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Second Sight - Precognition

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Rezolution · 01/04/2012 19:16

Do any of you have any personal experience of this?
I have had quite a few flashes of precognition lately and find them quite upsetting. How do other people cope?

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Ohnoredundo · 01/04/2012 21:48

Do you mean predicting the future? I know it's not the same but I had a dream a couple of months back about land near us having once had tennis courts on it - lo and behold I found out the other day it did. I also dreamt that there were awful dogs trying to get into our old house and later found out it was built on a pet cemetery. I had absolutely no way of knowing this. I know this sounds a bit daft talking about tennis courts and pet cemetaries but it's still a bit weird! My husband dreamt about our house before we bought it. Is this the kind of thing you're on about? What happens to you? I'm intrigued.

Rezolution · 02/04/2012 07:34

Not really the same.Someone I know just flashes across my mind for no reason. Later that day or the next day I hear that person has died. I do not suffer from mental illness but I find this hard to cope with. Had it all my life really. Think only a small percentage of the population have this.

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KnockedUpMell · 02/04/2012 08:09

Picked up a raffle ticket once and knew immediately it was the winning ticket (and it was). Looked at some fruit that my dad ha bought once (I was only about 7) and knew immediately that there were maggots in them. Also knew that DS was a boy and I know that I'm having a girl now (only 8w pg though so may be proved wrong yet).

Rezolution · 02/04/2012 09:48

Yes, that sounds a bit the same. I never tell anybody that I have had this feeling that someone has died. No point really. It doesn't stop it happening. I try to ignore it. Certainly don't want to develop it more. I think a lot of people in the Highlands of Scotland have this second sight thing and it is inherited. No Scottish ancestors though as far as I know

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KnockedUpMell · 02/04/2012 15:52

I quite like it actually. I think it also comes with a deeper sense of intuition. I very quickly figure people out and it's also useful at work (health care) to work out who is really ill and who is a bit of a whinger / is faking it / has a low pain threshold. Have never had it in relation to death before though- would probably freak me out too! I haven't really told anyone about it either. Don't think you can do anything about it- just look at it as a gift!

Ohnoredundo · 02/04/2012 16:39

How interesting! I understand it must be very difficult to cope with though. I certainly wouldn't like it.

SingingSands · 02/04/2012 16:43

I've had experience of it. I've had precognition of death as a child and an adult and been right about it. Usually, when it happens, it's not about death. It can be very mundane!

I've got a couple of good stories, but it makes me sound a bit "woo" so I usually don't tell people!

GladysLeap · 02/04/2012 17:00

I was staying with my grandma when I was about 12 and the phone rang. I immediately thought "auntie Hilda has died", and when grandma came off the phone that is exactly what had happened. We hadn't been talking about her, it wasn't really late at night - no earthly reason to think that.

FlamingoBingo · 02/04/2012 18:45

My mum dreamed about her closest friend, who had terminal cancer, walking towards light and the next morning heard she'd died in the night.

The universe/angls/Goddesses/Gods/the spirits/whatever you believe in certainly whispers to us when there are things we need to know or pray about.

Ohnoredundo · 02/04/2012 19:11

Spill singingsands! I like 'woo'!

Rezolution · 02/04/2012 20:27

Thanks all for your messages. Think I have to look on it as a "gift" rather than a burden in future.

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SingingSands · 03/04/2012 23:15

Sorry, should have come back to this thread earlier! Have been swithering about posting as these will out me, but here goes:

Example 1 - I was about 12, staying with my brother and cousins at my grandmother's house for a week, an annual event to give our parents a rest! I had a dream on our last night that I was running along the beach with our dog, a beach we often visited, and in the dream our dog was young, fit, healthy, full of vitality and I was thinking as I was running how lovely it was to be running with him again, how well he looked (in RL he was 13yrs old). When we got to the end of the beach he turned to me and said "you can't come any further with me, I have to go on my own now". Part of me was stunned about the dog talking to me (even in the dream!!) but I knew he had to go, so I watched him run up the sand dunes and over the machair, then he was out of sight.

The next day my parents collected us and took us home. When we walked into the house I heard the dog bark from the kitchen, which he did every time we walked in, I shouted his name and went to run to the kitchen, but my dad grabbed me and took me and my brother into the living room. Then sat us down and explained that the dog had been put down the day before. My brother was a sobbing mess, but I was very quiet and still - I had just heard the dog bark, as clear as a bell, and then my dream came rushing back to me. He was saying goodbye. I loved that dog - he'd been in my life, for my whole life. He was saying goodbye Smile

Example 2 - Only 3 years ago. It was a bright sunny day and I was in the garden hanging up washing when my mum phoned for a cheery chat. She blathered on for a bit, then said "oh, your granddad has gone on holiday again". As mum was talking about him, I heard a voice saying "to die" and "Loch Assynt" (I had never heard of Loch Assynt before this day). As I heard this voice, I felt like the sky had clouded over and I got very cold. Mum said that granddad had gone back up to Sutherland (Scottish Highlands), where had only just been, a week previously. She couldn't understand why he was going back up, it was such a long journey from where he lived (Isle of Bute) and he was 85 years old. I wanted to tell her that he was going there to die, but I would sound like an absolute loon! All week I was uncomfortable, I felt his presence 3 times, and at the end of the week when he hadn't phoned in, Mum had to contact the hotel he was booked in at who confirmed he hadn't returned and a huge search and rescue operation was launched, including specialist police divers and sniffer dogs. He was was never found. His body is thought to be in Loch Assynt, but it has never surfaced. I knew what was going to happen. His death is recorded as accidental or misadventure, I can't remember which, but I know it was planned. Whatever his reasons were, we will never know. I have told my Mum my story, and my aunt wanted me to repeat it to her, I don't think it gave them any comfort, it's a sad story, but they wanted to hear it.

Those are my most extreme examples. Mostly what happens is I think of something, then I notice it again maybe 2 or 3 times, then it happens. It can be anything from thinking of a long lost friend who then pops up somehow, or buying a lottery/raffle ticket and feeling absolutely sure I have a winner, and then winning. I've known about friends being pregnant before I have been told, I've known about people dying before being told (although not as extreme as the above examples!). I often pick up my phone to dial out and find I am already connected to the person I want to phone. I am quite intuitive, good at reading people, and I do use my gut instincts a lot.

But if you met me in RL you wouldn't guess - I'm such a cynic! I really don't go in for the "woo" side of things AT ALL, but these things keep happening to me Grin

Rezolution · 04/04/2012 12:50

Singingsands I guess you are Scottish. That would explain it a bit. Mine is nothing like that. It just feels normal to me. I don't know anything about it until a few days later when the news comes through.
I thought it was quite common but not many people have come up with anything on here really. I expected dozens of people to have this feeling, to some degree.
I never tell anyone about it but I feel very upset when the "event" is reported to me. But I can't prevent it happening anyway.

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SingingSands · 04/04/2012 20:21

No, you can't prevent it from happening. It's like getting a preview of a show - the script is already written, too late to change it.

Yes, I am Scottish, although I defected South about 13 years ago Smile

seeker · 04/04/2012 20:25

There has been research into this, honestly, it's no more the you remembering the incidents where your precognition has turned out to be accurate and forgetting the hundreds of times when it doesn't. You think about people in your life often- it would be strange if sometimes they didn't phone, or die, or turn up or whatever not long after you were thinking about them.

Ohnoredundo · 04/04/2012 20:42

Singing! That's really given me a chill! The dog story is nice though in a way.

Seeker - I know what you're saying is the rational, logical answer but I don't want to believe it! But yes, I do wake up most mornings and think 'I dreamt of ' last night - once every so often I'm bound to see that person or hear news of them.

Twit · 04/04/2012 20:52

Ok , i'll go; I dreamed my DH would be hit whilst at traffic lights in a car by a lorry. I 'saw' in detail where it would happen and that it wasn't our car. Before he left that day I told him everything I'd dreamed and asked him to stop further back from the car in front than he might normally and to put his ahndbrake on. We laughed thinking I was being a knob but I described accurately where it would happen and how so he agreed to shut me up
So a couple of weeks later, he is asked to drive a company car, gets hit and the car is a write off, squashed between a lorry and a 4 x 4 in the exact location I'd described.

OK so maybe he just was more sensible, but still....

I also know when people are pregnant before they come out and what they are having, I have been wrong once.

Ohnoredundo · 04/04/2012 21:19

Ooh! Love reading things like this!

eggkr · 04/04/2012 21:24

Twice when my children were away on residentials I have heard them cry and call for me and then found out that they were upset at the same time but miles away.I told my dh both times whne have heard it and then he has heard the children tell us they were upset.

whojamaflip · 04/04/2012 22:23

I've had ths happen to me and it really freaked me out Shock

standing in our farm yard (nearly 8 yrs ago) talking to my cousin when my dh's uncle walked across towards us - all I could see was a horrible black cloud surroundng him and I said to my cousin "I don't think uncle will see the year out". He died unexpectly 6 weeks later.Sad

took me ages to get over the idea that maybe I'd ill-wished him or something....

Hasn't happened since......but then we've had no close family members die either Confused

GladysLeap · 04/04/2012 22:35

egg I had a similar experience. I was at work and got a really odd feeling. In the end I rang DD's nursery and said "this is going to sound really stupid but is DD OK?". They said she'd just woken up. When I collected her they said that at the time I rang she was asleep and crying for me so they'd woken her up. They were impressed.

Also back in 1999 my cat was expecting kittens. One morning I got to work and felt a bit panicky. I had to go into a meeting and felt really odd all the way through. When I got out I went home, to find the cat had had 4 kittens. 3 were dead and the 4th she'd just left on its own in the middle of the room, and gone back to sit under the furniture. Dashed them all to the vet who said that one of them had got stuck and the others had died while she was concentrating on the stuck one. Had I not been in a meeting I would have gone with my instinct and gone home, so could have possibly saved them :(

The surviving kitten was sorted out by the vet and we had to feed him by hand for the first day because the cat wasn't interested. He is still with us (sadly his mum passed this time last year).

seeker · 04/04/2012 23:18

We have these feelings all the time. We only remember the feelings that turn out to be true. Think about flying. We all thing as we get on a plane "oh my god- the plane's going to crash" when it doesn't, we forget. If it did, (and we survived) we'd remember.

Rezolution · 05/04/2012 16:02

seeker That is logical and quite reassuring. In fact, it is exactly what I would like to believe. I would prefer not to have these thoughts. Perhaps I just need to think less. Wink Seriously though, I do not sit brooding about it. Thoughts pop into my head while I am doing something quite different. I am not the type who likes dwelling on the occult or anything like that.

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