Do I Have Some Kind Of 6th Sense?

Alright let me start by saying I have 2 birds (this will make more sense in a minute). I used to have 3 but one died. So one night I wake up and I hear my other two birds chirping in the middle of the night (this is while all my birds are alive). And they dont do this really often. I go back to sleep and I have a dream about some type of animal, I dont remember what kind, probably a bird, but I dont remember. So during that day everytime I saw an animal I got this feeling of deja vu (spelling), it could either have been a rabbit, or a bird, or whatever. When I come home that same day, I see my bird dead in his cage. Do I have some kind of 6th sense? I know it might sound dumb, but do I?

Here's my interpretation.

Short answer - No.

Long Answer.
A. What's the "sense?" It was just a vague dream it seems that you assume was about a bird, and then you remembered that dream every time you saw an animal. Hardly conclusive in my opinion.

B. Humans have way more than 5 senses. The 5 major senses, touch, taste, sound, smell, sight, are just a simplification. Other senses include the ability to sense "where" body parts are on your body (I forget the word at this moment), balance (equilibrium), sub-senses of the touch sense, such as ability to detect changes in temperature and other feelings. A sense is any way that an organism perceives the world around it or inside of the organism itself, and we have many more than 5. The "6th sense" seems to be something marketed by the media, hence the movie name. People seem to take it as any paranormal ability that people believe they have. I just find that whole term a cliche.

Pardon me if I'm being naive, but isn't the sixth sense empathy?

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Originally Posted by DeepThought

Pardon me if I'm being naive, but isn't the sixth sense empathy? [/b]

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I think you posted at the same time as me, but yeah, there are many more than 6 senses. And also, the senses aren't in any particular order. One doesn't say that the order is specifically one way. The "sixth sense" could be considered touch, sight, hearing, etc. Any one of the senses can be any order. :P

I meant "sixth" as in, the non-canonized sense, but I see what you mean.

But, to stay on topic, I think that after a particularly vivid dream, one begins to notice anything out-of-the-ordinary which pertains to the events of that particular dream. To be entirely fair, strange things like this happen all the time; they just become especially noticeable at times, especially when they culminate in a death. Don't get too hung up on it.

I believe that's what deja vu truly is. Parts or a whole of your dream coming to actualization. As in, it hasn't happened to you while awake, but it did in a dream which probably has some fragments of it swimming around your memory which piece together in this situation. Your brain then fills in this pseudo-memory and then you feel like you've done that exact thing before.

That's just my theory, I don't know if it's true.

Hmm, I really don't think that is a sixth sense, I think it is just a dream stimulated by your birds chirping in the night. Deja Vu is quite common... sorry if I burst your bubble