'Sixth sense' is the colloquial term for the faculties of 'extra-sensory perception' (ESP). Sixth sense is the ability to receive or send information beyond the realm of the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). The term 'sixth sense' was coined by German researcher Dr. Rudolf Tischner whose book "Telepathy and Clairvoyance" was written in German in 1920 and published in English in 1925. Because the definition of sense is vague, the precise definition of extra-sensory is as well, but the term is generally used in reference to humans, to imply sources of information unknown to modern science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-sensory_perception

Putting it simply, the "sixth sense" allows you to sense objects around you, pretty much like a radar, giving you a sensation, probably a tingling sensation in your neck, to warn you of approaching danger in example.

A sixth Sense is the special ability to sense things. both me and my mother have 6 senses and are on the same wavelength all the time I was going to go on a camping trip one time in the 8th grade and when my parents took me to thier house when i was going to get in thier van i suddlenly backed out something bothered me i didnt go. this lovely family on the way to the camp got into a car accient with a tractor trailor and all of them persished i would have been one of them if i went something told me not to go. I believe it was my 6th sense thanks to this iam alive today its just the ablity to sense more things than maybe a regular person would.

Our Western society is very much oriented towards sience and logic, and has been at least since the end of the dark ages. Before that (and after too, it persists even today) anything precieved or a having 'higher knowledge' about things was severely supressed by the catholic mainly and later protestant churches too. They wanted to have a monopoly on everything 'not of this earth'. In that world, and our modern scientific world, anything which is not directly able to explain by biological standards, is either absurd (today's common notion) or satanic. If it was not the case, in other words, if we would live in another world (compare to the countries in the far east or native american people), it wouldn't be necessary to answer this question. a 6th sense would be completely 'normal' in your perception, as normal as looking at things. Do no undererstimate the power of your culture. our western culture has alienated us from the idea (fact) that a human being (or any living being) is sentient in numerous aspects. Our mere physical senses are as crude as our body, in relation to, for example, the part of us that dreams and feels or thinks. According to our abilities, one can 'see' (it is as porbably more a 'feeling' or 'knowing'), 'hear', dream, 'know' and foretell things. Apart from things as telepathy (the transfer of thoughts, the ability to sense what another is thinking, or 'picking up the thought that another human is thinking right know', how many times have you had the experience that more than one person concieves the same idea or has the same thought? ever picked up the phone and the caller is the one you were thinking about?), much is related to the non-physical world, the higher spheres. But that, is a whole different question. There are loads of books about this, read on!

We are aware of our surroundings in more ways that we can explain by the normal five senses we all acknowledge we have. Eventhough we may not be able to link this awareness directly to one or more of our senses, we are still able to draw conclusions that are correct. It might simply be our subconscious making connections based on prior experience or by reading the 'body language' of the people around us. I believe that we call it the sixth sense during those occassions just because we cannot connect it to the five known senses.

The best way I can describe it is ; when I was young, my mom, dad, and I would be enjoying a lazy afternoon and all at once my mom would jump up, start sweeping the floor, and frantically cleaning house, when we would ask her why she suddenly decided to clean, she would say well (call the name of an aunt or uncle or someone) they will be here any minute and I have to get things cleaned up. I swear to you, it would not be 10 minutes later when the person she named would pull into the driveway. Later on, after we got a telephone, she would grab the phone and say hello with dad and I looking at her like she was nuts telling her it did not ring. She would shrug her shoulders and hang it up and no sooner than she let go of it would it ring. My mother also had dreams that came true. She dreamed of a wreck on the highway in front of our house over and over again. She kept telling us she say eggs in their hair.The day the wreck happened, a lady and her little girl had been to the grocery store an there were eggs broken all over the highway and all in the little girl's hair just as she had dreamed. My mother did not TRY to do this, it was just something that was a part of her life. I have had a few occasions in my life where I knew things before they happened but not to the extent she did, and not very often has it happened to me as with her it was on a daily basis. I believe my mother had " a sixth sense".