I think we have all been given the line that we have a gift by readers and it is often used as a stock line.
I was like you all through my childhood seeing things until I left adolescence. I used to see spirits often and sense them, dream of them and have been shown lots of proof of the spirit world in my childhood. Footsteps I've heard a couple of times and that creeps me out the most.
Mostly now I get gut feelings about situations that haven't proven me wrong, or thinking of someone then them making contact. Or recently I talked to a friend about something and he walked into his living room and it was on the news, synchrony kinda stuff.
I have also had awake premonitions, I had one about a family member breaking up with someone of many years before a certain timeframe and it happened. Unfortunately I wish I had them more. Bits come out at certain times out of nowhere and years apart. I wish it was more frequent.