I was chatting with a friend about psychics yesterday. She went to a psychic and had some revealing revelation. It got me thinking. When I think of psychics, I think, “What a waste of money and a scam!” Guess I've seen one too many Psychic Network commercials or something. Yet, as I think about me and people I know, I think, perhaps it's not all a scam.

Earlier this week, while visiting my Grandma and Uncle, I had FOUR precognitive visions realized in one day. That's highly unusual for me. Precongition is such an unusual trait as it is. For years, I've “forseen” things happen. They're always seemingly inconsequential things, but they happen.

I remember the moment a few weeks ago when these “visions” appeared. I was planning on when I'd see my family, when one of them came to me. I didn't think too much of it at the time. It's too much like daydreaming, and if you know me, you know my mind wanders a lot. And when the first vision was realized, it was like normal. But by the fourth, “Whoa! Too weird!”

That said, I was thinking that perhaps psychics selling their services aren't a total load of B.S. like I imagine. I mean, I know several people who have different types of psychic, shall we say, “powers”. If I'm to go by my psychic training in Dungeons & Dragons, then there are many different types of psychic powers. Precognition being just one. Mind-reading being another.

So when my friend told me that this psychic she visited nailed some things about her life… really far-reaching, and one that pretty much had MY name on it for her. I thought perhaps she was psychic. But what kind of psychic. I would imagine the most-successful psychic does what every skeptic assumes, they tell you what you want to hear. And assuming this psychic could read minds to some degree, she could easily tell my friend what she wanted to hear.

I say this because the comments regarding the “musician far away” just didn't stand up in MY mind. One of my other friends went to a psychic and was told exactly what she was going to do with her soon-to-be fiancee. But it sounds a lot more like a mind reader to me. Not a fortune teller, or someone with precognitive abilities who will be telling you the lottery numbers like I wish my precog would do. No, just a mind-reader who tells you what you're already thinking, or hoping for.

And for that, well, I see that as a rather valuable service. I mean, sometimes it is nice to have a picture painted for you that shows exactly, without any doubt what you already know. Because I, for one, am frequently blinded to the things that are plain as day to others.

But it also serves as a warning. If they are just reading minds, then you run the risk of believing that the vision is outside of you. When, in fact, it is just your own desires.

As for me, I'm quite happy with my simple precognitive visions. Though dang, I wish it would send me next week's lottery numbers!