@extraslim 442674 wrote:

this is common but doesn’t take into account all the times you see a kid next to a road and have the same thought but then said kid doesn’t run into the road and you think nothing of your thought. Its a bit like when someone loses a loved one in a car accident (for example) and says “I just knew something was wrong” but then doesn’t account for the fact that she probably always had that thought when the loved one was late for no reason. Its just that the thought was small (almost imperceptibly small usually I would suggest unless they are of a nervous disposition) and silly before it was proven to be correct where upon it becomes some kind of “6th sense” as you say.

That would be my take on it anyway.

yeh really interesting – the book I mentioned earlier about this sort of thing – reminds me of this lecture I saw on happiness and how we change our beliefs to fit with staying happy – loose a job – well I never liked it anyway, get dumped – well we wernt going anywhere etc, I’ll try and find it and post it