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?

I have had this happen to me quite a few times, usually specific but insignificant.

One time was an exact way that a car maneuvered out of a car spot, it sounds odd but I dreamt it and the next morning I witnessed it. It wasn't usual car movement so it really stood out in my mind, like woah!

Yes, they are a thing in my experience, sometimes not always accurate but usually when you just a a feeling so to speak and sort a like a flash forward then yea.

No it doesn't matter, but I was simply asking 🙄

If they aren’t always accurate that might just be a thought?

Sometimes yes I agree as sometimes nothing comes of it, but sometimes it's like a sudden bolt or instinctive thought, but again can be a thought or idea, it's never concrete, more weighing up the gut feeling vs potential outcome

When i was a child i was walking with my family. All of a sudden i got a premonition of impending danger. I started to run. It was like i was told to get away. Within seconds shards of glass were fyling.. some of which hit me. My whole family was injured by a crashed lorry.

Well yes, if nothing comes of it it isn’t a premonition. It’s just a passing thought.

I honestly don't know what "label" this would be classed as. And I have not told anybody about this in 13 years as I am embarrassed/confused about it..I should also add a TRIGGER WARNING

here due to stillbirth

TRIGGER WARNING

My eldest child is almost 14 now and
A family member of my partner at the time was also pregnant.

One night early in my pregnancy (and family member was almost full term). I had a very vivid, violent, scary 'dream' that said family member had gone into labour, and had a baby boy. (she had not found out the sex).
However in my "dream" the baby did not survive and to this day we still don't know why.

I cannot explain why or how I had this "dream" but I apparently knew the baby was a Boy and he would not survive, despite this family member having a "text book perfect pregnancy" .. It still freaks me out now that I somehow predicted this would happen but can never understand how or why.

The day after my dream my then partner told me the family member was in labour, I then had a (very unusual for me) full blown panic attack , cried for hours etc etc.

A few hours later my "dream" was confirmed as true.

Fair point, Sherlock

Yes I’ve had premonitions on/off all my life. Mostly small things but I’ve sometimes predicted bigger events/known they were about to happen when they did. I remember the day Michael Jackson died - as I was walking down the stairs to breakfast I suddenly had the thought he’d died only for it to be announced on the radio when I turned it on minutes later.
When I was pregnant and before knowing the sex I had a very vivid dream that I had a little boy with golden curly hair. It was unexpected as both my DH and I have dark hair - nobody with curly fair hair in either side of the family yet I did indeed have a little golden curly haired boy!
Once sitting in the living room I looked to my children playing only to see what I can only describe as a mirage of a little long dark haired girl sitting with them. I knew instantly that I was having a premonition - that month I discovered I was pregnant (unplanned) and indeed had a DD with long dark hair!
I’ve also had a voice pop into my head saying “You’re going to see so-and-so” about a random person I may not have seen for years and years and then all of a sudden I turn the corner and see them!
I think I’m just very intuitive! 😁

Sometimes I read things and despair that some people are still living in the dark ages. Not sure that counts as a premonition though, more an observation.

Yes premonitions are a thing and I used to have them a lot.

The main one I remember was when I was about 12 and I had a dream that I was looking through a camera lens with night vision and I was watching a ship sink, it's bow was out the water. It had the date and time in the corner (around 2am) and was "recording".
I could hear people talking in a strange language around me, like Danish or similarly Scandinavian and they sounded panicked and distressed.
I "knew" that I was watching from a cliff top and it was cold.

I remember waking up (I don't know what time, but middle of the night) and then struggling to get back to sleep because I kept going back to the same "dream". People crying as we watched the ship sink.

I told my mum about it when I woke up because I felt so troubled by it. She hadn't been up long or watched the news.

I went into town later that day and on the bus my friend asked me if I'd heard about the ship that sank earlier today? I hadn't but I immediately knew what she was talking about.

When I got home I walked in and my mum stared at me, I said "a ship sank didn't it?" And she said yes and put the news on.

If I recall correctly, it was a ferry sinking in the Baltic Sea in early 90s, killed 800+ people.

I told my mum that I must be mad expecting her to scoff, she just told me that I've always been able to see things that were inexplicable at the time.

When I was a student, I had a summer job working in a construction company and there was a young female trainee architect in the office a bit older than me. We got kind of friendly, swapping magazines and having lunch together, then she was made redundant. She went to an evening class with a guy I was seeing. Years later I was walking down the street and suddenly thought "I haven't seen Lucy for years" and turned the corner and there was Lucy. When I started another student job the next summer, she was there too. We lost touch after that but I often thought about her.

The guy I was seeing and I spoke about two years ago having not seen each other since we were 20. It turned out he was shagging Lucy back then.

Well I don’t know. Likely confirmation bias but I have been having really weird dreams twice in the last few months. Full colour really awful dreams were I died or witnessed murders - which never happens.

Once someone came in dressed in black and machine gunned us all down. Next day that horrific school shooting and shooter looked the same. And second someone stabbing a women in the neck, and then a few days later read about the poor author and that terror attack whilst on stage.

So really hope these are not premonitions as would like to return to my largely peaceful and undisturbed sleep! Bloody weird though

Premonitions and interpreting them used to be a more widely accepted art.

Not so much now. The art of reading signs has been lost.

It’s not evidence based or scientific enough for the modern world; even though it’s an art not a science.

Yes, I have had premonitions. Some have just been “what if?” thoughts that have just popped into my head which then happened shortly after.

Some have been dreams that have come true.

Other times I have known something is going to happen and have purposely gone to the place. Where it has happened.

I have also seen family members who have passed away in totally random countries/places and then discussed this with whoever was with me at the time and they also saw that person.

There is a date in my head that I don’t like and every year I stay at home in bed. I know something bad will happen on that date .

I’m about the least woo person imaginable, career scientist. When I was in my late 20s I used to go running down a lane in a nearby town where there were 5 houses being built. I had a dream one night about driving up to one of them, fully built, with my husband. I told him about it and exactly which one it was out of the 5 (we drove up the drive and turned right). He made a comment ‘we’d have done well in life if we moved there, they are big houses!’. We live in that house now.
When I was about 16-18 I lived with my parents in a village that is popular with tourists. I had a dream about being in a neighbouring house that I had never been to which had much better views than us and a long front garden. We rented that house as a holiday let a couple of summers ago.
I have had a horrendous dream a couple of years ago about finding my daughter dead in woods. It plays on my mind horribly and I am desperately hoping that one doesn’t come true.

Yes I’ve had lots of them.

The first one I remember was when I was a child, we were moving house and before we’d found a new house I said to my mum “can we put a flower pot on each step in the garden?” - I had clearly seen the new garden in my head and knew it had 4 steps on the path (which is unusual in this area). Sure enough when they secured a new house it had 4 steps on the garden path.

Since then I’ve had lots of premonitions, some of them not nice (such as plane crashes and deaths of celebrities). A more recent one (last week) was a knew my aunt and uncle would get Covid. Sure enough the next day they announced that they had Covid.

Ive also been able to manifest certain things. Such as - we were due a visitor and I was dreading them coming. I started envisioning over and over again DH receiving a text saying “sorry, I can’t make it this weekend, I’m not feeling too good”

DH received that very text word for word. I’ve managed this a few times (such as manifesting certain people not turning up for work or manifesting certain phone calls/texts). I just need to concentrate hard and envision it in precise detail.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work with lottery numbers lol

I tend to agree with the confirmation bias theory. We are constantly thinking whilst awake or dreaming whilst asleep - that's millions of thoughts and dreams across a lifetime. It would be statistically more surprising if they never "came true".

We live overseas and it's our culture to have "gravesweeping" two times a year where all family gather and go to the ancestors graves to do a clean up and show respect at the family plots.

My grandparents and great grandparents are buried on a mountain. My mother stood at a spot and "This spot is ugly. There is burnt hill in front of it. It's not good feng shui. The whole view is blocked"

My mother died two months later and when we went to the family plot, my dad stood at the exact spot and said we should bury her there .

I said no and told him why. We buried her further down the mountain beside a tree with an open view and direct line of sight to our family home.

But with the house, you had a dream about owning it and then when it came up for sale you chose to buy it. Surely it's not so much a premonition but just being influenced to make a choice in your life by a dream you had? I appreciate things had to happen at the right time but even so, I'm sure when you saw the house up for sale you thought 'that's the house I had a dream about' and that influenced the decision to view it.

I hope you don't worry too much about the dream about your daughter. We've all had dreams like that about our children going missing or getting hurt. They are a natural reaction to our worries for our children and not premonitions.

I'm sorry about your mum. I don't understand how this is a premonition. Your mum didn't like the spot where her parents were buried, and your father understandably thought she be buried there in the family plot, but because she didn't like it you buried her somewhere else.

Didn’t happen like that at all, in fact only remembered the dream months after we had moved in. Husband then confirmed we had had that conversation over 15 years previously. Certainly hadn’t been looking for it to be on the market, let alone being on the market at the exact time we were looking to move. Can’t explain it.

Yes. Quite a few of my dreams have come true. Sometimes boring things like someone from school who I've not seen in 20 years will be in my dream and then I will walk past them in the street next day. One time I dreamt a family member died and not long after they were in a bad accident and almost died.
Similar to what previous posters have described, when I was a child I used to get a bad feeling just before someone died, usually very unexpectedly or tragically. It happened 4 times, and I remember being very freaked out! It's not happened as an adult so I don't know if I'm less intuitive now or what.

I've always had loads. Knowing a car I'm in would break down then it did! Once said to my ex he would have an affair, move another women into my house and he'd discard us (first family). He obviously denied it, said it would never happen blah blah, it 100% did! This was way before the affair. I had loads that came true with him. Now I'm with DP I don't have them so much. Just a feeling that it's going to be ok and not to worry. I've learned to listen to that part of myself.