Whatever I had as a kid was stronger than whatever I have now. I could hear the phone ring 1 or 2 minutes before it rang. I could hear a knock at the door sometimes 5 minutes before someone knocked.
I had a similar experience three years ago. I woke up to a voice in my dream telling me to get up because I would be receiving a call from a specific future employer. Five minutes later, my cell phone rang. It was the first call I received from that group that eventually hired me. It was also, more importantly, the first indication I had that they actually received my application submitted several months earlier.
As in your past experiences in childhood, the timing was impeccable.
I could think of a certain odd word and someone would either say that word or I'd hear it on the TV minutes later.
Been having such experiences as well.
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It's just a theory of mine, but I think that if an INFJ does manifest paranormal ability, his/her Ni simply acts as a screen onto which esoteric knowledge projects itself, and makes itself known to the conscious mind. Certainly, Ni has its own predictive powers, but I think that the other perceptive functions (Ne, Si, and Se) may also serve as media for paranormal ability. Feeling too. And I wouldn't be surprised if Ti served as a medium for apprehending complex other-worldly knowledge. So perhaps our cognitive functions only serve as windows to this type of knowledge.
And to further explain the seeming abundance of gifted INFJs, a possible explanation is that intuitive types are already in touch with unconscious processes which might have an organic basis similar to paranormal cognition. Perhaps, the existence of a well-developed organic pathway in the brain could explain the facility with which a person both intuits and gains an awareness of paranormal phenomena. Tests can be useful in investigating the phenomenon.
I would like to see some lab tests done where psychic test results are compared with the subject's brain waves (alpha, beta, theta, delta and gamma). If it should turn out that paranormal cognition exhibits itself regardless of the predominant brain wave of the subject, then maybe paranormal cognition does not have an organic basis. But if there is some correlation, then perhaps this data could give investigators an invaluable lead.
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It's also very important to remember that it is always easier to prove something than to disprove something. Here is an example of what I think might be a faulty conclusion derived from functional MRI testing:
If ESP were real, the brain should have responded differently to the ESP image -- recognizing it as familiar. But, in all cases, when the researchers compared the scans, they saw precisely the same pattern of brain activation for the ESP and non-ESP images, meaning the brains responded the same.
"Our results showed no difference, and therefore our results are
evidence against the existence of ESP," Moulton said.
Source
Just because a particular kind of machine can't notice the differences in brain activation patterns does not mean ESP can't be proven as real. Maybe there is
another machine better suited to the task!
