Feeling someones 'Vibes' at introduction

[U-we-tsi-a-ge-ya]

I'm sure this has been asked about a million times,however,I'm here to make it a million and one.

Does anyone else here have the ability to feel someones 'vibes' when you first meet them?

I'm just wondering because all my life(well,what I can remember) I've been able to do that just by shaking someones hand or some other form of physical contact and even sometimes without(usually with family,because I find that although their 'vibes' aren't exactly the same,but close to myself and others in my family). It more like I can feel there intent towards others and myself,more than their actual emotions(Though I do pick up some of their emotions as part of it)

For example; Once I met a D.J who wanted to be my mother buisness partner(She's a wedding/event planner,Wedding decorater,Bridal consultant and she does Cakes) and as soon as I shook his hand I got this feeling off of him like 'He's dangerous,Don't trust him.He means to harm' and sure enough,a few months later he was arrested for drug dealing and he screwed my mom over for 4 months rent.

Also is there a name for this? I guess it could be classified as Empathy with just some pure Intuition. But does it have a specific name?

[Æon Flux]

I have a term for it that in a lot of instances seems to be the issue, namely... confirmation bias.
But that's just me. I'm sure you'll see other people refer to it differently.

[Shanti]

To me its just instinct. Some people I think just lost that instinct like we have lost many. Some still have it.

I have known a lot of dogs and cats that have had an excellent instinct of good people from something not right with people.
One dog I had was 100% accurate in liking or not liking people even when I was wrong. That dog, if he didnt like someone, guaranteed your gonna find out why.
My rate is right about 95%. I wish it was like that dog, 100% over the coarse of a 17yr long life. I had learned to follow my instinct after checking with the dog for confirmation. LOL

[Adalai]

I would agree. It's instinct. Run experiments on it. Listen to it. Don't listen to it. Learn to identify when your instinct is telling you something .. and when something is clouding your instinct towards that person.

Example: A homeless man asking you for money at a gas station. Your instincts don't have you running away, but "something" is telling you that he could be dangerous because he's a) desperate b) hungry c) fill in the blank.

Learn to figure out is that "something" .. trained thinking from growing up in a city with a high population of homeless and being aware of possiblities? Is it unhealthy bias because of your unrealistic assumptions of that "type" of person.. or is it justified?

My extincts are right, I would say, about 95% of the time as well. The other 5% is usually due to my own insecurities, unrealistic fears, unrealistic hopes etc.

[antiquitas]

To me its just instinct. Some people I think just lost that instinct like we have lost many. Some still have it.

I have known a lot of dogs and cats that have had an excellent instinct of good people from something not right with people.
One dog I had was 100% accurate in liking or not liking people even when I was wrong. That dog, if he didnt like someone, guaranteed your gonna find out why.
My rate is right about 95%. I wish it was like that dog, 100% over the coarse of a 17yr long life. I had learned to follow my instinct after checking with the dog for confirmation. LOL

Totally instinctual. And yes -- if my dog/cat doesn't like you, then I probably won't either! :P

[Pyrohawk]

Hi. Ya me too. Reading people by how their energies feel is something I do a lot. I've been told that I'm pretty good at it. Personally, when I feel like some one is not good for me or someone else I stay away from them. I'd love to talk about this more with someone. Every time I've mentioned it to people at home they've given me strange looks. It's something that I've always had but I was under the impression I was crazy until recently. So chat me up; I'd love to talk about it.

[Ladywolf_nh]

I have always had this as well, just a bit more in depth. I am a very logical person by nature and spent years researching this thing I do. Here is what I have come up with, my personal hypothesis.

FACT: We are all made of energy.
FACT: Science can measure all energy.
FACT: ALL life emits energy

Now we get into conjecture.

I consider myself to be an extremely sensitive antenna that can feel the energy a person (or other energy form) is emitting.

I have learned that energy changes depending upon a persons mood, illness, intentions etc.

I can tweak my own energy to either keep people away or attract them to me. I experimented with this in restaurants and stores and had amazing results.

I can feel the waning energy of a dying being and the lack of energy once they are gone.

So to me, this is a natural ability to sense and read a persons electromagnetic energy field. I believe this field is an extension of the 'life' within us and is influenced by our thoughts, state of health, intentions, current mood etc.

That is my simple, micro-explanation of my belief.

[Pyrohawk]

I have always had this as well, just a bit more in depth. I am a very logical person by nature and spent years researching this thing I do. Here is what I have come up with, my personal hypothesis.

FACT: We are all made of energy.
FACT: Science can measure all energy.
FACT: ALL life emits energy

Now we get into conjecture.

I consider myself to be an extremely sensitive antenna that can feel the energy a person (or other energy form) is emitting.

I have learned that energy changes depending upon a persons mood, illness, intentions etc.

I can tweak my own energy to either keep people away or attract them to me. I experimented with this in restaurants and stores and had amazing results.

I can feel the waning energy of a dying being and the lack of energy once they are gone.

So to me, this is a natural ability to sense and read a persons electromagnetic energy field. I believe this field is an extension of the 'life' within us and is influenced by our thoughts, state of health, intentions, current mood etc.

That is my simple, micro-explanation of my belief.

I concur.

[Æon Flux]

I have always had this as well, just a bit more in depth. I am a very logical person by nature and spent years researching this thing I do. Here is what I have come up with, my personal hypothesis.

FACT: We are all made of energy.
FACT: Science can measure all energy.
FACT: ALL life emits energy

Now we get into conjecture.

I consider myself to be an extremely sensitive antenna that can feel the energy a person (or other energy form) is emitting.

I have learned that energy changes depending upon a persons mood, illness, intentions etc.

I can tweak my own energy to either keep people away or attract them to me. I experimented with this in restaurants and stores and had amazing results.

I can feel the waning energy of a dying being and the lack of energy once they are gone.

So to me, this is a natural ability to sense and read a persons electromagnetic energy field. I believe this field is an extension of the 'life' within us and is influenced by our thoughts, state of health, intentions, current mood etc.

That is my simple, micro-explanation of my belief.

1. If you were such a sensitive person, you would not be sitting in front of a computer which emits far more EM than a human being does. You wouldn't be near a cellular phone either, or an electric kettle. It'd cause you significant discomfort.

2. In order for you to actually use EM to affect or influence other people this would have to be true:

- You generate these levels of EM all of the time, meaning that you would be shorting out computer monitors, shorting out equipments in hospitals, interfering with airplanes... actually... you should never step foot in an airplane, at all... not to mention that you'd be magnetic, so metal things would stick to you... probably even fly across the room to hit you in the face, and all you'd really be able to give other people is the heebie jeebies.

- You'd have an organ for creating this, and considering the effect you claim to have on others, and the amount of power it would take to generate such an EM field... you'd have to be five times larger than your average human being, and have something similar to copper wire running through your body.
Are you currently writing us from a government facility?

Oh, word to the wise, never have an MRI. You'd short out, and sizzle like a cellphone. And copper would fly everywhere. OW and yuck.

Do you only pick up EM or can you tune in to radio and cellular phones as well?
Oh, and what frequency of EM do you emit? Could you microwave a burrito, can you start a fire?
Did you ever stop to consider that transmitting to people might cause them cancer, depression, reproductive dysfunction, immunological modifications, neurobehavioural effects and neurodegenerative disease?

Look, I think you need to take your so-called "logical" mind and look at whatever research you've supposedly done about this. Open up a physics book. Please?

And no, I'm not being disrespectful. I'm just pointing out that the so-called logical and "well-researched" personal hypothesis does not makes sense in any way. You even got some of your "FACT" things wrong, but that's insignificant in this discussion. You COULD not be doing this without causing some serious havoc and you wouldn't be human. You'd have extra organs and a copper wire system running all through your body, and you'd have to be five times the size of the rest of us.

I'm just... you know. Ugh. If you're going to have a personal hypothesis, then that's fine, but don't pass it off as logical and well-researched when it is the complete opposite to it. Just say "It's a little loopy, and there is no scientific basis for it, but this is what I think." instead of trying to make it sound legit in some way when it isn't.

--------------------------------back on topic:

"Feeling" someone's vibes at the first meeting is easily explained: body language. Yes, body language. Dogs and cats can be extremely perceptive to it since their main mode of conversation IS body language, and that's how they learn to understand us.

Humans communicate mainly with body language, there are also those "power" people that try to manipulate their body language, but it rarely works.

The "success" rate with feeling people's vibes is usually a load of bull. Your brain will automatically sort away the times you were dead wrong. Because if you had that big of a success rate you'd never have had your hearts broken, never been scammed, never had anyone lie to you or deceive you and never had a boss turn out to be a prick.

[~*Sacred*~]

Instinct, empathy... whatever it is, yes I do it/have it. I agree with the others, some just don't recognize it. I've done it without talking to the person, just seeing a picture or even just hearing their voice and not knowing what they look like.

[roseblood]

I have always had this as well, just a bit more in depth. I am a very logical person by nature and spent years researching this thing I do. Here is what I have come up with, my personal hypothesis.

FACT: We are all made of energy.
FACT: Science can measure all energy.
FACT: ALL life emits energy

Now we get into conjecture.

I consider myself to be an extremely sensitive antenna that can feel the energy a person (or other energy form) is emitting.

I have learned that energy changes depending upon a persons mood, illness, intentions etc.

I can tweak my own energy to either keep people away or attract them to me. I experimented with this in restaurants and stores and had amazing results.

I can feel the waning energy of a dying being and the lack of energy once they are gone.

So to me, this is a natural ability to sense and read a persons electromagnetic energy field. I believe this field is an extension of the 'life' within us and is influenced by our thoughts, state of health, intentions, current mood etc.

That is my simple, micro-explanation of my belief.

I was with you up until you said "electromagnetic energy field." I don't feel this is it. Personally I have experienced all that you are speaking of, but not as EMF.

I remember feeling this loss of energy when my wife died, and I was 5000 miles away when it happened. I can influence how others react to me without a word, but it has nothing to do with EMF. To me, it has more to do with the psychic connection between all beings; not the telepathic thing that most people think of, but more empathic.

Speaking from someone who has worked with EMF for the better part of ten years, I can say with confidence that what I feel when this happens is NOT EMF. Electromagnetic fields which are significant enough to feel usually hurt and start cooking your internal organs. :fev:

[raistlin]

I certainly can feel "vibes" upon meeting someone. I've had people say it was as though I was staring into their soul. I can generally tell when meeting someone whether they're dangerous or not. And I can sometimes sense things happening even if I'm not present in the places they are - like the neighbor's pit bull strangling and mauling my dog two years back. I had no possible way of knowing it was happening, but I could just feel it.

[wolfspirit]

I share the opinion that instinct has a lot to do with it. I also agree that body language has a lot to do with it. Humans tend not to be as perceptive as their animal counterparts, considering animals use it more frequently as a survival skill. I manage a retail's customer service and after working there for a bit you can almost always tell who's going to be a good customer and who's going to be a difficult one, a lot just by body language or the vibe they are giving off. And some of them don't give any vibe to me but I can tell anyway, hard to explain.. You know, the ones that walk up and go 'I can tell something is wrong and this is going to take awhile' lol. The more you practice at reading people the more those 'instincts' kick in. And you also have to give your brain some credit. Maybe we don't remember specifically the types of behaviours or appearances that past people have given us, but our brains are hardwired to remember that stuff. So you may also be picking up on patterns that you have recognized before in people, even if you're not consciously thinking about it, good or bad. It works the same way for people who are drawn to negativity or patterns. Anyone else ever have a friend that always dated the bad guys? :)