I truly believe in what many refer to as the 6th sense. I’ve witnessed it many times first hand and it’s absolutely amazing. Take this story for example.
One morning I came downstairs only to see my dad grumpy and tired.
Dad: Son, you’re mom gave me a headache last night. She thinks something bad happened to your brother in Chicago. She woke up around 3am and she was just simply terrified.
Me: Why didn’t she call him so she can just rest her worries?
Dad: Well, she tried to call except that nobody picked up. Not even his housemates.
I went into the kitchen to greet my mom good morning.
Me: Mom, why do you like to worry so much?
Mom: Son, get out of my way and don’t bug me. I’m serious, don’t. There’s something wrong with your brother. Something bad happened to him. I can feel it.
Me: *laughing. Geee chill mom. Don’t worry. Why don’t you just call him?
Mom: *almost crying. Well I tried and NOBODY IS PICKING UP!!
Me: Okay, okay sheesh, I’m sorry.
So my mom went up stairs to try and call again. Success!
Mom: WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?? I’ve been worried sick about you.
She talked to my brother for about 15 minutes until she was finally satisfied and relaxed. After that I went upstairs and grabbed the phone to continue talking to him.
Brother: How’s mom?
Me: She’s fine. I don’t understand why the hell she was so worried. My dad told me she wouldn’t stop worrying and she kept saying that something bad happened to you.
Brother: *Silent
Me: Yo, are you still there?
Brother: Yes yes. What time did she suddenly wake up?
Me: Around 3am why?
Brother: Amazing. Sub7anallah. Listen I’m going to tell you something way different from what I told her but don’t you dare tell her this alright. Don’t you dare mention a single word of it. Just around the time mom woke up there, something bad happened to me here at about the same time, if you take the time zone difference into consideration. I got stuck up in broad day light around my neighborhood. Just as I got into my car, some crack head opened the other door and stuck a gun to my head. He said 4 words. “Your money mother f*cker”. The bastard took my wallet with 700 dollars in it. I was lucky he didn’t shoot me.
Me: *Silent and amazed.
Brother: Man, that’s what you call motherly instincts and 6th sense. Praise be to Allah.
I have a question. Can science explain things like this?
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No sir. God deposits wisdom and knowledge into all people that cannot be explained. Mothers get a special dose.
Drima,
First, thank God your brother is okay!
Second, this can work in the reverse as well. It isn’t just moms. Children can be just as “sensitive” to their parents. And pets to their owners. Examples abound. My own elder son used to surprise me no end sometimes! Once, I opened my closet and glanced at some shoes that I hadn’t worn in several months. I immediately closed the door and gazed at the wall for a time and pondered whether I would. My son, who was about three at the time and who was standing nearby, asked out of the blue, “Are you going to wear the light shoes today?” There was no way he could distinguish, from where he’d been standing, what shoes I had glanced at. He’s always been a bit different. People called him “an old soul” when he was an infant because of the way he seemed to study you quietly.
I certainly don’t know how to explain it, but I do think some of us are sensitive and open to this. How would science study or measure it, though? Measure your mom’s brain waves during that crucial time, maybe?
This is fun: Telephone Telepathy. Happens to me frequently. I often wondered if I were just hearing something normally inaudible from the phone, but most of the time I would be thinking it was someone specific - and it was!
I tend to be a skeptic about most things, though.
“Mothers get a special dose”
Love that, Katrice!
Yup, this certainly is something science is yet to explain. No idea how it works, but it saved me arse dozens of times in the army (I get a bad feeling, I arrange for me to go to a different outpost - the one I just was in gets massively bombed; I get a bad feeling, skip a convoy home and take the next one - the first one gets blown up by an IED, stuff like that).
Glad your bro is OK, though - bugger the 700$, it’d cost much more to get shot. Now he’ll at least have an interesting story to tell. And there’s nothing like a close brush with death to make one appreciate life some more
PS
Your mom sounds like a really cool person
“Your mom sounds like a really cool person”
She certainly does! She’s a psychologist, right? How does she explain all this, I wonder?
Wow, Racoon. Glad you’ve got “the sense,” too, or we would have missed out on a lot of fun over here!
I only have telephatic experiences with people I haven’t thought of for ages and 10 minutes after I think of them sponaneously suddenly I meet them again (or get a phone-call) after years of not seeing/hearing of them. The same goes for music. Songs I haven’t heard of for really a lot of years and never thought about again after they left the hit parades orso I will start to hum without even noticing it and…… oops: they’re being broadcast on radio (or even sometimes tv) within hours….
Predicting nightmares I’ve suffered from as well. I (am trying to) block myself from them.
Unexplicable….
I’m very happy you bro’ is allright.
Tse.
Yes, science can explain this. It’s called birthday paradox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
In simpler words: It would be very surprising if Mrs Jane Doe, Washington DC, waked up tomorrow night worrying for her son while something happened to him.
It is EXTREMELY probably that some mother, somewhere, wakes up while her son has problems at a moment that wasn’t predetermined beforehand.
No magic or devine intervention needed, just some basic stochastics.
Yeah, i believe that some bonds can be so strong that dangerous situations or times of heightened emotions can be sensed.
Hamdillah 3′ala salamat akhook, for real!!!
Sixth Sense is amazing & as Bec said, it’s not only in mothers.I also believe in telepathy & spiritual connections.Happens b/w me n one of my best friend.
Dreams sometimes serve as premonitions-sadly, before a relative dies, I have a dream about them.
Thankx for sharing & tell your brother to keep his eyes open & ” yithasan” before leaving the house:D
Anton Bauer -
I think that the Birthday Paradox is very likely true for a majority of these circumstances, but I’m not conviced of it in some others. (I won’t go into detail here about the difference, unless others want to) I don’t necessary think it is magical or divine, either. It MIGHT be divine, I wouldn’t know. I might suspect it’s something biological. Like dogs being able to smell cancer, you know. Or bats using sonar. Or moths (and us) attracted to pheromones. All those seemed “magical” at one time until science explored it.
Bec -
you’re mixing things. Bats’ sonar, pheromones etc. are reproduceable phenomena. The result will, within the boundaries of science, be always the same. If that happens, you may try to find a scientific explanation for it.
“Remote mother instincts”, I dare say, are not reproduceable. Does Drima’s mother awake ALWAYS when something evil happens to one of her kids? If yes, there must be some kind of telepathy and we’ll have to thing about experimenting and explanations.
If NOT: Case in point for birthday paradox. Think hard: Did it NEVER happen to you that you had nightmares for one person? And you called that person and everything was fine? You wouldn’t pass this story on, but in the event of nightmare and problems coincidencing, you will pass it on.
Anton -
I was simply saying that, before we understood the science of reproducible phenomenon, those things would have looked like magic. Agreed?
I know, I know.
As to the telephone telepathy thing, here’s what happens to me:
A particular person will pop into my mind out of nowhere, I’ll get an intense sort of “burning” feeling in my nerves and then less than a second later, that very person will call. All this takes place within about five seconds. I’ve never had it happen any other way.
Is it reproducible? No. Is it coincidence? Like I said, I never experience that sensation by itself with no call. I’ve been curious enough about it over the years to pay attention to whether I ever had one without the other.
I’ve had some scientific training, used to be an entomology major and am interested in objective animal behavior. Like I mentioned above, I tend to be a skeptic about these things and agree that the Birthday Paradox likely explains many of these experiences.
I’m not convinced about all of them, though.
“can science explain this” ?
Does science need to ?
“Does science need to ?”
Science is the way our curious natures grapple with understanding the world we’re in. We used to rely on superstition, but we’ve gotten a little more sophisticated over the years. Scientists are some of the most fun-loving, awe-struck people I know.
Oh, for gosh sakes. That last post was from me, Bec. Sorry Anton! Don’t know how your name got in there!
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