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?

[Holyknight]

My mum used tomhave dreams that then came true. One was about a fire in Blackpool Tower. A few days later the news reported a fire in Blackpool Tower. She dreamt she saw the neighbour at the top of the cup de sac being taken out into
A hires. When she opened the curtains in the morning that’s exactly what she saw. Dreamt about my uncle walking into the kitchen of her family house as a kid, taking his jacket off and hanging over the back of a kitchen chair and then punching her Dad . The exact thing happened later that day. Lots of other dreams which then
Happened. So odd. I’m now t woo but can’t help but wonder how these things happen and what it means.

[Holyknight]

Sorry about all the typos. New phone. Hope it makes a bit of sense

[dancinfeet]

As a child I used to be terrified of the Tube escalators and would cling to my mums hand whenever we went on them (not that often as we don't live in London). We went to visit family who lived down south for a week, and a few days before we were due to travel back I was really feverish and hot, crying, irritable saying that I wanted to go home. In the end it was decided that we would set off home, as the family also had a young child and my mum was concerned that I was coming down with something awful and contagious so she wanted to get me home in case I ended up too ill to travel a few days later as they needed to get back by that date for work etc.

We got as far as London and I was white and clammy and very clingy, but made a fairly speedy recovery as home approached. Mum was a quite cross with me for cutting our holiday short!

On the day we were due originally to travel back, and around the likely time that we would have been passing through the underground, there was a huge fire at Kings Cross tube station, after a cigarette was dropped on one of the old wooden escalators and decades of rubbish that was piled underneath ignited. Many people were trapped in the panic and died, and it was truly horrific. We saw it on the news and I remember my mum saying thank goodness I had been ill, otherwise we would have been in the middle of it, and I remember her crying for all the people that died and were injured that day.

[Lucisky]

I had a dream about living in a red brick house with a tree in the middle of the garden. I was in the garden looking in the windows and thinking 'oh this is nice, I'm glad I live here'. I spent some time in my dream exploring the garden and the outside of the property, but couldn't get inside. Reader, I bought that identical house! At the time I lived in a very old cottage, and the thought of a modern red brick made me shudder, which was why it was weird.
Also, a v. strange coincidence. I decided to phone an old ex work friend I hadn't spoken to for nearly a year. I picked up the phone and she said 'hello'. We had decided to call each other at the exact same moment; she had just finished dialling as I picked up the phone, so it didn't actually ring. Spooky.

[RockinHippy]

I’ve had many over the years, but the one that springs to mind right now is...

My mum was ill in hospital, she had been at deaths door & we had all been called to her bedside to say our goodbyes. (I live at the opposite end of the country) She was delirious with 2 very serious infections, which with her other health problems we were told she had no chance of surviving. I spent the next several weeks by her bedside as she fought & fought it. Against all odds, a miracle according to 2 very puzzled consultants, she pulled through & was sat up talking again, but still in hospital as she was very weakened.

My DD had a very important hospital appointment here at home, which as mam was getting better & the doctors said it was all going to be okay now, so I should go, I decided to dash back with DD for this appointment, intending to go straight back again afterwards.

The next morning I was sat in our yard at home with a coffee, feeling the effects of all of the stress & lack of sleep of the last months, I had what I thought of as a day dream.

My mam came to me in the form of a beautiful purple & gold hazy, ethereal butterfly, floating over my rhododendron bush (which had significance from my childhood) She said she was free & happy, but worried about my dad & brother who she said weren’t as strong as I was & needed my help. In my head I asked her not to go as we would all miss her too much, she replied. “It’s my time, I don’t get to chose, but it’s okay, no more pain & I am free from my wheelchair & happy, I feel so peaceful, nana & everyone are with me too” I said please go back mam, we don’t want to lose you, you beat the infections, but with that she faded & was gone.

It sounded absolutely nuts, & I was puzzling about why I would have such a strange & vivid daydream when I went back into the house. Noticed my mobile phone was beeping with a missed call. It was my brother. On calling back, mam had died at the exact moments I had that daydream. Turned out she had contracted HAP & it took her within hours. I had absolutely no way of knowing she was in danger again & I firmly she came to tell me. It made her passing a lot easier. We all had several other strange incidents over the next few weeks too & it made her passing so much easier on us, especially me.

[x2boys]

My husband's sister was at our new house with her kids she kept saying if i die I want you to help look after the kids to my dh (she was a single parent) she was in good health the night ended in a huge argument between her and my husband and they had a huge falling out a few days later she died suddenly (sepsis) unfortunately because of the argument and the subsequent lies she told her kids refuse to have anything to do with us so we can't help look after them

[RockinHippy]

2 others a tv ad has just reminded me of...

The morning of the 7/7 bombings I had the overwhelming urge to call a friend who I didn’t often call as we socialised as part of a wider group & I had only seen her the day before, I can’t explain it, I just felt she was somehow in danger & I needed to talk to her. I’m not one for bothering people when I know they will be rushing out to work anyway, but I just had too. I rang & that few minutes made her miss her bus. Her usual buss was the bus that was hit.


Similar one with the kings cross fire. Myself & then boyfriend would have been in that tunnel, had I not suddenly had a panic attack, felt sick, shaky, the lot& Just had to get out of the station we were on to get air. Boyfriend argued like hell & I remember screaming hysterically at him & he finally listened. I’d never had a panic attack before & wasn’t usually an hysterical screamer. He is a close friend & stills calls me witchy knickers to this day

[Pericombobulations]

I knew that my dad was going to die on the summer solstice/ Father's Day two weeks before he did do that.

I've had weird feelings before about people and places but have been told my great grandmother was 'fey' and could feel things!

[IllegalBlonde]

I had a vivid dream about my grandmother walking in a beautiful meadow, there were birds singing, bright poppies and other pretty wild flowers. She walked down the meadow, at the bottom there was a cerulean blue river and my grandfather (who had died many years ago) was in the river waiting. As my grandmother reached the edge, she took off her clothes and entered the river, embracing my grandfather. I woke up feeling quite elated, it was a comforting kind of dream. A few minutes later a friend came to the door to say there had been a phone message to say that my grandmother had just died. This has convinced me that we do have an afterlife.

[kaytee87]

I believe people get gut feelings for a reason and they should usually be trusted. You may not consciously know the exact reason you feel like that which is why people think it’s woo but I think it’s your natural instincts at play.

[thecatsthecats]

I don't believe in the paranormal - ghosts, spirits and other realms etc. But I do believe there are phenomenon that are yet to be scientifically explained. My parents live in a haunted house, and my dad is a physicist. He has looked for a physics based answer to why he witnessed what he did. I believe that it is possible that ghosts exist in some form or other, but not knowing what may be happening on a quantum level, we don't know what circumstances we are replicating even to test. Unfortunately, relevant scientific investigation is massively crowded out by psychics, etc.

For my own premonition... I had a particularly vivid and upsetting dream, with very specific details included. I woke up, upset, and fell back asleep. A couple of hours later, I wake up, come downstairs still upset, to the news of Ken Bigley's murder, the details matching exactly.

I don't like talking about it, because I hate the idea of somebody saying I was making it up. But if you're skeptical, please think about it this way - I have absolutely no desire for my mind to be able to somehow transport itself to a scene of such unimaginable horror. I would love to think it was just a coincidence, but there were specific things that were uncannily correct.

[wineandworkout]

Not exactly a premonition but ... my mum was seriously ill in hospital. It was really warm weather so I slept with my window open. At some point in the night I was woken up by a sound in the room - a bat had got in and was flapping about. Realising that trying to catch it would distress the poor thing, I decided the best thing to do would be to pull the duvet over my head and wait for it to find its way out of the window, which it eventually did. My mum passed away at around 7am that morning. I looked up the significance of a bat finding its way into the home, and it's supposed to signify a death in the family. If I was remotely into the paranormal I would wonder whether that was her coming to say goodbye ❤️

[HeartStrings]

My DD was poorly with viral meningitis when she was a baby. Before she came down with it she was fine in herself but I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong with her.

I took her to the doctors even though DP thought I was being over dramatic seeing as she was fine. Doctor said she was fine too.

She ended up in A&E that night and was put on IV antibiotics and admitted into the ward for 4 days.

She’s a healthy and thriving little madam now but I knew before she got poorly. Motherly instinct maybe?

[kaytee87]

@HeartStrings I definitely believe in motherly instinct. My ds doesn’t smell ‘right’ when he’s about to get sick but no one else can notice it.

[DaisyDukesShorts]

When I was a child, I was walking home and a car passed me and I just knew it was going to crash and in that instance a tyre blew and it crashed into a lamp post, luckily the driver was uninjured.

This happened a few years ago, a friend of mines ds and wife were expecting their first child. I had a very clear dream of meeting friend in local pub and asked how mum and baby were and my friend getting upset and saying baby is a girl and very poorly as has kidney disease and having daily dialisis. The following week I met friend in local pub and had exactly the same conversation.

[NotBurpeesAgain]

I woke up two years ago with a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. I could not stop thinking about a terrorist attack. I considered calling my Dad who lives in Paris but told myself I was being ridiculous.
The Bataclan massacre took place that evening.

When I was a child I dreamt that my father's boss had died in a car crash. She died in a car crash 10 days later.

[Piffpaffpoff]

Yes. Thoughts and musings that then happen. Usually about people or situations in the public eye. I think a lot of times it’s based on info that I’ve read that I can surmise things from. People being pregnant and such.

I have one such situation going on at the moment about real people in my life - I think something is going to happen but I think the ‘premonition’ is based on the person unconsciously giving clues and me being intuitive enough to read them iyswim?

[BertrandRussell]

Just think of all the times you dream or predict stuff that doesn't come true. You just don't remember those times.

[TossDaily]

I dreamt I was at Prince Charles' funeral the night before Princess Diana died.

So it was a bit of a near-miss.

[Tara336]

I was driving my first car with my friend as a passenger and out of the blue I told her I was going to be in an accident. The following week I was hit head on by a lad driving his car on my side of the road. This was the first of many "coincidences" I've had and they keep coming...

[sanddune11]

Just think of all the times you dream or predict stuff that doesn't come true. You just don't remember those times.

Of course bertrand. perish the thought there's any hint of anything remotely spiritual or supernatural going on.....The very idea.

[IceBearRocks]

My DM died of cancer it was only 6 weeks from diagnosis. She didn't have much time to get her affairs in order. She had lent her niece £14,000 as she'd just left her husband so wanted to ensure she had a home and they'd made a repayment plan.
She told me, her DGd and her best friend about the money.
After she died the niece did not mention the money at all...after a few weeks we confronted her and she said mum had said she could keep it!!!! Caught out by my dead DM!!!

Also I couldn't find her expensive eternity ring. It was a set with a wedding band a engagement ring. She usually wore all 3!!!!
I had a dream that I was in s room with my mum and her best friend and my told be to check this old case... I did in the dream and there it was.
Next time I went to my parents ...checked the case ..there it was!!!

[Pickledonion24]

I had a dream that both my grandparents died while I was in London. My grandad past away while I was there and two years later my nan passed I didn’t want to go as I had a feeling she would go but I had booked this course she did pass while I was away

[BertrandRussell]

"Of course bertrand. perish the thought there's any hint of anything remotely spiritual or supernatural going on.....The very idea. grin"

Which is more likely- that we have so many thoughts and dreams often involving people we love that by the law of averages one occasionally comes true - or we are able to see into the future to predict things that have not happened yet.

[goose1964]

I've had a few, firstly when my gran died I had an urgent need to see her, she was in a home near my dad, so I went over, less than an hour after we left she had a stroke and died a few days later. Secondly I told my husband I thought we would be grandparents within a rear. 3 months later our ,then 18 , daughter announced shortly was pregnant