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The 6th Sense, a discussion and explanation    

By BaldDumboRat, 4 years ago
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I want to bring up more intellectual discussions with my journals occasionally, because I have always been a very thoughtful and curious person. I have a high interest in psychology and the workings of the world and the human mind, and experiences in my life have lead me to believe I contain a medium 6th sense. It's one reason why the alternate version of myself is an espeon.
Let me explain further. As a child, there were various things I experienced before I even knew about 'visions' and 'psychics', things like moments of fear to enter certain areas, feelings and small predictions of things people might do. I used to see 'colors' that I gave different names to, and though I don't see them anymore, I believe as a child I was sensitive to auras. I could feel when people were dangerous, or friendly, or hurt, and because of this I often did not find fear in people who may have had a dangerous appearance to the naked eye.
One color I remember was one I called 'Death Yellow' when I was 7. If I saw this color, or aura in an area, I would avoid it. Something bad had either happened or was going to happen, and I just KNEW somehow. I didn't know or question why, because I didn't think it was odd at that age.
The colors went away, but in their place I began to see shadows and objects, and receive 'feelings' about things. I once owned a black cat as a child, but she was given away when I was about 8. I'd say a few years after that, I sometimes saw the shadow of a cat in my window, even though my window was not reachable for animals. I felt pressure on my bed and legs, like paws walking over me, and to this day I STILL get that feeling. Now that I have a cat I often find myself thinking it's him, but then I realize that it CAN'T be him because his bell isn't ringing, and when I look, as suspected, nothing is there.
The feeling doesn't scare me, I feel flustered and confused for a moment but those nights I sleep better than most.
Other moments I can remember are times I might say 'Wouldn't it be strange if--' as an absent thought being spoken out loud, and soon after it happens.
A friend I hadn't seen in months, for instance. I was talking with someone and I said "Wouldn't it be weird if my friend came around the corner and said hi?" Merely 4 minutes later she was there, apparently running away from home and coming to me for advice.
Another time, a moment that was very frightening for me, was when I was in a car and the driver didn't notice a little girl behind him when he backed up. Her ran over her leg, and she was rushed to the hospital. The moment was scary, but somehow the fear went away and I suddenly asked my mom in a fascinated voice, "Wouldn't it be strange if the hospital said she only had scratches on her leg?"
Guess what happened to her? No harm came to her, aside from bruises and scratches...

Now and again, I get TERRIBLE feelings, I hate them because they literally cause a sort of shut down on my body. What happens is, at seemingly random, my vision becomes strange. It's hard to explain, but it's like I'm looking at things, yet I'm not. Things look more distant than they are, and even though they're clear and in focus, I feel like I can't focus on them. After this, my mind becomes sensitive, noises around me stress me out and my body goes into a panic where I feel like I'm in a cold sweat. My body shakes, and everything around me feels so uneasy and uncomfortable.
The most memorable times I've had this feeling were a shock to my system. The worst one I felt was when I walked into a hotel that used to be a school. I was visiting with my mom, and when I walked in everything felt heavy and distorted. I didn't want to go in, I didn't want to be there, my mom saw me shaking and I told her how much stress I was under. I felt sick, unsafe, and frightened, and even asked my mom if we could leave. In the end we didn't, and after 20 minutes I was able to calm down. I later found out there was a suicide there where a man lit himself up with gasoline in front of people.
Another time was at a 7-11 that I visited very often, but on that particular night the feeling just hit me and I had to get home. Across the street from the 7-11, soon after, this happened: http://bikeportland.org/2008/02/11/.....-in-beaverton/
The kid that was hit was a boy from my school...


I've had a few people witness this 'feeling' that I get, including my mate, friends, and my mother, and most recently, my new room mates.
That's why I made this journal, because I just got this feeling a little while ago and it worried them. I'd say about 10 minutes later my mind shut out for a bit, and I was brought back when dragonphlu pointed out that there was a siren going off and that must be why I had that feeling. After the siren faded, my feeling faded as well.


These are the many reasons I believe I have a medium level 6th sense, I don't say high because I can't willfully control it. Have any of you had these sort of experiences, and how do you feel about them? How much do you believe in these kind of experiences, or do you think it's all in the mind? I'm curious to know everyone's views and thoughts on this.
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  anokorok
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  I can sense when my epileptic brother is going to have a seizure about an hour before they happen even if I haven't seen him for awhile or if he's a great distance away. When I get the feeling it's best described as a twisting terror in my gut and for a moment I freeze like a deer in headlights. As I've gotten older the feeling has become less intense and he has had seizures much less frequently. Never once a false alarm.

I also have a strange knack to know where my family's belongings are. Everyone comes to me when they lose something because most of the time I can find it with the first place I look, even if I've never seen it before. I also can come up with facts I believe I learned from dreams, but that's possibly just repressed memories though.

I try not to understand such experiences objectively, as they make no sense to me logically. However, they happen reliably, so I accept and embrace them.

  balddumborat
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  That first sense reminds me of how some animals are able to detect things like this in humans. Sometimes I wonder if the 6th sense is something all creatures carry, animals having a higher connection to it because of how sensitive they are to their surroundings.
I've actually questioned if the 6th sense in some people might have to do with an animal-like instinct that has been made more prominent in that particular mind.

  alessasmile
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  Hearing a siren without knowing you're hearing it, and instead interpreting it as a vague feeling of unease? That's called synesthesia.

It's not a sixth sense. The other two might count though.


By the way, this is more of a paranormal discussion than intellectual. Both are fine, just sayin'.

  balddumborat
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  No no, the feeling came before the siren, about 10 minutes before. I was in the middle of filling out a job application and my body just suddenly went into panic mode, I explained as best as I could what might have been going on because my room mates were worried when I started hugging myself and shaking. My mate explained better to them, since he was in a clearer state of mind and was there when the 7-11 incident happened.
Later, I zoned out completely, and that's when the siren was going by.

Heh, I meant intellectual just as a general term for future discussions I'd like to bring up, it wont always be paranormal, but things that make people think and discuss.

  submissivefire
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  I wouldn't say that I have it on as high a level as you (however high or low it may be in scale). But I have been able to call the right shots in things anywhere from simple games on the computer to how something is going to turn out. If I don't make the right call, I usually had the feeling regardless. Sometimes I just don't feel it in time. A little control would be nice, no?
Also, I'm right about 98% of the time if something is going to turn out negatively (I have a heightened pessimistic view attached to a low self-esteem. As a joke when I was younger, I used to call myself the King of Negativity. It fit, though.).
Looking back on it now, history points out that all of my "precognitive" feelings have been about myself. Rarely does it ever span out to anyone else. Unless they're in direct connection with an event I'd have a feeling.

  balddumborat
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  Ah, you should see "What the bleep do we know".
They actually talk about how some people may have such a powerful mind energy that they can literally change their own fate around them, making them more prone to negative experiences, good luck, bad luck, and this mind energy could also have the power to influence those around them in their choices and actions. It really makes you think D:

  leviadragon99
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  I think i'm probably pretty close to a 'Null' actually...

  swiftpaw
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  Interesting read. When I was younger, and more spiritually minded (if that even has anything to do with it), I used to vaguely feel I could sense an 'aura' of sort around people, and all creatures really. More like, I knew their mood and the behaviour they were likely to exhibit before they did anything to exhibit it. I also often felt it necessary to walk in certain paths or through certain doorways for reasons I couldn't explain, almost as if walking through the wrong side of a double-door might put me in 'the wrong dimension' or something. But it was probably all in my head. :) More (or less?) related, I used to have lots of vivid dreams, beautiful dreams where animals would come and visit me or talk to me, though not in words, so emotional and wonderful I'd wake up crying to have to leave the dreams. I miss those, as they could be life changing in some ways, and I pretty much stopped having them entirely after I got to my latter teens.

Other than that, I also have MANY times over the course of my life where I wonder if I've accidentally predicted the future. It's never a particularly profound moment or major event, but just surprisingly mundane and random moments. Just for one example, I SWEAR I had a vivid dream when i was about 12 years old that I was in California working for a paint company, which made absolutely no sense since I wanted to be a marine biologist, and was in Georgia, at the time. I promptly forgot about it entirely, until last year at 28 years old, I was working one day, and a chill ran up my spine, as it was in California, for a paint company. Weird little moments like that of extreme deja vu, almost always moments I swear I dreamed over a decade ago.

But it's probably all in my head. :)

  balddumborat
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  I really don't know about it being 'in your head', really. It may be that term and way of thinking that caused less activity of that type. I believe that children are the most sensitive because they know no boundaries or 'rules' of how things need to work in the world to human standards, and they're minds are always open to curiosity and possibility of the impossible. I think when someone gains the knowledge of the possible and impossible according to others causes them to push back the thought that maybe such things mean something important. Things like coincidence, irony, and sheer luck start to replace being sure of things, and the ability starts to fall asleep. Sometimes it might wake up in an emotional time, or a close to death experience, but many times it stays suppressed.

  onyxdragon
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  I believe in the 6th sense... to some degree...and that it develops in a corner of a person's mind, should that person be able to tap into it...some willfully, others instinctively... and the manifestations are as unique as the person themselves...in your case it seems to manifest itself in familiar, nudging ways... in my case my brain kinda skips slightly, like a record or a CD, where the back of my mind takes over for a moment... when I was a child, I predicted presents and situations eerily...one time we drove through town as a child and we drove past an emergency vehicle and me and my mother had a really bad feeling, and she didn't want to be around that location anymore, and I said something like "someone shot a cop..." and the next day we found out that in our tiny ass podunk town, someone had shot a police officer and ran, which would explain why we felt deep down we weren't safe in that area... on the night my baby brother died, I was at the McDonalds next to the hospital when the ambulance that went to my house left...I saw it, and I had a gutwrenching feeling deep down... and I immediately reached for my scanner...but I forced myself to put it down and not listen, I don't know WHY... but looking back, hearing that call on the scanner could have possibly been the most dangerous thing in the world for me... things like that, I'm a creature of habit... I always turn my scanner on when I heard sirens... I had the city's bands memorized at the time...i've got others, times when I've narrowly avoided death (my own or others) with no clear recollection of how, but to be completely honest i'm not sure if thats some sort of subconscious clairvoyance, damn good driving instincts, or just dumb luck (instinctively swerving my truck and trailer in between a guy on foot running across the freeway from the cops, and not fishtailing into the cops, for example... but as many incidents as I've had, if its dumb luck, I know why i suck at gambling, every ounce of luck goes into my driving...)

  moo-lestable
 

(No Subject) Posted: 4 years ago

  Most have some what of a 'sixth sense' it is more a matter of whether they accept or notice it I too have some ability in knowing things moments before it happens but it only really helps out on tests sometimes or knowing when to keep my guard up I can also sense people alive or dead when they are around when I was younger my abilities were much stronger I even had several friends who I would talk to all the time Pix and Bat these probably weren't there real names and are probably on shortenings of the names they had such as bat was short for Bartholomew bat would always be on the couch me and mom had and loved it quite a lot I don't know or rather remember why though and Pix who was a floating head I would talk to often mostly laying in bed talking to them all the time apparently they were on the Oregon trail and died in a carriage accident I think... although one day he was to be born so I had not seen him in about ten months and the reason I did see him was because his parents had killed him apparently it pt me in such a shock that I haven't really been able to see them since I can't really remember though either sine most of what I know is from what others have told me that I had told them at the time also I hear that back then often people would come up to me and give me things and tell my mother how special I was even before I was born people would visit my mothers shop and talk about "a little girl wearing peacock feathers running around" and I have always been surrounded by many people who are of that type that have strong spiritual abilities and although my family wont talk about it it does slip out that most of us can at least sense some things hell if it weren't for my grandma I would have never found my dog.

TL;SW: Yep yep spirits and shit everywhere oh hey and did you know that auras are really magnetic fields? Cool right! It's sort of like everything we see of that sort is strong magnetic energy ( @ w@)