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  • Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

    Sorry if this topic has been shared before. I'm posting because I didn't find anything about it on this site.
    I would also love if everyone could share an experience related to them after reading my post.

    I never really gave much importance to what people call 'a sixth sense'. I always thought that there's no such thing and used to dismiss random thoughts without any consequences.

    But ever since I've started riding a bike, I've had 3 accidents.

    1. While passing stagnant traffic from the left, I crashed into a car that suddenly opened the door.
    2. While riding in the rain, I crashed into the only car on the road. He was parked on one side, and he suddenly came in the way and I couldn't brake. So I skidded, crashed into his right rear view mirror and broke two of my fingers.
    3. Most dangerous one. A scooter skidded and fell while trying to pass an auto from the left. The auto swerved to save the people who fell. While swerving, the auto accidentally hit me, so I lost balance and was falling towards my right when I was hit by the mini truck, aka Tata Ace. So I was caught between two vehicles, and after being hit by the second one, while falling, I twisted my leg, which prevented the fall, but I think my ligament may have been damaged.

    Anyway, all three of these incidents had one thing in common. I had a strong hunch before they happened. Before the first accident, I felt that someone would open a door and I might crash, but I ignored this feeling. Second time, I felt that I might skid due to an oncoming car. Ignored it again. Third time, I almost knew that that scooter was going to fall leading to a chain reaction. But I still ignored it. On all the three occasions, I ignored my inner voice and got into an accident which may have been prevented.

    Just recently, while returning from work, with my girlfriend behind me, I felt a hunch. I said to her, "I have a strong feeling that a dog is going to run into the road and I might skid."

    After telling this to her, I was ready with the brakes, reduced my speed and became very cautious about everything on the road. Sure enough, in about a couple of minutes, a guy suddenly brought his bike into the road from a blind spot, and I nearly had my fourth accident. The guy being a symbolic dog, if I may say so.

    This incident made me somewhat confident about my inner self, but after this, the next incident convinced me that there is a sixth sense, and I MUST listen to it.

    I was returning home at around 12AM. The streets were empty and the streetlights were out. I suddenly felt that there's a jaywalker ahead. I was going around 80kmph when I felt this hunch. I applied the brakes and reduced my speed to 40. Almost instantly, a man ran across the road and I swerved with ease and avoided an accident.

    Point I'm trying to make is that there is a sixth sense, I think all of us have it. Most choose to ignore it, and after getting into trouble, they blame others for their mistakes. I used to blame others for my accidents, but now I know it was my fault to ignore my inner voice. I know it and I've apologised to myself for not listening and getting into trouble. I feel apologising was very important for my inner self to know that I accept that I was at fault and everything happened because I was not listening.

    If only there was a way to hone this skill, it would be life changing.

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    Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

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    Interesting topic, will add to this later. Gotta go now
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      Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

      Every problem has a solution, the only thing is one should know that solution, similarly sixth sense or antaratma ki awaz can be honed, but for doing this you have to start doing everything in complete alertness, and i mean everything, from breathing to the minutest of the things, Gautam Buddha has called this technique Hosh purvak.

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      • #4
        Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

        Well, not everyone can attain the level of enlightenment that Buddha achieved. It was easy during his time. You didn't have smartphones to distract you.

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          Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

          A very interesting topic

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            Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

            Subscribed to the topic. Will post to it later in the day

            I have ignored the Sixth Sense as well as i have acted according to it..

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            • #7
              Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

              Yes it is there....its upto you that you follow it or ignore it. ...but it is there.

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                Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

                Sounds interesting. . You could even think of it this way.. you are subconsciously hoping fo an accident to take place.. and things are happenin... I maybe wrong and you might actually have this 6th sense stuff.. I did too and sometyms this deja vu kinda thing... my advice is just ride slowly.. keep a positive attitude.. and I kid you not, pray before u sit on your bike.. ps i had been in more than three accidents in 1 year.. gone a year now without so much as a scratch

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                  Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

                  Yes, actually this hunch comes with experience, alertness & responsibility for us & our loved ones. our subconscious mind constantly picks up the small clues & signal from surroundings and process it with relation to our past experience and warn us. i had plenty of this incident also where i followed my hunch. for eg i will share one

                  Going in night overtook two bike but suddenly noticed at crossing 20 mtrs ahead car driver talking on mobile and turning, i got the hunch that driver will take more space than required to turn in and slowed my bike to give him space(jerk?? talking on phone while turning on main road) but my fellow biker whom i overtook just seconds back don't noticed and collided with car. I hadn't stopped to see the fight between them but was thinking, when noticed something and avoided it why not that other bikers or that car driver?

                  Other incident where i slowed because sensing blind spot on intersection but other biker on road not noticed and collided with car just entering from that blind spot.

                  And you know the interesting point i was driving much faster than biker on both incident. why not the sixth sense of those bikers worked? we need good dose of responsibility also to make it work
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                    Re: Listening to your inner voice, the sixth sense.

                    Originally posted by liionheart View Post
                    Yes, actually this hunch comes with experience, alertness & responsibility for us & our loved ones. our subconscious mind constantly picks up the small clues & signal from surroundings and process it with relation to our past experience and warn us. i had plenty of this incident also where i followed my hunch. for eg i will share one

                    Going in night overtook two bike but suddenly noticed at crossing 20 mtrs ahead car driver talking on mobile and turning, i got the hunch that driver will take more space than required to turn in and slowed my bike to give him space(jerk?? talking on phone while turning on main road) but my fellow biker whom i overtook just seconds back don't noticed and collided with car. I hadn't stopped to see the fight between them but was thinking, when noticed something and avoided it why not that other bikers or that car driver?

                    Other incident where i slowed because sensing blind spot on intersection but other biker on road not noticed and collided with car just entering from that blind spot.

                    And you know the interesting point i was driving much faster than biker on both incident. why not the sixth sense of those bikers worked? we need good dose of responsibility also to make it work

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