Multisensory Perception
Imagine for a second what your life would be like if you have never had a dream.
Imagine waking up every morning, unable to ever recall having a dream. Imagine if the only thing you ever saw was blackness before falling asleep and then waking up, without ever experiencing a dream.
If you went through your entire life like this, what would you think about all these people out there who were supposedly claiming that during their sleep they have all kinds of adventures while their bodies lye in bed.
The concept of dreaming would probably be very foreign to you. You wouldn’t be able to understand how a dream happens. Even if you believed it was possible, you wouldn’t know how real a dream can be. You may assume that at best, a dream may appear like a movie in your mind but you may not realize that in a dream you actually participate in the events that transpire.
In a dream, when you run your legs move. When you’re scared, you experience the symptoms of fear. When you touch something in a dream, you can feel it’s texture. When someone sings a song in a dream, you hear it with your ears – even though your bedroom is completely silent. It’s not like a movie at all. It’s a total immersion experience.
Similarly, those who have never experienced a lucid dream – where you are in a dream, but consciously aware of that it is a dream – may not believe that such a thing is possible. It’s hard to believe in anything that we can’t experience with our five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
Cellular waves, for example are invisible to our senses except when we have a cellular telephone that converts such waves into a format that our sense of hearing can hear.
For most of us, everything we experience has to be identified and labeled within the context of the five senses in order to be understood. We convert things that aren’t perceivable by the five senses into thing that can, using instruments we’ve built to expand our awareness. For example, our eyes can’t see atomic particles or individual cells of a body, so we invent microscopes that make it possible for us to see that which is too small to see with the naked eye.
Beyond the Five Senses
Much the same way as it’s difficult to explain the experience of having a dream to someone who’s never had one, explaining intuitive/psychic abilities to someone who’s never experienced them is rather difficult.
Most people who have never had a psychic experience will dismiss it as hogwash or quackery to talk about such things. Or, depending on their religious or spiritual views, may even consider the psychic senses as the work of evil spirits. Some psychologists may interpret it as some kind of mental illness or illusion.
To me that’s like saying that having a dream is the work of the devil or some kind of mental defect. If the world out there decided tomorrow that dreaming was against religious rules and anyone who claimed to have dreams should be admitted for psychological evaluation, would you stop dreaming?
Psychic abilities are very similar to that. For those of us who have awakened to our multisensory perception and who can “see” beyond the five primary senses, intuitive abilities are real. We experience them and know they are real, even though it’s very difficult to prove their existence to someone who doesn’t believe. Not that we should ever bother attempting such a feat. Let the skeptics stay skeptical.
Multisensory Perception
Having the ability to “see” beyond the five senses, usually comes through one of the psychic senses of:
- Clairvoyance – (Seeing)
- Clairaudience – (Hearing)
- Clairsentience – (Feeling)
- Claircognizance – (Knowing)
Most people who develop psychic abilities have one or more senses that they are stronger at compared to others. My strongest senses are claircognizance and clairsentience, meaning I “know” things I shouldn’t know according to the five senses and “feel” things I shouldn’t be feeling according to the five senses.
I have had flashes of clairvoyance and clairaudience, but those are not as common for me as the other two senses.
The interesting thing about the psychic senses is that they don’t replace your other five senses, they simply add to them. It’s kind of like the difference between a black and white TV and a color TV. The picture is still there on a color TV, except now it’s in color. Another way to think about it is like the difference between mono sound compared to digital surround sound. Both produce sound, but one has more “information” contained in it.
More people are awakening to their extra senses every day, and I believe that within a few generations humanity will take such things for granted.
For now though, we live in a world mostly dominated by the five senses and besides it being common for a person to admit that they had a “gut feeling” or an “intuitive sense” about something, extra sensory abilities are not yet accepted as something real and tangible by most people.
Things are beginning to shift and change though, and at a faster and faster pace.
Have you explored the possibility that you may have extra sensory abilities? Do you still explain them away as “intuitive hunches” or “lucky guesses”?
Are you ready to experience your first dream?
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I never like to make quick judgments without trying things out for myself. I have always been interested in the whole ‘psychic’ field. I never had a reading, and I haven’t tried reading anyone else though. I do like opening the door a couple seconds before my doorbell rings though. That is some awesome ESP
Thanks,
Josh Lipovetsky.
.-= Josh Lipovetsky´s last blog ..The Tao of Pooh – Book Review #1 =-.
Hey paul, Nice article. you are right, we all have extra sensory sensitivity to one degree or another and It might be helpful to get people to realize they have a 6th sense that everyone can access very quickly and easily. It’s called proprioception. proprioception is our bodies ability to feel and tell where we are in space and where our joints are in relationship to each other, it’s how i can tell even with my eyes closed, when I lift my arm in the air. As a physical therapist I educate people about proprioception all the time and i find that if people can begin to understand the more subtle senses. have you ever entered into a room or building and known someone was there that you knew or that someone you knew was going to be there?
I read one time about in one of the carlos casteneda books an exercise you can do to “project your Intention” you go to a crowded area and pick out someone who is unaware of your presence and you imagine that you are standing very close behind them and licking th back of their neck. i know it sounds creep and gross but this is the exercise. if you are projecting correctly the person you are focusing on will reach up and scratch or rub their neck or may even look directly at you if they are more intune with their own extra sensory perception.
Why do you think people will believe in clairvoyance and other pseudoscience in a few generations? If anything, people are becoming more and more skeptic about everything.
To me, clairvoyance is simply the mind playing tricks on you, as the mind is a very powerful thing.
“One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer—now U.S. $1 million—“to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions” (Randi, 1999). French, Australian, and Indian groups have parallel offers of up to 200,000 euros to anyone with demonstrable paranormal abilities (CFI, 2003). Large as these sums are, the scientific seal of approval would be worth far more to anyone whose claims could be authenticated. To refute those who say there is no ESP, one need only produce a single person who can demonstrate a single, reproducible ESP phenomenon. So far, no such person has emerged. Randi’s offer has been publicized for three decades and dozens of people have been tested, sometimes under the scrutiny of an independent panel of judges. Still, nothing. “People’s desire to believe in the paranormal is stronger than all the evidence that it does not exist.” Susan Blackmore, “Blackmore’s first law”, 2004.”
@Wesley: Without getting into a big discussion about it Wesley, challenges like the Randi challenge don’t prove anything. There are a gazillion things in this Universe that science still can’t prove, but that we take for granted as truth every day. If anything, the Randi challenge shows that even with $1M on the line, our scientific method is not advanced enough yet to come up with the proper instruments and or experiments to prove something that a lot of people know exists beyond a shadow of doubt.
Remember that science has only explored and scientifically “proven” a tiny little sliver of what exists in this universe. For example, I am pretty sure that you would agree with me that bees and bumble bees can fly, right? Did you know that it was only in the last 3-5 years that scientists have been able to come up with the necessary equipment (high speed cameras, and computer modeling software) that has finally proven that bees can fly? Isn’t that crazy? Prior to around 2005, no scientist has been able to prove that bees can fly. Just google it, you’ll see I’m not making it up.
Now the question is… when I was a little kid in 1985, and I was stung by a bee, can you imagine if I ran home and told my Mom that a flying bee landed on me and stung me and she said to me “Don’t be ridiculous Paul, bees can’t fly! There are millions of dollars in research spent trying to prove that bees fly and not a SINGLE scientists has been able to prove that bees fly, so there is no way you were stung by a flying bee!” ???
That would be ridiculous right? The truth is that we live in a world where our common sense knows things are true based on our first-hand experiences, long before science ever catches up and explains why it is so.
Another thing to ponder is that in order for a scientific method to conduct an experiment on something, there must first be a unit of measure for the thing that is being measured. For example, before we can measure the height of a person, we must first create the units of measure for height – such as centimeters or inches etc. Nothing can be scientifically measured without first having a unit of measure for it. It is part of the definitions of the scientific method. One of the reasons that science has an impossible time measuring anything “spiritual” is because there are no established units of measure for a lot of things yet.
For example, there is no unit of measure for “Love” or even “Consciousness”. I am sure you would agree that YOU are conscious, right? Well, there is no scientific method of measuring that yet, so it can’t me studied or measured if there isn’t even a unit of measure for it yet.
Science by definition is concerned with explaining things we see out there in the world, using the five primary senses. Therefore, all the units of measure are based on the five senses. In order to understand and scientifically study thing beyond the five senses, science first would have to be expanded to include units of measure that require us to utilize units of measure beyond the five senses. Can science prove that your mother loves you? And if so, to what degree? Can it measure how much your Mom loves you compared to how much she loves herself? Can science prove that I am unable to fly in my dreams? Can science prove the existence of life outside of earth?
Science needs time to catch up. If you need something to be proven scientifically and announced in the mainstream media before you believe it to be true, that’s totally your choice, but I’ve known that bees can fly since I was a little kid and I honestly didn’t care that science didn’t. I also know that psychic abilities exist, and I’m OK that it’s not accepted in the mainstream yet.
If you’re genuinely interested in exploring something like this, one of the first things I did was to study people who do believe in psychic abilities. Yes there are “weird” people out there who give psychics a bad name, and there are a lot of charlatans out there, but when I first started exploring this I looked for highly intelligent people who believe in psychic abilities. You are a programmer, and you know the intellect required to be able to write code right? I’ve been programming since I was a little kid. I’ve written code I everything from Assembler, to Pascal, to PHP, to C#. You know that logical thinking is required to be able to write code, especially in Assembler right? So how can a person like me, who clearly isn’t an idiot, accept something like psychic abilities? This is the exact question I started asking myself when I first got intrigued with the subject.
Look at people like Steve Pavlina (most successful Personal Development blogger in the world) for example. Clearly he’s intelligent, but he admits believing in psychic abilities. Look for examples of others that believe in such things, and you may find that there are many people out there who are brilliant and highly intelligent who believe in such things. Can all of them be wrong? That’s where I started.
Good luck on your journey.
I have always believed in the “extra” senses, and been fascinated by the metaphysical. I remember getting my first deck of tarot cards as a kid and spending endless hours studying them and learning, and being astounded over and over at how they helped me unlock my intuitive abilities.
I think it’s a real shame that this wonderful aspect of humanity has been exploited by people like Sylvia Browne.
.-= Jonathan´s last blog ..Tarot Deck Review: The Thoth Tarot =-.
You may want to check out Dean Radin’s book Entangled Minds where he includes examples and summaries of the scientific investigations into Psi phenomena. One of his conclusions is that the desire to Not believe in the paranormal is stronger that all the evidence that it Does exist.
I think what the evidence proves is that psi gives a person a small advantage (about 2%) over people without Psi ability. It doesn’t sound like much (which is probably why it’s hard to “prove”), but notice in the Olympics – an extra 2% makes a huge difference in finishing times.
Science already knew that bees could fly; the process could be observed. The thing that they didn’t know was HOW they fly. But that is not necessary to prove or disprove.
The results of clairvoyance or reality shifting or other such things can easily also be tested without knowing exactly HOW these things happen. Yet these have not been scientifically observed.
@Wesley: Your beliefs are that Clairvoyance is bogus, and therefore in your reality it is. My beliefs are that Clairvoyance is real, and therefore in my reality it is.
The science that is seemingly “out there” for you is just a reflection of your beliefs. The science I see in my reality is totally different.
Nobody can every prove something you’re not willing to accept as a possibility in your world because YOUR beliefs create YOUR reality. If you didn’t believe in Clairvoyance and I could somehow come over there and prove it to you, then that would mean that my beliefs somehow created your reality and that would go against what I’m saying. It’s kind of like asking God to appear in front of you and then to prove to you that he doesn’t exist. It can’t happen. If he appears in front of you then he exists. How can he then prove to you that he doesn’t exist? It’s impossible.
Much the same way, you would only be able to experience Psychic phenomenon when you stopped believing that it’s impossible. It doesn’t mean you have to believe it to be true, you just have to relax your beliefs around it being impossible and open your mind up a bit. Play a game with yourself. Pretend you have to PROVE that Psychic abilities do exist to your most skeptical friend. Then go online and start research PROOF that it does exist. See what you find.
You may want to start with the military. They’ve been researching Psychic Warfare for a long time.
“I never liked to get into debates with the skeptics, because if you didn’t believe that remote viewing was real, you hadn’t done your homework.”
–Major General Edmund R Thompson
Look into things like Faraday Cages, and people like Andrija Puharich if you like. The military is just one area of study though. Look at others. Go get 10 psychic readings from good quality psychics and see if you still don’t believe.
“When you’re inside [a Faraday cage], a psychic, for example, has their performance increased by a thousand fold. A Faraday cage shields you from the electromagnetic radio waves, allowing only extremely low frequency (E.L.F.) magnetic waves to get through. I don’t think there’s a psychic warfare research lab that doesn’t make use of them today.”
–Andrija Puharich
I dug up those two quotes with just a few minutes of research online. I know it doesn’t prove anything to you, but I’m just saying that if you’re really interested in seeing if this stuff is real, do some research.
If you prefer to just be skeptical about it, that’s fine too. It’s all your personal choice.
Paul, I am one of those people who have extremely wild and vivid dreams. I am the one who usually remembers my dreams. There have been times when I got awake, I was unsure which was the real world. does this ever happen to you?
.-= Susan Hamilton´s last blog ..Internet Summit 10 =-.
Hahahah… Does it EVER happen to me? Yes.
Two Christmas’s ago I fell asleep on the couch on Boxing Day night, and I had a dream where I thought I heard the roof cracking and pipes bursting with hot water all around me. Then I heard loud cracking noises and the sound of glass shattering all around me. I kept waking up out of sleep and not knowing if it was really happening or if I was dreaming. I would fall back asleep and then I’d hear other weird things and I felt panicked and scared. In my dream I then walked into my kitchen and I saw a yellow blinking light outside through my kitchen window. I walked up to the window and I saw a man sitting in an SUV across from my kitchen window staring it. I couldn’t see who it was, but it was just a silhouette and it really scared me for some reason. I woke up not knowing what was real. It took about one or two hours for me to shake the gut feeling in my stomach that I felt. It was a horrible feeling dream.
Later on that night, about 16hrs after my dream I was watching TV and I kept hearing this beeping noise, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Every time I’d mute the TV it would be quiet and then when I would turn on the sound I would hear the beeping sound again, LOL. I got out of my chair and walked into the kitchen where through the kitchen window I saw yellow blinking lights. I then walked up to the window and saw an SUV parked across the window. It was insane – just like in my dream 16hrs later. I opened up my sliding glass door in the kitchen and saw that my neighbors house was on fire and there were fire trucks on location putting it out. The beeping noise was them backing up.
I went outside with my wife to see what was happening and if we could help, and all I heard was the cracking noise of the fire, and the firemen with chainsaws hacking up the roof. I also heard them smashing all the windows to let the smoke out I guess. All the sounds were identical to the sounds I heard in my dream.
So yeah, I’ve had dreams like you describe. And not only that but some of them are actually premonitions of something about to happen. It really makes you wonder what is “reality” and what is “dreaming” when that happens. I’m used to it now.