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It would be so amazing to learn that humans actually have psychic powers...so why has no one ever proven that they have the powers they claim?

I mean, if i was psychic and i wanted people to know that not only i but many other people really did have this kind of power to help people then i would be only too happy to prove it.
There are many large cash prizes for people who could prove psychic ability but so far no one has collected.
Many have tried but none have passed.

Hot take: seems to me that if psychic powers existed then at least one person would have proved it by now.
Instead we get people with their "powers" delivering the vital message that a father or father-figure who died young (maybe 40-75) of something to do with his head, chest or stomach and whose name contains an R, N or E wants to say that you have a CD player with dust on it and a chair with a wonky leg and that everything is going to be ok.🙄
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
You might find this of interest:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/12/study-looks-brains-ability-see-future

I don't think it works like in the movies. I'm not saying it does or doesn't exist, it's just that I think that if there were psychic abilities, it wouldn't be like in the movies. For instance and I'm not saying I'm psychic but I've had some situations (one in particular I can think of) that could have saved my life but I ignored it thinking I was being paranoid.

This wasn't "just" a feeling, how do I describe it? It was more like a specific word and later on I found out why but for some reason I dismissed it. But it was sort of like a fixation on a certain word and I thought to myself, "that's really silly." Hard to explain but 4 years later and lots of turmoil later but I found out I was completely right. Not only was I right but I was right from the very moment I had that word drilled into my brain. It was weird but if I had listened to whatever it was, it could have save me some drama. It wasn't all bad and I learned a lot about people in those years but still, wish I would have listened.

In other situations, I've had weird deja vu, not JUST the feeling like I been there before but it was almost like a memory of me saying something I shouldn't and then upsetting the person driving. But it's weird, I don't actually remember what I was going to say, it was almost like a feeling, like a nagging at the back of my brain. Then, for some reason I knew what she was going to say and she said it exactly how my brain saw it and then even though I didn't know what I was going to say, I somehow knew I was going to say something that upset her (even though what she said wasn't a fight or anything) so I stopped and paused, then said something else. The deja vu feeling went away after that.

Of course I don't get this very often actually, I still have some feelings that linger and stuff but it doesn't happen as often as one may think. Like deja vu only really comes up once ever like 5 years or so and that incident that I described above was the only major time something like that happened. But I've had some other strange feelings in which I was 100% right and something I couldn't have possibly known.

So in my opinion, I do think all of us can possess such abilities (I'm not saying it's real, I just say that maybe it's a natural occurrence) but it's hampered by social conditioning, trauma, noise in the brain and other things. Who knows, I think realistically that would be possible. Like maybe changes in brain structure may darken what we can see and distorted perspectives. If we're all psychic and I think it's a possibility, it won't be like the movies where people claim to see the future, it's more jaded and jagged, pieces I guess.

On an irrelevant but semi relevant note, I've heard of people getting brain damage and all of a sudden they're savants (though it's very rare.) Like there was a person who could "see" math all around, it was in a documentary about brain damage victims and now they can paint things to the exact mathematical structure of something. They can "see" math in precise detail.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@SatanBurger
I don't think it works like in the movies.
Few things do. Movies can't even nail the sound of someone's nose breaking.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@LordShadowfire True. I know I stated the obvious but most people look at the definition of psychic abilities to be that of apocalyptic type movies and I just don't think it's like that. I'm sorry but if I had listened to the word that I had in my brain, I wouldn't have had the trauma I had. And there was absolutely no reason for me to think that when I first met this person either so it's still a little weird for me how it went down.

Psychic abilities wouldn't be perfect IF we all had them, different cognitive biases would sway perceptions as would different types of social conditioning. You could get feedback that's deadly accurate about different situations but you could read it wrong based on a distorted perception.

Just my thoughts. I know I'm a nerd 😌
DallasCowboysFan · 61-69, M
@SatanBurger From time to time I get something that swells up in me and I will think about something and it will occur a short time later. It might be a phone call, an email message or something I see on the news.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@DallasCowboysFan I get that too in smaller doses, I know the feeling.
@SatanBurger

Yeah i remember reading about those experiments. They were quite interesting but my understanding is that there has been some trouble in replicating the results and certain criticisms about the order of operations.

As for your personal experience, well anything i could is would be mere speculation but the first thing that leaps to mind is confirmation bias. It could be that you recall this incident because after the fact it appeared to have significance but any instance where no significance was apparent might simply have been forgotten.
Or it could be totally real, if not supernatural. You may have picked up on certain subtle cues that you ignored because they were at odds with what you wanted.
But again, pure speculation.
In any case, i can understand how such experiences are quite impressive.
GeniUs · 56-60, M
@Pikachu
You may have picked up on certain subtle cues
IMO it's this and your brain is whilst not fully concentrating on it is trying to unravel what is going on.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Pikachu No I specifically remember a word popping into my head when I met this person but pushed it aside because I thought I was being paranoid. In fact, I gaslighted myself and thought I was crazy. Eventually I came to find out I was right, not only was I right but I had specific feelings about that apartment and it was too highly specific (as in not just a feeling but predicting what was going on) and four years later (by total accident) found out I was right.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@SatanBurger I legitimately believe it's a sense some people have that picks up on the energy other people put out when they think. I'm sure if there was a scientific study, it would explain it much more comprehensively, but there's something about your bioelectric field that changes based on what you're thinking. If people could pick up on that, it would basically be mind reading.