Do you believe humans have a sixth sense?

The King of Moo

Ashlyn Spoiled Glassware wrote: »

"total and utter bollocks"

You can't prove that aliens didn't come here and teach us how to understand how our world works, and know when someone's looking at our back, so that's what I choose to believe.

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

You can't prove that aliens didn't come here and teach us how to understand how our world works, and know when someone's looking at our back, so that's what I choose to believe.

Agree but aliens are not parents.

Jogathon

No I don't..

I have a very strong instant intuition about people. I have ignored it in the past. My first instinct has very rarely (never that I can remember) been wrong. I need to learn to trust myself.

Is that a sixth sense?

The King of Moo

Ashlyn Spoiled Glassware wrote: »

Agree but aliens are not parents.

Except the ones with children.

Tigger

Jogathon wrote: »

I have a very strong instant intuition about people. I have ignored it in the past. My first instinct has very rarely (never that I can remember) been wrong. I need to learn to trust myself.

Is that a sixth sense?

That's a belief in your ability to read people
I can do it ( I had it a bit and realised I had it) but it's a learned skill I'm a sales specialist and sometimes I find myself laughing at the feedback (while talking to clients) that I give myself. Read up on nlp and people like derren brown it will give a good insight into these skills and if you have them and enjoy using them you can make a handy living.

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

Except the ones with children.

Can i ask what is the reason why

The King of Moo

Ashlyn Spoiled Glassware wrote: »

Can i ask what is the reason why

If they have children, they're parents.

Tigger

Humans don't have 5 senses
We have
Touch
Taste
Smell
Sight
Sound
Radiation (heat light and actual radiation)
Balance
Kinetics (acceleration deceleration momentum)
Time
Hunger
Thirst
Pain
And some wierd ones
Wiki ;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

If they have children, they're parents.

True but we're true history, aliens are not.

The King of Moo

Ashlyn Spoiled Glassware wrote: »

True but we're true history, aliens are not.

Ah now, how do you know that?

There have been lots of sightings of mysterious lights in the sky, just to give one example. Science hasn't proven what these lights are, so I think they're aliens.

Scientists might find some explanation for them in the far future, but for now I choose to think they're alien craft.

meeeeh

The King of Moo wrote: »

Ah now, how do you know that?

There have been lots of sightings of mysterious lights in the sky, just to give one example. Science hasn't proven what these lights are, so I think they're aliens.

Scientists might find some explanation for them in the far future, but for now I choose to think they're alien craft.

This reminds me of one of my parent's employees seeing aliens about 25 years ago. She comes to work excitedly telling us about the weird light circles that her and her neighbour saw. It couldn't be anything but the flying saucers. Well except that a circus was in town and they were putting up a bit of light display for promotion. I am still not 100% sure she believed the explanation.

starry_eyed

No I don't..

Humans have no sense.
No sense at all.

The King of Moo

The King of Moo wrote: »

Ah now, how do you know that?

There have been lots of sightings of mysterious lights in the sky, just to give one example. Science hasn't proven what these lights are, so I think they're aliens.

Scientists might find some explanation for them in the far future, but for now I choose to think they're alien craft.

So in a agreeing point what exactly are you trying to say

The King of Moo

Ashlyn Spoiled Glassware wrote: »

So in a agreeing point what exactly are you trying to say

That people are entitled to posit any explanation they like for apparently mysterious events, but other people are under no obligation to take them seriously.

Eugene Norman

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

The King of Moo wrote: »

Ah now, how do you know that?

There have been lots of sightings of mysterious lights in the sky, just to give one example. Science hasn't proven what these lights are, so I think they're aliens.

Scientists might find some explanation for them in the far future, but for now I choose to think they're alien craft.

I choose to think they are medieval peasants carrying lamps who discovered time travel and flight and now fly around us.

Those and aliens are the only two options.

Eugene Norman

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

Ashlyn Spoiled Glassware wrote: »

So in a agreeing point what exactly are you trying to say

The simplest explanation is the most likely. Take the OP. He could have

1) had a dream that coincidentally was about a boardsie who then replied to him.
2) has some kind of brain that knows the future.

2) is unlikely.

Billy86

NapoleonInRags wrote: »

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.

Wasn't aware of that either, so I took a quick check on his Wikipedia page and he was in Newcastle just earlier this month promoting his autobiography 'Pavel Is a Geordie'. Decent chance you saw this without even fully noticing it, and that's how he popped into your mind.

Lollipops23

I believe instinct and intuition can be really strong and accurate- but it's the result of your subconscious picking up on signals and tells, rather than any sort of magic or higher power.

cowboyBuilder

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

thattequilagirl wrote: »

How are you so sure? There are so many gaps in what science can explain.

Absolutely, but that doesn't mean people can just fill in the gaps with whatever sounds mysterious or the latest buzzwords.

Samaris

Our own senses work at a much deeper level than we tend to think of them. Ever felt a tingling at the back of your neck and looked around to see someone staring at you? Or your ears burn a bit and you glance around and someone's talking and glancing at you? (Ok, that sounds really paranoid, but in a general sense!)

Ooor felt something really -wrong- about a given situation, but you can't figure out what exactly it is - say a place feels "bad" or you just know something's wrong and your body and brain go on high alert as the fight or flight instinct kick in. It's not really something you've seen, or heard, but something processed at a subconcious level.

So, where do the "five senses" stop for a "sixth" to kick in? Is it a combination of those other five and links being made in the brain to danger? Or is there actually a sixth sense that picks up ...eh..negative feelings in a situation or about a place that indicates danger, but we've just lost touch with it over the millenia? Dunno really, never been an area of study for me, but I find it an interesting concept.

yourdeadwright

I seen a friends sister (hadn't seen her in years she lives in London ) yesterday from a distance when I was driving down the road and thought god I should ring him its been about 2 months (he lives in OZ) since we had any kinda contact
Anyway I forgot when I got home but at about 11 he rang me and asked me to be a groomsman at his wedding, he'd proposed earlier that day about the same time I seen his sister,

just odd

Maximus Alexander

Samaris wrote: »

Our own senses work at a much deeper level than we tend to think of them. Ever felt a tingling at the back of your neck and looked around to see someone staring at you? Or your ears burn a bit and you glance around and someone's talking and glancing at you? (Ok, that sounds really paranoid, but in a general sense!)

Ooor felt something really -wrong- about a given situation, but you can't figure out what exactly it is - say a place feels "bad" or you just know something's wrong and your body and brain go on high alert as the fight or flight instinct kick in. It's not really something you've seen, or heard, but something processed at a subconcious level.

So, where do the "five senses" stop for a "sixth" to kick in? Is it a combination of those other five and links being made in the brain to danger? Or is there actually a sixth sense that picks up ...eh..negative feelings in a situation or about a place that indicates danger, but we've just lost touch with it over the millenia? Dunno really, never been an area of study for me, but I find it an interesting concept.

Well we know, for example, that our unconscious mind does a lot of heavy lifting. Your brain processes data and solves problems in areas that aren't directly accessible to your conscious mind, it even makes decisions (and there is some evidence that it may be better at that than your conscious mind in some cases).

The example of its processing of information on frequency would make it seem to me that it's not a huge leap to say that it might be processing a lot of information from your senses which feel like a 'sixth sense' because you're not directly aware of it.

thattequilagirl

No I don't..

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Absolutely, but that doesn't mean people can just fill in the gaps with whatever sounds mysterious or the latest buzzwords.

Right, but in the absence of any kind of explanation offered by science, how can you say that the theory of an additional type of human perception is false?

Capt'n Midnight

thattequilagirl wrote: »

Right, but in the absence of any kind of explanation offered by science, how can you say that the theory of an additional type of human perception is false?

A scientific theory needs some kind of mechanism. It needs falsifiable statements. Hand waving doesn't count.

Of course there could be other types of perception. Other animals have them. We don't go in for pheromones as much as some. Some insects have dipole antennas tuned to far infra-red. Electric eels are, well you know, electric. Cephalopods can communicate with light signals. Pigeons don't navigate so well if you strap magnets on their foreheads. People have tuned into radio with their fillings. etc. etc. So we have an idea of what's physically possible and what hasn't been observed yet. We are also nearing a time where half the world's population will be carrying cameras at all times. The absence of evidence is accelerating.

We can measure general electrical activity when neurons fire. So we have a general idea of what the brain responds to too.

topper75

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!

To be honest, this sounds a lot more like your opinion of what might have happened rather than "science".

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

A scientific theory needs some kind of mechanism. It needs falsifiable statements. Hand waving doesn't count.

Of course there could be other types of perception. Other animals have them. We don't go in for pheromones as much as some. Some insects have dipole antennas tuned to far infra-red. Electric eels are, well you know, electric. Cephalopods can communicate with light signals. Pigeons don't navigate so well if you strap magnets on their foreheads. People have tuned into radio with their fillings. etc. etc. So we have an idea of what's physically possible and what hasn't been observed yet. We are also nearing a time where half the world's population will be carrying cameras at all times. The absence of evidence is accelerating.

We can measure general electrical activity when neurons fire. So we have a general idea of what the brain responds to too.

We're the most intelligent life form on this planet but after reading your post, maybe even the whole fucing universe.