To think that premonitions are a thing?

[Spoonfulofvodka]

Are premonitions a thing? Have you ever just knew something was going to happen and it did! Like, you knew you would marry a doctor and you did or you knew you were going to get a parking ticket that day and you did... that sort of thing. Does it happen?

A group I’m in on FB for teenage mums had a mum post a few times how her paranoia something would happen to her son was ruining her life. 6 months later her 18yr old son died in a car accident. It’s so hard reading those messages back. I guess all parents have those kind of worries but hard to see

Yes! I always knew , even as a child ,I would have twins one day. I was shocked at scan for dc1 that it wasn't twins. It was second time round though !

But that is confirmation bias!! That’s exactly what that is?! It’s a coincidence if the bird poops on your head but it becomes a thing cause you predicted it would happen! That’s exactly what confirmation bias is.

Theres no such thing as premonitions. Time just doesn’t work like that. Any examples are just anecdotal and coincidental.

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When I was a teenager I would have the odd, very random dream that would then later happen in RL so yes I do believe in premonitions, I never dreamt anything Nothing hugely significant they were usually often quite random and irreverent but I'd get de ja vu in RL, remember the dream and would know what was going to happen next. Although once I dreamt about being followed and was in RL some time later. I still think the fact I'd dreamt itbfirst and knew I would be okay meant I stayed calm and that put the person off. I've never had it happen as an adult.

One night a few years ago I dreamt I was a passenger in a plane crash. In the dream there were fatalities and I had injured my leg. The dream was terrifying and I woke up with a terrible pain in my leg, the one which had been injured in the dream.

When I went to work that morning, I saw on the TV news that there had been a fatal plane crash and the time of the crash was at the time of my dream.

i didn’t know what to make of it to be honest.

This is going to sound crazy, but recently I had a premonition that I will have a huge surprise in the future. I've no idea what it will be but I won't be expecting it at all, so let's see. I'll come back to fill you in!

I've had several dreams about tsunamis, and they nearly all came true!

You should make nothing of it. It’s a coincidence.

Yes, from a very young age I knew I'd have twins by c section. No reason to think that, there's no history of twins in my family but in my late 30s after having given up on kids I got pregnant with twins, was planning a natural delivery but was rushed in for an emergency c section when one ran into trouble. They're both fine.

I don't know if this counts..... a number of years ago me, my husband and our 3 kids were on holiday. We were there for a week and were due to drive home straight after checking out on the final day. It was about a 7 hour drive home (if traffic was bad, which it usually was at the time we'd travel) and we expected to check out at 10am.

But the night before I suddenly got this strange feeling and said I wanted to leave that night. So we packed up, got in the car just before midnight and drove home. Think we got back sometime between 5 and 6am, so made good time thanks to empty roads.

Anyway, we all went straight to bed, then I woke up to a text around 9am. It was my mum asking if we'd had a nice holiday and what time we were expecting to be home. I told her we were back, and she replied to tell me whilst we were on holiday, my cousin (who was only 40 or 41) had been taken very, very unwell with pneumonia whilst we were away, and that she was in ICU with very little chance of survival. I was due back at work the next day, but because we had come home early, I was able to drive to the hospital to see her. We lost her a day or two after that. If we had come home when we had originally planned, there is no way I'd have been able to see her. I hadn't spoken to any family members whilst away, so had no clue she was unwell, and nothing on social media. She wasn't on social media herself, so not as if I might have guessed something was wrong from her lack of posting.

It was just this feeling I had of absolute certainty that we HAD to leave that night. I'm so, so glad we did as I'd have felt awful if I hadn't had the chance to see her.

I went through period when I had an urge to keep making sure my curtains were closed all the way, even if I were sitting down, I would get up several times to double check again. There were not really any thoughts about why I needed to check, it was a compulsion driven by a nameless anxiety. I became concerned I was developing OCD.

One evening, whilst tugging the curtains properly closed again, I looked out and down (I lived several floors up), and there was a woman at street level across the road looking intently up at my window. It was semi dark so I couldn’t make out her features very well. I lived in a big city on a busy road so thought no more of it.

The following evening, I went out to my local supreme to pick up some dinner. There was a woman in the queue adjacent who kept staring at me. I thought she looked very vaguely familiar, but felt too shy to look properly to try to recall who she reminded me of…

Anyway, for some months before that, I had been chatting with a woman internationally online and helping each other with our respective languages.

Anyway, it turned out she had taken a surprise trip, and was basically stalking me, and hadn’t warned me she was even in the country! She spent a few days doing this and returned home without telling me.

It still spooks me to this day that I out of the blue felt such a strong and persistent compulsion to keep my curtains closed, without knowing why. My body felt something, but my mind couldn’t rationalise what that was.

Yes absolutely.

I was told by every doctor I saw that I wouldn’t get pregnant naturally, it was almost impossible. When I was 36 my youngest sister got pregnant and I knew for a fact that I would be pregnant by the time she had the baby. I had my first scan the day she gave birth and later gave birth to my only child.

And it was a natural pregnancy, my doctor even called me to congratulate as it was so surprising.

Yes, it's happened to me many times.
For example, I told my friend that she'd get pregnant again and it would be twins.
Her twin boys are now 2 and a half.

I don't know how it happens but it does.

I do believe that people can occasionally have a feeling or a dream about something that ends up happening, but not because of anything woo. I think sometimes you subconsciously pick up on small indicators of things and you end up with a combination of coincidence and educated guess.

Dragged my sister out of the way before a slate fell from a roof on a windy day. It landed where she'd been walking.
Told my husband to slow down before driving round a bend - to be greeted by a group horse riding & filling most of the country lane. Lots..

About 15 years ago I was carrying a basket of laundry downstairs and I stopped dead as I suddenly thought with absolute certainty "we're not going to live here much longer" which made me very sad because I love this house. There were no indications that either of us wanted a change. A year later we rented it out to work away for a decade and I grieved for my house for at least the first year. We're back now I'm happy to say 😊

This might out me but I dreamt the Concorde crash exactly as it happened about a week before. It was so vivid I'd told a few people about it. I got some sideways looks from them after that.

(I had not heard of confirmation bias before but have looked it up now and I'm not convinced the posts on this thread are examples of that. They're certainly coincidences but as to whether or not they're premonitions depends on whether you "believe" I think. But that's just my opinion of course.)

Without going into detail I've had what I can only describe as a a suffocating, heavy feeling three times. Like an impending sense of doom where I've felt physically ill from it. And all three times something terrible has happened that day. I don't know what is going to happen but my entire being is screaming that something bad is coming and it always has.

It's horrible. If I woke up tomorrow feeling like it I'd spend the day waiting for a call.

Nope, that wasn’t how it was.
Weather in my home country is quite extreme. I can remember thinking how miserable it was, and then another thought popped in my head that I only had to endure it for a few more years. Quite different!

I had a dream last night that there was a crocodile wandering around my house. Then today saw a trailer for a movie about a crocodile moving into a family's home.

Doo do do doo doo doo doooo

• Yes I believe this, when I was 18 I met up with my parent for the last time before flying overseas, after this meeting I actually broke down and cried for a few hours to my partner and said it felt weird like it was the last time I was going to see them. Parent was 42 with no health issues.

6 weeks later whilst I was overseas the parent died suddenly, I'll never forget it.

• another was my grandfather I had a strange feeling to go visit them, when I called to their home he was in bed (having been well the day before and all week no major ongoing health issues), they were more tired than normal and did not want to eat that day. I left and rang my father to say I feel like you should come and visit grandparent sooner rather than later, my grandparent died suddenly also a few hours later.

Yanbu. I’ve had a few. They usually seem to happen when I’m bored and waiting, and will be about something trivial that will irritate me a lot. Don’t want to mention the more identifying ones here, but for example I’m waiting for someone at work, and wondering whether to start my next task, and then I glance at a clock and think “no point starting that now, the fire alarm goes off in a minute.” Then as I’m thinking “What? Fire alarm?” the alarm goes off and we all have to leave the building. (Was set off by teenage pranksters, not something I could have known about.)

Or I’m at a checkout queue staring into space and suddenly think “Oh man, I picked the till that’ll break” and a moment later the till stops working and I have to join a longer queue.

Never about anything useful 🤦‍♀️ My gran predicted some fairly significant stuff but I just seem tuned in to fire alarms and breaking tech 🤷‍♀️🤣

My Nan used to work at Harrods and the only reason she didn't die in the bombing was she had a premonition and got off the bus a stop early. She wasn't well and found it difficult to walk, so its difficult to explain it away logically.

I've had lots about people dying, including lots of famous people. My exdh used to take them mickey out of me until I predicted three in a row. It starts for me by the person about to die for no reason coming into my mind a lot over the course of a few days. So far I've not been wrong and they haven't been in the news reported as being ill, so all were sudden.