Damn, did I walk into some energy today?

So my wife and I were at a local ethnic festival in town (one thing our city is good at is celebrating diversity with ethnic festivals -- during the summer there's one practically every weekend). I wasn't really in the mood to go at all, but she was. So we hired a babysitter and went down to the lakefront.

Lots of things probably played into what happened to me tonight but I'll highlight the big stuff:

I've been listening to Alanis Morissette's newest CD, Flavors of Entanglement, a lot lately. If you haven't heard it, pick it up. My wife read the lyrics to it today and she commented that Alanis could practically be the LightWorker's poster child for music with the lyrics she wrote on this one. Anyway, the producers and musicians on the album have used a lot of electronic sounds and very deep bass rhythms that hit me right in my soul. That, along with the aforementioned lyrics (check out Citizen Of The Planet to start with) really sent me buzzing cuz I was listening to it before I went to bed last night, and when I did get into bed my wife said she felt a big energy coming off of me. So, because I wanted to share with her what it was all about, I was playing the CD again in the car for her on the way down to this festival, all cranked-up with bass vibrations that were shaking the car, man, it was sweet.

So, we get to the festival and right off the bat I'm feeling and perceiving what I called 'chaos'. I didn't know if it was coming from me, or the people, or the event, or the music (it was a Mexican-themed festival, so a lot of the music had brass instruments and accordions -- two sounds that I really don't care for much when they're SEPARATE).

I really wasn't in a good mood the whole time, and my wife knew it. The food was good, but that was about the only thing that I was enjoying up to that point. We have a much bigger festival in town called Summerfest, and it's 10 days of all kinds of music, food, drink, etc. etc., to start off the summer festivities in town in late June/early July. Summerfest usually pulls in at least 1 million people during it's run, or roughly 100,000 people per day. That's quite a crowd. Now, these ethnic festivals don't pull in quite as many people, but they still do pretty well. Even so, man, today it felt like the crowds were much less navigable to walk through than at Summerfest! People were cutting in front of you without a care or just dead-stopping in front of you...like I said before, chaos.

And THEN, we're walking along one particular area, having to cut through a line of people standing in front of a vendor stand, and WHAM!!!! I just FELT this awful...I don't know what...horrible, sad, creepy feeling. I got a shiver all up and down my body, and shortly afterward I felt a bit light-headed.

Having been aware recently of my empathic curse, er, I mean 'trait', I just wanted to get away from all the people. I told my wife about it, and we sat down by some picnic benches close to the lakeshore. We talked about what it could be. Did I walk through a spirit or a guide of someone's? Was I picking up a psychic feeling from someone in that line? Was it just a moment when my empathic feelings got overloaded, since I was feeling 'buzzed up' the whole time we were out anyway? Then my wife said that maybe it was a portal or vortex. I didn't know, all I knew was that I wasn't feeling like I should be at that festival anymore. She told me to at least try to go back in that same area one more time to see if that feeling happened again. If it didn't, then it was probably from a person in line who was no longer there; if it did, perhaps it was something that was "physcially" in that spot, like a vortex.

So we walked back, and what happened was really strange. As I walked back through it (which was the opposite direction I walked through it in the first place), I felt myself calm down! My wife said she felt something weird, though, like something was now bugging her. After standing there for a few seconds and trying to experience the feeling (or feel the experience), I said "I gotta do that again". So I walked back through it one more time (in the original direction now), and I'll be damned if I didn't start feeling nasty again and light headed. My wife said she felt better now, which just helps to prove that she and I are total yin-yang to each other.

So, she thinks it's a portal rather than a vortex because of it's nature I've described. Either way, we left shortly afterward and I felt much more calmed down as we drove home.

Any other ideas? Is she right? Is it something different? For once, I'm not gonna just say it's my imagination. I really think that some things happened to (I'll use the term again) 'buzz me up' to perceive what I perceived. I think the big vibrations I was getting from the CD lately did something...I also think the piercing vibrations coming from the music at the festival could have helped trigger something else. I'm all over vibrations doing things to one's self, so I think that HAD to have something to do with it. Hence why I love listening to music so much, especially songs that have what I like to call a "power" to them -- big sounds, deep vibes, a nice blend of things that hit my mind and heart and soul.

So any thoughts? I'd love to hear some other ideas, or validations on the ideas I've already presented.

Thanks,
Bill