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?

I normally have dreams when bad things are going to happen. When I was a teen I had a dream that my school burnt down and the next morning on the news was my school burnt to the ground.
When my nan died I had a dream the night before that I was in her living room and we were at her funeral and she told me everything would be ok. The next day my mum rang to say she had died.
And recently my grandad died at 4am and I woke up at bang on 4am, I felt as though I couldn't breath and I knew he had died.
I'm not that they are all coincidence.

I dreamt stuff about Diana, Princess of Wales the night she died. It was very specific but I won't type it out as HarrysOwl will take the piss. Everything I dreamt turned out to be true.

I have only had one experience like this.

I was about 12 or 13, I was brushing my hair in my mum's bedroom, and I started thinking about a car accident that had happened on my road when I was about 5. I thought to myself 'imagine if there was another accident on our road'. So I walked over to the window and looked out onto the road with the intention of picturing a car accident. I was only looking out for about 10 seconds when a car just randomly flipped upside down right outside our house. The woman driving the car was fine, she didn't know how the car had flipped, she assumed she must have clipped the kerb.

For a while afterwards I thought I had somehow caused the accident.

I won't type it out as HarrysOwl will take the piss.

Other people have different opinions and beliefs that I may, to varying levels, disagree with, so I might raise my eyebrows at the screen but I hope I'm not disrespectful and certainly wouldn't purposefully mock anyone.

I've had some of those experiences. And my eldest told me I was pregnant, and then that it had "gone away" after I lost the baby (I wasn't trying for a baby or even considering it). Two years after that, I did try for a baby (without her knowledge) and she told me I had a baby in my tummy about two weeks after we started trying. Yep, she was right again! She's never said it since then.

Yes I had really weird premonition particularly as a teen. I’ve been told I could be physic if I followed the skill up.

How is it confirmation bias to say an actor will announce a play hours before he announces it?

Because you've probably had lots of random thoughts about stuff that you thought might happen but didn't. But because they didn't happen, you thought no more of it and can't even recall it.

You forget the misses and focus on the hits. It's the very definition of confirmation bias.

Even a stopped watch gets the time right twice a day.

I have 'known' straight after DTD each time I was pregnant

But you weren't. You wouldn't have been pregnant until many hours or even days after you DTD.

Not very often but yeh at times. The last time was when I got a phone call of my mum. I knew she was going to tell me my Nan had died - and that’s exactly what she said. My Nan wasn’t even ill beforehand and it was sudden to the point she was on the phone when she died.

Lifecraft in every conception it was the only time in over a week and definitely the only tubes without contraception so yes I did know

I have quite obsessive thoughts and I literally remember every single thought I have every single day. Sounds absolute bollocks but it’s very true. Haven’t read the whole thread but the actor hasn’t done stagework for years and I hadn’t thought about him being on the stage before that. It was very random. But probably just a coincidence, I’m not claiming to be psychic it just makes me so curious about the human mind.

The thoughts that feel like a “premonition” stand out at the time I have them, almost like they pop into my head and shout at me. I sound very strange but it doesn’t happen that much, maybe once or twice a month at a push.

I echo people saying they know when someone is pregnant - but that’s probably picking up on their body language/suspicious behaviour.

It's either just a bunch of information/cues that you've subconsciously collected and formed into a logical conclusion/idea without being aware of it, or confirmation bias.

I literally remember every single thought I have every single day

All 80,000 of them?

I don't think so. You cannot even be aware of every thought.

You're simply noticing the strongest ones.

I randomly dug out Life On Mars on DVD the week before David Bowie died. Had been listening to his songs as the tv show reminded me how much I loved him. I know it’s not me being psychic and it is coincidence but it felt really weird timing. I imagine the press knew about his illness and maybe subconsciously I picked up some article hinting at it in the weeks before his death?

When I was little I used to dream stuff all the time that came true. (Gran having a heart attack etc.) My family would say I had ‘the gift’ that my great grandmother had to predict things. I didn’t believe a word of it lol.

Also, my sister and I always used to know what the other was going to say. I think it came from being very close because Dh and I do it now and try and phone one another at the same time. You just get in sync with some people sometimes.

Not me but I knew an old guy who could tell you some incredibly accurate freaky details about yourself. And I mean seriously accurate stuff - minutiae.

As a psychologist I totally purport confirmation bias, but some people's just can't be explained away!

I know when close friend or family members are going to die. I usually get a warning dream a few months or weeks before. After my dreams (my family know I get them) I’ll phone mum/sister or whoever is close & say it’s time to start saying our goodbyes.

I didn’t listen to my dream one time & it stays with me. If I’d listened & gone round I might have spotted the cancer or seen signs he wasn’t well. Doctors said that may have given a few more years with his dcs if he’d gone to see them a few months before. I feel terrible guilt.

I knew my beloved FIL wouldn’t make his 81st. I’d had a dream of him at a birthday party among his deceased loved ones - candies said 80. I just knew.

I knew with my Nan- I’d told SIL the night before she’d not going to survive the month. She wasn’t even in hospital & had been to a party on the day she died.

My family all think I’m a witch. I don’t. I hate it. I find it a heavy burden.

Scoff if you like but it’s horrid.

@GotToGoMyOwnWay I don't think you should feel guilty, elderly relatives inevitably do pass away. Having a dream months/weeks before isn't prophesy, it is more likely these thoughts and worries are in your mind.

Thank you but he was early 40’s with a new baby & another dd aged 6. The guilt does not go. I should have gone after my dream. I knew what it meant but I was too scared I think.

I don’t mind so much when it’s the older ones - it’s the younger ones.

My friends dh. Unexpected

The family member above.

My cousin- in his 20’s unexpected

My cousin- in her 60’s, another in her 50’s (unexpected)

My cousins dh - in his 40’s - no one realised how bad he was till it was too late but I knew.

I cannot say how horrid it is!

Every time I think of or mention a patient at work. They turn up. My colleagues are convinced I'm a witch. I once got sued (for a dairy milk) by a parent as every time I thought if her daughter she'd end up back in hospital. It became a running joke!

About 4 years ago I was visiting my parents, the dog was acting very strangely she just kept putting her head on my lap and I felt like she was saying goodbye. I started crying as we got her at a really difficult time and she meant alot to us. DM told me to calm down, she was in perfect health just getting on abit. She was put down 4 days later because they discovered cancer that had spread from her stomach to back legs.

Had a dream that my Bestfriend who was pregnant had a miscarriage. Tried to ring her the next morning, no answer. Messaged her sister who said "I think you need to speak to bestfriend shes in hospital" she had lost the baby.

Saw a newspaper article about a man who had died locally, had a bizarre feeling it was an old friends brother. Sadly it was and he was very young.

Dreamt when I was very young that my dad died on his own, when I was 12 my dad dies on his own.

So yep, I do. Always over bad things, and it scares the shit out of me. My DH was in husband last summer and I was a wreck the whole time trying not to sleep because it was very serious, and I did not want any dreams.

I've had three weird instances of this. Twice with my Mum phoning me and me immediately knowing what she was going to say.

Once my Dad had got a promotion, but not one you apply for, more like an honor bestowed on you. There had been no previous talk that he might get this. The next time was that my Dad's best friend had died. Again, he'd not been ill or anything.

Another time a pupil of mine knocked on the door. I immediately knew her husband had left her. She'd never spoken to me about them having problems or anything.

Very, very odd!

I’d love to know is it gut/premonition or just chance. I don’t think mine are as they are so specific to that particular person I dream about. But it’s not a random dream I have about them - it’s always that the particular person is going to die.

Definitely.
Too many actually.

Yes. I get gut feeling about things. I learned to listen to the gut feeling as it has been confirmed true in the past.
Simple things like driving and just sensing something is going to happen. I slow down and the car next to me does something crazy. Im fine because i slowed down.
I might feel the urge to take something with me (e.g. something that doesnt seem necessary at the the time of leaving) - i later very much need it.
I totally listen to in now.
Our brain captures more info than we consciously process and the urge is the unconsciously captured info - totally valid.

Just to add, as an interesting point. I suffer from anxiety and seem to pick up a lot about people and surroundings. I wonder if that’s a factor.