Intuition - Gut Feelings

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I know people with autism have heightened senses. What about that 6th sense? "I have a bad feeling about this" "somethings not right here" etc. I think I have it pretty strong. Kind of like when animals sense something is wrong. Anyone else?

I think this is caused by the constant background processing of the mind. I found my own "6th sense" is not always (often?) exact. I suppose hypersensitive people have it stronger than the rest ofthe population.
I prefer to base my decisions on logic instead of feelings, however.

I do!

Yes. It's probably a little over-active, because there have been many times when I've sensed danger but nothing has happened. Still, I'm sure I was picking up something correctly, perhaps just free-floating anger or whatever.

I always have a bad feeling about everything, even when nothing has the slightest chance of going wrong.

I follow my hunches. I use the test "What harm?" If there's nothing to lose I go right ahead. I'm often glad I did.

Sometimes I have a very strong sixth sense but other times I am completely clueless. I don't know what determines the difference.

I often have a sixth sense and just know things about people and or situations. I can't explain why I know these things. I don't base decisions on this gut feeling, though, unless I have "proof" that I am right (I often am.) The only time I really go with the gut instinct without proof is if I very strongly do not like a person, or I have a very strong sense of danger.

Back to the vagus nerve ...

Meet your 'second brain'


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_n ... Complexity

Once in a while I have a small quiet voice in the back of my head that suggests I take extra precautions or review something one more time before I submit it or that the chance I'm considering taking might not go as planned. Over the years I've learned that the voice is usually right and when I don't follow it, I end up wishing I had.

Not in eberryday situations, no gut feeling like this.
Instead, I have gut feeling for what is wrong with eggsperimental data or analysis.

To the original poster, "yes", I know what you mean about the intuition / gut feeling thing----I put-up a similar thread when I first came here. I have extraordinary intuition!! ! I've had dreams that came true, and I can read people like books; and, one time, I saw a man walk into the place where I was working, and I said to myself: "Good GOD, he looks like a child molestor"----and, within the week (I think it was), I saw him on the news, being arrested for child molestation. My intuition is a little scary, actually, cuz I always see things no one else does----like the child molester..... What does a child molester LOOK like??? I dunno....

I always think of the worst scenario, that way I'm rarely disappointed

My intuition works extremely well with real things, but is a complete failure with imaginary/conceptual things.

Mine is usually wrong.