is there such thing as a sixth sense ???

Answer 1

YES! Definitely!

Ever have a hunch, an instinct or an intuition? Research psychologist Dean Radin, Ph.D., claims that hunches might actually foretell the future. The University of Oregon's Ray Hyman, Ph.D., however, isn't so sure.

Alex, a university colleague, was cleaning his double-action, six-shot revolver in preparation for a hunting trip later in the month. In this pistol, when the trigger is pulled the hammer is cocked, the cylinder revolves, and the hammer falls on the next chamber, all in one smooth motion. For safety's sake, Alex normally kept five bullets in the revolver, with the hammer resting on the sixth, empty chamber.

Before cleaning the gun, he removed the five bullets and set them aside. When finished cleaning, he began to put the bullets back in the cylinder. When he arrived at the fifth and final bullet, he suddenly got a distinct sense of dread. It had something to do with that bullet.

Alex was bothered about the odd feeling because nothing like it had ever happened to him before. He decided to trust his gut, so he put the bullet aside and positioned the pistol's hammer as usual over the sixth chamber. The chamber next to it, which normally held the fifth bullet, was now also empty.

Two weeks later, Alex was at a hunting lodge with his fiancee and her parents. That evening, unexpectedly, a violent argument broke out between the parents. Alex tried to calm them down, but the father, in an insane rage, grabbed Alex's gun, which had been in a drawer, and pointed it at his wife.

Alex tried to intervene by jumping between the gun and the woman, but he was too late—the trigger was already being pulled. For a horrifying split second, Alex knew that he was about to get shot at point-blank range. But instead of a sudden, gruesome death, the pistol went "click." The cylinder had revolved to an empty chamber—the very chamber that would have contained the fifth bullet if Alex had not set it aside two weeks earlier.

Had Alex actually predicted the future, or was this just an extraordinary coincidence? There are several possible explanations for why such "intuitive hunches" sometimes play out. One is that on a subconscious level, we are always thinking and coming to conclusions, but that these register only as hunches to our conscious mind. Another is that we pick up telling cues from body language, subliminal sounds or peripheral vision without being consciously aware of doing so. A third is that for each amazing coincidence we remember, we forget all the times we had a hunch and it didn't pan out. A fourth possibility is that we modify our memories for our own convenience, creating a connection where it may not have existed. And so on. These sorts of prosaic explanations probably account for many intuitive hunches. But they don't explain them all.

As in the case of Alex's intuition, a series of carefully documented case studies raises the possibility that some intuitions are due to a genuine sixth sense. But to confirm that those stories are what they appear to be, we must turn to controlled laboratory tests.

In a pilot study and in three follow-up experiments, I have observed that many people respond unconsciously to something bad—even before it happens. Take the prototypical case of a well-known editor of a popular magazine. When she asks the question, "Is there a sixth sense?" I don't answer directly. I ask if she'd like to participate in an experiment that uses pictures randomly selected by computer, and she agrees.

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Answer 2

I've had things in dreams come true in real life, I don't know if that means I have a sixth sense. Heck, I'm not even sure if I have all my other senses. Although, recently I got a sense that something bad has happened to someone I care about and even though I can't be sure because we're out of communication right now, I wish I could let my friend know that I feel sad if something bad did happen. And I actually do believe in a "sixth sense" type of thing, I've had too many people tell me stories of things like that, and I don't think they were all liars if any of them. As for the Islamic view, I don't know what the Imams, Caliphs, scholars, jurists, or sufis have to say about it. Oh wait, I am pretty sure the sufis would say, "well of course my dear."

Answer 3

Yes in terms of psychics and premonition and predicting events.

I also think you can sense or pick up influences of people alive or dead all the time you just have to realise thats what it is.

But the people who beleive this usually do so because they have first hand experience and the ones who are sceptical don't or never will acutally know and think people who are psychic are just faking it.

But there is evidence such as psychics who help FBI with investigations and recently that programme where the guy visits parents with really troubled children and delves into their psyche to find answers which helps them.

I had a dream where I was on my way back to Heathrow and Bros was on the same flight and I met them. Then six months later I was at Toronto airport and I noticed one of the Bros twins checking in on the same flight I was on and we got into the lounge area and the band and all the dancers were there flying back to England after touring.

Answer 4

That is a very debatable question. Everyone has a little sixth sense, it's those little impulses that say, "Don't do it!" or your "gut feeling. Most people would, indeed say no. Everyone has a little sixth sense, it's those little impulses that say "Don't do it" more commonly named, Deja` vu, common sense, and your conscience. Most of the time it isn't a sixth sense. But there are those individuals that are very very unique. The "sixth sense" has not been proved but it most certainly could be possible. If someone had a sixth sense, they'd have to use particles that travel faster than light to get the information of the past, future, or being able to communicate with the dead. There are three basic kinds of people with sixth senses: Prophets, Phsycics (Sp?), and Mediums. Prophets are believed to go places with out leaving their body, being able to look into the past and/or the future and I do think they are supposed to be able to levitate. Phsycics are believed to have similar abilities, Such as, reading minds, levitating and looking into the past and/future. Mediums are supposed to be able to look into the past and future to communicate with the dead. Now, if this is actually real: you be the judge. No one can say for sure. There have been people who have taken tests all their life to prove they were indeed capable of doing these paranormal things. None of them have been proved, and most of them were illusionists.

Answer 5

Yes, i think we can say with some degree of certainty that it exists. Rather then a actually sense in the true meaning id hazard a guess that it in fact represents an subconscious "race memory' type of instinctual response... more refined then the "fight or flight" impulse but no less basic.

possibly the process operates using the combination of all the other senses or perhaps its a throwback to a now redundant sense... perhaps electro-magnetic, just as birds en sharks are able to detect micro electrical impulses perhaps this form of detection is still hard wired into man... if you think of the old adage "the hairs on my neck were standing on end" it might refer to static discharge or static reception, its a fascinating area of study regardless.

Thanks for posing the question :-)

Answer 6

Yes, I DO think there's such a thing......however, I also think most of the people who claim to have a sixth sense, are fakes, who are only trying to impress you, or, worse, to scam you out of your money!

Answer 7

I think there probably is, but I think it's a combination of information from the normal 5 senses that may alert one to danger, or an imminent occurence.

My view... Yes, and for the sake of convenience, sixth sense is reasonably accurate. I'm happy to go with it.

Answer 8

Equilibrioception (sense of balance), the commonly accepted sixth physiological sense.

Equilibrioception allows humans and animals to walk without falling.

Some animals are better in this than humans, for example allowing a cat (as a quadruped using its inner ear and tail) to walk on a thin fence.

All forms of equilibrioception can be described as the detection of acceleration.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

Yes, and there's a lot of people out there that have it. It comes in many forms from an ability to see, or sense BUT not see auras, to people like myself who can pick up on strong emotions in others. I know of a guy who has John Edwards ability.