Anyone a psychic?

[Lucky Dog]

I'm wondering if I might be a little psychic - I often feel things just before they happen (about 5 seconds) without any logical explanation or reason, and sometimes know what someone is going to say, or a number they are going to tell me (even over the phone).

 

Does anyone have similar experiences (or know a down-to-earth discussion board like this one, but for psychic topics that I could check out)?

 

Thanks

[Devildog]

If you were really psychic, wouldn't you already know the answer to your questions?

[RecordProducer]

Hi, Lucky Dog! Can you tell me anything about me by looking at my pic?

[Lucky Dog]

Originally posted by RecordProducer

Hi, Lucky Dog! Can you tell me anything about me by looking at my pic?

 

I can tell that you're a beautiful woman.

[RecordProducer]

LOL...I can't pay you for the psychic service, but I can pay you for the compliment.

You can google all the terms you relate to the ability you believe to possess. Some sites will show up. Try a library too.

What kind of events did you predict?

[Lucky Dog]

Nothing major, it's usually just little things like knowing what numbers that someone is going to tell me about 2-3 seconds before they do. For example, I'll ask someone their phone number (not as in trying to get some woman's number, but at work or something), and I will write down numbers that I hear in my head before they even open their mouth, and then it will be the same numbers they say. It's very weird, and sometimes scary, but I don't think it's some amazing power where I could predict the winning lottery numbers. There's also other small things like unconsciously get up and walk over to answer the phone about 5-10 seconds before it rings, knowing the phone is going to ring, and it does, but it is not a constant thing that always happens, just some of the time, but enough for me to wonder.

[faux]

If you suspect you may have special abilities, you ought to invest in gambling. If you have even a remotely greater chance at accurately predicting numbers and outcomes, you could probably do quite well.

[BlockHead]

faux

If you suspect you may have special abilities, you ought to invest in gambling.

The casinos don’t tolerate people who win too often.

[Nicholas]

Anyone a psychic?

no, no one is.

[RecordProducer]

It's probably telepathy. I suggest that you test your gambling luck before investing any money. You should explore what exactly you're capable of predicting. Telepathy does exist and is scientifically explained. Read more about it. You might need it.

[Pocky]

That's like asking if God exists. The answer is always contingent on the person you're asking and their personal experiences. For me, I believe people have an awareness that many do not recognize. If you believe, that's all that really matters. Prove it to yourself and you've nothing more to prove.

[Lonestar]

Hmm, Lucky Dog. I see you're getting somewhat ridiculed for this post.

 

 

I've had the same thing happen to me for years. I'm not sure if it's psychic ability or an extremely strong intuition, but really what's the difference. Just remember to always trust your intuition.

[tokyo]

It seems that all these wonderful abilities like telepathy, etc. always fail when they get tested. Maybe it's like with quantum physics, as soon as someone is watching, you influence the system, but I don't know. I'm always very sceptical of everything.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by kooky

It seems that all these wonderful abilities like telepathy, etc. always fail when they get tested. Maybe it's like with yuantum physics, as soon as someone is watching, you influence the system, but I don't know. I'm always very sceptical of everything.

 

Nothing wrong with that kook. Lot's of people don't believe in this type of stuff. I've experienced it and had some freaky things happen to me over the years. It was never something I could turn on and off like career psychics claim they can do after they take your money and your time starts to run, but I do get a very loud voice (not literally, I'm not insane ) in my head telling me things sometimes. It's up to me whether I choose to pay attention or ignore it.

 

Usually when I ignore it, I want to kick myself later.

[tokyo]

I wonder if what people claim to be the work of supranatural powers is just not a very high level of awareness of what is going on around oneself. I mean, there are so many things that you don't notice consciously, but on a subconscious level you do notice them.

 

I've met one guy in my life who claimed he had connections to some spiritual force. You had to write questions on a piece of paper and then burn it. The spirit then would give him the answer. I unfortunately didn't know him that well and I didn't have that much time to observe him thoroughly enough, but he seemed to sincerely believe it. I really wished I had been able to test him, it doesn't happen that often that you meet someone who doesn't look like a crazy woman dressed in long wide flowing gowns with funny hairstyle who claims to be a medium. That guy taught business English and actually was good-looking.

[dreaming4ever]

I also find that sometimes I know what people are going to say before they say it. It's weird. Like yesterday I was planning something I was going to ask my mom about something really bizarre and it had just popped suddenly into my head and then she said something about it. So it was like I knew she was going to say it. Strange. I also get the phone thing where I know when people are going to call.

 

I've read some books about developing your psychic powers and I know a friend who did it successfully. I find this kind of thing so interesting!!

[BlockHead]

Try this experiment.

 

The coin toss.

Each coin toss should be independent from the other so you shouldn’t be able to predict the next head or tails based on the previous results.

 

1. Predict the next value.

2. Flip the coin.

3. Record the results. For example H:H, H:L, L:H, L:L (prediction:result)

4. Repeat as many times as you want.

 

Divide the number of successes (accurate predictions) by the number of expeiments.

 

I would be impressed if anybody can get at least 90% out of 10 or 20 flips.

[BlockHead]

My results

Format (H:Heads, T:Tails)

MyPrediction Result1 Result2 Result3 StatPred1 StatPred2 StatPred3

 

1. HHTHHHH

2. HHTTTHT

3. HTHHTHH

4. HHTTTTT

5. TTTHTTT

6. TTTHTT

7. THTHTTT

8. HTHHTTT

9. TTTHTTT

10. TTHTTTT

11. TTHTHTT

12. HHTTHTT

13. TTTHHTT

14. THTHHTT

15. TTTTHTT

16. HHHTHTT

17. HHHHHTT

18. HTTTTTT

19. THHHHTT

20. TTTHTTT

 

My predictions were accurate 13/20 times (MyPrediction & Result1).

How does my prediction compare to other uncorrelated experimental sets? Accuracy 12/20 (MyPrediction & Result2), and 7/20 (MyPrediction & Result3).

What if I based my predictions using the past knowledge rounding the result to H. Accuracy 13/20 (StatPred1 & Result1), 11/20 (StatPred2 & Result2), and 11/20 (StatPred3 & Result3)

 

How many times did heads H appear in the sets

MyPredict: 9/20

Result1 : 10/20

Result2 : 7/20

Result3 : 12/20

StatPred1 : 9/20

StatPred2 : 4/20

StatPred3 : 3/20

 

Conclusion:

Is it a coincidence that my predictions matched the best a priori prediction? Maybe or maybe not.

Maybe I should have put more effort into the predictions.

 

How much of a role does statistics play in the subconscious if at all?

Maybe I should write a program and evaluate a few other methods.

[moimeme]

Maybe it's like with quantum physics, as soon as someone is watching, you influence the system, but I don't know. I'm always very sceptical of everything.

 

I think it's all part of quantum physics. Remember, you're as much a collection of particles as your thoughts are. Some day in the future, it will all be explained in terms of physics and the people then will laugh their butts off at us stupid people who couldn't grasp that things like 'psychic' ability were just manifestations of quantum mechanics.

[d'Arthez]

Quantum Mechanics and Relativity don't mix together well.

 

But the question is, as humans contain a lot of particles (caution, this is an estimate, as I could not quickly find the accurate numbers: 10 to the 30th power?; but there seems to be no agreement even on the amount of cells a human body consists of), will we ever be able to scientifically solve the problem. Is not the human body a too complex system for Quantum Mechanics?

 

What will be solved earlier the human mystery, or chess?

 

Place your bets, if gambling is allowed in your state.

[tokyo]

Originally posted by d'Arthez

Quantum Mechanics and Relativity don't mix together well.

Um?

[moimeme]

Quantum Mechanics and Relativity don't mix together well.

 

Yet. There are several very good brains working on that puzzle and at least a few have posed plausible ways to have the two intersect. Again, we are as limited in our understanding as were the people who insisted that humans could never fly. It's not that the answer doesn't or can't exist. It's just that we haven't figured it out yet. But just as the simplistic beliefs of people now dead have been shown to be in error, so will our simplistic beliefs be shown to be wrong by generations to come.

 

It is a singular and amazingly naïve belief of every generation that it has achieved the pinnacle of understanding and knowledge - particularly given the hard evidence that no generation has yet done so.

[d'Arthez]

Quantum mechanics are used for small systems, Relavity is used for large systems.

I don't hold a degree in physics, but when the system reaches a certain size, Quantum mechanics become less and less applicable. A number of 10 to the 30th power of particles may be relatively simple, I don't know.

 

But if we look solely with the QM perspective, it might be doable to find out which particles reach which quantum states, when we think of the word "red", which is probably the easiest thought that can be researched.

 

But when we think of "The man in a red shirt drove away in the blue car", suddenly "red" will not be "red" anymore; it depends on the importance we give to the shirt in comparison with the car, for instance. These are fairly simple situations, are not they? So we would have to consider the whole human body, and not just brain states.

 

The so called psychic processes would be amongst the hardest processes to understand, without a doubt.

 

And it is not just about the human body itself. To see, we have to have sensory input; to feel the keyboard on which I am typing there must be a keyboard. In fact it might be possible that electro-magnetic waves have an influence on the particles inside of our bodies. If that is true, even solar flares will have an influence on human beings, albeit imperceptible for us. If that is the case, it would be hard to maintain a quantum mechanic perspective, unless we accept imperfect knowledge on the matter. If all must be explained, that will not do.

 

So in all probability we need a unified theory on particles, and then we need the computer power to calculate and predict a human being. At the moment that is asking a bit too much of our computers.

 

Some mathematical problems can be solved by human beings, and not by computers. And some problems can't be solved by human beings, but can be solved by computers. Why? Because of the difference in the methods they use.

 

The problem will be the same as in chess. It is not difficult to analyze any position to an end, even if it takes months to do it properly, but it is impossible to analyze the game from the starting position to its ends, as there are simply too much possibilities to consider.

 

It is a singular and amazingly naïve belief of every generation that it has achieved the pinnacle of understanding and knowledge - particularly given the hard evidence that no generation has yet done so.

 

I agree with this. But there is always some evidence we ignore. Or evidence we produce, because it fits better with social or political agendas.

The darker side of our civilization. We naturally assume that live elsewhere is similar to our lives. But with less food or with bigger cars. So we forget that 2 billion people on this planet have never seen a telephone.

[BlockHead]

There is so much mumbo jumbo for something that can be easily determined.

Just do the coin test. Make a prediction/s and then conduct the experiment/s. Each coin flip is independent from the previous flip giving you a 50% chance of getting it right. If your predictions are correct more than 50% of the time then you a beating the odds. If you are correct more than 80% of the time with dozens of flips then there could (probably) be some psychic activity at work.

 

Why does card counting work? This is because there are a fixed number of cards, suites, etc. so there is dependence between each hand until the deck/s are shuffled. Even the shuffling process may not result in a completely randomized deck.

 

There is a lot of talk about physics but no mention of the central limit theorem. Woops… Maybe I supplied another buzzword for a few vocabularies.

d’Arthez

The problem will be the same as in chess. It is not difficult to analyze any position to an end, even if it takes months to do it properly, but it is impossible to analyze the game from the starting position to its ends, as there are simply too much possibilities to consider.

You have a finite number of positions, pieces, and moves assuming that cyclical moves aren’t permitted. Like tic-tac-toe, it will probably boil down to a no win situation.

d’Arthez

So we forget that 2 billion people on this planet have never seen a telephone.

Modern medicine, and, dare I say it, world peace have contributed to that number.

[GirlDown]

coin flips don't solve everything.

 

sometimes it's a feeling, sometimes you get it from other people. a coin isn't going to send messages to your brain. at least, it doesn't to me.

 

she's not predicting, she's feeling.

 

there's a difference.

 

i do it too. i don't know what it is.

 

i can also change stoplights.