Do you get gut feelings?

[Vallan]

I feel like I'm always 'predicting' minor things:

A very sudden bad feeling about a journey, then I get stuck in traffic/delayed
Awful feeling about a person for no reason at all, to be proved right
Weird dreams with odd predictions that come true
Thinking about someone randomly and then bumping into them the same day
Nagging feeling about a much looked forward to event, then it's cancelled
Great feeling when I see a new job listed - I go for it & get an offer

Nothing major but I get gut feelings all the time!

I don't believe in woo stuff and a lot of this could be confirmation bias, but AIBU to think there maybe there's a 'wavelength' some people can sort of tap into, that science will one day explain?!

I don’t have woo beliefs generally but I do get these feelings, and the older I get the more spot-on they seem to be. Especially when something or someone is going to fail - like someone being two minutes late and my brain says ‘they’re not going to turn up at all’ and they don’t. Or when a booked and confirmed tradesman is never going to arrive, or a product I’ve ordered has been delivered but before I open it I know they’ve packed the wrong size and I’ll have to send it back.
Actually the same is true of quite lucky stuff - I needed some size 9 stilettos urgently for a show a while back, with an hour to spare and two charity shops in the nearest village which were literally my only hope. But I heard my brain go ‘they’ll have a pair - go and pick them up.’ And so they did.
I’m very happy to accept it’s my subconscious working hard based on previous experiences and real knowledge, but it doesn’t stop it from feeling a bit magical when it happens. In some circumstances I’m very grateful for it, whatever the cause!

I get gut feelings, but they're wrong as often as not.

And I think from what you've said there's a lot of confirmation bias. I mean bad feeling about a journey and there being a delay. Unless you're talking about hours delay, that wouldn't register with me. A bad feeling about a journey would be an accident involving me or someone I love.

As the person above says there's also luck. My family tends to call me lucky, but I would say that there is a lot of behaviour there. So times I'd think "oh yes, I'll just check" and my family would say "you're so lucky..." whereas I know my sister would have said "no point looking because they won't have it" so she'd never have looked.

Yes all these things! Like a 'knowing' but before you know. And you're right, it's the same for me that it's more often now I'm older.

So it's experience, subconscious, coincidence, mixing together? Like you say, it's lovely when it's a positive!

Yes lots of these.
I now act on them because when I was younger didn’t have the confidence -like the nanny who let us down spectacularly. Just felt off but DH told me was I was just prejudiced because of her obesity. Wasn’t that /she was horrendously unreliable.
I now go act on intuition and it really works.

Gut feelings are there for a reason. I always trust them and I haven’t been wrong yet.

Yup

Trust your instincts

No never!

I'm really not in tune with my gut.

I'm constantly questioning what I should do next.

It's interesting because the only time I went to a psychic, she said to me

"You've been to earth many times before. And you wanted to master something in this life that you haven't been able to master in other lives.

That is trusting yourself.

In always trying to feel my intuition and can't seem to do it.

How do you feel your gut feelings OP?

I do and both my mother and my husband have learnt to listen. Some of it can be explained away as pattern recognition and hyper vigilance due to trauma but some of it can't. Some things I would literally have no way of knowing, but I just "know".

I have never once been wrong when I have these particular feelings either.

How do people feel their gut feelings or instincts?
If you could describe it? Is it like feeling an energy? Or a pull to something?

Yep all the time.

I booked tickets for an event today and something told me to get the ticket protection. I've never got this for any tickets but I knew I had to with these ones.

Anyways its not until March. I'll update you all then on what happened 😂

Yes lots! Especially with the dreams, used to have it much more.. not sure why, maybe because of a certain phase in my life but it was so strange.
And I always listen to my gut, it's usually right.

It is a heavy feeling of certainty for me. It is as certain as if I read it on a sign in front of me.

For example I saw a condo on a real estate website 8 months ago, I said to my husband we will live there very soon.

I won't go into the absolutely mental sequence of events that have led to this, but we move in January 10th.

It's not a case of making this happen because I am forcing it, the things that have had to occur and the randomness of it all is WILD.

I once saw someone my mum introduced me to for approximately 3 minutes. I then said to my mum this person would do a certain thing to her and she did. Quite specific and not related to anything relevant to that first meeting.

I was with my friend once and she was leaving her abusive partner and we were packing her belongings. He was supposed to be on holiday, back the next day. I suddenly looked at her and said he would be back at the house in 10 mins, and he was.

It isn't the same as worry or anxiety or contemplating different situations (which I do a lot).

I have so many examples over the years, but it's quite strange.

I do... or maybe a sixth sense.

A recent example was that one morning I suddenly thought about a girl that I used to go to school with 25 years ago, haven't seen or spoken to her, or really thought about her since. Wasn't close friends and don't have friends in common now. Popped to the Tesco a few towns away later that day on my way back from a work visit to a place I never normally go, and she was at the scan and shop till in front of me!

Yes I definitely do. I often know if people are pregnant before they've announced it - women who I've worked with or friends - and I also sense if it's going to be a successful pregnancy. That's horrible actually as a couple of times I've had a bad feeling and it's come true and I really don't want to have had the feeling, if that makes sense.
I've also been thinking about an ex from years ago (40 years) who I haven't seen since we broke up. I googled him and found an obituary for him from the end of September this year.
Not sure if that counts as gut feelings but I think so.

Ah now I think of it. I did have one gut feeling in my life.

I sensed that my cousin was pregnant before she told me.

But I don't really have gut feelings about my own life.

I'm going to try to tune in to energy more!

Wow that's so interesting!

I do think that some people are more tuned into their spiritual level than maybe others are.

Maybe they are better at tuning in to the energy

Yes! Just today, I was getting my son from school and my neighbour who I found creepy from the get go offered his babysitting services.
Now I can’t sleep knowing he’s so close by.

Why do I never get a gut feeling.

Maybe it's something we need to practice.

Like be silent and listen to feelings

Yes massively. Am anxious and prob quite hyper vigilant which is sort of when it comes from I'm sure. What's the thing about communication being 90% non verbal or something. We know when things are off. I ignored my feelings and anxiety about situations, people and relationships so many times - in fact for a lot of my life. It has bitten me time and again. Now I try to tune in to what I'm feeling and where it's coming from - usually there is a historical context for it. Or a protective one. Especially for women and mothers. You just bloody know. God I wish I could go back and tell various people to fuck themselves and not be such a people pleaser or lack faith in my own judgment. Learn to make better friends and not be such a fool. But here I am. Trying to learn by my mistakes and not judge myself harshly. So yes. Listen to your gut. Not other people- your inner voice.

Not for the kinds of things you've mentioned but I feel I can read people very well and get gut feelings about people which turn out to be true.

2 examples, a guy I went to school with who turned out to be a peadophile and a woman who tried it on with my husband. (He rejected her) I had gut feelings about both of them years before anything happened. And there have been other people, I just get vibes and trust my gut.

I think these are mostly down to a Scombination of being less naive with age and being able to read very subtle changes in body language, a person's movements or your surroundings that are almost imperceivable.

I was leaving the house and said to my friend that I had a feeling we might get stoped by the police. Once we took driving down this country road in the middle of the night, out of nowhere came a police van and pulled us. Did a random search then sent us on our way. Strangely my friend was so astounded by it that they thought I'd actually called the police.

I've had a few. I actually get them less with age, so perhaps I'm zoning more out as I get older.

I know this may sound insane but I had a horrible gut feeling all through 2019 that 2020 would be an awful year for some reason and well.. we know how that went!

It was bizarre, to the point where my partner was starting to get fed up with how irrational I was being about it. I was convinced something awful would happen and was constantly anxious. When we went into lockdown it was like everything fell into place and my anxiety disappeared as 'the worst' had happened. Bizarre!

That reminds me of something.

I didn't get a gut feeling but I got a warning sign.

I was at a boards game meetup. It was the first time I went. I just saw it was on in my local area, and I popped in.

So everyone was sitting around the table playing a board game in a pub.

We played this game that was about a virus that infected the whole world, and you had to try to save your people with immunisation cards. I think it was called virus. I'd never played it before.

Literally, the next day, the COVID 2019 epidemic started. It was the very next day.

I feel like it was a sign

Not sure if this counts but I bought a ground floor flat with my exH and when I came into an inheritance we decided to sell up and buy a house. But I couldn't let go of our flat. I just knew that it would be needed again it at some time in the future. I put it down to the fact that we both had elderly parents who struggled with stairs plus sentimentality about it being our first home. Anyway, long story short, we couldn't sell it for whatever reason so decided to rent it out and buy a smaller house. And after the fucker cheated on me we sold the house and I moved back to the flat and it is my lovely home and safe place now.