What people call intuition is the subconscious mind picking up on a host of things we did not observe consciously and then rendering a feeling about that data.

Our brain process a lot more information than our conscience can deal with, this is intuition.
Sometimes is good, because in an emergency life/death situation is useful to have this background processing and giving you hints.
At the same time this gives us biases and other flaws in cognition.
So for a day to day action, trust it and develop it, but when looking for truth or knowledge, trust in the methods and tools that we develop as a civilization (and call Scientific method) to identify/silence/discard this background process and bring all to the front.

Intuition is real but there’s nothing supernatural about it. We perceive far more things than we realize, for some it is conscious but for form where it is subconscious. Intuition is basically our ability to gather up information about a situation and make a decision or course of action based on that information. But because we are quite often unaware that we are perceiving things we attribute it to something more supernatural than our brains ability to do things without our direct awareness of it.

intuition is just heightened observation, particularly on a subliminal level. there is nothing mysterious about it.

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This is the first time I’ve heard intuition linked with the supernatural. It’s seems like a normal function of the brain.

I pay serious attention when I take an instant dislike to someone, there IS a reason, on a level I am not consciously aware.....always, always, the '"aha!" moment when I realize why I didn't like them at first, and what a lot of time I have spent trying to ignore my gut!

When we had training from the police about staying safe they said always trust your intuition, you’re taking in lots of information that gives you and overall feeling, never discount that. We don’t always have time to break down the signs and signals that are giving us that feeling, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t trust ourself.

Intuition is a function of the unconscious mind.

“Influences on thinking that originate from outside of an individual's consciousness were reflected in the ancient ideas of temptation, divine inspiration, and the predominant role of the gods in affecting motives and actions.”

Now we understand it to be a function of biology.

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When I ignore my gut reaction- call it intuition- I inevitably regret it.

I don't think of it as supernatural. There are subtle cues, not overt that most people pick up on but don't realize.

In my opinion, in pre-historic times, humans were wired to make snap decisions. When a predator spotted you, there was no time for intellectual deliberation. Intuition fit the bill.

In my opinion, intuition is just a subconscious memory of a similar situation. But as we now know, previous performance is not a predictor of future performance. And first impressions are often wrong.

I've always gone with the gut feeling. I've been told intuition is really a subconscious reaction to a combination of past experience, and primordial "that alligator brain stem" response to environmental stimuli through all of our sensory inputs. Trust it.

I think sometimes our brain must put some cues together we were not conscious of: sounds, shadows tones of voices, etc. But even more common than that I suspect, is that we just remember the hits and forget the misses. Very often we get a little idea something might happen, and then every now and then it really does - and we forget about the 100 times we had the feeling but nothing happened.

I rode my motorbike all over London in the '60's and always made a point of being first away from traffic lights. Once I delayed without knowing why and a car shot through the red light across my path. If I had gone as usual I would have been under the car. I often wondered why I delayed but I can only surmise that I saw something in my peripheral vision that made me delay.

I think Intuition is your sub conscious mind picking up on things around you personally. thats pretty much for how i feel about it lol

I've had pretty good results trusting my intuition and there are, in my opinion two very good reasons. The first one is just that you observe things that your brain notes subconsciously without any overt warning. @genessa put that quite succinctly and clearly. I would add that selective memory comes into play as well. We remember the successes and forget when intuition may have failed us, and if we avoid doing something that seems dangerous based on intuition, we consider it successful, but in reality will never know the alternate outcome.

Real intuition is nothing more than indicators from your past experience or learning giving you a sense that something is or is not likely. You may not be able to put your finger on exactly what is the indicator, but it is there.

Even scientific theories start out as intuitive ideas before being subjected to rigorous testing.

There is so much information rattling around in the brain. I don't believe it is necessary to consciously make all the connections. Intuition to me is the accessing of information without having to necessarily make the conscious links.

Intuition is your brain putting past and present information together and then presenting you with assumptions based on the data. This is what the brain does all the time with everything so it can be wrong or even get tricked but it's the best we have. I use it.

I think that it is based on past experiences either we learned through direct experience, or we learn through observing others' experiences, either in person or on TV or some other medium. That knowledge is in our subconscious and then we have the gut feeling because we KNOW, deep down, that something is off and will produce harmful or non-beneficial outcomes.

Animals have a sense of things that is evident in their behavior a survival mechanism if you will. Sometimes we can confuse intuition I believe, with ego based experience, but there definitely is something innate within us that suggest when something is amiss . Depending on the circumstances and on whether or not it calls for immediate response . I would say consider where the feeling is coming from, if it is from the past it is usually based in ego and I would definitely say , don’t base your decision to act on that .

This is probably right up there with “déjà vu” in the realm of mystery brain functions. I have frequently had the sudden feeling that whatever I am doing, I had done the exact same thing previously or perhaps dreamed it. In either case, it feels very real! But I tend to be skeptical of life repeating itself despite a Twilight Zone episode that dealt with this that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!

Theres a nursing academic who wrote about intuition and learning, her work was based on some work done by Deyfus and Dreyfus , two brothers who were math and philosophy professors. They were exploring AI for the millitary. Anywho, the basic idea is that with experience you learn to incorporate all sort of situational info and cues, until your learned responses are so good they are called "intuition" instead of "thinking". Intuition is really just a code word for all sorts of complex mental gymnastics that happens quickly and quietly, due to really well programmed brain cells. Depending on your talents and past experience, youre probably picking up on things like facial expressions or even running through news stories youve read.

I think intuition is made of small signals from past experiences that tell you this may not end well. It's not supernatural it's actually rational experience. Some people just ignore these signals or their desire for a certain outcome overpowers these signals.