I’m convinced that I have psychic abilities

[Neonatal RRT]

The clouds are still a bit dark looking even though it’s a very sunny day outside but I’ve seen several clouds now that have one of those really long and thin clouds coming straight out of the puffier clouds looking like lightning bolts striking the ground. And these are extremely long. That definitely can’t be a good sign people.

Funnel clouds. Not all develop into tornados...where they touch the ground and cause damage.

 

[Judge]

My mother once called long distance to ask me, "What's wrong?" - She was calling from Rome Italy, some 6240 miles away.

The night before I had to take my brother to the hospital. No one knew about it at the time.

 

[SusanLR]

I hear you @Captain Jigglypuff .
I started having dreams of being places I've never seen or knew about and people I didn't know but came into my life later at age 12. Events that were taking place in the world at the time I was asleep and dreaming about them, only to wake up to find it was happening as I dreamt it and could see things clearly that might be shown on the news afterward.
It is similar to remote viewing, but much more accurate and clearer.
Like just being there and observing.

The dreams are lucid, and I start looking for a building or highway number, the name of a street or place. Then when I wake up, I can try to find where I was observing.
It was never scary, I enjoy it. Especially when someday, I get to travel to the places and know where everything is from the dreams.

I don't control it either. Not long ago, a friend of my house companion told me to get the lotto numbers for him. I said it doesn't work that way. I got an associate's degree in what was called metaphysics just because of my life experiences.
I believe all things are connected by one consciousness and the capability is there to use this connection. Science is making advances quickly now in the realm of consciousness. Nice.

 

[Tired]

Reading this thread i understand that everyone is psychic but me, go figure..

 

[Hypnalis]

Reading this thread i understand that everyone is psychic but me, go figure..

I had a "psychic" experience once.

Later I figured out it was a side-effect of waking up in the middle of a dream, so I still remembered the "perceived reality" of the dream after I woke up. The same thing has happened occasionally since then, but now I can recognize the state, so it doesn't feel psychic.

BTW I'm not saying every other claim is real because I've disproven my own experience. One person's experience neither proves nor disproves anything unless it can be objectively tested.

But tests have never supported any claims in this domain.

And subjective effects can be readily induced with biochemical imbalances (trances, illness, extreme physical states, external agents (notably psychedelics)).

I read a book once in which the narrator/central-character as a "tween-aged" child believed they could affect the screens of TVs in shop windows by humming. But to his great frustration nobody else could see it.
It "turned out" that he'd learned to hum in a way that vibrated his own eyeballs at the same frequency at the screen refresh rate (which is quite low).

NB: this was fiction, and the writer used odd scenes like this in many of his books to add depth to his stories.
I'm not claiming it's actually possible. It's just an example of yet another way to look at subjective effects.
This one using a real, reliably repeatable biological mechanism to induce a real physical effect that was misinterpreted /lol.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Telepathy...apparently...is a type of language (meaning, not dialect), it is a stream of consciousness, it allows access to see what others see (sharing consciousness with another person). From the interviews with the researcher doing the EEGs (brain wave analysis) with these autistic savants, it's not something that is turned on and off, but rather a state of being. These kids and young adults are communicating with other autistic savants at the Hill and some are saying they are best friends with people they haven't physically met or interacted with online...real people...and when the researchers actually find them (they are aware of thousands of these individuals) and allow them to meet (making all the travel arrangements) for the first time, it is quite special. Beautiful and mind-blowing...and "F" the skeptics...they are absolutely clueless as to what they are talking about. It's so far beyond their comprehension.

I am only 5 episodes into the Telepathy Tapes series, but so far they haven't challenged these individuals yet...as everything is easy and effortless for them.

 

[vergil96]

I've had a few experiences where I knew what was happening with friends or family members on a different continent or far away as it happened, and then heard about it later. To me, it's not psychic per se... more my intuitive brain gathering up all sorts of information from all sorts of different sources and slowly, quietly processing, and then presenting me with the results of its findings.

And then I say, "Oh... thank you brain" and wonder if that's actually valid until it gets confirmed.

That said, there are also other times when my brain presents me with impressions that aren't correct. So, I've learned to just observe and be grateful I have a brain that's churning away at things while I manage getting through each day.

That's what I think about it too. The brain collects information that don't reach the consciousness and then creates a "prophetic" vision or a dream. It would otherwise be called intuition.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

That's what I think about it too. The brain collects information that don't reach the consciousness and then creates a "prophetic" vision or a dream. It would otherwise be called intuition.

There is that, no doubt. However, do not conflate this with what we are talking about. I know...easy to do because we are often quite tied to our physical world to the point of completely shutting out anything else.

What we are talking about here is what happens when the mind is separated from this physical world we live in...when mind and body are disconnected. When a blind child can see through his mother's eyes, independently use a letter board, iPad, or organize objects by color. This a shared consciousness experience. How does a 3 year old child become fluent in multiple languages and can interpret hieroglyphics when they've had no exposure to it in the physical world? How does a child in another room see what the random number generator is producing, not only that, but do mathematics with random numbers and equations with 100% accuracy...time after time after time? So many different tests...as controlled as realistically and scientifically possible...90-100% accurate.

Consciousness is separate from the physical world...but most of us have been programmed to think ONLY in a materialistic sense...matter, physics, chemistry, etc. Even at the beginning of this thread, if you read my posts, I was thinking this way...very scientifically. However, now that I have reached the end of the series...read what these autistic savant children and young adults are writing...I am forced to change my thinking.

Books and movies about good and evil characters with "powers" are not what we are talking about. This is something else entirely...sad, cruel, and beautiful and hopeful. As with words...they are low bandwidth, and difficult to express true meaning. Listen to the series...I think you will question a lot in your life.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Everything that I saw has been coming true. I actually saw people losing their jobs just because they didn’t agree with what Republicans are currently doing since the shooting last week. I mean yeah celebrating his death and making jokes about it are in poor taste but nothing illegal or worth being fired over. I knew that Constitutional rights would be at the center of the causes for the political war and violations would be very obviously happening that the media and Republicans are sweeping under the rug and not recognize the gross injustice of the violation of the First Amendment that is becoming a plague now. I mean you can’t say one tiny negative thing about Charlie Kirk without people screaming at you and getting you fired. It is only going to get worse by the end of the week. A violent political war is about to happen and it will begin approximately by Sunday give or take a day or two. By then we will be unable to stop it and nothing we say or do will end it either. No protests, no sending letters demanding that it all ends, nothing. The violation of First Amendment rights is the political gunfire I was talking about. The Republicans are trying to force everyone to believe in everything that they do and won’t hesitate to punish those who refuse to comply. Even Republicans who disagree with their own party’s behavior will be punished. We need to figure out how to keep ourselves safe now. We also cannot trust the FBI or CIA or anything that they say or do now as they have been fully comprised since Sunday and are now under full control by the Republicans. So be weary if you suddenly see black cars around that never seem to move and look for anything odd in your homes as they could have installed hidden cameras while you weren’t home.

 

[Grondhammar]

There is that, no doubt. However, do not conflate this with what we are talking about. I know...easy to do because we are often quite tied to our physical world to the point of completely shutting out anything else.

This is a good clarification, thanks @Neonatal RRT

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Everything that I saw has been coming true. I actually saw people losing their jobs just because they didn’t agree with what Republicans are currently doing since the shooting last week. I mean yeah celebrating his death and making jokes about it are in poor taste but nothing illegal or worth being fired over. I knew that Constitutional rights would be at okay and violations would be very obviously happening that the media and Republicans are sweeping under the rug and not recognize the gross injustice of the violation of the First Amendment that is becoming a plague now. I mean you can’t say one tiny negative thing about Charlie Kirk without people screaming at you and getting you fired. It is only going to get worse by the end of the week. A violent political war is about to happen and it will begin approximately by Sunday give or take a day or two. By then we will be unable to stop it and nothing we say or do will end it either. No protests, no sending letters demanding that it all ends, nothing. The violation of First Amendment rights is the political gunfire I was talking about. The Republicans are trying to force everyone to believe in everything that they do and won’t hesitate to punish those who refuse to comply. Even Republicans who disagree with their own party’s behavior will be punished. We need to figure out how to keep ourselves safe now. We also cannot trust the FBI or CIA or anything that they say or do now as they have been fully comprised since Sunday and are now under full control by the Republicans. So be weary if you suddenly see black cars around that never seem to move and look for anything odd in your homes as they could have installed hidden cameras while you weren’t home.

Both sides of the extreme are doing to others and themselves. You're either not "pure enough" or you are "evil" for being on the "other side" of the conversation. Both come at this from their own moral high ground, virtuous perspective. Do not underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. They will destroy themselves...and a lot of other innocent people for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The silent majority...the folks in the middle, the moderates, the independents, the people who can reason both arguments and perspectives...we are the ones that must speak up and try to stamp these movements out.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Both sides of the extreme are doing to others and themselves. You're either not "pure enough" or you are "evil" for being on the "other side" of the conversation. Both come at this from their own moral high ground, virtuous perspective. Do not underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. They will destroy themselves...and a lot of other innocent people for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The silent majority...the folks in the middle, the moderates, the independents, the people who can reason both arguments and perspectives...we are the ones that must speak up and try to stamp these movements out.

That’s just it. The truly independents that can see both sides of the argument are totally powerless. Neither side will listen to us and nothing we say or do will stop the movement either. This is why I keep saying we are helpless and not safe because we are seen as being even bigger threats because we refuse to join a side of the political war. This is a serious problem that we can’t solve or get out of. The political turmoil has grown far too strong and far too quickly now for anything to be done about it.

 

[vergil96]

What we are talking about here is what happens when the mind is separated from this physical world we live in...

But we are not disconnected. There is no way to prove that it's not the brain munching on information it already had before you e.g. turned off the lights and tried to fall asleep. It's too complex to actually prove one way or the other. I have had what many would consider paranormal experiences myself, so I don't doubt that they exist, but there is no way to check whether they're actually true and what they mean. This is a touchy subject, but you can't prove or disprove if God or gods and spirits actually exist in the same way. They are definitely experiences that people have, but it's impossible to determine whether they actually exist outside our own brains. I do think there is value in spiritual practice, because spirituality is real for the mind and it helps deal with your own internal processes. Meditation and prayer are actually helpful for many people's mental health, and I can vouch for that with personal experiences, but it's not the subject of this thread.

I would say it's easy to spot when someone is about to die, I don't know how, but it's easy, you just know that. I think it wouldn't be impossible to tell when seeing someone on the TV. Animals are able to spot death and illness before anything more specific happens, and probably people have this ability too, it was important for survival when we were still monkeys, but nowadays the world is loud and we either shut our instincts off or the way human minds work is too "verbal" and categorising to simply listen and let things be what they are.

The political events are also easy to predict.

When a blind child can see through his mother's eyes, independently use a letter board, iPad, or organize objects by color when prompted.

How do you know it's true? Or not something else? I just flunked a "hearing test" because I hear sounds I'm apparently lack the cells to hear or the signal is "too slight". I'm curious who designs the tests and for whom, because compensation is a thing. You can spot a sound through vibration in objects and in the air - hard to understand when it's speech though. I can read from afar too and correctly guess and monkey people. I don't understand why issues with reading are considered the norm, it's honestly rather outdated or unrealistic.

That's also what I call intuition. It's also picking up on slight signals and gathering them together. Everyone does this all the time, some individuals to a greater extent than others, because of predispositions. Loads of "weird" and "impossible" things can be picked up on. At least to some degree, I believe this is what these children are doing as well, provided that the podcast isn't completely fake.

So I don't think we completely disagree if at all.

How does a 3 year old child become fluent in multiple languages

I have not learnt many languages as a 3-year old, but I was very inventive with math / could do it and solve hard math problems intuitively without ever being taught and I learnt to read around that age too. I know many languages, often all it takes is exposure, seeing or hearing something once. I don't need repetition to learn and I pick up on new things easily. This is how a high IQ mind works.

can interpret hieroglyphics

Another aspect is that if you dive deeper into that kind of shows, podcasts and what have you, it always turned out that they were fake, exaggerated or can't be replicated.

There was a supposed master of martial arts who was said to have mastered telekinesis and there were videos of him pushing away his students with the power of his mind. Then someone from outside his school came and easily beat him and the telekinesis "didn't work" because as he explained "you have to be a believer". There were many cases like that. What is real in that is that the master created a cult.

That's where I disagree, I wouldn't trust the media too much on paranormal topics, because they have never proven to be true or at least not an exaggeration.

Where I agree is that "paranormal" phenomena are our brains picking up on details we don't consciously perceive or can't a finger on.

 

[Judge]

Reading this thread i understand that everyone is psychic but me, go figure..

I suspect there is some serious skepticism in your tone. That's ok. I never thought of myself as psychic either, although I have been exposed on occasion to things (like my own mother) neither myself or science can adequately explain.

Only that things have happened to me, though I am always careful to keep them in context in terms of that which happens to me consciously as opposed to being in a state of sleep. (Conditions involving sleep can IMO be far easier debunked in comparison to conscious experiences, such as hypnopompic hallucinations).

Leaving me often pondering, "Why me?" Especially when surrounded by a society chock-full of skeptics in general. A question for which I have never found an answer, and I suspect never will. But that I accept that a great deal happens in this dimension for which science does not have an answer.

 

[maleonolo]

Can anyone here use telekinesis? It seems more fun than seeing visions

 

[Tired]

I suspect there is some serious skepticism in your tone.

Envy, not skepticism.

 

[Hypnalis]

Can anyone here use telekinesis? It seems more fun than seeing visions

It's too easy to test /lol.

Interestingly, a very fit human can generate (peak) 2 KW, which is sufficient to move something quite large at short range. Enough, for example, to move a human or a multi-kilogram weight.

Some very special people (stage magicians can reliably move things that are, by coincidence, light enough and close enough to be moved by blowing lightly. As yet there's no evidence for heavier or inconveniently shaped objects.

Oddly, casinos don't bother to protect against supernatural methods.

 

[Judge]

Can anyone here use telekinesis? It seems more fun than seeing visions

So thought "illusionist" Uri Geller as well.

So much so he made a living at it. Well known years ago for creating tricks to simulate the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy. Unfortunately IMO his abilities ultimately diluted the viability of the concept itself. Leaving it for the most part within the realm of pseudoscience.

Though it's also no secret that over the years universities and government and military agencies have also experimented to determine whether it actually exists. When it seemed that they were impressed by Geller's skills to speculating over a point beyond illusion.

Uri Geller - Wikipedia

 

[Judge]

Envy, not skepticism.

Glad you clarified that.

Though it also reminds me of the saying, "Be careful what you wish for. You may get it."

It's a lonely place to be at times if and when people just assume you're nuts. Though not being a theologian or a scientist. Just an "eye witness" to things I cannot explain, and never had any mission to objectively prove them.

Though it would be fascinating to discover any absolute link between autistic persons and paranormal experiences. So far I personally cannot say I've found any.

 

[Hypnalis]

@Judge

It turned out scientists running experiments tend to be easy marks for con-men.
That changed later on, when they started bring in stage magicians to keep everyone honest.