Freaky Friday 5 - Psychics

I attempt to be a practical person in many matters but the subjects of these Freaky Friday posts are about all the stuff that logical people can’t always rationalize. What I'm going to shallowly cover today is the concept of psychics.


Sure, I think all of us have experienced déjà vu before. I have to the point of actually stopping what I'm doing to look around and deeply evaluate the scene because it feels so familiar.

There are times I'm convinced that I’ve dreamt of things before I’ve actually done them. Perhaps the explanation is that I’m dwelling on a situation and my mind filling in the possibilities sub-consciously yet so completely that when reality plays out it simply aligns with one of the solutions I’ve already contemplated.

Maybe I'm just a little psychic. Who knows.

It seems really weird to me that someone can see the future. Free will and the butterfly effect cloud my mind with the improbability of this being a reliable source of fact. Likewise, seeing the past, past that is someone else’s past and not your own personal recollections (that do sometimes still feel very, very real in our minds), seems similarly sketchy. However, there is case after case that document people who have this ability – to see the past of people they’ve never met.

Here’s a 3-year old article about a psychic and police detective who have partnered for 30 years to solve crimes. She gets glimpses of people and has, on many instances, reported detail that was not made public and known only to the individuals on the case.

It’s hard to be a doubting Thomas when this is a known source of information that police use (routinely? I don’t know…) to actually solve mysteries. It’s hard to blow off the concept when I personally experience déjà vu (though my mind does wander back to the Matrix’s explanation not that I actually believe this).

Conclusion: I believe that the power to see the past exists but I don’t understand at all how it works.