Something big is coming ...

[MigraineHangover]

Help me get a grip!

I have a horrible horrible feeling in my stomach that something big globally is about to kick off. I can't shake the feeling.

I know it's nonsense and I don't believe in all the woo stuff. I don't really believe in premonitions etc.. but I've only had this feeling once before and that was October 6th last year, and obviously things didn't pan out too well after that.

It's really stressing me out.

Please tell me the world will be the same tomorrow as it is today, my feelings last year were just coincidence, and I should just try and ignore this weirdness!

Has anyone had a feeling like before and all has been well?

Anyone know what these feelings are about? ... the science?

Thanks

Diarrhea?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣that made me laugh!

Not feeling that myself. The sun will still come out tomorrow .

Good 👍

What happened on October 6th last year?

Not to be dismissive. There's no denying the world feels precarious right now. But if something big is about to happen, there's unlikely to be anything you can do about it, so you might as well crack on with something fun or distracting or productive in the meantime.

are you prone to anxiety and / or catastrophising in the past?

Nothing is going to happen!

I'm going away for the weekend and I haven't had a holiday as I was recovering from surgery all summer. So I'll be furious if it's disrupted.

🍸I'm planning breakfast champagne in the fortnums bar at terminal 5.

The 'science' is that for some reason you're feeling ill at ease in your body, probably something, which is what you should tune into -- check your breathing, do a body scan, ask yourself where exactly you are feeling the apprehension etc. October 6th last year was pure coincidence, not you psychically intuiting a war in advance. There will have been hundreds if not thousands of other times when you had similar feelings of unease, but you've forgotten them because nothing in your life or the wider world happened to 'justify' them, hence make you remember them.

@WilmaFlintstone1 shame you didn't spellcheck your own post....

And FWIW, that post made me smile too. 😃

On October 6th I had a weird feeling something globally big l, and bad, was about to happen. It's the same feeling I have now. I've never had it before. I went to bed with the fear.

The next day - October 7th, a huge and catastrophic tragedy unfolded in Israel and since then thousands upon thousands of innocent men, women and children have died at the hands of the IDF in Gaza. 😥

Nothing will happen this week, I’m starting a new job. It HAS to happen!! Seriously though op, I think the trump thing has led the media into a strange place. Stay off the news for a while and get out into nature, evening time immerse in non dystopian escapism via book or films. X

Nope. Only Oct 6th last year. I think that's why I'm worrying now, but I'm pretty sure it's just coincidence? Just feels so unnerving.

John Michael Greer - catabolic collapse, if that's going to reassure you. Took 400 years for the Roman Empire to fall. Most people don't even know its happening

Thank.you! Good luck with your new job!

So you are the one person in the world to be able to predict it?

Enjoy your weekend 🙂

I feel a lot less stressed if I disengage with the news and social media and get outdoors for a walk each day.

If something big is coming . There is nothing I can do about it and I will just have to respond to it at the time.

The only prep I undertake is keeping up to date passports and some money in the bank for an air fair, identity docs at the ready, and some money for a deposit and a months rent in us dollars, and a list of contacts in far flung places.

big stuff is happening all the time around the world.

the dog still needs walking.

I know it's nonsense!!

I partly posted for 2 reasons:

1. If something does kick off, I won't think imagined this!

1. If something doesn't kick off (most likely scenario I hope!!!) then if I ever get this feeling again I can remind myself of this time, when I posted about it and nothing happened! It will remind me it's just a daft feeling and to ignore it :)

@MigraineHangover aw, thank you.

I hope you feel more grounded asap.

My advice is to try and stay busy and have some social interaction, via work or a friend phonecall etc.

After my surgery I was wracked with cold slimy anxiety and what made me better was being busy and talking to people about something other than the thing that was worrying me.

It sounds like the fear to me. Have you been on the pop?

Don't watch the news. I watch enough to get a top level idea of what's what. I might watch the lunchtime news occasionally or morning news but post watershed definitely not. I can't change anything anyway.

Think about your life. Your house, work, family. What's worrying you about that? Is it really something else. You can control that. So if there's a close niggle like work. Address that one thing. Tell yourself you can listen to bbc radio 2 new only for a month. It's 5 top level minutes. Your informed but your not drawn into.

Media wants to terrify us. But to what end? What can you do? Nothing. Ignore it. Will kids still die in Gaza,if you don't bare witness? Yes unfortunately they will die horribly if you see it or not.

I always feel a bit “off” in October each year. I recognise it as an anniversary of a decades-old event that no-one else would attach any significance to. I acknowledge it and then let it pass.

Any other time I get the same feeling, there’s nothing personally significant to attach it to. There’s always shitty stuff going on in the world, so I get on with my own stuff and turn off the news.