Do you have a sixth sense? How do you experience it?

I like to define my terms so…

American Heritage Dictionary - sixth sense
n. A power of perception seemingly independent of the five senses; keen intuition.

Yes, absolutely I have keen intuition.

How do I experience it?

Years ago when I lived out west and my mom back east, I always knew when the phone rang if it was her. Always. And she said she knew the same thing. There was no regular time or day of the week we talked and I had roommates so the phone call could have been for them. There was no explaining it. Same thing happened when I was a teenager with my best friend and my boyfriend.

A really common one when radio was still good was thinking of a song, switching on the radio and the song would be on. It happened all the time and it still happens. Sometimes it unsettles me.

I don’t do mind-reading and I cannot predict the future. I just get a thought–it happens mostly with my family and has freaked them out a bit at times. I’ll approach one of them and begin a convo and they say that they were just about to bring it up. Or I’ll utter the beginning of a sentence and it’s exactly the wording they were about to use.They’ve stopped asking how I “knew that.” My MIL calls my spouse at work to bring him up to date on his 6 sibs and their families. Later on, invariably before he tells me she called, I’ll ask if she did. There’s no pattern there, either.

Today it happened whilst reading an online friend’s blog post. I don’t know at this point if my intuition will be on target. It was about a week or so ago for another blog friend. I didn’t want to make a big deal of it because 1. it was an extremely serious matter and 2. I’ve not even met this person but still–I just knew what the outcome of this matter would be–I just knew–and there was no reason I should feel certain that way. I get vibes from people a lot and I’m never wrong. The vibe might start sort of mild and I might even try to discount it but it’s for naught. Ignoring my intuition doesn’t change anything so I simply just let it flow.

Though I’ve chosen “keen intuition” as the closest definition to what I have, I think it goes a bit deeper than that. Isn’t intuition simply going by past experience to inform you of the present/future? I think most women have pretty strong intuition because in general, we pay attention to the minute details that the guys miss. And we use clues that they don’t look for. We have a more developed antennae than they do.

Still what happens to me really seems beyond intuition into the realm of “can’t really explain it.” <key Twilight Zone music>

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