Why Do Some Of Us Have Extra Sensory Gifts?

I think our minds have more than one level to them. Sometimes, if you just relax your mind and let your thoughts flow, you have insights. I think we need to listen more to that 'inner voice' we all have, especially our feelings when we meet someone for the first time. I often find that I have a negative feeling about someone, which later proves to be correct. This has happened with people on tv too. Several times, I have taken an instant dislike to male presenters on tv and they have later been found guilty of sexual misconduct.
 

JaniceM said:
I don't know how I missed this post.

I'd hesitated to bring up the subject- not wanting to "creep out" guys who might be reading this, or ridicule from people who don't believe in such things at all, but I'd been wondering about it, too.
Also, the movie I watched on Sunday made me even more curious- how did the little boy (4 years old) know there'd been a sibling that had been lost through miscarriage when nobody ever told him? He claimed he met this person during his near-death experience.
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Many such cases---both children and adults often report meeting deceased relatives they didn't know in life during NDE's. Twins/Triplets adopted out to different families often feel 'someone missing from their life'. And there are cases where a child has said something indicating they were a child previously miscarried or who died in infancy.

To me some of the strongest evidence for reincarnation comes from incidents with very young children talking about past lives. (They don't label it that way--they'll say 'When i was the Mom or a pilot.) Usually there are some things they say they could not have known about being a mom or a pilot at the age they are. Other times there are verifiable anecdotes of their former life. In western cultures many parents tend to shut down such talk instead of acting like the kid is telling one about their day in pre-school, asking simple direct clarifying questions.

The fact that there are sub-Reddits and Twitter threads that are most often labeled 'Creepy thing kids have said to you' or the like tells you how most people in First World nations think about it such things. 'Creepy'? no, maybe unusual, certainly interesting. Meanwhile in countries where belief in reincarnation is common parents will ask for details and often are able to confirm them if the child's previous life was not too far away.
 
Lavinia said:
I think our minds have more than one level to them. Sometimes, if you just relax your mind and let your thoughts flow, you have insights. I think we need to listen more to that 'inner voice' we all have, especially our feelings when we meet someone for the first time. I often find that I have a negative feeling about someone, which later proves to be correct. This has happened with people on tv too. Several times, I have taken an instant dislike to male presenters on tv and they have later been found guilty of sexual misconduct.
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Our minds do have several levels to them. i've long believed that and most of my reading both for my psych degree and independent reading about brain function all point to it.

According to book i'm reading such insights/intuitive likes/dislikes as you describe can be attributed to something called the 'adaptive unconscious' not to be confused with subconscious or Freud's definition of unconscious. It is a mind function that processes info from senses and comes to conclusions but they tend to bubble into consciousness as 'feelings'-- when studies suggest they actually are based on rational, tho not conscious, thought processes.

Logically it is to be expected that in regard to other humans it would more often be negative ones we have or at least notice more depending on our history. It is a survival trait to be able to recognize 'threats', even if they are not direct personal ones.
 

It seems our 'other levels' have knowledge that we are not aware of. I was once walking past a funeral parlour and had the sudden thought...'I shall be living in another town when I die'. I have no idea whether that is true....but I do wonder where that thought came from.
 
My response is merely to say I have no physic abilities, no sixth sense, no premonitions but
I have read about such things. When I was a young married man with a couple of young’uns,
I read about Duke University’s Study of these types of Phenomena, from early England up to
the fifties United States, and that reported cases throughout Europe. I have to stop, my iPad is out of power.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
It's been said that everyone has intuition...some just don't follow it. But some of us go beyond regular intuitive abilities. We have precognitive dreams and knowings, we can predict a future event via psychometry (or tell of a past one particular to our subject(s), we are empaths, healers, those who see shadow people and ghosts. What makes us so special? Why can we do these things and see these things? I am friends with people who do and have done all of the above. There are also people who claim to be able to communicate with the dead. I've often read that Pisces (my sign) tend to be psychic. But of course not all psychics are Pisces.

I've been meaning to post this for quite awhile, procrastinator that I am. One of @JaniceM's replies to my thread about premonitions is the catalyst for me finally doing so. She wanted to know the same things I've been wondering about. Part of what she wrote:
"The part I bolded above sums up my concern- I'm very much bothered by anything that doesn't have a logical, rational explanation. Not only 'where' do these abilities come from, or 'why' do some people have them, but more important to my own personal experiences 'how exactly' do they happen, and 'what' is the reason/purpose???"

For those of you who also have these gifts, I would love to read your thoughts and theories about "why us?"
@feywon @chic @Gaer
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There are two specifics that are most distressing, wondering if you or other folks here might have input...

1. I've been bothered by precognitive dreams since I was young. There's one that's particularly mindboggling:
It occurred shortly after I turned 17 yrs old. It was about untimely tragedies involving individuals- two by name, and two others that were represented by a person who was in the dream. Around two decades later, the named individuals committed suicide, and the two others did also. The catch: when I had the dream (nightmare, actually) the two named individuals hadn't yet been born.
There's no mistake about who they were. Does anyone have an explanation?

2. It doesn't help that I don't know the correct words/terms- I think it's called linear time?? As far back as I know, it's never been the case for me. My entire lifespan thus far is as 'present' as the present day. Any input?
 
JaniceM said:
There are two specifics that are most distressing, wondering if you or other folks here might have input...

1. I've been bothered by precognitive dreams since I was young. There's one that's particularly mindboggling:
It occurred shortly after I turned 17 yrs old. It was about untimely tragedies involving individuals- two by name, and two others that were represented by a person who was in the dream. Around two decades later, the named individuals committed suicide, and the two others did also. The catch: when I had the dream (nightmare, actually) the two named individuals hadn't yet been born.
There's no mistake about who they were. Does anyone have an explanation?

2. It doesn't help that I don't know the correct words/terms- I think it's called linear time?? As far back as I know, it's never been the case for me. My entire lifespan thus far is as 'present' as the present day. Any input?
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Consciousness is not bound by time or space, nor are spirits. Linear time is a construct mostly of corporeal beings.In dreams we are. freed of it- particularly precognitive dreams

From early childhood i had a very active dream life, often feeling as if i had whole other lives happening elsewhere, elsewhen that i was conscious of in those dreams.
 
feywon said:
Consciousness is not bound by time or space, nor are spirits. Linear time is a construct mostly of corporeal beings.In dreams we are. freed of it- particularly precognitive dreams

From early childhood i had a very active dream life, often feeling as if i had whole other lives happening elsewhere, elsewhen that i was conscious of in those dreams.
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But what about the absence of linear time in everyday life?
 
Most of us have to work at living totally in present. And generally only the best and worst of our past is fully with us day in/day out. I once heard trauma defined as a stasis in time, because when someone's PTSD, regardless of type (childhood abuse, combat experiences, or sudden trauma--usually as victim of violence), is triggered they are not just remembering the event they are reliving it.

When my Dad was dying of metastasic cancer one of his tumors was in his brain. On bad days/nights he was disoriented to place/time and often we could tell he was reliving prior events, some decades in the 'past'. In that case the cause, tho the events were not everyday type things, was likely physiological --pressure fro the ganglioma triggering the firing of the involved neurons.

To some exent people with brain injuries that prevent formation of new memories (tho in time neuroplasticity research may help with that) live in the present they often remember how to read, communicate, things they learned pre-injury, but because nothing they currently experience gets transferred to long term memory they don't have the same hour by hour timeline recall of their days most of us do.
 
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feywon said:
Most of us have to work at living totally in present. And generally only the best and worst of our past is fully with us day in/day out. I once heard trauma defined as a stasis in time, because when someone's PTSD, regardless of type (childhood abuse, combat experiences, or sudden trauma--usually as victim of violence), is triggered they are not just remembering the event they are reliving it.

When my Dad was dying of metastasic cancer one of his tumors was in his brain. On bad days/nights he was disoriented to place/time and often we could tell he was reliving prior events, some decades in the 'past'. In that case the cause, tho the events were not everyday type things, was likely physiological --pressure fro the ganglioma triggering the firing of the involved neurons.

To some exent people with brain injuries that prevent formation of new memories (tho in time neuroplasticity research may help with that) live in the present they often remember how to read, communicate, things they learned pre-injury, but because nothing they currently experience gets transferred to long term memory they don't have the same hour by hour timeline recall of their days most of us do.
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Interesting info, but doesn't explain my experience.
The closest I ever came was a book I happened to see years ago that had an illustration in it that said 'time is like a wheatfield.' Unfortunately, I didn't know who the book belonged to, and didn't notice the title.
 
JaniceM said:
Interesting info, but doesn't explain my experience.
The closest I ever came was a book I happened to see years ago that had an illustration in it that said 'time is like a wheatfield.' Unfortunately, I didn't know who the book belonged to, and didn't notice the title.
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Should have asked this first: Are you looking for an exxplanation of your precognitive dream of people who suicided that were not born at time of you dream or of your feeling of living only in the present?

If the dream--the most succinctly i can state is thus: because consciousness is not bound by time/space it can gather info from wheres/whens our physical senses cannot-- 'past/future' (likely 'sidewise' in time so to speak in parallel dimensions, timelines). Your sleeping mind gathered info from some 2 decades in the 'future' of 17 year old you.

If your experince of feeling always in the present i would have to ask a lot more questions about your thought processes and life to even attempt to explain to you something you've lived with into your senior years apparently without ever developing a theory of your own.

Questions about how you managed all the mundane tasks required to keep a body relatively healthy, to maintain a roof over one's head without being capable of conceiving/imagining what could happen in the future if you don't do certain things now. Questions about how you build relationships and decide who can't be trusted if you don't assess info you've gathered thru experiences with people but only consider how they are in the given moment?

And maybe first we would need to determine your definition of living only in the now.
 
Mr. Ed said:
Could it be certain traits manifest themselves as a result of severe trauma and resilience?
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I too think it could be true for some, but i believe in reincarnation and so for me the broader accumulation of experiences in various settings, cultures could lead to being more comfortable with acknowledging things about oneself that others might label 'odd' or even 'evil'.
 
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feywon said:
Should have asked this first: Are you looking for an exxplanation of your precognitive dream of people who suicided that were not born at time of you dream or of your feeling of living only in the present?

If the dream--the most succinctly i can state is thus: because consciousness is not bound by time/space it can gather info from wheres/whens our physical senses cannot-- 'past/future' (likely 'sidewise' in time so to speak in parallel dimensions, timelines). Your sleeping mind gathered info from some 2 decades in the 'future' of 17 year old you.

If your experince of feeling always in the present i would have to ask a lot more questions about your thought processes and life to even attempt to explain to you something you've lived with into your senior years apparently without ever developing a theory of your own.

Questions about how you managed all the mundane tasks required to keep a body relatively healthy, to maintain a roof over one's head without being capable of conceiving/imagining what could happen in the future if you don't do certain things now. Questions about how you build relationships and decide who can't be trusted if you don't assess info you've gathered thru experiences with people but only consider how they are in the given moment?

And maybe first we would need to determine your definition of living only in the now.
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You're definitely more knowledgeable on these topics than I.
I don't mean to hog a lot of space here, or your time.

RE: the dream- your explanation is much clearer than the only other one I received (on a forum years ago). The person said since I can know events that haven't yet happened, it shouldn't be surprising that I know people that haven't yet happened (weren't born, that is.)

RE: the time thing.. until I started on the internet, I never knew it was unusual. I'd always had older/elderly people in my life who liked to talk about their growing-up years, and I didn't realize they were 'drawing from memory.'
I don't have any difficulty 'living in' the present day, it's just that all the previous years/decades exist in this present day too.

As for who can be trusted, etc., not sure of correct terms but I've heard it called gut-instinct or creepy-vibes.
 
Dreams can predict the future. IMO, when we are able to regularly become "awake" and act during our dreams, we will be capable of changing our future.
 
JaniceM said:
You're definitely more knowledgeable on these topics than I.
I don't mean to hog a lot of space here, or your time.

RE: the dream- your explanation is much clearer than the only other one I received (on a forum years ago). The person said since I can know events that haven't yet happened, it shouldn't be surprising that I know people that haven't yet happened (weren't born, that is.)

RE: the time thing.. until I started on the internet, I never knew it was unusual. I'd always had older/elderly people in my life who liked to talk about their growing-up years, and I didn't realize they were 'drawing from memory.'
I don't have any difficulty 'living in' the present day, it's just that all the previous years/decades exist in this present day too.

As for who can be trusted, etc., not sure of correct terms but I've heard it called gut-instinct or creepy-vibes.
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Ok, that makes more sense. I misunderstood what you meant. For most people unless experiencing a reliving of a traumatic event while our memories are a part of us and shape our now we don't think of ouselves as living in the past. Rather most of us live with our pasts and hopefully have learned from them.
 
Liberty said:
Dreams can predict the future. IMO, when we are able to regularly become "awake" and act during our dreams, we will be capable of changing our future.
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Being aware and taking control within our dreams is called Lucid Dreaming. Once dismissed by neuroscience, more studies are now being conducted with lucid dreamers. One such study suggested most lucid dreamers are generally less fearful than most people. That researcher thinks it might be because we've faced our fears in lucid dreams.

To my knowledge none of the studies have considered or tried to determine if we are less fearful to begin with--which is why we don't just awaken as many do from scary dream situations. When recognize it is a dream/nightmare we become the production staff (writer/director) behind our virtual experience, shaping the action and outcome.

As to changing the future, certainly we can use lucid dreaming to influence how our own personal future will unfold. But considering the idea of changing the future, everyone's, makes me think of Ursuka K. LeGuin's novel, The Lathe of Heaven. In it a psychiatrist realizes a certain patient's dreams can change present reality, of course that changes future, so under guise of 'helping' the patient he uses the dreamer's dilemma to try to reshape the world. Read it over half a lifetime ago, can't recall the final outcome, but unsurprisingly things got chaotic in the process.
 
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feywon said:
Being aware and taking control within our dreams is called Lucid Dreaming. Once dismissed by neuroscience, more studies are now being conducted with lucid dreamers. One such study suggested most lucid dreamers are generally less fearful than most people. That researcher thinks it might be because we've faced our fears in lucid dreams.

To my knowledge none of the studies have considered or tried to determine if we are less fearful to begin with--which is why we don't just awaken as many do from scary dream situations. When recognize it is a dream/nightmare we become the production staff (writer/director) behind our virtual experience, shaping the action and outcome.

As to changing the future, certainly we can use lucid dreaming to influence how our own personal future will unfold. But considering the idea of changing the future, everyone's, makes me think of Ursuka K. LeGuin's novel, The Lathe of Heaven. In it a psychiatrist realizes a certain patient's dreams can change present reality, of course that changes future, so under guise if 'helping' the patient he uses the dreamer's dilemma to try to reshape the world. Read it over half a lifetime ago, can't recall the final outcome, but unsurprisingly things got chaotic in the process.
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I only had that kind of experience once. Decades ago, I had one of my usual terrifying nightmares, but it was like I was conscious of the fact that I was dreaming, and was able to 'will' myself to wake up.

I've never been a fearful person.
 
JaniceM said:
I only had that kind of experience once. Decades ago, I had one of my usual terrifying nightmares, but it was like I was conscious of the fact that I was dreaming, and was able to 'will' myself to wake up.

I've never been a fearful person.
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My kids and i frequently discussed our dreams and taught them when still Preschool age that they always had the option to wake or to redirect the dream. One of my boys created a 'White Light Shark' who would eat any threat in his dreams. When their sister was 4 1/2 she shared a dream about a monster who chased her to the brink of a high.cliff. When the boys asked 'what then?' She replied 'I turned around and made friends with it.' They were duly impressed.

And yes she could talk a good deal at that age. We're a very verbal family. Boys were reading & comprehending Masters level material in 6th grade, but when my daughter's reading comprehension was tested in 6th grade they couldn't find a 'frustration level' for her--she understood everything they gave her.
 
Nathan said:
I believe all humans have the gifts, many just don't realize it or understand. Precognition, feeling 'vibes', healing hands are real, the power of God is within us, as a gift.
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This is something Jose Silva, architect and founder of the Silva Method of Meditation emphasized often: we all have latent abilities and can learn to use them for our benefit and each other's.

He originally created the method to help his children focus and do better in school, but then he noticed the other ways it was benefiting them and started exploring possibilities and other uses for it.

He was raised Catholic and at least when he was still alive the Silva Organization taught the method to clergy of various faiths, worldwide for free. He knew how regular meditation and practicing healing could open people's minds and hearts and thought more people could be helped if more clergy practiced these things.

As with any thing there are always some who will try to turn everything to their advantage. But we can learn to recognise them.
 
Alligatorob said:
Sure hope mine don't!

Interesting thread, beyond forecasting that the sun will rise tomorrow morning I have no extrasensory gifts that I know of. Not even a lot of just sensory ones...
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In my experience people who claim to have ESP or other non provable gifts don't really have them. It is an easy way to bolster a weak ego. Who can deny the mysteries in life, and thus we have the psychics, seers, mediums, fortune tellers, dream interpreters, and it usually always involves $$.
 
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