"Pings" is ambigious and can mean a heck of alot of things to different people.
If I think funny thoughts, I imagine others might think it is like in a skype message. You know that ding that it makes when a message comes in.
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If you write more like Carrisa and Montalk you should be able to convey the sensations and feelings experienced. So much so, that your chosen word won't matter much and become uniquely refferential to just you.
You should have an idea of how to write your thoughts out in such a way that it conveys a common meaning despite the word you choose to call it.
Like for example, she uses the word "Ping" but then describes what a ping means to her. She uses the word "thwumpings" and "tunning fork" and goes into the nitty gritty of what that word is trying to describe as a sensation or side effect.
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If you just say "oh, I got pinged!" then without further descriptive content, the thought floats into my mind that you might have heard a toaster buzzer or a kitchen bell in your head.
That would convey and give the audience the wrong impression. It would make them think "Well, that doesn't happen to me, so I guess this person is crazy".
The same is true when you mentioned an electrical sensation that you felt. You didn't define it very much. Which gave me a (possibly) erroneous perception that you are having episodic seizures. Rather than perhas a more correct description of something more mundane like hearing a sound and feeling sensations of barely percievable static discharges and other odd things like skin level sensations like blobs of charged energy which makes your skin crawl or gives you goose bumps.
If you don't describe what the word is meant to describe in detail, to convey a meaning, then others may assume you are either crazy or they themselves may be crazy because their experience doesn't match yours.
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Carissa (sorry if I mispell your name as I barely get to see your screen name) in her article uses words that alone don't have any real definitive meaning. She uses descriptions of bodily sensations to give the people reading an accurate feel for what the words are meant to convey.
If you do the same, you'll be doing yourself a favor, A99.
I read her article to the end and I spotted quite a few common experiences both her and Montalk have had. I know of them because their descriptions conveyed the sensations behind the word.
If she didn't do that, then I wouldn't have known what she was refering to. In the absence of information, people use their imagination. Trust me when I say that peoples imagination can be rather unkind and unflattering.
People will normally assume you are nuts until they have a common base experience or prior knowledge.
What would Montalk or Carrisa think of me if I didn't describe what I experienced? Think about that....What would abductees think of one another stories if they didn't go through the same ordeals....
P.S. As I said before, beware of the unintended effects of the Black Sheep Syndrome.
Link: http://www.theoutpostforum.com/tof/s...ll=1#post12867