What is the difference between a premonition, precognition, and psychic ability?

Question

I sometimes just know an event is going to happen. I get panicky, and then I find out the event actually happened. I am fuzzy on details though. i.e. I suddenly knew that there would be a car accident and the vehicle would be totalled. I thought it meant it would happen to me. It happened later in the day to my two stepdaughters that I had not even met at the time. They were driving across country to live with us. These are more than thoughts or feelings. What is this? and where does it come from?

Answer 1

If you get a premonition its from precognition.  Precognition is a psychic ability.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

D' je vous and imagination.

Answer 3

If there are differences they are minute.  All of the phenomena you mention all have a great deal in common though.  Primarily is the need for confirmation bias in order for them to "work".

In your example you mention you thought of a car crash.  Then you found out later that day someone connected to you was in a car crash.  (I hope they are alright.)  What you fail to mention is how many times you've thought of car crashes in your life.  I think about car crashes almost every day when I'm driving.  (It helps me not get in one.)  If I know someone who gets in a crash I could say, "Hey, I was just thinking about car crashes."  Does that mean I'm psychic?  It wouldn't really be fair to say I am since I think of car crashes all the time now would it?  This is confirmation bias at work.

Everybody wants to have more control in their lives.  Pretending the future can be controlled by what we daydream, or that our minds are mental antennae picking up the images of an event that has yet to happen is nothing short of magical thinking.  It's understandable magical thinking and I personally would love to have the ability to do that, but there is no reason to believe such things are real.

Answer 4

Well, humans only use about ten perrcent of their brains, so who knows why we need all the rest of that extra brain matter in our heads if we don't really use it? Some people, perhaps, have a few more connections to those "dead" or "unused" portions of their brains so they're able to see/hear/feel things that others can't.

Precognition is a psychic ability, much like telekenesis, telepathy, psychronology (what happened in the past to an object, person or place), and empathy. All of it falls into that lovely catergory most call the "paranormal". I prefer "supernatural", but that's just me. Anyway, I've had experiences like that. I try to keep an open mind to things like that, but don't believe everything I hear or see.

Good luck, sweetie, and I hope that helped, even just a little.

Answer 5

Premonition: More of a feeling than anything. Like, you'll feel anticipatory about crossing a deserted street, only to be struck by a car when you DO cross. (this happened to me)

Precognition: this is where you have actual visions. Sometimes, there could also be scents and sounds.

Psychic Ability: This is just a general term. Like, to say you have a psychic ability could mean you have either of the aforementioned, clairsentience, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc.

Answer 6

premonition and precognition are more or less the same thing.

Precognition: relating to a state or event not yet

                         experienced.

Premonition: anticipation of an event without conscious

                        reason.

This would be considered a category of psychic ability falling under ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) since it involves the acquisition of information.

I have included two links that will allow you to record your premonitions if you choose to in order to have evidence of them before the fact.