& Pretending You’re Not Losing Your Mind

(everything stated in this blog is based upon my own research, personal practice, and opinion)

Let’s be honest…psychic experiences rarely feel like Hollywood promised. There are no booming voices, glowing eyes, or lightning bolts on demand. More often, it feels like your brain tripped over something odd, an image that makes no sense, a voice in your head that wasn’t yours, or a sudden gut-punch of certainty that you can’t explain.

Psychic abilities, at least the way people describe them, usually boil down to the Clairs. These are the “clear senses”: clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing), clairsentience (clear feeling), and claircognizance (clear knowing). Plus a few oddball cousins like clairalience (clear smelling). They’re the different languages intuition uses to get your attention.

Most people touch on at least one without realizing it. Ever get a gut feeling that turned out right? Ever dream about something and then it happened? Ever get a flash of an image that didn’t belong to your daydreams? Welcome to the club.

This isn’t about being chosen, gifted, or secretly enrolled in a school for psychics. It’s about noticing how your mind and body pick up information, and learning not to gaslight yourself when it happens.

Meet the Clairs

Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing

Clairvoyance is the most famous of the bunch. People imagine it as full-on visions, crystal balls, detailed premonitions, epic dream sequences. In reality, it’s usually much quieter. Think of it as your brain tossing you random snapshots: a symbol, a color, a face, an object. Sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it’s like your subconscious just pressed “shuffle.”

Clairvoyance feels a lot like your imagination, which is why most people dismiss it. The difference is in the quality. Clairvoyant images tend to drop in suddenly, uninvited, and carry a strange weight.

Pro tip: Don’t wait for cinematic visions. Pay attention to small flashes of imagery. They’re often more practical (and less dramatic) than you expect.

Clairaudience: Clear Hearing

Clairaudience is psychic hearing. It’s not usually booming voices from the heavens. More often, it sounds like your own inner voice, but with a twist. It feels inserted, surprising, or oddly neutral, as if it didn’t come from your normal thought pattern.

The tricky part? Clairaudience sneaks in through the same channel as one’s inner voice, so you have to learn to spot the difference between “usual brain chatter” and “this one feels different.”

Pro tip: If the voice gives practical, helpful nudges, or arrives out of nowhere in a way that surprises you, pay attention. If it tells you to rob a bank, maybe don’t.

Clairsentience: Clear Feeling

Clairsentience is emotional Wi-Fi. It’s the ability to pick up energy, moods, or sensations that don’t belong to you. Walk into a room and suddenly feel sad for no reason? Get jittery around someone who seems perfectly calm? That’s clairsentience.

The gift is empathy on steroids. The curse is overwhelm. Without boundaries, clairsentience can feel like carrying other people’s baggage for them.

Pro tip: When you feel something strong, ask: Is this mine? It’s amazing how often the answer is no.

Claircognizance: Clear Knowing

This one’s sneaky. Claircognizance is the sudden drop of certainty, knowing without knowing how you know. It’s not a feeling, not an image, not a sound. Just a thought that arrives fully formed, often with an odd sense of finality. The downside? It’s almost impossible to explain to others. “Because I know” is not a persuasive argument in a debate.

Pro tip: Keep a journal. Track those “just know” moments and check them against reality. Building evidence helps you trust yourself instead of dismissing it.

The Lesser-Known Cousins

Clairalience (clear smelling): Catching phantom scents, cigarette smoke, perfume, flowers, when no one around you smells them.

Clairgustance (clear tasting): Random taste sensations with no physical cause. Sometimes linked to spirit communication. Sometimes just confusing.

Clairtangency (clear touching): Getting information from touching objects. You pick up a ring at a flea market and suddenly feel sadness or see flashes of the owner’s life.

These are less common, but they pop up often enough to remind us the psychic senses cover the whole spectrum.

Why the Clairs Feel So Subtle

The biggest shock about psychic perception is how ordinary it feels. We expect thunderbolts. Instead we get hunches, impressions, and stray thoughts.

Intuition uses the same pathways as imagination, memory, and emotion. That’s why clairvoyant images feel like daydreams, or clairaudient voices sound like inner thoughts. Your brain is the delivery system. That makes it easy to second-guess yourself.

The difference is in the texture. Psychic information tends to arrive suddenly, feel oddly “out of place,” and stick with you in ways imagination doesn’t. Learning to notice that texture is half the work.

Training the Psychic Muscle

You don’t need crystals the size of bowling balls or incense thick enough to trigger the smoke alarm. Developing the clairs is more about practice than props.

Simple Drills

Clairvoyance: Close your eyes and picture a familiar object, like an apple. Change its color, size, and texture in your mind. This strengthens your inner vision.

Clairaudience: Sit in silence. Listen for subtle sounds inside and outside yourself. Notice the difference between your inner voice and when something feels “inserted.”

Clairsentience: Walk into different spaces. Pause and note how you feel before and after. Start separating “my mood” from “the room’s mood.”

Claircognizance: Write down hunches as they arrive. Check them later. Patterns emerge with practice.

Boundaries Matter

Especially with clairsentience, it’s crucial to set boundaries. If you’re a psychic sponge, you’ll drown in other people’s feelings unless you learn to wring yourself out. Grounding practices, visualization, or simply saying “not mine” can help.

The Funny Truth About Being Psychic

Psychic perception is not glamorous. It’s weird, inconvenient, and often funny in hindsight.

You won’t win the lottery. Intuition doesn’t hand out Powerball numbers; It’s more likely to tell you which checkout line will move faster.

People will ask for readings, then mock you if you’re even slightly wrong. People want psychic Google Maps, not subtle nudges.

Half your “hits” will turn out to be anxiety in disguise; Learn to laugh at yourself.

Ghosts and random impressions show up at 3 a.m., never at a polite hour. Apparently, spirits have no sense of scheduling (exercise boundaries)

Visions rarely make sense in the moment. They’re like movie trailers without context. Often you only understand once the main feature finally starts.

People assume you’re some mystical sage. In reality, you’re just trying to tell the difference between “psychic knowing” and “bad burrito.”

Intuition will almost always pick the least convenient time to interrupt you. Expect deep insights while showering, driving, or in the middle of work (again I remind you about boundaries).

Sometimes it’s dead accurate. Sometimes it’s just your brain being weird. Learning to roll with both is the actual skill.

Philosophy, Skepticism, and Why This All Matters

So is it real? Maybe it’s spirits, maybe it’s subconscious pattern recognition, maybe it’s both. Science has yet to give us a clean answer.

The point is, whether “psychic” is supernatural or just your nervous system being extra perceptive, it’s useful. The Clairs are simply different ways of noticing, they are the senses of the subtle body. They help you catch things others miss, make better decisions, or at the very least, understand yourself more deeply.

And honestly? That’s enough.

Embrace Your Weird

The clairs aren’t about being special. They’re about learning how you, specifically, process subtle information. Maybe you see, maybe you hear, maybe you just know.

You don’t have to turn it into a career or build a personality around it. Just notice, trust, and use it when it helps. That’s the point…and remember: snacks are sacred. Intuition works better when you’re not hangry.

Quick Subtle Body Reset (5 Minutes)

Step 1 – Physical Anchor (1 min)
“Close your eyes. Take a slow breath in… and release. Notice the weight of your body, the contact with the floor or chair. Feel your heartbeat and your breath moving. This is your anchor, your physical body, here and now.”

Step 2 – Energy Spark (1 min)
“Envision a gentle glow just beyond your skin, like warmth radiating in all directions. This is your energy body. As you inhale, let it brighten. As you exhale, let it soften and settle.”

Step 3 – Emotional Check-In (1 min)
“Turn your attention to your feelings. Envision them as colors or textures moving around you. No need to fix or change anything, just notice. Breathe with them. Allow them.”

Step 4 – Thought Watch (1 min)
“Notice the stream of thoughts passing by. Don’t chase them. See them as clouds moving across the sky. Let each one drift past. Breathe into the space between thoughts.”

Step 5 – Witness & Return (1 min)
“Step back into a wider awareness. You are the witness: calm, spacious, observing all your layers with compassion. Rest here for a few breaths, then gently return: spirit to mind, mind to emotion, emotion to energy, energy to body. Wiggle your fingers and toes. Take one final deep breath… and open your eyes.”