I've always had strange "psychic" experiences, including precognitive dreams and visions. Often they are of seemingly random things, other times they are highly significant to myself or others I am close to. I have a "long-distance" connection to some people, including my mother and one or two friends back in the UK. I usually always have some kind of sense as to how their doing and "know" when they are about to contact me.
I have a couple of friends who claim to be mediums, and whilst I do not normally have any abilities in this area, when I am in their presence, I seem to pick up something of what they are seeing. It comes as images inside my mind, for example, after staying in the house of a "clairvoyant" woman I had just met, I started to "see" spirits floating around her supposedly haunted house. One in particular drew my attention: a young female dressed in white, with a strange sort of innocence about her, who was hovering in front of the clairvoyant woman, who seemed to be unaware of her presence. I suddenly asked her "did you have a sister who died?". She replied that yes, a younger sister of hers died shortly after birth, but she had never seen her spirit and had wondered why all her life. I was able to provide further details and reassure the woman that her sister had been with her all the time.
Now, this is the first time I've ever done anything like that and I am still pondering the consequences.
At other time, people I barely know have come up to me and said "I can tell you are psychic, please tell me what is going on in my life". It happened at a party just last weekend. Somehow, I seem to then be able to start puilling accurate facts about that person from out of thin air; as if by opening up to me they have given me permission to read their mind. Some of my answers can be attributed to reading body language etc, but other facts are just too obscure to put down to that. For example, I could tell the woman at the party wanted her next baby to be a girl. Turned out she had just found out she was pregnant and desperately wanted a girl!
Here are some other recent examples of my strange "gift":
A couple of weeks ago I started thinking about what it must be like to be an albino, all the while thinking how weird it was to be thinking that. Then later the same day a TV show came on with a special all about albinos! I had not read the TV guide for that day, so I had no idea that this show was on.
A few days before that, my family and I were leaving a friend's house after a party. It was dark, the sidewalk was uneven and my Mum has a bad leg, so I thought it was just my imagination when I had a vivid mental image of her falling flat on her face. Six seconds later, she did exactly that, but I was the one who shrieked out loud in surprise. Luckily, she wasn't badly hurt, but I'm still beating myself up for not saying something as soon as I had the intuition.
There are countless other examples, some of which I can dismiss as products of my extremely strong Ni function, but others...., well who knows?
You will note my cautious use of language and inverted commas while describing my experiences. I do believe that many "paranormal" phenomena may be real, however, the scientist in me believes that one day there will be a rational explanation for such things, as well as some answers as to which phenomena are real and which are not.
Phew, that was a long reply, but this is a topic of deep interest to myself.