Wings

[RLFaller]

I'm not really sure where to put this, so here I am.

In college, I had a friend who claimed to have wings, but only while in astral form. I just wanted to know what anyone thought about it. Does anyone else have wings? Or is it not possible? Can you feel yours, almost like a missing limb senstation? My friend claims that if you "walked through" them she could feel it, and then she'd be uncomfortable.

[Hamadryade]

Years back I had that problem. It was very disturbing, like I was always missing a whole set of muscles. Sitting back in a chair or couch was uncomfortable, like I was squashing them. But it has passed in the past few years. I don't have them anymore.

[Xentor]

I'm not really sure where to put this, so here I am.

In college, I had a friend who claimed to have wings, but only while in astral form. I just wanted to know what anyone thought about it. Does anyone else have wings? Or is it not possible? Can you feel yours, almost like a missing limb senstation? My friend claims that if you "walked through" them she could feel it, and then she'd be uncomfortable.

I use a visualisation of wings in my energy work. And yes, this is imprinted on my senses so thoroughly, that I do feel it when someone passes through what I consider the extent of those wings.

[sidhe]

Yes, I have the wing issue. I get periodic backaches where they would attach.

[Lunacie]

There was a thread around here somewhere (probably in Psychics and Sensitives) about someone who said they saw wings in a nurse's aura. So I guess it's possible, but I don't know why some people do and some people don't.

[~*Sacred*~]

That's interesting, I've never heard that before. I do remember my husband saying something that in one of the realms you depict yourself in whichever way you decide or something along those lines...

[Shawn Cameron]

I too have experienced this sensation and personally I attest it to the many many times I used to imagine myself as having wings as a child and feeling them… I never grew out of it.

Anyway I have one theory. The following paragraphs were pulled from this article by Raven Kaldera http://www.northernshamanism.org/soulmap.html it deals with the soul map in Northern Tradition Shamanism but it explains each part of the soul…

“Hame
(Old Norse ham, pronounced hahm; Old English hame or hama, pronounced originally hah-meh or hah-mah, and in modern English pronounced haim)
Your astral body. Not your aura; the part of you that lies within your physical body and is (sometimes) twin to it. Some people's hames are less like their physical bodies than you might think, and this can create discomfort. This position on the soul map shows, first, how harmoniously your hame works with your physical body, and second, how much control you have over it. If you are reading for someone who is not a practitioner of energy work or magic, default to the first definition. If they are someone who works with energy or magic, the second definition is very important, as blind and careless energy work can alter your hame in ways that can affect your physical health.
The hame is the part of your soul that can be shapeshifted into another form, with work and training. Shapeshifting your hame will not change your flesh into that shape - obviously, the flesh is a lot more solid - but over time, if you spend a lot of time in another shape, it will attempt to make slow changes. If the shapeshifting is actually something that it is possible for your body to change into, it will gradually start to work over time in small and subtle ways. On the other hand, if it's not something that the human body - or even your personal body - was built to become, then it can create problems and dysfunctions. For example, constantly becoming a hoofed being and then forgetting to (or being unable to) properly correct the bone structure afterwards can cause slow damage to the physical knee and ankle joints. Attempting to make a solid adult body taller or shorter can cause problems with the spine, and so forth. Shapeshifting isn't something to play with regularly unless you know what you're doing.“

[Torey]

I've heard of Therians and Otherkin having these 'phantom limb' sensations.

[RLFaller]

Thank you everyone for your responses. ^.^

[Terra Mater]

Not therian or otherkin, but I too had these problems for many years. Not related to my astral travel though, my astral form is oceanic since the astral realm appears to me as a vast ocean.