I had a feeling...

in·tu·i·tion/ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSHən/Noun

1. The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.

2. A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.

Intuition is a funny thing. How is it possible that we are able to understand something based solely on a funny little feeling that we have? Or are all moments in which intuition comes into play just coincidences?

I think we all like to think that we have a sort of "sixth sense" that allows us to just know things. Why? Because we like feeling special. We like feeling like we have some sort of edge on other people because we have gut feelings that other people don't have. But the more I thought about this whole idea of "intuition," the more I began to make sense of it. It all has to do with our brain.

You see, our brains are funny things. They pick up things that you don't remember picking up on. They have thoughts, they have fragments of thoughts, and sometimes they just take things that we're not really focusing on and they store them for later. So I think that intuition really has to do with our subconscious knowing things that our conscious mind doesn't explicitly know.

For example, I'm pretty good at telling when people are lying. I could strut around all day and attribute it to my intuition-- some inherent ability that I have to bring out the truth. Or I could use logic and say, "Hey, I was surrounded by liars growing up, and even got to be pretty good at it myself for a good while." Imagine that. I'm really not a naturally gifted truth seeker after all. I've just picked up on people's mannerisms and such for so long that I don't even have to consciously think about it. I just know (ha!).

People say I'm too logical for my own good. And maybe when it comes to emotions and stuff they're right. But it's times like these that I'm glad I actually take a moment to think things through.