A recent survey of 2,000 US adults, conducted by Talker Research, found that 19% of respondents strongly believe they have special abilities, while 71% say they regularly rely on their intuition.
Rather than communicating with spirits or reading crystals, most of these "psychic" experiences are related to everyday situations, such as anticipating a message, feeling that someone is lying, or having an intuition that something is "off," without any concrete proof.
On average, respondents reported about 18 such moments in the past year, which they describe as unexplainable sensations. Interestingly, Gen Z leads this intuitive trend, with 30% of young Americans believing they have a “sixth sense,” almost double the number of baby boomers.
However, experts emphasize that there is a scientific explanation behind these experiences. FBI intelligence analyst Adam Dickinson explains that what we call intuition is actually a "second channel of intelligence," the human body that summarizes experiences accumulated over the years and turns them into immediate signals.
Also, the line between intuition and anxiety is often very thin. About 35% of respondents admit that they cannot distinguish between a true intuitive feeling and an anxiety spiral.
To distinguish between these two conditions, experts advise listening to the "tonality" of inner thoughts: intuition is usually calm, easy, and stable, while anxiety appears noisy and turbulent.
