Dan Djurdjevic wrote:While I believe one can subconsciously respond to intent, I believe this results from physical cues such as sight, sound and contact (the latter is evident in push hands).
Doc Stier wrote:However, at some point, most people also experience inexplicable knowing and reaction to events which aren't so easily explained by merely reading subtle physical sense perceptions. Unlike the previous phenomenon, these experiences represent a unique awareness and reaction to unusual circumstances that don't normally occur on a daily basis and, unlike the skill of reading subtle sensory cues, aren't easily replicated at will in a way that can be tested and validated, imo.
At the risk of sounding crazy or a liar, and with my real face in the avatar (we know shit on the internet sticks), I will provide, just a couple of examples of things I experience on a daily basis, which, while they are not directly related to Doc's thesis of "Extrasensory Situational Awareness", they do offer direct proof (if someone were to take my word for it) that these phenomena are entirely possible without any cues whatsoever.
I'm not gonna go with some of the more crazy stuff, just give you a taste of what kind of thing constitutes my average day. Premise: I spend a lot of time online, especially in the past I used to instant message a lot. Now, as you know, online you do not have all of the cues, you got the text, you got the emoticons, that's pretty much it. For many years I could tell some stuff about people from just chatting online, stuff that one shouldn't be normally able to know, and for many years I thought this was just intuition based on very subtle cues in the text. Later on, I started to know (and verify) things that weren't possibly in the text. Here's one example, this is the exact text word for word, I'm not removing or adding anything to it:
Me: Hi, what's up?
Fiend X: A friend of mine just had a severe accident. (notice, no name or other detail was provided, I also did not know this person myself)
Me: Sorry to hear (blah blah). She broke her hip bone, her collar bone, her jaw and she can't breath. I'm not sure she'll survive.
Friend X: (confirms) Yes, hip bone, collarbone, jaw, and her windpipe. She's in surgery, doctors don't know if she'll make it.
She did make it and later I saw that girl on facebook, everything checked out.
Another example (variations of this happen often):
I'd been chatting with some girl Y for a while on facebook at that point, a few days or weeks. One day, her chat window pops up, it says
Y: Hi
Me: Who are you? Where is Y?
Y: It's me, Y.
Me: No. You're a guy.
...this goes on for a while. In the end he admits to being her boyfriend.
Third example, this one time chatting to this lady, I described her room in great detail, like everything from the disposition of doors and windows, furniture, even her carpet.
Fourth and last example, this isn't for the kids, this has happened mostly during one year with almost a dozen girls, I'd meet them online.. ok I'm just going to go through one of those experiences as just an example, they were all pretty much the same - I meet girl Z, she has no pictures of herself online, we talk for a few hours, and are both hooked. We go to sleep and both have the same.. wet dream. Haha I said it. Next day I can tell her she's a natural redhead, and some birthmark she has on her ass. We both remember the exact same dream. Another variation of this happened a few times with a friend of mine, she would have nightmares, and for whatever reason, during the nightmare she would call my name, call for help. Next thing you know, I'm in her nightmare and helping her out. Of course, next day our dream recollections matched up perfectly.
Most of these things, I have little to no control over, just have my days when it happens and that's that. I would probably not be able to replicate in a laboratory. If it happened once or 3 times, it would just be "ok, that's weird".. but it happens so often it doesn't phase me in the least. These are all passive phenomena, when you're on the receiving end. The active ones, when you're doing "stuff", can be even weirder.