Sixth Sense

[backtothefuture]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone here has ever experienced what I call a 6th Sense?
Maybe there is another word for it. I have been thinking about some of the conversations we have had here over the past about miracles and things like that coming to an end. Is there any possibility that when those things passed away, we were given the ability to absorb more knowledge and discernment and things like a 6th sense?
This happens to me often and for many years. I often know when for example the phone is going to ring. I have been wide awake at 4 in the morning before ready to answer it. I have stood at my kitchen sink and just knew something about a friend of my husbands and sure enough that night when he showed up at the house it was true.
I don't ever tell my family when I am having what they call that weird thing I have, so they say it doesn't count cause I didn't let them in on it.
I have picked up the phone to call someone and the person was already on the line and the phone never rang. These may seem trivial and are just a few examples. But the list goes on.
I don't know what to make of it. Seems like I have Deja-voo (don't know how to spell that one) a lot also.
Anyone else go through this?:confused:
Thanks
Nancy:eek:

[Me Again]

Why does it seem that I reply to every thread? I know, I'm a know-it-all. :)

Anyway, some research seems to indicate that we only use about 10% of our brains, so it is possible there's a part of our brain that processes, at times, in ways that are not "normal." I don't rule it out.

Deja vu (correct spelling, and also the name of a "gentlemen's club"), I think, is merely the brain playing a trick on us. What I mean is that, say you walk in a room, and unconsciously scan the room. The info your brain takes in is immediately stored, perhaps without your knowledge or awareness. Then, upon a second scan of the room, you are now operating at a higher level of awareness and you gaze upon something that you had just seen moments before but don't remember. Your brain retrieves the previous memory from somewhere in your brain and you mutter to yourself: "wow, that's weird. It seems like I've been here before."

Our brains are such amazing devices that science is only now beginning to research (it's been going on for years, but we haven't even scratched the surface). Parts of our brain provide opiates to our bodies that gives us a sense of exhilaration and joy, while another part of our brain provides chemicals that gives us feelings of calm and serenity. Our sadness is produced by chemicals created by the brain. Our brain controls every movement and thought in our body, AND when our brain is injured, new pathways can be created that enable the injured person to regain some or all of the use of the body. E.g., a stroke victim, whose brain was injured by the bursting of a blood vessel, or its blockage, can be taught through Occupational and Physical Therapy to walk again and to regain some use of their paralyzed arm. I've seen it. It wasn't a repair of the brain, but therapy that helped the brain establish new pathways for the messages to travel.

Amazing...truly we are "fearfully and wonderfully made."

ed

[Paige]

Nancy,

What Ed said. :)

Really, I too have experienced much of what you describe. I've always called it my "woman's intuition" though...

Paige

[Me Again]

Hey, I forgot to mention another phenomenon that my Methodist pastor/chaplain friend, Mike Garren always used to experience:

Vuja De' - the distinct feeling that none of this has ever happened to me before.

[Amie]

Nancy,

The brain truly is an amazing organ. There are some neuroscientists though, that have found:


It is concluded that cerebral initiation of a spontaneous, freely voluntary act can begin unconsciously, that is, before there is any (at least recallable) subjective awareness that a ‘decision’ to act has already been initiated cerebrally. This introduces certain constraints on the potentiality for conscious initiation and control of voluntary acts.

Source: http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/623

To put it simply, "..the brain events involved in initiating free choices occur about a third of a second before we are aware of our choice." (Source: http://www.iep.utm.edu/t/time.htm#H2).

This has been raising brows since at least the 70's. Some argue that intent comes from outside of ourselves and therefore there is no free will. Others argue that we have to limit "ourselves" to our brains to draw that conclusion. I agree with the latter personally - that we are not our brains.

That said, I would wonder how hard it would be to tell who is having truly accurate intuitive experiences, and who is just having coincidences validating a belief. It's hard to say, but I for one believe that there are genuine experiences. I don't know that there are people with consistant experiences, but I wouldn't rule it out.

There's this thing called "genetic memory" which suggests that the DNA of our ancestors also contains traces of memory which we carry with us. It is used to explain "past life" memories. It may be just the beginning of a larger discovery, but I think that the presence of instinct supports the idea.

Amie

[backtothefuture]

Thanks all.
Ed, I feel like I have read your post before:biggrinbounce:

Paige, I sometimes refer to it as womans intuition also:clap2:
(too bad Eve didn't have some of that!)

Amie, I really do wonder how amazing in years to come what will be found with things like intuition and Deja Vu (I already forgot how Ed told me to spell it)
There are times when I am driving and I swear I actually feel like I have done the exact thing before. Right down to the things that are in my view. Maybe there is way more we can learn down the line about our brains and how they work;) I'm game for a makeover!

Thanks all,
Nancy

[Lou]

Nancy don’t dismiss "woman's intuition" as your brain playing tricks on you. There are things that can’t be explained. The problem is that we have all those phony fortunetellers and religious naysayer out there.

[Amie]

Nancy don’t dismiss "woman's intuition" as your brain playing tricks on you. There are things that can’t be explained. The problem is that we have all those phony fortunetellers and religious naysayer out there.

Exactly Lou,

That's why I brought up that we are not our brains -- and I suppose guys have intuition too (lol!). :9_cool:

Amie

[Me Again]

Amie,
somehow I missed your earlier post and had skipped right to Nancy's. That is a very interesting study, and I think, further gives some validity to my thesis about Deja vu. Our brains work unconsciously a good part of the time, taking in memories independent of us saying - "oh, I need to remember that." An example might be where you are driving and then realize that you have gone the wrong route, actually driving a route that you regularly drive. Your brain remembered the route that you take on a regular basis, but then after you realize what you've done and say "what the heck am I doing?" you can actually go back and remember things you saw along that route that might have been different - a person walking, a certain colored car, etc.

Our brains are truly amazing - God is to be praised.

[Amie]

Ed,

Either the brain is working unconsciously, or "we're" way ahead of it. So far there's no evidence to support either view without question. Science may uncover a mixture of both - finding that our brain is a receptor of some sort. I read about that question being raised too. It'll be interesting to see how it all unfolds. Maybe they'll find something I never imagined.

Our brains as receptors is interesting too - maybe Moses picked up on something in a part of his brain that is not used for us when the Red Sea was parted... but I'm just "gee whizzing".

Amie

[Jotham]

Ed : " Vuja De' " Waaaaaay to funny!

Amie, i would have posted your post before you did but Cari and I were camping when you posted it. And even though i was miles from any Net connection, i knew i was supposed post that post, but couldn't cuz my brain is good but not good enough to hook up to the internet telepathically when i'm out in the wilderness.

And hey, when it looks like pictures below?
I can do without the net for a few days.

grin.

---PS.

The concept that science is hinting that actually we have 3 "brains"; Brain / Heart / Intestines-Gut. It is quite an interesting study for those inclined.

Sixth Sense can also keep one from trouble. Cari and I were up a few miles from Mt Saint Helens at a river gold panning. We had also heard of another location and went to check it out. Cari and i walked about a 1/4 mile from the truck (which was about 3 miles off road at that point and at road's end in 4 wheel drive) when we both looked at eachother and stated things didn't feel safe. We then went through some dense follage and spotted several signs of Elk. And knowing what we know of the NorthWest, we also know that Cougars follow the Elk. Sure enough, within 50 yards of our "Feeling" we spotted fresh cougar tracks. At that point we let out a very long blast on our air horns and headed carefully back to the truck!

[Amie]

Thom,

Okay, to your story, to your pictures -- my vocabulary seems to be limited to "woooow!"


And even though i was miles from any Net connection, i knew i was supposed post that post, but couldn't cuz my brain is good but not good enough to hook up to the internet telepathically when i'm out in the wilderness.

I knew that you knew that with my also telepathic abilities - which is why I posted it :biglaugha::9_cool:.

Amie

[backtothefuture]

Wow Amie!
I knew that you knew that he knew to post that post:clap2:
Something going on here:)
Nancy

[Amie]

Wow Amie!
I knew that you knew that he knew to post that post:clap2:
Something going on here:)
Nancy

ROFL!!! :biglaugha::biglaugha:

[ozark]

Thom,

I have had that feeling before. I was snorkeling with my wife, and I started getting a feeling that there was danger near by. The water was a bit murky, so I couldn't see real far. I looked all around me and didn't see anything. Then I thought to look below, and about 30 feet down I saw an enormous fish swim underneath me. I think it was a shark. We got back into the boat quickly!

However, our sixth sense does not always work. We have been having a mountain lion come into our neighborhood some nights. My daughter was walking up to our mail box to mail a letter. She got to the box and heard something growl. She looked across the street and there was the mountain lion staring at her. She did what you are never supposed to do. She ran! Good thing the thing did not chase her. No help from the sixth sense there!