Strange Feeling

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Ever since I was a young boy I would sometimes get a strange forboading feeling. It would start with a feeling like I was getting very focused, then it would feel like my fingers and arms were swelling and grew heavy. Then my vision would narrow and it would feel like I was going to stay traped that way. I still ocasionaly feel that strange feeling and have always wondered what causes it.

Once and awhile something similar happens to me. Not much recently

Can you go into more detail on the foreboding feeling?

That's really weird because I get that too, except it's in my stomach & head. I never knew what caused it either and it's hard to explain. Foreboding kind of explains it, but I could never think of words to convey all of it.

Mhmm, yep, sense of impending doom.... wonder what causes it...

It feels like if you don't stop this feeling quickly, then you won't be able to. Almost like a trance that you will not wake up from.

I kind of wonder if it is possible that this could be related to more severe autisim that we have either broken out of or blocked.

I used to experience something similar from about as early as I could remember until my early teens. For me, it was probably related to an almost constant anxiety about everything. Perhaps I still feel it nowadays, but I associate it with some sort of panic reaction...not sure.

That sounds right. I have had similar episodes and learned recently that it's a form of panic attack.

Mine was also much more common as a child, though I still get it sometimes. But mine was never related to internal anxiety, even though I had a lot of internal anxiety. It was always caused by some external stimuli, a bad person or entity coming towards me or someone else.

sounds like an anxiety related thing, I have had it before where you feel the foreboding and everything almost slows down and becomes to big, I think its a state of panic that comes on that causes it.

I feel like if I concentrate on something very hard I can start to feel it. I have panic attacks and anxiety but this seems like something else

maybe its just an intense meditative state you get into through focusing on one thing, although you say its not like anxiety, I feel the same when something like you describe happens to me, I am told it is panic that causes it but maybe that's wrong.

I have experienced something very similar to the way you described that, from as far back as I can remember until my later teen years, at least a few times a week, if not daily, it would happen randomly....except I wouldn't use the word "foreboding", implying that something bad is about to happen, to describe what I experienced, though I can see how someone might describe it as such.


It was like "spacing out" or day dreaming, but much more immersive. I would become focused on something, but usually just staring off into space, not looking at anything in particular, with a blank mind/no thoughts. My body would often get a heavy feeling, like you described, but I could also describe the sensation as "floating" or a weightless almost out of body like feeling, it was a peculiar feeling. My vision, and point of observation in general, would narrow.

Ultimately it felt like I was slipping into a deep trance of sorts, everything around me would be cut off or seem distant, I would become detached from what was happening around me. If someone would say my name or was trying to get my attention while this was happening, it would usually take a short while for me to snap out of it and respond.

When I would slip into this spaced out, trance like state of mind, I actually found it to be a comforting head space, calm and soothing in a way. That's why I don't use the word foreboding to explain what I was feeling. Not sure if it relates to what you're experiencing, your post just reminded me of that so I thought I'd comment. Maybe it is the same thing that has happened to you, and where I found comfort in it, you and others found it to be anxious or an apprehensive feeling.



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