Finally a great discussion!
Well I’m not sure what the Chi exactly means, so I looked it up on the dictionary.
Again I can’t exactly understand it, but following this discussion, I can create an opinion on what it is, although I can’t explain it.
It sounds a little strange indeed what you’re saying like feeling somebody’s heat or opinions or whatever you mentioned and so far I haven’t come across with it, but I’m sure I got some strange “Senses”
For example, I can feel a person when getting closer; I think other do feel it as well, but I can feel it when they are not so close. I feel like a “Shadow” coming closer and closer untill I speek to him or her. I don’t hear that person walking, no, I don’t feel him or her, but I feel it coming to me. For example, I work with my laptop at my school, and once my English teacher came to see what I was doing. While she was about a meter away from me, I stopped working on my Laptop, and she wandered why I was doing that. She said, go on, why did you stop?
Also, when rarely I want to cheat on any test, again, it happens rarely, I make sure where the teacher is, I can locate almost exactly where the teacher is, then I do what I need to do. Another example: when I walk on the street, there are some big houses which have big gates. The point is, I can feel the space between the door and the road, and I can go, right there.
Another similar case occurs with cars. Once, I was walking with my best friend close to the school. He is not blind, and I felt like there were a blocked space over there. A car was parked, and I could feel it. I asked him right away: Who’s got that car?
He got stunned saying, what the heck? Can you see it?
Another interesting example, at least for me, I don’t know how did it happen, although I did it myself. We were sitting somewhere out of the school, and some guys were playing basketball. Suddenly, the ball was flying in front of me, very fast, and I felt it when it came very close. It would hit my head, but I moved it, and the ball crashed onto the wall. I don’t know why I did it, but I’m sure I felt something.
I am never sure where does this come from. But I assume that many blind people have some senses like these. When coming to the question why, the reason is theoretically very simple. Many people try to explain it like a miracle of god. God helps them, they used to say, but I think it’s very difficult to literally explain it. Although the science has advanced so much, they’re still unable to explain some phenomenon, like, why does a person get red into face when you yell at them? Or, why does the face “View” change when a person laughs.
Anyway these are somewhat different from what were we discussing, but it’s highly interesting to know about them.