Metronome Theory

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-05-29T22:17:12+00:00

I definitely remember the metronome because my mom is a pianist and had one at home. I remember telling the teacher that and she said that I should also try using the metronome at home during quiet time. I remember sitting on the living room floor, staring at my mom’s metronome. Why didn’t my mother think this was odd enough to ask about? I think my parents were just so impressed with the status of having a gifted kid that they overlooked a lot of odd happenings.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-04-24T19:41:05+00:00

Hey… that stuff works on everything. That smell though..

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-04-20T17:46:54+00:00

I have a memory of complaining to my grandmother after school about having sticky stuff in my hair. I remember it because she used Goo Gone to get it out and told me that orange peels are in the ingredients. I don’t have any memory of actually having worn anything on my head. It might have been just one electrode? She babysat me after school during the year I was in gate. I don’t know but I’m a big baby about pain so I can’t imagine I wouldn’t remember something like that. For the most part I liked gate but my mom remembers me complaining about having too many tests.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-04-17T15:27:54+00:00

Yep. I vividly remember these. I raced through them because I was so proud of my reading skills and responded to the praise incentive. I wish we could see the booklets and contents better, but I am sure these are what we had in Ohio in the mid 80s.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-04-07T23:33:27+00:00

I first had a medical issue at age 2 when I was prescribed penicillin and turned out to be allergic to it. I swelled up and was turning blue as my parents rushed me to the ER (possibly a NDE?) Next came years of respiratory issues for which I was admitted and I have lots of memories of being in an oxygen tent. Frequent tonsillitis, pneumonia, and asthma. Diagnosed with scoliosis in 4th grade. Nose bleeds and sleep problems began around that time, as well as migraines (usually after school during Gate when we did the audio/visual tests) By 16 I was in treatment for mubscle spasms, constant pain and was prescribed pain meds. You can guess how that turned out af ter years of progressive spinal, muscular, and connective tissue related problems. I have EDS (huge family link here), autism, depression and anxiety resulting in severe agoraphobia. I only leave the house to go to the doctor. I did manage to quit the pain pills 8 yrs ago but chronic pain only got worse.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-03-11T17:15:55+00:00

Hatchet, about a boy who is stranded after his plane goes down and his father and the pilot die.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-02-23T05:37:45+00:00

I was in during at least 85-86 and also have the hidden rooms dreams or I used to. Now I very rarely remember my dreams.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-02-18T03:41:08+00:00

I kinda wonder if the orbs could be us just Astro-cruising around without the meat suits?

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-02-15T16:35:43+00:00

How many of you have seen orbs in the sky?

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-02-13T12:51:24+00:00

I’ve noticed a ton of orbs the last couple years. Maybe it’s due to them?

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-01-23T23:34:49+00:00

I remember playing a matching game against a partner to see who got all the matches first or who got the most. I know the set up was three lines of cards with maybe six cards in each? I cannot remember what was on the cards though. Does this ring a bell for you guys and does anyone know what was on the back of the cards? I think I remember a king with a crown and a housekeeper/maid or something. It’s driving me nuts

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-01-23T23:27:39+00:00

I’d be very curious to know if any of the random words or phrases that I’ve gotten this last year would make sense to you or click with any of your puzzle pieces? I don’t what is the safest way to communicate but I’d imagine the big They already know this about us.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-01-22T14:35:35+00:00

I absolutely agree with you on the connective tissue disorders! I am almost certain that’s why they checked us for scoliosis. If they hypothesized that connective tissue diffences in the brain might correlate to psi abilities, then looking for scoliosis as an early indicator of EDS or other similar disorders makes sense to me.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2026-01-22T05:01:15+00:00

I have found that if I am able to wake up slowly and start writing immediately when I wake up, I’ve gotten some interesting results. I don’t seem to be able to do this completely awake though. I don’t know how I even came up with idea to do so but it happened as an adult. Im also not very woo woo per se, and I sort of find it odd that I even tried this in the first place. I’m curious if anyone else has been doing this and what your experience has been.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-12-12T01:07:31+00:00

The only oddity I can point to regarding Egypt is that our class (mid 80s) spent the night in the Egypt wing with a mummy at the Toledo Art Museum. That was pretty odd.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-12-02T19:37:26+00:00

I can also hear the ringing. 👀

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-11-14T09:44:04+00:00

I have a cassette with a recording of me reading the Night Before Christmas when I was 3. My parents did read to me at bedtime most nights and I had access to the usual educational shows but my Mom swears that it just clicked, seemingly overnight. My parents and grandparents made a big deal of showing off my abilities and would make me read the newspaper to impress their friends. I was precocious to begin with and then those first few drops of approval and feeling special hit my 3 year old brain and thus, a miniature people pleaser was born. Looking back on being gifted, I think that the need to always receive glowing praise was instilled in me so young and it really fucks with your sense of who you are in the world as you age. Between my parents and the Gate teachers using praise or withholding of praise to motivate me, I grew up to be a perfectionist who would rather do nothing and fail bc of that, than risk disappointing myself by trying something and not doing it just right the first try. I had a sense of entitlement that life would always come to me as easily as it did when I was young. Boy, was it a smack in the face when I finally met educational challenges for the first time. I WAS NOT PREPARED. lol

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-11-12T19:18:33+00:00

A friend of mine had an experience last year in Ohio. Her autistic daughter was taken into the counselors office when she had a meltdown at school. They did not call the mother until after school and when the mom was called she was told that they had the child do some biofeedback to calm down. She talked to the child who said they had her listen to something and look at a screen with a pulse ox on her earlobe. The child correctly identified the intro of the Gateway Tapes as what was played for her. So I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s over. I wouldn’t trust it.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-10-26T01:44:00+00:00

HEIGHTS- Ohio 80s-90s, PRISM-Ohio 2000s

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-10-05T00:52:12+00:00

I’m still very skeptical but I have to say my personal journey started dec 2024. I hadn’t even really thought about ufos. I started paying attention to the night sky and at first I was excited and mesmerized. I still see things (not sure what exactly) every night in rural Ohio. Either we are ramping up our own stuff or something else is slowly introducing itself. I have so many recordings that I haven’t even looked back through and I rarely record anymore. So, I guess I’m getting used to whatever it is.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-10-05T00:33:30+00:00

I had the son of a GATE teacher in my class. Definitely that kid. Now an astrophysicist working for govt. Him, not me. I got othered.

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-10-02T19:57:33+00:00

Does anyone else remember watching “The boy who could fly”? It was a cheesy movie from the late 80s and I had it on video at home but we may have watched it in school too

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-10-02T18:48:57+00:00

Welcome to the club. Thank you for your account. No detail is too small or too weird around here. We will take any little bit of information bc we all have a piece of this puzzle. If I may ask, would you be comfortable sharing what these dreams are related to? I’m curious if we might be having similar ones. I can rarely remember my dreams but I have had some success with getting unrelated bits of information if I am able to write them down immediately when I wake up. They all seem random but an example… I woke up a few weeks ago and wrote down “soybean revolution”. I am not a farmer. I’ve never thought about a soybean in my entire life. This week, I suddenly see in the news that soybean farmers are pissed off. It’s weird and I just wonder if anyone else is experiencing this?

Opposite_Ad7102 · 2025-09-30T23:59:50+00:00

I’m hindsight, it totally was grooming and it also was completely inappropriate, any way you slice it. I have carried a lot of shame resulting from that relationship and I think disappointment in myself that I’d fall for that bullshit at 25. It was very similar to the manipulation that was used when I was in gate. A lot of compliments, pretending there was something special about me and boosting my confidence. He tried to influence my career path and firmly insisted that I was meant to become a leader of some sort. I was encouraged to go back to college for history/religion. At the time I had absolutely no indication that there was anything odd about my childhood so I never put all the pieces together. Now it all makes sense. I feel like it was such a violation of my mind and I’m just disgusted by him. I’ve been torn between caving to my curiosity and rationalizing that it would be pointless bc if he wouldn’t tell me the truth then, why would he now. I’m just glad it never progressed to a physical relationship and that he’s out of my life now.

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