Intuition, the 6th sense

Do you also sometimes have the feeling that someones is watching you? You can feel the eyes burning at your back. And yes, when you turn around there really is someone watching you. Or when you see an object in a store and a little voice is telling you not to buy it right now, although you wanted it.

That is what we call your sixth sense. Besides the 5 well-known senses like vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch there is a 6 th sense, named intuition.

Literally intuition means “inner sight”, so insight. Others meanings are 'inner conciousness' or 'inner knowledge'. Originally the word is Latin.
According to the dictionary intuition is 'immediate mental apprehension without reasoning; immediate insight.' It is something that we all take for granted, yet is it not remarkable that somehow we can come to correct conclusions without having all the fact to hand and without using reason? How is it that we can form an immediate assessment of a person the first time we meet them and find that our initial insight is proved to be correct. And why is it that we can sometimes make a correct guess at a direction to travel or guess the answer to a question and get it exactly right? What is it that gives us these immediate insights?

Psychic (or para-normality, parapsychology, spirituality) is also known as the 6 th sense of human beings. Psychic means “beyond the ordinary” and is considered as something that's different to most people, but it's rather abnormal if you shouldn't have it. Everyone is psychic, only few people know they have it and will develop little of it.

In former times psychic was a taboo. It was tucked away and nobody was allowed to talk about it; everybody thought it was a threat. Still there have been always paranormally gifted people, or people developing it. Nostradamus is common knowledge. Nostradamus did many prophecies for the future, which proved to be true.

You can develop your intuition, which can be handy to deal with difficult choices. We also call this intuitive development. You can even take some courses if you want to develop your intuition. You can also do some intuitive test on the Internet. Click at the fun link on this site to find out about them.

Intuition as form of knowledge

Intuition is an unconscious form of knowledge . It is immediate and often not open to rational / analytical thought processes. Rationalisation of an intuition and the development of a chain of logic to demonstrate more structurally why it is valid may follow later.

Intuition differs from an opinion since the latter is based on experience, while an intuition is held to be affected by previous experiences only unconsciously. Intuition is also said to differ from instinct , which does not have the experience element at all. A person who has an intuitive opinion cannot immediately fully explain why he or she holds that view. Intuition is not limited to opinions but can encompass the ability to know valid solutions to problems.

Intuition has advantages in solving complex problems and finding new results. Intuition is one source of common sense . It can also help in induction to gain empirical knowledge. Sources of intuition are feeling, experiences and knowledge. An important intuitive method is brainstorming .

Intuition does not mean to find a solution immediately, though it does mean the solution comes unexplicably. Sometimes it helps to sleep one night. There is an old Russian saying: "The morning is wiser than the evening ".