Do you believe humans have a sixth sense?

NachoBusiness · 29-12-2015 04:48PM #1

..or an extrasensory perception?

Last night I fell asleep watching Lemmy around 4am. During that time I had a dream about a boardsie playing on top of a castle with a little boy and throwing a little ball to him. One of them was clearly about to die and so I screamed at them.. I then woke up in a panic (around 10:30am). I opened my laptop and only one user had quoted me all night, them! This user has never quoted me before and this was there first post on that thread. It's clearly a sign!

Not sure of what though.

Do you believes humans have a sixth sense? If so, why? And if not, why not?

Also, have you had any experiences which you felt could only be explained as extrasensory perception?

Asmooh · 29-12-2015 04:49PM

No I don't..

Do you believes humans have a sixth sense? If so, why and if not, why not?

Yes, I think I have a sense of 9

why? Just because I do.

ASoberThought · 29-12-2015 04:52PM

No I don't..

Yes, I think there is something in a sixth sense that we don't fully understand. I think all of us are familiar with the scenario of thinking about a person we haven't seen in a long time and then seeing them soon after.

Rupert Sheldrakes experiments on telepathy are interesting.

Caoimhgh1n · 29-12-2015 04:53PM

No I don't..

Yes, I do.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 29-12-2015 04:54PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

..or an extrasensory perception?

Last night I fell asleep watching Lemmy around 4am. During that time I had a dream about a boardsie playing on top of a castle with a little boy and throwing a little ball to him. One of them was clearly about to die and so I screamed at them.. I then woke up in a panic (around 10:30am). I opened my laptop and only one user had quoted me all night, them! This user has never quoted me before and this was there first post on that thread. It's clearly a sign!

Not sure of what though.

Do you believes humans have a sixth sense? If so, why and if not, why not?

Dreams work by allow the subconsious a little bit of ball room during the night, and, because you're asslep, you don't notice it not being real and so you dream it.

At some point in the last few days or so, you probably absently saw the name and while the subconcious made a note of it, you didn't notice it happening. Then it kinda menifested in the dream.

Science. No sign, sorry!

Fleawuss · 29-12-2015 04:54PM

Jesus. Not another one.

Gaygooner · 29-12-2015 04:55PM

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

No, it's bollocks

Asmooh · 29-12-2015 04:55PM

No I don't..

Fleawuss wrote: »

Jesus. Not another one.

I don't know how many senses Jesus had, but if this is another one has has one extra now.

smokingman · 29-12-2015 04:56PM

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

I believe a lot of people have a sixth sense - "fckin stupidity"

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 29-12-2015 04:57PM

smokingman wrote: »

I believe a lot of people have a sixth sense - "fckin stupidity"

aka "common sense"..?

py2006 · 29-12-2015 04:58PM

uh huh

NachoBusiness · 29-12-2015 04:59PM

No I don't..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Dreams work by allow the subconsious a little bit of ball room during the night, and, because you're asslep, you don't notice it not being real and so you dream it.

At some point in the last few days or so, you probably absently saw the name and while the subconcious made a note of it, you didn't notice it happening. Then it kinda menifested in the dream.

Science. No sign, sorry!

Ah, the usual shoehorning of 'science'. Quite the fashion these days. It's more popular than chocolate.

First of all. I never dream of users from Boards and had they not quoted me also, I might buy your explanation, as that would make sense. But to dream of someone that has never quoted me before, pretty much while they are quoting me.. is quite strange. The probability of that is huge. My laptop was closed also before someone says maybe I was sleepbrowsing.

NapoleonInRags · 29-12-2015 05:01PM

No I don't..

Yesterday for no reason at all the former Newcastle goalie Pavel Srnicek came into my mind - although it took me a while to recall his name. I didn't even realise he was ill until I found out that he died today.

ASoberThought · 29-12-2015 05:02PM

No I don't..

Those who are quickly dismissive/closed minded or go to science our saviour for all should have an open minded look at the work of Rupert Sheldrake.

smokingman · 29-12-2015 05:03PM

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

aka "common sense"..?

Nope, gullible post-event projection of personal, biased significance in the hope that they're somehow, not really responsible for their own lives and in search of something external that they can blame all their own problems on...
...in a nutshell..

The King of Moo · 29-12-2015 05:03PM

I know that we have a lot more than five senses:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/humans-have-a-lot-more-than-five-senses/

My favourite is proprioception, the ability to sense where your body parts are relative to your other body parts.

I don't believe in extrasensory perception. What people think of as ESP is usually just coincidence or subconscious.

And we have an exaggerated sense of how rare certain events are and thus get the impression that things are more unusual than they are.
For example, you'll experience a one-in-a-million event about once a month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 29-12-2015 05:04PM

ASoberThought wrote: »

Yes, I think there is something in a sixth sense that we don't fully understand. I think all of us are familiar with the scenario of thinking about a person we haven't seen in a long time and then seeing them soon after.

Rupert Sheldrakes experiments on telepathy are interesting.

Yeah but for every one time that happens, there's probably fifty instances of thinking of someone and then...nothing. But you don't remember those ones

_Brian · 29-12-2015 05:05PM

No.. plenty can't use the few they have !!

RobertKK · 29-12-2015 05:06PM

I had a dream over 14 years ago and these strange planes killed me in a missile strike. Then when I saw the drones in later years I realised I had dreamed about drones before I knew what drones were.
I am not saying it is a sixth sense, if it is a sixth sense the dream says I will be killed before I can come onto boards and say 'yeah it is real'...but at least death was quick...
The world can be strange, I don't know is the answer.

NachoBusiness · 29-12-2015 05:06PM

No I don't..

smokingman wrote: »

I believe a lot of people have a sixth sense - "fckin stupidity"

Some might say suggesting stupidity is a human sense is.. stupid.

Ted_YNWA · 29-12-2015 05:10PM

I was just thinking this thread wasn't done in a while.

smokingman · 29-12-2015 05:11PM

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Some might say suggesting stupidity is a human sense is.. stupid.

Well, you've convinced me...I'm off to buy some healing crystals and magic beans so.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 29-12-2015 05:11PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Ah, the usual shoehorning of 'science'. Quite the fashion these days. It's more popular than chocolate.

First of all. I never dream of users from Boards and had they not quoted me also, I might buy your explanation, as that would make sense. But to dream of someone that has never quoted me before, pretty much while they are quoting me.. is quite strange. The probability of that is huge. My laptop was closed also before someone says maybe I was sleepbrowsing.

That is pretty much a scentific explanation of what dreaming is. I never said you had to quote them or even notice them. Exactly the opposite. You mind noticies a lot of thigns every day that you don't.

Furthermore, if you want a balanced discussion on a topic such as ESP, you kind of have to include sceince - there's no shoehorning about it. If you don't want a balanced discussion fine - just say so and I'll unsubscribe from the thread.

Whitewinged · 29-12-2015 05:11PM

A few strange things have happened before alright but I usually just explain them away.

Anyway, is instinct/intuition a sense?

SEPT 23 1989 · 29-12-2015 05:14PM

We only use a small amount of our brains true power

Flint Fredstone · 29-12-2015 05:14PM

Any chance you woke up during the night and in your half sleepy state read through a thread about Lemmy dying?

NachoBusiness · 29-12-2015 05:16PM

No I don't..

Whitewinged wrote: »

Anyway, is instinct/intuition a sense?

Sometimes I hear people say I got a sense something was up, but it was really just an educated guess based on similar experiences. Like this twit tried to mug me a few months back and got a 'sense' he was going to but really it was just an educated guess based on his behavior as he changed the side of the road he was walking on and was glancing around shifty like. Didn't take Nostradamus to think he was up to no good.

Flint Fredstone · 29-12-2015 05:19PM

One time I was watching an episode of The Crystal Maze on a Sunday Morning, badly hungover and this "high on life" kind of guy was annoying me so much I turned around to the wife and jokingly said "With any luck he's dead by now"
The credits at the end said in memory of...
Rewound it to get his name and sure enough it was him :eek:

NachoBusiness · 29-12-2015 05:20PM

No I don't..

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

Any chance you woke up during the night and in your half sleepy state read through a thread about Lemmy dying?

I posted in that thread around 2am. Google'd the docu and fell asleep watching it. Woke up at 10:30am'ish and they had quoted me around 9am'ish.

So, not a chance I had seen it. Was ESP I tells ya!

antodeco · 29-12-2015 05:21PM

If heartburn and indigestion is a sense, I must be a superhuman;

Whitewinged · 29-12-2015 05:24PM

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Sometimes I hear people say I got a sense something was up, but it was really just an educated guess based on similar experiences. Like this twit tried to mug me a few months back and got a 'sense' he was going to but really it was just an educated guess based on his behavior as he changed the side of the road he was walking on and was glancing around shifty like. Didn't take Nostradamus to think he was up to no good.

Yea I guess. A mixture of subtle things you are subconsciously and consciously aware of like body language, tone, language, facial expressions etc. Some people are more aware and have better intuition than others I suppose.

You know how they say that dogs sense fear. Maybe intuition is kind of like that.

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