Panic attack or trusted my instincts

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In our town we have 2 supermarkets.
Morrisons which is at my end of town and Tesco's at the main shopping centre.
Normally I use Morrisons.
Last Thursday I wanted something from the main shopping centre so decided to go into Tesco's. Which I have been in before.
Went through the door and for an unknown reason started to get hot and panicky by the time I'd go 20 feet I started to cry. Came out and felt ok.
This was at 9.45am.
Felt silly and have more or less forgotten it.
Except it has just been put on FB community page this morning about 9.45am after a heavy rain fall the ceiling has collapsed. 3 people have been hurt one quite badly.

My friend thinks it was my instincts that something was going to happen.
DH just thinks I was rushing and got myself into a tizzy.

You were there last Thursday? And the ceiling collapsed today? No, I don’t think this was your instincts at all.

At first I read it like it happened the same day, and thought that maybe if you’d been there right before you’d heard a creak of the ceiling or something, it hadn’t really registered but had unsettled you, causing you to then panic.

But I don’t believe in any kind of ability to sense something bad might happen in a week without any signs.

If it was your instincts then they're not very accurate!

If you'd more or less forgotten it after a week, you might well have gone to Tesco today and had the ceiling come down on your head. So, if it was your instincts, they're not much cop.

It's helpful to think about the mechanism by which you could have 'known'. Magically psychic? No. Heard creaking? Really probably not. What else could it be but coincidence?

Our brains are wired to see patterns in things. It's evolutionary. See stripes, think tiger. But so many things happen to us that coincidences will happen to 100% of us. You should think, "weird" and move on. Not ascribe meaning to random chance.

No if it was the same day I would say perhaps subconsciously you could hear something or see something that just wasn’t right.
But if it happened a week later it’s just a coincidence

You had a premonition. Gut instinct, whatever you want to call it.

I get them sometimes and always pay attention. One one occasion I didn't, and learned my lesson.

Team DH here.

Also, not sure how old you are but hot, sweaty and panicky feelings were the start of peri menopause for me.

Your friend is being silly IMO.

Fwiw I went through a phase where l had moments like this in supermarkets regularly enough. Sometimes through indecision where I'd freeze then panic or sometimes it would suddenly happen when I had been shopping quite purposefully then boom. Always at a time there were other greater stresses in my life. I also learned it's a common place for sensory overload, often exacerbated by the sudden temperature changes from aisle to aisle. I now bring an extra layer that I take on and off to regulate and I rarely feel panicked anymore.