I think the term for you is psychic. A psychic is someone with parapsychological abilities like mental telepathy, clairvoyance and the like.
I myself am an empath (I can sense other people's emotions) and a clairtangent (I can feel what other people are feeling). I just figured this out myself when I was sitting next to a post-menopausal woman who was having hotflashes. I was feeling feverish and didn't know why. Then, I asked her, just on a guess, if she were okay (I didn't know at the time that she was having a hotflash). She said she was having a hotflash and described my symptoms. I only felt feverish when I was sitting next to her. If I stepped away, I stopped feeling it. Later on, I was next to this same woman and felt tightness in my chest. I asked if she were okay, without telling her what I was feeling, and she said that her asthma was acting up and that she felt tight in the chest. Again, it was only when I was near her.
So, there are many of us out there. It's okay. The important thing is that you only use your powers for good and try to avoid harming others with them. :-) (Although dreams aren't as easy to control.) One technique that seems to work for prophetic dreams that are bad is to sit down after you wake up and relive them in your head. That fulfills the prophecy and keeps them from coming true.
I've also had prophetic dreams, BTW.
BTW, I know I sound totally unscientific, but I'd ask anyone reading this answer to keep an open mind. I believe in science myself and don't have any particular theory to explain my psychic powers. I just think that there are things Science hasn't discovered yet. I also make room for the possibility that there might BE an explanation that science currently DOES have, perhaps even a psychological one, but thus far I don't have one.
Are you a witch? Witch is a tricky word to define. Look it up in any dictionary and check the derivation. If you can, look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It has a VERY good entry on it. If you don't have an OED, try your public library and just tell the librarian that you want to look something up in the Oxford English Dictionary. Unless they're REAL bad at their job, they'll know exactly what you're talking about and be able to help you find what you're looking for.
Witch has traditionally been a neutral term for cunning folk, wise women and men (it was actually a gender-neutral term until a few hundred years ago) and for people who practice magic. So, if you had lived a few hundred years ago, you'd probably have been put into that category by a lot of people. Perhaps you would even have been persecuted. But, we hope that today people are more enlightened and can look upon your abilities as a gift. If they cannot, hopefully they'll at least only write you off as "one of those weird psychics". Just shrug that sort of thing off and remember that it's hard for a lot of people to believe, because they're just trying to be rational and they'll want evidence.
But, I don't think you really need to define yourself as a witch. In fact, when I think of witches, I think more of people who are actually practicing magic (as opposed to just having psychic abilities). That's why I think psychic is a better term for you.
Also, just FYI, you and many people reading this post may have read in the King James Bible, "you will not suffer a witch to live." This occurs both in the Old Testament and the New. However, I've looked up the passage in Greek for the New Testament (it was originally written in Greek as a matter of fact, since Greek was the language that most people in the eastern Mediterrainian and, oddly enough, the Middle East, spoke at the time it was written). I also checked with people who know Hebrew.
In both Greek and Hebrew, it says something much more like, "you shall not suffer a POISONER to live". Poisoner may mean literally someone who uses poisons or someone who puts curses on people. Note that the Bible accepts the three Magi who brought gifts to Jesus as being valid. The word magic actually comes from Magi. So, the Magi were magicians.
Personally, I think humans wrote the Bible, but I respect the rights of others to believe that it's God's word. But, be forewarned, there are lots of Fundamentalists out there who condemn anybody who can be labeled as a "witch" just because of the King James translation.
It turns out that King James actually had political reasons for translating the New Testament the way he did. One was to kill people accused of "witchcraft", usually torturing them ahead of time, and messing with the translation helped justify this.
Unfortunately, there are Fundamentalists IN MODERN TIMES who have LITERALLY MURDERED people whom they thought were witches![1] That's another reason why I think fundamentalist Christians are, at least as a general trend, far, far, far from being good people. Anyway, you might think twice about labelling yourself a witch.
On the other hand, some people, such as many of the Wiccans, are trying to reclaim the word "witch" as a positive term: someone who heals and makes the world a better place, someone who's wise, and the like.
Anyway... hope all that information helps.
2006-11-16 11:37:29
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answered by Ivan 2
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i got here across out I were a witch in yet another life from a psychic. I didn’t position self assurance in both till then. It hit my coronary heart problematic, she replaced into surely proper. From that day i have believed in reincarnation, that’s replaced my entire life for the better. i got here across what a number of my previous incarnations were, and it released me from fears that were not from this lifetime. through meditation, i have got here across I have many psychic information I not in any respect knew about. i love the conception of, “Do what you'll, yet damage no individual.” in case you examine the foundations Of conception written through The Council of yankee Witches, it explains why i love the Wiccan faith a lot. i'm a solitary practitioner, so i'm very careful. I ensue to be a Witch who worships the Christian God, yet not the former testomony one. the single it fairly is in each and each and every of the religions I studied, only a diverse tag on Him/Her. I positioned what touched my coronary heart from each and each and every faith I studied, and further all of them at the same time. i ended up with a living faith that grows and matures as I do. There’s a lot I’d want to inform you, yet I worry my area is used up. i'd dearly like to be printed. i needed to be a minister, yet couldn't hit upon a faith i could get up for, or have self assurance one hundred% of the time. Now I have it. Blessed Be
2016-11-24 23:10:12
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answered by sheryl 4
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Clairvoyance is a topic out of my range of knowledge. The jury is definitely still out on that one. Read up on the paranormal.
http://para4.org/
http://paranormal.about.com/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Alternative/Paranormal_Phenomena/
You are *not* a witch. To be a witch is a conscious choice a person makes to follow that faith. It is not something you are born with, nor cursed with, nor are witches handmaidens of satan. They're just peaceful people following a peaceful religion.
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2006-11-16 10:15:11
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answered by Chickyn in a Handbasket 6
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Deja Vu, Coincidence, or the gift/curse of The Sight, huh..? Well, as long as you maintain balance in your body and mind, there is no reason you souldn't be able to cultivate it. And it only makes you a witch to the people that feel threatened by something they neither have themselves nor understand. Don't sweat it, mon ami - you're only evil in the eyes of puppets and sheep, neither of which are anything to worry about.
2006-11-16 10:06:07
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answered by Deus Maxwell 3
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I am not sure about the clairvoyant thing as I think that is nonsense but you would know if you were a witch as it is a religion. One of the religions usually grouped with paganism.
2006-11-16 10:00:34
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answered by Maid Angela 7
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I believe we are all psychic, but for the majority the gift or the belief has been long knocked out of them. Educated out is another way of looking at it. Many professional psychics have grown up in a psychic friendly environment. Perhaps a grand-parent or parent with the knowledge has helped bring the extra sense out in the open and encouraged its use. But there are as many practicing psychics who have not had the benefit of caring psychic guidance and who have still managed to develop and hone this natural extra sense. The Psychic Sense.
To tap in to it more you can go to my free develop-psychic-ability page here: http://www.psychic-junkie.com/develop-psychic-ability.html
And the 'Am I Psychic?' page is here http://www.psychic-junkie.com/am-i-psychic.html
And some interesting psychic tests are here: http://www.psychic-junkie.com/psychic-test.html
2006-11-16 18:48:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Do you have - a broomstick/a black cat/warts/a cauldron?
Do you dance naked around a fire on the full moon?
If so you are a witch. Failing that it is possible you make some lucky guesses.
2006-11-17 11:05:30
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answered by david f 5
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Your mind is able to compile the present in your sub-conscious while you sleep and use that to model the future, and it seems like you are good at that.
I would study business reports in the newspaper and see if you can predict which business stocks will go up. You might have a skill that you can really use.
2006-11-16 09:59:53
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answered by Action 4
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Deja Vu
2006-11-16 09:57:17
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answered by Alyssa H 2
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Here is your chance to become a true hero.
Could you think about replacing the ozone layer or reversing the ongoing climate change? Or how about famine relief in
Africa or drought relief in Australia?
2006-11-16 10:47:54
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answered by Freddy F 4
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