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Feb 2, 2023Liked by Ilana Wiles

I echo what a lot of people have said, I have had the ability most of my life to "hone in on" people, and know something is up with them, or get the feeling I am going to see them out somewhere, or they're going to call, etc. and Harlow has always given me the same vibe. She is an empath, for sure. In the larger scheme of things, it's a sure sign that she is a kind and considerate kid, and one that is self assured. So, nice job on that, mom and dad!

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So the men in my family (dad and husband) are convinced that the women in my family have some sort of psychic connection. The most striking example of this came several years ago. I am a biologist, and early in my career I spent extensive amounts of time conducting field work in very remote settings in northern Canada, mostly in mining exploration camps. One day, arriving back to camp from the field, I had an urgent email from my mom asking me to call her right away. When I called, she told me that she had come upstairs in their house (2,000 km away) and found my bunnikins baby bowl, which usually resided in the very back of the closed cupboard of the China cabinet - a cupboard that was at most 4” off the carpeted floor, broken in half on the floor. She immediately had a terrible premonition that something has happened to me.

Well, that very day in the field we’d had a close encounter with a grizzly bear and had to be extracted by helicopter from our location. The bear had probably been within 10 m of us (we never saw it as it was in thick brush), but it made all sorts of angry huffing noises while we fumbled around pulling out bear spray and radios and satellite phones and noise makers. We couldn’t get through to our helicopter on the radio and when we phoned camp, they hung up on us at first. Eventually, we were extracted without incident but it was probably the closest and scariest bear encounter I’ve had.

Anyway, mom knew. Mom always knows.

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My mom has said my whole life that I'm psychic but I've identified that I just have a very acute attention to detail and the ability to remember those fine details without even knowing I know them. Also very highs levels of empathy and curiosity so I'm very good at anticipating peoples needs and actions. It makes me very good at my job as a UX designer. Harlow definitely has these traits. I wonder if she's an ENFJ too!

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All. The. Time.

It's like he always knows when we've made plans to surprise him. We can, out of the blue, decide to go to the movies, buy the tickets, and never say a word to him. When we tell him to get ready because we're going out - he's like "are we going to see "blah blah blah"?" HOW DO YOU KNOW?!?!

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I love this topic so much! This is the universe’s way of winking at you.

My husband stayed overnight in the hospital for some testing. He had a sharp pain in his brain so it was a little scary (he is fine now!!!). I was eating breakfast at home with the kids waiting for an update from him. I get a text from my husband- “all clear. I’m gonna live until 100 don’t worry!” At the exact same time that I’m reading the text my son pops up out of his chair and says “daddy is gonna live to 100!”

This isn’t something we ever say- he didn’t read the text… it was a complete and total “coincidence” that that thought popped into his head at that moment.

There is so much to dive into with this. These things happen to me almost daily basis. It’s amazing every single time it happens;) Just appreciate it and smile and thank the universe and you will get more things your way. Harlow definitely has a gift for it though. No doubt.

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I don't know if I would call it a psychic power, but when my son was younger (around 4), he would tell us about his "past life". He told us that before he was Ronin, he had a different Mom and Dad and a different name that started with the letter "H" but he was a little boy then as well. He was adamant that he did not live to become a man but it upset him that he couldn't remember how he died.

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My parents split up when I was a teen, and my dad had custody of us. He can cook, but he preferred to eat out most nights. I ALWAYS knew which restaurant or fast food joint he was going to pick, but there was no particular pattern or routine in the places he chose to eat.

He didn’t believe that I knew where he would choose for dinner so I started to tell my sister at school, before he picked us up, “I bet dad is gonna choose Chili’s” or “I think we’re gonna have Wendy’s tonight.” Sure enough, I was always right.

IDK if this is related but I have a very strong intuition. I get these gut feelings that are so strong & are almost always correct in predicting the future (not the future as a whole obviously {lol I’m not psychic}, but more situational).

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To me it seems Harlow is sharp and intuitive and connected to the universe, and I think of this more as predicting the present versus the future (psychic), more like tapping into what is happening, and that which may not be immediately in your view or direct vicinity, but in your network of wavelengths and connections. I have these sort of connections often and have all my life. My sons and husband always notice it and sometimes experience it as well, especially my older son. I feel like there is this universe energy and we have connections with others. Sometimes I will call it the shining (from the movie) and say "you shined me" like "you sent me a message" when something occurs to me before its tangibly presented. Similarly, when you go to text and you see the text bubble already going on the other end, or someone calling you when you were about to call, etc. It's the shining, the connection... and some are more naturally attuned to it. Loved hearing these stories from Harlow's connections and your experiences of them!

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Yep, my mother, my sister and I are like this too. Less so as we get older and live farther apart from each other, sadly. I always loved it when we had the same thought at the same time and simultaneously picked up the phone (“olden days” phones) to tell each other about - for example- the book we were reading - “what, you too? That book came our years ago and we three just decided to pick it up now?” Etc. I loved it when that happened. I don’t know what to call it but it’s real and happens between people (especially women maybe?) who love each other.

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My daughter has done a few things (as have I - I have a particular skill for predicting celebrity deaths, most scarily Chris Cornell, but that's a whole other story...), but one I particularly remember is when she was small and had accompanied me to the supermarket where I was doing the big weekly shop. I think she must have been about 2. We were mostly done with the shopping when she suddenly said 'you haven't got a card'. At first I didn't know what she meant, but when I got to the till to pay, I pulled out my purse, only to discover I'd left my bank card at home. There was absolutely no way my two year old would have known that. It left me feeling a bit scared to be honest 😅 Another time, I made a compilation playlist for the car, played it for the very first time and she announced what song was going to come next. She was right. The songs were in a completely random order and even I didn't know what was coming next, so how she did, I'll never know!!

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I think she’s a witch (affectionate) - love this post

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My mom always used to call me an “Indigo Child,” it’s a bit woo woo for me but I do see some characteristics similar with me and Harlow.

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My mom loves to tell the story that when she (surprisingly) became pregnant with my youngest brother, before she had told a soul (even my dad!), my sister cuddled her belly while at church, looked up at my mom, and said “there’s a baby in there mommy”. That confirmed my moms suspicions!

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omg this is wild!

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I mostly had this when I was younger. When I was 17 I had been on vacation with a friend. We went home by bus (an 11 hr trip). When we got on the bus, I told my friend: I bet friend M is meeting as at the busstation when we get back home. The rest of the trip I didn’t think much about it. About an hour before our arrival I said out of the blue: she’s not coming. Turns out this is exactly what happened: she was planning on coming, but had to change plans.

And in my early 20s I was (again) on vacation on the other side of the world from my hometown and all of a sudden I was so sure that my bf was cheating on me. This was before cellphones and easy access to internet so I had no idea what he was doing at that time. Again it turend out to be the exact time he was actually cheating on me…

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Ha. I have psychic power similar to Harlow's. Most of the time I can't explain how I just know things or how stuff happened the way they did.

Does she ever say in the middle of the day, that she has dreamed about that exact moment or phrase or situation the past night? It happens to me all the time at the most unexpected situations!

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