How Psychic Are You?

[Nursefoxfire]

Following some old links from RSL's site, I stumbled on a site called SpiritNow (awful, AWFUL site, btw). There was one of those quizzes to test your psychic ability.

http://www.spiritnow.com/article/special_psychic_articles/how_psychic_are_you_48

Some sample questions:

3) How often do you hear voices, inside or outside your head, and no one is in the room with you?

1—Often 2—Sometimes 3—Rarely 4—Never

5) When talking to your friends or family, how often do you say things that end up happening?

1—Often 2—Sometimes 3—Rarely 4—Never

etc...


I failed, naturally. Apparently, I rely too much on logic

[Lucian]

Following some old links from RSL's site, I stumbled on a site called SpiritNow (awful, AWFUL site, btw). There was one of those quizzes to test your psychic ability.

http://www.spiritnow.com/article/special_psychic_articles/how_psychic_are_you_48

Some sample questions:
Quote:
3) How often do you hear voices, inside or outside your head, and no one is in the room with you?

1—Often 2—Sometimes 3—Rarely 4—Never


I failed, naturally. Apparently, I rely too much on logic

My problem is that the voices inside my head and the ones outside are always arguing. "Pick up the knife." "No, use the baseball bat." It's so confusing that I've just decided to ignore them. Oh wait, I guess I'm thinking of the test for psychos, not psychics.

[Nursefoxfire]

My problem is that the voices inside my head and the ones outside are always arguing. "Pick up the knife." "No, use the baseball bat." It's so confusing that I've just decided to ignore them. Oh wait, I guess I'm thinking of the test for psychos, not psychics.

But psychos have a much higher success rate! :p

[JimBenArm]

How psychic am I?

13. But you knew I was going to say that, didn't you?

[Bloodtoes]

39.

Apparently I "[rely] too much on logic or on the advice of other people at the expense of your own intuition. You must learn to shut off your outer senses if you are to develop your psychic ability in a meaningful way."

What the hell does this question mean anyway?
"5) When talking to your friends or family, how often do you say things that end up happening?"

Does that include the times I make plans with my friends or family and then those plans end up happening? o.0

Also,
"3) How often do you hear voices, inside or outside your head, and no one is in the room with you?"

I forget who said this, but it's an apt quote: "The moment you start hearing voices within your head that you do not recognize as your own, it's time to seek professional help."

edit: I think it was Michael Shermer who I heard say that. (Or something similar) =)

[leafman91]

I failed, naturally. Apparently, I rely too much on logic

It can be done, you know.

[shandyjan]

I'm pretty good at hot reading :D

[Biscuit]

0) When you go into a job interview or important meeting, how often do you feel that something outside yourself is supporting and guiding you?

1—Often 2—Sometimes 3—Rarely 4--Never

It isn't just job interviews or meetings, its every single time I move! Some unseen force is keeping me from floating off into space, allows me to place one foot in front of another, and successfully (most of the time) remain upright and avoid walking into walls! What could it be!!!!

[Brattus]

I failed.:( But my spirit guide rocked that thang!:D

[Derwoods]

I am just as psychic as the top psychics in the world.... unfortunately so is everyone else.

[blue sock monkey]

I fared poorly on their test. But my lousy results may have been due to the distractions of the amazing woo ads littering the page: "Compassionate Nancy?" "Sunny Grace?"

I confess I was strongly tempted to give "Reader Peaches" a try, though. ;)

[JFrankA]

I didn't take the test. I already know what my score will be.....



:D

[firecoins]

I often hear voices in my own head. I am told to go around doing good deed. :eye-poppi

[Questioninggeller]

I'll take this time to plug Randi's book Test your ESP Potential (http://www.amazon.com/Test-Your-Potential-James-Randi/dp/0486242692). That kit actually has tests where curious people have double-blinded experiments for the reader to see if they are psychic.

[serpentine]

"I'll take this time to plug Randi's book Test your ESP Potential. That kit actually has tests where curious people have double-blinded experiments for the reader to see if they are psychic."

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Well, I believe in a ‘sixth sense’, since I have experienced it myself…And usually, it’s a very subtle, ‘quiet’ kind of ’sense’…I don’t think it’s something that can be ‘tested’…For me, it’s something that seems to come on it’s own – very spontaneously...Usually, around death, or something 'bad' happening…I just think of it as part of our intuition, part of our organisms evolution, and survival strategy…It’s just another element of our being - how we are connected to our world, those we love, and are attached to…

[Soapy Sam]

What you describe sounds like it's coming via your usual senses, but it's so subtle it's failing to reach your conscious attention- but some subconscious process is catching it and not quite bringing it to your conscious mind. You get the "I'm missing something" or "tip of the tongue" experience instead.
It's the same thing we experience when we just started to do something, were distracted, forgot the original plan, but "something" is niggling at the undermind. We usually remember only when someone else asks "Did you turn the gas off?"

This sort of thing is actually extremely common, but some folk interpret it as a "sixth" sense , some as a "psychic" ability and others as the normal interface between sensed data and the brain.

It gets commoner as you get older. I speak from experience.

[serpentine]

..."This sort of thing is actually extremely common, but some folk interpret it as a "sixth" sense , some as a "psychic" ability and others as the normal interface between sensed data and the brain."...

No, I do mean a real 'sixth sense'...Something on the level of a kind of intuition...a very natural, intuitive part of us, that once in a while can have 'premonitions', and other sorts of experiences...

[scarlettinlondon]

[I]..."I]

No, I do mean a real 'sixth sense'...Something on the level of a kind of intuition...a very natural, intuitive part of us, that once in a while can have 'premonitions', and other sorts of experiences...

you think this because you don't understand it. Just because you believe something very strongly, doesn't make it true. After all, at one point people truly believed that the world was flat. Just because it was a strong belief held by most people didn't make it objectively true......

Stay here, you will learn some interesting stuff.

[MikeSun5]

[I]...I do mean a real 'sixth sense'...Something on the level of a kind of intuition...a very natural, intuitive part of us, that once in a while can have 'premonitions', and other sorts of experiences...

Just because it was a strong belief held by most people didn't make it objectively true......

Stay here, you will learn some interesting stuff.

:popcorn1

[Mojo]

I don’t think it’s something that can be ‘tested’…


Why not? If it can't be distinguished from chance, it's not much of an ability.

[serpentine]

"you think this because you don't understand it. Just because you believe something very strongly, doesn't make it true. After all, at one point people truly believed that the world was flat. Just because it was a strong belief held by most people didn't make it objectively true......
Stay here, you will learn some interesting stuff."

*****

Well, I do agree with you of course, that just because someone 'believes' something doesn't necessarily make it true...

I'm pretty familiar with how skeptics think about this stuff...I was taught like a lot of other people to not believe in 'that sort of stuff'...It's not 'real'...So, I'm somewhat familiar with 'the skeptic's' viewpoint of things, and Randi...And being skeptical is a good thing of course...(One of my relatives has spoken at the Skeptic Society)...

If someone has not experienced certain things in life...They should be skeptical...And of course to them it sounds 'woo-woo'...

That's partly why I've hesitated for a long time to write, or discuss anything about 'this stuff' to anyone I don't personally know quite well...

[Lothian]

..."This sort of thing is actually extremely common, but some folk interpret it as a "sixth" sense , some as a "psychic" ability and others as the normal interface between sensed data and the brain."...

No, I do mean a real 'sixth sense'...Something on the level of a kind of intuition...a very natural, intuitive part of us, that once in a while can have 'premonitions', and other sorts of experiences...I believe that you have a 'sixth sense' as described.

I also believe it can all be explained without resorting to the supernatural.

There are two ways we can do this. We can explain it to you or you can find out for yourself. If, like me, you prefer the latter you need to start writing down you ‘premonitions’. It is important that you write them all down and that you are as specific as you can be.

[serpentine]

Mojo..."Why not? If it can't be distinguished from chance, it's not much of an ability."

I, of course...can only speak from my own experiences...And what I so far think about them...

Someone 'outside' of these experiences will always chalk it up to chance...Because these are very subjective experiences – and they do happen 'randomely'...And rarely…
(So, it isn't that much of an 'ability' really...But, it does happen)…Like I mentioned, usually around death...

[BlackKat]

The comments under the test just make me so depressed to read.

[ClassyElf]

I made a 21, but only because the questions were so vague.

[ExMinister]

3) How often do you hear voices, inside or outside your head, and no one is in the room with you?



1—Often 2—Sometimes 3—Rarely 4—Never

Every once in awhile, especially when drifting off to sleep, I'll hear someone call my name. It always sounds like it's coming from directly behind my right ear.

Once as I was falling asleep I heard a man's voice counting. It sounded like he was standing just to my right. It jolted me fully awake.

Does anyone else have that?

[serpentine]

ExMinister..."Every once in awhile, especially when drifting off to sleep, I'll hear someone call my name. It always sounds like it's coming from directly behind my right ear.
Once as I was falling asleep I heard a man's voice counting. It sounded like he was standing just to my right. It jolted me fully awake.
Does anyone else have that?"...

I've had a few times in my life where I 'hear' my name called very clearly (and have had other 'voice' experiences) - I have a friend who says sometimes he hears his (deceased) wifes voice very distinctly say something to him...(And no, we are not 'mentally ill)...

I have no idea how this happens...But, obviously something gets triggered in the brain...And I'm thinking it's linked to memory...

I know I've had different kinds of 'voice experiences'...I've had a few other 'voice experiences' that I don't put in the typical 'memory' category...and would include 'them' in the 'sixth-sense' category...or, the 'collective unconsious' category...

These 'psychic' tests are stupid, and just prey on people's vulnerability...

The skeptics will always remain skeptics because this sort of thing cannot be tested...At least as far as I can tell...

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Lothian......"I also believe it can all be explained without resorting to the supernatural."......

I do too...I've tried to make it clear that what I'm calling a 'sixth-sense'...is a very natural part of us, and part of our evolutionary, survival skill set...

[NobbyNobbs]

I'm just as psychic as I predicted I would be.

[Amapola]

Who would have guessed it? Despite being told repeatedly that I am psychic, the test reveals that I "rely too much on logic"!

Now where is that palm reader who told me that I really was psychic, but I was just in denial? This will show her!

[ExMinister]

I've had a few times in my life where I 'hear' my name called very clearly (and have had other 'voice' experiences) - I have a friend who says sometimes he hears his (deceased) wifes voice very distinctly say something to him...(And no, we are not 'mentally ill)...

I have no idea how this happens...But, obviously something gets triggered in the brain...And I'm thinking it's linked to memory...

I know I've had different kinds of 'voice experiences'...I've had a few other 'voice experiences' that I don't put in the typical 'memory' category...and would include 'them' in the 'sixth-sense' category...or, the 'collective unconsious' category...

That reminds me of something I read by Carl Sagan once. If I recall correctly, he heard his deceased parents' voices every once in awhile. At no time did he ever consider it to be any type of paranormal event; he understood it to be a manifestation of his memory of them. It seemed to be quite vivid.

Mine are obviously sleep related, part of the hallucinatory phenomena that sometimes happen as one is drifting off or awakening. I was just curious how common it is and whether other people experience it being off to the right.

[Edges]

Every once in awhile, especially when drifting off to sleep, I'll hear someone call my name. It always sounds like it's coming from directly behind my right ear.

Once as I was falling asleep I heard a man's voice counting. It sounded like he was standing just to my right. It jolted me fully awake.

Does anyone else have that?

I have had this happen to me. Several times, when I was half-asleep I would think that I heard my mom calling my name from down the hall. It was so distinct one time that I actually got up and went down the hall only to have her look at me like I was crazy.

I don't know if it happens more on one side than the other, since it always seems like she's calling to me from down the hall, that is, the apparent source of the sound is some distance away rather than right beside me as you describe.

[apathoid]

I talleyed up 23.

If you have 20-29: You have natural intuition. While you may have to work on developing your psychic ability to read for yourself and others, you are able to use this intuition to help navigate the world around you.



I think I'm gonna look into this as a possible career option....










..not.