Am I An Empath? Medium? Both?

I always knew I was different. I always could sense other people's emotions. I knew when kids didn't like me. I would feel other's intense physical sensations (for example other children's cuts, stings, etc) and I thought I was just over sensitive. Since I was always told that. I didn't think I was "psychic" or anything out of the ordinary. I was afraid of the dark, slept with my parents often, etc.

When I was 6 or 7 I was sitting Indian style, very close, in front of the mirror on the back of my bedroom door. I stared at my face, studied my features, etc., I was trying to understand "what I was and why I was here". Telling myself "I'm not a boy, I'm a girl. I have red hair, not blonde, etc..." I began to go into a trance state- next thing I knew, I was hovering over my body, looking down at the top of my head, by body sitting Indian style in front of the mirror. I realized it was me. It felt normal for a few seconds- then I panicked. I felt a vibration throughout my body, then a cold "whoosh" like, "sucking" sensation and in a split second I was staring back at myself in the mirror. Back in my body.

I never told anyone. In fact I forgot about it. I didn't remember until I was 18.

When I was 18 is when it all started again. I had moved out of my parents house and in to an apartment. It was in a very old building almost 100 years old. One night I woke up to a "sleep paralysis" feeling throughout me. I couldn't move, couldn't scream, and felt a thick, heaviness througout my body and aura. There was also a tingling sensation. Then I saw a figure at the end of my bed. I remember it had a rose/purple glow and I couldn't tell if it was male or female. From then on, I would have many of these types of experiences. I have also had negative energies come into the room while I've been awake and while I've been asleep. I have found saying "I rebuke thee in the name of Jesus Chirst" to work instantly.

I can't see anything negative when I'm awake only feel it. It feels like dread, going down a roller coaster and thick sauna-like air. I have only seen negative energies in my dreams... I fight them the same way (with prayer) and I wake up screaming at them. The energy is still in the room when I wake up, and slowly dissapates.

As I've gotten older (29 now), my sensetivity and awareness has become stronger. I can ask for lost items, and basically be guided to what I'm looking for. I can't explain it, I just let it happen and I will walk toward the direction and find it or a thought will pop up in my mind and that's where it will be. I would always feel different energies around me... Such as cold breezes, goosbumps, tingling in certain parts or sides of my body, internal coldness, numbness, throbs, etc.

Lately, the past few years I've had amazing tingling and vibrations in my head, and other interesting sensations, throbs, pains, out of now where.

I also a few months saw my first "spirit" during the day. I was in my new house (it is new to me, but over 100 years old) & I was taking pictures of my newly refenished hardwood floors. I walked into my hallway, and a white "misty smoke thing" flew past me. I got three pictures of it. But it was the most amazing thing. It was a cold, strong breeze, that brought me extreme peace, excitement, happiness... An enerergy I've never expereinced before. It looked like smoke, but moved with purpose. It was clear like streams in certain parts and more opaque in others. Any one have any idea what this exactly was? My face turned into a massive grin, almost unintensionally when it went by. I flew into my spare room did a figure 8 and dissapeared around the corner.

I am still trying to understand what it was exactly and the tingling and other sensations I feel. Am I a medium? Am I an empath? I know someone is trying to communicate with me, but I don't really know what to do other than acknowledging they are there. I have "heard" them, but only a few times. I've heard "Hey Honey" when I walked in, "STEVE!" (name of my ex, we were together at the time), I had also heard telepathically "You can't block me out" during a sleep paralysis event.

There is another recent experience I'm still trying to figure out. It happened last week. I don't know what to make of it and I'm hoping someone can help me. I went to meet a male friend at the cemetery... (he lives near there and wanted to chat). I felt normal walking through it at first, (no vibrations or weird knowing sensations) other than the feeling of being watched. THEN when I finally found him and we went to sit on a bench (which was a the same plot of grass as quite a few graves), the instant I sat down, I got an INTENSE vibration/static electricity- from my waste to down to my toes. It wasn't the good-feeling tingling, sprinkle type vibrations I've had before... It wasn't the negative heavy feeling really either... It was hard-core intense vibration. Like when your foot falls asleep, times 100 (but not so much needle like- but BIG time vibrating). I felt like my legs and waste was pulsating at incredible speeds along with static electricity that felt like it expanded three inches from my body. It made me nervous, almost shake and want to cry. Does anyone have any idea what this means?

I have many more stories of experiences through the years, it's hard to put them all down. But I am really curious as the sensation I felt at the graveyard and the energy I saw in the hall. Has anyone had anything close to these experiences?:)

<3 Megan