Feeling Other's Emotions

I don't know if this is the same thing you are talking about but I also have had experiences were I come across total strangers and it doesn't happen with everyone but there are certain people that walk by me or stand next to me in line and they attract my attention.

Sometimes I feel this overwhelming love for them without knowing anything about them. The love is so strong that I feel like hugging them. Other times it's complete sadness and I do cry. Trying to hide my tears from everyone since I am in public.

The wonder of who these people are and why I feel for them is a question I long answers for.

Old buildings also cause me to feel emotion, certain smells in a building of wet wood or dampness. If anyone has any answers please let me know.

I could just feel emotions through comments and texts. If someone is mad at me and comments me somewhere, I feel they are mad, and I feel madder even if I was normal before.

dont know if this is the same thing but I will be walking and feel completely normal and some one will walk past and if there sad or in a depressed mood my eyes or face will feel like it is hot and I will start to tear up or feel as if I had just cried and this will leave me in a sad mood for the rest of the day is this what you guys feel or am I just imagining this

i can do basically the same thing. But I can control what I want and don't want to "feel". I could try to teach you how to control it but I need to know more.

This post is about a year old, but I Googled my experiences and found myself here.

I've noticed over the past few years that I have extremely strong emphatic links with people. Yet, I thought that empathy was the ability to feel others' emotions or pain when you know how bad they must feel. Yet I experience the emotions of other human beings without even knowing if they are actually exhibiting that particular feeling in the first place. I always discover when I ask that they were.

For example, my friend Annabel was reciting a speech during English class and messed the entire thing up. This is a girl who normally never gets embarrassed. Our teacher got upset with her and belittled her in front of the rest of us. Annabel showed no signs of being affected by my teacher's words, yet I was the one feeling the intense emotions of shyness and embarrassment.

Another time, my friend Lauren was sitting across the table from me at lunch, and before I even noticed her I started feeling sudden sadness like I wanted to cry. This was a completely bipolar shift in emotions as I had been ecstatic and joyous moments before. A couple minutes later I looked across from me and saw a tear fall down Lauren's face as she got up and ran to the bathroom.

This happens to me a lot and I don't know what it's about. It doesn't normally bother me; it helps me understand my peers/friends and help them cope through tough situations. It's a hard burden to bear sometimes as I have emotions of my own and it's hard to cope with them as well as others' and distinguish them apart from one another.

-- IrishGreen

i have the same issues. I'm trying to control it. Its not working so well. I get vibes too. A lot in buildings or pieces of property. Like I will get the sensation of sadness. When I was little, I would go to my grandpa's house. It was right on the river. Well, in the guest bathroom there was a coin toile seat. I know it sounds weird but there were acctual coins in the seat. But I was always afraid to go in there. I never knew why. Then when I was spending the night once I went to go to the bathroom and WOULD not stop crying. I barley got my foot to go through the door before I started balling. It was weird. 😕

Julio...no offense... But sounds the same as a regular empath, well at least to me.

i have the same gift how wierd but mine are stronger and more wierd I could feel thier emotions and thier vibes