Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[DarthXedonias]

Most people have relatively well developed empathy - the ability to feel other people's emotions at a distance.  That makes itself known by figuring out that around others, you tend to have your emotions shift, and it can be difficult to know whose emotions you are actually feeling.  I discovered this one day in 11th grade when I walked into math class feeling fine, and sat behind this outcast girl who was severely depressed.  Within 5 minutes I felt "grey", like graphite, depressed and hopeless.  It wasn't unfamiliar to me to be depressed, but I had never felt "grey" before.  And when she left, it went away.  I noted that I only felt like that around her and realized it must be her emotions.  Most of the time, people who are strongly empathic figure it out on their own, but it can be very confusing.

Clairvoyance and clairaudience are probably the next most common psychic abilities that are likely to be developed enough to notice without doing anything to develop them.  Most people mistake clairvoyance and clairaudience for their imagination.  Few indeed realize they can see and or hear things at a distance.  

As for things like the telekinesis, pyrokinesis, manipulating other things... well... who ever really uses those "muscles" except for an extremely rare few who spend years developing them the hard way.  Most people have the potential, but very few have anything more than that developed for the more exotic stuff.

There are some books on how to determine your specific strengths and weaknesses, but I don't remember what they were and I'm sure more have been written since I looked last.

I can make the subs, but the results depend on factors outside of my ability to predict or control fully.

Hey @Shannon thanks a lot from these replies. I'm actually learning quite a bit. If its fine with you I might still make that voting thread regarding this then depending on the data its up to you if you even want to attempt such a sub or something if you think it will make money. I did have one other question since your last post jogged my memory on it. Do you see the ability to see into the future as one of the more "exotic" psychic gifts or is it more common? Is it one of the more difficult abilities to really master? 

Based on what you said it would seem that if you were to attempt such a thing you would need to have a disclaimer informing buyers of the risks of buying the sub and it might not work due to things out of your control.