… to think sometimes you just know things (psychically?)

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I’m not into woo, don’t believe in ghosts or the healing properties of crystals etc… But a few times in my life I’ve just ‘known’ a friend is in crisis and that I should make contact, or managed to reach them telepathically. Just wondering if anyone else is the same.

I have two friends that I am very close to. They had v troubled childhoods and don’t have much in the way of a support network- just me and one or two other friends. Both live far away and due to the chaotic nature of their lives I don’t see or hear from them very often.

Friend 1 went totally off radar for about 5 years (complex mental health and trauma). Every 6 months or so I’d ring or email, and never get any response. The only way we knew he wasn’t dead was because his YouTube account was still active... But one day he did pick up the phone, sounding a bit freaked out and crazy, and said ‘can I ring you back tomorrow?’ Which he did, to tell me he’d been standing on a bridge about to jump when I rang.
A few years later we were in rather more regular contact, with weekly phone calls. Then he went awol again. I just knew he wasn’t ok. I was worried enough to call the police and within 2o mins was talking to him in a secure psychiatric ward.

Friend 2 I hadn’t spoken to for over a year. Tried calling, nothing. I just knew he was in prison, and he was (first time as well so not as if it was a pattern).
A few years later I was very worried about him and couldn’t get hold of him. I went to the top of a big hill we always used to climb up, and spoke to him telepathically, telling him to contact me if he could hear me. Got home and there was a message from him. This happened a second time as well. We are normally in very sporadic contact.

It’s weird. These people are not in my regular life. Months or years can elapse between conversations. We’re very different people with very little in common on the face of it (different social backgrounds, educational attainment, financially, geographically…). But they are very special to me. I’ve been with them at pivotal points in my/their lives and I believe there is a connection there.

I’m quite sure some people can. My DM (a hypersensitive type anyway) was occasionally acutely telepathic over long distances, but only AFAIk when someone was in distress or some sort of trauma.

I remember the first incident v well, I was only about 11, so it was many decades ago. She woke up one morning utterly convinced that a sister in Canada had had a baby. She was quite specific - she’d woken at 6.30, gone back to sleep until the alarm at 7, and within that half hour had this very vivid dream.

Her sister already had 3 dcs and of course we all thought that she’d have said if she was expecting another.

So TBH we didn’t think much more about it. It was long before people made long distance calls at the drop of a hat, so there was no question of phoning.

Roll on 2 or 3 weeks, and there was a birth announcement card in the post, giving the date and time. When we worked out the time difference, it was in the exact half hour when my DM had her dream.
Funnily enough, they were not even all that close. The sister had not told anyone back in the U.K. because she’s had more than one miscarriage.

There was at least one other incident that I know of personally, when she knew (and said at the time) exact details of the distress of a family member abroad, and their detailed plans to return to the U.K. without telling anyone. I know this because the person was me, and I can tell you, I was seriously spooked. Again she had had a dream, was very worried, and immediately wrote me a letter. And she never wrote - it was always my DF. The things she knew were far too specific to ever have been coincidence.

I don’t think there’s anything at all woo about it though. IMO some people’s brains can pick up things that most people’s can’t, but when you think what a cheap radio can pick up, and how infinitely more complex a human brain is, it’s really not so surprising.

As I said, my DM was hypersensitive anyway, which TBH could sometimes make her difficult to live with. These rare incidents only ever occurred when someone was in some sort of stress or distress, so her ability could never have been proved under lab conditions.

Yes a few months ago I got an overwhelming sense that something was wrong with DS1 (we have 3 DC all living away as uni students).
I'm not at all an anxious person but this floored me. I knew he wasn't even going out as he was on an early shift the next day (student nurse). So I had no reason to feel this way at all.
Eventually at 2am I decided to ring him.
He answered the phone with "it's OK mum the Police are here now"
His female flatmates had been followed home by a gang of lads who had entered the foyer to their accom. They rang DS to come and meet them as they were scared.
DS had gone down, told the lads that he would look after them now and then one of them accused him of "nicking his woman" and pulled a knife on him.
Utterly awful.

Everything is connected OP. Everything. But we're most of us blind to it and blocked to it due to our modern way of living.

I get the same as you but on a smaller scale.

To me this is far easier to believe and understand than any man made religion or science.

I have 2 separate friends who believe they have a psychic connection with me. They will contact me to check on me as they had a dream/had a feeling.... It's completely random whether they are "right" or not. And really I'd rather they didn't pass on their shit to me.. One phoned me in a panic saying they'd had a vision of a road traffic accident. It really upset me. Not because I believed it. I felt they were offloading their anxieties on to me.

I find it really quite intrusive that they presume to have this "connection" to me. Please of you have these feelings, don't tell people. It could be they are like me and find it really annoying/offensive.

Fascinating thread OP. I can't say I've had any telepathic experiences other than the usual "think of someone and then they call you" or a random song pops in your head then it comes on the radio. I think this is fairly common though. I think some people are just more intuitive than others and you're one of them.

I believe in collective unconscious. Of course there are coincidences, commonly. But when the call happens, you know immediately.
For me, it is an overwhelming need to contact the person, Right Now.
It's for people I am/have been extremely close to, so it's not as if its a daily occurrence.
I ran across a main road to the nearest phone box, to ring my Grandad, when the urgent impulse thumped through my mind: my Mum answered, rather baffled by my out of the blue pleading to know how Grandad was. He'd just had his first serious collapse. There was no prior illness. I spoke with him regularly, saw him as often as our geo-distance allowed.
It happened again, a few weeks later, though this time the all-consuming demand to ring, now, was shaded by the knowledge of his illness. Sure enough, sadly, he'd just collapsed again-leading to hospital & then loss. I miss him to this day, & believe experiences such as those are borne of closeness.
Our babies, when born, have a psychological connection: I could feel the bond with my daughter in my mind, could think to her & feel/see her respond.
My mum and I regularly phone each other simultaneously, we don't know who is answering whos call til the bill comes!
We are matter, we fire electrical impulses: it entirely stands to reason that we can build close connections with a few special people.

I felt an urge to drive to my parents after waking in the night suddenly. When I got there my dad passed away in front of me. (Terminally ill, but the waking up and compulsion to get there I just knew it would happen)

About 5 years ago I had very intrusive recurring thoughts that were uncharacteristic of me. That 'I' was standing at the edge of a cliff and about to jump but never followed through just this image repeating itself over and over for several days. I received a call from Sussex police that they believed my mother had gone missing and were checking to see if she had come to visit me in the Midlands
They were doing a risk assessment. Several days later I received a call from my mothers friend saying that she had been found by the Cliff Chaplains at Beachy Head and had been voluntarily sectioned.
Spooky!

I was away on holiday in the Lake District with my family. My girls were playing in the play park. I saw a young girl that really reminded me of an old uni friend as looked like her. I had not seen my friend in 20 plus. Anyway that day half an our later I get a txt from this very friend. Totally weird.

Quantum entanglement. Wonderful concept for explaining these things

I'd love to believe this stuff. I'm reading the thread because it's fascinating. I've had similar experiences but just cannot accept that they're anything more than coincidences.

It is really common to think of an old friend and then hear from them, or think of a song and then hear it on the radio, or predict who is phoning when you hear the first ring.

But it is also really common to think of an old friend and then not hear from them, think of an old song that doesn't come on the radio, think you know who's phoning but get it wrong.

I've had bad dreams and bad feelings about loved ones that haven't come to anything (thank goodness) and only once did it coincide with a friend being in a minor car accident.

I am open to being convinced but there's nothing convincing on here yet.

I've had the deja vu/doom feeling some pp describe a couple of times before bad things have suddenly happened. So upsetting, I dread it happening again.

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I’m quite sure some people can. My DM (a hypersensitive type anyway) was occasionally acutely telepathic over long distances, but only AFAIk when someone was in distress or some sort of trauma.

I remember the first incident v well, I was only about 11, so it was many decades ago. She woke up one morning utterly convinced that a sister in Canada had had a baby. She was quite specific - she’d woken at 6.30, gone back to sleep until the alarm at 7, and within that half hour had this very vivid dream.

Her sister already had 3 dcs and of course we all thought that she’d have said if she was expecting another.

So TBH we didn’t think much more about it. It was long before people made long distance calls at the drop of a hat, so there was no question of phoning.

Roll on 2 or 3 weeks, and there was a birth announcement card in the post, giving the date and time. When we worked out the time difference, it was in the exact half hour when my DM had her dream.
Funnily enough, they were not even all that close. The sister had not told anyone back in the U.K. because she’s had more than one miscarriage.

There was at least one other incident that I know of personally, when she knew (and said at the time) exact details of the distress of a family member abroad, and their detailed plans to return to the U.K. without telling anyone. I know this because the person was me, and I can tell you, I was seriously spooked. Again she had had a dream, was very worried, and immediately wrote me a letter. And she never wrote - it was always my DF. The things she knew were far too specific to ever have been coincidence.

I don’t think there’s anything at all woo about it though. IMO some people’s brains can pick up things that most people’s can’t, but when you think what a cheap radio can pick up, and how infinitely more complex a human brain is, it’s really not so surprising.

As I said, my DM was hypersensitive anyway, which TBH could sometimes make her difficult to live with. These rare incidents only ever occurred when someone was in some sort of stress or distress, so her ability could never have been proved under lab conditions.

You have just reminded me of a similar story in my family. My grandma had a feeling of such dread about my then pregnant mother that she went straight to the airport and got on the first flight to where she was. This was the early 70s and my grandma was not well off at all (not sure how she paid!). She went straight to the hospital and asked where my mum was- she had just been admitted, miscarrying twins.