Does anyone else have a "sixth sense"?

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when i was young i repeatedly finished people's sentences for them. this bothered the HELL outta 'em. so i stopped. then i went to whistling songs and more times than i can count somebody would overhear me and stop me and say "i was just thinking of that song!"

How do you think you think? I'm thinking I'm running the pros and cons between two separate sides with the unconscious overseeing to make a judgement. Conscious has final word. Could be one voice speaking for both as unconscious is always mute. Do people think differently?

I've also finished sentences for people.

This is my weird one, I have the feeling that I will someday win the lottery. It ranks up there with the serious feels for me. The true experience is I will only buy a ticket every four or five years, mostly just a whim. I've no feeling when I buy the ticket and I'm pretty sure I'll not win as I got great grades in math. It's an internal joke for me to buy the ticket, kinda of a treat and a game for entertainment. If you look from a psychopath pov, it's repeating the no reward game or failure to learn from punishment.

that finishing sentences thing was serious outta control for me. could not help it. still sometimes.
with some people it was almost a comfort , because in addition to doing that, i could finish their
thoughts in my head . With that i could decide if i could relax around them. Actually one person i could fall asleep talking to . But that was rude appearing . After people kept giving trouble about talking about intuition . So then i started using the word extrapolation in my head. Instead of intuition . And started trying very hard to get myself to configure explainations for things i could not know of in advance. So was asembling effective excuses for how i did what i did.

As time passed i learned to predict which people had bad intentions for me. And more importantly how to avoid engaging them .Which made them much more determined. And kept after me .
And my life . These people were extremely treacherous even to the point of engaging others to appear to have ill feelings towards me and my husband but not to our faces . To the point of engaging the authorities to create every type of concievable trouble for us . Have seen this used before on people . Even stories on You tube concerning this type of gang like activities . But originally did not understand it . Until it finally cost the life of my husband , which i could not influence . Oddly 15 yrs before I knew whom i was to marry, long before i met him.
It was the ability to intuit ( have foreknowledge) that have just barely preserved me in life. And
after have been able to look back on it , am amazed i am alive not necessarily well but have food and shelter. And a internet connection . And maybe even a few friends. whom i am not necessarily good at intuiting them ,but they seem very nice.
Being as aspie has inspite of my low feeling days , that i have had outrageous fortune due to this
learning disability . Kinda depends on what level you measure fortune with. i am still alive.

As others say, it is called an intuition, but most likely is a sign that your brain is very efficient at collecting, organising and extrapolating data, even at subconscious level. For example, if you have encountered people with certain traits acting in similar manner before, your brain will try to adapt this model to a newly met person who also have these traits. If you have a good awareness of events around you and they somehow fit a situation you've been before, seen before or read about before (does not need to be the same, just have a level of similarity), you can extrapolate and quite often, predict the outcome. The more details you know about involved parties, things, events and so on, the more likely it is to predict future occurrences.

Same thing with finishing people's sentences. People have speech patterns. If you know the person in question, their way of speaking, the thing they are talking about and their views about it - it is so easy that it is not even fun.

This is actually a VERY useful skill to have in jobs which involve data analysis. But always keep in mind that any prediction may be false and that you need to re-evaluate and adjust your views with new information coming in. Blind faith in your intuition may lead you to making errors.

I'm too close to my own thinking processes (even the conscious ones) to be able to see them clearly enough to know exactly how I think. I suspect that unconscious mental processing, rather than keeping itself separate from conscious reasoning, is extensively involved with conscious thinking, not only initiating a train of thought, but also moving between the thoughts, encouraging, discouraging, and pushing them in different directions.

It seems a lot has been noted about thinking, and that nobody really knows exactly how it works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking

Some sources would advise against relying on intuition. Some of the recent literature talks about cognitive biases. One that comes to mind is a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow"

There is obviously a thing where we remember the one time our intuition was right and not the twenty times it was wrong. There is the thing where we assign meaning or association where there is none in reality. Human nature assigns meanings and forms stories and narratives. It happens a lot after the fact. It makes us think that people in the past knew more than they did.

There is research to see how well people do with intuition. People trained in statistics and probability do no better than people not trained. You are better off asking a cab driver about the future than an economist.

It is convoluted and a topic in recent popular literature. Someone in a position of authority who relies on intuition could possibly be a menace to society.

I never really understood the term "intuition," it's so subjective. So basically just funny feelings you get then.

For me, intuition can be just when things don't seem to add up (as an example of intuition). Like, I'll notice the most tiny details in an Autistic way and will cross-reference those with a wide variety of small little markers or details and then I'll become suspicious of things.

Kind of like noticing there is something off in a song with a hidden message (that has been put there intentionally). I'll notice a small detail that is off, then study closer and then just keep finding more peculiarities until something seems very off and unshakeable.

Regardless of the picking apart and dissecting of the idea of intuition. i think it is a good decription of how some people pick up foreknowledge . The word exists in the English language, so somebody thought it was good to use ?

Yep. An individual can see far into the future with a wide knowledge base of written texts & a high intuitive sense.

The worst thing about transgenderism in the current day, in my view, is that it is paired with wokeology and wokeology places men at a disadvantage in everything, pretty much and actually makes things worse for women, because when men are disadvantaged, they are less able to provide for women.

It's a lose-lose ideology.

allow alittle sillyness on this topic explained in a electronics radio wave kind of explaination .
if you have a radio antenna that is more densely built or larger in size . It might pick up more
radio signals . So if a Aspies brain is more densely wired . The idea it might pick up stray thoughts or information more easily . if thoughts are any thing remotely similiar to electronic signals of frequencies that brains might share..? And then call the whole idea .. intuition ? .
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Got to wonder what the post about Nostradamus .had to do with this thread . or anything on this site ? Guess things get weird around intuition loolz

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I think Stevie Wonder had a song about this....

I liked your example. Here is a ramble.

A biological example could be an animal noticing things that people don't like the precursors of an earthquake or something more mundane. Animals have different agendas and senses. I guess that would be instincts. But, it can be argued that people operate by instincts. It can be argued that people don't make choices. Supposedly, it has be shown that we realize we made a choice after it was made and backward rationalize to believe we made it.

One of the arguments against intuition is the Black Swan. Intuition is instinct.

I enjoyed the Nostradamus reference.