How do you know you have psychic abilities?

mysteria

I believe everyone possesses some type of psychic abilities. They are hidden inner resources mankind has forgotten to use (some of us). By recognizing we possess them, we may be able to use them to improve the quality of our lives (and others).;)

Zombrex

mysteria wrote:

I believe everyone possesses some type of psychic abilities. They are hidden inner resources mankind has forgotten to use (some of us). By recognizing we possess them, we may be able to use them to improve the quality of our lives (and others).;)

So..... how do you know (referring to thread title)? Or were you asking?

mysteria

Just asking for people's opinions and experiences.

SkepticOne

mysteria wrote:

Just asking for people's opinions and experiences.

I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.

GuanYin

SkepticOne wrote:

I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.

I'd disagree there. I think that the general populace is less inclined to belief in such things and most people would be very slow to publically claim any sort of psychic ability.

Of course, without any sort of statistics either way we're both just pushing about our own personal opinions.

SkepticOne

psi wrote:

I'd disagree there. I think that the general populace is less inclined to belief in such things and most people would be very slow to publically claim any sort of psychic ability.

Except that I wasn't making a statement about numbers or proportions of people. Rather, that in my opinion and experience, many attributions of psychic ability are really cases of intuitive knowledge and hunches. I think there was an example on one of the threads here. I will try and dig it up.

Of course, without any sort of statistics either way we're both just pushing about our own personal opinions.

Yes, obviously I'm just giving my opinion.

stormkeeper

SkepticOne wrote:

Rather, that in my opinion and experience, many attributions of psychic ability are really cases of intuitive knowledge and hunches.

It's an aspect of psychicness though... being in touch with one's intuition. Really though... it's naive of us to think that we don't possess some form of psychic ability seeing as though the majority of our brains aren't used... there has to be something that the remaining 90% is capable of.

And how I knew I was psychic? I had multiple individuals (who are psychic themselves) tell me... after the 5th person, I was able to accept it better, as I had enough conclusive proof from independent sources to be able to at least declare that I have something to some degree...

Zombrex

Kennett wrote:

Really though... it's naive of us to think that we don't possess some form of psychic ability seeing as though the majority of our brains aren't used... there has to be something that the remaining 90% is capable of.

I'm afraid the "we only use 10% of our brain" idea is completely false, though it is a nice idea.

What we do is use different parts of our brain at different times, depending on what we are doing. We only use certain parts of it for high consciousness, other parts for sub-conscious acts such as walking, and face recongision. Through out the day you will probably use all parts of your brain at some time or another.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
http://psychology.ucalgary.ca/factoid/lashley.html

CodeMonkey

from snope wrote:

Even Uri Geller, who has made a career out of trying to convince people he can bend metal with his mind, trots out this little gem. This claim appears in his book Uri Geller's Mind-Power Book in the introduction: "Our minds are capable of remarkable, incredible feats, yet we don't use them to their full capacity. In fact, most of us only use about 10 per cent of our brains, if that. The other 90 per cent is full of untapped potential and undiscovered abilities, which means our minds are only operating in a very limited way instead of at full stretch. I believe that we once had full power over our minds. We had to, in order to survive, but as our world has become more sophisticated and complex we have forgotten many of the abilities we once had"

Kennett wrote:

It's an aspect of psychicness though... being in touch with one's intuition. Really though... it's naive of us to think that we don't possess some form of psychic ability seeing as though the majority of our brains aren't used... there has to be something that the remaining 90% is capable of.

Kennett...are you in fact...uri geller?

CodeMonkey

Kennett wrote:

And how I knew I was psychic? I had multiple individuals (who are psychic themselves) tell me...

Serious question, what can you do and what can your friends do? I want to know what you and your psychic friends definition of psychic abilities are. Note, I won't be demanding proof, just a definition please if you can.

mysteria

SkepticOne wrote:

I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.

And I believe people with psychic abilities often dismiss psychic information as a hunch or gut feeling so I guess we'll have to agree to differ:)

stevenmu

SkepticOne wrote:

I think people often mistake hunches and intuitions for psychic ability. If they can't immediately explain how they know something (e.g. they "just know") then they believe this must be some form of psychic thing.

You could equally say that many people mistake psychic ability for hunches and intuition

In fact one of the major problems with picking up information pyschically, or at least a problem I have, is distinguishing it from the million and one other random thoughts that pass through your head during the day.

solas

steven wrote:

In fact one of the major problems with picking up information pyschically, or at least a problem I have, is distinguishing it from the million and one other random thoughts that pass through your head during the day.

yea, but I find its not really a problem unless I'm not doing anything at all. If I'm anyway unoccupied a gazillion things will run through there so I try to keep my mind ccupied to prevent that from happening. Although I've been very restless lately.
The internet is a bastard for transmitting information though. Its never a case of just reading words, for me its often sensing the thoughts behind the words and or feelings attached to them.
you might consider that intuition or gut feeling.

GuanYin

solas wrote:

The internet is a bastard for transmitting information though. Its never a case of just reading words, for me its often sensing the thoughts behind the words and or feelings attached to them.
you might consider that intuition or gut feeling.

Now that I find interesting.

One of the biggest problems I have with using email/MSN and even on boards, is you can never quite tell the demeanour of the person with whom you are conversing.

Be interesting what feelings you associate with my postings.

solas

I quite like how you think/feel. more?

k...don't be embarressed
I'm familiar with you anyway and your ideas, It's not a case of me agreeing with them or not but because you provide them with a sense of clarity. You know you don't know all there is to know, your not up your own hole, maybe its that whole buddhist influence going on there but you have a nice balanced perspective to life. Theres a sense of experience there. I understand your motivation and its genuine.

stevenmu

That sounds like a good idea for a fun little psychic game, would some people object to being 'interpreted' or can we assume that all regular posters are fair game ?

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Psi wrote:

One of the biggest problems I have with using email/MSN and even on boards, is you can never quite tell the demeanour of the person with whom you are conversing.

I used to have that problem, but I've found the more I posted on boards the more I've been able to read people just from their posts. Part of that is getting to know some of the posters and what their 'default demeanour' is, but sometimes I almost think there's a bit more to it than that.

solas

how does that compare in general?
Everyone has an agenda, at any given time. some people want to inspire conversation, some are looking for information, some people just want to argue, usually those who have trust or identity issues and consequently need to validate themselves, some want to motivate others, some people don't know who they are and just respond or react to other people, some people don't give a fcuk either way and don't care how they are perceived or how they make others feel, some people really just want to say it as it is and some people can just be themselves, which I quite like personally.

I can feel when someone is pissed off with what I've written, even if they haven't responded verbally to indicate so and I can tell if I have someones approval.

Zombrex

stevenmu wrote:

That sounds like a good idea for a fun little psychic game, would some people object to being 'interpreted' or can we assume that all regular posters are fair game ?

Do me! do me!

(well maybe not Solas or Psi, since we don't get .. er .. on ... but anyone else)

solas

stevenmu wrote:

That sounds like a good idea for a fun little psychic game, would some people object to being 'interpreted' or can we assume that all regular posters are fair game ?

I dunno, but I wouldn't usually make open judgments about people, psi asked me what I thought, I could be wrong and what I've written is just my perception.
But I think everyone could practise really saying what they mean..and meaning what they say. Would make life easier for all of us and there wouldn't really be a need to "interpret" each other.

solas

wicknight wrote:

Do me! do me!

(well maybe not Solas or Psi, since we don't get .. er .. on ... but anyone else)

as a mod its a task to maintain a forum in balance to satisfy everyone, any issues you have with me or psi is mod related an not personal, you should understand that.

Thanx 4 The Fish

I think that you are not open to accepting any new ideas and are one of the most negative people I have never met.

That's just my feeling from your last post. How was that for you, perhaps the very fact that you are open to such a reading puts the lie to how I felt of it but that is not what the challenge was about. As this is surely a very subjective thing I would like to see how others thought Wick was feeling when he posted or what type of person we felt would make such a post,we can compare and contrast.

solas

heh, well in all fairness I think he was genuine in his request but I doubt he really cares what we think.

Zombrex

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote:

I think that you are not open to accepting any new ideas and are one of the most negative people I have never met.

Sorry, we've met?

stevenmu

solas wrote:

I dunno, but I wouldn't usually make open judgments about people, psi asked me what I thought, I could be wrong and what I've written is just my perception.

Yeah, I though about that, I'd started writing about a few people but then thought better off it.

But Wickight, seeing as you asked, I'm not really sure what to make of most of your posts I've read, and I'm not entirely sure you do either. I think you tend to be thinking of a lot of different things at once (possibly reading other threads/sites at the same time or watching tv or other real life stuff), and only parts of that make it into your posts. Possibly you have a stammer in real life (not that it's any of our business of course) ? There's a lot of energy behind your posts, I'd imagine your not hyperactive, but always doing something. There's a kind of feeling of 'now I'm doing a post', 'done', 'next thing', 'done', 'another post', 'done' etc... I think you do get emotionally involved in the posts you make to a degree, but that only lasts for as long as you're reading/typing a post, when you move on to the next thing you cut away and become emotionally attached to that in a different way.

Close ?

(edit: you wouldn't have been my first choice, there's a disjointed quality to your posts, no real continuity of persona, that makes it hard to read the person behind them. That's just as I read your posts though, others may see them totally differently, as might I if I was more used to them, or knew you better.)

GuanYin

Wicknight wrote:

Sorry, we've met?

Read his post again.

Zombrex

psi wrote:

Read his post again.

Sorry, "astral" meeting, got ya

solas

he's just young. sorry man, don't really like talking about anyone in the third person.

GuanYin

Hehe, this could get nasty lads

Seriously though, ermm thanks solas. I think though that might be how I'd like to be thought - but its not really a posting "demeanour" is it? I mean generally my state of mind posting his somewhere between curiosity and indifference, with a detour through boredom or mild amusement. I'd never be angry or emotional, I might be thinking fast, but it'd have little to do with emotion, yet that is how I would have thought I'm mostly taken.

I know I certainly have no psychic ability if this is an acid test though. Mind you, I don't imagine it'd be rampant throughout boards either.

solas

curiosity and indifference, with a detour through boredom or mild amusement.

somewhat balanced imo
mature enough to know better (experienced)
I was going to add a little more, like the fact that you don't take compliments too well..or too close to heart. better safe than sorry

Zombrex

stevenmu wrote:

I think you tend to be thinking of a lot of different things at once (possibly reading other threads/sites at the same time or watching tv or other real life stuff)

Does work count as "real life stuff"

stevenmu wrote:

Possibly you have a stammer in real life (not that it's any of our business of course) ?

No stammer, but I am crap at public speaking, is that the same thing?

stevenmu wrote:

There's a lot of energy behind your posts, I'd imagine your not hyperactive, but always doing something.

Actually people (especially my mother) would consider me lazy, but I do get spurts of energy to do something

stevenmu wrote:

I think you do get emotionally involved in the posts you make to a degree, but that only lasts for as long as you're reading/typing a post, when you move on to the next thing you cut away and become emotionally attached to that in a different way.

True, I get very worked up in my posts while reading and writing them, and then an hour later I will be like "its just a stupid internet bulletin board"

stevenmu wrote:

Close ?

Close-ish

GuanYin

Ah but in fairness - wouldthat be classed as some innate ability to read the person, or just an ability to read between the lines of the post. Or do you think that they are one in the same thing.

Zombrex

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote:

I think that you are not open to accepting any new ideas and are one of the most negative people I have never met.

Depends on what you mean by "negative" ... do you mean skeptical negative or Pete Celeb Big Brother Burns negative (ie "give me back my f**king gorrilla coat you f**king bastards")

Anyway, thats your reading so it's fair

solas

psi wrote:

I know I certainly have no psychic ability if this is an acid test though. Mind you, I don't imagine it'd be rampant throughout boards either.

I would disagree, you use your intuition or discernment very readily to factor each response you make.

6th

Someone want to try me?

6th

Nevyn

I know that I do have some psyhic abilties.
I puit this down to knowing things about people that there is no other way I could possibly know.
Sensing things arround me that most people can not.
I get personal flashes of precog and sometimes 'know' things are going to happen before they do.

I get a better feel for people over irc then msn for some reason.
A while back I asked a certain boards poster if she was pregant right out of the blue really figgured she would freak or call me nuts.
Her engery seemed different and in a way I associate with someone being preggers.
There was no way I could have known and I was right

Zombrex

dublin6th wrote:

Someone want to try me?

I'll give it a go. Now most people around these parts know I am a bit skeptical about these things (waits for "ya don't say" replys:D), so it will be interesting if I get any of this right

You are between 17 and 21 (ie a late teenager)

You live at home but work along with your studies.

You are into football, and support an English division team, but not Man U. Possibly Liverpool?

You are single, but recently broke up with someone

You are below average hight and have blonde hair. You wear glasses, but not all the time

You study or are interested in studying engineering or arcitecture. You did technical drawing in the leaving cert.

You don't like Irish and are bad at languages. You are possibly dsylexic, though you could just not like languages, prefeering maths and science.

Thats it .. *wicknight collapses on the floor*

Anything close or completely off the mark?

6th

Wicknight wrote:

You are between 17 and 21 (ie a late teenager)

Am 28

Wicknight wrote:

You live at home but work along with your studies.

Bought my house 5 years ago

Wicknight wrote:

You are into football, and support an English division team, but not Man U. Possibly Liverpool?

I know less about Football than my 18 month old!

Wicknight wrote:

You are single, but recently broke up with someone

Have been with the same woman for 13 years

Wicknight wrote:

You are below average hight and have blonde hair. You wear glasses, but not all the time

I am average height (for a woman), 5' 6", dark hair but shaved. You got the glasses right! wow lol

Wicknight wrote:

You study or are interested in studying engineering or arcitecture. You did technical drawing in the leaving cert.

I studied Fine Art, majoring in Sculpture and Photography .. very technical but no .. didnt do tec drawing for the leaving cert.

Wicknight wrote:

You don't like Irish and are bad at languages. You are possibly dsylexic, though you could just not like languages, prefeering maths and science.

I failed passed irish in the leaving cert, am not very good at languages in general but very good with english. Not dsylexic .... often lol

The fact you even gave that a go shows me you lightening up alot, or that you have actually grown to enjoy posting on here as opposed to posting or arguing for the sake of it.

fair play you've gone up 1 point in my books.

6th

Zombrex

dublin6th wrote:

Am 28
...
Bought my house 5 years ago
...
I know less about Football than my 18 month old!
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Have been with the same woman for 13 years
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I am average height (for a woman), 5' 6", dark hair but shaved. You got the glasses right! wow lol
...
I studied Fine Art, majoring in Sculpture and Photography .. very technical but no .. didnt do tec drawing for the leaving cert.
...
I failed passed irish in the leaving cert, am not very good at languages in general but very good with english. Not dsylexic .... often lol

Ok, think it is safe to say the imagine in my head when I was posting wasn't you .. you don't have a younger, blonder, brother do ya?

solas

psi wrote:

Ah but in fairness - wouldthat be classed as some innate ability to read the person, or just an ability to read between the lines of the post. Or do you think that they are one in the same thing.

I dunno. I know that I have a tendency to see/feel how others are feeling, like one of those people who can be drunk without drinking if there are others in the room under the influence. On the net that can be very disorienting.
I know the word empathic paints a variety of images, but thats how it is. Its not a case of having "psychic" knowledge of others, just very aware of where there at, how they're thinking and feeling.
In some instances its not a very nice position to be in. If someone is extremely angry I feel it in a way which surpasses description, the same goes for pain and joy. So its always good to be around people who are light hearted and I try my best to avoid contentious people (posts) or situations.

magnumlady

Ooh do me please!!

Zombrex

magnumlady wrote:

Ooh do me please!!

After my rather pitiful attempt to read dublin6th I think I will leave it to someone else to .. er .. do you (we might need to think of a better term for that )

dublin6th you want to have a crack at it? You were closer with my reading that I was with yours.

GuanYin

Just a reminder, this thread is about having psychic abilities and discussing them (and even having fun showing them).

I don't wanna see anyone use it as a platform for anything else.

Or in otherwords, I'm enjoying this thread - keep it going everyone

solas

giong back to an earlier query, is intuition and gut feeling psychic ability, according to the dictionary intuition is described as:
1.
1. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. See synonyms at reason.
2. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

I would consider myself intuitive, but not psychic in the sense that I know what someones mothers maiden name is. although I could hazard a guess.
I think they are one and the same thing, just used in a different capacity as a way of determining information via the senses.

Kernel

I'm one of the CIA's top psychic soldiers. Well, I was - I am retired now. We were called remote viewers, and it was my job to find the codes for nuclear silos in the former Soviet Union - among other things. Of course, after a while our own employers wanted us eliminated because we became too dangerous to their own secrets.

Yes, mysteria, everyone is psychic, but some have the gift more than others. And of course, most times, through rational training of the subjective mind as children, we lose focus of our abilities.

Zombrex

Kernel wrote:

Of course, after a while our own employers wanted us eliminated because we became too dangerous to their own secrets.

I would imagine if the CIA wanted you dead you would be dead (or at least possibly not posting the fact that you aren't dead on a public internet site)... but then this is probably a discussion better suited to the Conspiracy Forum...

Moving back to topic of psychic abilities, there is an interesting paper by the head of the Standford research into remote viewing for the CIA about the summary of the studies that was declassified in 1995, which would be a good introduction to remote viewing studied under serious circumstances

(customary disclaimer - this is from the internet, no idea if it is a real report or not)

solas

kernel wrote:

I'm one of the CIA's top psychic soldiers. Well, I was - I am retired now. We were called remote viewers, and it was my job to find the codes for nuclear silos in the former Soviet Union - among other things. Of course, after a while our own employers wanted us eliminated because we became too dangerous to their own secrets.

I spent some time relaying information as part of an online experiement. I hesitate to call it governmental. Looking through the eyes of a terrorist has pretty ****ty side effects though, so I prefer to stay in my own country (and surround myself with pacifists) now

belive it or not.

stevenmu

6th wrote:

Someone want to try me?

Would it be cheating if we've already met ?

MagnumLady wrote:

Ooh do me please!!

I don't think I've read many of your posts lately, and I'm not sure if I should try to base much on this one post, but briefly, I think you're a pretty outgoing person, not quite bubbly, but maybe 75% of the way there. You're strong and confident in yourself. You wouldn't generally be the center of attention in groups, but when you are saying something everyone would pay attention.

6th

stevenmu wrote:

Would it be cheating if we've already met ?

Go for it, sure i've listed a load of facts about me in reply to Wicknight but i dont think just by meeting anyone we neccesserly get to know much about them, so you're not really at much of an advantage. Would be interested about what you "got" from me.

stevenmu wrote:

(with regards to Magnumlady)I don't think I've read many of your posts lately, and I'm not sure if I should try to base much on this one post, but briefly, I think you're a pretty outgoing person, not quite bubbly, but maybe 75% of the way there. You're strong and confident in yourself. You wouldn't generally be the center of attention in groups, but when you are saying something everyone would pay attention.

Thats amazing i gave it a bit of though when Wicknight suggested i do this one and i got basically the same thing.

Like Steven said i would not say you are giddy or bubble but you do know how to have fun when relaxed. You are a very good communicator and very good at taking care of your life and your own business (not suggesting you run a company) - Eddie Hobbes would think you do a good job. You are someone who might take a step back in a large group but you're not shy - you just dont feel you need to be centre stage to be happy. Thoses that know you and deal with you respect your opinion and clear thinking. Just coz you're not a "wild child" doesnt mean you dont have weird fun in your own head, I'd say you laugh alot to yourself. You are very happy with yourself and dont think there is anything (major) you would change about urself. It would be difficult to guess your age, coz while you are mature and sensible i think you might be more grown up on the inside than you are on the outside. If i had to guess an age i'd say 28-31?

how did i do?

6th

magnumlady

Interesting reading those. I wish I was that age! I'm 37!! And I'd say more grown up on the outside then the inside (where I'm still a child!!)
Right about the large group thing though and about the shy thing too and I do laugh a lot.

GuanYin

Do you have an unusual accent magnumlady?

magnumlady

psi wrote:

Do you have an unusual accent magnumlady?

What do you mean by unusual? Don't want to give nuffin away!!:D