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To ask if anyone else has unexplained "physic" moments

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mellowheart · 20/10/2015 13:50

I can't explain how this happens but my DH will often start singing a song that I've just suddenly thought of in my head. It's often a very obscure type song, definitely not one he's heard recently. It happens immediately after I've thought it. This has also happened with others but much more often with DH. It's like he's picking up my thoughts, itms. Anyone else get similar type things?

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BumpTheElephant · 21/10/2015 11:58

I have the song thing with one of my brothers but only if we're together. We have similar taste in music and are both quiet, introverted sensitive types so I presumed it was several of those factors meaning we thought of same song at same time.
Me and my sisters can finish each others sentences and say the same things at same time even if we haven't spoken in ages. I haven't seen one for over ten years! I assume this is because we share genetics and an upbringing.

LBOCS2 · 21/10/2015 11:59

A couple of times I've had really really strong feelings about things happening.

The most recent was that I was on my way to DM's house - we visited every second Sunday, I'd dropped DH at the station and drove over there. On my way I developed an extremely strong feeling that there was something wrong with DM, to the extent that I was playing out scenarios in my head about what might have happened to her and what I'd need to do. As usual DD fell asleep in the car on the way there, and under normal circumstances I would send DM a text letting her know I was outside and I'd come in when DD woke. Because I was so unnerved about it all, instead of waiting or sending a text I went and rang the door bell thinking that if she answered I'd let her know we were there, carry on sitting in the drive with DD and come in in a bit.

There was no answer to the door. I hauled DD out of her car seat and let myself into the house, where I found DM on the floor in the breakfast room. She'd died a couple of days beforehand, probably within a couple of hours of me last speaking to her.

I had absolutely no reason to think that there was a problem (she was generally fit and healthy) and we frequently wouldn't speak for a couple of days after we'd made plans - as was the case in this instance. And yet my 'feeling' was strong enough and unnerving enough for me to change my usual routine and behaviour - which is not something I'd do, certainly not to that extent (waking a sleeping toddler!).

HorseyCool · 21/10/2015 12:11

I have had a few, the day my ex FIL died suddenly from a heart attack I woke with a terrible feeling of foreboding, my car broke down on the way to work and I thought that this was the reason, then when I finally got to my desk I received a message as my ex had called me about his Dad.

Another I got when I was living and working in London, when I got to work I broke down in tears, proper sobs, no idea why , out of character and totally weirded out my colleagues, who just made me a cup of tea and left me to it, I even had to cancel a meeting due late morning that I would have had to travel to as I didn't feel up to it. I composed myself, was going through emails etc and the news came in of the bombings on tubes and bus.

I have sometimes been singing a song then turn the radio on and its the same song. Freaked out a friend with that one more than once!

bumbleymummy · 21/10/2015 12:14

LBOCS2 :( I'm so sorry. That must have been a terrible shock for you Thanks

ConstanceMarkYaBitch · 21/10/2015 12:27

What actually happens is that your DP is humming a song, you don't conciously notice but it registers with you, then you think of it and notice that he is humming it.
It's not a coincidence and you certainly aren't psychic.

As for "everyone knows me as Chrissie so how could he possibly know my name is Christine..." You have got to be kidding?!

There are obvious explanations for everything mentioned here. The only reason you don't think of them is you don't want to, you prefer the idea that you're special somehow.

CalliopeTorres · 21/10/2015 12:56

What's the obvious explanation for an 11 year old making the car break down in order to spend the night in a hotel?! I mean it's obviously massive coincidence but spooky nonetheless. My mam and dad eyeballed me curiously for a good few days after that let me tell you Grin

HorseyCool · 21/10/2015 13:01

I have to add that I don't feelings of foreboding all the time, I didn't when serious bad things have happened but I can't rationally explain the ones that I did.

SmillasSenseOfSnow · 21/10/2015 13:08

What actually happens is that your DP is humming a song, you don't conciously notice but it registers with you, then you think of it and notice that he is humming it.
It's not a coincidence and you certainly aren't psychic.

Yup.

Crazypetlady · 21/10/2015 16:47

Have you got definite proof people aren't psychic? constance?

When I was younger I was watching tv with family and I just knew the year the old movie was made. My family tested me on different ones for five minutes and I was correct.

I also often know what people are going to say before they say it.

The weirdest thing I was at an event there was a lady that said she was psychic none of my family knew her at all.She said that she knew about my imaginary friend I'd had as a child. She knew what I had called the friend which was an unusual name, she knew what type of food I made my family cook her. She said it was actually my great grandmother and said my great grans name.

ConstanceMarkYaBitch · 21/10/2015 16:50

Have you got definite proof people aren't psychic? constance?

Have you got definitive proof I'm NOT an omnipotent flying spaghetti monster who created the universe and controls everything within it? No you don't, but I reckon you'd argue that I'm not quite forcefully.

You'e not psychic. You don't know psychically know what year movies were made (seriously? good story bro Hmm )

If you honestly believe you are, you're either delusional or...no, there is no or. You are delusional.

bumbleymummy · 21/10/2015 16:58

Constance you're being rude. No need.

Crazypetlady · 21/10/2015 17:13

There will always be somebody that pisses on other peoples parade. Just move on and stop being so rude.

ConstanceMarkYaBitch · 21/10/2015 17:16

Not rude, just stating a fact. If you believe you can see the future/read minds etc, you are delusional, using a standard dictionary definition of delusional.
Stating a fact isn't rude.

Norest · 21/10/2015 17:17

Yea my DP answers questions I haven't asked out loud, or responds to things I am thinking. Actually got to the point where I tried it out on purpose a litle to experiment and he was still doing it. Maybe it's just that we are all 'synched' up because we know each other really well so he can 'cold read' really really subtle body cues and so on. Maybe it's something more.

Whichever it is, it oes make me smile. Smile

SmillasSenseOfSnow · 21/10/2015 17:21

There will always be somebody that pisses on other peoples parade.

I feel this sentence says something interesting (yet predictable) about what this 'woooo I'm totally psychic' nonsense means for you.

BertrandRussell · 21/10/2015 17:25

Coincidence
Confirmation bias
Waking dream
And very occasionally, psychosis or some brain function issue.

But 99% of the time the first two.

Crazypetlady · 21/10/2015 17:26

"Smilla* I don't believe I am psychic nor that I can read minds. I don't believe that it makes people special either. By pissing on parade I meant negative.

I believe that sometimes things we can't explain happen . I am not delusional or weird. If people want to sail through life being narrow minded and pretending its logic that is their choice. I refuse to dismiss other possibilities when our world is so vast and we absoloutely do not know everything .

I don't believe I can read minds and have never guessed movie dates again constanace I don't want to derail this thread as it is brillaint. If you have nothing constructive to add why bother?
Nothing is gained by your comments.

BertrandRussell · 21/10/2015 17:29

Obviously we don't know everything. But we do know lots of things.

One of the things we do know is how these "everyday" psychic phenomena work.

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mellowheart · 21/10/2015 17:40

I too also don't believe I am actually psychic, but i do believe that perhaps when you are particularly close to someone some type of telepathy is possible. Perhaps when my DH hums a tune he was thinking it before he actually hummed it, thereby passing it on to me. I don't believe that confirmation bias comes into it because it happens quite often and some of the tunes are very obscure.

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Crazypetlady · 21/10/2015 17:47

I agree Mellows Some things are easily explained by the reasons mentioned. But there are a small percentage that aren't that's what interests me.

BertrandRussell · 21/10/2015 17:54

The most obvious answer is that the other person had been humming the song earlier in the day, or had been humming it very quietly without being aware- why do you want it to be more complicated than it is?

My Dp will often come into the room and I will say "second shelf on the left" before he asks me where something is. It's not because I'm psychic- it's because I put it there. And I'm not always right- but I only remember the times I am.

LittleFeileFooFoo · 21/10/2015 17:55

Most communication is non verbal, so it stands to reason that two people who know each other well can communicate a lot of information without saying anything. You don't have to be psychic to sometimes know what others are thinking.

bumbleymummy · 21/10/2015 18:00

Yeah... Still doesn't explain my experience. I'm just going to put it down to 'weird and wonderful' and be happy with that. :)

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mellowheart · 21/10/2015 18:11

I like "weird and wonderful" bumbleymummy. It's nice to think that clever as we are, there are things happen that simply can't be logically explained.

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Sniv · 21/10/2015 18:33

I always feel left out on these threads because I've never had any of these psychic moments - even your bog standard, entry level 'thinking of a song and wouldyacredit it, someone else is too' ones. As I hum during approximately 50% of my waking moments, it's actually a bit spooky that it doesn't happen to me.

In fact I'm actually sort of anti-psychic, in that my predictions are reliably crapper than is statistically possible. If I think "Aha! A text from Jenny!" when my phone pings, it's never Jenny. Explain that one, logic-fiends.