| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/7/2008 5:49:39 PM | i'm sure there are a number of you fishes out there whom have at experiences of esp at one time or another..most of my premonitions have come through in the form of dreams,although on a few occasions has been in a form of a vision i guess you could say..
i know, i know, many of you will probably laugh at the existence of the phenonmenon (i probably spelt that wrong)..but hey the chances are, you've never had the experience.it would be interesting though to hear from those of you who have had this at one time or another.also i've heard you can learn to tune into this sense more keenly but not sure how.has anybody else heard of this?
i've found that my sixth sense has dwindled quite a bit but would really like to tap into it again if possible.
maybe we could have some fun with this and share some experiences. | |
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| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/7/2008 7:35:29 PM | Well, I don't know what I would classify the following experience as, but here it goes:
About a week before I found out I was pregnant with my daughter, I had dream that I was outside playing in my front yard with a little girl with brown hair and that her name was Paityn (and that it was even spelled like that...it was like in my dream when I said her name I visualized the way it was spelled...if that makes sense). So anyho...I find out I am preggo. The later tell me I'm having a boy. And the whole brown hair thing....never figured I'd bear a baby that was born with brown hair since me and her dad both had white blonde hair up until we were teenagers. But...ya know...right now I have an 8 month old daughter with brown hair and her name is Paityn.
~Welder's Girl~ | |
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| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/7/2008 7:38:27 PM | We've got more than 5 senses.
You can sense hunger.
You can sense thirst.
You can sense tiredness.
When you shut your eyes, move you hand and know where it is.
Balance is a sense.
You can sense temperature.
You can sense pain.
You can sense when you "gotta go.".
Uh... that's all I can remember, but there's definately more.
"At Least Fourteenth Sense" would've been a more accurate thread title... | |
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| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/7/2008 7:40:06 PM | One day I teased my hair for some very strange reason.
My hair was super poofy all day and I decided to stick a comb in it for a while and pretend it was an afro pick. First time I ever did something like that.
That night I visited a friend who was watching a movie with...a character who had an afro pick stuck in his hair! I hadn't seen one for years and haven't seen one since.
My sixth sense is afro pick radar. | |
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Posted: 8/7/2008 7:42:00 PM | "We've got more than 5 senses."
yeah I got all those senses down. hell, I got seventh sense. I got senses I never even use.
its the common sense I seem to have a lot of trouble with and its the one I need the most. | |
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| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/8/2008 1:58:45 AM | Ive had a few dreams that have come true, but its usualy been random things like people i know saying something pointless....
Then, i have those moments where im standing there, and i say "xXInsert SituationXx will happen." then BAM! it unfolds right infornt of me.
Ive thought about this, possibly a little to much... BUT! this is my theory, the human brain being the most powerful super computer in the world has the capability of storing real life experiences as memories and then can use its imagination to come up with random stories as it choese... now, give a super computer the ability to run down scenarios of possible events mixing your imagination, you may be asking, "when is my brain doing all this?" my guess is thats what dreams are all about too... and there you have it, your mind is a probability calculator on life situations! that can make mistakes.
The problem with predicting probable outcomes in the world around us also, is that the people involved in the scenarios are capable of similar calculations and thus using thier free will can alter the situations, throwing our own calculations out a bit.
Or it could be your dead cat Fluffy whispering in your ear because it talks to God and hasnt forgotten you gave it extra servings of Tuna. | |
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Posted: 8/8/2008 12:16:21 PM | I don't get visions or anything but sometimes I get really strong feelings on a situation. If I follow my gut, it usually turns out to be the correct.
2 weird things did happen to me once involving, oddly enough, celebrities who died...
This is the honest truth....
I woke up on a Saturday in July of 1999 with an overwhelming feeling that a young, good looking, dark haired famous man had died.
I shook it off like how silly i was being- until I turned on my T.V and it said that JFK Jr's plane was missing and he was feared dead..
Then in Sept of 2003, on the way to the hospital for the birth of my neice, I was relating a dream I had the night before (Sept 11) to my family about how I dreamt that a sandy haired, older man, was on a stage, making people laugh when he held his heart and died of heart failure. This man famous in some way in the dream- like he was a headliner for a show...
Then we hear on the radio how John Ritterhad died the day before of some heart problem..
Now I know it's strange, but thoses stories are real..
JJ | |
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| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/8/2008 12:54:00 PM |
Ive had a few dreams that have come true, but its usualy been random things like people i know saying something pointless....
Then, i have those moments where im standing there, and i say "xXInsert SituationXx will happen." then BAM! it unfolds right infornt of me.
This is exactly the experience I've had, and more.
My grandmother came to me in a dream to say goodbye the night she died. Her health had been on the decline, but there was no reason to suspect the stroke that killed her was imminent, and I hadn't had any direct communication with her recently. It was so vivid that when I woke up I just waited for the phone to ring and a few minutes later it did with the news.
Another example I wrote about in the Stories forum category shortly after it happened in June. (the thread title is 'dog lucy moves on to the spirit world' if anyone wants to read the full account)
My aged dog Lucy, who had been going downhill steadily for the past year, one day refused to eat and drink. I took her to the vet, who kept her overnight on IV's and sent her home with meds. The next day after I brought her home she just disappeared, going off to die somewhere in the wilderness surrounding the house. I still haven't found her.
But after days of searching I went to my favorite meditation spot behind my waterfall to try to connect with her spiritually. Here's what I wrote about what happened next:
I was surprised on two fronts. First by how quickly I slipped into the needed state. And then that almost immediately Lucy was there. It was as though her spirit leaped into my arms. Not the aging yet dignified Lucy of late, but a fully vigorous Lucy who acted like she’d been waiting for me to show up and imparted a wealth of information to me in an instant.
I knew at once that she was ok and wanted me to know that. She had made her decision because there was no need for both of us to go through the agony of stretching out the inevitable, or for me to go through the agony of deciding if enough was enough when in this, as in so many things, she already knew what was best.
Yes, the time had come.
In that same instant I felt the full power of her love and gratitude for our time together with a force so strong I almost fell over. I returned the same, partner to partner. And then she faded away.
And now, finally, I felt closure.
I do believe there is a 'reality' that goes beyond what our standard senses can process. I think some of us are able to tap into different aspects of that reality more easily than others, and that with practice we can become more adept, but that it's difficult to overcome the 'noise' our standard existence puts out on a day to day basis.
For me, it has presented itself in episodes like the above plus some interesting self diagnosis and healing work.
I'm interested to hear others take on this.
Dave | |
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Posted: 8/8/2008 4:11:35 PM | I see dumb people, all the time.
And some of them don't even know they are dumb.
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Posted: 8/9/2008 10:34:57 AM | | that is what "good karma" is Dave | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 11:06:06 AM | We all have sixth sense, telling us something and many people choose not to listen to their inner voice or gut feeling. I believe our sixth sense will guide us through our life events from hunger, thirst, fear, love, joy or what life brings us.
I once had argument with myself about a speeding trap at the end of the road, guess who lost, and got the ticket.  If I only listened to my inner voice, I wouldn't have gotten that ticket and many times its our gut that will instinctly tell you something. | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 11:11:39 AM | Yeah, we do have sixth senses. And seventh senses. And eighth senses. And nineth senses.
It's a fact that we're capable of sensing things in more than just 5 ways, see my previous post. | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 1:20:49 PM | Well, Weezygirl, I seem to have the same dream thing going on.
I had a dream one night about my Aunt Diane, with whom I wasn't particularly close. I dreamed that I was at (for some unknown reason) a very large house with a widow's walk in an unfamiliar place. I entered the house, and started calling for my Aunt Diane. I entered through a back door which led into a kitchen, with copper pots and wooden cabinets. In the dream, I got no response, so I kept calling and moving further into the house. I went into the living area, which had a massive fireplace with a rifle hung above it, still calling for my aunt. When I received no answer, I moved to the upstairs via a very large two-flight staircase with enormous dark wood newel posts, all the time calling out for my aunt. When I reached the top of the stairs, my aunt's two large Great Danes were there, as if waiting for me, looking at me expectantly and panting. I was beginning to be afraid at this point that something was really wrong with my aunt. (Although we weren't close, I did love her.) I moved to the bedroom on the right, and opened the door to find a bedroom with a four poster bed with a white spread on it, decorated with flowers. Off to the left was the door to a bathroom, which I moved toward. At this point in the dream, I was approaching terror. The bathroom served two bedrooms, sort of like a suite, I don't know what you call that. There were frosted glass shower doors, and I could see the silhouette of a woman behind them, and I knew that the woman behind the glass was my aunt...and that she was dead. That's where the dream ended. I didn't open the shower doors in the dream, and my aunt had never answered me, though I knew it was her behind them.
I woke very shaken, and filled with an urgent need to contact my aunt. I called my father, who had her number. I called her the next morning, and to my relief, she answered the phone hale and hearty. I told her of my ridiculous dream, and she was suddenly very quiet. She asked me to describe the house as well as I could remember, so I did. Upon describing it as best I could (dreams are usually kind of hazy, but those things stood out), she told me that she was about to take her vacation in Maine with friends... who owned a large mansion with a widow's walk, copper pots hung in the kitchen, a huge fireplace with a Henry rifle hung above it, a large two tiered staircase to the second floor, and a bathroom on the second floor that joined two bedrooms.
She canceled her trip, and I was glad.
I didn't make this up, folks. Anyway, I, like the OP, only have any sort of "experience" via dreams. I have your average human's gut instincts and intuition, but nothing superhuman or supernatural. I've never seen ghosts or UFO's (although I sometimes wish I would). I've never had as vivid a dream since, but have had dreams that "told" me that someone was cheating on me and a few other things (which turned out to be the case), but I chalk those up to how our brains can get clues from the world around us, and perhaps just shows us what we've refused to see in the waking world. Regardless, this dream was unlike any of the others, and is the only time I felt that I had entered another realm. | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 3:47:04 PM | it has been suggested that children are born with the natural ability to sense spirits but due to conditioning as they grow older they lose that ability. After all in a conventional family if the child points at nothing or speaks to an invisible friend the parents soon steer their child in other directions. Most of us have had nightmares as children, maybe these too are symptomatic of other wordly communication. As we aren't taught how to recognise spirits and as classical children's literature mixes fairytales up with ghost tales and more horrific goblins and monster tales, as children we become confused as to what is a good spirit and what is an evil spirit. As we grow out of nightmares so we also lose any remaining awareness of the spirit world, we only later get glimpses into the twilight world as we mature and have moments of clarity or when dead relatives make extra strenous attempts to contact us to warn us of impending doom.
Maybe, to bring in star trek  here, time isn't linear as suggested in DS9. So when we have dejavu moments, which I seem to get maybe at least once a month, it is the occasional slip between out normal linear time and other time lines. Or is it simple that despite the apparent multiplicity of options and alternatives in life, we tend to do broadly similar things time and again so a sense of dejavu is more likely just history repeating itself. Who knows.
However, consider the ability of birds and fish to migrate half way around the world using what? the sun and stars? certainly not satnav. maybe humans hidden away in part of the brain as yet unpicked by science have some sort of magnetic navigation system. Sceptics laugh at water deviners but multi million dollar companies use these people to find water and other things when science fails. Deviners find water enough times to make it more than just good fortune. Is it some mysterious power of a forked twig or 2 bent bits of iron rod? or the human subconciousness responding to the unknown sensory powers of the brain. Food for thought. why have so many different cultures insisted that eating certain animal parts from lion hearts to human brains can give you powers. Just superstituous nonsense? The modern reflection on this idea would be the experience of transplant recipients who have developed new tastes or new skills after receiving someone elses organ. How can a heart or a kidney or whateve give someone that sort ability.
love and peace
hug someone new today 
regards from 158, defender of the faith, the weak and the ridiculous. | |
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Posted: 8/9/2008 4:02:16 PM |
So when we have dejavu moments, which I seem to get maybe at least once a month, it is the occasional slip between out normal linear time and other time lines.
Can't remember exactly what it was, but deja vu has something to do with our minds processing something straight into the long-term memory, without checking it in the short term, first.
Or it may've been the other way around. | |
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| the sixth sense
Posted: 8/9/2008 11:52:33 PM | hey werqund,
i don't know about you, but when i have these dreams,i know they are different from regular dreams and know something about them will happen.
unfortunately most of my experiences have been related to cheating or someone about to die..which i really don't like...one of my first ones that i remember was about my 3 cousins..all 3 were riding there horse,2 fell off and unfortunately died...i figured out that the horse was symbolic of transportation after the dream basically came true.
..all 3 and 2 others were travelling home from a hockey game when they were in a very bad car accident .one of the 2 that died in my dream was killed instantly..it was a real fight for the 2nd one to stay alive but he did pull through....sometimes my dreams are slightly different then the real event
another one was a dream of my brother in law driving his transport north somewhere in a winter storm and he hit a moose,the truck veered off the road down into a ravine...the next day my sister called to tell me he was in an accident in northern quebec...and before she said anything, i said don't tell me,he hit a moose...she was shocked and i told her how i knew...the difference was,the truck didn't veer off the road,the moose took off instead.it must have been huge as the front of his semi was badly damaged and he was okay.
it's so nice to share some of these experiences with others who have had the same...i wonder if any of you have ever had any experiences with spirits or ghosts as well....i have in the past but haven't recently..really freaky stuff..you think your'e going crazy, yet you know what you saw. | |
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Posted: 8/10/2008 3:06:58 AM | | i have one to where if i think something needs to be done say road improvements or resturaunts and not say a word it happens within 2 weeks, if only my lotto sense would work that way | |
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Posted: 8/10/2008 8:26:33 AM | msg: 3: Sanguis Dominus wrote: You can sense hunger.
You can sense thirst.
You can sense tiredness.
When you shut your eyes, move you hand and know where it is.
Balance is a sense.
You can sense temperature.
You can sense pain.
You can sense when you "gotta go.".
Uh... that's all I can remember, but there's definately more.
"At Least Fourteenth Sense" would've been a more accurate thread title... Most of everything you listed would be considered sense of "feel" You only have 3 senses listed in your list. The way your explaining it would be like. (I can sense that is a needle poking me, or I can sense that pencle is poking me, or I can sense that fork is poking me.) These three would be considered sense of feel not 3 different senses. | |
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Posted: 8/10/2008 3:25:01 PM | Not quite.
They're all senses, different ways of your body telling you something. They're similar, but not the same, like, when you touch something, you usually don't feel pain. It's difficult to explain... http://health.howstuffworks.com/question242.htm
I suppose, thinking about it, would humour be considered a sense?
I mean, you sense when something's funny. | |
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Posted: 8/10/2008 4:21:23 PM | actually there is only one sense you will find on POF forums
and thats nonsense
love and peace
hug someone new today
regards from 158, defender of the faith, the weak and the ridiculous. | |
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Posted: 8/10/2008 9:24:36 PM | I get deja vu all the time. I'm also really good with weather predicting, predicting storms like the one last night as I've learned weather patterns and go with gut instinct on that one. Few months ago, I was in a meeting at work, and my stomach started hurting really badly and my younger sisters name popped into my head.
As soon as that meeting was over, I rushed to the phone to call home. She had just bene picked up by ambulance and sent into the ER with an appendix that had gone gangreen.
Usually my sixth sense is gut feeling of something bad on its way. If gut says no don't do it, 95% turns out to be right. I'm an empath and very sensitive as well so I guess that could be another 'sense'. Dreams are very vivid and have often come true later on in life where I recall doing the exact same thing at a later date. Saying oh yeah, now I remember that dream... that's me in a nutshell. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2008 3:39:10 AM | Absolutely! I've had many experiences where I've ignored my gut instinct, only to find out it was right all along. I've also gone to call someone and at the exact same moment, they've called me. I think it's normal for people to rationalise or ignore these feelings and put them down to coincidence but more recently I've been paying more attention to "the voice within". If we do have a 6th sense then it's there for a purpose and we should learn to use it, I would certainly be interested in learning how to develop it further and have heard that many Buddhists have developed this sense. For now, however, next time my instinct screams "RUN" that's exactly what I'll do (whether it's rational or not)!!! xxxxx | |
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