Is there anything you, “just know”, and have no explainable or rational way to explain how you know it?
Thomas Slatin
American Writer, Photographer, and Website Designer. Former career Fire and EMS Lieutenant. Oxford comma enthusiast. She/Her/Hers. Lesbian.
24 Comments
Oyeyipo Oladele
Yeah Tom, I play the piano well and good here. I always wonder how this could be without anyone’s assistance.
Susi R
No, I can’t think of one. I’ve heard people describe it as someone as having a ‘natural talent’ or as being ‘born gifted’.
Alex
What a tricky question ha ha. I guess LOVE qualifies for this. For one when the love bug bites you then you just feel it. No explanation required. It just transcends it.
conrad pranze villas
I am really not sure how to answer this. I will try to ask this question to my friends too..hahaha.. I guess I am a technomaniac, I can easily learn things that is connected with technology.
David Tjoe
Well, it seems I know this answer but I don’t know how to answer it. Give me more time to answer this question.
Danielle M
Oh yes, it happens to me very frecuently, sometimes I can’t find the right words to explain how i know what i know.
Brain
Well, just like the good book stated, there are things humans aren’t preview to and has such we are limited in knowledge. So yes I wouldn’t know everything.
esgyll
I’ve had instances wherein I just knew things, especially about people. People I don’t especially like, for instance, I have this unusual dislike of them, and then they end up being people who are easily the worst type of people. I don’t know how I do it, as I know myself to be such a gullible and naive type of person.
Saloni Singh
I am aware of the answer well. I need some more time to answer this query.
Grace Wan
Yeah. I’m a very creative person. Sometimes I do somethings and just wonder how I came to know them.
Roy
I must say I ‘just know’ lots of things. It comes with intuition.
Meg W
I think everyone has those things that they just know. It usually is difficult to explain.
Patricia
This is gut feeling. It’s that thing we know but can’t explain.
Oliver
I am happy I am not the only person that experiences this. We are such complicated beings.
Daphne
This happens to me a lot when something bad is about to happen. Sometimes it makes me think I am psychic.
Teddy
I am a very pragmatic person. Whenever I get such a feeling I usually brush it off.
Louis
This is something I can completely relate to. It happens to me more often than not.
Shantel
Every one of us has this inate ability. It is psychic in a way.
Anderson
I think when this happens, it’s our brain’s way of helping with self preservation. Many times our gut feeling is never wrong.
Storm
I am a huge proponent of logic and rationale. That said, I have to admit this has happened to me before.
Sylvia
I don’t think I have ever experienced that. However i know a few friends who always do.
Wilson Jake
I can’t think of any right now. But I got a friend who can make foreign delicacies without any prior training.
Marlapaige
I have a tendency to recognize pain in others, even when they are able to hide it from a roomful of people. I cannot always see it in myself, or if I can, I can ignore it very easily. But I can see it in a face, a glance, a dropping of the eyes. Even in someone I had never seen before that day. The voice need not quiver,the lip not shake. I can see it. Behind the smile.
I was recently on a video chat with a group of people I had never seen before, and I only knew of one. There was another who spoke very casually in tone and in a clipped kind of sentence which did not give much away of something seen a lifetime ago. Without knowing how or why, I knew that it was true, I knew there was pain. I asked and the response that they were ok, they just think of certain things daily. The subject moved on. I could see my clock on my phone – it was two minutes before the image and the trauma that had arisen had truly been replaced enough in that moment so that this person could move on with their focus and the conversation. I do not know how I know it started, and I do not know how I know when it ended. I do not even necessarily know if I was right. I just know that I know it. Does that make any sense?
Thomas Slatin
Was this person me? Just curious. Because yes, there is a lot of pain behind my face that very few people know about.