To ask for times your intuition was right?

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Started reading the gift of fear today (if you can’t tell with this post 🌝) and would like to hear if anyone has ever had a gut feeling about a dangerous situation that turned out to be right?

There was a guy at work who started to show an interest. He was absolutely lovely- he really seemed to " see me". I had a dream that he went to kiss me and my whole body was filled with revulsion. Wish I'd have listened- he was the most manipulative dishonest person I've ever met.

My ex and I were separated, and debating getting back together. One night he was feeling really low ( we lived separately). I was worried about him and popped round. He didn't answer the door.
Parked on the street was a car that caught my attention. It was just one of a line of cars parked - nothing special about it. I just felt it was important. I noted part of the number plate, and felt compelled to write it down.
Fast forward a few months.... the ex and I definitely split, I was seeing someone else ( which had sparked ex to be signed off work, stopped seeing the kids, etc etc). Ex started seeing someone new. Turns out, hers was the car parked on the street all those months before.
She's welcome to him
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Walking home in a ‘nice area’ I saw two guys walking towards me on my side of the street. I immediately felt uncomfortable and wanted to cross the road to get away for then. But then I decided that I was being racist / snobby because they were black and not smartly dressed. So I didn’t cross the road.

When I walked past then, they mugged me. Wish I’d listened to instinct and tried to avoid them.

Took my ds at 3 weeks old to gp with some odd symptoms. GP called him a lazy boy. Instinct made me drive to a&e.. sepsis.

I once woke up bolt awake in the middle of the night and heard this loud voice in my head saying 'sit up' so I did. And then the bookshelf over my bed promptly fell off the wall, everything landing where my head would have been

My mum was being treated for cancer. I always range her on my way to work. Most of the time she would wake up, but sometimes she didn’t answer the phone so I guessed would be asleep.

This particular morning, I just had a really strong feeling something was wrong so asked my niece to go round and check.

My mum had collapsed with sepsis and would most probably have died that day if we hadn’t found her. Having said that, she did die a few months later, but at least we were all with her when that happened.

I was travelling back to south London on the train from my parent’s house while at Uni. After the train I had about 20 minutes on a bus between the station and the stop nearest to my flat and then a horrible 3 minute walk in the dark to my door. But I’d made the exact same journey many times. One day however, my mum shoved a £20 note in my hand as I left their house and told me to get a taxi from the station. She had never done that before and was weirdly insistent. Being the invincible (and skint) 20 year old I was at the time, I looked forward to taking the £1 bus as usual and having some extra spending money.
However, as we approached my station on the really busy train, I noticed a man looking really strangely at me. Something didn’t feel right about him but I felt happy enough that there were so many people around that I wasn't in any real danger. Nevertheless I made sure he got off the train well ahead of me and I carried on my way. As I came out of the station doors I saw that he had hung back and immediately started following me. I decided to walk down towards the buses and then double back just to check I wasn’t being paranoid and the weirdo followed me! By this time I was quite freaked out and jumped into a black cab that was thankfully still on the taxi rank. I told the lovely driver that a man had been following me and he very kindly drove me right to my building and watched me all the way until I was safely inside! Thank goodness for my DM’s intuition because I wouldn’t have had the money for a taxi fare on me normally.
I did tell her about it and she couldn’t explain why she gave me the £20 but just knew I needed to get a taxi and not the bus that day.

My ex and I were once invited to dinner with some friends. The guests were us, some other close friends, and a couple who had just moved in to the area and were keen to make new friends. I took an instant dislike to the new man, and got the impression the other couple were not keen either, though they were polite. A few days later they told me that he had scammed a relative of theirs out of a lot of money, about 15 years before, and had caused his business to fail.

My mum was relatively healthy and young. She was admitted into hospital with a chest infection she couldn't seem to shake off. I had a gut feeling she wasn't going to make it. Driving home on the Monday evening I was hysterical to my husband saying that I just had a feeling. He told me I was being silly, the doctors have told us she will be discharged the day after.

Less then 12 hours later she had sepsis and was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She passed 5 weeks later. I just knew she was going to be here for much longer.

I also always knew I'd never have children naturally. From the moment we TTC I always had a feeling it was pointless. Testing showed that I had PCOS and my husband had a 0 sperm count.

Woke up suddenly with a terrible feeling, ran into my 9 month old's room to find him tangled in the cords of window blind, somehow he had climbed out and pushed his cot over to the window. He was ok , 30 years later still won't have a blind in the house

A lot of 'intuition' is imagining the worst but it's only when it happens that we remember it, the other 90% of our 'inutition' is wrong so we forget it.

Remember the words on Spike Milligan's gravestone, 'I told you I was ill!'.

OH imagines all sorts of things when we're flying, he's obsessed with Aircrash Investigation, but so far his 'intuition' has been wrong.

Months ago I told dh I thought the baby I was carrying was disabled, no reason to think it at the time. Now I'm waiting for the birth to see if a mass on the babies head indicates a genetic disorder or not.
I pray my intuition was wrong.

I once had really terrible premonitions about a flight - up all night before, cried all the way to the airport, called my parents sobbing from Heathrow... Nothing happened on the flight - we made it safely, and I was glad I'd forced myself to go.

I think we tend to remember the times we've been right, not the ones where we weren't, tbh.

February several years ago my FiL had fainted at home, been admitted to hospital; nothing found and was due to come home the following day.
I suggested to DH he should go the hospital and visit his Dad, to which he replied, "He's coming home tomorrow; I'll see him at the weekend." I got so cross with him! Really unexpectedly cross and basically guilt tripped him into seeing his Dad.
When we arrived at the hospital, FiL had fallen out of the chair and had blood streaming down his face (he was being attended to). But he was delighted to see DH, and we had a nice little chat before he was taken off for a scan. Basically, he never came back again

He 'crashed' in x-ray and was on life support for a couple of days before MiL and his children agreed there was no point continuing. I don't know what made me so cross with him that time, but I am so grateful DH had those last few moments with him...

I dont usually tell this story as the people I have told think I'm nuts.
My dad and I were out hiking in the countryside, a fairly regular pastime for us, never had problems before. This time as we set out I had a horrible gut feeling that we were going to be attacked by cattle and I even asked him if there were cows on this walk. As we were walking across a field there was a herd of cattle in the distance that started walking towards us, then speeding up. I got worried but my dad said they were just being curious. As they got to us I noticed the nostrils flaring and the hooves scraping against the ground. They then surrounded us and started taking it in turns to charge at us and try and knock us off our feet. It was actually terrifying and I thought I was going to be trampled to death. There happend to be a cluster of trees in the middle of the field which we were luckily right next to so we both climbed through the barbed wire fence to escape and had to wait ages for them to get bored and disappear before we could come back out.
To this day I dont understand how but I knew it was going to happen before it did.

Oh and another one which isn't me...

When my DD was 7.5 months old she choked on a piece of baby rice cake and I had to do back slaps to dislodge it. She ended up going to a&e in the back of an ambulance as she has blood coming from her mouth and nose. Shes was fine.

The same day my DH's auntie that lives in Poland emailed him to ask if she was ok. We message her from time to time but not very regularly and hadn't heard from her for a while. So could be coincidence but it was at the exact time we were in the hospital. We obviously emailed back and told what had happened and she said shed had a really uneasy feeling all day and just had to get in touch to check on us.

I had an instinct something was amiss between my dh and his colleague. I was right. He had an emotional affair, I called him on it before it became physical. I believe it would have become physical. I kicked him out, he realised how fucking stupid he had been. If it had crossed the line into physical, it would have been the end. As it was, we reconciled after counciling.

When I was a kid I wanted to know what it was like to be in zero gravity. Mum said I should write to Jimmy Saville and ask him to put me on Jim'll fix it. I said I didn't like him and I didn't want to. She tried to jolly me along and said she couldn't see what was wrong with him. I said he was horrible, really creepy and refused about a dozen times. I must've been about 10.