Do you ever 'just know' something?

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I knew that when I saw now DH online (dating) that he was going to be someone very important to me. I didn't know that we'd get married or live together, but it was like I was struck by lightning when I saw him. I just knew instantly that he was going to be part of my life. And I knew when I saw our house on Rightmove that we'd buy it and live there. We saw it the next day and made an offer and had it accepted all in one day. Has anyone else ever 'known' anything like this? I'm not a woo or superstitious person at all but I just 'knew' these things deep down. Anyone else?

I absolutely knew my first child was a boy from the second I saw the positive pregnancy test. I’ve never had a feeling like that before in my life and can’t explain why but I just knew. Had no such feeling with child number 2!

I get that "Christmas excitement" feeling another poster described before something good is going to happen.

I often think of a name and the same one or a similar one pops up on an email or something. I kept thinking of a musician and then heard something about someone with the same name that someone else knew.

I'm not very accurate with relationships though. I did once have a feeling that an ex was coming back into my life. That didn't come true exactly but he did feature in my life in a different way for a short time. Sometimes I am very good at reading people though

All the time. I can usually tell when somebody I know is pregnant (or if their wife/partner is pregnant if I know the man!) even in the very very early stages, I often know things I couldn’t possibly know about somebody when I meet them for the first time, even strangers who talk to me. It can be quite unsettling.

Yes i do , have been like it all my life it's a blessing but a curse sometimes , i just 'know' when someones a 'baddun' i keep my mouth shut ,they tend to trip themselves up.
I knew i would marry my husband and have his kids the moment we first properly spoke to each other , i was 100% sure .
I can sometimes 'see' what is in a gift before its been opened , usually from my sister who never buys me generic gifts .
I knew my 1st baby was a boy and later i saw a little golden blonde toddler in my dream and knew my second son would look like this and he did.
My experiences are totally random and as someone else said 'obscure', i only tell my husband as he believes me.
I am aware how 'nut's ' it sounds , i consider it to be a heightened sense of perception a 6th sense and some have it more than others similar to someone having a better sense of smell or hearing.

Not sure if it really counts (or is necessarily important) but I have excellent gaydar.

I knew I was supposed to be with my husband forever when I met him as a teenager, almost like ' oh, its you!' , but he started dating my friend. I was so upset because I felt like I was on the wrong time line. Luckily it all ended up OK.

I can relate to your comment about knowing things when meeting people and strangers and i agree it can be unsettling , i almost feel i am being intrusive ,also so random when it does happen, isn't it weird , glad its not just me !

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See, I KNEW as soon as I read it, that it was codswallop. They don't call me Daz Beige for nuffink!

For me, a lot of these gut feelings have been entirely wrong!

However, I seem to be good at predicting whether a first-time mum will have a boy or a girl. I can’t do it for women I’ve never seen - I look at a woman’s face and often get a strong impression either way. And when I do get an impression, it’s nearly always right. Weird, eh?

This. I can think of things I was absolutely certain of, but lots of others where my equal certainty wasn’t matched by reality, which I’ve forgotten because there’s nothing impressive about being wrong.

I knew I was going to win a big fellowship long before I was informed (about 5,000 applicants for ten awards), but I had exactly the same sense of total certainty about a job I didn’t actually get offered.

I ‘knew’ DS was a girl, until the scan said otherwise.

I had the ‘struck by lightning, total familiarity, going to spend my life with’ the first time I met a man, but after a year together, I decided he wasn’t for me.

I met two women at my college on the first day of our postgraduate course — one I felt instant trust and liking for, the other I thought was blunt and bossy. Guess which one I’m close friends with 25 years on?

I knew I was going to marry my ex husband the first time I saw him (at work, different depts). I didn’t make a beeline for him and he wasn’t particularly my type but I just knew. Divorced 10 years later and I’m a bit less sure of my instincts.

I knew my DH was the one for me the minute I saw his photo on OLD. We hit it off over message and after a few days of chatting he stopped replying. I literally couldn't compute it, I was so convinced he was the one for me, but had no choice other than to accept I was being bonkers and shrug it it off. 6 months later he sent me a WhatsApp out of the blue to explain and apologise. We were both still single and met up and haven't spent a minute apart for 7 happy years. He said he also "just knew".

• When I was 8 my uncle and aunty were looking after me for the afternoon. I went out somewhere with my uncle (pet shop I think) and as we were heading back in the car I had an overwhelming sense of dread and anxiety wash over me. I knew something wasn't right. As we arrived back to his house my aunty came out onto the drive in tears and told us that my grandfather had died. Never had a sense of foreboding like it.

More times than I can count.

I am very good at reading people but it goes beyond that.

I frequently know when people are going to die and know when someone is ill, even if I haven’t seen or spoken to them for months. I also know when someone is going to ring me and often what people are going to say before they say it.

I also always know when something or someone is meant to be in my life and will be open to those decisions without question. Partners, friends, houses, jobs, all determined instinctively, instantly and without question.

Friends are used to it now and don”t think I am batshit crazy. I think it is just a 6th sense that we all have, which is more developed in some people and which can be life enhancing if you accept and run with it.

A few years back when my dad died. My phone rang, I was wearing my earbuds & my phone was on them kitchen counter, so I couldn't see who was calling but I just knew it was going to be my husband telling me my dad had died. Pressed the earbud to answer the call, and it was indeed my husband telling me about my dad.

I usually know what time it is, accurate to within a few minutes. I don't wear a watch or check on my phone, I just know.

I'll often be thinking of someone and they message me.

I imagined myself swanning around in a lovely top floor flat when I was a teenager. I bought a top floor flat.

Probs coincidence though.

Happens loads for me- day I met DH I knew he was 'the one'- in all honesty I had loads of boyfriends before that but there was something about him and we 'clicked' We went back to my flat that night and he never left! We are 30 yrs in now married for 28.
Also the night I conceived our one and only DS I bawled my eyes out as soon as we DTD. I am the most unwoo person you could ever meet - DH was a bit discombobulated at the time! I was a sobbing mess. I just knew weirdly.
I totally can be thinking how someone is doing and then they call me. My sister and I do this all the time.

If you’re thinking about someone, then they call or message you, could it be that something subconsciously reminded you both of each other? An anniversary, a news story about the country where you went on holiday together, a song on the radio … there are lots of possibilities.

My DH’s grandma had dementia before she died. The last time she saw us she seemed to have a moment of clarity, looked me straight in the eye and told me I was having a baby, and although I didn’t know it I was pregnant. She died just after my daughter was born.

I also had that ‘just knowing’ feeling about DH, very early on in our relationship. 15 years later we are still going strong.

I also seem to know when a woman I know is in labour. Out of the blue I just get struck by these really strong thoughts about her. They don’t come before, it’s always right when it’s happening.

I can always see it too. A slight fullness of the face. It's hard to describe but I always know it when I see it

I don’t think you’re either ‘batshit crazy’ or the possessor of uncanny knowledge, I just think confirmation bias means you’re forgetting all the times when you were wrong about someone dying, or responding strongly to a house you didn’t buy, or immediately liking someone you think is meant to be in your life and subsequently thinking ‘Meh’.

Possibly

Oh I 'just know' things quite a lot, it just turns out that I am usually wrong : )

Yes, but I’m a massive know-it-all as my mother used to tell me!!

Name change as I’ve told people this one. When I was in primary school, there was a girl who had epilepsy and I used to think ‘I’ve got that’. I had no reason to think that as I had no symptoms and plus, I was about 7. However, I was convinced that, one day, I’d be diagnosed. Lo and behold, I was diagnosed at 18. Weird.