Are your gut instincts always right? Do you often know what other people are about to say? Can you come up with answers to questions without really thinking about it? Do you ever feel like you “just know” things? If so, claircognizance (the gift of psychic knowing) might be one of your psychic abilities.
In this article, I’ll cover the definition of claircognizance and talk about the most common claircognizant signs to determine if you possess this gift and how to use it. You can also find some practical tips to improve your claircognizant abilities.
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What is Claircognizance?
Claircognizance is one of the four major psychic abilities and means “clear knowing”. It allows you to know something is real or will be, though you have no logical explanation to back up this idea.
Claircognizants just have an inner knowing or gut feeling that they can’t dismiss even if they try. They just “know” specific things through their own psychic feelings, which are directly manifested as thoughts.
Want to know more about the other Psychic Abilities? Learn all about these super cool gifts in our articles about clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience.
Think of information and facts that seem to be downloaded into awareness or perceptions and insights regarding people and circumstances. Often, this takes the form of a strong sense of knowing, or an inspired idea.
For example, you immediately know when someone is lying or not to be trusted or you just know that you have to apply for that job.
Claircognizant messages often come like a light bulb illuminating suddenly within your head and can be gone like a flash. They appear very random and at times when you are working, watching TV, running, or otherwise, doing something completely unrelated to it.
Although claircognizant messages can be annoying – especially when they warn you about people or tell you to watch out – they provide you with a lot of insights and information.
Signs That You’re Claircognizant
It can be difficult to recognize the difference between having a thought and a claircognizant experience because there is a fine line between them.
Our minds often have repetitive thoughts and are invested in keeping us safe and hidden. Yet, these thoughts and instincts are not always right, contrary to claircognizant messages.
People with claircognizance are able to know things consistently without any evidence whatsoever. Curious if you are gifted with this cool ability? Here are the 6 most common claircognizant signs.
1. Your Gut Instincts are always Right
We all have instincts. They come from the way we were raised, past experiences, genetically or from spiritual connections. But these instincts are not always right except if you’re a person with claircognizance.
If you’re claircognizant you have the ability to almost predict events based on a gut feeling that is consistently proven accurate. This is what makes claircognizance such a gift of truth to those who possess it.
Claircognizant people just know not to go that party, accept that (too good to be true) offer, get on that plane, or trust that really nice lady, without having a logical explanation for their feelings. So if you’ve just known something that turned out to be extremely accurate, that’s a sign that you’re claircognizant!
2. You know when Someone is Lying or not to be Trusted
Do people see you as a human lie detector? Can you often suss out when people are being dishonest, even when everyone else is fooled?
These might be signs that you’re gifted with claircognizant abilities. People with claircognizance have a nose for insincerity and almost nothing gets past them.
Even when someone is simply being insincere with his or her sentiments or expressions of emotion, someone with claircognizance is able to notice these insincerities. This makes it easy for the people in your life to trust your suggestions or ideas about people.
3. You Receive Messages in the Form of Random Ideas or Solutions
Do you have seemingly random thoughts or ideas that may end up preventing you or your loved ones from very real consequences or repercussions? Then you may have the gift of claircognizance.
Claircognizant people don’t usually know when their messages are going to come to them. You may be watching the newest episode of Game of Thrones, driving in your car, or working out in the gym, when an idea or solution just pops up in your head. Just observe them and try to figure out whatever your gut is trying to warn you for.
4. Claircognizants often Interrupt
Do you often have the urge to interrupt people? Not because of bad manners, but because you know what the person, you’re having a conversation with, is going to say? This also is a sign of claircognizance.
Claircognizant people sometimes respond even before the other person finished a full sentence, just because they already know what’s coming.
5. You know what the Outcome of a Situation will be
Have you ever been completely convinced that something would happen, and you didn’t have a logical explanation for it? Did you already know the outcome of a certain situation that turned out to be extremely accurate? You might have claircognizance!
You can not know the future with your five physical senses, but you can if you have psychic abilities. If you are claircognizant, your deeper inner knowing exceeds logic and reason, and you’re able to foresee certain situations and/or outcomes.
Those with this ability can make inferences based on gut feelings and instincts that more often than not turn out to be true.
6. You Wake Up with Solutions
Have you ever been woken up out of a deep sleep with a solution to a problem? This indicates that your gut is working even when your brain is not.
It doesn’t need evidence to find a solution to a problem and is able to just know the answer. This is a typical quality associated with claircognizance.
How to Improve Claircognizance?
Even if you don’t have all the signs of claircognizance, you might have psychic abilities. And guess what, you can improve these abilities with a lot of methods and techniques!
Here are three super easy exercises you can use to expand your senses to the world beyond normal perception. From there, you’ll begin to strengthen your intuition and see and know things that the people around you won’t be able to pick up on.
1. Set an intention
You can develop psychic abilities by using positive affirmations. So, if you want to improve your claircognizant abilities, you need to set the intention that you wish for intuitive guidance.
Write your intention down and read it or say it aloud twice a day. By setting the intention and repeating it, the things you’ve wished for will come to you and you will start to strengthen your ability.
2. Automatic writing
Another great way to improve claircognizance is through automatic writing. For this exercise, you only need a blank paper and a pen (or a computer).
Try to find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed. Ask yourself a question and let your pen start writing or just start typing without conscious effort. It may feel silly and fake at first but have trust and faith and let your mind wander.
Observe the words as they flow through your mind, without creating or manipulating them. Sometimes they will make no sense, but there will be answers that for sure surprise you!
3. Meditate!
If you want to improve claircognizance or any other psychic ability, meditation is key! It doesn’t matter whether you want to improve your claircognizance, clairaudience, clairvoyance, or your clairsentience, without meditation, your progression will be substantially less.
If you meditate on a daily basis, you can enhance your concentration, decrease stress, and even become more connected to your inner self and those around you. With practice, you’ll be able to achieve a sense of tranquility and peace no matter what’s going on around you.
It allows you to be in a relaxed state and raise your energetic vibration. Because Spirit energy vibrates at a higher frequency, it is super important to raise your vibration when improving your psychic abilities.
There are many different ways to meditate, so if one practice doesn’t seem to work for you, consider trying a different type that works better for you before you give up. Are you a total beginner? You can find a lot of tips on this site.
Claircognizance FAQ’s
Even though claircognizance is one of the most challenging abilities to discern, it is still a divine gift to have. If you are claircognizant, you can gain valuable insights into many different areas in your life only by thinking.
In this section, we will go into depth about what claircognizance means, how to know if you have this ability, and what other Clair abilities that are out there.
What does claircognizance mean?
Claircognizance, or “clear knowing,” is the psychic ability to know things without much effort. This ability can apply to any part of a person’s life and is one of the most challenging abilities to discern. This is in part because claircognizance seems commonplace to manly people, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Some examples of claircognizance include being able to finish other sentences or knowing the end to a movie.
How do you know if you’re claircognizant?
There are a few different signs to look out for if you think you might be claircognizant. One of the most common signs is if you are a “thinker.” While you are deep in thought, you will get a flash of insight about a problem in your life. Another sign is having strong hunches about people. If you seem to “know” when someone is dishonest or insincere, you are probably claircognizant.
What are the Clair abilities?
There are four Clair abilities in the psychic realm: claircognizance, clairsentience, clairvoyance, and clairaudience. Claircognizance is the ability to know things intuitively. Clairsentience involves feeling things and gaining psychic insights from these feelings. Clairvoyance allows psychics to see things in the spiritual realm. Clairaudience means you can hear things outside of the physical world around you.
Are you ready to trust your gut feelings?
Just like with the other psychic abilities, having psychic abilities can be scary and fun at the same time. Especially if you don’t know how to interpret them. Also, it can be hard to distinguish thoughts from claircognizant messages.
Just remember that the more you develop your claircognizant abilities, the better you become in identifying your claircognizant abilities and using them to make specific predictions. Just keep practicing and someday, you too may “just know” that you know without questioning how.
I’d love to hear if you’ve ever experienced claircognizance or another psychic gift. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below!
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Love your blog post! You have gained a new reader. Please keep it up and I look forward to more of your incredible articles. Regard
I tend to accurately predict deaths and traumas… is there anyway to block these? It’s rather exhausting
The gifts that one has, in my personal opinion, should not be blocked. I highly suggest that one learns the techniques and skills, to DEAL and HANDLE them as they would with any life stresses.
Life has many stresses. One does not run away from oneself. You can leave an abusive home, a hard and demanding job that takes away more than it benefits. You can leave people who do not love you and have abused and violated you.
But to run away from a part of yourself?
That is hard. It will come back when you least expect it and are not ready to handle it, in a happy time of your life.
There are many resources on how to meditate, different meditations to try out, yoga, and perhaps learning a martial art so one works body and mind and soul at the same time. To bring all into balance.
One does not “block” out or “ignore” life or one’s gift. I did this for one of my psychic gifts, from age 15 to 28. I had this gift since age 8. I can see the Otherworld and spirits, ghosts, ETs, Faeries, and other beings. It was frightening at the time because I DID NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE. I did not seek out how to handle and deal with this.
If you research more about your gift, and ask the Higher Power or trust in your own intuition and gifts, to be led to resources that will teach you, guide you, comfort you, educate you, to handle, be in balance with and thrive with your gift.
I too, can see people die in the future. It is a possible future. Sometimes it IS certain and it is not in ways that would make it into the newspaper obituaries, to put it nicely.
It is unsettling at first. I sought comfort from my gods and spirit guides/Guardians, and with support, I was able to get through my gifts and accept them. Some things are very upsetting at first. I built a tolerance to them because these things are REAL, they are happening to people in the world and I cannot live in my bubble forever and ignore reality. And people’s suffering. Death is a part of this world at this time. It is in the West that many do not know how to deal with it as in other cultures and societies.
Do not be weak, be stronger than you are now. Do not push your limits to the breaking point of body, mind or soul, but challenge yourself safely and at your own pace.
Be patient, loving and kind with yourself. Your pace is not everyone’s else’s pace.
One’s personal psychic gifts are not to be blocked, shunned, or being frightened of. It is putting away a part of yourself forever, to wilt away and die.
There is also no guarantee that when you ARE ready to return and nurture your gift, it will still be as accessible as before.
I can hear the spirits, I can see the Otherworld and other beings, I know things that would anger and sadden many who hear it. I simply deal with it on my own, and with the support of those who understand, love and accept me and my gifts.
Best wishes to you.
Shoot id love to have a q&a session with you one day! 🙂 I dont get specific things like that consistently, but I am clairvoyant, clairsentient, and claircognizant.. I just know stuff, or feel stuff- and can see things in many ways. Like, reading pictures can show me past, present etc, or buildings will appear as they used to be in the past or I will see spirits. But mostly I’m known for always being right on about everything really lol. Just wish I could practice my quantum stuff and be able to change my reality. Practice I guess. Ive done automatic writing before a few times and it’s insane bc it’s so accurate but makes no logical sense!
Nice informations, must confess, you have really helped me out so much with your vivid explanations of some of this terms. Sincerely, Thank you.
Thanks so much!
You have given me answers to questions I’ve had for quite a while. There have been a few instances in my life where I just knew something. When I was younger, my mother had a miscarriage. I knew from the moment I saw her that she did, even before she sat me and my sister down to explain it to us. There was another occasion where I had this awful feeling that something was going to happen, and sure enough, my mother came home early that day crying because her uncle died.
Hi Lisa, It indeed sounds like you have had some claircognizant experiences.Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting! If I have a problem with no solution by the time I go to bed, I will wake up at 4am with the answers. I’m a lie detector. I also know a person’s weaknesses and IQ upon meeting. I will sense a person’s energy and know if I will be able to get along with them prior to meeting. Im also an empath. I didn’t realize any of this was a “gift” until recently.
Thanks for sharing Mickie, I’m happy you liked my article about this psychic gift!
Basically I know I have an ability to see hear and feel sprits around me and have done for many moons now. However a few nights back i wAs at home and knew some sprit was trying to make contact with me, so I settled down and for soMe reason felt they wanted me to write this down what they was going to tell me. The spirit used my hand to write with, and everything I wAs asking ha wAs replying via my hand he was moving the pen to write the words. He told me he died In car accident along with 2 other people and 2 people survived. Gave me the date the place the names of others involved he told me he’s in the nothing space. He thought I was some professional medium as he just came thru my tv and connected straight away. I have his name even asked if he could come back and speak again. I was awear of my ability but never had this connection before. Of course I researched what he said and it was all there in black and white. The next night I have the felling someo be is trying to connect again and the sprit wS actually involved in the crash as well and I done the same as I did with him. She took use of my hand whilst to write Down what she was sayig. It was surreal she wS so emotional I was crying with what she was writing. She relayed the car accident from what happened to before to what she was drinking and where they crashed and she even told me she. She came around in hospital and told she was dying and had 2 days to me the pain she felt she her mum told her thAt to the last time her eyes closed, this was all. Written down. Thankfully I recorded both times on my phone I asked the sprits permission , hours off recodings visual able to see and hear and see my hand being moved as I’m reading out what she’s saying when on it’s written on paper As it’s not the neatest writing as u can imagine. So I don’t know what type of ability I have. I can see, feel, hear, talk and use my hand for writing. What happens now and please help with what type of medium or Psychic iam thank you
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for sharing this story! Messages of spirits can come in all kinds of forms, and the one you described is one of them. It sounds like you have a mix of different psychic abilities. I don’t know what happens next, because all psychic experiences are personal. If you want to develop them, I would definitely start to meditate. In my ‘clair’-articles you can also find other tips on how to strengthen your psychic abilities. Hope this helped. Sending you lots of sparks of joy!
I’m discovering new things about myself everyday, I seem to have mirror nerves, like if I see someone suffering or injured it hurts my legs, like pain shoots down them, I constantly get shooting pain to stomach with worry, stress, it sometimes happens when another person is feeling that same way. Anything emotional, sad, happy, inspirational or a good news story I get goosebumps and tingling from head to toe, this happens constantly especially watching TV, even some adverts.
Nobody knew what I was talking about so I started researching these things, starting with the shooting leg pain.
Sometimes my I’ll dream and it happens or very similar, could be just little, of no importance. I have random thoughts or mention something and it fits in with future events. Sometimes I just know things, people always ask me ‘how did I know that’ I can guess what a person is about to say or do, I think body language and knowing the person well is part of this.
I’m going to bookmark this page for future reference, thank you
Thank you, Sharon, for sharing your story! Based on your description it sounds like you had some psychic experiences and abilities. One thing I want to mention is that if your psychical pain doesn’t feel right, make sure that you see a doctor for that! And if you ever have questions, just let me know! Sending you lots of sparks of joy, Willemijn
My family hates watching movies with me because I always figure them out. I’ve had to learn to NOT SPEAK and keep my insights to myself or spoil the plot for everyone around me :). This was very helpful. I do free writing because I am a writer, but I never considered the possibility that what is written could be insight or subconscious messages from my spirit guides. I will read more astutely.
My gut instinct is very strong and it has taken me years to realize that to trust it can save me a lot of problems. Developing trust in myself has always been the issue. Doubt and non belief because of my religious upbringing has been detrimental for my development. Not saying this is true for everyone, just my own personal life. I suppose it is like shedding a snake skin of the old belief system and re-emerging with the new. Feel as if I am coming into my true form and it is wonderful.
Thank you for your insights and helpful advice. I shall be reading more and often. Blessings.
Thank you ?
I predicted 9/11 the night before it happened when I was sleeping. I was a sophomore in high school at the time. I also predicted the station night club fire the night before it happened. I actually had dreams for both. A few weeks ago my parents were rushing me to come over to see my brother and his wife. As soon as I walked through the door and looked at them, I knew she was pregnant. Sure enough, I’m going to be getting my first niece!!! I’m 33 now, and I really want to improve this gift so that I can help others. Thank you so much for the info!
~Samantha
Hi Samantha, Thank you for your message and how excited that you’re getting your first niece:) Congratulations! If you ever have questions about development of your gift, feel free to reach out to me! Have a great day! ✨
Hii ok so i have a quite a few things to share,
When i was a little younger, probably in seventh grade, i had a dream where i walked up to an open casket and stood in front of it. In the casket was an old woman, and in this dream i immediately knew the woman was me in a past life. I didn’t know how i knew, i just knew. It was different from a normal dream, it was like watching a movie that i had seen before. Usually i dream 2-3 different dreams in a night and my present self is in it, but this was different. It was just a singular dream and my seventh grade self wasnt in it. i woke up. I called my great aunt since she has the ability to see paranormal things, and explained everything to her, specifically saying i know i sound crazy but i was sure it was me in a past life. She confirmed it.
A few days later, i had a dream of these invisible monsters being covered with what seemed like snow and candy on a boardwalk. I woke up and told my cousin about my dream as we do, and started my day. Later, my cousin and i decided to watch Ms. Peringrines Home for Peculiar children, and this scene was in the movie. Her and i of course, freaked out.
Next are just random things. When i watch tv shows, sometimes i just know what the person is going to say next, and i say it out loud. Ive done that dozens of times. It also happens with people i talk to, i can finish their sentences half the time. Everyone always pegs me as the extremely perceptive one, because i can look at a situation and know whats going on or how people are feeling. i pick up on emotions and feelings really easily. If im standing with a group of people, i can look at someone and generally know how they’re feeling or where their head is at.
I have a friend who’s dad can also see paranormal things, and so my friend grew up seeing those types of things as well. We facetime all the time, and he tells me his experiences and i usually get full body chills. I never get chills under regular circumstances, and the word ive found best to describe them is aggressive, i can feel them in the back of my head, my arms, my stomach, my chest, you get the point. When i read about claircognizance, i get those chills. Sort of a confirming feeling. Theres alot more, but my thumbs are tired. Now me being me, i have probably the worst self esteem and have ignored these signs for so long because i see myself as an ungifted, sort of looked past, unspecial person so i just need someone who knows about the topic to tell me whats going on.
thank you – Anna
Hi Anna,
Thank you for sharing this story with us!! Based on the things you’ve described like having very vivid dreams, just “knowing things”, feeling the energy in a room or space, it sounds like you had several psychic experiences. As I described in my articles about clairvoyance, clairsentience, claircognizance, and clairaudience, having psychic abilities can be scary, but if you know how to deal with it, also be a true gift. For example, if you can harness clairsentience, you can make it the gift it truly is. Just being able to feel and understand someone else’s pain has the power to increase love and compassion in that relationship, whether you are a friend, counselor, cashier, or gardener. So I would recommend checking out the tips in my articles on how to deal with psychic abilities and also talk with likeminded people. And if you ever have questions, please feel free to reach out to me again! Sending you lots of sparks of joy ✨✨
As a small child I remember answering adult questions without understanding what I said.
It’s like I download a complete feeling when I see someone. The feeling, then filling me with their identity. I definitely finish others thoughts and know what someone is thinking long before they’ll expose it. Until now I thought most people are this way. I figured we were all just evolving. I’m 50% native American and my aunts were “practitioners”. I didn’t realize the term existed.
Thank you for sharing this story💜 and I’m super happy you found my article that hopefully gave you more insights into your gifts. Sending you lots of sparks of joy ✨
can someone with claircognizance have doubts ? like maybe the information was mixed with brain thoughts ?
Hi Jess,
Definitely! Claircognizants just have an inner knowing or gut feeling that they can’t dismiss even if they try. They just “know” specific things through your own psychic feelings, which are directly manifested as thoughts. It can be difficult to recognize the difference between having a thought and claircognizance because there is a fine line between them. So how do you know that these are claircognizant thoughts and not brain thoughts? I would say Claircognizant thoughts manifest as a strong sense of knowing, or an inspired idea and these thoughts are always right. Even if there’s no logical explanation for it. Just let your intuition guide you here! Sending you lots of sparks of joy ✨