tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post157407575372487981..comments2024-03-28T13:37:53.397-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: the Sixth SenseLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-8931305746425718432012-03-30T12:19:10.620-04:002012-03-30T12:19:10.620-04:00Great column, RT.
I also believe this is one of t...Great column, RT.<br /><br /><i>I also believe this is one of those situations where the man's super awareness of his surroundings may have fed other barely noticeable, minute information to his brain, and his brain alerted him to a danger ahead. He may not consciously know what that warning information consisted of or where it came from.</i> <br /><br />A buddy of mine in the Scottsdale PD, who is also a counselor and works with Vets returning from Iraq & Afghanistan, calls (what I think is) this state: "Hyper Vigilance." He explained, when I was questioning him about a story I'm working on, that this is a common symptom among the vets he works with, and that a major problem returning vets suffer from is mis-interpreting cues, because the cues they read don't necessarily warn of danger now that they’re back in the civilian world. That made a lot of sense to me—in more ways than one.<br /><br />--Dix<br /><br />PS: In the Q-Course they told us never to stare at the back of a surveillance subject’s neck, for more than a few seconds, because the natural human reaction to this is one of the subject getting a “sense of being watched.” I can’t testify if this is hogwash or truth, because I never tested it—always following it, instead, never letting my eyes rest there for more than a few seconds at a time.Dixon Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220791609338404147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-31946035749233564152012-03-30T10:38:13.703-04:002012-03-30T10:38:13.703-04:00My father seemed to have a touch of the "sixt...My father seemed to have a touch of the "sixth" when it came to violence. As a young boy, he unloaded his father's gun just moments before the old man charged into the room, snatched it up, and turned it on a neighbor. Fortunately for all concerned it went, click...click.<br /><br />As an adult, he pulled my mother off the dance floor of the American Legion because he "knew" that her brother, Jimmy Don, had stolen his pistol while babysitting my brother and me, and used it in a crime. He was right on both counts.<br /><br />Of course, he also knew and understood the proclivities of both men very well. Still, it's fairly remarkable.David Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13005457506363262838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-13513866261451115032012-03-30T10:02:51.641-04:002012-03-30T10:02:51.641-04:00Nice column. I suspect hair raising, a big 19th ce...Nice column. I suspect hair raising, a big 19th century phenomena went the way of DIckens' spontaneous combustion.Janicenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-12288376613336810392012-03-30T09:53:41.201-04:002012-03-30T09:53:41.201-04:00The only extrasensory experience I've had is o...The only extrasensory experience I've had is occasional telepathy with my husband. I'll have a thought that feels completely ordinary and all mine, and then he'll say exactly what I'm thinking. Or vice versa. It doesn't count if there's any point of reference or association in our surroundings or what we've been talking about--only if it's a complete change of subject.Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.com