Welcome to our forum for NBC's TV show Medium!

[Lesa]

How many of you are as stuck on this show as I am? I'm not afraid to admit that I believe in the possibility that, maybe all psychics aren't frauds, and it's intriguing to contemplate that very possibility.

However... I have to say something about the real Allison DuBois (played by Patricia Arquette on the show)... I visited Allison's site today, and realized that the person running her site had repeated a paragraph on her "friends" page, and I thought to myself, "If she's psychic, then why hasn't she picked up on anyone noticing this little faux pas and had it fixed?" Anyway, if I go back to Allison's site tomorrow and find the mistake fixed, that might help confirm for me the existence of real psychics.

So anyway, the thing that brought me to Allison's website is, I was wondering how much of the show Medium takes from Allison's real life, and how much of it is artistic license. Do her daughters really (well, supposedly really?) have psychic abilities. According to her website, the answer is yes. If this is true, then I really have to feel sorry for Joe (Allison's husband), who's probably wondering if the women in his family are sending thoughts back and forth about him behind his back.

At any rate, welcome to our Medium forum!

[Lizzbitt]

This show is awesome. I love it.

Yes, Gig, I believe also.

I love the way this medium is trying to live a normal life. With husband, kids and all.

But see's ghost all over the place.

Now the show is pre-empted for the show "The Contender." Drats! I don't know when it will be back on.

Recommend it.

[Joxcenia]

In the Bible, King Saul went to a witch to speak to Samuel, who had died. I don't know if he talked with the real Samuel, or to a demon in disguise though... I have had some experiences with "sixth sense" phenomenon; gut feelings that came true, knowing what someone was thinking, and coming up with ideas that someone claimed they were going to suggest as well. Nothing extraordinary.

"King Saul"+Talk to the dead+Samuel

[Lesa]

Lizzbitt, Medium was on tonight at 10pm, and was only pre-empted last week. Hopefully you'll still be able to catch it tonight.

Jox, could these gut feelings be something that could just be chalked up to intuitive deductions, or a true sixth sense?


I've actually had a couple of experiences myself that could either be coincidence, or a sixth sense.


When I was 15 years old and had a 16-year-old boyfriend whose dad was in the hospital with cancer. He had been admitted to the hospital a few times before, but this time he was doing so bad that I definitely felt that it would be his last. I told myself that if he survived through the night, he wouldn't make it through the next morning.


I stayed with my boyfriend all night at the hospital, then went home to shower, and went to school the next day. Through the first hour I had that sleep-deprived giddiness about me, then after first hour, at 9am, I went straight from silly to depressed and broke out in tears. Halfway through 2nd hour, a student aide came to the door and announced for me to go to the office. My boyfriend's dad had died. When I asked what time he died, they told me it was 9am. Coincidence, or sixth sense?

When I was 17, my dad called me at work to tell me my grandfather was in the hospital with cancer, but my dad didn't know how bad it was or if he would make it through. After hanging up the phone, I immediately turned to my boss and told him I would need time off for a funeral soon. Notice I said would, not might. He asked me when. I told him I don't know, probably in a few days. I ended up being right, although my dad never told me he was terminal. Maybe my dad actually knew and just wasn't telling me, but I could sense it in his voice? Or was it a sixth sense?


Then there are little things...

When I was 16, I dreamt of one of those roadside carnival things with the rides, and I remembered the "Octopus" in particular. The next day, I rode past one of those roadside carnivals, complete with the "Octopus" ride.

Two nights ago, I dreamt that I met Muhammad Ali. Yesterday, I saw him in person at the store for the 2nd time in my life.

Coincidence? Or something else?

[Joxcenia]

Lesigner said:

Jox, could these gut feelings be something that could just be chalked up to intuitive deductions, or a true sixth sense?

A true sixth sense... but it's been mostly stupid stuff that I ignored and later came true... no harm no foul... but it's given me pause that in the future it could very well be something of real importance that I shouldn't ignore, just in case it does matter.

[Lesa]

What kind of stuff? Maybe it's not stupid at all.

[Joxcenia]

Years ago we had one of those huge satellite dishes out in our yard. Lines ran to two homes with two separate boxes, my parents and my sisters. HBO was having an open weekend and we were taping movies and such. Anyhoo, I was at my parents by myself... everyone else had gone. My brother-in-law was taping the boxing match on HBO over at his home, but I was watching regular TV at my parents home, so I turned off the satellite box. When I did I felt that I should turn it back on or the boxing match wouldn't get taped, but I didn't listen because the boxes weren't connected and turning off one doesn't effect the other. Only when my brother-in-law backed up the tape, the match suddenly went to snow.

Turns out that the wires had been effected by the rain and it somehow connected the two boxes, so that when the main box was turned off, so was the other box. When the wires were dug up and the exposed wires were dried and taped over to seal them from the rain, the main box being turned off never effected the second box again. And this had never occurred before, so there was no way for me to think that it would happen this time.

As I said, it's just been stupid stuff like this. I've been fortunate that ignoring my gut feelings hasn't resulted in anything more serious than situations like this... but I feel that I should listen to my gut from now on just in case it does happen to be something far more serious in the future.

[Lesa]

Eerie. Something might be using something small to tell you that you need to listen to your gut, in order to prepare you for something bigger in the future. If you had listened that time, you never would have known that your gut was right in the first place about your box affecting his box. As they say, you learn more from your mistakes than you do your successes.

[Joxcenia]

I've kind of wondered if these experiences were to teach me to listen to my gut from now on.

[Lesa]

Most (if not all) people should listen to their gut, whether it's psychic intuition or life experience that causes someone to react a certain way.

I was in a car accident when I was 17. Although the person in front of me was going below the speed limit and I thought about passing her, I changed my mind and slowed down because of a road coming up that crossed my road at a weird angle. If I hadn't slowed down, my car could've been totaled, or I could've been badly injured. Instead, I came out with a broken A frame and a smashed fender. Some might say that my slowing down was intuition (after all, who would expect someone to dart out in front of traffic that doesn't stop?) but it could also be simple logic and caution. What I do know is it was good to listen to my gut and slow down.

Edit: I guess I should add that the authorities obviously thought it was safe for cars to pass each other on stretch of that road, since they had a dotted line going down the center instead of a solid double line, and how was I, a 17-year-old at the time, to know any better than them? However, within a year or two after that accident, they added stop signs to make that intersection into a 4-way stop instead of just a 2-way.

[Crstlmichallet]

I love Medium and the way they keep you wondering what it is that she's actually seeing. Also, I am a believer that psychics exist, but I also believe that there are a lot of charlatons out there.

Crystal

[Lesa]

I tend to believe the same thing too, Crystal. Too many "coincidences" in one's life can only be something other than coincidence, and what else is there? On the other hand, I'll go so far as to say I 'know' there are fakes out there, because there are far too many stories of people spending all their money at a supposed psychic and the 'psychic' hasn't really helped them at all.

[Crstlmichallet]

I've always believed that a true psychic will never ask or take money. That's usually how I've been able to tell the real one's apart from the fake ones.

About the show, is it in hiatius already? Maybe they weren't sure about it's success and didn't film that many? Either way, I hope it comes back soon. Although I like some reality shows, I'm sure glad to see that quality drama's like Medium are starting to become popular again.

Crystal

[Joxcenia]

Last Monday's show was new... and this coming Monday's show is suppose to be new.

As to real Psychics charging for thier services... I don't have a problem with them making a little money; taking donations, if you will... but $300 an hour seems kind of steep. Although they could be weeding out the looky-loos from the real seekers.

I mean, if you had this gift, and people hounded you day and night for help so that it was hard to make a living from having to take off of work all the time... wouldn't you want to at least make enough from this "gift" to support you and your family?

So, I don't have a problem with them trying to make enough to live on, and perhaps to save for their kid's education, etc.

[Crstlmichallet]

Was there a show this past monday? Did I miss it??

And about psychics the only ones I've known are people who don't do it for a business. Actually I've met them at the weirdest times, like at friends parties. Out of the blue someone comes up to me and starts doing a reading and then they begin to tell me things that I have to do in my life. lol, heck, I don't even tell them anything, they tell me everything. So aside for these encounters I've never met any who depended on their gift to pay their rent and bills. Of course if any of them were in dire need today I would bend over backwards to help them out.

Crystal

[Joxcenia]

Yeppers... You missed an episode.

I don't personally know any psychics, only seen a few on TV shows and in movies, books, etc., and from that I gathered that some are swamped with people bugging them for help. I always thought that psychics shouldn't charge, until recently, and then I decided that if they were so busy helping people that they couldn't hold down a job, they deserved to get paid. Just as long as their fees are reasonable. I think that it's usually the fake ones that charge thousands of dollars for their services, and they usaully do it in a way so that you think you're paying off a curse/hex that someone placed on you.

[Joxcenia]

Medium - TV Tome

• Status: Returning Series
  (Renewed for a 2nd Season)
  
• Episode order: 16

10 episodes have aired, so there are 6 new ones left to air.

[Lesa]

Yay! It's being picked up for a 2nd season!
Thanks for the info, Jox!

I agree, there's nothing wrong with making a living off a gift. Different people have different gifts. Some paint, some sing, some act, some are genius mathemeticians, some are good enough scientists to find cures for widespread diseases. I think everyone should be able to make a living by using their gifts, and psychics, I mean real psychics shouldn't be an exception.

But if they make people believe that they're needed to end some curse, as Jox said, or if they drain people of their life savings for no other reason than for their own gain, etc., then they need to be thrown in jail for fraud. If they really do have psychic abilities, they still shouldn't charge a lot just because they're hard to find. In fact, I just thought about another reason why true psychics (assuming they really exist) should charge for their services, and that's because if they're easier to find, then people won't be so desperate that they go to the frauds who charge them up the wazoo. Supply and demand and all that good stuff....

[eirene]

Does anybody know here, what it means to be an telepath, empath? You need a incredible self control to live your life, protecting yourself from the other ones, 'cause if you don't do that every thought and every feeling of the menkind will hit you with the force of an 10 kilo hammer. There are NO secrets for you and you'll things know, which nobody should know. You know exactly when and how the people dies, you feel it when their time is coming. And I mean with feeling that you feel the fight for every breath, the pain of a cancer patient and when one of your friends would ripped apart so you can feel the pain on your own body and in your own soul when it happens, you can smell the blood and you can see the heart beeding on the ground. THAT it means to be an telepath and an empath. Endless pain nothing more, there is no mysterium or something like that. Time isn't the same it doesn't matter, cause you can go back in every time and in every place. And I personally don't like it very much to be described as an "psychic" , kay?

[Lesa]

Hi Eirene. I think Allison DuBois's abilities falls more into the "remote viewing" category than the "telepathic" category, although that doesn't mean she doesn't have some telepathic and/or empathic abilities as well. "Psychic" is just a more generalized term to describe a wide range of enhanced mental abilities, telepathy being just one of them, and it isn't meant to be derrogatory at all.

Definitions from about.com:

PSYCHIC - Popular term used to denote a person who regularly uses, or who appears to be especially gifted with, psi abilities. Also refers to general phenomena related to the mind (from Greek psyche).

PSI - A general term for parapsychological phenomena that includes informational (RV, ESP) and energetic (PK) effects. Psi, or Y, is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet.

REMOTE VIEWING (RV) - Ability to access distant or shielded information primarily of visual character, such as natural or structural features, via an unknown mental process. RV can include other sensory modes, such as feelings, motion, or sound. Some individuals associate specific approaches, or protocols, with RV. Other similar terms: remote perception, enhanced perception, extrasensory perception (ESP).

Have you had telepathic experiences?

[eirene]

Lesigner said:

Hi Eirene. I think Allison DuBois's abilities falls more into the "remote viewing" category than the "telepathic" category, although that doesn't mean she doesn't have some telepathic and/or empathic abilities as well. "Psychic" is just a more generalized term to describe a wide range of enhanced mental abilities, telepathy being just one of them, and it isn't meant to be derrogatory at all.

Definitions from about.com:
Have you had telepathic experiences?

Her abilities are nothing against mine. That what she can do is nothing else as children toys for me.

[Grrlpower]

I just finished watching an episode of Medium. It is interesting to see how the writer's mind works. I think the show has potential due to the many ways they can use the character and her talents. In this ep the little girl wore the red bicycle helmet throughout. I like how they throw in attention getters like that to continue the character and the family in the show. I also like how the couple works together. Like a real family they have to work through the day to day trials and tribulations combining the working life with the home life.

[Lesa]

I didn't get home until 11pm, so I missed this episode. But hubby explained the helmet to me, and it sounds like a cute storyline. I bet her pictures were both cute and funny!

[Grrlpower]

true they were very cute and reminded me of my child's school pics. She went through similar issues wearing the same outfit days in a row and with the furry boots that started to smell after they got wet and it took forever for me to find a replacement pair anfd when I did I had to buy them in bulk just in case. hehe

The last ep I saw was the one with the doctor on death row who was possessed by an evil that tortured patients. Very interseting...

The next episode looks like it is to be a tear jerker for all those who have lost their child in a clothes rack at the department store. Panic is always an attention getter.

[Joxcenia]

Yeah... we've had the little buggers hide inside the center of a circular clothes rack before.... they think it's funny.

[Grrlpower]

Tell me about it...Kids all think it is funny until you leave them behind. Another testament for lojacking the kiddos. I love the idea or maybe those anklettes that beep when they stray over 4 feet away from the parent...Or my favorite leash the kids to the parent upon entering the department store or mall. Spoken of course by a person that has been subjected to numerous wild children without proper parental supervision. The mall is not the babysitter!

I was gonna comment on the show but remembered the west coast hasn't seen it yet and there is no need for spoilers here. I just say I thought the ending sucked only cause I am impatient! I want the answer NOW... ;D

[Joxcenia]

Yeah... they gotta leave us hangin' all summer.

[Grrlpower]

They sure are expecting alot since I forget a lot more important things every day. To remember what happened a season ago is never gonna stick, especially when I can't even remember when a show is on. Good thing about the summer is the reruns when I can catch all the eps I missed the first go around. Why is it though that every time I turn on a rerun it is inevitably an ep I have seen?

[Lesa]

*raises hand*  My brother and I both hid in the clothes rack, and I still remember the snickering while Mom looked for us, telling us sternly to come out from wherever we were. Poor Mom. I learned about 15 years later how frantic that will make a person, when my little sister would disappear during a shopping trip. One time we decided to turn the tables and hide from her, but only until she started showing the first signs of panic. Didn't want to scar her for life or anything. Now she's 17 and driving, and I'm 32 going on 60.

I agree, the ending to this ep sucked... but only because it was such a great cliffhanger! I hope he doesn't do what I think he's doing, unless the doctors can bring him back. But he's in such bad shape already!

It always seems like the only reruns I ever see are eps I've already seen too, even when there are a lot I haven't seen. What's up with that?

[Grrlpower]

{It always seems like the only reruns I ever see are eps I've already seen too, even when there are a lot I haven't seen. What's up with that? }

I take it as a sign to turn off the boobtube and go outside and play, or come play on the puter.