The Sixth Sense or nonsense?

[Anthiena]

Aw, jeez. I know very well that the "we don't use 90% of our brains " statement is far from true. I also believe that it has something to do with genetics, but I believe that focusing your mind in meditation, prayer or rituals allows you to percieve things in different ways.
Why "Empathy" is the word I use is because I have a form of Autism that makes facial recognition and body language extremely hard to interpret.

[Dead & Grateful]

Why "Empathy" is the word I use is because I have a form of Autism that makes facial recognition and body language extremely hard to interpret.

If it makes you feel any better, I find it hard to tell when chicks are hitting on me.

On the subject of "predicting the future", I like to call it psychological persuasion. If you predict minor or vague events that will happen in someone's future, and they're convinced, they'll eventually associate something in their life with the prediction to make a connection.

Example: Seer A predicts that Customer B will "have a minor conflict with a stranger, but will then discover that he (Customer B) is the object of a secret admirer".

Later that week, Customer B orders a pizza and, being the prick he is, tries to pay with a $50. The delivery dude tells him, "sorry, but I can't break that", so Customer B rummages in his secret stash for some smaller bills. The next day he notices a girl staring at him and, remembering the words of Seer A, asks her out. As it turns out, the girl was staring at a mustard stain he had on his shirt, but she's not the kind to turn down a free drink, so she agrees.

Nothing was really "predicted" in this situation, it was just that Customer B had a minor influence on himself and the others around him based on what he believed would happen.

[Yuki-onna]

On the subject of "predicting the future", I like to call it psychological persuasion. If you predict minor or vague events that will happen in someone's future, and they're convinced, they'll eventually associate something in their life with the prediction to make a connection.

Exactly. Like horoscopes; they brabble about things in daily life that could happen the anyone at any time. I read somewhere many people who believe in these kind of...general...predictions, will enthusiastically embrace anything that comes true, yet ignore anything that doesn't - as some kind of strange comfort.

It's a pretty big gray area. Some kind of guidance, maybe - but I have to agree with D&G.

What about very precise predictions? Like that tv show, Medium; based on people who 'pick up' exact details of murders hundreds of miles away. Is it all phoney? Does anyone have personal experiences with this kind?