It’s one thing to learn about psychic gifts, and it’s a whole other thing to learn how your psychic gifts show up for you. I’m one of those people who had childhood experiences that were out of the norm and learned to shut down that side of me from an early age, so reintegrating my gifts has been a process.

I was having a conversation this evening about seeing a ghost deer in my house as a child. There are a couple of real-life traumas that may have played a part in this, including being in a car accident with a deer at a young age that I don’t consciously remember, and experiencing a deer being gutted in the basement of my home on our ping pong table. Wherever this apparition came from, I was scared to go out into the hallway at night because of this deer.

Cracking Open My Psychic Senses

Fast forward to becoming an adult. I purchased my grandparents’ home after they passed away and felt the presence of my grandfather, who had passed more recently. He would set things out in his workshop that I needed, I would feel like I was hearing communications in the white noise of my hair dryer, and most notably, it was the first time I smelled phantom smells.

I occupied my grandpa’s bedroom, so first thing in the morning, when I woke up and opened the bedroom door, I was greeted with the strong smell of toast. People used to ask me if my grandpa made toast a lot, to which I always answered… I have no idea! I just knew it was him. I do know that when my grandma passed away years before, my grandpa was left to cook his meals, probably for the first time in his life, and he did struggle with that.