In a previous diary entry I mentioned "premonitions" (if that's what they are) being very much like memories, pretty much indistinguishable. But I've decided that's not entirely true. I think maybe sometimes I'm remembering with a different part of my brain.
Sometimes I sense that the phone is going to ring, an alarm is going to go off, a signal is about to change. The thing is, these are things I already knew would happen. I know an alarm is going to go off, logically, because it is close to five minutes from the time I set it to go off. I know the phone is going to ring because I just told someone to call me. I already know these things by logic, so why is it that sometimes I "remember" it and it feels the same as the times I've had premonitions?
And then I realized something. A psychic sense, if some of us can be assumed to have one, doesn't necessarily have to know that you already know something. It tries to tell you anyway.
It probably tells me things all the time and it's only on the occasions I didn't already know what it was telling me that I noticed it and thought it somewhat unusual.
But why not? Our senses are ultimately redundant all the time. I can know something's fuzzy before I touch it just by seeing it. I can know something is good just by smelling it, so when I actually do taste it it's no surprise, no new information, yet my body's set up to deliver the messages anyway.
~*~Woo, psychic message coming in--when you check it, you'll have message on your answering machine! Ha-HAH!
~*~I know that, Meg already told me she left one!
~*~Oh. I'll shut up now.
Notes:
Actually it was the psychic entry that got me in here in the first place (to prove I'm not a stalker lol.) I thought it was interesting so I tried to leave a note and I couldn't. Mainly because of that pesky "this page cannot be displayed". Poking around I happened on your contents page. Yes... and I read it. Leads me to ask you when your birthday is. Now... hopefully the note. The wa [~Pallas Athena~]
you started out in childhood was much the way I started out. I've had an awareness of my psychic nature since before I even knew what one was. It was just a simple part of me. It still is. To me it's like me having blue eyes. I have them because I was born with them. I never felt we could learn to be psychic, but only always felt we could develope that which was already ingrained. You [~Pallas Athena~]
sound skeptical, but why shouldn't one be? There is so much bullsh*t in the world. Still on the other hand you sound like you're also kind of interested and having fun with it. :o) Don't let the smilies fool you. *evil grin* [~Pallas Athena~]
Wow, that's pretty deep. And psychological. And stuff. Hey I'm the one who sent you the email about that broken faerie link on your website, remember? I surfed all around your website and I think it's pretty kick-ass. I find we have several things in common, chiefly that we both have an OCD thing with grammar and spelling and punctuation! Catch ya later. [Periastron]
I got no notes, oh psycho one....um, psychic...whatever. I wanna yak with you, whitey. [Meggie]
I mentioned in the note for your psychic entry, I don't have any potential in that area. My 'psychic' ablity is probably the feeling that I've already done this before, when it's my first time. NO, I'm not trying to be all "de ja vu" (sp?). Let's end this now. [katqueen]