17 Signs You Are Highly Intuitive & Don’t Know It
Highly intuitive people may not even realize that they are intuitive. Even if you believe other people are intuitive, you may not realize that you are too.
Everyone is born with intuition, but some people work on developing it stronger. It doesn’t mean that if you don’t work on it that you aren’t intuitive. You may have been born with strong intuitive senses and aren’t even aware of them because it feels normal to you.
Are you highly intuitive without even realizing it? In this article, I go over 17 traits to know for sure if you are indeed a highly intuitive person.
17 Signs You Are Highly Intuitive And Don’t Know It
1. Highly Intuitive People Trust How They Feel Over What They Are Told
If you are highly intuitive, then you trust your gut. You know that what someone may be saying isn’t correct. You can basically see through BS and if someone is telling you something but it doesn’t match their energy, you can tell.
You trust your intuition and how you feel. If you are being told otherwise, you simply don’t accept it as your truth. You can read energy and can feel when something is off, even if you don’t exactly know what or why. But you trust how you feel over what is being said by someone else.
2. Highly Intuitive People Need Alone Time to Recharge
It’s really important for intuitive people to spend time alone to recharge. If you find yourself needing time to do this, then you are highly intuitive.
As an intuitive, you pick up on other people’s energy and you know that you need to clear it. So, you spend time alone to clear what you’ve picked up and recharge your own energy.
You may even be labeled as an introvert and feel a bit different for craving your alone time. Others may not understand why it’s so important for you to be alone sometimes. That is ok, as they are likely not as sensitive to energy as you are. It’s important to take care of yourself and recharge whenever you feel that you need to.
3. Highly Intuitive People Pick Up on People’s Emotions
If you are intuitive, then you easily pick up on what other people are feeling. It may be so strong that you don’t even realize it is coming from someone else. It can feel like it’s coming from you.
You can feel how someone feels about something even if they say something different. This is a superpower in a sense that it is very hard to deceive you and you can get to the bottom of things when someone is hesitant to share. You ask more questions and find out more information because you know their feelings aren’t matching what they are saying.
Many coaches and counsellors are highly intuitive because they can feel people’s emotions which allows them to help someone much better. They can understand where they are coming from and know what they need at a deeper level.
4. Highly Intuitive People Can Sense What’s Not Being Said
If you are highly intuitive you can read between the lines. When you have a conversation with someone, a lot isn’t said. As an intuitive person, you pick up on this. You can sense their body language and feel when their words don’t match their energy and when they are holding back.
You likely don’t know exactly what isn’t being said but you pick up that there is more to the story. Empaths are especially skilled at this as they can feel the emotions of the person. This allows them to get a deeper sense of what is going on.
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5. Highly Intuitive People Have Vivid Dreams & Pay Attention to Them
If you have very vivid dreams, then you are a highly intuitive person. When you dream and remember your dreams, you use your third eye to recall what happened. So, if you are having very eventful dreams and remembering the details of them, then you are clairvoyant.
I highly recommend recording your dreams in the morning so that you can analyze them and receive messages from them. There are many messages in your dreams and if you learn how to decipher these messages, they can be really helpful to you.
6. Highly Intuitive People Can Sense When Something is Off
If you are highly intuitive, you can sense if something is off even if you don’t know what it is. You may get a bad feeling about something or someone even if to your mind they seem perfectly nice, or you don’t actually see something wrong in a situation.
It is a gut feeling you get, and you listen to it because you know that you are feeling this way for a reason.
7. Highly Intuitive People Are Discerning with People
As a highly intuitive person, you trust what you feel above what everyone else thinks. So, if you feel something is off with someone, you trust it. Even if other people tell you otherwise or think you are crazy or too picky for thinking so.
You may not be able to put your finger on why you feel a certain way, but you do. You know that your gut instincts never let you down and you are cautious around people who feel off to you.
8. Highly Intuitive People Often Get Signs from the Universe
Everyone gets signs from the universe all the time but if you are intuitive then you notice the signs you get and use them to help you. So, while everyone would love divine guidance it is all around you if you pay attention.
A highly intuitive person will ask for a sign and then be open to what they receive. Once they receive that sign, they run it by their intuition as well as their rational mind and see if it makes sense. If it does, they use it in a practical way to help them.
There are signs all around you and once you begin to notice them, they appear more frequently. If you want to learn more, check out my article, “Signs from the Universe – 15 Magical Ways You Receive Signs.”
9. Highly Intuitive People Receive a Lot of Synchronicities
Everyone receives synchronicities but the difference between highly intuitive people is that they notice when they are happening.
If you are highly intuitive you will often be at the right place at the right time. For example, you may enter the coffee shop at the exact moment your soul mate is there and end up starting a conversation with them. Or you may be at the mall, and you go past your friend that you want to patch things up with at the exact moment they are leaving the store and you are entering it.
Another synchronicity that you may notice is repeating numbers, angel numbers, or numbers that have special meaning to you. You always just happen to look at the clock at 11:11. Or the car in front of you has your deceased dad’s birth year on it just as you are thinking of him.
Another synchronicity that you may notice is that your thoughts are manifesting in front of you more often. For example, you may be thinking of grabbing a smoothie, and then your friend texts you to go for a smoothie.
These are all synchronicities that happen to you when you are highly intuitive and are open to receiving messages from the universe.
10. Highly Intuitive People Have a Connection with Nature & Animals
If you are highly intuitive then you’ve probably noticed that you have a connection with nature and animals. It’s almost as if you can communicate with them telepathically.
You can go up to a tree and receive messages from it. Or sit by a body of water and receive guidance. When you place your hands on the ground, you can feel the energy of who has been there before and what the earth wants to communicate to you. You can feel nature.
Animals trust you and come up to you whereas they will not come up to some other people. Animals are very intuitive and know who they can trust and who to steer clear of. If they come up to you, they know that they have a connection with you and can communicate with you on a different level than words can convey. They understand energy and can feel who you are.
11. Highly Intuitive People Don’t Follow the Crowd
It’s easy to follow the crowd and do something because everyone else is doing it. I mean, who wants to be the odd one out?
Highly intuitive people won’t follow the crowd when their intuition is screaming at them that something isn’t right.
So, while other people may not question something at all and do it because everyone else is or ignore their gut feeling, highly intuitive people can’t just ignore it.
If you’ve ever been in this situation where you wanted to go along with the crowd, but your intuition was on fire saying, “this isn’t right” and so you reluctantly decided to be the odd one out then you are highly intuitive. Your intuition is so strong that it is more important for you to follow it than to do something to fit it.
12. Highly Intuitive People Are Always Aware of How They Are Feeling
If you are highly intuitive then you are always aware of what emotions are coming up because you know that how you feel is guidance for you.
You are aware that negative emotions are telling you that something isn’t right or that you are thinking a thought that isn’t beneficial to you. Just as you are aware that your positive emotions are showing you that you are on the right path, and you are thinking empowering thoughts.
You are also aware that not every emotion you feel is yours. You may come into contact with someone and pick up on their emotions. Or you may pick on collective energy especially if it is heightened due to world events or astrological alignments.
13. Highly Intuitive People Have a Strong Sense of Purpose & Mission on Earth
As a highly intuitive person, you know that you are here on earth for reason, even if you aren’t sure what that reason is. You feel there’s a bigger purpose to things that you may not be able to see yet. You trust that you are here for a reason.
This often leads to you trying to figure out what that purpose is. As you do this, you come across all sorts of knowledge and begin to expand your consciousness to a new level. You may go on a big journey on the way to your life purpose.
Your purpose may show up when you least expect it, and it may surprise you. It can be different than what you envision. But know that you are ready to take it on and you’ve been preparing for it your whole life.
14. Highly Intuitive People Are Deep Thinkers
Intuitive people think beyond what they see or hear. They want to get to the bottom of things, and they know there is more to something than what they can see. They think at a level higher than what is right in front of their face.
Highly intuitive people need time to process the information they receive so that they can run it by their intuition and then see what their rational mind thinks of it. They don’t just hear something and then let it go. They explore it further and try to find more to it than they can currently see. They are continuously seeking more knowledge with an expanded consciousness.
15. Highly Intuitive People Are Open to ‘Unrealistic’ Experiences
When you are highly intuitive you don’t put limits on yourself and what you can experience. You know that there are things out there that seem unrealistic to other people but that are possible. They haven’t opened their mind enough to see other possibilities than what they’ve experienced. But you know there are always other possibilities and even if you haven’t experienced them yet, it doesn’t mean that you won’t sometime in the future.
You believe in extraordinary things such as seeing and communicating with spirit guides, angels, and deceased loved ones. You believe it’s possible to time travel and tap into other supernatural abilities that aren’t spoken of such as telekinesis, telepathy, astral travel, remote viewing, and teleportation.
You don’t cap your intuitive abilities because they are far-fetched or seem unrealistic to others. You know that if you can imagine it, then it is possible.
16. Highly Intuitive People Enjoy Creating
As an intuitive person, you receive channeled creative information through you. You enjoy working with creative energy and using your talents in a creative way.
Intuition comes in many forms as does channeling and creativity. It isn’t simply painting a picture but creating something that is unique.
For example, the singer on stage who’s in a flow state and allowing the words to come through them is using their intuition to channel inspiration and create something wonderful and unique from it.
The person sitting down to write the most amazing blog post is using their intuition to channel creative energy into the words they put on paper.
The person who is baking the most delicious cookies is tapping into their intuition to receive inspiration on how to make the most amazing cookies ever.
This is all creative energy and intuitive’s use it often. If you enjoy creating (in whichever form is unique to you), then you are highly intuitive.
17. Highly Intuitive People Listen to Their Bodies
Highly intuitive people know that their bodies are communication devices and are connected to their minds. They know that when something is off in their bodies, something needs to be looked at.
When your body is off it might be asking you to look at your thoughts, your emotions, your environment, the information you are consuming, what you are eating, and many other things.
Your body will always alert you when something is off, and it never lies. So, intuitive people pay attention to this and listen to the messages their body is delivering to them.
Final Thoughts
If you are intuitive, you pay attention to everything around you and are very aware when something feels off. You trust your intuition even if your rational mind doesn’t quite know why.
It’s important if you are intuitive that you take breaks away from people and information to recharge and connect with your soul. If you don’t, then you won’t receive information as clearly.
Highly intuitive people often feel different because they aren’t following the crowd, they are following and trusting in their own intuition and a high power guiding them.
How many of these traits do you have? Let me know in the comments below!
~Meghan
