WHAT IS SIXTH SENSE

Sixth sense is supposed intuitive faculty giving awareness not explicable in terms of normal perception. Another explanation: If you say that someone has a sixth sense, you mean that they seem to have a natural ability to know about things before other people, or to know things that other people do not know. In British English Sixth Sense means: Any supposed sense or means of perception, such as intuition or Clairvoyance, other than the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

It is said that within our bodies, a sixth sense, known as interoception (the senses of the internal state of the body) perceives the state of - and threats to - our internal organs.

One easy way to test your interoception is to find a quiet room and try to sense your pulse (without touching an artery). Even babies can perform a version of this. Shown a TV show with a dancing cartoon characters, 5 month old can tell when the animations are moving in time with their own beating hearts - a sign that self - awareness starts young.

Focusing on the activity of your organs - your pulse, your lungs in yoga, your bladder in an interminable meeting - seems to slow your perception of time. You can include the temporal effect with psychedelics. Even microdoses of psilocybin will increase self awareness to the point where it becomes harder to keep time and tap your feet to a beat.

In one way proprioception can be called as sixth sense. It is a complex signalling process transferring proprioceptive signals from our body parts to the brain. It is a constant feed back loop within our nervous system, telling our brain what position we are in and what forces are acting upon our body at any given point in time.

(We may discuss more about sixth sense later)

K V George