Any Psychic Dopers Out There?

Fairblue, this is what you originally said:

Emphasis added.

The bold bits sure look to me as if you’re claiming some kind of supernatural explanation for whatever you think you can do. Sure, you’ve couched it in a very cautious way, sprinkling your claim generously with “I don’t know” and “I’m not sure”. But the claim appears evident to me.

It’s dishonest of you to now change your story and say:

Emphasis added.

Good for you for recognising a rational explanation for your ability to read people, but in your first post you said you weren’t sure why you could do it and you didn’t want to jump to any conclusions. So which is it: do you subscribe to the rational explanation, or are you not so sure?

And that’s not all you said:

So what’s the explanation for that?

Apparently none is forthcoming:

Sad. You have a remarkably thin skin if you’re upset at the mildly critical reaction you’ve received. You knew you might get flack for speaking up (“Hmmm… I wonder if I’ll get flamed for this?”). Now that you’ve been called on your claim you want to back out. Coward.

What about those other times you were watching TV or listening to the radio, and the episode or song you were just thinking about didn’t come on?

Like Wearia said, people tend to remember coincidental things like “predicting” a song before it plays, and make a bigger deal about it, whereas the fifty or a hundred times before when they were wrong get downplayed and forgotten.

I’m sorry, but these don’t jibe. Is it a knack or a perceptiveness? Is it a spiritual thing, or not?

You can see why we think you’re backpedalling, right?

I take too damn long to post. :grumble:

I could really use that million dollars, but alas, I am not psychic, have never met someone who I am convinced was psychic, and am very skeptical about the existence of psychic abilities.

Guess I’ll just have to stay at my job.

I once read the back cover of a book that hadn’t been published, and wouldn’t be for half a year. Never did figure that one out.

And I once had a cat that teleported out of a locked car going 60 mph down the Illinois turnpike.

I’m not a doper, but I can’t make a definite statement about the cat.

The same sort of thing happens to me, particularly about Simpsons episodes (though occasionally for other things as well). I think it’s because I’ve been watching the Simpsons for such a large portion of my life – it came out when I was in grade school, and I’m now 22. I’ve been an avid fan for all this time, and my family often brings up a Simpsons gag in casual conversation. I’ve connected Simpsons episodes to all sorts of things in life, and if I think of a thing, I’ll often connect it to something that happened on the show. For example, if I’m out driving at night and I see a pair of headlights disappear over a hill, I’ll think of Chief Wiggum and his “ghost cars”. (“Hold me!” “Only if you hold me!”)

It’s only natural that occasionally these thought processes – which are easily and normally forgotten – will occasionally ‘hit’ on an episode played later that day, or week, or whatever. It’s a strange feeling but I think it’s simple coincidence.