I have become less sensitive since starting abilify so I wonder if it was just a bp thing or what too.

I definitely feel more sensitive to the spiritual world. I tell my doctors about the experiences I have and they say it is schizoaffective disorder. I still believe it is all real. Even though they put me on an anti psychotic, I still believe it.

my whole house shook the other day....i wish i wasnt alone so i could know if it really shook or not....my bed shakes sometimes too......

dead people or crazy people??? lol

I feel very sensitive and passionate about the spiritual world. I always know and feel God prasent in my life and I am very sensitive to the times He is touching my life. I also can "feel" other peoples emotions. I have known my whole life that having bipolar disorder causes me to be much more sensitive and passionate to things and people. When I see something in beauty, a flower, a sunrise, the ocean, I can feel the intensity of it. But I have never heard things or felt things, like shaking. The things I feel are emotions.

Spirituel world
What do you mean?
I expereance alot but please be more specific.

Schizoaffective disorder......

I asked my Pdoc about that the other day.Because I have seen and heaerd,and been involved in some phycic activities my whole life.
Mostly seeing spiritual entities ,and seeing the "true" faces of people...sort of a clear transposed overlay ,their "real" face overlay on to the world face they carry around.And for the most part,theses sightings have not been plesant...people don't HIDE nice faces...they HIDE evil or cruel faces.

Anyway ,I questianed him,on if I could be schizo affective.(because ,some of it seems to have faded away)

He gave me a definate NO.
He told me the meds ,certainly have a biological affect on my brain,which in turn affect any other "perceptive abilities"

Seeing and hearing things are part of a schizoaffective disorder.But that is not the main criteria.
Schizoaffective people are excentric and disordered in their commnivation abilities,they are disorganized with excentric behavioural and physical apperarances.They do not interact well ,in public environments(shy in school,or bullied as children).
Can't hold jobs,often speak to themselves,not being able to disern ,if a converstion is really happening,or if it's all in their heads.
My pdoc says in the phyciatric world there are people who most definately have experiences out side of the normal parameters of everyday life(He had a big long fancy phyiatric terminology for it...I forget what it was)These types of spritual experiences are "transsending experiences"
In other words,the person having them gains insights into the overall human condition ,seeing the univeriallity of all human experience.
They are transending enlightenments...

So ,I guess on how you experience or react to these experiences ,has a lot to do with your overall mental condition.

So ,if you have transending ,enlightening spiritual experiences...consider yor self lucky....gesh...at least one type of mental illness will bring us closer to God,or The Budda,or the Big Bang ...what ever you beieve in....I'm going for the transending and enlightening type......now I'll turn on the TV and watch FEARNET on TV..that aught to transend my fear!!!LOL!!

Yes I Do
Yes It Is
No You're Not

yes definatly

I call them snapshots. Not hallucinations. Just something that took place a long time ago. Sometimes images of people.

that's called memory super ;)

dancingd - couldn't have put it better *high five*

Not when its people Ive never seen or knew before.

I think people with BP are more sensitive to it. I am when I am manic, more so my guardian angels are around more to look after me. I do belive in the spirit realm. And can instantly not like someone just by looking at them. I can meet people and know them even though I have never met them before. I can go places that are familiar to me and have never been there before. I must say tho since being on meds Im not as sensitive to it now. :((

then halucinations....or, god has some problems with the firewalls ;) ...long story, i'll save it for another time

I get very spiritual when manic. My beliefs are a little strange to begin with but if I told pdoc I practice magic he'd probably send me to the loony bin.

Yes.I have met a few Bipolar people and we shared the experiences.I'd had hallucinations and stuff.That was fuck all really compared to what else occurred.

Our senses tell us whether it's real for us.
That scares people.
I had real experiences and I had to accept them then move on.