Have you ever felt you had supernatural abilities/senses?

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Bonus question: Do you ever get a sensation where you can almost smell or taste a food item at the most random times and start craving it?

This happens often, but this time was really something. Last night, I started craving Nigerian food which is not something I eat often. I don't remember the last time I had any (besides appetizers), well except last night... A few hours later, my dad came home with Nigerian food! Wtf? It was rice, which was exactly what I had suddenly craved hours before and tasted just like that craving I had. Now I've made a big joke about thinking I have "superpowers" with my sisters who probably think I'm serious, but maybe I am. I won't dismiss the fact that it could be a huge coincidence though.

I've also felt déjà vu many times during very random experiences because I was sure I've had a dream about it.

A few months ago, I walked into my bathroom and knew before turning the lights on that there were trails of ants everywhere, and they weren't there before. It was like I could smell them, even though I'm not exactly familiar with the smell of ants. Still, I attributed it to a possibly heightened sense of smell. Either way, it was strange.

Have you ever felt like you had "psychic" abilities? Does anyone think it could be an ASD thing (more so than NTs)? P.S. Rest assured I don't truly (at least fully) believe I have "superpowers".

Apparently this just happens to some people. I don't think that anyone's taken the time to study the phenomenon, or even admit that there is one.

I don't experience this but my mom does. For example, she'll always be thinking of people who will call her right before they do. Even if it's someone that hasn't called her in months she can still predict that they are going to call.

It must be the subconscious mind recognizing patterns, and then that information creeping through to your conscious mind without you really being aware how it got there. Probably the reason that it happens to some people and not others is that a lot of people are more cut off from that part of their mind. Or else it just doesn't have as good pattern-recognition things.

Or it's evidence that something greater is at work.

I don't use the word "psychic" because it has become too loaded by misuse to mean whatever anyone wants it to mean. In some the mere word triggers an outbreak of scientism; or alternatively it is used so loosely to describe everything that occurs. Psychic means "of the soul"; do I think people have souls? I don't think we are machines made up of cells and nothing more. But the nature of soul and how it affects different our whole being is mysterious. Physics, not psychics, may offer us future clarification that is not part of our conceptions now.

If your question was "have you ever experienced inexplicable events?" my answer would decidedly be "yes, I have"; I suspect most people have, even most members of the hardliner scientism group. How they are interpreted by anyone is influenced by a lot of things, it seems. I know some scientists who would never admit to what they have experienced to anyone but their nearest and dearest in case their peers ridiculed them; and that's understandable, given that the positivist paradigm has been so dominant in the past 100 years, and anyone dissenting from it is treated as a heretic and a fool.

I don't know if I would call it supernatural but I've certainly had some very odd experiences in my life which could be described as 'inexplicable fortuitous coincidences'.

And don't get me started on dejavu. I had a thread about that in Random Discussion a while back. It creeps me out.

I've had experiences that could be described as either "coincidences" or "inexplicable."

I've had some good luck at some important times. I've had some bad luck, too. Actually, recently, even though I'm in debt up to my ears, I've really experienced some decent good luck.

There is no doubt that I don't have any "supernatural" sorts of abilities. My intuition, even, is not that great.

I don't totally preclude the existence of the "supernatural"--but it's really not a big part of my everyday life.

I have a friend who is a former partner of mine when we lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. While there, a significant Earthquake occurred and was felt throughout northern California and western Nevada. After such an Earthquake, it is common for hundreds of smaller temblors to occur in the following days and weeks. The first temblor of many occurred after midnight that day. I found myself awakened about five seconds before the shaking occurred. On the second temblor, I woke my partner before the shaking occurred. While he was kinda fascinated with my sensitivity at first, I considered it really interesting and continued to wake him five seconds before each temblor for about an hour until he barked at me for waking him at 3:00 a.m. "every time there's another %$#@! quake." Hehe. After that, I noticed that I could sense other future Earthquakes in the same way: a five-second warning with heightened awareness (like a big boost of caffeine and adrenaline). I was giggling all night, because it was very cool in my opinion.

So, after experiencing the same thing for a few other Earthquakes in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, I started researching about my sensitivity. It turns out that the University of Alaska at Fairbanks had/has researched various animals who reacted immediately before an Earthquake (oddly, fish, and especially trout, are the most sensitive). The university's research also studied human subjects who claimed the same reactions.

It turns out that, since Earth is basically a huge hollow bell, an Earthquake's primary wave (or P-wave) is akin to the hammer striking the bell (inaudible to humans). P-wave signals travel faster than the secondary wave (or S-wave) that is akin to the vibration of the bell (the shaking humans feel). It is believed that humans who can sense P-waves have a reduced sensitivity than animals have, but an increased sensitivity than other humans have. P-waves travel best through rock which explains why I sense only the P-waves of Earthquakes in the Salt Lake Valley that originate in the Rocky Mountains to the north and east (the valley is an ancient lake bed of mostly sand with few rocks).

All this is a long explanation of my one and only supernatural ability. Some online sources call it "Earth Sensitivity." Now, if I could just learn to post warnings about the P-waves that I sense in less than five seconds, and have people read them immediately, I could save lives like any proper supernatural hero!

Yeah, I know. It isn't exactly The Flash, is it?

There have been a few times when I had a "weird" feeling. Pretty sure I'm not psychic though (well, if I am, I'm not a very good one, lol).

One time I had a really bad feeling that something bad was going to happen. I locked all the windows in my apartment and even looked in the closets and stuff for ax murderers hiding in there. I'm usually not paranoid or anxious that way, I've actually never experienced that feeling before or after that time. Later that day, my husband was in a huge vehicle accident that almost killed him and broke his back. So clearly my psychic abilities are a bit off because it didn't happen to me, but it is kind of a weird coincidence.

Another time, I was in a meeting and I could smell smoke all of a sudden. I thought for sure the building was on fire, and I was just waiting for the fire alarm to go off. The fire alarm did go off eventually. But the weird part is that there was no fire or smoke in the building. Somebody pulled the alarm for no reason. I asked around, nobody else had experienced the smoke smell at all. Isn't that freaky?! Haha

I'm NT though so whatever psychic powers I may possess, it's not due to autism. I would have thought autistic people would be slightly more likely to look for rational explanations? Maybe that's just a stereotype though, dunno.

LOL....you always find cash on the street in NYC.

I live in a neighborhood where you could leave $10 on the street at 1 PM and (provided there's little wind) find the same $10 at 1 AM.

I know this because this actually happened to me.

as a kid, i predicted our house fire and my mom's car accident, so for a brief time, i thought i might have ESP.

Oh man! That must have been terrible--did you whole house burn down?

Psychic is definitely not the right word, which is why I put it in quotes.

Cathy I hope your whole family made it out of those two!

Now I have a reason to move to NYC!

Yes, all the time.
I love the smell of ants by the way. Citronella ants are nice.


Try reading up about these occurrences by looking up Carl Jung's Synchronicity. He studies this many decades ago.

Yes I have, and I have had weirder experiences than yours...well at least to me. Where to start, I've had dreams about things before they happen..the dreams are never 100% clear don't think they can be, but nonetheless similar enough to events that took place after the dream to seem like a lot more than coincidence. I have also just had weird dreams in general sometimes with interesting symbolism. I've had a few occasions I've seen figures, usually shadowy figures...but one was very distinct, she had black wavy hair...pale skin was wearing a flowey white kind of dress of thin rather revealing material, holding what looked like a large glowing orb and I think might have even had some kind of leaf crown but can't remember and I don't know who or what and still no idea why I saw them. But I saw that clear enough to remember it to this day...and I don't think it was a dream since I was awake enough to get freaked out and hide under my blanket because its not every night you wake up to something like that staring you in the face. But usually anything out of the ordinary like that I see is more shadowy and there for a much briefer amount of time.


Also seems like for a time as small children me and my sister seemed to sort of have abilities we could tap into together...like we used to do this thing where we would count to three and blink and it would be morning, cannot confirm if it really worked or if we just convinced ourselves it did. Also me and my brother have had a few of the same dreams...not like exactly the same but like same place in the dream if that makes sense.

Though I don't know about the super natural bit...I mean if such perception things where not natural why would they occur? I can also much of the time feel approaching storms, because of the energy it puts in the air its difficult to describe the feeling but I do tend to kind of enjoy it.