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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 13, 2003 5:43:27 GMT -5
ok, so in my pheremones thread in the leaky cauldron me and motley were discussing the fact we can detect things by smelling them, like people's moods adn what they've been up to, and all that sort of stuff, but how we don't have a real use for them in todays modern society.
then motley was saying how in older days we would have been made druids or something simliar because we had "powers" to read the world that surrounded us. i thought that being a druid sounded very cool, and so here we have it: the Gathering of the Druids.
this is basically a place where people who have strange talents that they can't really use professionally in real life can come and tell about ways they have used them, even if they don't make a significat difference to anything.
like today, i could smell that someone in our house was upset, but no-one was really showing it much. it ended up being my five year old baby brother Dylan. he was upset cos he didn't have any of his friends over to play with him and was stuck with Aidan, my seven year old brother, to play with. so to cheer him up i took him the park for a little while to play on the play equipment.
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Post by En on Jan 14, 2003 14:08:47 GMT -5
You and I talked about this once, right? The smell thing? Well, I'm not as keen as you are, but I could do another part of the job. I'm good with remembering histories, and medical information, and I'm all right with metaphysics. So, could I join too?
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 14, 2003 15:55:18 GMT -5
*grins*
of course you can join En!! i'd let you join anyway.
and yes, we did talk about this once. that was when i found out that trees and sylphs talk by smell.
i saved my room last night. i was going to bed, but as soon as i walked in my room it smelt funny, like different. at first i tried to ignore it, thinking it was from the pigeons on my balcony, but then i realised it wasn't bird smell. it ended up being my brother's pet bunny that runs loose in the house and had found it's way into my room somehow. and i saved my room cos if i hadn't smelt him and found him last night, then i would have woken up to lots of bunny poo in the morning.
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Post by Natz on Jan 14, 2003 16:36:16 GMT -5
Good thing that you found the bunny. When you think about it most of the animal world communicates with each other through listening and their sense of smell. And their natural instinct to survive in the wild. Do you think that if you could go back in time you would have liked to have been a druid?
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 14, 2003 16:42:35 GMT -5
yes, if i could go back in time i would have loved to have been a druid. ^_^ they got to wear white robes and look all mystical.
but if i went back in time i wouldn't have been allowed to be a druid cos women weren't allowed to become druids. stoopid sexist beliefs and views of days of old. at least now days it doesn't matter.
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Post by En on Jan 14, 2003 16:43:01 GMT -5
If I went back in time to pre-Christian Ireland, the only thing I COULD be would be a Druid. Hunting, housekeeping, war, farming, and the usual trades are all things I really stink at. On the other hand, I have an almost encyclopedic memory, and there's nothing more important to me than to tell stories and interpret them for use in life. And I am also the kind of person who scares people sometimes by knowing things about them, not that I think it's all that special, but they don't see how I knew so it freaks them out. So I'd be a druid by default
Plus, I'm one of those people who doesn't fit any of the usual gender molds, and most of us end up being shamans or druids or whatever just because we're not likely to settle down into a nice, normal hetero-nuclear family life.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 14, 2003 17:02:55 GMT -5
in pre-christian ireland, i probably would have been one of the scary women that their enemies talk of that went to battle.
but yeah, i love telling stories too. i tell my brothers whenever they are scared these stories about two flies called tony and joey. tony and joey are two flies that have just kinda attached themselfs to the family and go on adventures whenever the boys go somewhere or do something. last time i told them a story about them they went ice-skating in a tub of ice-cream and their wings got frozen from the cold adn they couldn't fly away. ;D
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Post by Rue on Jan 14, 2003 17:10:03 GMT -5
If I were in pre-christian Ireland I'd be one of those housewives that takes care of all the kids and the wounded soldiers, whether the soldiers be men or women. And then I'd fight if I had too, like if my shire were being taken away.
I don't have any special senses that I know of... I tend to adapt to people around me without even noticing it, switching to their sense of humor and things... and then I can flare my nostrils, which I always use to make fun of Gen because she can't. Plus I can flip my tongue completely upside down, just Gen can do that too. And she can do it to the left and the right.
But I don't have any special talents that help in interacting with people. I pick up subtle hints a lot, but only if I know the person really well.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 14, 2003 17:20:26 GMT -5
Rue, i dub the a druid!! ;D
being able to adapt to people is a very, very useful trait to have. it means you can fit in and be comfortable with pretty much anyone once the adaptation has been made.
and being able to flare your nostrils and flip your tongue is cool. i tease my sister with being able to flip my tongue cos she can't.
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Post by Rue on Jan 14, 2003 17:33:30 GMT -5
Sometimes I also think I'll hear someone calling my name. One time I was in a store, wandering off trying to find some clothes that I actually wanted to buy, and I heard my little sister call my name. I went and found her with my parents, and they were about to go find me so they could check out, but she hadn't called.
*shrugs* I just heard it a few minutes ago but I have no idea why. I'm listening to some music and I keep playing the song over and over again, trying to find a part that might sound like what I heard, but that's not it.
Gen can also only wink one eye. So I tease her with that too. And with being able to twist my arm so it's parallel with my shoulder blade. But that's more just having a really flexible arm for some reason, so it doesn't count.
But none of those are things druids do. Could I be sort of the maid that tags along? Recently I've really wanted to be a maid. Gen gets mad at me when she asks me to make her food without realizing it, and then I appear with it. But I wouldn't mind being a maid to you guys. And maybe I'll have some un-discovered talent that will surface.
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Post by KoNeko on Jan 16, 2003 12:31:16 GMT -5
In pre-Christian Ireland, I wouldn't be there because I'd be over in Ancient China, probably disguising myself as a guy to go to the Confucian Academy or Shaolin Temple.
Oooh, but I'd love to be a druid. And Rue, you can't be a maid. Ele's already dubbed thee a druid!
Speaking of heightened senses, I've got really good hearing. I can easily hear things that other people usually can't unless they concentrate on it, like a particular phone ring or a conversation going on at the next table. (I'm dropping no eaves, sir, honest! ;D) I think it's because I was well trained in hearing things when I was little, with music lessons and everything. Ironically, I'm currently deaf in one ear (ear infection ) but I can still pick up on little things. And I can hear animals communicate with each other when other people can't, like when my mice squeak or make mouse-related noises. And yeah, I do talk back to them.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 16, 2003 12:50:14 GMT -5
KoKo, thou art also dubbed a Druid. ;D
I don't have that heightened a sense of hearing, but occasioanlly I'll be able to hear more than usual. It's generally at night. I'll hear something and no-one else will.
KoKo, however, you can be our super ears.
Hey....maybe we should think of these things we have as super powers or something. ;D
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Post by KoNeko on Jan 17, 2003 5:27:27 GMT -5
Woohoo! Super ears! ;D Yeah, we can be a bunch of druids with super powers that we can use for good, not evil.
I had an audiology test and it turns out that I can hear more than 95% of the population. Oh, but my mum has selective hearing, so go figure.
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Post by Rue on Jan 17, 2003 5:57:37 GMT -5
But I'm not technically a druid, and even if I am... one druid can still be a maid to a bunch of other druids. Just like one doctor can heal many patients, and one waitress can waitress more than just one table.
Hmm... maybe I'm strange because I'm so normal. 20/20 eyesight and I'm pretty sure whatever the equivelant of that is in hearing. I rarely get sick (though right now my throat's really sore and my nose is like a volcano : (That's a funny way to describe a nose when it's stuffy but every once in a while it just explodes. I never thought of it like that before. )
Sometimes I've also had these dreams where something will happen, (hypothetical one) like one of the dogs will poop in the hallway, and everyone will argue about who cleans it up because Air's at her friends house. I'll wake up after just having that dream, and all day I'll be able to stick the dog outside, but I think that if she wants to go out, she'd ask. So I ignore it. And later on she poops in the family room. I had those dreams (not about that though ) about 4 times, and the "warning" or whatever was true for three of them.
(Yeah, I only got one hour of sleep. I'm completely acting like a 5 year-old, plus my throat and nose feel bad. Sorry if I gross you out talking about snot flying out of my nose or something. ;D )
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Jan 17, 2003 6:47:10 GMT -5
Hmmmm.....projectile cleasing of the nose.....that's the image I got anyway. I get weird images sometimes.
And those dreams are called prophetic dreams. They are realy cool cos they give you a sense of deja vu. ;D I get them alot with everyday stuff too, only it'll be someone saying something, or me splooshing myself as I wash the dishes.
And you are a Druid Rue, cos I say so. Resistance is futile. You are as gifted as all the rest of us.
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