I've always had a weird hunch I'm going to die aged 32 - and I'm 31.

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Kind of that really
Was once asked in amongst a series of random questions as a silly questionnaire "do you have a secret hunch of when you're going to die" and I replied automatically "at 32" at it's sort of stuck.
Have joked about it for a few years (had to stop after my DP got really cross about it).
Thing is - I turn 32 in July, and whilst my logical brain is trying to be reasonable (how could I possibly know?) stranger things have happened, and my Mum said the least reassuring thing ever when I spoke about it a couple of years ago which was "if you keep thinking it, you'll end up causing it subconciously"

So, Mumsnet, AIBU?

Please come back and update when you turn 33!

.... if you make it. Obviously.

Stop it.

YAB ridiculous

Yes - although I also was stuck on a date of death for years. 28th October 2013. As you can tell I’m still very much here. (I had a dream where I saw that date on my headstone and it very much stayed with me/ freaked me out for a long time). If you are unable to move past it, maybe see your GP about potential anxiety. I also used to joke about it to my DP but it very much was to hide crippling fear.

You're going to feel so good when you turn 33!

Well, unless you develop an aggressive cancer and don't do anything daft like forget to look both ways when crossing the road, you are likely to get to 33 and beyond.

I was friends with my husband prior to marrying him and he thought he would die at a certain age ( can’t even remember what now), but he didn’t.

Growing up I was absolutely convinced I was going to die at 22. Convinced! I'm 36 now and as far I know I haven't died yet.

I always had a weird hunch I would die when I was 28.

I'm 42 now.

Up your insurance policy massively just in case so your family are fine

One of the rare times I've posted on AIBU hoping people tell me to pull myself together

Glad to hear you lived past 2013 @Pocketmonstie

I don't think I have anxiety really, I used to. I'm loads tougher now (huge amounts of business stress have left me way thicker skinned than I used to be)

I've actually tried this, but I'm in a weird location and it's not really a thing here

What's your location, Venus?

I understand, I'm prone to these kinds of thoughts/worries. But I can reassure you that I've been wrong. It's not as scary but I "knew" I would have my first child at 26, and it would be a girl - both totally wrong.

I've had a hunch/been sure that something awful would happen and it hasn't, several times. It's a manifestation of my anxious personality and latching onto worrisome or random thoughts, and I think that's what's happened to you.

How I would deal with this is to rewrite it, and pick a new age. e.g. you were wrong about this, and you now think it will be... 96. Keep telling yourself that and let it settle into your brain, so you have a more distant "target" to place this worry on, if that makes sense.

Better book your dream bucket list holiday for June just in case.

I have felt since I was a teen that I would die when I am 48. It was the cause of some anxiety as i got closer to it.

I am 49 and 3 months. :) i confess I did celebrate when I hit 49.

Its irrationall but a real feeling.

But still very very unlikely. :) xxx

I don't think you're being ridiculous, but I also don't think you'll die when you're 32 either. It's a glitch in your mind. I have had a few. I was convinced for quite a long time that if I heard the song Brown-eyed girl all the way through in any circumstances, my mum would die. It's anxiety related. I have walked out of supermarkets, abandoning my full trolley, when that song started playing. In fact, I have run out. At my aunt's funeral they played that song - she was another brown-eyed girl. My mum survived. I have another song connected to my son. I am not generally superstitious, it's just the stakes are high on these particular points!

This is really bizarre, but I tried this a few months ago and oddly 96 was the new age I chose.
Clearly the age to aim for!

There you go then, 96 it is!

If this isn't a sign I don't know what is!! Your 95-year-old self won't thank you though.

Hah! When I did not die at 48 I chose the new age of 101.

I am now convinced this is the true age. Mind you,- about 99 I will most likely get anxious about it.

Isn’t it confirmation bias when our “hunches” turn out to be correct? Ie we do often have dreams or premonitions or weird feelings about this and 99.9% of the time they come to absolutely nothing. But when they do come to pass - as logically the odd hunch will - we remember it and cite it as proof as some sort of sixth sense. Then obviously you start believing in your own premonitions because you have “proof” ..

I actually think it’s quite common to believe you will die young. As a teenager I simply couldn’t imagine myself as a woman in my 30s and 40s. I assumed it just wouldn’t happen for me. It has - obviously.

When I was about 7 or 8 I was playing “fortune tellers” with some neighbour kids, and one of them foretold that I would die when I was 31. It real upset me, I remember storming off back home! It stayed with me, and used to regularly panic me! So much so that when I was counting I would skip saying 31 😂 I’m 37 now, so I made it! Still think it was a dick move from that kid tho!

I've a colleage who was convinced she would die at 43. She wouldn't t even say her age, she was 42 plus one. She'll be 50 this year.

Please don't do this, it's ridiculous. My y ex was like this about 50, for no reason other than his father died at fifty. His belief coloured his whole 49th year, he became very apathetic because nothing mattered any more. He was actually surprised when 50 came. Please snap out of this, it will affect you mentally for the whole year for no sensible reason.