New Poll

Got the old poll moved to a new post, finally.

Now, about the new poll. A ghost or haunting is self explanatory. Prophetic dreams are simply dreams you have about something that later happens exactly as you dreamt it. Premonitions are feelings that something is going to happen. Visions would be actually seeing something instead of feeling it. Knowledge from nowhere is what I call one of my gifts, which is commonly known as claircognizance. You just suddenly know something you have no normal means of knowing. When it happens for me I get something that is sort of like an electric shock feeling that goes through my entire body, but without any pain. That's the best way I can describe it. I feel the truth as it passes through my body and my brain, if that makes any kind of sense.

Knowledge from touch is something called clairsentience. It can also manifest as smells, such as a person smelling something that is a clue to the information they're getting, such as Grandma's perfume when her spirit is communicating with you, for example. Clairsentience is kind of a catch-all for more than one sense, but there are other terms also used for psychic smelling (clairaroma, clairalience or clairolfaction) and psychic tasting (clairgustance.) Psychometry, being able to tell things about a person by holding their possessions such as a ring or a watch in your hand, is a form of clairsentience. I had an acquaintance who was a massage therapist, and when she touched her clients she could feel illnesses, which would probably classify her as a type of medical intuitive but still falls under the umbrella of clairsentience, in my opinion.

'Psychic connections' run the gamut from the unusual connection some twins have where they just know when the other is in trouble or in pain, to the strange type of connection I have with my husband where we are constantly thinking the exact same thing. Either he calls me to tell me something I was just thinking of calling him about, or vice versa. It's such a common occurrance for us it's no longer unusual. Often he comes home with something in the evening I just decided that morning I would have to buy later in the week. It's uncanny with us. I had a friend years ago who I would meet in a nearby town whenever I would drive through his turnpike lane or occasionally I would run into him while shopping, and I would know when I left that I would see him that day. Without fail, I always managed to find his turnpike booth though my vision is not good enough to plan ahead, and even on his wedding day I managed to find him at the bank with a wedding gift when I was unable to make it to the wedding. After all those years, and all those 'chance' meetings, he actually asked how did you know I'd be here? I wonder. ;)

Deja vu is another one I feel is self explanatory. When I've experienced it, it's been especially odd, because I'm well known for having no sense of direction at all, yet on a couple of occasions I have been to places that were extremely familiar to me even though I had never been there before, and instinctively knew my way around, shocking everyone who knew me.


On that note, the new poll is off to the lower right, and I will be discussing the old poll in a few days.