began to calm down and I began to sense myself again, he started barking to be let in. I didn't have to get up because he opened the door with his paw and ran inside. He immediately took up a "guarding" stance and began to bark directly in the direction of where I sensed...something in the corner of the room. I soon began to feel a lot better and the "gloom" (dimness?) lifted from the room and everything seemed brighter. As the brightness returned he visibly relaxed and I got the distinct impression that he was "guiding" me back.
What really intrigues me about the whole experience is that he was outside behind a closed door and could not have sensed my body language or smelled anything changed about my body chemistry. But he knew. I have no doubt about that.
Anyhow, I thought the whole experience with my dog was fascinating. It seems to open up whole new realms of thinking about how reality is experienced by humans and animals and who knows what else.
Anyone else ever experience something like this?