I am not into woo, total atheist, rational, evidence based, scientifically minded type of person normally.
Anyway about 10 years ago I was going through the hardest period of my life (had many hard times but that period was on another level) and I was unsurprisingly struggling mentally. My poor frazzled mind had had enough.
I remember one day hearing a voice talking to me (my voice and it was in my head not an auditory hallucination), calming me down, telling me how strong I was etc. I could picture a woman in white telling me this, looking like a goddess floating on a cloud but it was actually me looking bloody amazing and slim 😂. I was aware it was me talking to myself in my head so not hallucinating and not taking any drugs or drinking.
It was pretty profound and gave me a great sense of peace and calm. I also used to get these vibration like cold shivers going down the length of my body when I had a realisation about certain things (had a very abusive childhood, was working through it, and it was related to that). At first they felt painful then I started to welcome them like OK I was right about that then. Probably my brain processing stuff.
It was so weird looking back in it, I had the shivers for a few months afterwards but never the ‘goddess’ vision again. I was totally aware it was a manifestation of my poor mental health at the time. I’d kind of like to see her again though.
Has anyone else ever experienced anything similar? Obviously not going to ask friends in RL!