Awful Psychic Reading

[whatanidiotIam]

Has anyone ever had a really good psychic reading where predictions have come true?

I've just wasted £30 on a phone reading. The reader got quite a few things wrong and was patronising. She said I need to work on self love. I've recently never felt so good about myself and confident.

The reader was supposed to be a medium and I was hoping for a message from a Grandparent.

What an idiot I have been!

I'll give you a physic reading if you like. I'll tell you whatever you want to hear

Hard to believe there's people out there this gullible

With full disclosure, I do not believe in psychic powers or being able to speak to those who are gone. I think that people who do these jobs effectively are essentially really good at reading people and also provide a warm, empathetic, reassuring, counselling style approach. They are good at creating a dyadic understanding with you. With that in mind, it must be much tougher to offer a good experience via phone than face to face.

I do overall disapprove, as ultimately it's a relationship that I believe is built on a lie (that these people can truly read the future/the past/speak to the dead).

I would recommend if you want to have these experiences in future, you go for a face to face, with great recommendations, and not much cost so you don't feel cheated if it's not great.

Despite not believing, I do quite fancy a tarot reading, just because I think that's mostly about how you, the customer, interact with the reading. So I'd be more keen to look at how I think about cards than actually think that they are revealing anything!

Don’t think of yourself as an idiot OP.
Many of us have been n your shoes. After a death of a close family member, I contacted a so called medium for a telephone consultation I paid a lot for. He was a man and told me I was ‘feeling a bit frisky’ - can you imagine anything more horrible?

One person read my hand told me I’d have two children and leave my husband. That turned out to be her telling her own fortune.That was incorrect for me.

Another fortune teller some years later told me someone was dead who wasn’t dead.

The act of giving yourself up to total belief in what a self-styled, possibly entirely fake, or even a real, clairvoyant might say leaves anyone exposed and vulnerable. I now think it is usually dangerous mentally to contact one. Leave it alone. If there are genuine clairvoyants, they are rare.

The best bet for feeling the presence of your grandparent imo is to take up mindfulness, or to go to church and light a candle for them, or to go for long walks in beautiful places, or light a lantern for them at home.

I am so sorry for your bereavement.

I went to one years ago, who was spookily spot on with things that she couldn't have guessed. This was way before any social media was around, so she couldn't look me up that way,and all she had was my first name. She knew my brother was adopted, she knew that my Dad was suffering with a big ulcer on his leg that wasn't healing, she knew he'd had it for many years and how he got it. She knew that my parents ran a shop and she knew what job I did. I only gave her yes and no answers so she had nothing to go on. None of my friends or family had ever been to see her so she couldn't have got any info off them.
Several years later I went with some friends to see a medium. He was absolutely appalling! At one point, there was almost a fight because he'd told one woman, who had lost her son by suicide, that he hadn't had the funeral that he wanted and that she'd let him down, and her son would never forgive her!

Me too, please.

She also made a comment about me living in Australia which I was again against as I had no plans of travelling there as it doesn't interest me.

About three weeks later I met my husband, whose name is David, and our first house together a year later was on Adelaide Road 🤷🏻‍♀️

Having a house on Adelaide Road ≠ "living in Australia"

@ScrollingLeaves - Thank you! My Grandparent died some time ago. I think I just wanted a comforting message. I saw a medium years ago at a shop and he was brilliant so I thought there was something in it.

What an idiot I have been!

Well, yes. It’s totally made up nonsense to extort money from sad and desperate people.

true, honest and talented medium

I honestly can’t believe what I read on here.

My friend at uni worked as a telephone psychic, she said they have scripts to read from for various situations. It's a complete and utter con.

This is a five-star example of confirmation bias in action.

How many things did the 'psychic' tell you that didn't come to pass?

I don’t believe it but there was one in a caravan we walked past to the beach every day with a genuine Romany lots of info. My teens were keen but when we asked the lady refused and said they had to be over 18 which I thought was quite decent of her.

What I don’t understand is why these ‘mediums’ only give snippets of utterly vague information (see: Australia anecdote). Why don’t they ever know exactly what is apparently going to happen? Or why don’t they know exactly what information a dead relative is apparently trying to impart?

Is it because it’s bullshit? I think it might be because it’s bullshit.

If there is an afterlife, I am going to try and get though to a medium.

I will give them my full name, national insurance number, mothers maiden name and last known address.

I shan’t be giving them vague information about someone called Shiela who was a TA at the local primary school.

Exactly.

Mediums very often bark out common names at people, without saying who they are, or whether or not they're still alive to try and get a hit.

David was a very, very common name not so long ago, so if neither your dad, nor 2 granddads were called that, then you still may well have had an uncle, neighbour or close family friend who was a David.

They often use David John, Mary, Ann... etc. in this way.

That that poster went on to marry a David is entirely coincidental.

Sorry, meant to quote someone there!

If you are still interested in a reading see if you have a Spiritualist church near you. Also if you are In London there is the British spiritualist centre which was (many years ago) in Belgrave Square.

I’ve mixed feelings about mediums. I definitely wouldn’t have a phone reading but I do think, face to face, they pick up a lot of information from your appearance and demeanour/vibe.

On the other hand, I went a couple of times when I was young, so years ago, and was told some quite extraordinary things.

I will give them my full name, national insurance number, mothers maiden name and last known address.

Yeah, but you'll still be put on hold and subjected to Greensleeves for an hour and a half😅

I would also like contact info please.

The phone ones and people who advertise are a con. The mediums with a genuine ability don't need to. I went to a woman who lived locally and heard about her through word of mouth with good reviews. I would ask around on local sites or friends/family.
She didn't get everything right, but a few things were very spooky and there was no way she could have known. Also, some things that didn't make sense at the time have come true in the years since.

The mediums with a genuine ability don't need to

There is no such thing as a ‘genuine ability’.

I saw one, a romantic gypsy. She was bang on. It was spooky

While I don't believe in psychics/mediums, I can totally see why some do.

To me it's similar to prayers/religion. Some actually swear blindingly by it, so I don't understand some of the shock on here that there are those who believe in these sorts of things either, it really isn't that much of a stretch.

She also made a comment about me living in Australia which I was again against as I had no plans of travelling there as it doesn't interest me.

About three weeks later I met my husband, whose name is David, and our first house together a year later was on Adelaide Road 🤷🏻‍♀️

So the medium was wrong then.

Exactly. Moving to Australia is quite a common flight of fancy for British people. There is also an Adelaide Road and Brisbane Road within half a mile of me in my SE town funnily enough.

If the psychic hadn’t said David, if she’d said William and the poster then met David she might not have been so invested. A whole heap of coincidence and confirmation bias. People conveniently forget all the bits that don’t come true…

I worked with mediums and tarot readers. They liked to try to make people cry with the readings they gave.
I wish I was making this up. There was a disgusting smell right outside the door. They decided we were "under psychic attack" from jealous people and had us doing wards of protection around the shop.
Turned out it was a plumbing problem, the smell was a blocked manhole.