Do you believe in Psychic Abilities?

[Rocketman]

This was always a topic that made me go "Meh, it's all B.S." throughout the years, until things started happening to my mother around 2001.

Now, I assure you, there's no reason for you to actually believe any of this. In fact, I'm very confused with it myself, because my mother is 100% being serious, and I have no clue how to react. This is NOT one of those joke threads, and I am NOT trying to get attention or get a rise out of my fellow Hypesters. I'm just going to state the facts, as I myself have witnessed them, and by what was told to me.

- My mom isn't someone you would call "crazy", or someone you would accuse of trying to get attention. She is a very important person in her profession who works for a respectable attorney. I'm one of a handful of people she's told all of this to, and I was actually a WITNESS to a lot of it. Unless it's an elaborate family prank spanning almost a decade, I have to remain very open.

1. In 2001, my mother came downstairs one morning and said she had the strangest, most random dream. Me and my father asked her what it was and she said she dreamt that Dale Earnhardt had died. This was the morning, ON THE DAY, that Dale Earnhardt actually died.... literally hours before the Nascar race happened. Now, in my own personal belief, it's not impossible that this was a coincidence, but the thing that strikes me the most is that my mother isn't a Nascar fan, and me and my family don't even watch or care about Nascar.

2. In 2001 again, she claimed that she kept having dreams involving the number "911" popping up in her head, like it was a neon sign (like an alarm clock, or a diner sign) while she was dreaming. She got very concerned that this "911" was a warning of an Emergency about to happen in the family. This happened for months, and we knew about it beforehand... and then September 11 came - 9/11, of course. Again, purely coincidence, I thought.

3. And then it just got more and more ridiculous. In 2004, my girlfriend at the time, named Sarah, was supposed to come over to my house to hang out with me. She was running late, and it was unusual for Sarah to run late without telling me or calling me for a heads up. My mother randomly walked into the family room (where I was sitting) and said, very calmly, "I have no idea why I had this image in my mind, but I just had an image of Sarah hitting a deer on the way here, and she's in the hospital." This was 100% true. Sarah had not carried her cell phone with her, and was at the hospital, where we later learned this.

4. We were going to my aunt's house to see my aunt and cousins in 2005, and while we were in the car maybe one minute from getting to the house, my mom said, "I feel like something uncomfortable is going to happen while we're here." I, of course, assumed that this had something to do with an awkward family situation with my aunt, so I asked her what she meant. My mom said, "I just randomly got a flash in my mind of pajama pants, and blood." I completely thought this was ridiculous.
We then go to my aunt's front door, and my younger cousin who is about 16, answers the door. We say hi to her, and then she says she's going to run upstairs to get her mom (my aunt). As my cousin is running upstairs, she's wearing pajama pants, and sure enough, there is a period stain on the back of her pants. A blood stain where her butt is. And of course, this is very uncomfortable.

5. There was a girl I graduated from high school with, named Joanna. This year, my mother, out of the blue, said that she had a dream where Joanna was pregnant. She said, quite simply, "I had a dream that Joanna Roberts was pregnant." We hadn't spoken to Joanna in over five years, and didn't even know what her current situation was. The next day, on Facebook, Joanna announced that she was pregnant.

So, these are the highlights of the past 10 years for me. Again, you don't HAVE to believe all of it. I honestly don't see what I could gain from randomly typing a bunch of lies on SHH, but believe what you like.

Having said that...

- Do you have experience with Psychic abilities?
- Do you believe in it, or is it a load of bull?
- Any stories involving your friends or family?

What say you, SHH?

 

[QueenChaos]

Yeah, I do.
I have had experiences to further justify this belief as well.

However, then comes the consideration - "What ARE psychic abilities, really?" How would you choose to explain them?

 

[Rocketman]

Yeah, I do.
I have had experiences to further justify this belief as well.

However, then comes the consideration - "What ARE psychic abilities, really?" How would you choose to explain them?

Well, I don't think it's a "gift" that you receive through "magic" or "voodoo", or some Hollywood thing like that.

Personally, if I had to take a guess, I would say it has something to do with frequencies in the air, like radio signals, or invisible sound waves, that are absorbed by the brain, which happen to be the frequencies of something that hasn't happened yet.

The best example I can think of is this:

A car is about to crash into a telephone pole. The driver slams on the brakes, and the brakes make a loud "SCRRREEECH" on the road. That loud screech comes before the crash. Being psychic is when you hear the "screech" before the wreck.
In other words, it's already determined that something is about to happen, and you're just hearing the last minute warning to it.

 

[Barrington]

I definitely think psychic abilities are real, yeah. There are a lot of fakers out there, but there are also people who are quite gifted with real psychic abilities.

 

[enterthemadness]

I believe in Shawn Spencer, not related to the Spencers from Port Charles. Lol.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I really dont know. I've had things happen that makes me think its possible but part of me is still skeptical. When I supposedly was having these experiences, I was also an unmedicated manic depressive.

 

[Spider-X]

Of course Psychic Abilities are real! How else would I be able to finish my wife's sentences for her every so often? If that's not proof, I don't know what is.

And how do they predict the weather? If you say computers then you're full of LIES, I SAY!

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

I don't .

 

[Spider-Aziz]

No, it's a load of crap!

 

[Manic]

I don't believe in psychic abilities, but I'm open to the concept of precognition. Sorta.

We predict things all the time. We see patterns all around us, similar recurring events, and we know what kinds of people we live around. We're always preparing for stuff that might happen in the future based on what we know. When it comes to people who have vague premonitions in dreams and stuff like that, I think that's just their minds subconsciously taking in their surroundings and coming up with possible scenarios for coming events. Our predictions aren't always right, but that's because we run through tons of scenarios in our heads about different stuff all the time.

As for fortune tellers and those people who read crowds? They're full of crap.

 

[Mike_D202]

I believe they exist, I just think there are people out there that make a mockery out of it and try to make money.

 

[Silicon Surfer]

Mainstream science has long since accepted the existence of psychic abilities. There have been enough experiments that produced results that are not within that allowed by the laws of chance. The amassed statistical data has been accepted as proof that something is acting that is not within the known sciences.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Of course Psychic Abilities are real! How else would I be able to finish my wife's sentences for her every so often? If that's not proof, I don't know what is.

You are so used to her you know what she is to say

And how do they predict the weather? If you say computers then you're full of LIES, I SAY!

Voodoo

 

[Bubonic]

Mainstream science has long since accepted the existence of psychic abilities. There have been enough experiments that produced results that are not within that allowed by the laws of chance. The amassed statistical data has been accepted as proof that something is acting that is not within the known sciences.

Yah, how about some sources on that.

 

[Ghostvirus]

There is a chemical that is released when a shark dies that somehow tells every shark within a mile almost immedietely to bone the f**k it out Jimmy is dead.

I believe that when we connect with people if you practice you can pick up on senses that tell what that person is like. I don't believe they can reach inside your skull & root around like they are looking for the best candybar in a halloween bag.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You just reminded me of something I read about ants, if they smell death from one of their owns they bury the one smelling as such even if that individual is alive, when that one returns they take it and bury it again

 

[Ghostvirus]

Of course Psychic Abilities are real! How else would I be able to finish my wife's sentences for her every so often? If that's not proof, I don't know what is.

And how do they predict the weather? If you say computers then you're full of LIES, I SAY!

In all honesty. In my experience a Native American staring blankly at the sky has predicted the weather better than the weathemen on television.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I believe in them in the same sense that I believe in aliens - it's logical to think it's a possibilit.

I think that with the very small amount of the brain that we understand, there are most likely things that it can do that we haven't uncovered/learned how to use yet.

I'm just a complete skeptic about people actually having these abilities.

Certainly what the OP described sounds genuine, and I would be happy to believe that she was not lying and this has happened to her.

But when it comes to most people who claim to have abilities, or even mediums who claim they have a connection to another world, I am very much a skeptic.

 

[HisMagicTrick]

When I was between the ages of 10-13 I deeply believed in these sorts of things. In fact, I was desperate to become a ‘gifted psychic’. I literally would read book after book on developing psychic powers, and on different forms of divination. I mediated everyday, and did basically every technique out there that is supposedly meant to help you develop that ‘sixth sense’. No matter how hard I tried, I was the same, no better at predicting events or reading minds than any other person out there. Like an epiphany it hit me: none of it is real. I was unbelievably dedicated to opening up this part of myself, and everything remained the same. Sceptical people would try to argue with me that it wasn’t real, and because I just wanted it to be real I didn’t look at it logically. I tried convincing myself, instead of being objective about it. Now I’m able to consider this question without putting my wishes in the way of my thinking, and I truly don’t believe any of it is real.

I think most psychic experiences are just coincidental, or maybe some people are more intuitive than others.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I think that with the very small amount of the brain that we understand, there are most likely things that it can do that we haven't uncovered/learned how to use yet.

I don't think that is a psychic ability, it's more like visions, something out of hand
I had a few myself

 

[Dr.]

Step one, you need to acknowledge the existence of blind chance and have some understanding of how “odds” work. It is extremely unlikely that you, personally, will win the lottery next weekend. But if enough tickets are sold, the odds might be very good that someone will win. And few would say (quite reasonably) that the new millionaire owes it all to psychic abilities. She’ll just be lucky.

So stipulating chance, you then have to eliminate it (account for it) for any supernatural claims. Typically, this means guarding against selection bias or the fallacy of “counting the hits, ignoring the misses.”

How many folks had a vivid dream about something to do with “9-1-1” (a ubiquitous number combination, especially in North America)... in the year 1996? How about 1997? 1998? These are all “misses” in terms of evidence for psychic ability. But if no one counts them, then you’ll only hear about the ones that “eerily” occurred in 2001. That’s selection bias.

Likewise, how many dreams have there been about famous celebrities dying – who didn’t actually die? Those misses should be taken into account - as they would contribute to a proper statistical evaluation (standard practice for double-blind drug trials with placebos, etc.). But if they’re excluded, you get a skewed sample – with only the hits in favor of psychic ability counting as “evidence.”

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You know doc, saying lottery made me think you were a spambot, at least before checking your post count followed by reading the rest of the entry

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Naw it aload of nonesense.

 

[Spider-Who?]

I believe in Shawn Spencer, not related to the Spencers from Port Charles. Lol.

Love that show.

I don't believe in psychic abilities in the romantic/movie sense of it. But I do accept the idea that we are all connected in some way and at times, someone might be able to pick up on this connection. The Maharishi Effect being one example. You can easily look into Princetons consciousness project with random number generators and the affects of test subjects influencing these in various ways.

 

[webhead731]

I want to believe.