What is your Sixth Sense?

[DirtDawg]

I get odd little bits of prescience sometimes.

Also (and this HAS to be selective attention, but it can still be kinda freaky) often I'll talk about something/do something/blog something etc. and have an echo of it happen shortly afterward.  Like, I'll have a conversation with a friend while watching TV and half an hour later what we were talking about shows up in whatever program we're watching.

I creepy as that seems, I think it happens often to some of us, which is why I brought up the topic again.

I have a tendency to "metaphorize" things that have great impact upon me and (BE DAMNED, but) then,  some part of the impossible metaphor does soon come to pass.




I also think of a saying my grandmother (truly a full life Christian) used. "Be very careful what you pray for, you might just get it."

My experience has lead me to take that wisdom to heart and expand upon it to include all the rotten things that we worry about. Do not worry about all the horrible things that CAN happen while you're dealing with all the things that HAVE happened.

[DirtDawg]

^ :lol:

I don't think I have a sixth sense. I have a sense of humour though. Maybe that counts.

That is truly a useful sense. Taking the common "five"  senses in some combination to find a way to laugh is indeed a strength.

[DirtDawg]

I have limited telepathy. And it's not really a sixth sense, but in the same way that some people claim gaydar, I from somewhere acquired multiplicity-dar.

... and yet, you seem to resist the common, boring call of hypocrisy, when you sense this multiplicity, possibly because you have accepted that people are not one-dimensional.

We are not linear.


I wish I had some telepathy. I have been accused of such, but it is only my constant re-thinking and "cause-effect" analysis which seems to give me a fore-thought on what can happen or what has motivated someone. When I am right, people think I have some telepathy or clairvoyance. It's not true, though. I just think too much and sometimes reason predicts for me.

[punkdrew]

Well, as my dad didn't use to say, "You know, son, those boogers aren't going to pick themselves." 

[Pyraxis]

I have limited telepathy. And it's not really a sixth sense, but in the same way that some people claim gaydar, I from somewhere acquired multiplicity-dar.

... and yet, you seem to resist the common, boring call of hypocrisy, when you sense this multiplicity, possibly because you have accepted that people are not one-dimensional.

We are not linear.

What would be the common, boring call of hypocrisy? I'm not even sure what you mean here. But I know it's a spectrum, same as autism - and yeah, even a spectrum's too simplistic because there are too many variables.

I wish I had some telepathy. I have been accused of such, but it is only my constant re-thinking and "cause-effect" analysis which seems to give me a fore-thought on what can happen or what has motivated someone. When I am right, people think I have some telepathy or clairvoyance. It's not true, though. I just think too much and sometimes reason predicts for me.

I'm only half convinced it's supernatural. It seems to operate in a similar way to what identical twins can do, where they're so much on the same wavelength that they can predict each other's responses well enough to shoot the odds to hell in games like the Prisoner's Dilemma. Only I pick my targets. I remember being about eight and at one of those science discovery centers with my father. They had a double-blind setup where you picked a digit between 1 and 9 and the other person had to guess it. I went through about four or five of his before getting one wrong, and even that last one was a 50-50 guess where I was sure it was one of two and just guessed wrong. Wish I could remember the exact number, it would be more statistically useful, but it was enough to impress him the mathematician.

T.O.M.?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[DirtDawg]

I have limited telepathy. And it's not really a sixth sense, but in the same way that some people claim gaydar, I from somewhere acquired multiplicity-dar.

... and yet, you seem to resist the common, boring call of hypocrisy, when you sense this multiplicity, possibly because you have accepted that people are not one-dimensional.

We are not linear.

What would be the common, boring call of hypocrisy? I'm not even sure what you mean here. But I know it's a spectrum, same as autism - and yeah, even a spectrum's too simplistic because there are too many variables.

I just mean that all too often the "common" or "vulgar"  thing to call someone is, "Hypocrite!"  and you seem to resist doing so. I don't think I've ever seen you call someone a hypocrite, unless maybe it was "C..." and you were trying draw something out of him, rather than shut him down.

I wish I had some telepathy. I have been accused of such, but it is only my constant re-thinking and "cause-effect" analysis which seems to give me a fore-thought on what can happen or what has motivated someone. When I am right, people think I have some telepathy or clairvoyance. It's not true, though. I just think too much and sometimes reason predicts for me.

I'm only half convinced it's supernatural. It seems to operate in a similar way to what identical twins can do, where they're so much on the same wavelength that they can predict each other's responses well enough to shoot the odds to hell in games like the Prisoner's Dilemma. Only I pick my targets. I remember being about eight and at one of those science discovery centers with my father. They had a double-blind setup where you picked a digit between 1 and 9 and the other person had to guess it. I went through about four or five of his before getting one wrong, and even that last one was a 50-50 guess where I was sure it was one of two and just guessed wrong. Wish I could remember the exact number, it would be more statistically useful, but it was enough to impress him the mathematician.

T.O.M.?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Thanks for expounding.

[Pyraxis]

I just mean that all too often the "common" or "vulgar"  thing to call someone is, "Hypocrite!"  and you seem to resist doing so. I don't think I've ever seen you call someone a hypocrite, unless maybe it was "C..." and you were trying draw something out of him, rather than shut him down.

Ah! That makes sense. Yeah.

I could relate that one back to personal stories too, but I'm sure I've already gone into it elsewhere.

[The Racist Rapist]

I can sense what people are going to say before they say it. I can't call them on it though, because if I tell them what they are about to say they will change what they are going to say. It's a pretty shitty power.

[DirtDawg]

I can sense what people are going to say before they say it. I can't call them on it though, because if I tell them what they are about to say they will change what they are going to say. It's a pretty shitty power.

Ah, but in a game of verbal chess, you will be more capable of staying a couple or more responses ahead of your opponent.

Not really that shitty.

[Eclair]

Well, even though I have been known to totally fuck up a conversation, I definitely get an intuition about people and their motives.  It's probably that which has saved me from relying on the old facial expressions etc. so I am lucky.

Since childhood, I have had dreams many times of things that will happen in the future...or I will dream of some person from my past and then hear something about them within a few days.  Some dreams though have been traumatic.  Two drownings of children, both of which came true.  On in my family and one across the road from our house.  I was beside myself after the second one and my husband at the time finally believed me, because I had told him of the dream days before it happened.

I learned when I was an adult that my great grandmother was very physcic and it had been played down by the family...probably not an 'acceptable' trait to have back in the day.  I also think she is the one the AS comes from...so it figures.

[McGiver]

i have eyes in the back of my head.

and i can sense danger.

[El]

I can sense what people are going to say before they say it. I can't call them on it though, because if I tell them what they are about to say they will change what they are going to say. It's a pretty shitty power.

I do that to piss people off.

[Parts]

I can sense what people are going to say before they say it. I can't call them on it though, because if I tell them what they are about to say they will change what they are going to say. It's a pretty shitty power.

I do that to piss people off.

Yes the ability to sense the exactly wrong thing to say then say it

[RageBeoulve]

I have a useless one. I can sense how people feel and know things about them just from them talking almost to the point of reading their minds. BUT. I can't express myself at all IRL so it doesn't really come in handy.

I'm also only 5'4, but I can carry my 6'1 213 lbs dad on my shoulders.