to ask if you've ever had a premonition?

[ohmadays]

Just thinking back on a weird experience from several years ago.

I was walking along a narrow country road by myself, on an overcast, rather oppressively humid summer's day. It was a couple of miles from my home and I had travelled the road quite often by car, but never on foot.

All of a sudden I began to have the strangest feeling that something terrible was going to happen if I stayed on the road any longer. I shook it off and kept walking. The atmosphere changed. The birds were still singing, there wasn't anyone in sight... I can't explain but it felt like the hedges were almost coming closer together around me. Like a really oppressive feeling on this beautiful, deserted road.

Eventually I rang home to get someone to come and lift me, claiming to have felt a few drops of rain starting to fall. I was too embarrassed to give 'intuition' as my reason.

It was such a strange feeling, not one I've ever had before or since, there or anywhere else. I am totally non-woo but think maybe there was some reason I wasn't meant to stay there that day- it was very narrow and winding and I could have been hit by a car easily, I suppose.

Anyone else ever had gut feelings about things, either rightly or wrongly?

When DP and I were in the car on the way back up to my parents’ house because Mum was dying (we’d been there all weekend and had popped home to change and see the kids briefly) as my uncle turned into their street all the hairs on my arms and neck stood up and I felt very cold. DP took my hand and he had goosebumps too, and the clock read 23.55. When we got to the door we discovered she’d died at 23.55, literally less than a minute earlier and at the exact point we both got a funny feeling.

Quite a few. I get feelings about things.

One time, a co-worker was talking about running into an old friend, and she said, "I haven't seen her in," and I said, "27 years." Which was exactly what she was going to say. She was very surprised.

Not a premonition exactly but today i'm home alone with dc and been feeling spooked and anxious all evening. Random thoughts about death even floated through my head (although this is not uncommon). I was even considering seeking counselling to stop the anxiety.

I looked out of the front window (something I rarely do) and saw the coroners van bringing a body out of my neighbours house

I dont know who it was of course but a wonderful, gentle, charming elderly man lived there with his wife. He sadly lost his son a few months ago and has been looking very weak since. Feel so sad for his family.

I know it sounds unfeasible but I often know things are going to happen before they do. I knew my old boyfriend was going to propose to me the night he did - with no previous signs or anything. I knew my mum was pregnant with my little sister when I was 10 - she hadn't spoken about it at all, she told me when she had just found out and didn't have a bump or morning sickness, I just knew.

I also dream of plane crashes sometimes and after the dreams I hear about a plane crash. Not all the time or all crashes but every one of these dreams has come just before a crash.

I find it so weird and freaky, I would love to have an explanation of how it happens.

I was driving on the motorway and a big flatbed truck was in the lane to my right, alongside me. I had an overwhelming feeling that he was going to pull across into my lane and push me into the banking. I was terrified, and desperate to get away from him, so I slowed down, moved in behind him, then managed to pass him and got as far away as I could. A couple of miles down the motorway, on the opposite side of the road I saw the aftermath of a crash, an identical truck with the front smashed in was stopped on the hard shoulder, and a car was lying on its side, halfway up the banking.

Not woo at all, in hindsight: I had a waking dream, of sorts, of my much beloved granny walking up a stairs and disappearing into a haze. It was the middle of the day and I was sat at my desk at the office at my after-school admin job. She died the following day.

Why it's not really woo at all: in fact she had been ill repeatedly for a long time. She also had only one lung left after having had TB as a teen, and that one lung had unfortunately caught pneumonia. I reckon that, because she was only 75, all of us (including her doctors) had been deluding ourselves into thinking that of course she'd be okay. I'm assuming this was a case of my brain basically screaming at me that she was getting worse rather than better and wouldn't make it, and that the signs were there to see for anyone without rose tinted spectacles on.

I still really, really miss her!

Sometimes I've had de ja vu so strongly I know what's going to happen next. I'm not remotely into woo so the thought of this jars with me somewhat.

My GM walked back home after coming round for Sunday lunch, all was well. A few hours later I got a feeling something wasn't right so made an excuse and phoned her, no reply. My DM went round GM had collapsed with a stroke, she later said she thought she would be in the floor all night. She died about a month later.
Can't explain why I had that feeling

I don’t know if you’d call it premonitions but I get very strong feelings about my 2 DC’s and when something is wrong.
Only last night DS went out on his bike. I couldn’t stop him, he’s 19 but unusually I slept downstairs and kept my phone on loud. I was expecting something. Unfortunately I was right. He was knocked off his bike by a hit and run driver.
Thank God he’s ok. My nerves aren’t.

Allegretto

You can't leave us hanging like that.Tell us the story.

I had a premonition my brother was standing on a roof of a building and thinking about jumping off.

It was true, he was standing on the roof and thinking about it at the same time it suddenly flashed in my mind. He didn't do it. That's made me cry now.

I have 'coincidence' dreams. I call them coincidence because I don't believe in woo.

A school mum I know but am not particularly close to, was diagnosed with lupus. Completely randomly, I dreamt that I bumped into her and she told me she had lupus. This was a week before I saw her and heard the news. If I hadn't told dh about my dream the morning after it happened, he wouldn't have believed me. I only told him because it was such a strange and specific thing to dream about.

Other similar things have happened. This summer I had a dream about another school mum. I hadn't seen her for 2 years, but I had an awful dream that she was dead. Again, I told dh.

About a week later, I met a mutual friend who told me the friend in my dream had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

I could go on - it happens 2 or 3 times a year.

Still believe it's just coincidence though.

Once I was dreaming that my grandpa was approaching our house and as he got there he reached out and rang our bell. When I woke up from the dream, literally 10 seconds later our bell rang. It was grandpa.

Having read through the thread now: I wonder if the 'predicting the death of a close person' ones are, indeed, often what a PP has suggested, i.e. our subconscious mind processing little details that we can't or possibly won't acknowledge consciously because we know them so well.

Point in case (in the opposite sense): my neighbour at my previous place shot himself to death. I woke up, thought 'how odd, this sounded a lot like a gunshot - oh, come on, Bossy, don't be paranoid now!' and went right back to sleep. He was not someone I was close to at all.

I’ve had two that stick in my memory.

The first was a trip London to New York. When I received my tickets (from work) and saw I would be flying TWA, I felt sick. I tried to rearrange to another airline and I remember the agent laughing and saying, “TWA is good!”

They were unable to change my flights so I went TWA - feeling deeply apprehensive the entire journey. This in the context of flying regularly and never feeling anxious about it.

Day after I returned to London, a TWA flight NY to Paris exploded. As soon as I heard, it was like an a-ha moment, I had felt the doom but mistakenly assumed it would be my flight.

The second occasion was many years later and soon after a close friend had died. I missed her so much. In my dream I saw her beautiful face smiling and nodding. Soon after I woke my mother phoned to say Dad had died. I feel as though my friend was telling me, it’s ok, he’s here.

It's confirmation bias.

When my dd was 10 days old we were at my parents house. She had fallen asleep on her baby mat and we were all eating dinner in another room.
Halfway through dinner I had this overwhelming feeling of panic and something telling me I had to go and pick her up, my parents and partner told me to leave her sleeping but I couldn’t.
I brought her in and carried on eating with her in my arms and within seconds she had turned blue, stopped breathing and an ambulance was called.
Luckily she was ok.

Mine is so silly. I once had a very real dream that we won a car in a raffle. The next day I was in a charity shop and they had a sign up for a raffle, to be drawn that evening, for a small car but unfortunately that shop had no more tickets. I went into every shop on the high street to find tickets and finally got some in the hairdressers. When I logged on to their Facebook page that evening to see the winning tickets it was my husbands name on the ticket but not my husbands ticket, just someone with the same name. It was all very odd.

I’ve had lots of little things but three really stand out. All happened when I was much younger, up to around 16.
First was when I woke up one morning and my auntie popped into my head. I was adamant I’d see her that day- she lived in another country and I rarely saw her but later that day she appeared at my grandparents house to surprise us all. Nobody knew in advance but I just had a weird feeling.
Second was for days I was anxious whenever I got in a vehicle of any kind, hated any members of my family driving etc because I had this bizarre feeling of dread that something bad was going to happen. I got the school bus home and as we were driving along the main road a younger pupil ran out right in front of the bus and was hit by it. I was sitting on the front seat so saw it all. Luckily she was ok.
Lastly (and I find it uosetting) was when my grandad walked past me and I made some silly comment. Immediately I thought to myself ‘that’s the last thing you’ll remember saying to him’. He died very suddenly not long afterwards and it’s still my last memory of him, although we obviously said goodbye etc and talked after that.
I get deja vue regularly but more so when I’m tired- that freaks me out!

I had a similar experience to the OP when I was about thirteen. I used to ride my bike a lot and was cycling down a dirt track with woods on one side and open fields on the other, and although the motorbay couldn't be seen it just ran parallel with the woods. It was a beautiful summer day and I can still remember this loud silence that suddenly fell and I knew I had to turn back. I've never had anything like it before or since. I now have a really creepy though probably incorrect feeling that had I gone further i might just have met a man, a lorry or van driver, who stopped on the motorway to urinate and came across the perfect opportunistic crime.

Really really dull. Today I parked near a forest school play session and thought it was likely cancelled. Didn't want to get the DCs out of the car and wrapped up to walk up there for nothing though so I called and it had been cancelled due to staff illness.

I also went on holiday to India as a child. While on the plane home I dreamed about about the family we had stayed with, the mother was smiling and telling me not to worry, they were all fine. We had a layover in Bahrain where all the TVs were showing a large earthquake had hit the area we had been staying in. It had hit about an hour after we had taken off. The place where we stayed had escaped unscathed.

2 weeks before the Malaysia airlines plane went missing I had a dream, I was in a really tall building in Asia somewhere, on the top floor which was just a giant swimming pool with an elderly Asian man when an aeroplane came crashing through the walls (made of glass) &this man & I were trying to save all the passengers from drowning in this swimming pool.
It was so vivid & I just knew it meant something that I text my bff the whole thing the next morning. When the plane went missing a couple of weeks later we freaked out.

I was living away from home and dreamt my nana was dying (it was a bright white space, couldn't actually see my nana just knew it was her) and I was crying saying she couldn't go as she hadn't met my bf (now dh)

A couple of days later I told my dm about the dream as I still felt sad about it and she told me my nana had nearly died a few nights ago (night of my dream)

This was 10 years ago and it's still the bright light I saw in my dream that freaks me out.