How do clairvoyants know things??

I did card readings at a charity event once, cribbing from a single chapter in a generalist book on fortune telling and using an incomplete set of cards because we couldn't find a full deck. So e.g. if you turn cards for man, care and old person, then you'd spin a line "interpret" it as someone's Grandad wanting them to know that he loves them very much and not being able to express it for some reason - all very vague and fits a number of scenarios which you can expand on if they respond.
It was totally fake, but a number of people genuinely thought I had 'the gift'. You have to pity them really.

Thank you

These kinds of things keep me awake at night tbh. Whether it's true or not. I'm not a believer at all.

BUT

When I was 18, I'm now 33. My brother dies suddenly, I was already a bit of a lost cause and wayward soul in the sense that I was out every night of the week getting black out drunk and just being a menace basically.

One night, not long after he passed, I was out drinking yet again, a girl approached me outside in the beer garden, I'd never met her, or even seen her. She told me that she could see a little boy in blue, with a football and Lego. She said she felt like she couldn't breathe, also he wanted me to know he likes the frogs.

My brother was buried in a blue football kit, he played football, loved Lego, and we put ornamental frogs at his grave. He had asthma and allergies and died of an asthma attack and anaphylaxis.

She didn't know me, I didn't know her, it was bizzare. I often question whether, in my grief I made it up. But I know I didnt.

Anyhow. I still don't fully believe there is anything after we die, unless I can get some solid proof which is unlikely. It genuinely haunts me. I suffer really badly Existential OCD and anxiety since then, I'm sure that experience is what triggered it.

@Blondeshavemorefun , well I'm glad that the experience gave you peace.
It's a very traumatic thing to deal with, and I'm sorry for your loss 💐

I believe there are some real ones about

I gave a fake name and withheld my telephone number so couldn’t be googled via Facebook, et cetera

The things she told me about how my husband died - he hung himself were unbelievable - How did you know somethings?

My husband was very skeptic and she even said he didn’t believe in the afterlife, but he’s here now telling me you were right

She mentioned where his glasses were on the microwave - As I said, how he died - And a few other things, but honestly, no one could have known which is why my mind with blown away

It gave me peace that hopefully that he was in a better place

Many years ago - pre internet, I went to a medium in Edinburgh ( I was working on a touring show and moving around the UK a lot at the time). I booked in under my first name only. I am imagining the things he could have worked out from meeting me was that I was not local, and not married. How could he have possibly known anything else about me? I was determined not to give anything away through my reactions to what he said.
He told me that I was needed work wise in many different places, and received thanks on a daily basis. I would be married in 17 months and I had recently met my future husband. I would have a boy and a girl, and the person telling him this was a maternal grandma or great grandma who was particularly short, not much taller than me sitting down. (I am 5ft 6)
Apparently my g gma was 4 ft 8 tall.

I moved in and got engaged to my boyfriend (someone who had helped out on the show a few weeks before, who went on to work alongside me) exactly 17 months after the reading.

Thinking this was a bit freaky, when the show moved onto Dublin, I sent off for a written consultation with him using only my middle name and the info came back the same.

Pre internet I was visiting my dm and she asked me to go to a psychic with her.
The woman didn’t ask questions she just gave me some cards to shuffle and told me to put them face down in a circle.
As she lifted each card she read what it told her eg ‘this card says your dh has a new job but It’s the same company however he will get more money.’
That really resonated with me as my dh had just been promoted within the civil service to a different department. It was so specific. I don’t know how the woman didn’t it but she told me at least 4 specific events and I’d never heard of or met her before and didn’t live near my dm.
She also read the cards really fast. She wasn’t pausing to study my reactions.

Please don’t be so patronising. I remember her words exactly. Did you even read my post? Absolutely NO-ONE knew of my termination. Cold reading was not a part in my particular experience.

If you want to give your general comments, then please don’t tag me and patronise me and my post like that.

your wedding dress will be beautiful once you sort the shoulder out" ..5 years later I bought a wedding dress with one shoulder strap and had that removed

Telling sequence of events.

You wouldn't believe the number of people who do this ... and pay using a credit card 😂

I once went to have my tarot cards read, she told me that I wasn't with who I was to spend the rest of my life with (I had been my husband 22 years and was a bit shocked) she said that i would meet someone who was divorced or going through a divorce who had a son and a daughter and was a driver. A year later I was separated and met a man with a son and a daughter and was a driver going through his divorce. Here I am 20 years later with said man and extremely happy!

it was over 30 years ago and i remember it with clarity

No you don’t. That’s not how memory works at all. Memory doesn’t take a photo; nor is it a stored file you can refer back to.
Every time you recall something your mind recreates the whole scene anew. It adds details in, and is biased towards how you want to remember it.
What you’re “clearly” remembering is not what happened, but reconstructed memory of a reconstructed memory, as convincing as it may seem.

I think we all know the answer to that!

Why can nobody ever do it under test conditions?

😂

Sometimes I know things. I don’t know how. It’s like I’m remembering that I met this person before and they told me the thing I know about them, sort of dejavu(ish).

I met a woman for the first time and knew that when she was younger her boyfriend had died in a motorcycle crash. It was like a memory, and it turned out to be true but I’d never met her, she was much older than me and there was no connection to her in any way. I didn’t ask her about it obviously but it came up in conversation naturally some months later when one of the young employees bought a scooter. Really weird.

My DH is convinced that Derren Brown really can read people's minds ... but dresses it up as a trick 🤣

Why didn't she just say to you -
"Get home quickly, your kitchen is flooding!"

I knew you were going to say that

You really, really don’t , you know. Even if morphic resonance were a thing, rather than an unevidenced dollop of pseudoscience, it’s not going to let you predict anything, even in the smallest sense.

All the evidence in favour of it being real is anecdotal. It’s never been proven under test conditions, and there’s probably a good reason for it.

It’s the same as ghosts - 175+ years of photograph and not a single unequivocal photograph. 120+ years of film and in the last couple of decades cameras literally everywhere - and still no clear, unequivocal film of one.

My experience was many years before the internet , i went to see an elderly lady at her home.
I knew to say nothing other than a greeting when i met her, she told me things that were completely true, that no one would know about my family ,about my mothers pregnancy and specific details around the loss of my grandfather.
She described the man i would marry and what sex my children would be and how many , she was spot on, i had 2 then a 3rd later on,she told me the 3rd would be a long way off and did a gesture with her arm to indicate 'a long way' as she spoke ,she got that right.
She had 'something' i am certain, it was over 30 years ago and i remember it with clarity she was a very special person , my experience was quite profound but at the same time felt very natural.
I believe there are too many similar experiences to dismiss clairvoyance etc and so little we know about beyond death , i think that people with this gift / curse ? are few and far between and that the vast majority of 'mediums' are fake .

I have seen two psychics who were pretty convincing. Both pre internet, one I’d only told my first (not unusual) name. She read tarot cards and said a lot of things that were bizarrely accurate. Random, strange things. She was young, on a gap year and a nice person. I’d gone to her for fun as a friend had seen her , been told she could see a house full of water, went home and her entire kitchen was flooded . So she passed on her number to me.
She told me something unusual about someone I was close to, that she couldn’t have known, I didn’t know myself at the time.
The other was a man who I went to with a friend, he was a clairvoyant. He said various things that could be generic, but then started talking about a friend of mine, she had committed suicide earlier that year, and he spoke about a fog of darkness around her. As he talked, his face somehow started to resemble hers. His mannerisms became like hers too. It was the strangest thing. He was middle aged and bearded, she was young and beautiful. They were from different ethnic groups, there was nothing about them that was similar.
I was really unnerved by it actually, and I haven’t seen one since.

I think this is unfair. I have Morphic Resonance, and unlike the PP, it actually does allow me to see into the future (in a limited way!) Not predict events as such, but a definite sense of people's thoughts and comments before they occur.

The trouble with a lot of these stories is that they grow over time and become more exaggerated. Humans can’t help themselves.
Ive heard a lot of stories told about situations that I witnessed first hand and it’s amazing how much people embellish when retelling it!