Ace of Base saw the signs, but have you? I’m always shocked by how many people have lived their entire lives with the gift of clairvoyance but never realized the power they possessed. Friends and followers often reach out with a similar concern, “how do I know if I’m clairvoyant or not?” There isn’t a simple answer. But there are ways to figure it out.
I usually ask the following questions as a way to get a definite answer. Is sight your superpower? Can you see different colored lights around people? Do you find yourself incredibly moved by sculptures, flowers, and other physical objects? Do you see glittering lights, floating shadows or colored dots in the air? These are some of the things that spiritually gifted clairvoyants experience.
Have you been asking yourself whether or not you might be clairvoyant? If so, you came to the right place. In this article, I’ll cover the definition of clairvoyance and talk about the most common clairvoyance signs to determine if you possess this gift. I’ve also created a test that can help you decide ‘yay or ‘nay’ when it comes to ESP vision.
What is Clairvoyance? The Definition
Clairvoyance is one of the major psychic abilities and means “clear seeing.” This psychic ability allows you to
If you are clairvoyant, you’re able to receive intuitive information through colors, images, visions, dreams, and symbols. This “inner seeing” is very subtle most of the time and will typically happen within your mind’s eye.
You’ve probably experienced Clairvoyance manifesting itself in some way during your life but didn’t recognize it for what it was!
It might be that you discredited your clairvoyant abilities as a daydream, wandering of the mind, wishful thinking, or your imagination.
It’s not strange that you confused your clairvoyant abilities with imagination or wandering of the mind. This is actually quite common!
Our intuitive abilities manifest from the same side – the right side – of the brain that houses our creative centers, including imagination. And this imagination carries the seeds of the clairvoyant visions and shapes.
They’ll manifest in the same way as other creative and free expression of your soul – with imagery.
Clairvoyant Signs
Clairvoyance doesn’t always rise up and make its first appearance in a dramatic way. You might not have an extensive dream or clear vision. Usually, it’s much more subtle than that and there are many clairvoyant people walking around this world who don’t even know they have this super-cool psychic gift. Are you one of them? Let’s find out!
Here are the 9 most common signs that you could possess clairvoyant psychic abilities. Keep in mind that you don’t have to be able to say “yes” to all of these to be a clairvoyant psychic.
1. You see Flashes of Light and Color
Do you see glittering lights, floating shadows or colored dots in the air? Stop thinking you’re going crazy, actually far from it – you’re just gifted!
Flashes of light and color often serve as a sign that Higher Spirits, those in heaven, or other members of your spiritual team are around you. A Spirit can be looking for your attention to relay important information. You might see:
- floating orbs or colored dots in the space around
you shadows that seem like they are floating in the air- glittering or flashing lights in the space around you
- movement and twinkling lights in the corners of your eyes
The idea of Spirits might scare you, but there is nothing to be frightened about. Guidance from Spirits will normally be delivered with love, and people experience this guidance as useful, valuable and fun.
2. Clairvoyants tend to Daydream a Lot
Are you often wandering off into your own thoughts? Do you daydream and “zone out” many times a day? Do you frequently imagine things in your head almost to the point that you are living inside your head instead of out in the real world?
If so, this can be a sign that you are clairvoyant, as this is extremely typical. It is because clairvoyance has to do with seeing and visualization is a huge part of that! That’s why clairvoyants can imagine themselves in other situations and such visualization comes naturally to them.
3. You have Frequent and/or Vivid Dreams
If you are having dreams that feel so real to you, you have what’s called vivid dreams. These dreams are very bright with color and are so close to reality that you can pick out which is which.
I’ve found that clairvoyants are very visual people, their sight is extremely active, even in sleep. That’s why you tend to experience frequent and/or vivid dreams if you’ re clairvoyant. Sometimes, these dreams may be visions or tell a story that provides insights on what is happening in real life.
4. You have a Deep Connection with Beautiful Things
Do you love going to a museum to look at beautiful art? Are you incredibly moved by sculptures, flowers, and other physical objects? Are you drawn to a career like graphic designs or photography? You might assume that everyone does, but this isn’t so. Some people are much more attracted to aesthetics than others. Some love art while others couldn’t care less about a sculpture or visual representations.
If you are clairvoyant, you tend to really appreciate the beautiful things in life and love creative hobbies, like painting, drawing, or photography. This has to do with the fact that clairvoyance is strongly related to your visual senses. So if creative hobbies rock your world, it’s a sign that you might be clairvoyant.
5. You see Things Moving in the Corner of your Eye
Do you see things out of the corner of your eyes, to the point where you are actually double-checking that you didn’t just see someone? If you do and fin that there’s
Earthbound spirits are the mental or emotional bodies of deceased people, who have not fully crossed over for some reason. Clairvoyants not only have the ability to see Spirit Guides but in some cases also see earthbound spirits. This ability can be quite scary, but it doesn’t need to be. Embracing your gift will make this less of an uncomfortable situation when it happens.
6. Clairvoyants can see Auras or Glowing Lights around People
As a clairvoyant, you may see different colored lights around people who you come in contact with at home, work, or in public. These are the visual manifestations of auric fields, which are composed of electromagnetic energies. They contain a lot of information about people’s lives and will help you understand how they are feeling.
If you’re not familiar with reading an aura, this exercise will help you: let the person who’s aura you’re trying to read,
7. As a Clairvoyant, you see how Things Fit Together
Can you see in your mind’s eye how something should be so that it works properly? Are you a master in solving difficult puzzles or complicated problems? Do you easily see how different pieces fit together while others are already struggling with it for hours?
Many clairvoyants find they naturally understand how things and ideas link together and again, this all comes back to how visual those with the gift of clairvoyance are.
8. You are good at Envisioning Plans in your Head
Do you often create entire scenes in your mind about the future? Do you have a special talent for creating new designs?
People with clairvoyant abilities have a strongly developed sense of sight. That’s why they can plan and envision things in their head and are able to see an end result even before the start of a project.
9. A Clairvoyant has a Great Sense of Direction
Should Siri ask you for direction instead of giving it to you? Do others so you as a human GPS?
This might be another sign that you are clairvoyant, as you can see things in a way that others can’t. Because of your strong visualization skills, travel can seem like a breeze.
How to Deal with Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance is the ability to see past our traditional senses. I’ve always viewed my clairvoyance as a talent or a superpower in a sense. Being able to see beyond what others perceive as reality has many benefits.
But I’ve found that with all gifts, there are drawbacks as well. Many untrained psychics and naturally talented have difficulty dealing with their abilities at first. This isn’t uncommon or something that you should be ashamed of.
Take Pablo Picasso, for example. Although he was one of the most famous artists to have ever lived, he had trouble learning and struggled with dyslexia. Because dyslexia is a language-based learning disorder that also has a visual component, it affected Picasso’s perception of reality. This undoubtedly influenced his work. It is also what led him to pursue art in the first place after being labeled ‘reading blind’ and dropping out of school.
Tips to deal with your Clairvoyant Abilities
Picasso eventually mastered his gifts, and so can you. Here are a few tips for the clairvoyant with newly discovered abilities:
- Don’t doubt what you can do. If you’ve ever read the book or seen the movie, the Giver, you probably remember the scene where the main character, Jonas, realized that he had an extraordinary gift. Unlike others in his Utopian society, Jonas could see color. To everyone else, an apple (and every other object) was a single monotone hue. But Jonas was able to see beyond what was on the surface, even if just for a split second.
When Jonas’s ginger-headed friend, Fiona, came to talk to him, her hair seemed to ‘glitch.’ He could see that it was red, just like the apple he had spotted a while back. If Jonas had mentioned this to others, they would have thought he was crazy. In some instances, the same will be true for a clairvoyant. Thankfully, you, like Jonas, are not alone. He found support from ‘The Giver’ and was able to use his abilities for the greater good of his society, and so can you.
- Strengthen your third eye. One key to dealing with clairvoyance is honing your abilities and gaining as much control over them as possible. Doing this takes away some of the fear and anxiety that plagues the untrained psychic. This is because you’ll see most of your visions inside your mind’s third eye. Working on opening and strengthening this chakra center is critical.
- Practice using your abilities deliberately. If you are in a place with lots of people, try to see their auras. Close your eyes and visualize flowers, numbers, and other objects. When you see a Spirit or orb out of the corner of your eye, don’t run from it. Instead, focus on ‘seeing beyond.’
- Meditate often. Even though this is the most practice for a clairvoyant, this tip is one that has become almost cliche. It is through meditation that all people, even those who don’t consider themselves psychic, can improve their intuition and connection to self. I have known people who lived their whole lives with limited psychic ability to become spiritual rockstars after a few months of meditating. So, if you don’t know much about meditation, do some research and give it a try.
Clairvoyant Game
Here’s a simple clairvoyant game you can play:
Have your spouse or a friend place 7 or 8 items on a stable surface such as a table or countertop while you are out of the room. Once everything is in place, set a timer and walk into the room. Allow yourself 10-15 seconds to study all of the items.
Walk back out of the room and try to see the picture in your mind. Jot down as much as you can remember about every object (color, size, shape, position, etc.) and see how well you did. Techniques like this will help you strengthen your ability to visualize.
Clairvoyance Test
Feel like you need help honing in your skills? Take this clairvoyance test to see where you stand.
Take a look at the images below. See if you can get a read on them. Who are they? Or if it is an object, who did they belong to? What were they used for? Is there a sense of sadness attached? Or positive, perhaps? Once you’ve got a good read on them, scroll down and read the bit of information for each piece.
Clairvoyance Test – Picture 1
The first picture is a necklace that was discovered two and a half miles under the sea and then restored a hundred years after the tragic sinking of the Titanic.
This Edwardian necklace was found in 1997 inside of a bag with other jewels, and although we don’t know exactly who it belongs to, it is assumed that it belonged to a victim of the terrible skinking.
Clairvoyance Test – picture 2
What kind of vibe did you get from the second image? This is a bible quilt that belonged to Harriet Powers, a Civil War-era slave from the state of Georgia.
History has it that Mrs. Powers sold her handmade quilt for five dollars after being freed but falling on hard times. However, she insisted that the person buying it learn about each bible scene stitched onto the quilt before purchasing it. It is now on display at the Smithsonian.
Clairvoyance Test – Picture 3
If you’re happy and you know it, go for a swim? This picture is of a beach in Finland–dubbed by experts as the “happiest place on earth.”
Why are people in Finland filled with so much joy? High-quality education, equal pay for both men and women, as well as good healthcare.
Clairvoyance Test – Picture 4
She may look like a sweet granny, but 86-year-old Johanna Quaas is a force to be reckoned with. She’s in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest gymnast.
Her husband is also a gymnast and together, they have three daughters. She still competes regularly and is quoted as saying “my face is old, but my heart is still young.”
Clairvoyance Test – Picture 5
eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar is not only a wealthy businessman, but he is also ranked as one of the most giving men on earth.
He is a part of the Bill Gates ‘Giving Pledge’ and has donated over a billion dollars to various charities that help with homelessness, hunger, and other causes.
Clairvoyance Test Results
This brings us to the end of our test and I’m curious as to how well you did. However, I must say that as fun as I found this exercise, it’s hard to test clairvoyance online. I know many psychics who have a hard time reading images and do better in person.
So not getting the right ‘vibes’ from the images above doesn’t mean that you’re not clairvoyant. These types of exercises are something you should practice if you’re wanting to ‘beef up’ your natural gift.
Clairvoyance Questions Answered
The response and questions I received from my readers (through my clairvoyant abilities) have been wonderfully overwhelming. I am extremely grateful to have these interactions and while I am responding to every message I get, I’m answering the most frequently asked questions about clairvoyant abilities and how to strengthen them here.
Clairvoyance is an ability to gain information about a person or object through extrasensory perception. The term comes from the French word clair (clear) and voyance (vision). Clairvoyance is one of the major psychic abilities and thus translates to “clear seeing”. This psychic ability allows the tapping into the soul and the collective knowledge of all souls of the universe.
In psychology, the description of being Clairvoyant is slightly different than the explanation in layman’s terms. Clairvoyance is the knowledge of information that is generally not known to any other person, not obtained by any ordinary channels of reasoning and comes as a form of ESP, extrasensory perception.
If you are clairvoyant, you’re able to receive intuitive information through colors, images, visions, dreams, and symbols. Sounds cool, doesn’t it? And the good part is that you can improve your clairvoyant abilities by following some simple steps and daily practice. Just compare it with working out: it takes time and practice to build your “psychic muscles”. Feel like you need help honing in your skills? Take this clairvoyance test to see where you stand.
When the body and mind are relaxed, intuitive experiences happen. You can strengthen your clairvoyant abilities by observing what is happening to your body. Focus on your energy levels and pay attention to how you feel around other people. Another tool is to practice focussing on the flashes of light and color you receive. Becoming aware through meditation, journaling and mostly observing will strengthen your Clairvoyant abilities further.
Are You Clairvoyant?
In this article, I’ve covered what clairvoyance is and talked about the most common signs to determine if you possess this gift. If you don’t possess every single one of them, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have the wonderful gift of clairvoyance. It is still likely that you have clairvoyance abilities if the majority applies to you.
If you resonate with being clairvoyance, know that it is truly a gift. But first, you have to work out how to develop and master it to make the most out of your abilities. Once you’ve learned this, you can achieve a lot and live to your fullest potential!
Do you want to know more about the other Psychic Abilities? Learn all about these super cool gifts in our articles about claircognizance, clairaudience, and clairsentience.
Not done with reading about Clairvoyance? This awesome book by Kevin Hunter is definitely a must-read!
I’ve been experiencing some things and it’s getting more often. Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind!
I hear different voices .. usually sounds like it’s in a distance..and can’t make out what’s being said. I hear music alot ..usually instrumental no singing. This morning was the first experience of hearing a girl’s voice so loud and clear ..like yelling ..hello ..it woke me up from sleeping and I actually answered back..I said what..then hello..silence.
What is going on with me? Any help appreciated
Dear Amanda, Thank you for your comment. Hearing voices, music, and sounds could be a sign of clairaudience , one of the four major psychic abilities. Read more about clairaudience in this article: https://www.alittlesparkofjoy.com/clairaudience/. If you are clairaudient you can receive intuitive information from Higher Spirits, those in heaven, and other members of your spiritual team via hearing. This information can come in a variety of forms and can make you feel crazy (or like losing your mind) if you aren’t aware of what is happening. Especially in the beginning when clairaudience is beginning to open up and the messages are still unintelligible sounds. It can be scary to hear voices when you’re alone and you least expect it. If you have concerns about the messages – for example, if you have a constant ring in your ear or frequently hear voices that are destructive or evil – use your common sense. If it doesn’t feel good, be sure to speak to a health professional, because frightening clairaudient experiences shouldn’t occur too often and guidance from spirits normally will be delivered with love. I hope this answered your question. All the best, Willemijn
I can guess what time it is and be pretty close most if the time. I am also able to guess when my bf arrives at my house or at his destination before he informs me (I’ll call & ask & he’ll ask how did I know).. I occasionally have deja vu.. that’s about it.
Hi Winter,
Thanks for your comment. As mentioned in my article, if you don’t recognize every single sign of Clairvoyance, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have the wonderful gift of clairvoyance. However, “just knowing things” can also be a sign of Claircognizance. In this article I describe the most common Claircognizance signs. I’m curious if this resonates with you. Have a great day!
Hello. Thank you for a little spark of joy. I can relate to all nine signs. I’m on a personal journey to understanding the unspoken things in me and around me. I specialize in hospice care and I guess I’ve always though most events were related to my time (20 yrs) there. My question where should I go from here? I love information but I would like to fill my space with information that will best help someone at the very beginning. Thank you, Andrea
Hi Andrea, Thanks for your comment. If I were you I would start to strengthen your clairvoyant abilities. I wrote an article with helpful tips.There are also some great books about how to strengthen your psychic abilities, like this one written by Cyndi Dale. Lastly, I would recommend finding a support group somewhere near you or online with other intuitive development students and professionals (if you need help, let me know, I can recommend some). Hope these tips will help you! Wish you all the best on your journey and don’t forget to enjoy it!
whenever i was little i used to experience tons of visions, extremely vivid dreams, i used to see dots and colors in certain areas, and black blobs so much so i thought my house was haunted. i used to see spirits too and i have never been afraid of any of these things, it just seemed normal to me. around 9 it all stopped happening and ever since then i feel like i can feel when something is going to happen, i can feel if a situation will turn out good or bad and i can feel someone’s energy and who they are as a person without knowing them. i always feel attracted to art and my dad was a artist, he won many awards in his frustrate area for years. i’ve always been into painting and writing and photography and sometimes drawing and i’m actually particularly good at it. i also have a good sense of style too. but it’s like i see all of these things in my head just like this article explained. i’ve also always been very atttacted to art and beautiful things too. but i just want to know why the other things that used to happen before i was 9 went away slowly, if someone can help me please reply to this.
I posted this on a starseed subreddit a couple weeks ago. The past few days I’ve been feeling that while the cosmic purpose, ascension to higher self, multidimensional beings/alien races, etc. all feel real, the whole “starseed” thing just doesn’t feel quite right for a reason I can’t exactly place. So, I started looking into other things and found clairvoyance which is a term I have heard all my life but looking to it now is actually the closest thing to the insanity I experience after scouring the internet for about 6 years. If anyone has experienced some of what I describe below, I would really love to hear about it because I have felt 100% alone for a long time!
I see with my eyes open or closed and experience so much and so many things beyond any description of anything I can find anywhere after looking for 6 years. Tiny little dots of bright light with shimmering circular and diamond shaped auras that are undeniably conscious and interact and behave with emotion. Sometimes they stand perfectly still in a geometric shape as if to show me they are many and not just one or sometimes it/they move to the edge of walls or other things like blinds to to make it as easy as possible to see their perfectly shaped auras in contrast and sometimes it/they will zoom around the room at high speeds and/or crazy patterns like downward corkscrews as my 2 regular eyes follow in perfect synchronicity until I accidentally use them for a second and have to try and give all control back to my 3rd eye. It/they connect and communicate with me and take me through layer after layer of the veil any time I look and I go deeper and deeper into this other plane as long as I don’t become too mesmerized or overwhelmed or think too much with my brain or keep using my eyes too much and it becomes too difficult or exhausting to keep giving control back to my third eye and/or I fall asleep. I go hours without blinking and just barely breathing. On top of this constant presence that is always there and ready to interact and show me incredible displays of light and geometry are my dreams. Almost daily 30-60 seconds clips of real life reminding me of a dream I had in which every possible aspect is identical, or prophetic dreams that showed me things like a broken bone or a miscarriage a day or less before it happened, or cosmic and epic worlds literally more real than anything I’ve felt in real life, planets colliding, golden palace lands, massive pyramid or temple like structures with god like beings of light or giants or native americans or alien ships revealing themselves to me or selecting me to specifically to go somewhere I know is either entirely familiar or much better than here. Then there is the seeing through my eyelids or remembering memories or things I cannot explain or make any sense of that I know already happened but are otherworldly and beyond my comprehension or the astral projection and the actual physical vibrations of objects I have caused while getting through the first layers of it. Or crystal grid I have observed surrounding me that unlike most things I experience I couldn’t stop seeing or snap out of that perspective when I wanted to, one of the diamond shapes in the grid missing like an open window to outer space on the other side and the bright dots of light traveling in and out of like some kind of totally normal and bustling transit station taking them to and from all over the galaxy or universe or dimension or whatever it is I obviously have no idea. I just want to understand some small portion of all of this or have a tiny bit of guidance so I can begin honoring my purpose and stop resenting these incredible and undeniable experiences that I can’t seem to take much of anything from once the initial shock wears off after a day or two other than I am able to see cool stuff and there is a reality that I have not seen described as I experience it accurately or in much detail anywhere ever but I know for absolute certainty to be as real as the laptop I am typing this on and perhaps more so. Oh and the 7 feet tall lion in a blue spacesuit who visited me just one single time when I was about 5 and brought with it an immense sense of reunion and love and I remembered and cried hysterically with an under able sense of longing when I was about 10? That was also real. This is a just rant and not even close to a catalog or even a detailed depiction of what I have and continue to experience. I have gone down the rabbit hole looking for answers or similar experiences being described and I have found literally nothing beyond pictures of sacred geometry that looks like the light beings auras and the grid that I’ve seen or descriptions of starseeds or alien races that pretty exactly and almost entirely describe me. I want to embrace it and live it so bad and lately the message has seemed kind of frustrated or maybe even angry and saying all of these things I see are not merely some cool amazing aspect of reality I am able to experience, but actually the reality of existence entirely. I just don’t know what to do with any of it and I keep falling back into my routine of life with my high pressure job and my 4 kids and the less frequent I look the harder it is and the longer it takes to see through the veil and be shown things and the less anything I experience has any real bearing on me or the quicker I get frustrated and just give up for the night or the week or the month or months sometimes. It feels like I was given gifts and skills and knowledge for a very specific and very important reason but then I got here and just started wasting it all and whoever/wherever I come from is disappointed or even mad at me because I’m just eating and drinking and working and sleeping and shitting and I’m mad all the time or sad all the time and I just want someone to tell me what I’m supposed to do or even just to be able to talk to someone that can help me understand the other world I experience so I can fully embrace it and live it because I really want to and I know without a doubt I’m supposed to but I have nothing from which to draw context from other than the fact that it all completely contradicts most of if not all aspects of what is generally considered or accepted to be reality therefore it feels impossible to integrate it into my human life when I return to it every day.
Ok sooooo the day before my sons grandfather was murdered I felt his life was in danger.i felt it all threw my body .My hairs on my arms stood up.i panicked .I try to warn him and he dismissed it with a joke .The next day he was murdered.there was plenty of other moments but I dismissed them as pure coincidence.i can’t control it .it just happens.the last incident was the play three number 109 on January 30 midday .i meet my ex husband at our usual drop off point stop and shop .he handed me a card and said the pin is 109.it was very strange when he said the PIN number to me it came out super slow as if someone slowed down a recording.Im here because I’m trying to find someone to help me with this not sure where to start i know there are a lot of fakes out there.so not sure who to trust.
Hi Malle,
Thanks for your comment. What kind of help are you looking for? I think talking to other people with psychic gifts would definitely help! Unfortunately, we do not have a platform for that yet but are thinking about it. Sending you lots of sparks of joy!
Hello 🌻
I absolutely know I have gifts, one of them feeling other people’s moods and emotions . I was drawn to tarot and spirit and my angels communicate through the cards to me.
The biggest gift of all so far is I can immediately recognize intuitively a “special” person like myself. Its amazing and a few people I have met don’t even know they have abilities.
I get stronger daily.
The people are always amazed that I know.
How???
I can feel it.
I can also feel when a person is evil or on the fence between good and bad.
I love animals especially dogs.
I would rather be around my dog than people people.
I love music and nature.
Thank you for your input.
R.K
Hi Ronny, Thank you for your comment! It definitely sounds like you have psychic gifts. It seems to me that you not only have clairvoyant but also claircognizant abilities because recognizing intuitively a “special” person is one of the signs of this psychic ability. I wrote an article about claircognizance too, so I definitely recommend to read that one. Hope this answered your question. Good luck and sending you lots of sparks of joy!
I am having visions with open eyes while being fully awake for some time now. First, before some months I felt something huge come and hit me and after maybe a month, a pet dog was run over by a four-wheeler. Small things like arguments or quarrels between people happening and I kind of sense them before…
Then now, before some days I had a vision, an image or sight of a snake sitting quietly on Desktop PC table. I am very scared of snakes, so wondering does it point to some danger regarding snakes or just spiritual energy like Kundalini shakti arising inside me?
Hi Lopamudra,
Thank you for your comment! A snake is connected to life force and primal energy. When a snake appears in your life or visions, it can indicate that healing opportunities, change, important transitions, and increased energy are manifesting. Hope this comforts you a bit:)