So, hearing in the dark?It's hard to actually define the sixth sense.... (extrasensory perception) I've read it as our ability to perceive an unseen world.
We have a ton of senses in additional to the five most people commonly think of as "all our senses", but neither of them detect the supernatural. Picking up emotions in places sounds like you're just subconsciously reading other people's body language.
I have never really experienced anything that I thought was of supernatural origin, although I have experienced a lot of things that I myself couldn't tell what was, or why happened.
And what parker is explainin is something called... i forgot the name, but it's actually really common. It's the same thing that makes some people always remember the times they get a red light right as they get to an intersection and think/say "god damn, this always happens" while at the same time forgetting about the 3242304809234 times they got to an intersection and didn't get a red light. This is because having a green light during the entire sequence from when you see the light to you're past the intersection doesn't usually trigger a lot of emotions or require any additional actions, you just continue doing what you did anyway, while getting a red light invokes negative emotions because you for example could get delayed and forces you to respond physically by braking, and therefore is remembered a lot more easily.
It literally happens all the time, even to those who are aware of how it works (like me).