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Bryan

1. The importance of recognizing what our best working conditions are to do our best work – no matter what the work is, and

2. To get help and support in whatever style we require with ADD/ADHD to make the shift and identify our “ideal” job or career while we are young – and it is never too late. With this information, we can now visualize the work we are meant to do, and since thoughts become things, we are much more likely to achieve it.

There is a whole new world that opens up when we are able to see things from an entirely open and new perspective. No school will every teach this – well maybe as an elective, but even then it is not geared to those of us with ADD/ADHD. Being armed with a Roadmap allows us to identify with confidence who we are, what we have to offer an employer or in creating our own business, and does not require that we be a jack of all trades, unless we are multi-tasking what we do best. Without being armed with this information, we have little choice but to react to the demands of the workforce, rather than be proactive, confident and fulfilled. Those of us who are armed with this Roadmap are able to compete at a much higher level and have far greater opportunities to excel at what we do and compete for specific work – and often to create that work and write our own tickets with an employer – particularly those of us with ADD. Can yo imagine the passion that you have in doing the work you are doing now, Brian, available to everyone of us with ADD/ADHD? That is my mission.

In thirty years, I’ve experienced at least half a dozen things I absolutely cannot explain – but hundreds and hundreds of things that I can. In all that time, though, I’ve never encountered anything “intelligent.” Until proven otherwise, to me ghosts are residual energies embedded in walls that play like old recordings. Or free-floating energy that gets molded into poltergeist phenomena by the occasional teenager.

But there’s another source of seemingly paranormal phenomena, and maybe that’s what you experienced, if it wasn’t just a simple case of blowing things out of proportion. I think we (ADDers) all excel at that now and then.

ADD and sleep disorders often go together, or so I was told by my doctor. It makes sense. I’ve always been aware of hypnagogics and ‘pompics — the images we sometimes see between waking and sleeping – as well as excruciatingly aware of the paralysis of large muscles. (This awareness is feels like you can’t move or breathe and is often interpreted as “old hag syndrome.”

It seems so real. You can’t wake up but it doesn’t matter because you think you are awake, and you see and hear things that you believe are real, when they are, in fact, purely the stuff of dreams. My mother taught me about this stuff when I was little so I’ve had decades and decades of awareness; without her, I still might not have figured it out. That’s how real it feels when it’s happening.

As an adult, I had a “bogeyman” appear at my bedside repeatedly for several years, causing me to wake up screaming — I thought it was a living intruder and in the dream I would always decide that screaming was the best way to scare him off. It didn’t work; I just embarrassed myself. (I’m too macho to scream.)

It got bad enough that I finally took a month and learned how to lucid dream. Within days I “killed” the bogeyman in the dream and he never came back. (Though they often do. . . Just ask those kids who live on Elm Street:-))

ADD and ghosts go together. We like the excitement of a ghost story. What’s better than a creaky house, or a tale told ’round the campfire? Whether or not we sense things that “aren’t quite right” more easily than non-ADDs, I have no idea. I tend think not since it takes a quiet mind and usually a lot of focus to sit there and wait for an alleged ghost to do something.

I’d say you probably just had a dream brought on by those movies. Probably…