No.20038
there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into. And that it can be honed with practice.
I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid. I started doing tarot readings when I was little for fun, and they ended up really scarily accurate. It's all intuition based, the way I read them. I freaked out several family members- aunts uncles, mom, grandma with my readings to the point where they were made uncomfortable. I've predicted severe illness, infidelity, and minor issues too with my card readings. I get told a lot that my tarot readings aren't any fun because I don't sugarcoat bad things. In fact I think I have more of an ability to predict bad things than good.
I am also really good at reading people, which I usually pass off as being a perk of being a wallflower, but I can even guess people's first names when I've never seen them before sometimes. Sometimes I even get such a powerful feeling that a person or animal's name is 'wrong' somehow to the point where I have a hard time using the name they give me. Like, one time I was riding a trail horse with a name like Red or something, but I could not stop calling her Daisy- in my mind, when I was petting her or riding her. It was really weird. Probably sounds retarded but I wonder if it's some kind of weird intuition or something.
At this point I always listen to my intuition. If I get a bad feeling about something. My husband believes I have very strong intuition as well, and always listens to me if I decide to cancel a plan or leave something early because it's never steered us wrong. I think it's the closest thing to a religious belief I practice- if I get a gut feeling about something I don't do it, or if someone gives me bad vibes I gtfo.
few examples off the top of my head:
- when i was 16 I crashed my car going 80 into a telephone pole and the tree line in a ditch, with my mom in the passenger seat. she only came out with cuts from the glass, I didn’t have a scratch.
- some dumb friend of mine was getting catfished and subsequently extorted, and basically made a deal to “sell me” to them since he knew i was well off in exchange for being left alone. instantly knew something was up with the girl that hmu. few days later he attempts suicide and she’s arrested for something completely unrelated.
- i was in a bad place in high school and used to keep a longer than legal switchblade on me, just waiting for someone to give me a reason. it fell out of my pocket once in the middle of the hallway during class change, and another time in class as i was standing up from my desk. both times it miraculously and quietly fell into someone else’s backpack, a million times better than clattering on the floor.
Is your intuition ever scarily accurate? I’ve intuited running into certain people. I went to the library 3 days ago because I just knew my crush would be there even though he’s a commuter who didn’t attend class that day. I don’t know how I knew that. I just followed wherever my body took me because I knew it would take me to him. Another example, there’s someone that I know I will run into on my campus (who doesn’t live anywhere near it) by the end of the month. I’ve known it for months and I’ve been trying to avoid running into this person but I know it’s the universe’s will we run into each other.
how do you develop better intuition? I can usually tell that something horrible is going to happen on days when horrible things do happen but that's not really useful
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No.20039
it is very important to train your intuition
unfortunately i dont know of much empirical research into this so i feel like its likely that you can risk falling into bullshit mysticism like:
>there are some spiritualities (Indigenous matriarchal ones for example) that believe women possess intuition like a 6th sense that men aren't able to tap into
trust me ive met plenty of women who are utterly fucking clueless in this department, especially when it comes to their choice in men, the shit ive seen is direct evidence against the idea that all women are chadsexual
i think concepts like heuristics and biases, bounded rationality, abductive reasoning and so on help demistify the meaning of intuition, but iirc there isnt really a proper scientific investigation of it yet, so ironically i feel pressured to rely on my intuition in order to understand intuition
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No.20040
>>20038You should probably keep a journal where you log your intuitions with places, dates and people.You should try to check later whether or not your intuitions were accurate. Try to find out what the ratio is for true or false premonitions. And more importantly try to figure out what kind of things you tend to get right.
I'm a bit puzzled about your car crash, how is that a win for your intuition ? I don't want to be rude but if you had a mechanical brain and looked up some car accident statistics you'd have figured out that driving slower prevents most accidents. And lets be real you didn't get harmed in the car accident because of all the engineering that went into making cars safer. If you'd crashed a car from 50 years ago into a pole at that speed you'd have been mangled or dead. I'm not trying to be mean, if i was in your place i would not assume that my intuition is granting me a walk-away-unharmed-from-car-crash power. Consider that 60mph is probably fast enough.
>Is your intuition ever scarily accurate? I’ve intuited running into certain people. I went to the library 3 days ago because I just knew my crush would be there even though he’s a commuter who didn’t attend class that day. I don’t know how I knew that. I just followed wherever my body took me because I knew it would take me to him.You could try to test your 'crush-gps' tell him to roll the dice to pick a fully random place in your general area, if you are able to consistently locate him, try testing what the range on this thing is.
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No.20043
My dad was a personnel clerk in Saigon and he told me the story about some lieutenant colonel who liked to command from a helicopter hovering at *very* low altitude and had a reputation for having this aura around him where everyone just knew he would always come out without a scratch only his aides absolutely did not. My dad's boss was complaining how he only had so many spare first lieutenants to dole out every month and this asshole was going through them at twice the rate of other battalion commanders.
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No.20044
>>20038Reminder,if something feels off or you feel like you or someone around you might be doing something retarded take a moment and step back and think through what you're doing.
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No.20055
>>20038>matriarchal societies>believe men aren't able to tap into intuitionYA DON'T SAY!
>I have pretty powerful intuition, always have since I was a kid.I don't have an intuition but I do get whatever I'm reading or thinking about "echoed" in my surroundings sometimes, like TV or music. Dunno if the aliens are trying to contact me or I have finally gone insane. It still bothers me to this day.