How many of you have ever had a psychic experience?

[wyst]

A Demon Haunted World is a book by Carl Sagan - he talks of these things among other stuff.

as for number 2 up there:
if we are "designed" to see patterns in order to save our lives - then it is in our best interest to error on the side of seeing patterns where they aren't there. but as a result of that, we think somethings are occurring that aren't really - or not in the way that we think they are.
for instance - you have how many thoughts regularly that don't happen? dreams that don't come true? how many?? a lot....
but you can probably count 20 max times you were "psychic"....

so what I'm saying is that if the mind is going through the data it processes every day and makes some connections - a lot of times it will make them and then you will dream based on this - if the dream doesn't happen - you don't think anything of it and you don't make note of it.
but if it does happen or something strikingly similar happens - then you will surely note that and it stands out in your mind - when in reality it is just noise in the data that happens everyday as your mind processes it - but it is seeing a pattern there b/c pattern recognition is what it is good at.

Ah. That's the standard explanation for deja vu, right?

But this felt much different than deja vu, and these were dreams that I remembered actually having. In one or two cases, I'd actually said something to someone about the dream or written something down in a journal, and *then* the situation happened (though the outcome was different).

Now, I'm not saying your explanation #2 doesn't hold, but I do wonder if there's some other name for this slightly different kind of thing, or if anyone else has ever had it happen.

I'm certainly *not* claiming to be a psychic, although I did have a great grandmother who was convinced she could see the eletricity leaking out of outlets in waves, like heat on pavement.

On the other hand, she also thought telephones sometimes changed your words around and "made trouble."



Wyst

 

[danielson]

they had this thing where on TV a whole bunch of people would think a number and you had to guess that nuomber

i did but i guess thats just probablilty

just had deja vu on one of the threads on here

 

[john937]

I go thru cycles. When I meditate regularly, stuff like this happens. Then I start to make changes in my life, and the changes escalate, eventually I freak out so much is changing, and I stop meditating.
That's when changes slow down and I get stuck and bored.

I learned meditation from a Zen master. When we meditated together his students could clearly see his aura, energy field. I'm not exaggerating to say he glowed like a light bulb. His often talked about "syncronysity", things that happen together that you wouldn't expect. Like you think of someone, and the phone rings, and it's them.
Like you plan to meet someone, and just as you get there a parking space opens up at just the right time in just the right place. There's a lot more syncronisity in your life when you meditate.

His explanation is that people are all connected, like fingers on a hand. For me to say I am an individual is like my thumb saying it's more important than my pinky. Since most people's daily conciousness is "I'm a thumb", individual, issolated, they can't imagine how a signal from one to another could happen. If you see the world as connected, "I'm a thumb, connected to a hand, also connected to a pinky", then syncronisity is easier to believe, and even make work for you.

 

[buckydingdong]

Okay, this is very lame, but when i was around 10-12 years old, I had a dream I was eating KFC with MC Hammer in front of a big white house, some other dudes were around, and then people started shooting at us. The next day, I saw (I think on MTV news or something) that MC Hammer had been shot at, in front of a house (I believe his), while eating Kentucky Fried Chicken.
A very odd coincidence.



I sometimes wonder if my mind made this all up, as I can't now imagine why MTV News would find it important to include that Hammer was eating kfc.

 

[Madd Hatter]

Well, add another one to the "dream" thing. I'd say at least 50 times in my life, all piddly little shit. At first I didn't realize I had dreamed it until after it happened. Later I would remember them the next morning, and sho nuff, they happened. More weirdly, most of them were the same as yours, where in the dream bad shit happened, but the real thing turned out ok. With at least a few of them, I'm inclined to think it was because I knew it was coming, and what/what not to do.

I think this stuff here is just another example that we (humans) don't know shit, and there's a lot more going on. Too bad I can't have a career with this kind of stuff. It fascinates me. As well as ghosts, mysterious places (bermuda triangle, peruvian desert, stonehenge), etc.

 

[Tha One CrumCake]

I honestly have lots of psychic experiences.

Knock on wood.

 

[Pamela]

I used to get feelings of Deja Vu all the time. like once a month when I was in highschool/college. Now I only get em a few times a year.

Me too..

 

[Bikini Mod]

Wyst, it is a gift. Jonh937 actually gives a pretty good explanation.

You are not alone... many of us have such gifts.

 

[3Vandoo]

happens to me all the time, and I hate it.

Me the "power" that I develop is that I feel when someone will die. actually I can smell it, a big strong odor of shit, quite annoying I tell you.

On me ma side, my aunt, mom and grand ma are kind pyshic, not fun I assure ya

 

[Bikini Mod]

I spent most of my life running from it... hated it, feared it and still have anxiety when I deny it.

My mom had it and she spent her whole life (still does) running. It is a terrible feeling; akin to being a bee trapped inside a jar.

I don't have that feeling anymore... only when I deny what has been shown to me and I run scared. Feeling like I am cheating (I was raised with an extreme sense of fair play and honesty) in some way because I can see many things that others can not. I don't ask to see these things... but when I have a lesson to learn, they are revealed to me.

This gift is also very strong with one of my daughters. She has had dreams where she has seen people that even I haven't seen pics of, yet she described them to a T... She has also seen my aura and the spirits that surround me always. I am teaching her not to be afraid, but to accept and embrace it.