When we get older, most of us develop better intuitions, but we hardly could have a way to test out our ability of such.
Sometimes it is compelling.
One person revealed a plan, a few words, or a piece of sudden news that could trigger an inner explosion of your neurons that instantly connects a string of seemly unrelated tiny information you amassed over the time. Suddenly you have a vision, an epiphany, an explanation of your own.
In some rare cases, you even could feel the earth under your feet was shattering and moving for a moment when that epiphany was hitting on your mind.
But half of the time, your intuition was deemed too out of the norm to be even shared with anyone.
When the sad news Anthony Bourdain killed himself reached me, I instantly formed an explanation of why. To me, the truth was so clear out there, but I could hardly find any news talking about it till this day.
“I bet you a million-dollar that it was XYZ that made Anthony kill himself!” One day I lashed out while watching one of our favorites Bourdain shows together with our daughter who was visiting us. She instantly shot me back a warning stare that was silently speaking, “you are nuts thinking that way!”
I subdued.
I know some people then would go out to dig out the truth based on their intuitions, like the British journalist who went out on his own to investigate a little strange news story about a Japanese young woman who traveled from Tokyo and died in the cold winter in North Dakota seemly looking for the 1million dollar she saw buried in the movie Fargo. But eventually, his gut feeling took over, which helped reveal the heart-broken truth and made his documentary film a noticeable one with a very telling title, “This is a true story.”
But most of the time, we just let go of our intuitions and let them be forgotten.
However, sometimes the intuition could be so strong it would even find a way to creep into your dreams in a very vivid form and clear storylines. You woke up astonished as it was as close as you could get to see into the future what might be happening.
The scientifically trained you tried to shrug off the strange dream but failed. It was so vivid, so telling, and so self-explainable whenever you went into some frustrations in your daytime that made you wonder whether you should apply the intuition demonstrated in that strange dream of yours.
Sometimes, you could use your imagination to expand your gut feelings and formed stories in your head so interesting that you felt can be written into novels and then realized perhaps some novels were written in that way.
Great writers usually demonstrated exceptional intuitions and perceptions sourced from seemingly trivial life events and behaviors.
The only difference here is that you are onto some yet to be proved “this is a true story” types. You are dying of curiosity that you could have ways to prove your sixth sense is right in the end.
That is the beauty of intuition and imagination that keeps our daily lives entertaining and full of surprises.
