I find my general EQ has leaped to the other extreme now that I know myself (therefor other people) more. Before I was totally walled up in my head where everybody & everything was a mystery. Its too bad these gifts have come side-by-side some crushing deficits though.
When I'm having a good day & can be really present I know things quicker, I'm flowing. I can asses situations, the environment/atmosphere around me, subtle social cues, tones of voice, the look in peoples eyes & how they feel underneath, what they are 'saying' behind their words, connecting dots, decoding all the media crap everywhere and what buttons its pushing to manipulate.... It does seem sort of psychic (and hey alot may be just in my head too, delusion land lalala) but I think its more that we just live in such an emotionally retarded, comfortably numb society where this stuff goes under the radar so it seems supernatural or something. I think the internet helps with alot of this too, people are thinking more holistically in general now maybe; its not so boxed in? I've definitely had alot of eerie synchronicities too.