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Is my friend a psychic?!

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ims0rrydarlingg · 12/12/2020 17:24

Posting here for traffic really!

My friend messaged me yesterday saying she had a dream I was 6 weeks pregnant.

My periods have always been like clockwork and I’ve never been late for a period, ever.

I’ve always tracked my cycles and keep an eye on my calendar just so I can plan things around my schedule and looking at it now, it’s showing I am 2 days late.

Is my friend a psychic or is this just a coincidence?

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BedknobsNoBroomsticks · 13/12/2020 05:24

My ds gets dreams and feelings that come true. It can be quite intriguing.

Yesterday we were talking about what to buy my DM for Christmas. An idea popped into my head and less than a minute later ds said it out loud. It wasn't an obvious item that you would buy someone so there is no obvious reason why it happened.

17thEarlOfOxford · 13/12/2020 05:25

is there any evidence to prove psychicism is absolutely false?

It's not possible to prove a negative such as this, but there are many examples of fraudulent psychics, and multiple challenges and prizes for demonstrations of psychic abilities, none of which have ever been passed, despite many attempts.

Together with the lack of any possible mechanism for psychic abilities which is even slightly consistent with our best understanding of the laws of nature, I think that's good enough to make dismissing psychicism the best operating assumption.

Of course this is not absolute certainty, but that's not a standard of knowledge that can ever be obtained in practice about any empirical question.

berrygirlie · 13/12/2020 05:30

I agree Oxford I operate as though it is not a real phenomenon or experience because there is evidence stacked against it, but I wouldn't be so quick to state that it's absolute fact that psychicism is not real. I think there's too much self-involvement in that statement.

Anyway thank you for the links! They're very interesting.

whatwedontknow · 13/12/2020 08:27

@ims0rrydarlingg are you doing a test today and then we will know

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 13/12/2020 08:57

I’ve never experienced anything at all psychic, but an extremely level headed sister has. TBH the detail (not from anyone being paid) was a bit scary!

Telepathy, though.... my DM was an acutely sensitive type, which could sometimes make her difficult to live with, but twice to my certain knowledge, at the exact time it was occurring, she dreamt of some great stress or trauma in a family member thousands of miles away.

I was only about 12 the first time, in the days when hardly anybody made long distance calls except in dire emergencies. My DM dreamt that a sister thousands of miles away had had a baby. She was utterly convinced and was quite specific - she’d woken at 6.30 am, gone back to sleep until the alarm went at 7, and during that half hour had the dream.
The sister already had 3 dcs and of course we all wondered why she hadn’t said if she was expecting another.

However about 2 weeks later there was a birth announcement card with the date and the time, and when we worked out the time difference, it was exactly within that half hour when she’d had the dream.
The sister said she hadn’t told anyone in the U.K. that she was pregnant, because she’d had 2 miscarriages before this pregnancy.

I know of one other similar case with my Dm - exact details with the right date and time - but since the incidents were so rare and only at times of great stress, her abilities could never have been proved under lab conditions.

Scoffers always say, ‘Oh, it must have been a coincidence,’ but my DMs cases most certainly weren’t.

Penners99 · 13/12/2020 09:16

I went to see a psychic once.

I knocked on the door, and she said “Who’s there?”

So I went home.....

(Apologies to Tommy Cooper)

Littlescottiedog · 13/12/2020 09:55

DH and I had been trying to conceive for a few years, including a miscarriage. While we were actually doing the business I had a moment of clarity and thought 'We've made a baby". Sure enough, that's the month I conceived and had a successful pregnancy.

Probably all bollocks and just the weird wanderings of a woman who really wanted to be pregnant, but in over two years, it was the only time I'd thought that and it turned out to be true.

TheWichitaWineOne · 13/12/2020 18:11

I think the power of coincidence, and the way we experience it and recall it is at play in 99.9 of cases such as these. But that's not to say coincidence isn't its own powerful, compelling thing.

Audreyseyebrows · 13/12/2020 18:22

Surely this is only interesting if you are in fact pregnant?
I have weird arse dreams all the time, doesn’t mean I’m psychic.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 13/12/2020 18:28

I think we all know where this thread's going to end up...

TheWichitaWineOne · 13/12/2020 21:20

I have weird arse dreams all the time

Well, that's a bit niche

I think we all know where this thread's going to end up...

like what you did there

Clawdy · 13/12/2020 21:36

My sister's little girl, when she was four, looked up from a game she was playing and said matter-of-factly "Auntie Clawdy just fell down the stairs." My sister rang me later and asked half-jokingly if I had fallen down the stairs. Bizarrely I had! About the same time her daughter commented. We never forgot it, but many years later, nothing similar has happened.

Bitcherama · 13/12/2020 21:53

"more things in heaven and earth" is Shakespeare, not Bacon. You're welcome. She isn't psychic.

WeatherwaxOn · 14/12/2020 07:45

I'm very skeptical, but I can recall one experience that baffled me.
Had a dream about viewing a house - the loft was accesses from a door in a narrow corridor, and when we went into it, was a huge space which stretched up and across supported by complex beams. Inside this space was a sort of split level area which I thought we could use as a sort of overspill room. Didn't think anything of it as my dreams are frequently odd and often feature houses with hidden rooms.
Months later we were on holiday in Wales, at large beach we've visited a few times. My daughter kept asking to stroke various dogs, and we ended up in conversation with quite a few people. One of whom was a man out with his son, metal-detecting.Turned out they lived very close to where we were staying and they had a lot of dogs, so invited us to call by another day to see them.
DH and I ummed and ahhed about it for a few days and decided we'd call on our way out a few days later.
Found their house up a winding, steep road and ended up stopping for a cup of tea. The man was telling us about how he'd been retired from work for medical reasons, all about his hobbies and showed us his workshop which was under his garage (the house being on the side of the steep hill)
He then said he wanted to show us something else and gave us a tour of the house. Upstairs, we walked along a narrow corridor, which had a small door at the end. He opened that and it led into a mirror image of the loft I had dreamed of.
Coincidence I am sure, but the similarly of the room was amazing, down to the way the beams were configured and the 'split level' layout.

SarahBellam · 14/12/2020 07:55

No, she is not psychic.

judithdewan · 11/11/2021 04:30

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IndecentCakes · 11/11/2021 04:57

I wonder if the OP ever had the baby?

CounsellorTroi · 11/11/2021 05:57

So some people would be unconsciously aware of someone else's hormones for example, like some animals would be able to pick up on cancer, or pregmancy.

Animals smell these things though, dogs especially. A dog’s nose has 300 million olfactory receptors compared to six million in ours.

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