Have you ever had your 6th Sense shock you?
Posted on 04. Apr, 2010 by admin in Psychology
This is a question that is quite real and defies anything we learn through so called education. We have 5 senses so we are told, these are sight, smell, touch, taste and sound. All of these senses are designed to protect us from harm. What harm can befall us? So why do we need our other non acknowledged senses? Science needs to look again.
A little story for you to read:
Ogmore Deeps are a well known and respected, a brilliant Cod fishing land based venue, it resides on the shores of Wales along the Bristol channel and bears the scars of countless years of abuse from a British inlet that claims the worlds 2nd highest rise of tidal water.
Having fished this region since age 11, I was well aware of the merciless tides, and had often observed the Severn Bore – a wave that occurs during the in-coming tide and it carries on going … a surfers nirvana.
| Having fished at Ogmore for 4 years, I was fishing for rays this night and Ogmore Deeps is a good place to catch them. I had set up my area with 2 Tilley (paraffin) lamps and chose a ledge that was well above the high tide. I also wore a Petzl headlamp and wore a flotation suit. So my safety was established, no point in being stupid. I am also a qualified beach lifeguard, but I don’t want to end up in the water as it would require others to pull me out. So now knowing I had made my area as safe for fishing as possible I began to fish for rays using a Pendulum cast on Zziplex rod and a Greys rod (I always fish 2 rods). |
I had worked hard that night having had quite a good night fishing, catching 3 Thornbacks and some large whiting, and it was about 2.45am when I was sat on my tackle seat box in the light of my lamps enjoying the isolation and the sound of the waves as they crashed rhythmically against the ledges, it was 15 minutes before high tide, a light wind and it was a delightful night for fishing.
But then a sense of unease came over me. I was compelled to move from where I was and get as High above my ledge as I could – Now!!! I have never felt such conflict in my head, I couldn’t understand why my head was telling me to get away with such a feeling of urgency, but I didn’t question it.
I immediately cut the line on my rods, grabbed my gear then started scrambling up the Rock face behind me, to get away from that ledge.
The initial feeling had now converted itself into panic, fear and a desire for self preservation.
I scrambled up the face of the cliffs of the Deeps behind me, I didn’t choose to walk along the ledge for 500 yds and take a path, I climbed with my seat box, 2 rods and stand and my lamps, as fast as I possibly could. I can’t justify the sense of urgency and only serve to underestimate the involuntary response that was dictating my reactions.
During my scramble I lost a lamp and briefly turned to watch it drop and shatter against the rocks, but my body didn’t stop climbing.
And I continued to climb until I reached the pathway made by numerous walkers along the Ogmore Deeps.
It was only when I reached the pathway above that I then turned and sat looking down at the ledge I had been fishing on below, I then began to relax, and then started to question myself and my actions. What the hell was wrong with me? What was that all about? What caused that?
But before I could answer my self scolding, the ledge I was looking at below me, where I had been fishing, disappeared in less than 1 second. A wave swept over the ledge I had just been fishing on. The wave didn’t break over the ledge it simply swept over the ledge, breaking against the cliff face. Even with a flotation suit I could not have survived the crushing forces applied by that wave.
I then stopped chastising myself and instead found myself wondered by myself – how did I know? What caused such a flight response when no danger was evident?
This is a part of the brain that dominates reason, logic and experience. They call it 6th sense.
I believe that caling it a 6th sense is actually an injustice to our brains, there must be many other senses that exist, but we don’t place ourselves in a position to experience these other senses.
What other senses do we have? Dejavu? Gut Feeling? can you tell us about any you have experienced?
Richard Dawkins calls it a 4th memory
