Do you believe in mental abilities? Do you have any?

i just discovered an awesome ability that made me change my mind, it was by accident too.

if i read words from books or hear them from people i can replicate them and writte and say them myself. i will use this power for a greater good and conquer the world.

thanks thread starter.

does it count if i can predict what people are going to say?

It counts.

It counts.

Then I have a mental ability as well.

I can also predict what happens next in those corny TV dramas...

When I was like, 7, with my cousin, we would sit down, close our eyes and think of a random color then just shout out "WAS YOUR COLOR BLUE?!". Sometimes it worked, random luck though, I think. We must've looked retarded sitting there screaming colors at each other. Sometimes I can predict what people are going to say, just because I know them so well. (Whoops, just because is banned.)

I do believe in mental abilities, somewhat. It seems possible. I just haven't seen any proof.

I don't think those are really 'mental abilities' (like the ability to get a bad feeling, or whatever), as compared to telekenisis, teleportation, etc. I just think those are perks of having a human mind. If you read Blink: The power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, it's just the way your subconsciousness works. It's just stronger in some people than in others.

Wow, I have a power too. I can predict that this thread's going no where.

Mental abilities don't exist:

The déjà-vu stuff and eye-blinking are just tricks your mind play with your conciousness.

Sensing stuff is just coincidence. You probably have a "feeling" all the time, but you forget it, unless something does happen. It's like playing poker: Every time you think "pocket aces pocket aces pocket aces" and when you get it it's like "YES! I knew it!". Problem is you ALWAYS "concentrate" to get something good.

"People use only x% of their brain" must have the part "at a time" behind it. You use different parts for different tasks.

Evolution giving us powers: People that believe that should take a class in pysics IMO. Evolution makes our eyesight better (or worse), or maybe we'll have 6 fingers in a 1000 years, but I'm pretty sure levitation & precognition by will still be impossible.

Like someone said: There hasn't been a single proven case of a person having an ability. Pretty much QED...

Close this thread. Too many people are overnaive and narrow minded.

Close this thread. Too many people are overnaive and narrow minded.

If you were talking about me: I'm naïve because I don't believe something without at least some proof? Isn't the definition of naïve the opposite of that?

And ah the eternal narrow-minded-argument. Do you believe in aliens? Conspiracy theories? Fairies? Because if you don't you're narrow-minded too. There are so many similarities bethween those (xept the fairies maybe xD) and mental abilities, so if you believe in one you should also in the others.

It counts.

Depends. I base myself on that due to logic and past experience. That is, I tend to end the teacher's sentences whenever they stop to think.

Close this thread. Too many people are overnaive and narrow minded.

Narrow minded and naive? Are you serious? When I made arguments in this thread, I would go and watch the videos posted. Hell, I would even look at some myself. After watching them, I still didn't believe in these "powers" of yours because the videos provided no proof, and could in fact be generally dis proven. I spent a whole hour watching PSI wheel videos and finding out how they were really done. You're saying people that don't agree with you are wrong. I don't believe aliens have ever visited the earth; does that make me close minded too?

My point throughout this entire thread is that mental abilities don't exist on a natural level. If they do exist, then they're the same thing as ghosts: supernatural. This thread should be closed, not because any body's being narrow minded and naive, but because it's getting pretty close to the level of flame war.

Close this thread. Too many people are overnaive and narrow minded.

it is good to admit when you make a booboo, well done must be another one of your super powers.