When I was 5 yrs old, on Jun.3 1982 , my dad was killed in a truck wreck. About one week before this fatal wreck, we were at my grannies in the kitchen, he was sitting down at the table, I jumped in his lap face to face and said "your gonna die soon", 5 days later his 2 brothers and sister pulled in my grannies driveway ....she kept me while my dad worked. I was in the back bedroom when I heard a scream...my granny screamed from the news.
She heard the news from them, they didn't tell me nothing, I knew, I was still angry that they didn't tell me. I would say this qualifies for paranormal. Whatever I had as a kid was stronger than whatever I have now. I could hear the phone ring 1 or 2 minutes before it rang. I could hear a knock at the door sometimes 5 minutes before someone knocked.
I could think of a certain odd word and someone would either say that word or I'd hear it on the TV minutes later. I had bad nightnares when I was a kid, waking up with a ring of sweat around my neck. There's something called " Hypnagogic jerk" its an involuntary myoclonic twitch just as the subject is beginning to fall asleep.Physically, hypnic jerks resemble the "jump" made when a person is startled often accompanied by a falling sensation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk#cite_note-1 It is commonly caused by irregular sleep schedules.
I used to have these twitches constantly as a kid, falling sensations as I was in between sleep and awake. As most people suffer a mild (i.e. non-pathological) epileptic episode regularly (e.g. a hypnogogic jerk the sudden "jolt" that frequently, but not always, occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of deja vu, resulting in an erroneous sensation of memory. For someone who regularly has such seizures, there is typically a feeling of deja vu associated with whatever sensations (particularly sounds) may be occurring nearby.
Most of these twitches went away as I got older, most of the paranormal type events went away. I don't hear knocks at the door anymore before they happen, I don't hear phones ringing before they ring. Whatever I had as a kid mellowed down. I still have strange dreams but no more nightmares.I only occasionally have these twitches as I'm trying to sleep.
I don't have any super human ability, I've read about remote viewing, I can't do that, I've tried to pick lottery numbers...I'm just like anyone else. If I did have an ability that I could use for financial gain... you damn right I would use it for personal gain and have a nice house,nice vehicle, with all the trimmings, ect., but I'd still use it to help others.
Any gift I have is only along the lines of feeling others emotions, reading their body language and knowing their mood which many on this forum talk about also being able to do.I never told anyone about hearing things before they happened until after I was grown, as no one takes kids serious anyway and I knew that as a kid.
I've had dreams of seeing someone dressed a certain way, then maybe the next day or week later I would see someone dressed exactly like the person in my dream, that would be an instance of deja vu.