Some people call it intuition.
Some call it coincidence.
The real question is: why does perception make others uneasy?
People often ask me: How do you know?
My answer is simple: I don’t know.
People often ask me: How do you know?
I don’t know your sore spot. I don’t know why I land precisely where it hurts. I am often accused of stepping on something sensitive. Of “seeing too accurately.” Of touching a crack as if I searched for it.
I don’t know your sore spot. I don’t look for it. I don’t know how to look for it.
Here is an episode I still do not fully understand. After one seminar, I spoke with a woman. We barely knew each other. The conversation was neutral, surface-level. She mentioned difficulties in her marriage. Thoughts about divorce. Suddenly I felt pity. I do not tend to pity adults. The feeling was unexpected and unpleasant to me.
I did not want to hurt her. It mattered to me not to injure. I was thinking about unawareness.
About how a person may not know what they are living inside. And in order not to say that directly — not to hit — I chose the most distant analogy I could find. Radiation. I said something like: no one knows how it looks, smells, or feels — only theoretically.
She laughed and said, “That’s quite an intuition you have.” I did not understand why intuition was relevant. I continued speaking about invisibility and not knowing. She said again: “I actually know what radiation is.” I assumed she misunderstood my metaphor. I continued. The third time she said: “I know. My mother, while pregnant, worked at a factory in Chelyabinsk. There was a radiation leak. I have been disabled since birth.”
It was her secret. We were not close. She had never told anyone about it. There was nothing in her appearance that could be read as a sign. This is not a topic that floats in the air. I stood there in shock. From where? How?
I had never before and never after used the word “radiation” directed at someone. It is not a stable image for me. Not a meme. Not a habitual metaphor. I chose it precisely because it was maximally distant. To avoid a direct hit. And I landed exactly.
If I were inclined toward mystification, I would have built a system out of this long ago. I would have called it a gift. I would have searched for confirmation. I do not do that. I was raised in a strict materialist context where anything spiritual, invisible, or sacred was treated as near superstition. I have always doubted. Always neutralized my own accuracy. Explained it through memory, logic, coincidence.
But some cases resist explanation. An hour before a car flew off a mountain road, a voice switched on inside me. Not a thought. Not anxiety. Not panic. A calm sentence, like radio static over my own thinking: “If the car flips, where will I look for the first-aid kit?” The car flipped.
Or when I packed all my belongings a week before a house fire. Or when I know that tomorrow rain will come and extinguish a major wildfire. I do not live in prediction mode. I do not stop every time something sounds. I do not hunt for confirmation of uniqueness. I do not build a cult around an inner voice.
This is not prophecy. It is a change in pressure.
I feel shifts in the environment. Like animals feel an earthquake. Like the air changes before a storm. For me, this is background.
The central question is not about a “gift.” It is why, for some people, this is ordinary perception, and for others, it triggers caution.
The most exhausting part is not accuracy. It is the pause that follows it. The look. “How do you know that?” Sometimes admiration. Sometimes alertness. Sometimes coldness, fear, vulnerability, envy.
Then I get explained. Reduced. Interpreted. If a person reads themselves through the reflections of others, my reflection field is chaos. Too intelligent — naïve. Loud — silent. Argumentative — unconditionally agreeable. Self-contained — overly sincere. Cold, calculating — fragile, inexperienced. Over-identified — detached. Boundaryless — closed and difficult. Sometimes in the same dialogue. From the same person.
If I share something unusual, someone replies: “Yes, that happened to me too, nothing special.” And then: “It’s just coincidence. You imagine too much.”
Cassandra’s pain was not seeing the future. It was being heard as a threat.
The humiliating part is the constant need to prove that you are not insane. Either diminish yourself: coincidence, statistics, pattern-seeking brain. Or accept the role of the exceptional one. I refuse both.
I am not a prophet. I am not a carrier of hidden knowledge. Sometimes I hear what has not yet taken verbal form. The difficulty is not in hearing. It is in the suspicion that follows.
Human perception is expected to fit within an acceptable norm. Animals sense earthquakes — no one demands proof. A human senses a shift — proof is required.
Cassandra was not cursed to see. She was cursed to be treated as danger.
I do not know how I know. I know only this: I am done denying the fact of perception.
I do not look for weak spots. I do not carry a map of other people’s wounds. I speak as I think. The radiation story did not make me a mystic. The accident did not make me a prophet. They left a question. Sometimes a sentence sounds inside me that is not equal to my ordinary thinking. It is neither miracle nor achievement. It is a way of being in the world.
Perhaps the real question is not how I know.
Perhaps the real question is: what exactly do we call normal?
The Cat on My Planet — A Short Cosmology of Sensitivity
Structural Continuation
Mechanisms that remain unnamed continue to operate.
If this structure clarifies something,
let it circulate where the mechanism is active.
Architecture changes only when it becomes visible.
Internal Linking Strategy
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