How psychic are you?

[idgiehkt]

I would make this a poll but I don't know what the criteria would be because I am not that psychic. I sometimes know when the phone is going to ring and maybe even who it is, but that's it. Can you tell what is going to happen in the future? Talk to the dead? Are ghosts attracted to you? Can you help the police find missing persons? (I am a huge fan of psychic detectives on Court TV.) I have deja vu an awful lot, which is kind of creepy, but that is the closest thing to a 'paranormal' experience for me.

[Shine]

1. I knew you were going to ask that.

sorry, couldn't resist. :silly:

actually, I have all sorts of weird coincidences happen all the time.

:hi:

[idgiehkt]

2. roflmao!!!

that cracked me up, I wasn't expecting it. I didn't mention 'weird coincidences'. I definitely believe I have some of the best guardian angels around, but I can't take any personal credit for their handiwork, lol. I wish I was a little bit clairvoyant or something, that would be cool. :hi:

[pitohui]

3. i have some level of psychic ability

for instance i've encountered ghosts, it annoys me a little i think because i don't quite believe in it, but some things are in the realm of the unexplained

i would never bother the police about missing persons, if i got messages that detailed i would work on winning the lottery first and fund my own missing person charity or what have you, police have to go by evidence, when they go by "hunch" and "instinct" too often they fall back on innate stereotyping and prejudice, it's the nature of the human brain, a "hunch" usually feels no different than a prejudice IME so it's no easy job sorting these things out

i don't find the psychics who help detectives to be all that helpful from what i've known of it

[idgiehkt]

4. really?

I watch this show just about daily and it's always interesting to watch these hardened cops talk about becoming believers after they've been given clues by these psychics, who for some reason are almost always post-menopausal women. Most of the time on that show either the cops or the family have contacted a psychic after all other leads didn't pan out and they are desperate.

It's funny you are "annoyed" by ghosts; I am very frightened by the prospect of encountering a ghost and I don't think I would handle it well at all, so "annoyed" is not the word I would use. Were they ghosts of people you knew or just that were in the same location with you?

[pitohui]

22. just "ghosts" that were in the same location as me

i'm not sure they ever had physical bodies

[idgiehkt]

26. that's something I had not thought of

hmmm...I think it would be rotten to be trapped on earth in any non-physical form. When I'm done I want to split, I don't want to get trapped 'between the worlds' as occultists say.

[idgiehkt]

5. kicking

in case there are any daytime psychics around. I need help with lottery #'s. :)

[1monster]

10. Sorry, can't help you in winning the lottery. Most psychics will tell you that

using a psychic gift for personal gain will result in a loss of reliability of those gifts...

good luck in the lottery anyway.

[idgiehkt]

13. just kidding

but that is cool that there is a reason that they don't use it this way. I've always wondered about that.

[pitohui]

28. that is not the real reason, that's the excuse they give when they have no $$$

well my two cents and be warned, my view is not a popular one, but i just got sick of the excuses for why so many psychics are, to be blunt, so feckless

it disgusts me to see a psychic hitting me up for money -- if you want to promote spirit, you need to train and develop your abilities (if possible) or else get a real job and stop promoting yourself as a psychic when you can't really do anything useful with the special powers you claim

obviously i'm not talking about winning the lottery, but i've known a number of psychics who were unable to use their skills to find and hold any kind of decent job at all, some of them have even spent periods being homeless -- if you don't value yourself enough to use your skills to lift yourself out of poverty, i have to conclude either you've got a mental health issue or you don't actually have those skills


the psychic who is homeless and sleeping on my couch, and i've had it happen, is by definition somebody who is not a very good psychic == if you have extra abilities and knowledge, then use them to get ahead and develop respect instead of contempt for yourself, for your skills, for spirit


using your gift to change reality is the whole entire point of magic, if you can't use your gift to do anything useful to improve your life, you have no business calling yourself a witch, a psychic, a card reader, whatever

when psychics promote failure and even hold up failure as a goal, well, no wonder we never seem to get anywhere when we investigate the supernatural -- too much time spent making excuses, not enough time trying to figure out how to use the supposed ability

boo hoo, i'm so spiritual i can't help myself -- jeezus i got sick of that attitude and it's probably a major reason why i'm no longer active in the new age community

[idgiehkt]

31. that is thought-provoking

"when psychics promote failure and even hold up failure as a goal, well, no wonder we never seem to get anywhere when we investigate the supernatural -- too much time spent making excuses, not enough time trying to figure out how to use the supposed ability."

True. I wonder to what extent the govt has looked into this stuff and they probably have. I wonder if the LSD experiments they did on soldiers had anything to do with that. There was a homeless veteran that used to frequent the caffee where I worked and it was rumored he'd gone round the bend because of being part of that LSD experiment.




thanks for the response, it's nice to be discussing things besides 'nekkidness' and 'hawtness' and other inanity in here, in any event. :hi:

[1monster]

77. Hmmm. The few psychics I've known did not trade on their abilities. They

used them to help others as they could, but had regular jobs with pay checks.

In the early nineties, during Danny Rollings murder spree in Gainesville, FL, the one psychic who was a dear friend of mine told me of a vision she had of a man in the woods being responsible for the murders. She had a friend in a police force in Florida and told him about her vision. The police assumed that she meant some guy from Ohio who was at the time in prison and thus her vision was discounted.

I do remember getting a serious shiver down my spine when I heard that Rollings was found living in the woods...

While I don't have the time (to busy raising my family and trying to make a living) to hang around with the psychic community anymore, most of the ones I've been around in the past held productive jobs in the community and were not sleeping on someone else's couch.

But how does having psychic ability relate to having or keeping a job? Apples and oranges, methinks. (Or perhaps they told you they were psycho and you misunderstood? :evilgrin: )

[Zephyrbird]

51. I get asked for lottery numbers all the time.

You know what I say? "Well, hell, lady--if I could do that why should I give them to somebody else??"

I may be intuitive, but I'm not THAT stupid!!

Don't get me started on a lecture about chaos, either. It's extremely boring to anybody but me.

So there.

:7

Zeph

p.s. Oh, and good look with the lottery, also. If you win, don't forget your friends at DU--wink wink!

[idgiehkt]

52. if you are talking about chaos theory, feel free to lecture

I would love to hear about it. I love this stuff. :hi:

so true about the lottery and keeping the winning numbers to yourself. ;)

[Zephyrbird]

55. Oh no, oh no oh no.....

BWAAAAH!!!! I can't help myself!!

Okay, now, I won't argue with anybody else on my theories, and the naysayers are free to poop on me! I have a thick skin.

I had a discussion with an astrophysicist about why this works. She came to me out of curiosity, and distinctly with the idea of poo-pooing. After I told her she was a scientist and blah blah, our discussion went sort of like this (if you want details of how I work, ask--I find it too self-congratulatory to just blather about it).

We all know time doesn't exist. The past is our memory of it, the future our anticipation of it, so we're always in the now. From this point the future spreads out into a myriad of possibilities (supposedly unknowable) reflecting chaos. However, based on a person's past (which is how I tune in), it's possible to pick out of the chaos probability-based futures. Once focused in, it's possible to "see" how chaos will impact that person's future (I hear the screaming already!).

Does that deny the nature of chaos? Of course! But where in the universe is it written that a paradox cannot exist? I believe a person's "ability" rests with their level of comfort in dealing with such paradoxes. We have no control over the universe. We exist within it, we didn't create it except to the extent that we have observed it.

hee hee hee!! I hear lots of screaming!

:rofl:

Zeph

[idgiehkt]

58. that sounds like what Scott Adams was saying, at least the theory

although he believes we can affect it. Thanks for explaining that, it boggles the mind but it is fun to think about. :hi:

[idgiehkt]

59. I would love to know how you work

if you felt like sharing it.

I am boggling my mind with this right now:

"In mathematics and physics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that under specific conditions exhibit dynamics that are sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect). As a result of this sensitivity, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random, because of an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions. This happens even though these systems are deterministic in the sense that their future dynamics are well defined by their initial conditions, and with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

[Zephyrbird]

68. BWAAAAA!

That's almost exactly what she said! :rofl:

Yeah, that's why it works. She and I agreed on that, and then we came to this:


It isn't "psychic" ability, it's the ability to "perceive" that initial "chaotic" element, and then perceive the person's existence through it. Since time exists in a loop, their past, present and future exist at the same time and can be "read". That's what I do--it's an ability to perceive, not an ability to "fortune tell."

That's also why nobody can predict lotto numbers. To do so, you would have to perceive the past present and future of lotto balls in all their kabillion permutations and then choose the exact date and time. Coincidence. Those lucky bastards that win!

It's only my simple-minded theory, but I believe humans are evolving along these lines. And I kinda believe it's like musical ability. Just because you play chopsticks doesn't mean you can play Rachmaninoff, and just because you can play Rachmaninoff, doesn't mean you can play the tuba. Different skill levels exist just as in any other area.

A healthy dose of skepticism works wonders. A saying by Lao Tzu comes in handy: "He who talks knows not; he who knows talks not." I find the more a person brags about their "psychic" ability, the less they can do. AND, what makes me laugh is when they say "you're blocking me!" Hell, either it works or it doesn't, don't blame it on the person in front of you.

I have a money-back guarantee. In 20 years I've maybe given back three times.

I can't explain why it works, just that it does. But it was damn fun discussing it with an astrophysicist!

Zeph

[idgiehkt]

72. I really like that saying

that you quoted. Thanks for sharing all that, it always goes back to theories of space and time, doesn't it. Alot to think about, for sure. :hi:

[Mutley]

6. Not at all.

I sometimes get anxious for no reason, but that's probably the anxiety disorder. :P

[idgiehkt]

24. could be

I wonder if alot of us don't shut down things that we know or sense and attribute it to other things or something non-specific. I firmly believe that is what inspires phobias where there is not an initiating incident with the thing feared; if it develops as some non-specific fear I think it's because the person has transferred the fear surrounding a real event or memory onto something safer and they deal with the fear that way.

[SteppingRazor]

7. Not at all, and I think the whole thing's a load of bunk.

So there. :P

[idgiehkt]

15. you are not alone

I think it is all electricity.

[cobalt1999]

44. I'm glad someone said it.

Load of bunk is about right.

[idgiehkt]

46. I expected as much

but that is why the expression 'opinions are like hineyholes, everyone has one" was penned. :)

[MysticalChicken]

8. Every once in a while I can predict the next song on the radio.

It's weird because I'll think of the name of the song (or at the very least, the band) maybe two seconds before it starts. I'm usually right, too. But I can't try to think of it, it just has to "pop into my head."

[idgiehkt]

20. I think I've done that too

John Edward, the guy that used to have that tv show, would start singing along with songs that when the radio wasn't even on, and they would turn it on and it would be playing that song. There is no telling what our frequencies our minds are capable of picking up, hallucinogens can kind of mix things up and make people more receptive.

[Deep13]

9. There's no such thing.

There are only coincidences that people notice and attribute to prognostication while forgetting the loads of times that no coincidence happens. Throw the dice enough and the unlikely becomes inevitable.

[graywarrior]

11. I'm more intuitive than psychic, although I am psycho

[idgiehkt]

14. no you ain't

sanity in an insane world, that is what you are. I'm a stranger in a strange land...and very grateful not to understand it.

[graywarrior]

16. Two peas in a pod

[Kutjara]

12. I'm not psychic at all...

...because there's no such thing.

[Lucinda]

17. I have quite a lot

And absolutely no control over when anything happens. So its not too useful. :D

[idgiehkt]

18. hmmm

I feel kind of sorry for the psychics on that show Psychic Detectives because the stuff they pick up on in some of the murders in just horrendous. Don't know if I'd want to deal with that, but I know they have to experience that stuff to be helpful. :hi:

[skygazer]

19. I once had a dream about a guy I knew getting shot

This was in high school. He wasn't a close friend or anything (though he became one) but he was in my English class and rode my bus.

Anyway, I had this vivid dream in which I was walking through the woods and I came upon a cabin with the door open. I walked in and saw him. He'd been shot in the head and was dead.

I woke up in a cold "nightmare" sweat and noticed it was about 3:30 am. And the following day, a friend whose parents were on the EMT squad told me that this same guy had been shot in the head at about 3:30 am at a cabin in the woods. He didn't die, though.

I have absolutely NO explanation for that. I had some similar experiences when I was in my teens and early 20's, none anywhere close to being that dramatic. I keep an open mind but also a good level of skepticism. Honestly, even with that experience, I'm more skeptical than otherwise about the existence of truly psychic power.

I've certainly never experienced anything that would indicate any control over any possible psychic ability I may have possessed.

[idgiehkt]

23. wow

I'm really sorry that happened to your friend. Good grief. I'm speechless. :hug: :hug: :hug:

I am just glad he lived. I read about something similar happening to a photographer (this wasn't on the topic of psychic ability) but apparently a famous Japanese photographer friend of his was attacked and killed by a grizzly, somewhere in Alaska or maybe in Russia and they (the original photog and his wife) were camping elsewhere the same weekend, and he had a dream it happened to him at the same time it was actually happening to his friend. I'll never forget what he wrote, because he said that in the last part of the dream he was "wandering through Russia for three days, trying to find my way home". I read that ten years ago and it has stayed with me, because three days is how long some religions believe it takes the soul to leave the body.

And on one of the PD shows a woman drove off of a mountain road into a lake and the family finally enlisted a psychic to help her. She kept seeing the woman wandering around in an old deserted town with very old buildings. They family and police had no idea what her point of disappearance was, the psychic was the one that steered them to the lake (an opposite route from the one she usually took) and later the daughter did some research and found out that that lake was once an old mining town that had been flooded when the mines went empty, and many of the structures were still intact under the water. I find this stuff pretty fascinating.

[soleft]

21. I'm psychic about music and what's coming on TV

I'll think of a song I haven't heard in years, and within 24 hours I'll be in a store and it will be playing, or it will come on the radio. I'll also think of an old movie I haven't thought of in a while and usually it's on TV next time I check the listing.

[idgiehkt]

29. that is wild

I think the further the science of physics develops the closer it is going to lead us to understanding things like that.

[soleft]

34. Could be that me and programmers are tapped into to same waves

[idgiehkt]

39. if there is anything to it at all

then I believe it travels in waves just like radio waves or whatever, and we all have the ability to tune in, but only psychics allow themselves to pick up on it, or their ability is so strong it can't be suppressed.

[supernova]

25. Not very I don't think

I sometimes know when someone will call.

More often though, I get the feeling of deja vu.

[idgiehkt]

27. I have that all the time and it drives me nuts

You know who has an interesting theory about that is Scott Adams, the author of the Dilbert cartoon. He wrote a book called the Dilbert universe and he talked alot about using visualization to become one of the top cartoonists. It's very hard for me to explain his theory of how the universe and time and possibility works, because it's complicated, he believes someting like there are infinite possibilities accessible to us every second of the day, depending on how we focus our thoughts (it's really more about physics the way he explains it although my explanation sounds very 'new age') but anyway the way that he explains it kind of helped me to consider/understand why I have deja vu so much.

[pitohui]

30. you know scott adams is a good example of the question raised above

whatever we may think of his ideas, obviously he was able to use his abilities to better himself

[idgiehkt]

33. yes

his goal was to become the number one cartoonist in this country. His competitors were, I think in terms of popularity, Garfield and Bloom County. Berke Breathed retired and I can't remember, but I think he surpassed Garfield shortly thereafter. He was really into it, even went to see a psychic at the time, who read his aura and told him about a condition that he had that he hadn't disclosed to her. He applied a lot of concepts of physics to the discussion and he has the ability to do the calculations and understand them (I don't) so of course he had good grasp on a lot of the theory and was able to apply it personally, like superstring and singularities and that sort of thing. I think that superstring, if it's valid, which people disagree on, could lend itself toward explaining dejavu a little bit.

[supernova]

36. Oh, like you can "see" or

are aware of all the other posssible universes from yours?

[idgiehkt]

38. no

I'm not going to do it justice, needless to say, if I try to explain it but it was like he was saying that the future, meaning the immediate future, has infinite possibility, it's like a series of photographs of infinite potential circumstances and you by intent whether conscious of it or not snag the photo that is closest to what your thought processes dictate, but he comes at it from a perspective of physics. That book is a great read, it's kind of a biography, I read it over a decade ago. I just can't articulate his theory, but it sure worked for him. :hi:

edit: now I'm not sure if you were talking about the deja vu or Scott Adams but as far as dejavu goes I think part of superstring theory is that that the universe,time, matter, energy whatever, are strings that are folded over on each other so that time is basically an illusion. Of course I can't adequately articulate something I can't understand but it could possibly used to explain dejavu if one wanted to 'got there' :)

[CreekDog]

50. Some fundies believe the same thing, although w/ different context

Might surprise you.

Often called "name it and claim it" by detractors, it's where people visualize what they want and get it based on their faith in having that thing, believing that something they want will actually happen or come to them and that this power is given to them from Jesus. The power is demonstrated by Jesus (supposedly) telling Peter that if he had faith he could walk on water --I don't believe that is the point of that biblical story.

Nevertheless, the similarities of this belief and New Age visualing into existence the thing that you want are really stunning.

[idgiehkt]

54. yes, the whole "you create your reality" thing

which can be contorted into blaming the victim when things go bad. The difference between that and what Adams was saying in his book (and it's been a lonnnnnng time since I read it) is that he does not believe that you "create" these realities, he believes that they all exist simultaneously and that you can align yourself with the ones that are most positive for you. I usually run screaming in the other direction from 'create your reality' new age stuff but he explained it in a way that seemed viable. And at least for himself he proved it. But he used theories of physics rather than new age; I have known tons and tons of new agey, eastern religion influenced people who are incredibly phony and screwed up underneath the facade so I don't really truck with that whole mindset, I am as skeptical of it as I am of evangelicism or fundamentalism.

[supernova]

32. Rhine Research Center

http://www.rhine.org/index.htm

The Rhine Research Center is devoted to all things paranormal. They were attached to Duke in the beginning, but split with them over what was percieved as loopy "research" several decades ago.

[idgiehkt]

35. thanks for the link

I've never looked into the research of this kind of thing because I'm not sure it's possible to truly research something that can't be put into a controlled environment, or controlled at all. Plus with photoshop and similar technologies available just about any visual data can be manipulated, so no veracity can be attributed to it.

[Connonym]

37. only my bladder

it always has to go right before the phone rings.

[Deja Q]

40. I don't know, but I will ask you - were you thinking somebody might copycat your thread?

:rofl:

:hide:

[idgiehkt]

41. lol

no, I don't have that kind of psychic ability...even though that seems more like common sense. :hi:

[ashling]

42. I'm not psychic, but

I am telepathetic.

:rofl:

[idgiehkt]

85. I used to want to be telepathic so bad

I LOVED the "Witch Mountain" series of movies when I was a kid and I used to want to be like Tia so bad...I would have given anything to be able to communicate telepathically. Now I'm so farklempt at just people's actual behavior that I have no desire to know what they only wish they could do or say, lol.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Mountain#Future_film

[ashling]

87. You do realize that I am not telePATHic,

but telePATHETIC LOL
:eyes:

[idgiehkt]

88. I misread

I take people at face value so if someone says they are I want to hear their story. Like I said it was a childhood fantasy of mine but I have no desire to know what people think at this point, I can barely handle what they do alot of the time.

[JTG of the PRB]

43. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you with my amazing psychic powers.

Just sayin'.

[Nikia]

45. Probably above average

But I worry so much about things that I can't use it really to help in things that concern me the most. When my mind is less noisy though, I have shown some abilties.
I tell people to be careful in certain situations and address their concerns that I have seen in their mind, leaving them to wonder how I know. Other than that, I don't use my ability. I would never try to help police or subject myself to research. Stress interfers with it after all.

[idgiehkt]

48. I wonder if it gets better as you age...

the psychics on psychic detectives are almost always at least in their late fifties or sixties if not older, so I wonder if stress affects them less. I really don't think this kind of thing can be studied, though.

[Zephyrbird]

53. I don't know if it's BETTER, but....

It becomes much easier to control. Wax on, wax off!

Zeph

[RFKHumphreyObama]

47. Hmm..

He has been known to experience certain feelings/emotions when a loved one/relative is in trouble or has passed away. Often he can’t pinpoint the source of his feelings/emotions but he’s had it on quite a few occasions and they have coincided with incidences involving family members. He’s also experienced a few spirits during his time. My grandfather was also a bit like that. One day he was due to meet an expedition that was arriving by ship and he had a dream foreshadowing that the members of the expedition would be found dead. And that’s what happened due to an accident involving the ship

Me? Well I’m nowhere in the same league of either my grandfather or father. But I have had experiences that may or may not have been psychic –I can’t really tell because there isn’t enough evidence either way

In the months before my grandfather (yes, the same one mentioned above) passed away, I had this strong feeling he didn’t have much longer to live. This may or may not have been due to what I’d been told –that he had suffered a series of strokes in the past few years which had left him with some difficulty speaking or moving –but nevertheless the feeling was quite prevalent and I remember talking to my teacher about it at school about one or two months before my grandfather’s passing. I also developed what I think in retrospect was a strong desire to see my grandfather and grandmother (we lived in different countries and hadn’t seen each other for quite a few years) during the final months of his life whereas I don’t think I’d given it much thought in the preceding years. I had a dream one month before his death about going to visit him and my grandmother and then, on the night he passed away (but before it happened), I remember talking to my parents about how nice it would be to see them again.

Coincidence? Maybe and perhaps even probably. But my grandfather had been expressing exactly the same sentiments about seeing my sister and I when Dad had gone up to visit him the month before and my Dad had also got the impression that he knew that he didn’t have much longer to live. I find this interesting. And FWIW, I believe I had an encounter with his spirit when I did go to visit my grandmother that Christmas.

There have also been other events that have left me with questions. I had a feeling that something major and catastrophic was going to happen before 9/11 but I never could have imagined what it was or the magnitude or scale on which it happened –I think I probably thought it would be something like the Nairobi and Tanzania embassy bombings or the Iran hostage crisis. Then again I’m not sure whether it was psychic because I know various foreign policy and national security analysts had been predicting a terrorist attack and perhaps I just absorbed the information and developed that feeling.

I do have dreams about deceased relatives and sometimes I awake from those dreams feeling as though they were something more than a dream –it’s hard to convey if you haven’t felt it. One particular one I remember was where a loved one appeared in a dream and told me that he was fine and at peace. I woke up and realized it was a decade since he passed away and I had totally forgotten the anniversary. Coincidence? Perhaps. But the feeling I had when I woke up was really indescribable

Having said all of that and despite trying to keep an open mind, I do find myself skeptical of the professional pyschics you see on TV. Perhaps some have some genuine authenticity to them and I wouldn't want to dismiss them out of hand but I am very skeptical about some pyschics in particular

[idgiehkt]

49. thanks for sharing all of that

I haven't had any foreshadowing or dreams like that. I've had experiences with pets that have passed on but that is all. Some people believe that we have guardian angels that try to communicate these things to us, when something is going to go wrong, so that we will be protected. I try to take things as they come and have an open mind. I can't imagine shutting my mind down to the possibility of anything like that; what a boring state of existence.

One tv psychic that gets on my nerves immensely is Sylvia Brown. I don't know what her abilities are or if they are valid or what...I just don't like the question and answer sessions on Montel where people ask "when will I get married" and all that, and she always seems to know the answer. Sometimes people need to have their personal growth and not be given an answer, whether true or false, because it might affect them in a negative way. She is one I would really like to see win the lottery for all the clairvoyance she claims to have.

[Zephyrbird]

56. I'm hearing a "J", I'm hearing a "J".

Does that mean anything to anybody in the Lounge???

"I do find myself skeptical of the professional pyschics you see on TV"

There's a damn good reason why you think that way! Most of it on TV is bunk!!!!

I'm hearing a "J" and an "E", a J and an E!!!

:silly:

Zeph

[txwhitedove]

61. OMG, is it my grandfather?? His name was J.E.

:hi:

[Zephyrbird]

69. LMBFAO!!! n/t

.

[Frustratedlady]

95. I had a similar experience when my brother died of cancer in 1972.

Early the morning after the funeral, I felt the corner of the bed move as though someone was sitting down. I wasn't afraid, at all. The sky turned a bright pink, even though it was too early for the sun to be up and the window was on the west side...not the east. It was my brother. We talked for a bit and he told me he was OK, but he needed for me to tell his wife that his life insurance policy was in a certain box in the bedroom. His wife didn't even know he had that policy. Of course, she was grateful that I told her. She probably would have found it eventually, but was certainly puzzled about how I knew. I had never been in that room.

I have often had someone's name or face pop into my mind and it's the first time I've thought of them in years. Within 3 days, I see their obituary in the paper or am told they just died. I'm a believer.

Another thing that I had heard about those near death. That there are relatives and friends who have crossed before them who come back to help them in their journey. When my mil was dying, she said she'd had the nicest conversation with my grandmother, her husband and others. All those she mentioned had been dead for years and she had only met my grandmother 2 times over 25 years before. When my father was dying, he asked me to take him home. I told him I couldn't do that, as he was getting transfusions. He argued that I could...just catch the bus. So, I pretended to get on the bus. He "rode" along, looked all around, then closed his eyes and said it was OK...we could go back now. He died shortly after.

The day my husband died, he told me he couldn't believe all the people. I asked who he meant? He said, "Everyone...everyone is floating and sailing." as he stared out the window in amazement. I thought it was his medication, but the doctor said no, it was part of the process. That was early in the morning and he died at 6:00 pm.

[idgiehkt]

97. that is very similar to my mother's experience

When her mother died, she came to visit my mom (who was ten at the time) and she sat on the edge of the bed and told my mother not to worry, that everything was going to be okay. I am so sorry for the loss of your brother and your husband. :hug: :hug: :hug:

My grandmother also had these visitors in the last few weeks of her life. I could hear her in her bedroom just chatting away with them. She did not suffer dementia. She told me once when I walked in there that "Aunt Cory" a relative that was long passed away, possibly before I was born, had come to see her and they had talked all afternoon. She had these visitors regularly up til the last few days. Your post really touched my heart.

[NancyBreen]

104. When my brother died

he also sat on the bottom of my bed and told me not to be sad because my younger brother would "take care of me" and he was no longer suffering and was happy. I was 17 at the time and he was 21. When I was 20 I had several dreams about coworkers that came true - nothing more than every day things. One of my coworkers told me she had a strange dream and wanted me to interpret it for her. I proceded to tell her the dream she had before she could. From that day on, I was named the witch. It only lasted that one year and I am glad. It is pretty terrifying and I really don't want it to come back.

[idgiehkt]

105. I thought about this alot last night

and I really believe that rather than psychics being the only ones that have this perception it is possible that all of us have it. They may have it in greater amounts, but all of us may have it and the difference may be that most of us actively suppress it because we find it too intimidating to deal with. And our culture ascribes horrible stigma to it anyway, as if the actual occurrences weren't frightening enough.

I am very sorry for the loss of your brother. :hug: :hug: :hug:

[NancyBreen]

106. Thank you. His death was 50 years ago last February 21st

I agree with you we all have this ability or intuition but as the years go by we disregard it. Since I've gotten older and I'm retired and have less responsibilities, I do try to go with my first impression when making a decision and it seems to work out. I wish you wisdom in your quest and keep on searching for truth. You won't go wrong.

[idgiehkt]

107. oh you are so right about that first impression

the first intuition or the still small voice is so right, so much of the time. If I don't listen I usually end up regretting it. :hug:

[skyblue]

57. I deceive myself sometimes.

[Generic Brad]

60. I can predict what will happen if I post my strongest opinions in GD

It would not go well.

[Mike03]

62. I have twin sisters

and they have convinced me that psychic abilities exist. When they are separated by hundreds of miles, each one knows what the other experiencing--whether one is hot, cold, etc... It would take paragraphs to explain what I have seen, but one twin knows when the other is cold before the cold twin has told anyone she is cold. The psychic twin says "My sister is cold, she needs her coat," and then the cold twin calls and says, "I'm really cold here, please bring me my coat..."

When we were young and traveled on family vacations, I saw with my own eyes how they would have conversations in their sleep and their words made no sense to anyone but themselves. They conversed in gibberish, in their sleep, and ostensibly understood what they were saying to eachother.

I've been told I have psychic abilities, but I really don't. When I got deeply into meditation, I had experiences that I felt could have been psychic, but there's simply no way to verify that.

[idgiehkt]

64. that's amazing

and kind of chilling. wow. :hi:

[Mike03]

66. I know it sounds incredible

But I swear on my life it is true. And I'm a very skeptical person. There is something about twins that is just magical, and I am sort of jealous I can never be a part of what they experience.

[Pacifist Patriot]

63. I can't even tell what my twin is feeling/thinking. So I'm guessing not very.

[Mike03]

70. Please elaborate!

I'm fascinated by twins. When you were younger, did you have some connection with your twin?

I have no idea of your age, but I'm just curious if you can remember a time when there was some connection?

[Pacifist Patriot]

73. I'm 38. We were very close as children because...

we were army brats. When our family settled down in high school we drifted apart and pretty much couldn't stand one another until after college. Major competition and desire to differentiate. There were a handful of times we'd call each other to find out if we were all right, but our instincts were always off base. We actually live in the same neighborhood and are best friends now. Can't imagine my life without her. But she had an absolutely miserable day today. Good reason with a couple of serious situations but I never got any "vibes" or anything until I met up with her after work.

[Mike03]

76. Interesting

Is it possible that you are psychically closer than you know, and maybe because you have always been that way you don't tend to notice it as being unusual?

[MorningGlow]

65. I'm pretty psychic

I can do pretty accurate predictions, have had premonitions in dreams, and I have encountered ghosts quite frequently. I'm also an empath and so can feel what others are feeling. I'd probably be a better psychic if I spent more time on it because, like all talents, it can be improved upon with practice. Just label me a lazy witch!
:rofl:

[idgiehkt]

74. empath is a term that I've not heard before.

I am this way with animals, I key into things that alot of people don't notice as far as if they are sick or in pain or what have you. I am so scared of ghosts, I don't know how you handle running into them like that.

[txwhitedove]

67. Precognition through 'waking' dreams, and other stuff....

[idgiehkt]

75. waking dream...

that is another new term. Like you are suddenly switched into a different state that feels like a dream state?

[txwhitedove]

94. No switching states of mind, no trances. There are sleeping dreams

that become actual events. Then there are wide awake "snapshots", quick but encompass the whole picture, color, sights, sounds, smells. Since these are usually about other people, the events are not something I want to "make" happen. This is not something I talk about, but my family knows it is real.

[idgiehkt]

96. interesting

I've never had anything like that happen I don't think. I think it is an amazing gift. :hug:

[txwhitedove]

102. Thank you so much. It has amazed me, but it's not always good

'news' or positive precognition. One positive, was knowing my last grandchild was a boy. I bought blue for boy,
called him Zeke for months, even though the doctor said it was a girl, my daughter's friends said it was a girl
and all she received was pink girly clothes and toys. I was right by the doctor for the birth, whooping and
hollering with delight - a big boy! My Zeke. Coworkers got goosebumps the next day when they heard the baby was a boy.

[idgiehkt]

103. He is adorable

I would have loved to have seen the look on that doctor's face, lol. :)

[Clintonista2]

71. I swear to god I have an honest psychic ability:

I can tell within 5 seconds when the microwave is going to go off. I'm never, ever wrong. It doesn't matter if the microwave is going for 2 minutes or 20 minutes, I can always tell when it's about to go off.

[idgiehkt]

83. I have always had really good luck with guessing about time

i can usually guess the time it is without looking at a clock, most of the time within a couple of minutes. Not saying that is all 'guessing' my body just keeps track of it, I think it's involuntary

[amitten]

78. I dream about someone before they call me days later.

I'm talking about people I haven't heard from in months/years, or even people who have NEVER called me before at all (people I've only conversed with in person).

I'll wake up and think, "Hmm...why did I have a dream about so-and-so?", and then that day or days later they will call me out of the blue.

So people who think psychic vibes are B.S. are totally wrong. The dream/call thing is something my subconcious would have no reason whatever to conjure, and such random coincidences would never happen so frequently...in regard to the same thing over and over.

[idgiehkt]

84. yeah, I don't understand the skepticism

except that there are long traditions of grifters who've made their living convincing people they have abilities when it is really a scam; dishonesty can be found in any 'field' or whatever. I can't quite understand the skepticism of people when this stuff is being studied by scientists, some of the most complex and fascinating theories of physics have to do with wormholes, etc.



"In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is essentially a 'shortcut' through space and time. A wormhole has at least two mouths which are connected to a single throat. If the wormhole is traversable, matter can 'travel' from one mouth to the other by passing through the throat. While there is no observational evidence for wormholes, spacetimes containing wormholes are known to be valid solutions in general relativity.

The term wormhole was coined by the American theoretical physicist John Wheeler in 1957. However, the idea of wormholes was invented already in 1921 by the German mathematician Hermann Weyl in connection with his analysis of mass in terms of electromagnetic field energy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

There is the same skepticism about astrology; I find it odd that people are so reluctant to acknowledge that other celestial bodies might affect humans when the moon moves the tides, seems to influence women's menstrual cycles, and most people will say that human and animal behavior is affected on the night of the full moon. If the earth's gravity holds the moon in orbit and the sun's gravity does the same for our entire solar system, then it doesn't make sense to say that these planets affect large mass objects but have no effect on objects as small as human beings. I don't know why people don't accuse those who have seasonal affective disorder of being 'witches' of some sort, lol.

I think the knee-jerk skepticism is a product of the the judeo christian religions that overtook the more pagan and agrarian civilizations, and that same disdain for these ancient knowledges is present today; it's a learned behavior. It always boggles my mind how many people who claim to be atheist or scientific-minded will not even consider these things to be remotely possible, not because of any scientific belief but because of childhood religious teachings or the influence of Judeo-Christian prohibitions against occultism and "devil=worship". Pretty much every 'dark god' or devil figure I've ever encountered in mythology was really the prior god of a people who'd been overtaken by another culture and had their religion usurped and replaced by an official state one of the conquering culture, so therefore their traditions were cast in a negative light.

[amitten]

92. People are just closed-minded.

If they can't see it or understand it or imagine it, it must not exist.

As for me, I believe in science and I believe in the supernatural. I believe in everything imaginable, and everything beyond my imagination. Who am I to say what's real and what isn't? I'm not omniscient. But I guess some people fancy that they are...

[idgiehkt]

93. I think it's based in fear

like having to know how deep the water is before you dive in. Some investigation is necessary, but having to, or at least pretending you can, control all the variables all the time is a drag and makes for a boring intellectual existence. :hi:

[Maraya1969]

79. I learned the I Ching and have been practicing it for years. It is thousands

of years old, (or over a thousands I can't remember). I believe it works because of the theory that everything is happening at the same time.

Of course I don't think I'm that great at it. I use it a lot to try and help my animals because they can't talk. I've had good success with that.

[idgiehkt]

82. that sounds very interesting.

I need to check it out. It's really hard for me to get my head around the idea of percieving time that way because it doesn't explain physical aging (apoptosis), like how can a physical body be in several, or many, or infinite, different states at once...if I think about it too hard it just gets me frustrated. :hi:

[ashling]

80. No, but wantto hear about my psychosis?

I thought not :(

:rofl:

[BlueIris]

81. I would characterize myself as very intuitive.

And lately, my intuition has been pretty much dead on. Sorta. I'm sensitive to potential futures and have communicated with the dead (sort of; we don't "talk," it's more of a mental thing).

[idgiehkt]

86. wow

'potential futures' sounds more like the chaos theory we were talking about above. That is a really hard concept for me to understand. I haven't communicated with the dead, I am such a chicken when it comes to that thing. I have sensed the presence of pets of mine that have passed on, including one that passed on last week; I've had a couple of experiences with that. No people though.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

89. Not in the least. n/t

[Downtown Hound]

90. I'm psychic along the lines of this man here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfkZv5ayxY

[idgiehkt]

91. I love him

he is so intense, just a brilliant guy. I love the "Champagne" skits he did on SNL while talking to the camera. :)

[bridgit]

98. step into my portal and we'll discuss it...

[idgiehkt]

99. I'm so tired I had to look up 'portal' on wikipedia

which didn't help much
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal

meanwhile the cat is stealing my cheesecake... :) :hi:

ah...I picked the one I like best
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal

"A portal in fiction is a magical or technological doorway that connects two distant locations."

I have a recurring dream about a magic door only i can see that connetcs me to another hidden room or garden or place. I've been having this dream since I was a child and I'm always profoundly disappointed to wake up and realize it's not there.

[bridgit]

100. i was a spooky little girl, and was able to recognize 'portals' ever since one opened up...

in my bedroom, the flat, dictionary def of portal will be of little assist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Spirituality :hi:

[idgiehkt]

101. profound.

I can only imagine what that must have been like. I have an ex who had similar spiritual experiences when she was a child; I seem to have lost alot of my childhood somehow in the last decade; my memory has rearranged it so I can't access it for whatever reason, in any event if anything like that ever happened I don't remember it. Tonight i got an e-mail from my brother where he said that I taught him how to ride a bike; I was completely stunned as I have no memory whatever of that or of much of what he recalled. It's great that you are able to hold onto those things over time. :hug:

[MysticalChicken]

108. Okay, this is weird.

I love those School Scare Films (and pretty much everything else under Something Weird On Demand from the 50s and '60s which is meant for kids of that era) and the other night I watched something called "Penelope Changes her Mind," which was a fire-safety cartoon, and I'd never seen it before. Right before it started an image of Penelope came into my head, and in my imagination she had blond hair and pigtails. When the cartoon started, Penelope had blond hair and pigtails, and I was like "Holy crap!"

Then I watched "Dick Wakes Up," real-life this time, about a boy named Dick who was hit by a car and had to go to the hospital. I saw Dick in my head as being a tall, skinny boy, with light brown/sandy hair, in a crew cut, and for some reason he was wearing a plaid shirt. I saw that very clearly. So I started up the film and I saw a dark-haired boy whom I initially thought was Dick ("Aw, man, I got it wrong"), but that boy called to another boy with sandy hair (not in a crew cut though), who was tall and skinny and was wearing a plaid shirt, "Hey, Dick!". So I only got one thing wrong about Dick's appearance. I'd never seen that film either.

I can also pretty accurately guess what people look like solely by the sound of their voice.