Kate Sheedy's Attack by Levi Bellfield.
Kate Sheedy was attacked by serial killer Levi Bellfield when he ran her over in his van, then reversed back over her. She fortunatley survived to tell the tale.
Sheedy is quoted as saying, "I felt very very uneasy. I don't know what it was - a sixth sense, I don't know. I decided to cross the road so I wouldn't be walking directly past the vehicle." ~ multiple sources including The telegraph.co.uk.
Sheedy was further quoted at the time as saying she felt a powerful rage and hatred emenating from Bellfield's vehicle. So much so that she crossed the road to avoid coming close to it.
And she was obviously right. Humans seem to be able, on occasions, to sense strong emotions coming from another person. Sometimes we seem to sense 'vibes' from others even if we can't see them.
That is important. Obviously, we could just be interpreting body language or the look in someone's eye. These are clearly normal senses where we interpret another's mental state from known physical queues. But when we can't see the 'viber' there has to be a different mechanism at work.
It is easy to imagine how evolution would favor individuals with more sensitivity to such strong feelings in another.
Sexual attraction.
Humans are sexual creatures. No news there. Our brains pick out an attractive mate from a crowd and zero out interest into that person. You may find yourself looking right at the most attractive person in a crowd without any scanning or conscious awareness of even looking for someone of interest. You just zoom straight in and see them, you interest peaked without concious volition.
But those people are in a line of sight. Or perhaps you might hear an attractive laugh, smell a perfume, whatever. Physical senses working normally.
Occasionally, tough, you might look around behind you directly into the eyes of someone quietly looking at you in just the way described above, someone who has picked you out from the crowd.
How did 'you' know. You were probably not aware of why you turned around, why you looked in that direction, but there they are, your (probably) admirer.
You think of someone and then they call.
Of course someone who deliberately calls you will probably know you and you them, so you will think about them, especially if you are in recent, ongoing contact. You may think of that person often and they may call often so sometimes the two will coincide. Coincidence.
Sometimes, however, it may be someone you have not thought about for years. Suddenly you think about them out of the blue and then the phone rings, and lo and behold, it's them. That's far less likely a coincidence, but still more likely than some sort of Extra Sensory Perseption (ESP).
So can all these instances be written off by coincidence? Very difficult to answer. It's a matter of opinion but there seems to be enough anecdotal evidence to make the subject interesting.
Broadcasters and receivers.
There seem to be some people who are more sensitive to receiving such sensory events and some more likely to 'broadcast' their 'vibes'. Some people are more 'vibey' than others.
There seem to be individuals who are more likely to broadcast than others and perhaps there are those who are more sensitive to receiving.
X. once crashed his motorcyle, broke one or two minor bones, etc. and suffered from a degree of shock. X.'s mother rang a couple of days later to ask if he was alright, she had had a feeling he was hurt. She had never called like that before or since. Was that coincidence? Perhaps the gap without contact was longer than normal or some other rational clue led the mother to feel uneasy. One example is hardly scientific evidence, but it is an interesting anecdote.
It would be easy to see that emotionally close relationships might make for selective sensitivity to the broadcast extreme mental state of the members of the relationship, mother and son, for example.
Again, evolution could select for such an advantage to a mother to protect her offspring.
It's hardly scientific to say that some people just seem more 'vibey' than others but many people would agree that it is so.
In summary:
There seems to be enough 'evidence' to make some tentative conclusions.
Can twins, or anyone else, read each others minds, read the contents of thoughts? No, almost certainly not, or at least there has never been any published evidence to say so. But can humans occasionally detect, or 'feel', the strong emotional state of another mind? That could warrant further study.
There would be ethical issues to overcome in today's scientific environment. A study where subjects were placed in proximity to someone who felt genuine (and it would have to be genuine) strong negative emotions toward the subject, like rage or hatred could be difficult and even dangerous. But that would seem the most likely trial of such 'psychic' phenomenon. (Based on the above fairly dubious 'evidence').
Could be some serious accolades in store for the researcher who first proves such things to exist, though!
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