[nutronjon]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

Well it's not as exciting as you might think, its unpredictable and doesn't make friends. When I was young I demonstrated making an electric wall clock with a second hand run backward. I also had a knack of causing fluorescent lights to go out by pointing at them and commanding them to go out. Once I did it and the light exploded and everyone in the office ran like rabbits. The two people I shared the office with refused to come back and had to be given a new office. I recommend doing this to get your own private office! Making the lights flicker was fairly easy. When I hit about 35 this stopped completely and never came back. As I get older all of these things seem to be fading. None of them was ever really useful anyway. I also used to cause street lights to go out as I walked or rode my motorcycle under them. I also had many impressive saves from getting a feeling of dread just before something very bad was going to happen. Like getting a feeling of dread as I approached an intersecting with green light and hesitating just enough to avoid a tractor trailer running a read light. Impossible to prove now but i made believers out of several people (my mom thinks I'm demon possessed) OBEs were quite common when I worked shift work and I saw people in places and situations I was able to confirm later on. My wife and I seem to share a common mind set that allows us to know what the other is thinking about even when we are far away (radar love) things like going to pick up the phone to call her and it rings just as I pick it up, knowing she is in trouble or needs my help, and predicting the death of other people. (If I dream of someone being swept away in a flood they die) My grandmother had some of these talents too.

For awhile, when I would get a strong urge to see someone far away, the person would be going through a rough time. By person I mean more than one. It could be anyone I knew. It happened so many times, I willed that it stop happening and was glad that it did. It could have been just coincidence that when I had the strong urge to see someone the person was in trouble. So we could say those coincidences stopped when I willed them to stop.

An experience that really puzzles me is, a prisoner and I agreed use esp to contact each other, on a certian day, at a certian time, and at the agreed time, something that had hung on the wall for a long time, fell off the wall. Again, may be just a coincidence.

Other coincidences would be dreams carrying a message and the forewarned event happening. Once I had the thought that my dead mother warned that something bad would happen, and she also reassured me everything would work out okay. Something terrible did happen, and it took about a year before things were okay again. The sense of my mother's message to me, helped me endure this bad time.

Spontaneous images have also changed my life in dramatic ways, and I won't say more about these, because I don't want to deal with the ridicule that seems to come up when things don't fit a limited scientific idea of what is so, when the experience is really personal. All the others could have been coincidences, but the spontaneous images and their effect on me can't be explained away as coincidence.

I will conclude with, since the atomism of ancient Greeks, there has been a question about what is reality and what is illusion.

[Tolouse]

my 6th sense is paranormally keen

i knew you were going to post this thread a week before you actually did

i even had a dream about it


j/king

anyways, ESP runs real strong in my family. there isn't as much proof as there is just knowing what will or has happened

[Celeste]

I've always kept my experiences to myself, mainly due to the skeptism surrounding "sixth senses", but I'm finding that the skeptism makes my experiences that much stronger. I've had many, but here are some of the top ones.

1. While being rushed to the trauma unit in an ambulance after severing my foot and superficial femoral artery and impalling my calf on a plate glass window, I reached over to the paramedic hooking up the IV bag and congratulated him on the upcoming birth of his daughter and said to say hello to his 2 "boys". He almost fell over. I think he needed treatment for shock more then I did....When I came out of trauma surgery 6 hours later, the paramedic was there and was still shaken up stating that I rambled alot more then I remembered....because I was pretty much atheist at that moment in time, I chalked it up to "the irregular brain firing" that scientist rave about when someone's in the process of dying (almost bled out) but that changed later that week.
I want to add that the NDE experiences and those that followed over the next month is what restored my belief in a higher force in this universe.
I haven't talked to anyone about it and don't plan to, lets just say it makes me sleep easier at nights.

2. 9 years ago in a crowded room of people, just as the clock on the wall start to chime at the stroke of midnight, I distinctly heard my grandmother say in her thick dutch accent..."I'm ok now July".
In a state of bewilderment, I announced the death of my grandmother to about 20 people. I then immediately called my mom...my grandmother had in fact just died at exactly the stroke of midnight. Nobody can rationalize this one.

3. While doing dishes, I had a sudden flash of what was like a movie screen and I saw my daughter in an terrible car accident with a friend...it was in slow motion and I was horrified that my mind had even thought of something like that....however, I forbid her and threatened all of her friends with serious trouble if they let her get in any of their cars for the next 3 days. 2 days after the "daydream", one of her friends came running in my front door screaming that my daugher had just been in an accident around the corner. When I got there, the car had obviously rolled and was hanging from a severed fence pole over a 30 foot drop into a raven. The car was totaled and by some miracle, my daughter had escaped with minimal injuries.
People call this "maternal instinct".

4. 15 family members, 4 friends and I went to see John Edwards here in SLC.
We were the first and one of the few he talked to out of an audience of
2500.
He accurately described all 8 family members that had died, exact names, their cause of deaths to the letter, birth months, exact military ties and states they died in (moms brother died in Virginia), current health issues amongst us all etc. He even talked about my beloved dog "boz" that passed a year ago in Feb and described his cancerous tumours on the "outside".
It's nothing like what you all see on TV. Our "reading" lasted over an hour..their wasn't one pause...reach...or grasp at info from this man.
It was like he was reading from a family biography. Skeptics say he might of researched our family beforehand...ok, so how did he know us from 2500 others..and the real kicker is that the tickets were bought in a Corporation name....no first or last names on any ticket and the corp is licensed to a man with no family ties that lives 3200 miles away.
I'm not saying this man "talks to the dead". But he sure as hell is getting his info from "somewhere else". Like he describes it...it's like reaching his hand into this "waterfall of cosmic energy" and there it is...not dead, but still living...just in a different form. Nothing really dies, it just transforms.

One of the newly discovered mode of conscious visual perception is "Mindsight". The latest discoveries and testing "suggests the existence of an interesting and previously unknown attentional mechanism".

While some scientists discount the existence of a sixth sense for danger, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has identified a brain region that clearly acts as an early warning system -- one that monitors environmental cues, weighs possible consequences and helps us adjust our behavior to avoid dangerous situations. The findings offer rigorous scientific evidence for a new way of conceptualizing the complex executive control processes taking place in and around the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a brain area located near the top of the frontal lobes and along the walls that divide the left and right hemispheres.

On new experiments of remote viewing and precognitions: "Do our experiments prove without question that the sixth sense exists? Not yet. What we have are three independent labs reporting similar effects based on data from more than 200 participants. The proof of the pudding will rest upon many more labs getting the same results. Still, our studies, combined with the outcomes of many other types of tests by dozens of investigators on precognition and other classes of psi phenomena, have caused even highly skeptical scientists to ponder what was previously unthinkable—the possibility of a genuine sixth sense.

Dean Radin, Ph.D.

The new discoveries and possibilities are endless. What I find curious is peoples seemingly fearful reactions to the possiblities of psi.

Good doubt is questioning that springs from a positive spirit - a constructive skepticism that wonders about risks and pitfalls out of a wish for the enterprise to succeed.

Bad doubt is questioning that springs from a negative spirit - a destructive skepticism that dwells on issues and problems with the hope that the whole project will come tumbling down.

[koji8123]

I kinda have a knack at reading peoples minds.. perhaps its just knowing the facial expression to well, but its pretty easy to tell when someones lieing with a pokerface on too, so id say, reading minds?