Do you believe in psychics?

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I've been to a few psychics over the years and some things they've said have been weirdly accurate, some not so much.
I had a very tragic bereavement about 12 years ago and haven't seen one since but done things I was told almost predicted what would happen.
Does anyone have any similar stories?
Ps im very much atheist and not at all 'woo' but sometimes reflect on things that are weirdly accurate.

I went for a tarot reading. The person also does personal development and is a magnetiseur, sort of healing.
Anyway, at the end of the reading I asked flippantly if I was going to lose weight. She looked a bit puzzled, and then told me, saying she didn't know why, that I should try not to put on too much.
Less than 2 weeks later, the medication I take for an underactive thyroid was recalled due to a contamination problem on the production line. I was without treatment for 5 weeks and developed hypothermia and put on 12kg.
There's no way she could have known that.

Also, about 5 or 6 years ago, she'd told me that I would end up being divorced. I'd considered divorce, we'd spoken about it, and things had seemed to imorove, talking about renewing our vows, moving house etc etc.

Was a load of crap, xh on a manipulative charm offensive seemingly becoming the person I'd fallen in love with, and in the meantime blowing through money he'd said would be mine. We separated and dh launched a really nasty action for divorce.

I also had been approached by someone with dubious motives on old. Had his motives been genuine there was a real connection between us. He'd had a heart problem at the beginning of the year. Anyway, one night I woke with awful crushing chest pains, couldn't breathe etc at 3am. Got up once they'd gone, had a small medecinal brandy and went back to sleep, thinking I couldn't ring him at 3am. The next day, about 10am, decided to ring him to check he was ok after all. Just in case, common human decency etc.
At 3am he'd been in a helicopter after a massive heart attack, on his way to a regional University hospital. At 10am, he'd just returned home in an ambulance with paramedics. I'd not long had a near death experience. He dropped the phone and ran off almost screaming.

Well over 40 years ago both dm and I used to have the feeling that something 'nice' was about to happen or something 'bad' later overshadowed by xh's voyant dm. She'd dreamt a 1930s grand national in colour and full detail several weeks before the race, and everyone said she was stupid as no horse had ever won twice. She was also credited with having killed a landlord by 'pointing the bones' at him after he put up the rent. He died a month later.

She also told dh several years before dd was born that it was good we weren't having children as he was too mentally unstable. She was right, there.

Who knows?

Interesting though.

It’s really important. I mean Newton’s first law. The entirety of thermodynamics. General and Special Relativity. Without them we would still be in the dark ages.

Oh wait you said psychics not physics. Yeah that’s dark ages stuff.

I went to a psychic once. When I knocked on the door she said “Who’s there”.

So I went home.

(Ok, I’ll get my coat…..)

No

I will believe in psychics when one can tell me my late grandmother’s mobile phone number.

@Penners99🤣🤣🤣
Like those signs.....' Tonight's Pyschic Show cancelled due to unforseen circumstances!'

@XelaM

Having said that, the absolute overwhelming majority are charlatans (and I have been to and spoken to MANY as I used to be really into it). It's pointless to speak to almost all of them (99.999999999999%).

Your 99.999999999999% is out by 0.000000000001%

I think there are a lot that aren't real, but there is one particular one I use for free online readings. They are often very accurate! Occasionally, I will treat myself to an email reading from the same company, where you submit three questions. They only have your name(mines common, and I'm not on any social media) She picked up on a specific way I felt, that wouldn't usually be connected to the thing I asked about(I'm being vague) and was accurate about when I'd move house

LoveMySituation - even if the information you got was more accurate than random guessing, why is it useful, or something you would seek out? Someone being accurate about when you’d move house seems so mundane I’m not sure what the purpose is? That’s genuine interest by the way, I’m not trying to be snippy!

I just looked up a “psychic” mentioned upthread and read someone’s report of what happened during a session they held. Lots of throwing out of names, places, many get no response at all, when they do he latches on to it and starts asking lots of questions, either he’ll say something they agree with or if not he moves back to throwing out words to the crowd again until someone else bites. As soon as there is anything interestingly coincidental the crowd gasp as his powers. No one seems to get to ask him questions, it’s all one way.

An interesting point is that the crowd is full of people who want to believe, they are willing participants in trying to find connections, they want him to be pleased with them. Presumably they went home happy. I wonder how they relay their experience of the evening, I wonder how many of them say “well there were loads of words that meant nothing to anyone”? Probably more likely they all focus on the one coincidence and that even that moment gets embellished.

It’s all such an odd psychological relationship, but clearly the people who pay for this feel a need for something, and believe that need is being met.

No, I don't believe in them (or in anything remotely woo). They are all either total frauds or deluded. Mostly the former.

Anyway, at the end of the reading I asked flippantly if I was going to lose weight. She looked a bit puzzled, and then told me, saying she didn't know why, that I should try not to put on too much.
Less than 2 weeks later, the medication I take for an underactive thyroid was recalled due to a contamination problem on the production line. I was without treatment for 5 weeks and developed hypothermia and put on 12kg. There's no way she could have known that.

Sorry,but how on earth can you interpret a vague and pretty non-predictive-sounding 'Try not to put on too much weight' as having in any way predicted your medication/hypothermia incident? No she didn't know, and no she didn't predict it!

In my youth I was looking for answers, still impacted by losing my Mum to cancer when I was 10. For various reasons I found a Spiritualist Church close to me and started attending. It was a friendly congregation and I attended weekly for about 2 months. The medium holding the service would put out random information about messages they were receiving and often someone in the congregation would answer the call and claim it was for them. From memory (it was approx. 40 years ago) there were 2 or 3 recipients per service. I never heard anything remotely that applied to me until my last attendance. A trainee medium was taking the service, a women I had regularly travelled to the Church with and we'd exchanged information over the course of time. Her "messages" she put out that night fitted too neatly in to my background. Whether knowingly or unknowingly she was using details about my family and background we had discussed. I left that night angry, upset and disillusioned, never to return. In hindsight I don't believe the women was conscious she was using information gleaned over the weeks I'd attended and I wonder if that's how it works for some. To answer the question "Do you believe in psychics?", personally I don't, I have no problem with those that do, if it helps some, does no harm and is not done for profit.

I reckon I'd be a great psychic.
I've got a great sense of intuition.
I'm also really good at uncovering someone's digital footprint. I've been paid to do it... even if you have locked down social profiles there'll be something out there to find. Often by way of a connection to you or a legal doc rather than anything you've put out there yourself.
I could easily set myself up for small gatherings and do readings.

Before social media, touring psychics used to research local newspapers for details of deaths knowing that grieving relatives would be very likely to pitch up.

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@GrimDamnFanjo that’s exactly what many of the the ‘best’ do & people are taken in.

My son went to a psychic in our local just for a laugh. He came home and told me he was amazed by how much she knew about him , until he told me I needed to see madame x and I realised that she lived in the house that we backed onto.
She did claim to he a real psychic though.

Anyone claiming to be a psychic and charging for their services are basically charlatan cunts exploring the vulnerable and the stupid.

Anyway, at the end of the reading I asked flippantly if I was going to lose weight. She looked a bit puzzled, and then told me, saying she didn't know why, that I should try not to put on too much.
Less than 2 weeks later, the medication I take for an underactive thyroid was recalled due to a contamination problem on the production line. I was without treatment for 5 weeks and developed hypothermia and put on 12kg. There's no way she could have known that

Is this for real??? 😂😂😂

I definitely think some psychic's exploit people, however I disagree that 'no one is psychic'. I had a reading, I'm not on social media or LinkedIn I have a generic name and my psychic told me my mother and grandmother's name who both have different surnames to me. The psychic knew I was retraining and hoping to change careers knew the industry I worked in and what I wanted to move in to (very niche and specific). Had my father's grandmother with her and her pet dog and got the name right (I never knew this and had to check with my father who confirmed) again a really unusual name. Went in to specific detail about personalities of deceased family members that came through. I have been told some things that I'm waiting to see if they come true..

Mine was over the phone so no cues were given away like they would at a f2f

I don’t believe in psychics at all not eg astrology or the I Ching etc
BUT I do believe that interaction with those can sometimes provide different insights (your own insights) as you process what is being or has been said whether spot on or miles off. Just a kind of different inner energy triggered by external focus on you.

It's absolute bollocks.

I live in an area that has a very well known psychic. I have well respected friends who rave about this man. I was finally persuaded into seeing him when he, at a pub performance, knew that a friend was 4 weeks pregnant and she had told nobody. He also "knew" she had miscarriages before and assured her this baby would be absolutely fine and that he "wouldn't say unless he was sure".

So I went to see him with my £40. His house was vile, filthy, thick with smoke. He answered the door in his PJs (at midday) and was on the wine. I sat down, still totally believing this man would be the real thing. The first thing he said was "I've got your dad here"....my dad isn't dead. He was taken aback. That wasn't the first mistake either. He made many general observations that I could link to my life but some catastrophic errors. I realised within minutes what a fake he was.

I paid him the money (resentfully) and left. Then a few weeks later my friend text me to tell me that she had miscarried her baby.

My friends still believe he is the real deal but I was furious with him. Absolute fake.

@Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead

I think they're a load of bullshit. 'Cross my palm with silver and I'll tell you something you want to hear'. They prey on vulnerable people. If it was such an amazing gift, they could do it for free and help so many people.

I would urge everyone to watch one of derren browns live shows.

He puts all this 'psychic' nonsense to bed.

We went to see him and a ball got randomly thrown around the room. One man caught it and derren brown asked him to think about something. Within about a minute or rwo, he had established the man was thinking about when he got sacked for getting caught having a wank in his office.

He done this as a show opener and guessed around 5 different people's thoughts.

He done some cold reading. And also the finale was a collection of peoples thoughts he has pre-written on a massive roll of paper.

There is no doubt in my mind that there are no psychics and anyone who says they are, is an absolute charlatan.

I actually think he is a massive psychic. He can never admit it or he wouldn't have an act.

I've had a couple of precognitive dreams. All boring and unimportant things usually. I dreamt the Beatles were reunited on the Parkinson show for example before the dream ' broke ' when I realised George had the wrong face. Next day at work a guy told me John Lennon had been killed. It's always about something that happens the next day with me. And it's never 6 bleeding numbers !

For those that believe, why is the material often so banal? Why not share the meaty & life changing? My friend’s granny came through to talk about her old socks forgotten in a drawer (apparently true, and no one knew) but why?

If on the ‘other side’ what would you want to say to relatives?

Doris Stokes - her sessions were about forgotten receipts under cookers etc.

@NothingAboutIt

It's absolute bollocks.

I live in an area that has a very well known psychic. I have well respected friends who rave about this man. I was finally persuaded into seeing him when he, at a pub performance, knew that a friend was 4 weeks pregnant and she had told nobody. He also "knew" she had miscarriages before and assured her this baby would be absolutely fine and that he "wouldn't say unless he was sure".

So I went to see him with my £40. His house was vile, filthy, thick with smoke. He answered the door in his PJs (at midday) and was on the wine. I sat down, still totally believing this man would be the real thing. The first thing he said was "I've got your dad here"....my dad isn't dead. He was taken aback. That wasn't the first mistake either. He made many general observations that I could link to my life but some catastrophic errors. I realised within minutes what a fake he was.

I paid him the money (resentfully) and left. Then a few weeks later my friend text me to tell me that she had miscarried her baby.

My friends still believe he is the real deal but I was furious with him. Absolute fake.

Eughhh he sounds vile.

Your poor friend.