Is the sixth sense the same as intuition?

Intuition is the ability to know something without any proof. It is sometimes known as a “gut feeling,” “instinct,” or “sixth sense.”

opentextbc.ca - The Sixth Sense: Intuition – BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English

Does shifting affect your health?

"Researchers have found that shift work is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks, ulcers, depression, obesity and high blood pressure, along...

Last updated Jul 20, 2018

Is there a market for old pianos?

One of the most popular ways to sell a piano is to use an online marketplace. The most popular places to sell a piano online are eBay, Craigslist...

Last updated Aug 6, 2020

Join almost HALF A MILLION Happy Students Worldwide

Promotion

The Sixth Sense: Intuition

Click play on the following audio player to listen along as you read this section. A fire broke out in the kitchen of a house in Chicago, Illinois. A team of firefighters kicked down the door of the house. They stood in the living room as they sprayed water at the fire in the kitchen. Strangely, the fire would not go out. One of the firefighters had a feeling that something was very wrong. “Get out, now!” he ordered. The team ran out of the house. Moments later, the floor they had been standing on in the living room collapsed. Looking back, the firefighter believed his brain must have had the ability to know the future. A researcher who studies decision-making wasn’t so sure. He talked to the firefighter about what was going through his mind before he told everyone to get out of the house. The researcher found out that the firefighter had noticed three strange things: water was not putting out the fire, the living room was unusually hot, and the fire was unusually quiet. The researcher believed that the firefighter’s intuition recognized this pattern and knew that the situation was not safe. A part of his brain beyond his own awareness knew that the fire was also in the basement underneath the living room, making the living room unusually hot and the fire unusually quiet. The story shows that intuition can be a very important factor in decision-making. Intuition is the ability to know something without any proof. It is sometimes known as a “gut feeling,” “instinct,” or “sixth sense.” For hundreds of years, intuition has had a bad reputation among scientists. It has often been seen as inferior to reason. But these days, many researchers see intuition as our brain’s way of taking a shortcut based on our memories and knowledge. Like our ability to reason, sometimes our intuition is accurate and sometimes it’s not. Intuition has long been a valued part of many First Nations cultures. It is recognized as one of many ways of knowing. Knowledge can be passed down from our elders, gained from experience, and revealed to us through dreams, visions, and intuitions. There are many situations when intuition is more useful than reason. For example, intuition lends itself to making art. Jazz musicians who compose music in front of an audience are using their intuition, backed by years of practice. Some couples claim they “just knew” they were meant to be together from the moment they met, so intuition may play an important role in choosing a mate. Intuition is also the part of the brain many people use to explore their spiritual side. At the same time, our quick-thinking brains tend to have some biases. For example, our brains tend to think that something that is attractive must be good, when this isn’t necessarily true. We also tend to pay attention to information that confirms our beliefs and ignore information that challenges our beliefs, causing us to believe things that are wrong. Sometimes we make a quick decision without thinking of all the possible options and end up regretting it. As a result, it is likely wise to use a balance of reason and intuition in our decision-making.

Attributions

Firefighter

Dreamcatcher

Image by Free-Photos is in the public domain.

What is Ctrl M?

Ctrl+M is used to indent a paragraph in Microsoft Word and other word-processing software. The indent keeps growing if you repeatedly use this...

Last updated May 12, 2018

What instrument has the most emotion?

'The theremin is the most emotional instrument of all' – composer Justin Hurwitz on writing the score for First Man. The story of the moon landings...

Last updated Jan 8, 2022

Promotion

Does Alice fall into a hole?

In the story, Alice literally falls down the hole of the White Rabbit, taking her to Wonderland. In this case, falling down the rabbit hole meant entering a strange and absurd alternate universe, which many believe was supposed to represent a psychedelic experience.

medium.com - History of the Idiom “Down the Rabbit Hole” | by Elaine Zelby - Medium

History of the Idiom “Down the Rabbit Hole”

Down the rabbit hole we go

Recently, i’ve found myself saying “i went down the rabbit hole” an obnoxious amount — which led me to start wondering why we use that term all the time and where it came from — so, here you go. The first use of the phrase falling “down the rabbit hole” comes to us thanks to the great Lewis Carroll who introduced the term in 1865 in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In the story, Alice literally falls down the hole of the White Rabbit, taking her to Wonderland. In this case, falling down the rabbit hole meant entering a strange and absurd alternate universe, which many believe was supposed to represent a psychedelic experience. For well over a century, the term went unused in common parlance. Until… the internet. The internet gave us infinite things to pique our interest to the point of distraction and unlimited ways to stay trapped in the metaphorical rabbit hole. Today, when people say they “went down the rabbit hole”, they usually mean that they got sucked into spending way to long reading about or researching something on the internet. But why rabbit hole? Why not “into the spider’s web” or “caught in the beaver’s dam”? In a fantastic piece written in the New Yorker, the author notes:

How much should I give my piano teacher for Christmas?

It's much nicer to give a gift that is actually useful. I'd say, since you're probably skipping 1 or 2 lessons, a gift that is worth 50% of the...

Last updated Mar 31, 2020

What is a small piano called?

Spinet piano The Spinet piano is the smallest of all pianos. Spinet pianos have a large number of working parts and have the characterization as...

Last updated May 26, 2018

Promotion

Can you steal chord progressions?

Chord progressions are one of those song elements that aren't usually protected by copyright, so it's fine to take progressions that you like in...

Last updated Jan 22, 2020

Promotion

What are the odds of becoming a concert pianist?

If by 'concert pianist' you mean someone who earns a living as a solo piano performer, the odds are very, very slim. My estimate is that the world...

Last updated Jan 20, 2019