I strongly recommend that you read the book “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” by Malcolm Gladwell. It is an excellent book that gives really good examples about how intuition works and how fatal it is when it doesn’t. Thanks for a good article.
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I’m a dreamer and sometimes I’m a lucid dreamer. I record and analyze my dreams to ascertain what’s going on at my core. My dreams inform me at a deep personal level of my responses to events that have happened, events that are happening now, and events that are yet to come.

“Dreaming, in its purest form, is witnessing life just as it is. We perceive from the moment of our birth. As infants, our minds are unformed and silent. There are no words describing our perception. There are no concepts narrating our emotions. Returning to that state of silent mind, through dreaming, we intensify awareness. In the silence created by absence of thought, we open to perception.” Don Miguel Ruiz
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Though I am not really able to define it myself, my own idea of it is that it is somehow outside everything “learned”. And numbers, the shark fear, to me that’s all learned. Numbers are symbols that we learn, something animals can’t learn (much the same that language itself is really just symbols). The fear of sharks is learned, too. Unless I’ve had my own encounter with one, which would make it a direct experience, it’s a learned or acquired fear upon which I have no “real” — or direct — basis.

I guess I think of intuition as more closely related to instinct than to anything associated with language or learning. But like I said, I can’t totally define it in a way that a psychologist would be able to study it. I guess for me intuition falls somewhere in the realm of what the philosopher Wittgenstein was referring to when he wrote:

“If the answer cannot be put into words, the question, too, cannot be put into words. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, it can also be answered.”

Sort of the ineffable stuff, you know? If we can put a question we can answer it.

As far as the incident with my daughter, there were no hints. She was too young to realize the significance of what was happening. I just “saw” the paintbrush color she was holding every time. Weird, I know!!

Cheers,
Miche

Lately (as in the last 4-5 years) I learned to trust my intuition. I don’t know if it’s only subconscious thinking involved in this process, maybe it’s something even bigger than that, but what I can tell you is that my intuition saved me from a few serious mistakes. All odds were really favorable but something told me not to go. And I was right. Looking forward for the next one, to see when intuition really works
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