I’ve a bad feeling about this…?

[HerbalBovril]

Have you ever experienced a moment/situation/circumstance wherein you had a “bad feeling”…almost a premonition of a terrible or tragic thing to come, only to be proved correct?

I’m not talking vagaries or coincidence…more akin to, “I’m somewhat petrified that I saw this coming, despite it being impossible to do so”.

That reminds me of something that my dad witnessed, when he was doing his National Service in the RAF, stationed in Canada at the time.

One Dad's comrades had received a letter from his sister, saying she was coming to visit him in about ten days' time and he was delighted, as you would expect.
Then a few days later, my dad found his friend (usually a very cheerful man) looking very upset. When Dad asked what was wrong, he said that he had a terrible feeling. Exactly like you, try as he might, he couldn't visualise that visit, and was absolutely certain that he wasn't going to see his sister.
A few days later, he was killed in a mid-air collision between two planes.

I dreamt a member of the royal family died abroad, suspicious circumstances. Near water. A car. A crash.

Woke up then soon after the phone rang, my boss telling me about Diana, Princess of Wales.

I kept getting a bad feeling that somebody close to me was going to die. Sometimes I would be overcome by it and get quite upset (this is out of character for me).

I would make my DP visit his nan more often than he'd like because I thought it might have been her. I would panic when my mum didn't answer the phone in case it was going to be her. Same with my daughter who was away at uni and suffered a bit with her mental health.

I remember one day, in the middle of the time when I was getting these feelings, my DP rang and told me a friend (not close) had died suddenly and my first thought, shamefully, was relief, that this person had died and not someone close to me.

But the feeling didn't go away and I realised that the person I was worried about hadn't died yet.

I do realise how mad this makes me sound.

Then a few weeks later we found my son in a critical condition. And straight away I knew he wasn't going to make it. That anxiety feeling id been getting just went away immediately, it was like a weight had lifted, I wasn't waiting anymore, and I knew my son was 'dead'.

My son didn't make it. I was and still am distraught. Totally out of the blue and completely not what we were expecting.

I've been in so many stressful situations since then, and have returned to work in a new industry and been in lots of situations that have pushed me out of my comfort zone. But I have never felt that anxious feeling again. I really think it was some sort of premonition. I just wish I had made sense of it at the time.

I am so sorry @premonition 💐💔.

I think most of us would have felt relief over the non close friend so please let that shame go. You've far more important things to think about.

I am so sorry @premonition. That is so very sad.

I had a bad feeling on the top of Twin Towers. It was so tall and such ab an ostentatious symbol of capitalism and I remember thinking it would be an obvious target and couldn’t wait to get down.

I definitely have a few times when I’ve thought “wouldn’t it be awful if x happens” and then it does, pretty soon afterwards.

The most vivid was crossing a road at a pedestrian crossing in central London after work, late. I’d done the route loads and knew it well. The lights changed to red for the cars and the green man came up but I saw a black car coming from the right. Normal speed, nothing unusual, would have had time to stop but I knew with absolute certainty that it wasn’t going to stop at the red light. Thankfully I had time to take two steps back before it zoomed straight through the red light exactly where I had been about to walk.

A few years ago, I used to drop my eldest off somewhere every day and go
back to pick her up after a couple of hours. One day I just thought someone’s going to crash into the back of me on the way home, I could imagine glass all flying in so I put my other daughter in the front seat next to me. Someone did indeed crash into the back of me on the way home, the windows didn’t smash though.

Yes, in fact, my friends joke that I have a spider sense of things about to happen.
The earliest memory I have was an old guy who lived beside my family when I was a kid. We never interacted with him, but he just gave me bad vibes....years later, he's arrested and jailed for abuse.

I used to cry myself to sleep at night because I knew I'd be left alone without a family early on in my life - my parents died when I was in my 20s. The family dwindled.
I dreamt my sons gf was pregnant - she was but she had a termination. They told me months after.
I worked in my sisters hotel a older guy really creeped me out like he had spirit surrounding him - he died that night.
Years later worked in sisters new pub, a guy who attended regularly who wasn't that unhealthy, I just knew he was going to die before anyone else, soon. He wasn't that old - he died few years later.
When I was 9 I told my brothers I wasn't going to jump off the shed as I'll break my leg. They called me soft so I jumped - I broke both bones in my lower leg.
Every time I drove past a certain area I knew I was going to work in that area 1 day - I applied for a job, not knowing where it was - it was in the same area I knew I was going to work in 1 day.
Before I even spoke to a work colleague, just knowing he was there - I knew we'd have something. Still early days yet - but I just know.
The conception of my daughter - everything about it - I already knew from my thoughts from childhood.
Ironing late 1 dark raining night I had a terrible feeling and thoughts of motorway driving. Sudder went down me thinking I wouldn't like to be driving in this - my brother and his child had an accident on the motorway at the same time - his child's skull was cracked. Luckily he's okay now ❤️.
Wow - my thoughts scare me.
Never, ever said these out loud before.

I find this so interesting. I’m not a believer in anything spiritual but I’m a huge believer in gut feeling. I have had so many particularly in relation to my son. I truly believe by acting on these gut feelings has saved his life in one instance. Many times I have had a feeling and rung him to realise my gut feeling was correct. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it is so strong. I also had similar to some of the ones I have read on here, when I was pregnant, my second pregnancy, and although I was healthy, I just knew my son would not be born healthy. I lost him at 8 months into my much wanted pregnancy and I had brought nothing because I just knew.

So sorry @premonition 🥺❤️

Intuition is a real and powerful thing!

Many, many times.

I usually explain them with logic/subconscious but then I had a seemingly mundane vision that has no explanation.

When house hunting, I stepped into the hallway of a house I was viewing and had an immediate vision of my furniture there - I could 'see' it in situ, but I could also see a large lamp, a very particular lamp (shape of an animal) - that I had no knowledge of.

The house was amazing and we bought it. I did end up putting all the furniture I 'saw' exactly as I'd seen it in my vision, except this specific lamp. I never told anyone anything about the lamp.

A year later, I came home from work and came into the hallway - and THERE IT WAS. DH had bought it, he said he thought it'd look great in the hallway (it does!).

Zero explanation. So now I believe in all my woo feelings and visions!

I have had this many times, my daughter also has it too but even stronger.
She was only about 2 in a car seat and we were visiting my uncle (as we did every Sunday morning), he lived in the middle of nowhere, down a very remote country road and we never met a car on the road. She said ‘slow, slow’ and I slowed down and there was a car crash just around the corner. I didn’t even know she could say that word at that age.

She gets feelings about things too and I would totally believe her if she told me something now.

Years ago having breakfast with ex H, before going to work, radio on for news. Said a woman had died in a fire in the town where we lived. I knew 100%, it was my friend, I named her! I was correct. Leaving work one night,had this awful feeling of doom,(I was nursing old cottage hospital, nipped out the back entrance of the ward to the staff car park. It was very dark,an ambulance reversed down, didn't see me, I managed to get out of the way. A mile from home, lit straight stretch of dual carriageway,I was hit by an uninsured driver with no licence. Car overturned 3 times, I was trapped in the car. Luckily, people behind saw and got me out. We moved to a new property when my son was little,there was no landline installed we had to wait a year, walked to the local phone box. My (late) parents wouldn't have come round, unexpectedly. Late DM,smelt smoke, told my late father she had to come and see me (she didn't drive) a few days before,my now ex H, came home at 6am from a night shift,kids and i were fast asleep,he put some fat on the cooker (it was lard in those days,1980s) forgot about it,went to have a shower... thankfully alerted by our 2 dogs barking and scraping the bathroom door. We had decided not to tell my parents, because I had been in a fire as a child,saved by my DM. She had these "feelings" they were always correct, like when her brother died at 35, not been ill,no phones in those days, the police came to the door.

In your opinion. Others disagree. I think in some cases it is but it certainly doesn’t account for all examples. I don’t think it’s for other people to sneer at others experiences because of their own personal opinion.

There's the lady who is able to smell alzheimers/dementia ( not sure on specifics) on people.
She has been scientifically tested and in tests (smelling clothes) got 1 wrong. The person had not been diagnosed, however shortly after he was and she had been able to smell the biological changes his body was making before doctors actually diagnosed him.

I've predicted one or two terrible things, but it's not a 'premonition'. It literally is just coincidence.

How are people predicting the Russia situation to pan out? What's the gut feeling? So much scaremongering in some of our media.

Mine tend to be so specific that I always believe there must be something more out there when I have one of these signs. For example, when I was pregnant with my second I remember seeing this tiny baby squirrel (something I have never seen before or again) and it was alone in the park on my way to the station. I got an awful feeling that time and on a different day walking back I accidentally stepped on something and it was sadly the dead baby squirrel. I miscarried soon after and I felt I just knew it when I had seen the squirrel alive.

Another was when my daughter told me she had never seen a rainbow. I told her she would see one, another day. In that exact spot a few days later we saw a rainbow. I felt in that moment something good would happen and it did. I got pregnant after years of infertility and she got the sister she wanted.

My dreams can be very specific. In fact I want to not believe them and often forget them I used to test them by writing them in my notes. Once I saw my name written with another name. I knew I would meet someone with that name when I woke up but couldn’t quite remember the name just the first two initials. Months later when I met him I showed him the message in my notes and the date. Luckily I did’t scare him away and we are now happy together with two children.

Yes. Lots of times. I don't know how to tell the difference between a thought/feeling that I should follow up and one that's just passing by so I would rather it never happened at all.

The other thing I get is recurrent dreams about places. Not lots of places, just a few places I've seen in my dreams for years. I don't really know what it means but I feel like I absolutely know the places if that makes sense. They're not fancy places like a desert island or anything like that, but I feel conscious in my dreams like ah we're here again and everything about the place is completely familiar to me. I often wonder if I'll go to these places one day or if I've been there before

I had this when David Amess mp was murdered. I didn't know him, though he was my MP. I was on holiday and had a feeling of impending doom around him, yet he was a person I barely if ever thought about. Sadly later in the day, the news came through about him.

Yes I have - had the most vivid, real, terrifying dream my healthy lively younger child was dying in hospital. Dismissed it as just a scary dream. Two days later she came down with a very serious infection and ended up very nearly dying in hospital. Had two other similar experiences as a teenager. Am now nervous of very real type dreams. Luckily I have them very very rarely. The last one involved a nuclear attack which obviously didn't happen, but I later found out was at the time Putin was seriously considering using a nuke. Of course, this is all probably coincidence (especially the nuclear attack one). I am still freaked out by the one involving my daughter though.

Literally never. Sensitive as a brick.