Have You Had a Psychic Read?

pukkamum

fireyfirenze wrote: »

one day a lady I work with (who i don't know very well) who claims she's psychic said to me 'you've got a guardian angel watching over you, it's your great grandma' I said oh...right?! she said the letters l and A are coming to me. I didn't think anything of it really. a few days lster I asked my mum what my great grandma was called as I never met her. She said Lizzie Ada. I just thought that was really weird. how did the woman at work know? did she just pick 2 letters out of 26 in the alphabet and hope for the best?

I don't know if I believe but that little incident had always made me think maybe. I've never had a reading though and I doubt I will.

She may well be psychic, she may well have picked the letters from the air, had she said I or Z or E or D she would still have been right.

The fact is that had those letters not been relevant you would have thought no more of it.

Does it matter though, if things like that give comfort, a thrill of excitement, a curiosity into other ways of thinking, it's fine but when people are spending huge amounts of time and money trying to contact lost relatives ig becomes more sinister.

Anselm

Nothing more than Barnum statements that are general and vague, but can apply to someone, which in turn makes the person think they're getting a specific 'reading'.

Watto30

poet123 wrote: »

It is similar to religion being criticised though isn't it? People are entitled to state they feel it is rubbish without being personal. If some people take it personally that does not mean that comment is wrong.

True, as I said we all have our own opinions but various threads on this subject have gone a bit pear shaped before! it seems to be an odd subject that people get a bit passionate about whether or not they believe, I guess its all about personal experience and how we read this forum and interpret the posts on it


Something very weird happened to me in October of last year that still freaks me out to this day, I had gone to Thailand - 6000 miles from home and went for dinner one night at the sister hotel of the hotel I was staying at with the oh, we sat down near another couple and ordered our food, eventually got chatting to the other couple and asked where they were from etc turns out they lived 5 mins up the road from us, bit of a coincidence but like most people on holiday you always bump into people from back home, more chatting and we realised that the hubby had lived in the area we used to live in but had moved away aged 12...it turned out that he had actually gone out with my eldest sister when they started secondary school aged 11!! I am 32, eldest sister 13 years older than me so I had never met him as had not even been born!! to say I was speechless would be a mild understatement!! funny thing was we had chosen to go to this restaurant last minute and so had they so had we gone somewhere else we would never have met the couple, if a psychic or medium ever came up with that to me in a reading then I think I would faint!

Person_one

It bothers me less when the so-called 'psychics' do it for free, although I still wonder what they're getting out of it and still worry about the impact on vulnerable or grieving people.

The ones who make money from their deception though, from the Sally Morgans and Derek Acoras of the world down to people 'reading' for friends of friends and pocketing a bit of their cash each time, should be prosecuted for fraud, quite frankly. They disgust me.

poet123

Watto30 wrote: »

True, as I said we all have our own opinions but various threads on this subject have gone a bit pear shaped before! it seems to be an odd subject that people get a bit passionate about whether or not they believe, I guess its all about personal experience and how we read this forum and interpret the posts on it


Something very weird happened to me in October of last year that still freaks me out to this day, I had gone to Thailand - 6000 miles from home and went for dinner one night at the sister hotel of the hotel I was staying at with the oh, we sat down near another couple and ordered our food, eventually got chatting to the other couple and asked where they were from etc turns out they lived 5 mins up the road from us, bit of a coincidence but like most people on holiday you always bump into people from back home, more chatting and we realised that the hubby had lived in the area we used to live in but had moved away aged 12...it turned out that he had actually gone out with my eldest sister when they started secondary school aged 11!! I am 32, eldest sister 13 years older than me so I had never met him as had not even been born!! to say I was speechless would be a mild understatement!! funny thing was we had chosen to go to this restaurant last minute and so had they so had we gone somewhere else we would never have met the couple, if a psychic or medium ever came up with that to me in a reading then I think I would faint!

Just co incidence though surely? I have a couple of similar incidents to recount. We were on a campsite in France sitting in the bar and we got chatting to a couple from Leeds, who, it turned out, had gone to university with my best friends husband. On that same holiday we walked down a street and bumped into some old friends, and we were at Disney in Florida one year and out of all the people in the park we ended up in a queue for a ride right behind a former neighbour.

Such things happen more than you would think I suspect.

poet123

Person_one wrote: »

It bothers me less when the so-called 'psychics' do it for free, although I still wonder what they're getting out of it and still worry about the impact on vulnerable or grieving people.

The ones who make money from their deception though, from the Sally Morgans and Derek Acoras of the world down to people 'reading' for friends of friends and pocketing a bit of their cash each time, should be prosecuted for fraud, quite frankly. They disgust me.

Power? Whether money is involved or not if someone is grieving real damage can be done emotionally if they fall prey to believing this type of thing has any substance.

Goldiegirl

pukkamum wrote: »

I too had a Blackpool one, I was 18, she told me a man with a name beginning with P would feature heavily in my life.
Funnily enough I started a job with a boss called Peter the next week, 2 months later I got an evening job working for a man named Peter.
In total I have worked for 4 Peters.

Now I could think wow she was spot on must be psychic, or I could think they were all of a similar age and Peter was clearly a popular name at the time.

For example I could look at an 18 yr old figure out that the boss of an 18yr old will likely be about 10 to 20 yrs older, pick a popular name for that age group, chances are I might be right and she'll think I'm psychic but if I'm wrong it won't cross her mind again.

on the other hand she may have been psychic, I keep an open mind.

Actually, I'll come out of the closet here, and admit that I went to a fortune teller in Blackpool, in summer 1979. I was told I'd be married by the end of the year and his initials would be JW.

I didn't believe a word of it of course, as I didn't even have a boyfriend.

But two weeks later I did meet the man who would become my husband ( two years later) and his initials are PW.

Do I believe my fortune was told? No, of course not - it's just a coincidence that something almost like my 'fortune' happened.

Although... The initial J could refer to my husband's cousin John :rotfl:

cavework

Ask Derren Brown for a reading...you will be amazed at his accuracy..

coolcait

pukkamum wrote: »

I try to never flatly dismiss anything as anything is possible however I believe most psychics use like I do the unconcious reactions ie body language, facial expression, people have to certain keywords like dead relative, illness etc to gage how relevant to that person those words are.

we will only remember the parts of the reading relevant to our lives and dismiss all the other stuff.

I could pretty much guarantee that someone will either have had, or will have someone close die at some point in their life.
I can be pretty sure that there will be major changes in most peoples lives, same with illness etc.
So it goes on.

That's pretty much a description of cold reading - as described by a number of sites on a link earlier in the thread.

It's not about the supernatural - it's about observation.

DannyBo

cavework wrote: »

Ask Derren Brown for a reading...you will be amazed at his accuracy..

Are you referring to that time he gave 20 people each a sealed envelope? With pages upon pages of info.. He'd only had 1 minute with each person and they were all blown away by the accuracy!

Obviously everyone had the exact same envelope. :rotfl: