Can you lose your 6th sense abilities?
I used to get vibes from ppl ive just met and immediately be able to tell how a person was, also many times i would get strong senses and they would always turn out right. However i ignored them a few times, and something extremely bad hapened in my life. After this incidence i hv lost whatever 6th sense ability or intuition i possesed. Is ths possible? and what can i do to get it back? if anythin at all..
Has anyone just "lost" their artistic ability before?
This answer may not "exaclty" match your question, but it may help. I am right handed, but occasionally practice sketching with my left. An art teacher, waaaaay back in high school suggested I do this, just to pick up on another technique and another "point of view" An interesting effect of doing this is that I "saw" my subjects in a very different way when drawing leftie. Where, with my right hand I may see, for example, two groups of leaves in arrangements of three, on a plant, when I picked up my pencil with my left to start sketching, I might "see" three groups of two leaves in the arrangement. This effect can be mind boggling! The end result was that, while I am a much better sketch artist with my right hand, my left can create some very unique drawings. Not always bad, but very unique! Earlier this year, the technique saved my sanity. I had surgury on my right arm, leaving me unable to have much control over my drawings. I did a lot of sketching with my left, and, wouldn't you know, I got better and better with practice! Towards your question, here is my point. Drawing left handed felt much like it was another person controling the pencil. It may have had to do with the "left brain" vs. "right brain" thing. I don't really know. However, this may apply to your percieved loss of, either, talent or inspiration. I can suggest that you might wish to start working, a bit, with your non-dominant hand. Don't look for quality work, at first, but just spend the effort at trying to work this way. It may, pehaps, trigger the release of whatever tension is holding down your "artistic ability." Kind of like you are tricking it by "going in the back door" instead of the front. Couldn't hurt.
Have humans lost any useful abilities/senses they used to have through the course of evolution?
Of course! We have lost a large number of very useful abilities through out evolutionary history. About 1.8 billion years ago (Gya) we lost the ability to live without molecular oxygen in the atmosphere. About 1 Gya we lost the ability to reproduce by budding or by dividing in two. Then, about 370 million years ago (Mya), we lost the ability to swim using our fins. 330 Mya, we entirely lost the ability to breathe under water. About 180 million years ago we lost the ability to swim by flexing our bodies from side to side. Around 167 Mya we lost the ability to lay eggs.About 65 Mya we lost the ability to subsist on an entirely carnivorous diet. 20 Mya we lost the ability to hang from trees by our tails. Shortly thereafter we lost the ability to grow a long tail. Around 12 Mya, we lost the ability to grasp tree limbs well with our hind feet. Then, 6 Mya we lost the ability to run rapidly on all four legs. About the same time we acquired frequent back and knee problems. About 500 thousand years ago we lost the ability to subsist on an entirely vegetarian diet.And lost abilities have continued since then. In the last 50,000 years a significant fraction of the human population has lost the genes for making melanin, a skin pigment that protects from folate deficiency and melanoma. In return they've gained the ability to make more vitamin D in faint sunlight.
I've lost my ability to make good eye contact.?
This has been a life long problem and maybe I've over rationalized it, but I feel I've never had the ability to make good eye contact with people. I find myself either staring or only having short glances when I speak to people. I'm constantly aware of this and I believe it has been a major weakness in my ability to communicate with others. How can I relearn how to make good eye contact? What is the difference been eye contact and staring? If I try to listen to somebody telling a story I find that I get uncomfortable quickly if I look at someone too long. My discomfort shows up quickly on the other persons face. I also find that if I try to tell a story that I can't hold a person attention if I can't hold their eyes. It really bugs me because my communication skills are much better when I write or when I'm on the phone (for obvious reasons). My colleagues know me as a nice and intelligent person, but I know I could have much more effective communication skill.
Is it normal to lose the ability to imagine?
This is excactly my case. I used to imagine so many unreal things and now I can’t imagine anywhere but the place I live in and Nothing but the things I see every day. I know it happened to me after I had a brain damage. after I experrienced a lot of stress and drug-abuse. Now I’m 36 and it’s about 6 or 7 years that i’m trying to build my mind again, like how it was in the past. But I know one think. It’s related to memory loss and memory loss has much to do with the lack of sleeping. And the other factor is motivation. I lost all my mind abilities after I decided to kill myself. I arranged my mind to leave this world but I couldn’t leave it and couldn’t kill myself. After that I lost the desire to live . life includes everything. So I lost my interest to everything. You can remember the things that you are interested in. For example: If you want to improve your memory you start with your interests and then you expand your interest cyrcle so you can recall much more and learn how to memorise. Imagination is glued to memory and memory is glued to interestI hope this helps you my freind
I feel like I have lost my ability to think creatively. What should I do?
Like what, you lost it at the super market? Did you check the lost and found?Seriously now, no, you haven’t lost the ability, more likely is you have lost the motivation. Are you enjoying what you are doing? Would you consider your work as your passion? Have you been indulging your mind and challenging it?On a more basic level, have you been sleeping/eating/exercising right? Were you under any kind of stress lately? Change of partners? loss in the family? moved to a different place? haven’t connected with your friends lately? mid life crisis?In general it’s not possible for an online forum to give proper advice without truly understanding you and your circumstance.Here are some generic pointers (shots in the dark):Reset - take a vacation somewhere far away, even better if you need a passportGo camping or a hike for the weekendEnlist yourself in something creative (like painting, sculpting, dancing, music, calligraphy) - something that you have never ever done beforeHelp a stranger in needFind a mentorFind your strengths, and offer to coach/mentor someone in that areaIf you have a family/significant other, take them out on an absolutely mind blowing date - the catch is, it should cost nothingCall your mom/dad/sibling and ask them to explain in the greatest detail the happiest they have ever seen youAsk your peers what is the most creative work they have done lately - see if you can take that upLook up and read a great bookIntrospect and list out the last 10 times you have done something creativeIntrospect and list out the last 10 most uncreative tasks you have done, and figure out how to not repeat them ever againGo to one of those websites that allow you to name a star, and give it a concocted name - which is a combination of three of your favorite things (favorite teacher, pet, ice cream etc)Leave your purse/wallet/phone behind and with just enough cash for three burger meals, go into your town and see how you could spend the day touring itGood luck and hope you find your creative powers back soon!
I'm a teenager and seem to have lost my talents and abilities. What should I do?
What do you want to do about it? Were those talents something you highly valued? Do you want them back? Are you stopped by physical limitations? Do you need some sort of physiotherapy to regain your talents? Was there some other talent you are curious of? Was there something else you wanted to do? To try? What you do now, I think would be best, is have yourself a hard think. Like Winnie the Pooh in Pooh corner. After all, as a teenager you have upwards of sixty plus more years to live. There are a lot of hours to spend on doing things in sixty plus years. All those questions deserve answers. Those answers only come from yourself. After that- you grow up. You either practice to regain what you once had or you do something else. Anything else, almost. Knit a sweater, get yourself running five miles a day, learn to fish, write a book, eat a tub of ice cream at two in the afternoon and swear never to again. Learn to salsa or cook the perfect dinner for yourself-or your friends- or family- or the homeless. If you get up DO something. Even something as simple as throwing out a pop can on your way to the bathroom.There are hundreds of cheesy cliches about your dilemma. They crop up everywhere on the internet. 'The world is there for the taking- so take it' and 'keep calm and carry on' or even 'shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars'. Cliches and over done aspiring/inspiring quotes are everywhere for a reason. They're so true saying it is easy. And obvious.My favorite is from sticky notes my grandfather always used. Don't sweat the small stuff. Maybe losing talents isn't 'small' and I can't imagine how that must make you feel, but don't sweat the small stuff. A talent is one of thousands. You have time to relearn it or get a new one. Just think about what you want to do right now for the next hour. Then sit and think about what you want to do for the next hour. Then sit and think about how to occupy the next hour until obligations, rest and eating interrupt what you were about to do the hour after that.
How do you make friends, I've somehow lost the ability.?
i am an introvert myself, and don't speak much (but can) and i have definitely felt that way. i trust that you haven't 'lost the ability' though. because i don't think i have till this day, although i really thought that i did. i suppose it is considerably impossible, because we are humans and being humans we naturally connect and interact with other humans. i guess most people start with small talk. being me, i don't fancy small talks. but i guess that quite a bunch of my existent friendships actually started out with small talks, now that i think about it.. i actually moved 4000 miles to a new country last year, and had to make new friends and all. you can imagine how daunting that might be. but in no time things started falling into place. i remember just sitting with a group of people during recess and lunch frequently, and over time, you find yourself sitting with your group of friends. just be natural, relaxed and receptive i guess. things should pan out nicely by itself. if you feel more comfortable communicating online or through txt, go ahead and get their msns and numbers. sometimes small talk really is the way to go. remember not to be probing though, cos that would be a lil odd and uncomfortable for them. all the best! :)