10 Signs You Have a Sixth Sense: Explore Your Psychic Gifts
What Is ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception)?
Have you felt a little different from other people since you were a child? Do things happen to you that you can’t explain? Do you sometimes have a clear feeling about a future event? If so, you might be "supersensory" (in other words, psychic).
In this article, we'll explore the following 10 signs to see if you have extra-sensory perception or a sixth sense.
10 Signs You Might Be Psychic
- You have a well-developed intuition.
- You know when trouble is imminent.
- You hear voices.
- You just know things.
- You read thoughts.
- You see auras.
- You have visions.
- You sense the past when holding objects.
- You often experience déjà vu.
- You have divinatory abilities.
1. You Have a Well-Developed Intuition
This is also known as a gut feeling or a strong hunch. Your body, everyone’s body, in fact, is an antenna. It is sensitive to energy. Everyone can tune into their intuition, but most choose to ignore it. You have learned that your intuition has guided you well throughout your life. You don’t make decisions logically, although you do consider that your way is logical.
To test out your intuition, next time you have to make a decision, however small, place your hand on your solar plexus and become aware of the feeling in your body when you consider each choice laid before you. Do you feel it? Your body and your intuition know what to do before you do it.
2. You Know When Trouble Is Imminent
This is known as precognition (pre-knowing). You recognize it before it happens. This often manifests as a feeling of dread or a deep sense of knowing that unless you or someone else takes action, there’s going to be trouble. Sometimes it’s hard to know what exactly is going to happen, but you can feel it.
It’s possible to train yourself to discern the forthcoming event by journaling your feelings. Ask your feelings what they are trying to tell you.
Perhaps you often dream about the future. This also comes under the precognition umbrella, but usually, the dream is very specific. You are shown snippets of events, usually detrimental to someone close. Sometimes it might be a catastrophic event, such as an earthquake or another natural disaster. Precognitive folk are often able to foretell when people are about to die because they meet them in their dreams.
3. You Hear Voices
You hear whispers and voices, but there is no physical source. You’ve ruled out mental disorders, so it’s likely that you have clairauditory (clear hearing) abilities. Very often, this psychic skill means you are a channel for spirits.
It’s up to you whether you develop this further by delivering the messages to those they are intended for or whether you shut down this ability.
4. You Just Know Things
Some may mix this up with intuition, but it doesn’t matter. They are certainly closely related. Claircognizants (people with clear understanding) know things they shouldn't be able to know. They find it hard to explain it—they say, “I just know it.” Some might mention that the knowing is a strong mental feeling.
5. You Read Thoughts
You often know what someone is going to say before they say it. You can tell who’s calling before you answer the phone. Sometimes you know when your child or partner is in a difficult situation. You may often preempt a request. For example, you take your husband a cup of tea, and he says, “You must have read my mind.” If this happens a lot, you are probably tuning in to his "requests." This is a sign that you have telepathic skills. If you think you are telepathic, there are many ways to develop your ability. Playing guessing games is helpful.
6. You See Auras
Seeing auras is more common than you think. You can probably see your own right now. Hold your hand in front of a dark background and move your fingers slightly. You should see a silvery aura like cigarette smoke around your fingers. It might take a little practice, but you’ll soon be able to play with the energy between your fingers. Then you can progress to other people and auric colors.
7. You Have Visions
Seeing visions and spirits is a sign of clairvoyance (clear vision) or second sight. This often occurs in conjunction with clairaudient abilities. Receiving messages from spirits means that you are a psychic medium (i.e., an intermediary between the living and those who have passed). It’s possible to shut down these abilities, but often times spirits can be quite nagging in their enthusiasm to get their message heard.
8. You Sense the Past When Holding Objects
You might be able to discern the past history of an object or its owner simply by holding it. It can work with people too. Have you ever brushed past someone in a busy street and had a picture flash into your mind that seemed to have nothing to do with you? That’s psychometry, or clairtangency (clear touching). You are picking up vibration. Everyone can do this, but not everyone can translate what they feel into words or pictures.
9. Déjà Vu
We all have these odd little experiences, but you may have them more than most because you are tuned in. People think they are experiencing something they experienced in the past, but it’s the opposite. You may never have been in that place, but you once had a "future memory" of it. Hence the strange feeling of knowing but not quite knowing. You are tuning into a memory.