Ever drive down the road, your wind wandering, and suddenly you realize you are much further along than you thought you were? You’ve taken turns, made stops, but realize that you’ve actually been driving toward your destination on autopilot? Your brain instinctively kept following the path you knew, even though you were not consciously plugged in nor was the the rubber of your rational mind hitting the road.

That’s called intuition.

Intuition. The ability to understand something without the use or need of conscious reasoning. According to Psychology Today, intuition is your brain on autopilot. It is nonconscious thinking, a form of reflexive reasoning.*

Many of us have gut instincts, hunches that we follow, suspicions that we can’t explain or evade. Police do it. Detectives do it. Scien…