To think that is a sixth sense?

[upandmummin]

I was having a really vivid dream and suddenly I was just jerked wide awake eyes wide open, like mid dream with no warning and no fall or anything to cause it, it felt really eerie and I laid in bed for 5 minutes feel really unsettled before getting up, I went into my 3 year olds room and looked at him and he was in bed sleeping all fine, watched him for a minute then as I went to walk out he suddenly made this horrible noise was really, really sick all over his bed. I pulled him up and so much sick came out of his mouth. I'm worried he would of choked on it if I hadn't been there as he didn't sit up on his own.

It's like I knew?! I never wake up in the middle of the night like that. I'll sometimes stir and check the time on my phone but never sudden wide awake eyes open mid dream cut off kinda thing. I genuinely wonder if as a mum we have some kind of sixth sense?

Yes!!!!
That was a mothers 6th sense.
I've had something similar happen to me. I was having a nap during the day and suddenly herd my 6 year old call out "mummy" I woke up right away, felt very real, like I heard her clearly, but she was at school so I felt uneasy.
After about 5 minutes. I received a call from school saying my daughter had had a fall and fell backwards causing injury to her head.

I think we do. We’re so attuned to our child/children.

My mum told a story from her childhood of a woman whose only son was away at war (ww2). The woman was a good friend of my gran’s and not a nervy lady (aside from the usual with air raids etc). She came in the shop one day in bits, because her son had walked up past the garden gate while she was out front doing some weeding. He had waved and smiled and carried on walking. She got up and walked to the gate but there was no one in the lane when she got there. And she knew that was his “goodbye”. Sure enough, she subsequently received word that he had died in combat on that day in a distant battlefield.

I do honestly believe some connections are very deep. I don’t understand how but some research into twins will tell you it is real enough.

Yes

It's amazing isn't it! Thanks for sharing, such interesting examples.

Could be 6th sense- but could also be that he made the horrible noise earlier and you heard it in your sleep and woke up?

That said me and my mum both know when the phone rings if it is the other one.

This is very interesting! It's a bit like ESP, isn't it? I have had strange things happen, like I'll be thinking about something, and then that very thing will happen or my DH will mention that very thing. Weird!

I think we are very well attuned to our DC. I know from a glance if they're brewing an illness, even if they are as yet, symptomless. I can also smell illness on them before they know it's coming.

I always know if the DC are distressed in the night as well, even if fast asleep because I appear to always have an ear open. I can tell DH if they're feeling ill and I won't even have consciously considered it and they're in a different room. It's probably the ways they're moving in bed (agitated) or similar but I know when I hear them get up, whether it's distress or just a wee for example.

I bet you heard the "horrible noise" before you woke up. Sounds like he'd been retching in his sleep and his body was already being sick before he was conscious.

He probably made some sort of noise while you were still asleep and it crept into your hearing, just enough to slightly jog you.

All sorts of crazy things happen when something creeps into our hearing while we're asleep.

I wish him better OP.

6th sense,instinct,gut feeling,intuition = Guardian Angel. But most people don't believe in Angels so call it by other terms which are more acceptable.😃
for sure that was the work of an Angel bringing you back urgently to potentially save your son's life.
Thank them.🌈

My DM was occasionally acutely telepathic over very long distances - e.g. over two thousand miles - but only when someone close was in some sort of acute distress. She would dream exact details - and in the 2 cases I know of personally, she would at once tell us those details, and within a week or so (this was in the days before emails or routine long-distance phone calls) it would turn out that she’d been spot on.

She was always a hyper-hyper sensitive type, which is probably relevant. It could sometimes make her difficult to live with, though.

My doctor told me that mothers do have a sixth sense and they trust it. If the mum says something is wrong, it generally is. Remember this human being was part of us and there is a strong connection. I have known things many times that I should not have known. Always trust that gut instinct.

@upandmummin
It could be. But it could also be that in the light sleep that sometimes comes with parenting, you half heard a sound your child made that alerted you. It's pretty unlikely a child could he that sick entirely without warning. But whatever it was-be thankful it did!

It's also important to remember that we have hundreds of dreams and "feelings" all the time that don't amount to anything- we only remember the ones that do.

My nan was in her early 70s when she rung me really early in the morning and told me she woke up 4.30 with a searing upper body pain and had been on the verge of being sick ever since. I told her I'd come over and see her right away and while I was making her a brew about 8.30am my aunty called to say her DH ( nans son) had a fall down the stairs at 4.30 while letting the dog out and had just been x-rayed and had a broken collar bone and a concussion. Me and nan were like 😮😮😮.

I was in bed with my tiny baby with white noise playing I couldn't hear a thing!

I think we do. My kids often used to do this spooky thing where I’d be thinking about something quite random while emptying the washing machine or whatever and they’d come in and mention it. It’s happened less as they get older, but at times I used to feel we were all sharing a brain🤔

I still don't know whether I believe in it but when my eldest was a baby, DH had her on the changing mat on our bed. We'd done it many times before, she wasn't near the edge, she wasn't rolling yet etc. I got a weird feeling and said to him she's going to fall off, keep hold of her. He (reasonably) said she's fine, she's nowhere near the edge, I'm right next to her etc.

He turned around to put clothes in a drawer and in the split second his back was turned, a bird slammed into the window, made DD jump out of her skin and roll sideways, the mat slipped, I leapt across and caught her before she rolled off the bed.

DH looked at me stunned and then told me to go and buy a lottery ticket because I was clearly having a psychic day 😂

My mum believes in angels… actual ones with big white wings.

You're right with the first one. She heard him make the sound. You're wrong with the phone example, that's just confirmation bias. You forget about all the times you thought it was her calling but it wasn't.

Same thing happened to me when my son was young! Mothers just know.

And when he'd sadly been beaten up after school. I left work bang on time and walked out of the way to meet him on his route home. I say walked, I marched. Knew something was wrong.

@KrisAkabusi I think it’s more that my mum rings me approximately 15,000 times a day so I just always presume it’s her!

She is convinced it’s a psychic link however.

I absolutely believe we have one, probably left over from cave man days.

Many years ago when we were away on holiday my Dad spent a fairly disturbed night just dreaming about his mother, going on outings with her, remembering stuff they had done together throughout his childhood and reliving it all in his dreams. When they woke up the next day he told my mother that he thought that the dreams had probably been his own mum's last goodbye!

When we got home a couple of days later it turned out he had been right. She had died that night. It wasn't unexpected, she'd been very ill for a few years really, but the final decline simply came that night.

I was about 19 then and on one of my last couple of holidays in the Mediterranean with my parents. It was in the mid 1980s so well before the advent of mobile phones, internet, electronic messaging and roaming. The means of getting in contact with people back home were limited, especially given that my parents simply didn't believe in making international phone calls (very expensive). So, we didn't find out for definite until we were back, but he was spot on.

Yes I think it is! I've had funny things like randomly thinking "I bet dh will bring me flowers home today" (it's very rare ) but I'm always right! I also know if my mums having a bad day and vice verca .