The clairs are simply names given to different ways intuitive information may be perceived—through seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing, sensing, even smell or taste.

They aren't necessarily dramatic. Clairvoyance doesn't have to mean seeing a spirit standing in the corner of the room, and clairaudience doesn't necessarily mean hearing a disembodied voice.

Often, it's much quieter than that.

An image that suddenly appears in your mind. A sentence that seems to arrive fully formed. A feeling in your body that changes when you walk into a room. Knowing who's calling before you look at your phone.

The interesting part may not be learning how to get intuition so much as learning how yours already speaks.

You're talking with a friend about something she's struggling with and suddenly picture a bridge. You aren't consciously trying to think of one—it simply appears. As you continue talking, it occurs to you that the bridge perfectly represents the transition she's describing.

You're about to leave the house and the words take your umbrella pop into your mind. The forecast looked fine, so you nearly ignore it. Two hours later, it rains.

Or you wake up with a particular song running through your mind and later realize the lyrics have surprising relevance to something happening in your life.

Someone tells you they're completely fine, but you feel an unexpected heaviness in your chest while they're speaking. Nothing they've said suggests anything is wrong, yet something feels different from the words you're hearing.

You're working on a project and suddenly know exactly what needs to change. You couldn't necessarily explain how you reached the conclusion. The answer seems to have arrived whole.

Or you think of someone you haven't spoken to in months and have an inexplicable certainty that you're going to hear from them—then you do.

Clairalience is intuitive perception through scent, particularly when there isn't an obvious physical source for it. Before assigning meaning to it, though, check the obvious possibilities. Sometimes perfume is just perfume.

You suddenly smell your grandmother's perfume while thinking about her, despite being somewhere that perfume couldn't reasonably be coming from.

Clairgustance is information perceived through taste without an apparent physical source. It's discussed less frequently than the four primary clairs. Again, ordinary explanations come first.

While thinking about someone, you unexpectedly experience the distinct taste of a food strongly associated with that person.

You pick up an old piece of jewelry and unexpectedly get an image, emotion, physical sensation, or sense of the person who once owned it. The impression seems connected specifically to touching or holding the object.

You walk into a room feeling perfectly content and suddenly experience a wave of sadness. Later, you discover that someone in the room had just received upsetting news.