How do clairvoyants know things??

Not to my knowledge. The first time I had sleep paralysis I didn't know what it was and I did wonder if it was something supernatural... my whole body absolutely frozen, could not even open my eyes, then sensed something in the room, felt like it was sitting on the bed and then on me. Scary, for sure.

The next day I found out about SP and suddenly remembered hearing about it elsewhere, talked to a doctor friend who explained it was about the muscle paralysis that kicks in when you sleep to stop you sleepwalking and acting out your dreams staying switched on for a short while after you wake or partly wake. When it happened again a few weeks later, I wasn't scared at all, just thought "oh no, not again!"

I do have quite an active imagination and very vivid dreams so maybe there's a connection there.

This.

Some people are vulnerable/gullible and want to believe these tiny snippets of vague information. It tells people nothing really. She forgives you. She's watching over you. Etc etc etc

@moggerhanger just saw you haven't good! Phew!

Also @ThatCyanCat just read about your experiences too, just regarding the feeling of pressure on your chest or bed, I've had that too but mostly just a foreboding feeling for me, like something is around the door or in the corner just out of sight, anyway there's some stunning paintings from around 1700's on relating to demons etc in the room/on the bed/on some poor lady's chest, they're stunning but also creepy AF & they're meant to be directly about SP..I'll try to post one

Oh no Moggerhanger I've had sleep paralysis on & off since I was a teen, mostly stress induced but I never made the connection until well into my 20's, I never knew that about the eye movement so thanks for that tip just in case!

Mine always starts off the same normal dream & then suddenly (it seems anyway) the sound of a ball, like a hard ping pong ball hitting the floor & then rolling.. I know how that mad that sounds, & then terror for however long it takes, apparently there's no movement or distress from me according to one or two regular sleeping partners over the few decades it's been happening but it's really unsettling for me obviously when I wake up

Have you ever had any other incidences? apologies if you've already answered, I'm just catching up from earlier

I had a colleague who was a nurse working with people who were critically ill / receiving palliative care. She used to know who was next to pass away because she would see the spirits of their relatives who had already passed surround their bed in the hour before they passed themselves. 100% accuracy. She didn’t tell many people about it because she knew people would disbelieve her and she certainly never told the patient or their living relatives. I think it was quite a burden for her.

There's a biochemical change in pregnancy that some people pick up through scent. It's pretty well established with cancer too. I can see the issue with trying to look surprised when there is announcement, if you knew before them 😂

We knew sound existed, but didn't understand it.

We have no reason to think psychic abilities exist.

That's a pretty important difference.

It isn't closed minded to think that claims require evidence.

No "clairvoyant" or similar has ever been able to demonstrate any psychic ability in a controlled environment.

Cold reading is a well known trick, that can be performed well by people who don't claim any supernatural ability. Hot reading is a known scam.

If there was any vaguely plausible evidence that someone had genuine supernatural abilities, then we'd have to consider that perhaps they do - even if we dont understand them. But there isn't.

Being "open minded" is a virtue. Being gullible isn't.

And you can add in confirmation bias where you only remember and focus in on the details you interpreted as being correct and forget all the not so accurate stuff.

78 perc of Irish adults have a parent or grandparent called Mary. So if I said is there a Mary in the audience who has recently lost someone close. I would be reaching out to a large cohort of women 50 to 60 plus years old in my audience called Mary. At 50 to 60 some of those are going to have lost a parent or older sibling recently.
You can work on generic conversations and pick up on tells as you go along. Your mother, Mary, is saying she forgives you. Did you have unresolved issues before she died? No. I think these are issues when you were young. She always loved you whatever you did.
Every relationship over a lifetime has some issues at some stage.
This is how it works. They can be very good at it but it is just a skill in reading people and knowing generic liklihoods.

😂😂seen this guy doing his stand up routine....hilarious!

OK - but why would anybody waste their one chance to speak to their darling daughters by saying "Tell them this! That'll prove it's me!" instead of, I dunno, passing on a family recipe or checking that your inheritance worked out as planned? It's almost as if The Afterlife exists purely to validate the claims of mediums (if you believe in all that).

Given that most of these spirits are supposed to have foresight, you'd expect them to be sharing winning lottery numbers, investment tips and sports results, wouldn't you?

Ive seen 2 . The first one I was last minute as someone else dropped out. I was the only one who didn't work at a hospital, my name wasn't given ahead if time. Obviously there was generic stuff but there was also VERY specific stuff including ivf which NO ONE knew about.
The second one was booked by my otger sister, only her name given and she isnt on SM. Again some personal info which seemed to hit home and some to generic stuff. However she did give my dsis a VERY SPECIFIC piece of info that relates to all of us that could not be guessed. It was the most weird statement but 100% accurate for us, think something along the lines of 'uour mam is talkibg about a sunhat for a pig, a real hat for a real pig?'. Woman couldn't work it out but my dsis just said yes I totally understand this'
I totally agree there are charlatans and there are many who cold read /guess, but personally I've seen a few things that definitely make me question it.

Ive seen 2 . The first one I was last minute as someone else dropped out. I was the only one who didn't work at a hospital, my name wasn't given ahead if time. Obviously there was generic stuff but there was also VERY specific stuff including ivf which NO ONE knew about.
The second one was booked by my otger sister, only her name given and she isnt on SM. Again some personal info which seemed to hit home and some to generic stuff. However she did give my dsis a VERY SPECIFIC piece of info that relates to all of us that could not be guessed. It was the most weird statement but 100% accurate for us, think something along the lines of 'uour mam is talkibg about a sunhat for a pig, a real hat for a real pig?'. Woman couldn't work it out but my dsis just said yes I totally understand this'
I totally agree there are charlatans and there are many who cold read /guess, but personally I've seen a few things that definitely make me question

On the back of this thread I did a mini cold reading on a colleague today, who was utterly convinced that these charlatans have a gift, in order to show her how they work. I think a lot of her, she is much younger than me and quite naive so I really was trying to help her and to see if cold reading really is that easy.

Totally backfired, she now thinks I have a gift that I am denying!

“I’m getting……”

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Nah. Waited to see if it happened again (it didn't), googled it a bit, otherwise carried on.

I'm glad that it gave you comfort, @Ahwig . I think when we lose loved ones, we look for peace and reassurance.

My father died 18 years ago when there was little to no social media. I went to see a medium about 5 months after he died. I expected some cold reading and wasn’t sure what to expect. A couple of things blew me away. One was my earliest memory of me and my dad and I had told absolutely told no one ever about that. They also knew something very very personal about a domestic situation that they couldn’t possibly have guessed in a million years. There were some general things that you probably could guess like having a lit candle near his photo. My dad was atheist and didn’t believe in heaven or that anything was there after you die. So I took it as a way of my dad saying he’s was ok and that gave me a lot of comfort.

That sounds awful, and genuine commiserations to those of you who have suffered. 💐
It would freak me out!
Is there treatment/way of managing it?

I used to experience sleep paralysis quite frequently, including the sense of a frightening presence sitting on the bed and then on me, and hallucinating a fire in the room (both very common when it happens). I can absolutely understand why people used to think it was a visiting demon. Totally understandable. But it's not.

I've also had auditory hallucinations, including voices, when dropping off to sleep; one time it was just a woman screaming in my ear suddenly and woke me with an absolute start! Unpleasant but yeah, that's all it is.

I bet you were. Did you speak to a GP or anyone? You had a little baby as well!

It really was! Even knowing about SP didn't stop me feeling proper freaked out, and a bit scared to go to sleep in case it happened again.

Oh my god, that must have been absolutely terrifying 🤯