Do you believe humans have a sixth sense?

NachoBusiness

..or an extrasensory perception?

Last night I fell asleep watching Lemmy around 4am. During that time I had a dream about a boardsie playing on top of a castle with a little boy and throwing a little ball to him. One of them was clearly about to die and so I screamed at them.. I then woke up in a panic (around 10:30am). I opened my laptop and only one user had quoted me all night, them! This user has never quoted me before and this was there first post on that thread. It's clearly a sign!

Not sure of what though.

Do you believes humans have a sixth sense? If so, why? And if not, why not?

Also, have you had any experiences which you felt could only be explained as extrasensory perception?

Asmooh

No I don't..

Do you believes humans have a sixth sense? If so, why and if not, why not?

Yes, I think I have a sense of 9

why? Just because I do.

ASoberThought

No I don't..

Yes, I think there is something in a sixth sense that we don't fully understand. I think all of us are familiar with the scenario of thinking about a person we haven't seen in a long time and then seeing them soon after.

Rupert Sheldrakes experiments on telepathy are interesting.

Caoimhgh1n

No I don't..

Yes, I do.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

NachoBusiness wrote: »

..or an extrasensory perception?

Last night I fell asleep watching Lemmy around 4am. During that time I had a dream about a boardsie playing on top of a castle with a little boy and throwing a little ball to him. One of them was clearly about to die and so I screamed at them.. I then woke up in a panic (around 10:30am). I opened my laptop and only one user had quoted me all night, them! This user has never quoted me before and this was there first post on that thread. It's clearly a sign!

Not sure of what though.

Do you believes humans have a sixth sense? If so, why and if not, why not?

Dreams work by allow the subconsious a little bit of ball room during the night, and, because you're asslep, you don't notice it not being real and so you dream it.

At some point in the last few days or so, you probably absently saw the name and while the subconcious made a note of it, you didn't notice it happening. Then it kinda menifested in the dream.

Science. No sign, sorry!

Fleawuss

Jesus. Not another one.

Gaygooner

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

No, it's bollocks

Asmooh

No I don't..

Fleawuss wrote: »

Jesus. Not another one.

I don't know how many senses Jesus had, but if this is another one has has one extra now.

smokingman

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

I believe a lot of people have a sixth sense - "fckin stupidity"

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

smokingman wrote: »

I believe a lot of people have a sixth sense - "fckin stupidity"

aka "common sense"..?

py2006

uh huh

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Dreams work by allow the subconsious a little bit of ball room during the night, and, because you're asslep, you don't notice it not being real and so you dream it.

At some point in the last few days or so, you probably absently saw the name and while the subconcious made a note of it, you didn't notice it happening. Then it kinda menifested in the dream.

Science. No sign, sorry!

Ah, the usual shoehorning of 'science'. Quite the fashion these days. It's more popular than chocolate.

First of all. I never dream of users from Boards and had they not quoted me also, I might buy your explanation, as that would make sense. But to dream of someone that has never quoted me before, pretty much while they are quoting me.. is quite strange. The probability of that is huge. My laptop was closed also before someone says maybe I was sleepbrowsing.

NapoleonInRags

No I don't..

Yesterday for no reason at all the former Newcastle goalie Pavel Srnicek came into my mind - although it took me a while to recall his name. I didn't even realise he was ill until I found out that he died today.

ASoberThought

No I don't..

Those who are quickly dismissive/closed minded or go to science our saviour for all should have an open minded look at the work of Rupert Sheldrake.

smokingman

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

aka "common sense"..?

Nope, gullible post-event projection of personal, biased significance in the hope that they're somehow, not really responsible for their own lives and in search of something external that they can blame all their own problems on...
...in a nutshell..

The King of Moo

I know that we have a lot more than five senses:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/humans-have-a-lot-more-than-five-senses/

My favourite is proprioception, the ability to sense where your body parts are relative to your other body parts.

I don't believe in extrasensory perception. What people think of as ESP is usually just coincidence or subconscious.

And we have an exaggerated sense of how rare certain events are and thus get the impression that things are more unusual than they are.
For example, you'll experience a one-in-a-million event about once a month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law

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ASoberThought wrote: »

Yes, I think there is something in a sixth sense that we don't fully understand. I think all of us are familiar with the scenario of thinking about a person we haven't seen in a long time and then seeing them soon after.

Rupert Sheldrakes experiments on telepathy are interesting.

Yeah but for every one time that happens, there's probably fifty instances of thinking of someone and then...nothing. But you don't remember those ones

_Brian

No.. plenty can't use the few they have !!

RobertKK

I had a dream over 14 years ago and these strange planes killed me in a missile strike. Then when I saw the drones in later years I realised I had dreamed about drones before I knew what drones were.
I am not saying it is a sixth sense, if it is a sixth sense the dream says I will be killed before I can come onto boards and say 'yeah it is real'...but at least death was quick...
The world can be strange, I don't know is the answer.

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

smokingman wrote: »

I believe a lot of people have a sixth sense - "fckin stupidity"

Some might say suggesting stupidity is a human sense is.. stupid.

Ted_YNWA

I was just thinking this thread wasn't done in a while.

smokingman

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Some might say suggesting stupidity is a human sense is.. stupid.

Well, you've convinced me...I'm off to buy some healing crystals and magic beans so.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Ah, the usual shoehorning of 'science'. Quite the fashion these days. It's more popular than chocolate.

First of all. I never dream of users from Boards and had they not quoted me also, I might buy your explanation, as that would make sense. But to dream of someone that has never quoted me before, pretty much while they are quoting me.. is quite strange. The probability of that is huge. My laptop was closed also before someone says maybe I was sleepbrowsing.

That is pretty much a scentific explanation of what dreaming is. I never said you had to quote them or even notice them. Exactly the opposite. You mind noticies a lot of thigns every day that you don't.

Furthermore, if you want a balanced discussion on a topic such as ESP, you kind of have to include sceince - there's no shoehorning about it. If you don't want a balanced discussion fine - just say so and I'll unsubscribe from the thread.

Whitewinged

A few strange things have happened before alright but I usually just explain them away.

Anyway, is instinct/intuition a sense?

SEPT 23 1989

We only use a small amount of our brains true power

Flint Fredstone

Any chance you woke up during the night and in your half sleepy state read through a thread about Lemmy dying?

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

Whitewinged wrote: »

Anyway, is instinct/intuition a sense?

Sometimes I hear people say I got a sense something was up, but it was really just an educated guess based on similar experiences. Like this twit tried to mug me a few months back and got a 'sense' he was going to but really it was just an educated guess based on his behavior as he changed the side of the road he was walking on and was glancing around shifty like. Didn't take Nostradamus to think he was up to no good.

Flint Fredstone

One time I was watching an episode of The Crystal Maze on a Sunday Morning, badly hungover and this "high on life" kind of guy was annoying me so much I turned around to the wife and jokingly said "With any luck he's dead by now"
The credits at the end said in memory of...
Rewound it to get his name and sure enough it was him :eek:

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

Any chance you woke up during the night and in your half sleepy state read through a thread about Lemmy dying?

I posted in that thread around 2am. Google'd the docu and fell asleep watching it. Woke up at 10:30am'ish and they had quoted me around 9am'ish.

So, not a chance I had seen it. Was ESP I tells ya!

antodeco

If heartburn and indigestion is a sense, I must be a superhuman;

Whitewinged

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Sometimes I hear people say I got a sense something was up, but it was really just an educated guess based on similar experiences. Like this twit tried to mug me a few months back and got a 'sense' he was going to but really it was just an educated guess based on his behavior as he changed the side of the road he was walking on and was glancing around shifty like. Didn't take Nostradamus to think he was up to no good.

Yea I guess. A mixture of subtle things you are subconsciously and consciously aware of like body language, tone, language, facial expressions etc. Some people are more aware and have better intuition than others I suppose.

You know how they say that dogs sense fear. Maybe intuition is kind of like that.

smokingman

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

We only use a small amount of our brains true power

That's an urban myth.

Medusa22

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

I don't believe in humans having a sixth sense. I've also never had anything unexplained or supernatural happen to me and I don't believe in that either.

Agricola

No, i think it's extension of the pattern seeking nature of our brains. The idea of a sixth sense is a sort of byproduct of being a highly intelligent, sentient ape.

roadrunner16

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Ah, the usual shoehorning of 'science'. Quite the fashion these days. It's more popular than chocolate.

First of all. I never dream of users from Boards and had they not quoted me also, I might buy your explanation, as that would make sense. But to dream of someone that has never quoted me before, pretty much while they are quoting me.. is quite strange. The probability of that is huge. My laptop was closed also before someone says maybe I was sleepbrowsing.

yeah the odds are tiny but think of it this way, there are over a billion people in china, 1 in a million occurrences happen over a thousand times a day, you can't take an extra ordinary event and say proof of the the extra ordinary,

imagine I walked up to you in the street and said think of any card in a normal deck and then I blurted out three of clubs, and it was your card , if you hadnt seen the other 51 times I got it wrong you'd be amazed, :pac::pac:

darkpagandeath

We have crap loads more than six..... Close your eyes hold your hand out then grab it with your other hand. Whats that sense called. What sense tells you the wind is blowing. How can you feel Radiation from the sun...

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

That is pretty much a scentific explanation of what dreaming is. I never said you had to quote them or even notice them. Exactly the opposite. You mind noticies a lot of thigns every day that you don't.

Furthermore, if you want a balanced discussion on a topic such as ESP, you kind of have to include sceince - there's no shoehorning about it. If you don't want a balanced discussion fine - just say so and I'll unsubscribe from the thread.

You misunderstand me. I appreciate that our minds are sponges. We all know that we dream of people we see or are aware of from a day to day lives. You don't have to cite science to talk about the bleedin obvious. That's why I called it shoehorning. It's like citing science when explaining to someone what they need to do in order to make a great cup of tea.

There must be and hundreds upon hundreds of Boards users that I am aware of. Why would I dream of one which I have little or no contact with, that rarely posts on AH and who also just happens to have been the only user to quote me while I was asleep in that time? I'm not saying in absolutely was sixth sense. Most likely was just a mad coincidence. Happens.

Saipanne

We have up to thirty senses.

darkpagandeath

For six sense to work we would need some organ to store energy for it to use, I would say it would take a large amount of energy as well.

Rabo Karabekian

NachoBusiness wrote: »

There must be and hundreds upon hundreds of Boards users that I am aware of. Why would I dream of one which I have little or no contact with, that rarely posts on AH and who also just happens to have been the only user to quote me while I was asleep in that time? I'm not saying in absolutely was sixth sense. Most likely was just a mad coincidence. Happens.

I think that's the most likely answer. The only reason why you remembered that particular dream is because of the coincidence that followed it. You could have been dreaming about loads of boardsies in the past, but because there wasn't a coincidence to follow them, you just don't remember them.

Kinda like all that thinking about somebody and then they call. You could be thinking of different people and there's no phone call, and you never connect the two. Then, when it happens, you make a connection because of the coincidence.

MonkieSocks

No I don't..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Dreams work by allow the subconsious a little bit of ball room during the night,

:P

Pretty Sure That's what is called " A Nocturnal Emission " or you were watching to much Strictly

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

A few times I've had a sense of foreboding and something as happened. Then I immediately do the 'I knew it!' thing.

Of course plenty of other times I've a sense of foreboding, nothing happens, and I put it out of my mind.

Coincidence, selective remembering, and wanting to believe in something special about ourselves is the most likely answer. Truth is we're mostly boring and this stuff happens everyone, some just read more into it than others.

darkpagandeath

Candie wrote: »

A few times I've had a sense of foreboding and something as happened. Then I immediately do the 'I knew it!' thing.

Of course plenty of other times I've a sense of foreboding, nothing happens, and I put it out of my mind.

Coincidence, selective remembering, and wanting to believe in something special about ourselves is the most likely answer. Truth is we're mostly boring and this stuff happens everyone, some just read more into it than others.

They reckon stuff like that is from hunter gather days our subconscious brain picking up on danger singes we are unaware of while focused on a task.

captbarnacles

Not sure, perhaps, maybe, possible I suppose, undecided I guess..

ASoberThought wrote: »

Those who are quickly dismissive/closed minded or go to science our saviour for all should have an open minded look at the work of Rupert Sheldrake.

By open minded do you mean not requiring any evidence for the existence of telepathy?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

NachoBusiness wrote: »

You misunderstand me. I appreciate that our minds are sponges. We all know that we dream of people we see or are aware of from a day to day lives. You don't have to cite science to talk about the bleedin obvious. That's why I called it shoehorning. It's like citing science when explaining to someone what they need to do in order to make a great cup of tea.

There must be and hundreds upon hundreds of Boards users that I am aware of. Why would I dream of one which I have little or no contact with, that rarely posts on AH and who also just happens to have been the only user to quote me while I was asleep in that time? I'm not saying in absolutely was sixth sense. Most likely was just a mad coincidence. Happens.

That was my initial point - coincidence. I don't necessarily disbelieve in ESP, just not in Thurs case.

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

Rabo Karabekian wrote: »

I think that's the most likely answer. The only reason why you remembered that particular dream is because of the coincidence that followed it. You could have been dreaming about loads of boardsies in the past, but because there wasn't a coincidence to follow them, you just don't remember them.

Kinda like all that thinking about somebody and then they call. You could be thinking of different people and there's no phone call, and you never connect the two. Then, when it happens, you make a connection because of the coincidence.

Absolutel but I have already said that if I had a dream of any old boards user that would hardly be strange given that I was on boards posting before I slept. People naturally dream about things they were doing throughout their day. Would be weird not to. But again, Boards is full of users and to dream about the only one to have quoted me while I slept (and who has never quoted me before) is weird. Just like it's weird to pick six numbers in the lottery and have them all come out. Only I have no monetary gain to show for my low probability coincidence. Just loads of people laughing at me

Colser

No I don't..

I prefer to call it gut instinct and Im a firm believer in it,rarely fails for me(unfortunately in some instances).

BenedrylPete

You do have six senses.

touch, smell, taste, hearing, seeing - with these you can experience both positive and negative things. The smell of a rose, a high pitched grating sound etc.

mind - you can experience both positive and negative sensations.

It can even have tangible consequences. Imagine munching a nice raw lemon - if you did then your saliva production just increased.
Suggestion can do some freaky things.

NachoBusiness

No I don't..

Candie wrote: »

Coincidence, selective remembering, and wanting to believe in something special about ourselves is the most likely answer. Truth is we're mostly boring and this stuff happens everyone, some just read more into it than others.

The only one of the above that could apply in my case is Coincidence and if that's the case, which I am willing to accept it is, then it's a big one. Selective memory couldn't come into it as the post from the user was at 9am and at the latest it was like 5am when I fell asleep. The projector lamp was still on when I woke just after 10am and so it wouldn't have been possible for me to have been back online after 5am in that case as I need to disconnect the projector from my laptop in order to get back online.

Liam O

How do you think you walk without falling over all the time?

Humans have way more than 6 senses.

Maximus Alexander

Humans have way more than 6 senses OP.

Off the top of my head:

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Touch
5. Smell
6. Pain
7. Temperature
8. Hunger
9. Balance
10. We can also sense carbon dioxide levels, but I'm not sure what that's called (triggers the feeling of suffocation)
11. Etc.