Call it women's intuition

Several people have said that. Maybe women "feel" things more than men do. I don't know. Thank you.

That's very true Momma. Only we know how we are feeling. I think that generally women are more in touch with themselves. Men feel the same stuff but often ignore it, to our cost sometimes.

I think that sounds about right in practice Littleowl. I am sure that there are men that are equally intuitive and can use it, but in the main we tend to think, thus smothering out intuition, rather allow any intuitive feelings guide us.

The social pressure, gender roles etc., is to the effect that men should think and act and women should empathise and nurture. So men who natutrally empathise and nurture are discouraged from being themselves. Most people try to live up to peer expectations. The result is a society in which it APPEARS that women have all the intution and men have all the logic, but that's simply not true. Lash

You're still the protector of hearth and home, not to mention keeping wifey warm on winter nights. You're still useful!

Someone (female) once described me as a "cuddly shaggy dog". That's what I sound like now. LOL. I can think of worse things to be though.

That sounds a pretty good round up. As I have performed my biological function and The Boss has turned into a pretty good hunter gatherer, should I do the decent thing and fade away now? Now, pills, revolver, cliff edge? Decisions decisions decisions.

I wonder where that comes from. I have gut instincts but that's not necessarily the same thing.

well i dont know if you believe in actual psychics but people told me that they think its more of me being psychic than regular intuition which i wouldnt believe as much but my dad and mom both are the same way.. all of us have dreams that come true.. visions etc.. so who knows.. your gut instincts may just be a different way of you experiencing it.. you have to kind of learn about how it works as it happens.. i used to ignore every little feeling i had but then more times then not i realized i shouldnt have so i listen more.. i think you have to convince yourself that it actually could be something and not blow it off as society tends to tell us to do.. i know i was raised to not believe in psychics and etc even though my parents have gifts so i always doubted myself and figured i was crazy till i read up on some books and started realizing things.. they say every one has the capabilities its just learning to tap into them

I've certainly experienced deja vu, but nothing that I would call psychic. I have a couple of friends on here who are both mediums. It's a conversation that we've started but have yet to finish. I try to stay open minded about such things.

I think that there is something in that. If I may generalise, women feel whilst men tend to think and act. Both can be right and wrong. I find that women tend to have a stronger sensed of empathy that men, although sometimes I have seen that move to sympathy which isn't always what is wanted or needed.

I can certainly agree with that to an extent. I think everyone regardless of gender has logical and emotional sides to them. I do believe the intuition comes from the emotional side of a person while common sense comes from the logical side of a person. With that in mind it can be logically said that ALL persons regardless of gender or age have both common sense (sic logical thought processes) and intuition (emotional thought processes). It's the way the human mind is hardwired.

Not all woman are intuitive and some men are more then others. I am not saying men can't be but that they sometimes aren't as much as some woman can be. But as Mike stated men have it also but call it gut feeling sometimes they don't listen to it and sometimes they do. I don't always listen to mine and it gets me in heaps of trouble sometimes. Maybe not emotionally as subconsciously attuned to one's self. I don't know so I will quite before I tangle my brain in it's confusion even more..lol

So does that mean that women attune themselves without effort whilst men have to consciously do something about it to have the same sensation Becky? Men can't just be in tune? Interesting.

"A man wouldn't notice if his face had fallen off" is that the same as being "off his face" Pumpkin? But how do you "just know". Many women seem to have this trait. I've often noticed that if I am with a woman and we meet someone new she will respond to me with a much deeper insight into what she thinks that person is about. I usually say "they were nice" or something equally bland.

I literally meant that a man wouldn't notice if his face had fallen off. My other half will do all sorts of useless things and tell me there is nothing else to do when there is washing up to be done, toys to be picked up, clothes to be folded, etc. and my son can never find his shoes when they are right in fromt of him. I am just making a point of how unobservant men generally are. I don't know how I just know things. I don't always but if I meet really bad people, I tend to just know and it annoys me when certain others don't understand this like when they still insist that these people are decent no matter how obvious it becomes that they aren't. I think a lot of women's intuition is educated guess. Women remember things. They might have met someone similar before and assume things about this new person. It usually happens that they are right because the clothes people wear and the language they use can often show a lot about someone. Of course this isn't always the case but it is usually. I think that's why people sometimes take me the wrong way or make incorrect assumptions because I'm not "comformist". My clothes don't match my attitude and that sort of thing but I am unusual.

I know that women have a very could handle on their partners, but they can operate more widely than that with success in a way that many men cannot. Maybe it is a Lash above says - women feel and men think.

"could" should read "good"....

You won't get the location of the cameras out of me, P1ke.

Oh yes Pots. I am the archetypal hunter gatherer. Off every morning seeking meat and skins to keep us warm whilst the P1ke women suckle their children round the dying embers of last nights fire in which the days bread is being baked! I think that you may have something there. Someone else said that they thought that women "feel" whilst men "think" and I think that there is something in that. I want to know how it is that a number of women on myLot are able to tell what I am doing at any given moment! I haven't found the cameras yet.

That's what I mean you have it but what is it? Where does it come from.

Is that woman's intuition or is it the classical case of someone observed a person and know the person's different types of mood. It would be wrong for a parent to have his/her child and does not know that individual. Isn't it.

LOL. So why do I have it more than most Dawn?!

You probably don't but most men wouldn't admit it. lol

So it's not just women then Humbug. Good for your brother for persevering.

I like to think that if he didn't then our little Josh would have been taken from us sooner!

So where does gut instinct fit in? I accept that is common to both senses. Welcome to myLot by the way.

The thing with intuition is that it analyses subconsciously, whereas non-intuitive people analyse logically and factually. These are the two ways of perceiving, and all of us use both to some extent, but each of us tends to have a preferred way which predominates in our perceptions. 'Gut instinct' is an example of that subconscious analysis. Lash

I've just said above that I don't think that gut instincts are necessarily the same thing an you say that they might be. I do think that women listen, generally, more than men. I know that when I used to train people occasionally, the women nearly always did what I asked and the men would often rush ahead and get themselves in a real pickle at times. I had a switch on my computer that could black out their screen. Nothing like a little push of the keyboard to give me a sense of world domination!

That makes women better balanced then Kerri. We shouldn't hide our feelings although neither should we inflict them on others.

I shall make a note to always listen to any advice that you give me Tamara! That was very perceptive of you. XX

You know what they say about statistics - There are "lies, D@mn lies and statistics!" I do agree though that from what I have seen (and I've worked in counseling heading my own team of 55 workplace counselors) I'd have to agree that broadly speaking your suggestion that women and feel and men think is pretty spot on with variations from the norm of course. There are thinking women and feeling men and that most dangerous of animal a thinking and feeling person - I am married to one! I do agree about backing up intuition except with the women in my life. They are right and it's better to accept that fact than deal with the aftermath of dissent!!! I think that I am probably for it now. LOL.

Then more men should take the plunge and say how they feel. I usually do - sometimes it has had to be dragged out - and I'm the better for it I think.

I think that men do have it too. We just can't fine tune it as well as women.