As a journalist I once interviewed a woman who claimed to hear clairvoyantly. She wouldn’t get information by feeling things, but she could tell things about people by listening to their voice. I found it fascinating for some reason. And I totally forgot about her, till I had a similar experience. One of my former colleagues had told me some things, and suddenly I wondered: why would you say that? But I guess it was because I got something different out of her voice, than the actual things that she was saying.

Body Language

My colleague was a charming, good-looking lady, somewhere in her late thirties. Her looks were helpful to move around in the world of marketing and suits, but she was also intelligent and she had a talent for communication. She would talk to people, and they would listen. Not sure if her legs were talking as well, but I could imagine that they would excel at body language. So you have an idea. She knew she had a great body, and she put a lot of effort in maintaining it.

Party

So one day she was telling me about a promotional party she had attended. It was fun according to her, and at some point she told me about the wife of a friend of hers. That she was actually there at the party with him. How she moved around, and how she had a little bit of trouble with it, ’cause of some injury. Nothing weird about that, people can have injuries. But when I heard her saying all of that, the energy was different from the actual spoken words. Like she was wondering: it should have been me, next to him. And: why would he be with her? I was surprised myself, since there was nothing wrong with the actual words. But some different information entered my system. As if I could read the voice apart from the spoken words.

Love Affair

Then I realized that her friend had told me once, at some gathering, how they had actually met. And according to my colleague it was not the case, they knew each other because of something else. Also interesting: they had travelled together for business, because they were both working in the world of publishing & marketing. So when I realized that, I drew a conclusion: maybe they had had some kind of love affair. And she was expecting a different kind of wife, perhaps someone more like her.

Synesthesia

I never confronted my colleague with my ideas – how would I? I didn’t have any hard evidence at all for such allegations. Not to mention any reason to accuse her of something like that. And maybe there was no such thing as ‘hearing her voice clairvoyantly’. Perhaps I had just taken the things I already knew about them into account, when she was telling her story, and I jumped into conclusions.

But I do know that a former student of mine had told me once that he “could see sound” – which was a different story, but also interesting. And it got backed up by some phenomenon called ‘synesthesia’, where sounds can trigger seeing colors. So without any proof at all, I would just say: who knows, maybe by now she has already faced the music – whether she can see sound or not.