Starting to notice that I can predict things..

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I am not gifted or talented but not sure where else I can put this 😂. So I’d like to start by saying, I’ve been through alot of tough things over the past few years, I lost my mother, my grandmother, my auntie and my uncle in fairly quick succession to each other. I had two babies, moved home and suffered a severe nervous breakdown. I took time to heal and get better (now unmedicated and feeling/doing fantastic) HOWEVER, I am starting to notice a weird coincidence in my brain “thinking” or “predicting” something and it happening soon after. So for example I was sitting in group of people who were talking about a property in a neighbouring village ( I had no idea about the property, or who lived there) someone asked another person “whats the name of the woman who lives there again?” and my brain just thought of a name (it was a very unusual name “Nans”) and lo and behold, that was the ladies name 🫤. Another example was I had bought 4 tickets to see a show, but my brain thought the day before “this ladies name isnt going to come, and I’ll have a spare ticket” lo and behold, a phonecall morning of the show to say she would not be coming but to give her ticket to someone else. There have been many other examples, but is this something? I would like to explore more into this, does anyone have any experience of this?

Look how many people come on to these threads saying it happens to them. Because it does, I notice coincidences and ‘premonitions’ all the time. It’s just that some think it’s supernatural and some think it’s only a coincidence or intuition at the most. But if you’re having fun with it, go for it OP.

Yes I wasn't just talking about England.
Why would I be?

I have lived in lot of different countries, as have a lot of people.

I also can sense people's energy very acutely.

There is one man that i hate being around at work because is energy is so bad. I always feel like i need a wash after i see him

Believing in things for which there is absolutely no evidence puts you with the flat earthers, and the people who think that finding a feather in the garden means it was dropped by an angel rather than a bird.

Something like this has happened to me once, in 2008, when I borrowed a friend's car and he had Back to Black in the CD player. I'd never heard Amy Winehouse before and I loved listening to the album as I drove along. Then I suddenly pulled over and took the CD out and didn't want to listen any further, couldn't bear to listen - I had an awful feeling the woman singing was going to die young in horrible circumstances. My friend had nothing else decent to listen to in his car but I couldn't bear to put Winehouse's music back on. It was such a strange and intense experience and when her life ended - well, it was all so awful anyway. Maybe it was just the actual meaning of the lyrics to "Rehab" sinking in, after I'd enjoyed bopping away to it, that made me feel off. But I've sometimes wondered if it was the sort of experience that other people, with second sight, have more often.

Strange insult. One is not relevant to the other.

I dont believe in a flat earth, but i believe in premonitions and intuition.

So many of these threads are ruined by people saying it is rubbish.

Just stay off the thread then if you don't believe in it.

I am not a flat earther, but I am certainly not narrow minded, nor gullible. I hope life brings you experiences to help open out your mind and way of thinking as well :) Also, just because you put “respectfully” in front of your comments, it does not mean your coments were respectful, they were rather insulting.

Do you know what, I get this too. Can't think of any good examples now but I often have a certainty about random and inconsequential things. Little things like yours. I also can always tell what sex of baby people are having when they're pregnant.

That's cool! I don't have that level of skill unfortunately

People hate to think this is real! We are conditioned to look at things only scientifically and that is one good way of looking at things, but can science quantify how much you love your child? Not really, so does that mean you don’t love them? I love stuff like this and similar things happen To me. Don’t be put off by negative responses.

I've had prescient dreams ever since I can remember. A few have been of news worthy events but most relate only to my life. I'm nearly 70 now and I know there is no logical explanation for the dreams, they aren't coincidence. I've always hated it to be honest and it certainly isn't something I'd want to explore or cultivate further.

Intuition exists. I've had it on a few extremely rare occasions, and the reason I know it is different from confirmation bias is that it always comes with a physical feeling of profound calm and certainty. Once, my parents' landline phone rang and I was flooded with this feeling of total calm, and said, 'I'll get it. It's X, for me.' X was a friend I hadn't spoken to in several years. I picked up the phone, said, 'Hi, X' and she was utterly freaked out that I knew it would be her.

On two occasions I have bought raffle tickets and just very calmly 'known' the ticket was the winning one. Most of the time I buy them and get no feeling whatsoever, whether I win or not. But on those occasions I was absolutely sure.

One time I kick myself for not acting on was when DH's football team was badly losing a cup final match. 5 mins before the end of the game, I knew they'd win with an absolute certain calm. It was 2 nil at that stage. In the last 5 minutes they scored 2 goals and got a penalty kick, winning 3-2. I wish I'd run up and placed a bet at the bookies at the top of our street!

Another weird time was on the last day of our honeymoon, when a woman was walking towards DH and me, about 100m away and I got that flood of calm and knew she was going to attack me. As she got close to us she barged between DH and me and slapped me in the face, then kept on walking. Total stranger. I barely reacted, just slightly turned my head away and also kept walking. DH asked how I was so calm and I said I knew it would happen and that I didn't want us to react or cause a scene.

Very odd. It's the flood of calm that makes the difference. I have tried to recreate it to see if I can control it - the way people who believe in manifesting say they do. But it never works. And I almost never get it now. Maybe once every 5 years.

I've had similar experiences.
Someone came into the place I worked, asking for directions to a particular road. That specific road is in 3 parts, and the directions would differ accordingly. I looked at her and said "youre looking for Jennifer, aren't you?" And gave her directions to her house.
Another time, I was on my way to uni, got into the car and as my father was about to leave asked him to wait. I ran back into the house and grabbed my grandmother's wedding ring. I'd never worn it before, never taken it to uni before, it hadn't moved from the box in 5 years. A couple of days later, my parents were burgled and all the jewellery in the house was stolen.
I dreamed my friends husband was cheating on her, knew all the details. I spoke to her, and we laughed about it, because it was "just a dream", 2 weeks later he confessed to her and the details were all as I had dreamed.
I have lots of other examples, with witnesses.

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

I feel like we are all connected energetically.

You sound incredibly gullible. You don't understand cognitive bias. You got a couple of completely inconsequential things 'right' and have ignored all the times you got equally inconsequential things wrong.

It depends on what the evidence is and please don't confuse me with the likes of conspiracy theorists and those thinking every random feather was dropped by an angelic being. You have the right to disbelieve/ believe anything you wish, however, for some of us, our experience is different. The thread was started by someone asking if anyone else had any experience of such matters and to share if so, denigrating someone for that is not really helpful.

I didnt say couple, i only gave a “couple” of examples. Im exploring the topic and subejct, I haven’t said anywhere that I am ignoring inconsequential things that I have gotten wrong, thats your assumption, its also your assumption that I dont understand cognitive bias, I do, but I also understand that there are more than one way of looking at things/ feeling about things, and sometimes cognitive bias doesnt come close. Also, just because someone thinks or has a different opinion to you, does not mean they are gullible.

Quite right, it does in fact demonstrate lack of critical thinking on their part and the inability to consider different perspectives which is actually an important part of critical thinking :)

I’m like this too. I think it’s because I’m an over thinker so some of my thoughts / anxiety’s are bound to come true lol

But you don't have a 'perspective'. You have cognitive bias and some idea that you have psychic powers, unsupported by any evidence.

Intuition, precognition, premonition, whatever it is, it's happened to me too OP, on a number of occasions, some nice and some not so, and way too often to be explained away as a coincidence.

The latest is sadly all too recent. We live under a flight path and we see aircraft flying about all the time. I went out into the garden very late one evening several weeks ago, and watched one come overhead. I saw in my mind's eye a low-flying airliner fall out of the sky and crash into buildings. I went cold all over. That is very much NOT what I think every time I see an aircraft (and we see plenty of them here). Well you can guess what happened in India only a few hours later.

I'm always amused when people sneer at others for 'believing in things for which there is no evidence'. It's like scientists who say, ' We used to believe but now we know...' Yeah, right. Ten years ago, those scientists were just as rigid in their certainty and dismissive of challenges to it. On repeat. Creative minds often conceptualise things that turn out to be true because they don't rely on current 'evidence' but on possibility.

A sign of intelligence is to accept that there is a lot we don't know and to wonder about it, critically but also with an open mind. There is a lot of evidence the earth is not flat, so it is foolish to liken premonition-believers with flat-earth believers. There is no evidence that we already know the full extent of the capacity of the human brain, so having an open mind about its potential and discussing anomalies is a worthwhile pursuit.

I explained the same as phenomenon to my therapist. She confirmed that it’s not “magical” but a combination of information you’ve absorbed subconsciously as well as being attuned to the rhythm of things: for example, I often find myself thinking “oh? That thing hasn’t happened in ages” and then in immediately happens. Feels like prophesy but it’s actually the way your subconscious tracks and links things. Randomly your brain will notice that a thing is outstanding and you’ll think about it and then it’ll happen because it’s overdue. I call it “magical thinking” but it’s all just the magic of our brains, working in ways we don’t even notice.

I just want you to know that I am reading your replies with a half amused smile on my face thinking, life will humble you some day :)

I suggest you look at the website for the college of psychic studies in London and do one of their courses to see if you can develop this further.