From the dreams that I have read at DI and other sites, it's obvious that many people are in the process of some type of spiritual awakening. These people are often experiencing some unusual symptoms. Many of these symptoms are found in those who are undergoing a kundalini awakening.

For this reason, I am posting these signs and symptoms of such an awakening. This list, which is probably the best known list of such symptoms, is certainly not complete.  Nevertheless, it does give some of the more common symptoms. Even so, there will be some who are going through an awakening but have very few of these symptoms.

Quite often these symptoms will appear symbolically in our dreams.

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Source for the following: http://www.elcollie.com/st/symptoms.html

Many individuals whose Kundalini has been unexpectedly unleashed DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING, and the prevailing social ignorance about this multidimensional transformative process makes it hard to find medical or alternative health practitioners or spiritual advisors who recognize the symptoms, particularly when they are strongly physical. Many people know that the risen Kundalini flings open gates to all sorts of mystical, paranormal and magical vistas but few realize it can also dramatically impact the body. A large percentage of our old Shared Transformation newsletter subscribers reported long bouts of strange illness as well as radical mental, emotional, interpersonal, psychic, spiritual and lifestyle changes. Over and again we hear stories of frustrating, sometimes desperate visits to doctors, healers, counselors, etc. who neither understood nor were able to help with the myriad pains and problems catalyzed by raging Kundalini.


Click here http://www.elcollie.com/st/letters.html-- This letter is typical of the hundreds we receive from people struggling with strange symptoms and Kundalini illnesses:


The following are common manifestations of the risen Kundalini:

    * Muscle twitches, cramps or spasms.
       
    * Energy rushes or immense electricity circulating the body
       
    * Itching, vibrating, prickling, tingling, stinging or crawling sensations
       
    * Intense heat or cold
       
    * Involuntary bodily movements (occur more often during meditation, rest or sleep): jerking, tremors, shaking; feeling an inner force pushing one into postures or moving one's body in unusual ways.  (May be misdiagnosed as epilepsy, restless legs syndrome (RLS), or PLMD.)
       
    * Alterations in eating and sleeping patterns
       
    * Episodes of extreme hyperactivity or, conversely, overwhelming fatigue (some CFS victims are experiencing Kundalini awakening)
       
    * Intensified or diminished sexual desires
       
    * Headaches, pressures within the skull
       
    * Racing heartbeat, pains in the chest
       
    * Digestive system problems
       
    * Numbness or pain in the limbs (particularly the left foot and leg)
       
    * Pains and blockages anywhere; often in the back and neck (Many cases of FMS are Kundalini-related.)
       
    * Emotional outbursts; rapid mood shifts; seemingly unprovoked or excessive episodes of grief, fear, rage, depression
       
    * Spontaneous vocalizations (including laughing and weeping) -- are as unintentional and uncontrollable as hiccoughs
       
    * Hearing an inner sound or sounds, classically described as a flute, drum, waterfall, birds singing, bees buzzing but which may also sound like roaring, whooshing, or thunderous noises or like ringing in the ears.
       
    * Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating
       
    * Altered states of consciousness: heightened awareness; spontaneous trance states; mystical experiences (if the individual's prior belief system is too threatened by these, they can lead to bouts of psychosis or self-grandiosity)
       
    * Heat, strange activity, and/or blissful sensations in the head, particularly in the crown area.
       
    * Ecstasy, bliss and intervals of tremendous joy, love, peace and compassion
       
    * Psychic experiences: extrasensory perception; out-of-body experiences; pastlife memories; astral travel; direct awareness of auras and chakras; contact with spirit guides through inner voices, dreams or visions; healing powers
       
    * Increased creativity: new interests in self-expression and spiritual communication through music, art, poetry, etc.
       
    * Intensified understanding and sensitivity: insight into one's own essence; deeper understanding of spiritual truths; exquisite awareness of one's environment (including "vibes" from others)
       

    * Enlightenment experiences: direct Knowing of a more expansive reality; transcendent awareness

Some people have told us they find the concept of "Kundalini" foreign and prefer to simply call this their "awakening," which is fine with us. But for most who contact us, the Kundalini explanation provides an important framework with which to accept and work with their experiences. We each have a unique way of interpreting, honoring and describing our spiritual wisdom. I do not believe there is only one right way to know or express the truth. Far more important, I believe, is to have an open heart and to be faithful to our own path, wherever it may lead.

We have also been asked why we do not put more emphasis on union with the Divine and God-realization, which are very much central to spiritual awakening. Since everyone experiences and interprets their mystical experiences differently and very personally, to make sure no one will feel excluded, we just speak of "awakening consciousness" or "transcendent states" on the ST Web pages. In our Shared Transformation newsletter, individuals with variant religious beliefs are welcome to (and DO) tell about their experiences of this sort. Some speak of God, Christ, Goddess, the Holy One, Spirit, or simply a magnificent Whole in which we all partake.

Also, for some people, profound spiritual realizations do not occur until months or years after the other signs and symptoms. Individuals who are having experiences of an obvious spiritual nature are usually more able to integrate and benefit from the process, regardless of how they may label it. But those who experience what seems to be illness or weird psychic phenomena often are very alarmed until they understand that they are not sick or crazy. And even the enlightening and beautiful experiences can be so powerful that people doubt their sanity. This is why the information and validation we offer through Shared Transformation is so valuable.

Geehutch --

It is great that you are willing to be open about your experiences, to share & to help others.

You are a big help to many of us.

Thank You!

Lugus, thanks so much for posting this here.  I'd looked it up when you put it in one of your replies in a dreamer's topic & ended up forwarding it to my mother to read.

I have had quite a number of the symptoms listed.  (My comments are in purple.)  I deleted some of them because I don't get them much or there were outside explanations for them.




Geehutch, for quite literally YEARS (from the time I was about 3 or 4 to 12-ish), I had these horrible dreams that I was involved in a fire or fires.  The setting was always the same, but sometimes I'd do things a bit differently in them.  But the ending was always the same.  & once I reached the end, I'd be drenched in sweat & screaming or running into my parents' bedroom & sobbing my eyes out.  It's also the reason why I'm just terrified by the thought of uncontrolled fire.  These dreams were nightly, with only a couple nights' break every few months or so.


Well...Looking through all this, I guess I've been experiencing my kundalini awakening for years.  LOL...wow.

Thank you for the great information Lugus.  Geehutch recently sent me the link to something very similar and I have to admit, this is all very new to me.  She advised me to do plenty of research because my symptoms are showing signs of an awakening.  I've experienced signs since I was quite young, I always felt more sensitive than friends, hearing voices in the night, being drawn more towards animals, fascinated with the sky and with the spirit world.  So when I say this is all "new" I mean that I'm becoming more aware of deeper meanings and reasons.

All my life I've been a drifter, never satisfied with work, never fully comfortable with myself.  One of my famous quotes has been "Who am I" because I've never known.  I've always had this feeling that I'm not one person, I'm several.  Does that make sense!?  I've longed to find "myself" and even now after moving country, getting married and having two children, I still don't feel as though I've discovered the real "me".  In the past I have suffered tremendously because of this, but recently I wonder whether my path is lining up and I'm starting to see this in a more positive light.  Perhaps there is a deeper reason...

The other day I mentioned night voices I used to hear as a child.  They frightened me something awful but now I'm convinced I was already aware of some kind of force that was more powerful and much braver than myself.  Each night after getting into bed I would ask to be protected, I would go through the same speech in my mind, asking for my "protective night shield" asking to hear everything on the outside of the shield but that nothing on the outside could hear me, and then again with sight!  Now, this may sound crazy for some but I can assure you, at 10 years old you'll try anything to feel safe in the dark! 

I'll cut to the present day and describe some of the symptoms I've been having of late.  I'm sure that my dreams have been leading me in this direction.  If it weren't for this site I might not have paid such close attention and I've been following them (with lots of help), trusting that they would lead me somewhere.  They seem to have been dragging up and raking through the past, sending me scenes and images to decipher from the past and present, sometimes I meet people I don't know, sometimes they have been more like journeys, and others more like messages.

Over the Christmas period I made a couple of trips to the doctors.  For the past three years I've suffered with a fibrocystic condition but I haven't had symptoms for months.  It flared up for a couple of weeks and I got myself checked up to find that everything is fine.  I've had communication problems with my husbands side of the family which has made me question myself and beliefs (very upsetting), and low and behold I developed a nasty mucous cyst on my inside lip.  Only now that I've accepted and let go of their outbursts has the cyst decided to give me a break.  It's almost gone but it's been with me for weeks.  Oh, and interestingly on one of my visits to the docs I went dizzy in the waiting room.  My head feelt light and when I looked directly at different things around the waiting room (posters etc)I couldn't see them, I could see a line of colour instead, flickering multi colours!  When I told the doctor she said it was probably due to stress...

I've been finding it difficult to fall  to sleep at night, either drifting in and out of dreams every hour or so, or just not getting to sleep until 4/5am.  I've been aware of night presence, at first I put it down to fatigue, I ignored it.  Now I admit that these past three to four weeks, no sooner have I turned out the light do I sense people, maybe three who stand close to my bed.  They don't move, speak or make themselves known!  So, how do I know they are there!?  I don't know, I just sense.  Two stand by the left side of the bed - which is the way I always fall to sleep and one stands to the right.  If I absolutely had to give them a colour I'd say white.

Very recently I went to bed and experienced a huge wave of energy, like nothing I've ever felt before.  It was as though I was temporarily filled with selfworth and importance.  My whole chest was filled with energy and an intense feeling of love.  It lasted for about 15 minutes, for the first few I worried I was going to have some kind of horrible heart failure but I quickly realised and accepted that it was not going to hurt me.  It hasn't happened since but I've had mini versions. 

I've been falling to sleep on the settee in the afternoons, and I never do that!  I'll sleep for 10 very deep minutes and wake up feeling shattered with a racing pulse, but after a while I feel re energised.

Last night I didn't sleep until 4am and while I was laying there I was aware of somebody leaning over the bed with their face so close to mine.  I had the sheet pulled over my head but I didn't feel fear, I just told myself I was OK.  My hair felt static but I don't know if it really was, every few seconds it was as though another hair stood up on end.  At one point it felt as if somebody had placed a finger on the right side of my head, just above my eye.  The feeling was therapeutic, it felt as though my head was filled with love and peace, all through this point of very slight (almost not there at all), pressure.  That lasted a good 10 minutes.  I listened carefully and became aware of whispering but I'm not convinced about that yet, I suspect it was just my overactive mind.  If I had to tell you what I heard I would say it was my name and the word "Now"... but again, I'm really not convinced.

Every time I drifted off to sleep I would be woken sharply by a clicking noise, as though two small stones or pebbles were being knocked together.  I wondered if it might be magpie on the windowsill - but what bird would do that in the early morning hours!? 

So that's where I am, thank you for reading this far.  On a positive note, while I feel a tired, I feel positive that I'm heading in the right direction.  While I'm getting a handful of negative symptoms my skin is in tiptop condition and I seem to have kicked an eating disorder I've suffered since a friend died in 2007.   

Best wishes to you all,

Linzi

         

 

Thanks so much for the info & link Lugus!  The mudras definition matches what I experience during meditation.

Don't worry, Linzi, I hope you are doing fine. I have learned some more than when we just started that might be of help. I don't want to clutter you up any more than you already are, just wanted to share what has helped me and I've levelled out (emotionally and physically). And don't feel daft for telling spirits to leave you alone, we all need to laugh at ourselves sometimes, it is funny, I know the feeling well.
And Lugus, feel free to respond after me too. You probably know more than I.

The feeling between the shoulder blades: I don't know what you can do, but I have an idea (take it or leave it). That spot on your back up to the back of your neck is where my mentor tells us that spirit energy gathers and joins with your energy. It really is the very spot you talk about that he puts his hand on us to us assist bringing in our spirit guides so they can communicate with us. The pain you are talking about could be resistance on your part, but I'm not sure. Maybe you can ask your guide to back off and communicate another way, externally, like automatic writing or in dreams instead so you can feel better. See if that helps. It could also be that you are trying too hard. Trying to hard is part of what I wanted to share that I've learned.

I will put my experience here and you can take what you want from it. It applies to everyone starting out on a spiritual jouney/awakening.

I started out feeling very restless and unhappy in my present situation, I had most of the kundalini symptoms soon after. I learned what it was and read all the symptoms like you Linzi. Then what?
I fell into learning meditation and practicing kundalini meditations. Lots happened as you know.
And still I felt like crap. The next step is just to let go. Stop trying, live your life. You cannot force more to happen, it just happens in time. When I learned this, it was like a light came on inside me. It's what I needed to do. The advice a friend who is very spiritual told me, "Let go, let it all go, stop trying to get something or make something happen,(spiritually speeking), you cannot learn anything from trying, just be, BE." I found I had been trying too hard, I had missed the most important point of meditation!  Instead of just relaxing and just being the experiencer, and letting everything fall away from me, I had been stuck in my ego. I had been straining my brain so much, TRYING to concentrate during meditatin, TRYING to feel something, anything, and that is NOT the way. I was really pissed at her for saying this, as it made me feel such a fool, and I had wasted so much of my bloody time! The same goes for communicating with your spirit guide. Don't TRY, just let it happen, just be,BE, no ego, no TRYING, no straining your brain, no trying to see lights, or fogs, or anything, just let it happen, just observe, just experience. I think this is a buddist lesson or something. But it has changed everything. All the symptoms that were unpleasant just slipped away, well mostly. It helped anyway. When I learn more I shall post it. Sometimes in life it is better just to let things happen, that is why I'm hesitating to tell you what to do, and I don't want to come accross pushy, it just really worked, and I wanted to share.

I hope this didn't make you mad, but it did me at the time. I still am! So frustrating. Take it or leave it, it's just what worked for me, and it's really hard for me to put it into words. So I hope you get it. I hope I've communicated it clearly enough. If not, let me know and I'll try something else, maybe find a link that can explain it better.

No that's wonderful Gee, thank you.  I'm going to read your post a few times and let it sink in, I understand what you're saying and I'm glad you pointed out the resistant + trying too hard/ego phase.  I think that's probably where I'm at, plus I feel this need to understand, but I suspect I'm just wasting my time.  Let go Linzi, let go!

That's pretty reassuring about my back by the way!  It started a while ago now.  At first in my right shoulder, then to my left and now across the space between my shoulderblades.  It might even be moving down my spine now (it crossed my mind today), it seems to be gradually changing position - leads me to believe it's not something to bother the doctor with.  I didn't know whether to mention it but I'm glad I did, there's a reason for everything

The flashes of light actually wake me just as I'm drifting off, I'd rather just drift off lol!  Also muscle spasms (only in the night), in my arms and legs, or I'll cry out, not in pain I might add, just randomness!  I wonder how partners cope with their partners awakening !?  I mean, for a start you're trying to understand it yourself, without explaining to them that you're sharing the bedroom with other people 

Thank you again, feeling more reassured now and thinking good thoughts from the heart!

Linzi

Do you have a question related to kundalini? or is this just a dream. If it's just a dream, perhaps post it in the General dream interpretation forum, thanks. No worries.

ok i have a ton of questions, please forgive me if they sound skeptical, it's just that i'm new and i'm really just curious.

1) list of symptoms: are they...all required? just one? just some? they seem pretty varied to me, ie. they don't seem tied to any particular one cause, and could be easily caused by multiple things that are NOT kundalini. sorry, i tried going to wikipedia for this but i only got the yoga stuff. again, not being skeptical, just trying to understand.

2) i keep hearing of this "awakening". awakening how? to what? is it that people have been doing this throughout time, or is it this particular time that's triggering it? and what is it about NOW that's the trigger? could it simply be that we are more informed now (thnx to internet, globalization) than before? is it only certain people, or everyone/anyone?

3) explain the guides to me. are these real people or ghosts or...soemthing else?

sorry it's just i hear so many references to it in posts that i just want to understand more of it. i read the symptoms and they don't seem like they apply to me at all (except for the usual muscular twitching when i fall asleep and a few other things that i'd just as soon attribute to something else), but i'm still curious to learn more about it.

the only thing in my experience that i can equate to it is this intense sensation of "waiting for life to begin". don't get me wrong, i do a lot to live life, achieve my goals, etc, but i've always felt (more than ever lately) that i've gone as far as i can go by myself, and i just need the universe to catch up with me, which it should do eventually. but that doesn't sound like the stuff you guys are describing.

that makes more sense, not something I feel like I can relate to, per se, but still -- good to know....thanks!

I was the one that mentioned 22 and seeing it everywhere, sorry Linzi, apparently it's catching what ever's happening to me. Maybe I'll try to figure it out. Some one said something really good to me about 22 and I'll post it here when I find it.

I know this is a late post but i only just found this thread adn found it very interesting and thought to post a reply here anyway just incase some one sees it
I experience some of these symoptoms most days do i will list them here with reasons that I know

Muscle twitches ( I twich sometimes when i sit down on the PC or XBOX360

Energy rushes or immense electricity circulating the body ( I can feel this sometimes when Im determent to get something done or I can activate one by concentrating on my self)

Intense heat or cold ( I feel kinda sensetive to the heat)

Alterations in eating and sleeping patterns ( I seem to be able to eat more than normal)

Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating ( I am easly confused even when in the middle of something i forget what im doing)

dreams or visions ( One very weird vision)

exquisite awareness of one's environment ( I do not like certain areas of old buildings because i can feel the death that has taken place within them sometimes)

direct Knowing of a more expansive reality ( I have helped freinds feel better with knowledge that even I didnt know I had)

So you see that I feel very strange being me
And if anyone should see this and read my post
i would be happy if you could help me with what this all means
cheers 

Hi A.Itruth

Thank you for telling us about your experiences.

You may very well be going through some type of awakening.  The wide variety of symptoms and experiences of different people make it difficult (for me) to say exactly what is going on.

As Geehutch hinted, our visions can sometimes help us understand what is happening to us.  And, the same is true with our dreams.   

You might want to think about keeping a journal or log of your dreams, visions and various experiences.  I have been keeping such an electronic log since June 2004.  Although I keep it on my hard drive, I have a back-up on a thumb drive.