[/b]This is from my introduction in the coffee shop--I would also be intereested in hearing experiences with fire, air, and earth elementals that anyone would like to share, particulary regarding their appearance.

I'm hear now mostly to hear about others experience with elementals. I've always felt energy in nature, but I've made it my goal to learn how to distinguish between the different types of elementals, and to determine the differnece between the actual and the symbolic when I have what I call an "inner vision" (something that appears in my mind's eye while meditating with my eyes closed-not a vision superimposed on the physical world such as in a hallucination) For example, I had an inner vision yesterday while meditating by a brook--a beautiful, fluid, and prismatic substance wrapped itself around me and induced a feeling of affection, clarity, and lucidity. It was a brief vision, and while reflecting on it after the thought occurred to me that it was a water elemental. I hadn't been thinking about elementals while I was meditating, I was just outside to get away from my computer at work and to rejuvinate in the "negative ions" generated by the brook. I can't be certain it was a water elemental, it doesn't exactly match the description of an undine posted here in the section on elementals. It did seem alive and sentient somehow, but not in the way a human is, and it didn't even have a humanoid form. It just molded it's shape around me.

I'm looking forward to hearing how others perceive elementals. Anyone out there ever have a vision of a water spirit like mine? Any opinions on whether it was an actual undine or maybe something else?