Hello people!! Newbie here

[alexmorrisroe]

Hello people!! Newbie here

[Anthony Peake]

Hi Alex,

Great to see you on-board at last.

Interesting that you mention your week-long migraine in the same posting that you mention an on-going deja experience. As you will know from reading ITLAD neurologists have long linked these two states. Indeed as a sufferer of classic migraine myself I to experience deja sensations but usually as part of my pre-migraine aura.

On Monday I did a lecture for the Wirral branch of the University of the Third Age (U3A) .... welcome to any U3Ars who are checking this FORUM out ..... I was amazed that on a such a cold, snow-bound day around 70 people turned up! At the end of the lecture one member of the audience chatted to me and he was interested on my "take" on classic migraine. Whilst discussing this another lady spoke to me about her on-going deja sensations. On discussing this with her I discovered that she to experienced migraine!

Finally, I am delighted to see that you saw somebody reading ITLAD on a bus. I have always wondered what I would do if I came across a similar circumstance. As I still have to pinch myself that I am now a "published writer" ( I still think that this is all a dream and I will wake up soon) I am sure that I would feel really odd and probably not say anything. But maybe that is not the case. a few months ago I was in Borders in Liverpool (Speke) and I saw a lady browsing through ITLAD. I tapped her on the shoulder and said "I wrote that" and walked away (probably because I felt awkward). I wonder what she made of that little encounter. Did she buy the book or not?

So great to have you with us. Please focus in on your deja sensations and please give us any feedback if they develop.

Best Wishes


Tony

[alexmorrisroe]

Thanks

Alex

[Hurlyburly]

Welcome Alex.

I'm too busy at work to say anything else right now, so you get what I mean by "Welcome Alex"

It goes on from there...

Enjoy your stay.

[A Dark Philosopher]

alexmorrisroe: Greetings Alex, I'm glad you finally joined us. Hope you find much of interest around these parts!

[strawberryfields]

Hi everyone! Another newbie here!

I discovered Anthony Peake a good....oh it must be.....a good eight days ago now!
Why did I pick up his book (The Daemon) in the library? I'd seen it before... a few times. Why now?
We had a recent death in the family (my mum-in-law) and it's at times like this, that I suppose we try and make some sense of it all... you know... life 'n' death.
Anthony's book has opended up a new area of thought for me. I read his book cover-to-cover in two days and have already re-read it. The chapter on Philip K Dick and his experience whilst listening to Strawberry Fields by the Beatles was engrossing. It's one of my favourite songs.
When I found the forum and started reading the topics I thought I'd like to join. What name to choose?? I thought - maybe 'Strawberry Fields'... with a nice picture of a strawberry as my avatar.......nope....too cheesy!!
Within a half hour of thinking about this my son-in-law arrived at my home telling me about the (minor) car accident he had had the night before. Whilst driving home from work he slid off the road on black ice, down an embankment. Fortunately he's OK - just a sore shoulder. "Where was the accident?" I enquired. "Just outside Gisburn - opposite a place called Strawberry Fields"!
So I thought I'd join the forum! See what I can share and what I can learn.
I experience deja vu. I've had migraines for 36 years (more on that - and the 'cure' I found in another posting) I look forward to meeting Anthony at Whitefield Library tomorrow night...barring blizzards!!

[A Dark Philosopher]

Hello strawberryfields, and welcome. Give my regards to Whitefield, I spent a LOT of my twenties there as my best friend Emma lived there. Ah memories.

[Anthony Peake]

Hi Strawberryfields,

Great to have you involved. I am really looking forward to my talk at Whitefields tomorrow evening. I hope that the weather doesn't put too many people off attending.

The day after my lecture in New York in August I took myself up to Central Park to make a little pilgrimage to "Strawberry Fields" in Central Park, just across the road from the Dakota. It felt like a little oasis of Merseyside in the Big Apple.

Your synchronicity is a fascinating one ..... but you will find that such things are almost common-place in the lives of the regulars on this FORUM .... but we never, ever, take them for granted.

I look forward to meeting you tomorrow. Do come over and introduce yourself ......

Tony