We speak of a “sixth sense” as a sensation we cannot identify with seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, or tasting, but which we know is there. “It” can be anything imagined or real, a person or a higher power. Some people refer to the phenomenon as extrasensory perception, or ESP. A writer can make excellent use of a “sixth sense” in mainline fiction as well as in mystery and suspense fiction. You are alone in the house, and you hear a door close. Is it the wind? But there is no wind inside the house.
