For the first few days which followed this vision experience I was sick with shock.…My Irish background made me wonder if this might not be what the country people called second sight. I did not dare mention the vision to anybody.…Fear overwhelmed me when I realized that I had something unusual in my makeup which made it possible for events to register themselves vividly in some part of my being, whether I wished it or not. Furthermore, I began to realize that the event could be happening either close to me or at a distance, could be occurring in the present, or could have occurred in the past, or might even be about to happen in the future.…

—Eileen Garrett (1893–1970), My Life