Have you ever had a gut instinct?

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Inspired by another post.

have you ever just had a gut instinct that something was just wrong that you couldn’t put your finger on? Did you or didn’t you act on it? What happened?

one time i had this overwhelming feeling to stop and stay quiet. I did. Next thing I know something heavy fell off a balcony I was meant to be walking under.

have never not trusted my instincts again since.

I have, included once having an overwhelming sense of doom about someone. I really think my brain was adding things up as much as anything. The person had something catastrophic happen to them healthwise.

The mobile phone thing - I think there's some barely perceptible noise or movement/vibration before a message comes through or it starts more audible ringing.

I think I have only been wrong about someone based on gut instinct once, so it's pretty reliable. I tend to be wary of new people.

As a child I had lots, particularly about an over friendly family friend who used to chase me and tickle me!
Whenever I had a gut instinct I was told by my Mother I was stupid/dramatic.

yes, but I'm worried I'm losing a reliable instinct.

Many years ago I disliked a friend’s boyfriend as soon as I met him. Everyone thought he was wonderful but the second I saw him I just knew something was off. Turned out he was a paedophile. He’s in prison now.

Oh god. Not one you want to be vindicated on. I’m sorry you knew a man like that.

Ok that’s interesting. I’ve worked in palliative care - there’s definitely the death smell. Maybe you picked up on that?

Yes! I've name changed for this because it's very outing.

It was 1991 and I'd been called in early to work to do some overtime. Travelled by train to a Victoria station in London. I'd had no time for breakfast and loitered for a minute by a food vendor stall on the station. I felt I should get something from work instead (we had a subsidised canteen) I don't know why, but I had a strong urge to leave and get something at work.

An hour later my supervisor came running in and said "Oh my God, thank goodness you're ok!". No idea what she was on about until she explained a bomb had gone off on Victoria station. It was planted by the IRA and had been hidden in the bin next to the vendor stall I'd loitered at. It went off a couple of minutes after I'd left, so if I'd ordered something there I would have been killed - another member of public who'd been that close was blown up. I decided it obviously wasn't my time to die that day and a higher power made me move on and save my life.

Similar to a previous poster, I had a gut feeling about a senior person within the organisation I worked - everyone seemed to love them, so I stayed quiet about it at work, but spoke to DH about it all. I couldn't put my finger on why I felt so uneasy in their presence and told myself I was being unreasonable. Turned out my instincts were correct - the person was both dishonest (defrauded both the organisation and individuals) and personally suspect, with a long history of unpleasant behaviour towards people in their private life.

I often 'know' when people I love are in difficulty (even if I haven't been in contact with them for some time) and I often know when my brother is going to phone just minutes before he does.

I'm probably picking up on subconscious signals of some kind, but I can't really explain it.

I had a gut instinct not to carry on a long journey I ignored it and all was well.

I’ve always trusted my gut instinct. I’ve had a couple of times where it’s saved me from a lot of pain.

biggest one was just instantly knowing I had to go check on my dd. She had gone to bed hours ago and I’d have usually not checked in on her but I went to her and she was attempting to take her own life. I’ll never know what made me go to her room.

Whilst with my sister at a tourist attraction in Valencia, Spain, I had a very funny feeling about a man who seemed to be always within my sight. The place was packed with tourists but there was something off about him. He later exposed himself to us down a deserted alley but a group of nuns appeared from nowhere and chased him off.

I have really bad anxiety, so I often get a really intense feeling that something bad will happen. So its hard to trust it!

I do often have a feeling that I absolutely know something will happen and it does, but about very mundane things!

This is really well documented phenomena in 9/11 testimony too. I’m so glad you got to safety and listened to it.

That’s so lucky! I’ve had it drilled into me to trust my mummy instincts and posts like this make me remember why!

It wasn't that and the person didn't die until several years after that.

Ah ok fair enough.

Yes, on numerous occasions.

I often used to go home from work via an antique/junk warehouse on a small retail estate. On this evening, I pulled up but had a bad feeling about entering it. I just knew that I would be attacked or raped or something. Sometime later, I heard that a woman had indeed been attacked at that place, a few weeks later, by an opportunist worker who acted when the centre was near empty.

I've had it about several people, nearly always with subsequent confirmation. But I have to watch that I don't overcompensate and experience it as a weird sort of attraction rather than aversion, almost like the fawning reaction instead of flight or fight.

Mine work in reverse - everyone I have met and instantly hated has ended up being an amazing friend! people I meet and think "wow they are cool" turn out to be arseholes.

Yes, I had one about my ex for ages and I ignored it, like an idiot.

As a young woman I was at my boyfriend's house and a workman there offered me a lift somewhere. Boyfriend's mother said in front of the workman (who she didn't know well) 'oh that's lovely to offer - zehrky off you go'. But the minute he'd offered I knew I shouldn't get in the car with him. I don't know why and nothing might have happened but I just KNEW. So I didn't. Trust yourself.

I popped into my neighbours house in the last place I lived, she had a babysitter there for the evening as she was off out. I’d actually only popped in to sort out her hair for her. The babysitter was a young lass herself, about 15. About 2 minutes after I arrived my neighbours good friend David arrived. I’d never met David but every single cell in me wanted him to get the fuck away from him and weirdly, keep him away from the kids, baby sitter included. So my friend is ready to leave and David says, “I’ll stay and help you babysitter” and I felt sick. Anyway I said “oh David, you be on your merry way, Im only next door and I’ll be bringing my dc over to keep babysitter and dc company. You don’t want to waste your evening with a load of girl talk. Bye David” and I could see relief on babysitters face.
David turned out to be a nonce, funnily enough with a massive history of violence and coercion against women (usually single mothers) he was dating.

oh gosh @SarahAndQuacksome people are so frustrating on here, why did you keep replying what did you get out of this? Some people like you love to question and ridicule other people. You clearly aren’t interested so why reply then keep replying I just done understand!

Irony much?!

I just got the impression the OP wanted us all to ask her more about her experience.

To me none of it sounds spooky, but there we go.

Do you feel better now?

I get the impression you’re waiting for me to say something ‘misandrist’ so you can derail the thread and bemoan men’s apparently dwindling rights but there you go.
perceptions vary widely

Yes. A long time ago. DH (then DP) introduced me to a new colleague who was perfectly pleasant and affable. But my reaction to him was immediate and visceral. All my muscles tensed my stomach churned and I just knew he was going to be very, very bad news. And he was.

I was recently reading about the Inca civilisation and how their concept of time isn't linear like ours. Instead, they believed that the past, present and future ran concurrently with slight blurring between them. This would explain how I somehow 'heard' a warning echo from my future?