Or do other people have weird “psychic” thoughts?

[Crazycatlady10]

Does anyone else get weird flashes of “foresight”? I don’t really know how to describe it, I wouldn’t say psychic but more and more often lately I find myself thinking about someone or something very suddenly. Later that day, something relating to that person will happen with no warning. It could be someone I don’t really know/haven’t seen for years. Not bad things obviously, just something about them.

My latest one was that last night I went to sleep and I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about an actor and told my boyfriend half asleep “he’s about to announce a play”. This morning I wake up to find that he has. I know he’s an actor and it’s not like he’s announced going to the moon or anything but it’s made me feel a bit woo..

Does anyone else do this? Or is it just hindsight making the thoughts look more specific than they are?

That's quite something. The world works in mysterious ways.

Yeah all the time. It's confirmation bias.

I get this, it scares me sometimes!

I call them "knowings", sometimes I just " know'

Whenever we talk about a customer at work, boom, they show up later that day! Uncanny.

Yep I do. I've had it my whole life so I don't pay much attention anymore. I think it's just gut feeling? I'm definitely not psychic.

Yes, but only every 6 months maybe.

I get this too. I'd love to know why it happens.

Yup..happened at work yesterday. I said to x...i havnt dealt with a patient with xxx before...low and behold...patient with xxx turns up later!

I get this too. It didn’t help my anxiety to be honest as I convinced myself I had some kind of sixth sense so everything I thought was a gut feeling or foresight it’s not. But occasionally I have it.

Yeah I get this too op, it's really weird.

It's usually when I'm thinking something like, "oh I haven't seen such and such an actor/singer in ages I wonder what they're doing now", or just thinking about them for a while and strangely about a week later they're on the tv talking about their latest venture.

And it's always completely random, not a well known (well anymore) celebrity that you would expect to see again at some point. Very very weird, unfortunately it doesn't happen that often to me anymore.

When my mum died, I literally said out loud ‘she’s not going to survive the weekend’ at 11pm as I was going to bed, Came out of nowhere and I wasn’t thinking about her as I was going upstairs. I just stopped in my tracks and said it. I had no reason to think that, she was physically very well and I had seen her a couple of days before. I got a 3am home all to say she was in hospital. She did survive the weekend but died a couple of weeks later.

• home all = phone call

Yes all the time. Someone I haven't seen for 10+ years will randomly pop into my head and later that day I'll see them. It's really weird.

Yes I do.

Like you say OP they just appear in your mind out of nowhere. I don't belive in psychics or woo so I cannot explain it.

For example, the first time I met this girl I thought "she has lost a child". Just like that, the words appeared in my mind. Over the months she became my friend and revealed that she had had a late term still birth.

I have several instances like this. I always keep it to myself.

Total coincidence. You will never remember all the people you thought about that nothing happened to later.

I get this a lot. I now take comfort from it, I believe these occurrences are a sign I'm on the right path and doing exactly what I should be doing.

Thing is, you think about so many things and so many people during the day, like a PP said you don't pay attention to the thoughts that don't get reinforced.

Pure coincidence mixed with confirmation bias. No such thing as being psychic.

I think it's a combination of:

Confirmation bias

Insights of intuition that allows people to subconsciously pick up on social and body language cues about people - that someone isn't well, someone is going through a large life event etc

Subconsciously picking up things from your environment - dreaming about an actor and them suddenly announcing something, it's possible you've come across something involving them without realising it.

Yes but only in relation to my first son (sorry other sons!).

Whenever he was hurt at school I would bimbling along at home looking after the baby and all of a sudden my stomach would drop and I knew he was hurt. I would get a phone call within half an hour to say he had an egg on is head.

This happened probably 5 or 6 times.

It's not like my stomach dropped several times a day and it happened to marry up with him bumping his head sometimes.
I didn't suffer with general anxiety at all.
It was very specific to those moments.

There was one time (and weirdly the last time I had it) when I had a horrible stomach dropped "he's hurt" moment but never for a call. I figured I must have been wrong all along and perhaps I don't have some kind of mother-son sixth sense after all.
I forgot all about it and I picked him up after school and he instantly showed me his grades face!
I asked why he didn't tell a teacher. He said he cried but no one noticed ☹️
I asked when it was, and it was morning play which was exactly the time I had that feeling.

Never had it since, though and he's 12 and gets himself into some right old scrapes.

Yes I'm another one and I've had it for as long as I can remember. Thankfully it never involves any unpleasant like death. Funnily enough a couple of days ago I had a fleeting thought about an ex work colleague who moved away a few years ago. Yesterday I was on a shopping trip miles away and I bumped into her coming out of the station!!!

I think we all have a sixth sense, it’s just not very developed.

Completely get that it’s pribably just confirmation bias.

This is outing but I’ve had one gut instinct thing before that was so strong that I think it’s made me more aware. When I was 17, I was sitting at school doing nothing because of a cancelled lesson. We weren’t allowed to leave early and I never ever did because I’m a complete rule follower. Suddenly I sat up and thought “I need to go home right now.”

Got home and my mum was in tears on the phone because my grandad (who had been totally fit and healthy) had had a stroke. He died later that night.

Maybe since then I’m just more aware of coincidences and give more credit to them than I need to 😂

I get this all of the time. Occasionally about people but more about situations - like I'll buy a raffle ticket and just know I'm going to win something (and do) etc. Not at all woo so I've no explanation for it but assume I'm unconsciously aware of something or influence the situation somehow.

I get that deja vu feeling. I'll dream of something very insignificant and usually a few days later this familiar feeling takes over and whilst I can't predict what's about to happen it all feels very familiar and I realise I dreamt it a week ago.

Very strange.

I kinda believe it's our present selves catching up on our future selves if you get me?