To ask for your 'instinct/gut feeling' stories?

[Jazziesandjellybeans]

In for a long night with a poorly DS and got to thinking about this...

Have you ever had a 'funny feeling' or instinctively felt something was going to happen/you needed to carry out a course of action due to a gut feeling? I don't necessarily mean woo either.

I was discussing this with family friends and some of the accounts we had were; a toddler falling into a pool and his DM jumping in to retrieve him seconds later although she'd been engrossed in conversation and he'd been with a family member at the opposite end of the pool. She said she just 'knew' and dived in.

A friend's elderly DM was admitted to hospital after a bad fall. Friend had a funny feeling that she should check DM's vacant flat that evening, and discovered the hob had been left on.

Sitting in a London pub with friends, when two men came over and put a map on their table, asking for directions to a nearby theatre. Without really thinking, friend reached under the map and removed her and her DP's phones from the table. The men abruptly scooped the map up and ran - attempted phone theft!

Friend had sudden urge to check on her 4 yr old DD, found her with her blanket over her head and twisted in her sheets where she had been playing 'dens' and fallen asleep.

Mine: my 2 yr old DS had gone to bed as usual, happy and completely routine. Felt something was amiss so popped my head round his door after ten minutes to discover he had a very bad stomach bug and he was covered, but hadn't made a peep

Hmmm. Interesting - I’ve never had a really strong gut feeling about anything - or at least not strong enough to make me do anything about a situation. I do think you might be wandering into “woo” territory here 😂

My parents turned up at the hospital after I'd been admitted after a breakdown at university. Dad had 'a feeling' so they went to my flat and found out where I was.

He also got up in the middle of the night and phoned the airline one time when I was flying back to the UK for school. We had just put into Damascus unexpectedly with engine trouble; he'd woken up knowing something was wrong.

Lots of Dad tales as he definitely had the spooky gene.

Was introduced to a friend of a friend who'd I'd been told was really funny and a great laugh. As we shook hands I heard the words "Do not like" in my head so I didn't make any further effort to get to know him at the party.
Met same guy at another party a year later and he had a huge bruise down the back of his left arm. I asked what happened and he said he was really drunk a few nights previously and a taxi driver had refused to take him home so he elbowed the driver in the face as he was sitting in his car. He was really proud of it.

I'm really glad I hadn't got to know him better. I've had other times when I've heard words in my head telling me to avoid people. I used to ignore them and think I was being silly, but I pay attention now.

Oh yes definitely! Our DD has Sen and due to the severity we need to use a baby camara/ monitor, one night late the camara decided to pack in and there wasn't much we could do to replace it at that time of night so anyways off I go to bed absolutely shattered I could barely keep my eyes open I felt drunk and nauseas from extreme tiredness but for some reason I started getting very agitated and my mind was racing so I couldn't fall asleep when all of a sudden I hear a strange noise coming from dd's room so I run in too find her purple and foaming at the mouth and making a clicking noise and not responding to me, it turns out she was having an epileptic fit, if I'd been asleep I'd dread to think if she'd be alive now because if I'd not moved her she would of chocked on her vomit/ saliva