Candies in a box, you can call man's sixth sense.

Thanks to this sense, we can determine how many elements of the same kind are in a place at a given time.

It is known that there are five basic senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste and each of them has its own topographic map in the brain, that is, a map that shows where the neurons that form them are located. Now scientists have found that such a map exists for the perception of quantity.

Sense of quantity different from symbolic numbers. The latter we use to represent quantities or other quantities. When we perceive quantity, we visually process the characteristics of the image.

To better understand what controls our sense of quantity, scientists conducted a study on eight participants. They asked them to look at cards with different numbers of dots. During this experiment, the researchers analyzed the response of neurons using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

As it turned out, there is an anatomical the "quantity sense" center, which is located in the back of the parietal cortex.

Scientists say that this part of the brain, which is responsible for the perception of quantity, works like a sixth sense.

"When we see a small number of elements, we don't need to count them. We immediately know how many there are," explained study author Ben Harvey of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

human feelings

We know the basic five human senses. However, some scientists believe that we have them, at least nine, and some claim that there are more than 21 of them.

Under the feeling this case refers to a system of a group of sensory cells that respond to certain physical phenomena and correspond to a specific area of ​​the brain.

Here are the basic and other lesser known human senses:

Five human senses

Vision- in fact, it can be divided into two senses, depending on the type of receptors: color vision (cones), and brightness (rods).

Taste- some believe that taste can be divided into five senses, depending on the taste buds (sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami). Umami determines the taste of the amino acid glutamate, which is present in meat and is used as a flavoring agent.

Touch also considered a separate feeling from pressure, temperature, pain and even itching.

Hearing- the ability to perceive vibrations environment, such as air and water, which are in contact with the eardrums.

Smell- the ability to detect odor.

Other human senses

Thermoception- the ability to feel hot and cold.

proprioception is a sense by which we determine where our body parts are located in relation to other parts of the body. This feeling is tested by the police when they want to know how sober a driver is by conducting a test "close your eyes and touch your nose with your hand." We also use proprioception when we want to scratch our heel without even looking at where it is.

Feeling of tension Tension receptors are located in the muscles and allow the brain to monitor muscle tension.

Nociception- the feeling of pain has a unique sensory system, and is not an overload of other senses.

Sense of balance helps us maintain balance and sense body movements as we accelerate and change direction. With the loss of this feeling, a person ceases to distinguish up from down, and moves with difficulty without outside help.

Thirst- allows our body to monitor the replenishment of fluid loss.

Hunger This system tells us when we need to eat.

magnetoception is the ability to detect magnetic fields in order to know the direction of movement. This sense is well developed in birds and insignificantly in humans.

sense of time- there is a lot of controversy about what helps a person to determine time. However, studies have shown that we have a very precise sense of time, especially in our youth.

Humans have five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The interconnected sense organs send information to the brain to help us understand and. People also have other senses in addition to the main five. Here's how they work.

People have many senses. But traditionally the five human senses are recognized as sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. There is also the ability to detect stimuli other than those regulated by these most widely recognized senses, and these sensory modalities include temperature (thermal detection), kinesthetic sense (proprioception), pain (nociception), balance, vibration (mechanoception), and various internal stimuli (e.g. , different chemoreceptors for determining the concentration of salt and carbon dioxide in the blood, hunger and thirst).

Having made these remarks, let's look at the basic five human senses:

The sense of touch is considered the first sense that humans develop, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia. The sense of touch consists of several different sensations transmitted to the brain through specialized neurons in the skin. Pressure, temperature, light touch, vibration, pain and other sensations are part of the sense of touch and are all attributed to various receptors on the skin.

Touch is not just a sense used to interact with the world; it also seems to be very important for a person's well-being. For example, touch as compassion of one person to another.

This is the sense by which we distinguish the various qualities of bodies: such as warmly and cold, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness.

Seeing or perceiving with the eyes is a complex process. First, light is reflected from the object to the eye. The transparent outer layer of the eye, called the cornea, bends light as it passes through the pupil. The pupil (which is the colored part of the eye) works like a camera shutter, shrinking to let in less light or opening wider to let in more light.

The cornea focuses most of the light, and then the light passes through the lens, which continues to focus the light.

The lens of the eye then bends the light and focuses it on the retina, which is full of nerve cells. These cells are shaped like rods and cones and are named after their shapes. The cones translate light into colors, central vision and detail. The wands also give people vision when there is limited light, such as at night. The information translated from the light is sent as electrical impulses to the brain via the optic nerve.

Hearing works through the complex labyrinth that is the human ear. Sound is directed through the outer ear and fed into the external auditory canal. The sound waves then reach the eardrum. It is a thin sheet of connective tissue that vibrates when sound waves reach it.

Vibrations travel to the middle ear. The auditory ossicles vibrate there—three tiny bones called the malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes (stirrup).

People maintain their sense of balance because the eustachian tube, or pharyngo-matian tube, in the middle ear equalizes air pressure with atmospheric pressure. The vestibular complex in the inner ear is also important for balance because it contains receptors that regulate the sense of balance. The inner ear is connected to the vestibulocochlear nerve, which transmits sound and balance information to the brain.

The sense of smell, by which we distinguish odors, different kinds of which convey different impressions to the mind. The organs of animal and vegetable origin, as well as most other bodies, when exposed to air, constantly send out odors, as well as a state of life and growth, as in a state of fermentation and putrefaction. These effluvia, drawn into the nostrils along with the air, are the means by which all bodies exude.

According to researchers, humans can smell more than 1 trillion scents. They do this with the olfactory fissure, which is located at the top of the nasal cavity, next to the olfactory bulb and fossa. The nerve endings in the olfactory fissure transmit odors to the brain.

In fact, a poor sense of smell in humans may be a symptom of a medical condition or aging. For example, a distorted or reduced ability to smell is a symptom of schizophrenia and depression. Old age can also reduce this ability. According to data published in 2006 by the National Institutes of Health, more than 75 percent of people over the age of 80 may have severe olfactory disorders.

Taste is usually classified into the perception of four different tastes: salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. There may be many other flavors that have not yet been discovered. In addition, spicy, the taste is not.

The sense of taste helps people to check the food they eat. A bitter or sour taste indicates that the plant may be poisonous or rotten. Something salty or sweet, however, often means the food is rich in nutrients.

Taste is felt in the taste buds. Adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds. Most of them are on the tongue, but they also extend the back of the throat, epiglottis, nasal cavity, and esophagus.

It is a myth that the tongue has specific zones for each flavor. The five tastes can be felt in all parts of the tongue, although the sides are more sensitive than the middle. About half of the sensory cells in taste buds respond to several of the five basic tastes.

Cells differ in the level of sensitivity. Each has a specific palette of flavors with a fixed ranking, so some cells may be more sensitive to sweet, followed by bitter, sour, and salty. A complete picture of taste is produced only after all information from different parts of the tongue is combined.

In this painting by Pietro Paolini, each individual represents one of the five human senses.

sixth sense of man

In addition to the traditional big five, there is a sixth human sense, the sense of space, which is about how the brain understands where your body is in space. This sense is called proprioception.

Proprioception involves the sense of movement and position of our limbs and muscles. For example, proprioception allows a person to touch the tip of their nose with their finger even when their eyes are closed. This allows a person to climb the steps without looking at each one. People with poor proprioception can be clumsy.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that people who have particularly poor proprioception, like feeling when someone is pressing on your skin (may have a mutated gene that is passed down from generation to generation) may not work, so their neurons cannot detect touch or limb movements.

People's Feelings: List

Here is a list of other human senses regarding the main five senses:

• Pressure
• Temperature
• Thirst
• Hunger
• Direction
• Time
• muscle tension
• Proprioception (the ability to recognize your body in detail, relative to other body parts)
• Sense of balance (the ability to balance and feel the movement of the body in terms of acceleration and change of direction)
• Stretch receptors (They are found in places like the lungs, bladder, stomach, blood vessels, and gastrointestinal tract.)
• Chemoreceptors (This is the medulla oblongata trigger in the brain that is involved in detecting blood. It is also involved in reflex vomiting.)

Subtle human feelings

There are more subtle human feelings that most people never perceive. For example, there are neuron sensors that sense movement to control balance and head tilt. Specific kinesthetic receptors exist to detect stretch in muscles and tendons, helping people keep track of their limbs. Other receptors detect oxygen levels in certain blood flow arteries.

Sometimes people don't even perceive feelings in the same way. For example, people with synesthesia may see sounds as colors or associate certain sights with smells.

What is the "sixth sense"?

Surely you are familiar with the expression "sixth sense", which is usually used to refer to intuition. If you wish, you can find explanations - where it came from. It's simple: the authors say out loud that a person has five ordinary senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, and, perhaps, there is also some mysterious sixth sense - intuition.

This always surprised me, because the sixth sense in a person is the vestibular apparatus (a sense of balance and position in space, acceleration, a sense of weight). And if you figure it out, then the vestibular apparatus, perhaps, can be put in the first place. Judge for yourself. A person deprived of any feeling is considered disabled. But, if in the absence of any of the five “basic” feelings, he can still exist independently and even, at the very least, adapt in society, then, if the vestibular apparatus is violated, a person is immediately assigned the highest degree of disability, and he cannot exist independently. .

Have you heard the expression: “this man stands firmly on his feet”? So we are talking about a self-confident person who is well versed in modern life, having a stable income, finally. But is it just a figurative expression? Numerous studies conducted back in the 70s of the last century in the USA and Sweden established a direct connection between a good vestibular apparatus and a sense of self-confidence and, as a rule, success in life. By the way, the vestibular apparatus controls the work of absolutely all muscles in our body. And, for example, with stuttering, one of the essential factors of rehabilitation is the training of the vestibular apparatus.

Our sense of balance is associated with proprioceptive sensations. With similar sensations, localized, as a rule, along the spinal column, we also have messages sent by our intuition. So, maybe intuition is somehow connected with the vestibular apparatus and, indeed, it is legitimate to call it the sixth sense? There are many theories about this...

I am more inclined to believe that intuition is still connected with the ability of our brain to receive information about the world around us directly, bypassing, in some way, ordinary sense organs. But what about proprioceptive sensations then? J The fact is that our brain is arranged very wisely and rationally. If we make analogies, then it can be argued that a person has at his disposal six analog computers (sense organs) and one digital one - the brain that controls these six and processes the information coming from them. Nervous tissue similar to neurons in the brain, found in the region of the stomach and heart, seems to be a kind of interface that serves to organize optimal interaction.

So, when a person thinks, he thinks with his whole body (with all his senses). And the calmer the body is at this time, the more resources are freed up for thinking. It has long been known that the key to overlearning is the "body asleep, mind awake" state. And, perhaps, this is precisely the reason for the beneficial effect of meditations... Now the physiological background of the statement of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov that "there is, in essence, no difference between a real action and an imaginary one for the brain" becomes clear.

Seventh sense.

So what, after all, does all of the above have to do with intuition ??? Everything is very simple. As we have established, there is a two-way communication between the body and the brain, and the brain can send its messages to us through any sense organ. The main thing is to learn to understand the language of this message. By the way, now even schizophrenics are taught to establish a constructive dialogue with their voices ...

Each sense has, in this regard, its advantages and disadvantages. For example, vision and hearing, in modern life, are already overloaded with information coming from everywhere. Smell and taste are poorly developed with us, and the average person has very little richness of differences in them. What remains is the sense of touch and proprioception. And they "work" in this field tirelessly. Are you familiar with the expressions: “goosebumps”, “hair stood on end”? But the expressions: “the point plays”, “the heart went to the heels”, “a lump in the stomach”, “cats scratch at the soul” - this is already proprioceptive.

But all this is somehow far from unambiguous, you say. We would like something like that ... It’s better to adapt some kind of device ... There is such a device! - It's a pendulum. Any not very heavy weight suspended on a thread can serve as a pendulum. The length of the thread is selected in such a way that when the hand is placed (on a flat surface) on the elbow and tilted (under 45 degrees) (the end of the thread is sandwiched between the fingers), the weight almost touches the surface. A ring, nut, stud, pin, etc. can serve as a weight. etc.. You can, of course, buy a pendulum made of semi-precious stones, in an "esoteric shop", or make it yourself, from specially selected materials and in compliance with all sacred proportions, but the truth is that a pendulum can serve any not a very heavy weight on any thread that is suitable in length. For example, in construction stores you can buy a very nice, smallest (three centimeters) plumb line, which is ideal for this role.

To date, many methods have been invented, there are also quite a few books with descriptions. The simplest technique: a piece of paper with the “British flag” is placed below, where the answers are indicated along the axes: “yes”, “no”, “does not matter”, “no answer” (for example, if the question is asked incorrectly). The pendulum is set above the center of the "British flag", and the person focuses on a question that can only be answered with "yes" and "no". After some time, the pendulum begins to move along one of the axes with the indicated answer. Sometimes, first, the pendulum is set above an empty surface, and the subconscious is asked to give the answer “yes” (through the swing of the pendulum), and then they slip a piece of paper with drawn answers, orienting it accordingly.

No matter what they say, everyone can learn how to work with a pendulum. People who have good control over their body (and therefore have a good vestibular apparatus) have an advantage in learning. But for others, it's just a matter of time. Usually, 80% of people get it right away. Another secret is to do it in the “alpha state”, relaxing all the muscles of the body as much as possible.

No matter how simple and reliable a pendulum on a string is, but, you see, to walk with it through life and use it wherever you need to get a reliable answer under unclear circumstances, to put it mildly, not too traditional ... In addition, to get an answer from such a pendulum requires a calm environment, a calm state and quite a lot of time.

mental pendulum

And what do we do with it now? But you already want to have a similar device, only not noticeable to the prying eye, and working almost instantly ... And why was it then on two pages to fence this whole garden, if all the useful information fit into two paragraphs?

I don’t know, maybe in the near future, a similar device will appear that can perceive and decode proprioceptive sensations, but you and I “will not wait for favors from nature.” Because, with careful reading and analysis of all the information previously brought to your attention in this article, this very attention can be attracted by the simple fact that the connection between the body and the brain is two-way, and this is the basis for our ability to learn.

Hypnotherapists know such a technique as “finger signaling”, when the doctor alternately touching the fingers of a patient in a deep trance (usually the index one), appoints them responsible for giving simple “yes”, “no” signals. Then, asking questions directly to the patient's subconscious, according to the answers of the fingers (through their movement - usually slight twitches), he makes a diagnosis according to the source of the problems. In NLP, within the framework of the six step reframing technique, in a similar (but somewhat extended) way, the specialist, or the "suffering" himself, can also establish a connection with the subconscious.

All this information was brought together and created the Mental Pendulum technique by Australian researcher James F. Coyle * (alias JIM FRANCIS). The technique is extremely simple - you just need to explain to your subconscious that the corresponding finger should twitch in response to a direct (yes / no) question. How to do it? The simplest is to show.

In a calm atmosphere, we lie down or sit down (hands lie freely on our knees, palms down), we enter the alpha state of consciousness, for example, through the activation of the anchor, and we ask our subconscious mind, for example, like this: “I ask the subconscious mind to establish a connection between the answer“ yes ” and twitching the corresponding finger. Then make a short quick movement (as in an involuntary twitch) with your finger. Sets the answer to "no" accordingly.

It is quite effective to do this immediately before going to bed, after which, using the sleep programming method (also developed by J. Coyle), you can instruct the subconscious to strengthen this connection. For example: "This night my dreams cause a stronger connection between yes and no answers and the twitching of the corresponding fingers." It is necessary to speak (mentally) in a slow and quiet voice (you can whisper).

Remember this formula: "This night my dreams are the cause..." - it is universal for solving many problems. Moreover, it does not always act directly (especially if it does not concern your abilities or health), but, most often, through the appearance of various synchronicities in the following days. So be careful - don't miss your chance...

“Repetition is the mother of learning”, so it is useful, during alpha meditation, to periodically (lazily, slowly and completely focusing on the meaning) repeat “yes” / “no” and reproduce the corresponding finger movements. It is somewhat easier (correct concentration, while maintaining the alpha state - aerobatics) to compile and write down a list of questions to which you know unambiguous answers (only “yes” and “no”), for example, “my name is ...?”, “Will the sun rise again tomorrow?”, etc., then load this list into some kind of “chat-reader” (setting a slightly slower speed in the settings) and make an audio file. This audio file can be played during alpha meditation while answering questions with your fingers. This should be done no more than three days, or after three days the list of questions should be completely changed.

J. Coyle claims that most master this technique in one day, the rest need no more than a week to master.

James Coyle recommends using the thumbs. He himself explains this by saying that they remain free while driving a car, but other considerations can be added here. - According to the Chinese and Korean meridian systems, the thumbs are directly connected with the head, namely with the cerebellum, which is responsible for the coordination of movements, the regulation of balance and muscle tone.

Usually, for a normally organized right-handed person, the answer "yes" is best set on the left side of the body, since it is controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, which better determines similarity (unity). Accordingly, the answer "no" is better set to the right half of the body, controlled by the left hemisphere, which better determines the difference, since the answer "no" requires preliminary analysis. The left hemisphere is somewhat less connected to the structures responsible for movement, so the answer "no" is usually weaker than the answer "yes".

What is the alpha state for? According to the research of Maxwell Cade, it is in the alpha state that the optimal connection between consciousness and subconsciousness, between body and mind, is ensured. A person has two focuses of attention at the same time - internal and external. Therefore, in the alpha state, ideomotor reactions are maximally manifested, which underlie the work with the pendulums mentioned in the article. In the theta state (during deep meditation), the muscles on the periphery are so relaxed that they no longer provide noticeable movements, and only the muscles of the face are still able to somehow react. James Coyle writes that during deep meditation he had to establish responses to eyebrow movements.

Using the technique he created, J. Coyle came to the conclusion that its capabilities exceed those of an ordinary pendulum. So, for example, for some questions he received quick answers “yes” - “no” (or vice versa), which meant both “yes” and “no”, or “yes / no, but ...”. Yes, the world is sometimes a little more complicated than we think ... Also, sometimes, he received a series of quick “yes” answers, which meant the possibility of graduation, for example, to determine the depth of the water reservoir, when looking for the optimal place for well drilling. At the same time, questions are consistently asked, such as: “Is the depth of occurrence more than 10, 20, 30, etc. meters?” Having finally received the answer “no”, further clarification is underway. A series of quick “no” answers indicated the danger of this action. Of course, everyone will have their own interpretations ...

Also, J. Coyle, within the framework of this method, developed a technique for determining probability for some specific questions. For example, “whether the probability of a specific event under specific conditions will be higher than 90%, and then descending: 80%, 70%, 60%, 50% (lower, usually does not make sense).

In the course of practice with the new method, J. Coyle noticed that now he didn’t even need to consciously ask questions - the answers came by themselves, when difficult situations arose, and later the answers, in the form of finger twitching, generally disappeared, but, on the other hand, He already knew exactly the right answer to any question.

There are a lot of different opinions about the subconscious on the net. Someone represents him as a kind of monster, arranging various nasty things for people, someone as a good magician, working on the principle - “what do you want?”. Both of these ideas, in my opinion, ultimately lead to schizophrenia. The subconscious is ourselves, or most of ourselves is our Self. Consciousness, on the contrary, is represented in the brain by only a very thin (2-4 mm) layer of neocortex cells and is very limited in its capabilities and ideas.

Ancient man had a single, so to speak, "consciousness-subconsciousness", or rather, there was not even a hint of separation. In our time, such a mental organization is found only among representatives of a few tribes leading a primitive way of life. The subconscious is deeply metaphorical and poetic, so often its messages do not reach the rational and pragmatic consciousness.

Our Self strives for success, recognition, prosperity and all the best in this life. With the vast experience of survival of all our ancestors and the corresponding abilities, our Self tries to guide and protect us. Unfortunately, in the course of technological progress and social revolutions that destroyed traditional culture, the language of interaction between consciousness and the subconscious was thoroughly forgotten. But the subconscious mind is always ready to interact. For every step of consciousness leading to the organization of interaction, the subconscious mind responds with ten steps towards. That is why the presented technique is easy to learn and does not require a lot of time and energy. You just need to do and enjoy the results that surpass all our reasonable ideas.

So - good luck! And good luck to those who go!

* James Coyle was fond of flying onplane and helicopter, skydiving and diving. Once his parachute did not open and he fell to the ground from a great height. He was lucky that he fell on a rather steep hillside and, due to rolling along the slope, extinguished most of the inertia. As a result, he survived, but was badly injured. He had to make great efforts and courage for a complete rehabilitation. As a result, he became seriously interested in developing self-improvement techniques, butcontinues to engage in extreme sports.

Real paranormal sixth sense

People maintain contact with the outside world through the five senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Each of them has corresponding organs with the help of which people recognize certain signals from the outside world. for a long time it was not customary to speak, at least not to speak seriously. But it may well be that soon the existence of the sixth sense will be officially recognized by science ...

Surely, each of us can remember a situation when, for seemingly inexplicable reasons, he avoided danger or made the right decision. Materialists explained this with flashes of intuition, believers talked about "tips" ... But, nevertheless, most often it sounded - "sixth sense". What does it represent?

Unlike its "brothers", the sixth sense is something so elusive that its researchers can not agree on terms. Some mean by these words clairvoyance, others - telepathy, and someone - the whole range of extrasensory abilities. Only one thing is certain: the sixth sense is a practically unexplored way of receiving information from the outside world.

The scientific world is not yet able to accurately answer the question of how exactly the sixth sense “works”. One of the most common hypotheses explains it by the existence of a biofield. The biofield is a stable energy structure consisting of several layers. It exists in every living organism. Biofields are able to come into contact with each other, while there is an exchange of energy and information. It would seem that in such conditions all living beings should read each other's thoughts, feel the mood of those who are nearby, "see" other people's illnesses ... But, basically, such information does not reach the conscious level. Why?

First of all, we often simply do not pay any attention to the prompts of the "sixth sense". From childhood, we are taught what to eat, what to give; go where they say. But many mothers can remember how their child refused to go to kindergarten or school for no reason, but they still sent him there, and then he returned with an injury or poisoning. Couldn't the famous first impression, the first glance, be a hint? But - a person behaves decently, is well dressed, and we forget about vague anxiety.

Another reason for our helplessness lies in our anatomy. The traditional five senses have corresponding organs. Their appearance was preceded by a long process of evolution. Perhaps, with regard to the sixth sense, we are at the very beginning of the evolutionary ladder. Therefore, the corresponding organ is not developed in our country. But he is!

Let's take a break from anatomy for a while and move on to Ancient India - a country where, perhaps, more attention was paid to the study of man than anywhere else. Even those who have not tried to deeply understand yogic philosophy have heard something about the third eye. Deities and enlightened beings (this is already in Buddhism) are often depicted with three eyes. And yoga techniques contain direct instructions on how to “open” this third eye ... It is hardly an abstraction or some distinctive property of higher beings - after all, judging by the ancient texts, such an “enlightenment” is quite accessible to people!

Several organs located in the brain have been put forward for the role of the “third eye”. Some believed that the pituitary gland was responsible for the sixth sense, others (this is a more common opinion) that our psychic abilities depend on the pineal gland. This small cone-shaped gland is located near the center of the skull, almost directly above the top of the spinal column. It is composed of nerve matter containing bodies that look like nerve cells and contain small accumulations of calcareous particles, sometimes called "brain sand". We don't know much about this body. The only thing that scientists know for sure is that the pineal gland produces a biologically active substance (melatonin), which regulates (inhibits) the development of the gonads and the secretion of hormones by them, as well as the formation of corticosteroids by the adrenal cortex. But there is an opinion that the role of the pineal gland (this is another name for the pineal gland) has not yet been definitively established ...

It is curious that the size of the pineal gland in a child is larger than in an adult, and in women it is larger than in men. But the sixth sense more developed in children up to the age of seven! In addition, if we analyze the statistics, it is inherent in women to a much greater extent than men!

An example of such an early development of the sixth sense is the story of Marina Maslova (Nizhny Novgorod). A six-year-old girl has repeatedly puzzled her parents and acquaintances. For the first time, Marina was noticed when she played: with her eyes closed, she laid out the cubes by color. The girl claimed that they are different to the touch: some are cold, others are warm ... Marina could tell exactly when the bus would come, when dad would return from work. One day she told her grandmother that her "heart was pounding." Grandmother went to the hospital, she was diagnosed with arrhythmia, prescribed medication. And finally, the doctor said that she applied in a timely manner: a little more - and she could have reached a heart attack ... So after the words of her daughter that dad would soon have a stomach ache, at the first sign of pain Maslova called an ambulance. The appendix had to be cut out, but, fortunately, he did not have time to turn into peritonitis - the bill went literally for hours.

Marina easily avoided dangerous situations: either she stopped and refused to cross the road (at that time a car raced through a red light at high speed), or she did not want to ride the carousel (the carousel jammed, and her little passengers rode for an additional 10 minutes; many were taken to the hospital )… Just as easily, the girl read the thoughts of familiar and unfamiliar people, felt their mood.

The abilities of another girl - Natasha Demina - are somewhat more "narrow". From the age of ten, she sees the internal organs of people - like an x-ray. True, then she called the intestines a "hose", and the kidneys - "beans" ... With the help of her unique vision, Natasha can determine not only an ulcer or appendicitis, but also a viral infection. Therefore, he is thinking about a medical career.

The sixth sense can manifest itself in many different ways. Along with unusual forms of vision, it takes the form of sounds (since ancient times, folklore has mentioned people who heard “voices”), and sometimes it simply represents a vague premonition: you should not leave the house or, on the contrary, it is better to leave the premises as soon as possible. It often happens that a special connection is established between close people: mother and child, husband and wife, old friends. And sometimes it unexpectedly "works" in people with rational thinking, very far from mysticism.

Here, for example, is the manifestation of this phenomenon, described by the famous critic of musical and artistic works V. V. Stasov. His sister had a fiancé, a brilliant officer of the guards, who was readily accepted in society. An engagement took place. But shortly before the wedding, the groom left her and, at the request of his father, immediately married another woman. The girl left behind was in despair after that, she even had to undergo hypnosis treatment. Under the influence of the experience, the girl became incredibly receptive: every time the former groom was nearby, she felt his presence. All of this was over in about six months.

It is curious that the sixth sense can be manifested under the influence of hypnosis. 1850 - professor of physiology and at the same time the English doctor-magnetizer Mayo wrote: "A magnetized person who has lost the ability of his own touch, or taste, or smell, touches, tastes and smells everything that is perceived by the external senses of the magnetizer." The experiment itself was quite simple: the hypnotist introduced the subject into a trance state and, having seated him with his back to him, began to try a wide variety of products. A person under hypnosis did not see anything, but quite clearly felt the taste, smell, he also had tactile sensations ... The famous French physiologist Charles Richet, Nobel Prize winner, also conducted such experiments, and with the most ordinary people, and became the first scientist who collected enough information for statistical analysis.

Since then the situation has changed. Research in the field of extrasensory perception is carried out by scientists of various specialties. Professor Yuri Pytiev, head of the Department of Computer Methods of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, knows many cases of perceiving the world with the help of the “sixth sense”.

For the first time, the scientist became acquainted with this phenomenon thanks to the daughter of his friend, Fourteen-year-old Nadenka. The girl "saw" the magnetic field and distinguished objects placed in it, "illuminated" by electromagnetic radiation! The professor was able to establish that the clarity of the "picture" depends on the wavelength of the electromagnetic "illumination". The shorter the wavelength, the more clearly Nadenka distinguished objects. At first, the scientist was skeptical about the experiments, but he soon became convinced that the girl was not cheating.

Nadenka's father tried to develop his daughter's abilities, and her "sixth sense" reached such a sharpness that the girl began to read texts placed in a magnetic field in sealed envelopes. It is curious that Nadia saw objects as if her eyes were located outside the head, in the region of the crown. And the distance between them turned out to be two and a half to three times greater than between ordinary eyes.

The next surprise awaited Professor Pytyev after meeting Vyacheslav Bronnikov's school graduates. Children who were taught in this school to use the latent reserves of their body "saw" objects without any magnetic field. Unlike Nadia, who perceived objects in black and white, school graduates described both the color and shape of the object. Moreover, the guys could control the “point of view”: place their “eyes” either directly in front of them, or to the side or behind the object. At the same time, they practically did not get tired.

Professor Pytiev is sure that the “sixth sense” is based on some kind of wave process. As the example of Nadenka and the graduates of the Bronnikov school shows, a person is able to use different waves for “vision”. However, our information about the nature of the “sixth sense”, about how it “works”, is still limited to this. However, scientific theories often lag behind the facts of life. After all, if you think about it, apples fell to the ground long before the discovery of the Law of universal gravitation, and people have been using their bodies for thousands of years, not even knowing about its internal structure...

In everyday life, as well as in literature, it is accepted that a person has five senses. This follows from the phrase - "caught with some kind of sixth sense." Or from other, but similar in content phrases. The conclusion is clear - a person has five senses. And no more. By sixth sense we mean intuition.

The astronauts object: the sense of balance is an equivalent, equal feeling, we just do not notice its “work”. And intuition then becomes the seventh sense.
The question is: is this a complete list? Or, as always, did it ever occur to anyone to name ALL the feelings of a person in one list?

We proceed from the assumption that, according to Darwin, man belongs to the animal species, is simply at the highest stage of development. But with a person there is something that official science rejects. And this “something” visibly exerts its influence on the behavioral qualities of a person. And this “something” stands above the person, above the person. This “something” is the human soul.

TRYING CLASS I F I C I R O V A T

HUMAN FEELINGS, they are animal
(i.e. - inherent in the animal world).

FEELINGS of perception of the surrounding world,
determined ANATOMICALLY.
1. Vision.
2. Hearing.
3. Smell.
4. Touch.
5. Taste.
6. Balance.
7. ……….?

FEELINGS of self-perception, feelings of manifestation of one’s inner state,
conditioned PHYSIOLOGICALLY.
(Due to temporary hormonal changes or local chemical reactions).
1. Discomfort, anxiety, fear
2. Laziness (here - dystonia disease, here - fatigue)
3. Food hunger (including thirst)
4. Sexual hunger
5. Jealousy, rivalry
6. Passion (attraction to a specific person, as a threshold of love)
7. Satisfaction and bliss after the actions taken, after receiving the result.

SPIRITUAL FEELINGS, not inherent in animals.

FEELINGS ARE SIMPLE (not everyone has them, but almost everyone is capable of them).
1. Pity, regret, conscience, shame, guilt.
2. Tact, ethical caution (behavior in society or in relation to one's neighbor).
3. Affection, dislike (respect, disrespect, sympathy, antisympathy for another person).
4. Pride in oneself (in other words, pride, that is, according to the Bible, it is a mortal sin).
5. Pride for someone (here - patriotism)
6. Self-confidence, in someone (in other words - correctness, correctness of one's own actions, words).
7. ……….?

COMPLEX FEELINGS (does not appear in everyone, and not all people are capable of complex feelings).
1. A sense of foreseeing the future (intuition, the so-called sixth sense).
2. Feeling of importance in other people (happiness).
3. Feeling of mutual importance and need in another person (respect).
4. Feeling of rejection and rejection of another person, other people (hatred).
5. Sense of musical beat (perception of music, ear for music).
6. Sense of duty (for deeds, before someone).
7. Feeling of "elbow" (interaction with a partner).

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FOLLOWING NOTES
not included in any of the lists.
(Here's the point: the number of sensual groups, lists in the future can be increased.)

1. For a harmonious family, it is necessary to have feelings of fidelity, devotion and reliability.
By the way, maybe fidelity, devotion and reliability do not belong to the category of feelings? Maybe these qualities, these epithets from the field of relationships?

2. Confidence (feeling number 6 on the list of spiritual feelings) - as a mirror image of loyalty and devotion. And confidence comes from within. Confidence is a FEELING.
And because the family is not based on fidelity (reverse action), but on confidence (feeling).

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BESIDES
(group names to be specified):

1st group of feelings: feelings due to the presence of organs designed to perceive the world around us.

2- group of feelings: feelings, due to the functional characteristics of the organs of perception.

3rd and 4th groups of feelings: feelings due to the presence of the soul.

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NOTE: two human feelings (No. 7 and No. 7) are not defined, this question still needs to be thought about.