I’ve spent the day in Harrogate at a meeting of the Northern group of The Monroe Institute UK. It’s been awesome. Finding a community of like minded people, who want to expand their consciousness and spirituality, has been such a joy and I was giddy for the entire 90 minute drive home.

There were discussions on liminal spaces, dream states, precognition, intuition, ‘ghosts’, energy, vibration, manifesting, consciousness after our body dies, soul connections, dark energies, spoon bending, kundalini awakenings, meditation, remote viewing and loads of other interesting topics. It’s the one place you can talk about all of this stuff without people looking at you like you’ve lost your grip on reality and possibly should be seeing a doctor 😉 But despite everyone else being as weird as me, I discovered today that I have (yet another) weirdness that nobody else does.

I’m already the only person at Wyrd, the IF Crowd or TMI northern group who has mirror-pain synaesthesia, but today I recounted an ability I had as a child thinking that other people would have had the same experience………only nobody did.

As a kid, I used to lie on my bed and shape shift the room. With my eyes open I could move the floor to the wall, the wall to the ceiling, the ceiling to the wall and the wall to the floor. I used to routinely play this as a game and had no clue other kids couldn’t do it. I grew out of the ability at puberty, hadn’t thought about it in years and today was the first time I’d ever told anyone about my shape shifting ability. But although nobody else had experienced this, one member of the group said that she’d heard of something similar and it was called Visual Reorientation Illusions. I came home and Googled!

VRI is a sensory phenomenon where your brain’s perception of ‘up’ and ‘down’ is instantly flipped, tilted or rotated by visual cues, despite the actual direction of gravity (according to Google at any rate). People with VRI experience a sudden visual flipping of their environment, either 90 or 180 degrees. Which sounds quite disorientating to say the least, but doesn’t really explain my own experience as a child.

Obviously the walls in my room didn’t move – it was a visual illusion – but one which I had full control over and could generate at will. I could also move the walls in any direction I chose. This seems to differ from the spontaneous experience of VRI and the 90 degree rotation on axis.

So I’m not sure what to call my shape shifting illusions during childhood, other than weird……..no change there 😂