To ask if anybody's visited a psychic?

[Forthefirsttime1]

I am just wondering, as I went to a psychic night and I didn't feel it was very good, as anyone ever had a positive experience? Or is it a load of rubbish? :)

[carlywurly]

Me. Several times in varying circumstances. My friend bought me tickets to a psychic night, I was highly sceptical. Halfway through, the bloke referred to my maternal grandmother by her full (unusual) name. She had lived and died several hundred miles away, he could not have known of her. I'd not been asked for any info and the tickets were not booked in my name.
It was truly bizarre

[MiniTheMinx]

I have been to a few evenings where various psychics have been on stage. Nothing addressed directly to me and so unable to say if any of them were genuine.

I have though, seen a few individually for various readings and two that I know are very good. I would recommend both. If nothing else, it passes the time, its entertaining and well, we all like to dream about what happens next in our own story

[Forthefirsttime1]

There was a lot of name dropping but of the Mary/John sort :) and I come from a family of unusual names.

[Proclean]

I have one that I first attended as a sceptic 20 years ago, she is so good I still go yearly and so do all my friends and family, I have heard that a psychic cannot be expected to be more than 70% accurate due to the nature of the communication, however, if they are that percentage correct or above they are very talented.

My own person is also a medium and I have had undoubted proof that she can get my parents through (due to the detailed information she gives me!)

Not all psychics are real and some are out and out fraudulant but mine is not, she has proved herself to too many people!

[Jackie0]

I'd love to meet a real psychic or medium.
I really do believe that some individuals have an actual ability but there are lots of con artists out there just trying to take advantage of vulnerable people.
I've had experience of psychics being really spookily accurate about my past and current life and being totally wrong with predictions, so what's that about ? Some sort of mind reading ?
I saw a medium recently who was very very wrong in her description of my family member but then went in to accurately describe children in the family . So strange. Even more strange we had some spooky thing happen at home afterwards, particularly when I was talking about the person I wanted to contact. Wooooooooohooooo

[MiniTheMinx]

I had a reading a few weeks ago and it was very accurate about my current situation. As to the future, well I probably will have forgotten what she told me, as you do. She was a psychic and medium.

There are different types of medium though, some have clairaudience which is rare, others have clairsentience or they are clairvoyant. With the last two the medium relies on their interpretative skills because they are reading signs. In my view clairaudience can be far more accurate. The problem with clairaudience is that people who have this ability are often loathe to admit it, recognise it and have training. For obvious reasons hearing voices is not something people freely admit to!

[AllHailTheBigPurpleOne]

Went to one at a psychic fair. My two friends believers, me not at all.
The people my two friends saw were obviously phoneys, they fished for information and were very vague.
Mine, to which I sat down to with a smirk on my face scared the life out of me. She described me sat watching telly the previous night, for which I was alone, laughed at describing my mismatched pyjamas and eating omelette out of the frying pan with a wooden spoon as I hate washing up.
I was amazed and embarrassed in equal proportions. Firstly, because she'd outed my hidden slobbiness (mates wet themselves at my expression) and amazed that there was NO WAY she could have known that. I told nobody what i did. Or ahem, occasionally do. I really don't know how she did it unless she climbed three storeys up a drainpipe to watch me in all my glory.
Then she described a couple of dead family members with frightening accuracy. She said how my dead aunty wouldn't drink any gin but Gordons and that every Monday she sent her clothes off to the cleaners as she didn't do domestic stuff. She also laughed about my great granny putting saucers of water out for the snails in the garden.

I am still amazed.

She's quite famous now, I saw her years ago on big brother.

[PetiteRaleuse]

I think there are a lot of piss artists and a few genuines.

[Jackie0]

It's so fascinating , isn't it? I used to dabble with tarot cards and would occasionally get something significant , I just felt like I was talking & talking ( as you do ). I would love to have an actual gift for this.

[CrapBag]

My friend reckons she knows a good one and we are going to set up an psychic evening at her house. I've always wanted to see one but only if they were highly recommended because I do think the majority are con artists.

[KillmeNow]

I went to one years ago.I went with a friend who had been before and she told me not to say anything other than normal greetings etc.

I gave her a ring to hold and she used this as a means of focussing. She told me lots of things about older members of the family that I had no idea about.I had to remember what I could and relay it to my parents so they could piece together what they could of it. It meant nothing to me at the time so I couldnt give her any positive feedback .

I was a bit underwhelmed about the whole thing until she said she had something for me from my father. My father was alive and well at that point so I told her that. She said " Well he says he's your father" and held her hand out backwards as if to give me something on the sly. Thats exacty what my grandfather used to do with small coins as if to hide them from my Granny. I always called him Daddy .

[specialsubject]

if they know your name, forget any idea of psychic powers - google, subscriptions to findmy past and ancestry will tell them all sorts of things, some of which you may not know.

you will occasionally get it right JackieO by the laws of chance.

I have a couple of paranormal dabblers in the family. Last time I saw them was at a fete where they had put up a gazebo. Unfortunately due to lack of psychic powers or the inability to check the weather forecast they had to close their stall as it blew away...

as far as i know all psychics are either deluded, clever frauds or both. Prepared to be proved wrong but not to pay to do so! If people enjoy this, fine.

[BoldBlackCherry]

Yes twice.

Once five years ago and she told me that there was going to be a pregnancy in the October that year. I found out I was pregnant with dd1 in the October of that year. She also mentioned a bold Busty woman who was watching over me, mentioned her apron and her unusual name too. It was my nana.

I went to see her again a couple of weeks ago and once again she mentioned the bold Busty woman who was watching over me, mentioned her apron and her unusual name. She said she was always around and she is better now. She also mentioned my grandad by name, how he died and repeated a conversation I had with my mother in private a few days prior to going to see her. I am now convinced that there is something there after you die.

To be fair, she mentioned my scratch card addiction and said I was due a boost from one soon, I would have enough money to get myself out the four walls and I've won a fiver so far so it's probably shite

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

Never been tempted, they're charlatans. And the worst of them prey on vulnerable people.

[maudpringles]

I went to see one and she was so way off the mark I felt bad for her.
She kept asking about my quiet father- who was anything but and my grandfather from Norfolk- they were both Devonshire born and bred!
Waste of money and brought none of the comfort I was told they would give.

[ohforfoxsake]

I went to one. I think she changed my life.

[andmyunpopularopionis]

I went about 20 years ago. I went with a friend for a bit of a laugh..

Well. She told me things that she could NOT of known at all.. ever. There was no inkling in our lives that we would ever leave our home country. She said we would. She told me the type and colour of car my DH would be driving when I married him. She told me how many children I would have, there gender and the age gap. She told me my freaking fortune .. no question. She got things right that she could not have guessed.

Then, I thought nothing of it. Now I have no doubt that she was a true psychic.

I think there are many who are not though.

[Rhine]

I've seen a few. I think the good ones are few and far between, the better ones tend to be from Romany backgrounds for some reason? The vast majority are crap, but occasionally you will find a genuine one.

[BolshierAyraStark]

Yep, load of bollocks-pretty much guesswork & she was shit at that unfortunately for her.

[CiderwithBuda]

I went to one years ago.

She waffled on a a lot of what she said was very vague. Older man coming through. Dressed well. Wore a hat. Could have been my grandfather or dps father.

But she mentioned a certain name.

At the end she asked if I had any questions. I asked about the name she mentioned. She sort of flopped a bit. Mentioned a wooden rack of keys. Mentined running for a train. He got the train but I didn't. Mentioned rain. Mentioned confusion. Said she was very tired and his death shouldn't have happend.

He and I worked in a hotel and it had recently been renovated and a big wooden key rack had been installed. (When I saw her it was a few years later and was in a different country.)

We worked on a Saturday and would finish later afternoon and would go for a drink and then he would catch the train home and I would get the bus from near the train station. So we ran for the train together but I never got in the train with him.

He died of AIDS in the early days. She had only experienced an aids death once before but felt it was different to others.

It was enough to make me believe.

[HecatePropylaea]

I went once. It was hilarious. I went with my friend and I pretended to be so impressed with the 'psychic' getting in touch with my fat grandma who had passed over.

Both grandmas were alive and well at that point, neither of them fat but good for her taking a look at tubby old me and hazarding a guess that lardiness runs in the family.

I just agreed with everything she said and tried not to laugh as she gave me my message from my dear departed granny.

My husband once encountered a 'psychic' in a pub. He asked her how many pints he was going to have.

She walked away.

[Beavie]

I've been to a few private psychic readings. One or two were amazingly accurate but to be fair most of them were clearly making it up as they went along.

A long time ago I went to the theatre to see a show by a guy who was a psychic detective, had been a copper for years then realised he had a psychic gift and started using it to solve crimes. He's done a lot of work for the police in the USA too. His audience interaction was either amazingly accurate or people had been planted there. His book is an interesting read, I think his name is Keith Charles.

[QueenHaakonVII]

It's a complete load of bollox. They are only after your money.

[ConstableOdo]

I have been to rather too many, even though I'm normally a highly logical person who really shouldn't be giving this sort of thing any credence whatsoever: after all, the vast majority of mainstream psychics in the media have been exposed as cold (or hot) readers at some point or another. I think it's the one thing I'm gullible about. Maybe it's because I have a lot of close relatives who are no longer around.

My weirdest experience was when I moved house and looked for one in the Yellow Pages, and the only one I could find was called something like '(First Name) International Clairvoyant', and I immediately thought 'I'm not wasting money on anyone who doesn't advertise under their real name - they're probably fake'.

Then I got an odd, strong feeling that I should open the other phone book in the house and turn to a specific page number, and I did - and the first number I saw was this psychic's phone number, under her real name.

It was a RIDICULOUS coincidence. She told me she'd stopped taking readings but she would make an exception in this case; after the coincidence I'd had, I think I was expecting some kind of Damascene experience, but the reading turned out to be a mild disappointment.

I'd say: 1/3 were on to something and not necessarily cold reading, 1/3 were clear frauds and 1/3 had issues that merited a visit to a doctor.