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Premonition and feeling so guilty - why do I have them

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mishmash · 04/01/2008 14:22

I have premonitions from time to time and they always come true.

This morning we had pretty bad weather and my friend had to make a short journey. I just knew at the back of mind that something was going to happen so texted her to wish her a safe journey and she replied. Sent a second text to see if she got there ok and didn't hear from her. Phoned her and she was after smashing her car.

Thankfully she is ok but I feel so guilty having had this notion that something was going to happen

What is the cause of premonitions??

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KaySamuels · 05/01/2008 10:18

I don't have any answers I'm afraid but you have my sympathy, I have dreams and 'feelings' like this too. So if anything you are not alone.

Please don't feel guilty.

Wisteria · 05/01/2008 10:21

no idea but I get them too very occasionally - she wasn't reaching to answer your text when she smashed the car was she?! Bit of a self fulfilling prophecy if so .......

I'm glad she is ok though.

DavidTennantsMistress · 05/01/2008 10:23

no idea but I have them to - seems to follow in our family - nan mum and aunty all have them.

Wisteria · 05/01/2008 10:38

My Mum got them a lot and she always thought that everyone had the ability but not all of us are open to it - the brain has far more compartments than most of us know how to use, sort of attitude.

allgonebellyup · 05/01/2008 13:13

i also have them, think its sometimes a female thing?
i fell apart the day before my dh told me he was having a baby with someone else, i remember going to the doctors and sobbing like a baby and i could not give a reason, just this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that told me something was wrong.

MrsSchadenfreude · 06/01/2008 00:00

MishMash, me too! (plane crashes a speciality...)

candypandy · 06/01/2008 00:10

mrs schadenfreude -- what?! more please

notjustmom · 06/01/2008 00:23

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candypandy · 06/01/2008 00:31

what plane crashes have people predicted? can you post on here whenever you predict them? my dh flies a lot...

bookwormmum · 06/01/2008 00:36

You didn't cause the car crash, you just felt something bad was going to happen. It's not your fault.

When I was 13, I couldn't rest on the way back from my grandparents in Dorset one night on the train. Something was wrong and I was fidget fidget fidget all the way back. When we got back to the station our end, some twunt had thrown a brick through my Dad's car windscreen - he was less than impressed as it was after midnight and he had to drive his car back home with no windscreen in. I've had deja vu since on several occasions since as well which is a bit spooky (I've also found listening to your first instinct in quizzes or exams to be very handy). I'm not particularly spiritual, it's just something that happenes from time to time. I daresay that there's a 'rational' explanation somewhere.

candypandy · 06/01/2008 11:31

bump cos i want to hear stories of premonitions. hope it doesn't upset anyone.

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mishmash · 06/01/2008 16:51

Hey Mrs S - how are ya.

Other premonitions I've had

Travelling home for my dad's surprise 50th birthday party with my sisters and BIL - I just knew we were going to crash and sure enough we did. No-one hurt and we got home in time - minus the windscreen!

My dad's death - can still remember the day so clearly. Just got this notion that he was going to die and in my head I was putting his eulogy together and a couple of hours later my mum phoned to say he was dead.

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mishmash · 06/01/2008 16:53

Also when I was away in America a long number of years ago a friend of mine was killed in a car crash. Again that day I just knew something was wrong but no=one told me until I got home.

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southeastastra · 06/01/2008 16:56

blimey, do you write them all down?

bookwormmum · 06/01/2008 17:06

You don't always know it's a premonition until it happens though. Sometimes I just recognise a situation that I'm, that I've dreamt about previously. It's not like you can predict the lottery numbers.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 06/01/2008 17:23

One explantion of premonitions is that if you can accept that time is not what we think/generally accept it as... ie linear.. and that instead, everything is happening now.. that all there is the 'eternal moment of now', then everything that has ever happened, is happening, or will ever happen, is ALL happening now.... different versions of us, of everything and every thing, different dimensions if you like, are all occuring, in different way, simultaneously.

So we when you have an inkling of something that it going to happen a certain way.. it is just that you have developed an awareness of one of the "other-dimensional" outcomes.

bookwormmum · 06/01/2008 17:29

So we're getting a chink of other 'times' that we have to experience in this 'time' but is already happening elsewhere at the same time.

justabouttosplashoutinthesales · 06/01/2008 17:29

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ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 06/01/2008 17:55

Bookworm, well by the way of thinking that I was trying to describe, not "other times" exactly, no, because they're all happening at the same "time".. ie, no past, no future.. only "now".. but on all different levels.. streams if you like

So a premontition needn't be "what's going to happen".. it's just one possible outcome, and the person getting the premonition has had a momentary awareness of this.. one of the outcomes, on one of the dimensions.

I believe in God too JustAbout and call myself a Christian, but perhaps not a great one seeing as my "beliefs" (more gut feelings) go a bit beyond what they talk about a church. I don't find there are any serious contradictory issues though..

justabouttosplashoutinthesales · 06/01/2008 18:21

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mishmash · 06/01/2008 21:37

southeastra - no I don't write them down they are just etched in my memory because they were (as far as I am concerned) major events in my life.

Shiny - that is v interesting. Will have to come back when I have more time to digest it

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mishmash · 05/06/2008 00:26

Here I am again.

Missed 20 calls on my phone last night. Went to bed very tired at 9.15pm last night - unusually tired - and slept for a change! DH came to me at 7.30am with 9 missed calls on my mobile and 10 on house phone.

Last night dreamt my uncle had a brain tumour - he is a retired cardiologist - he treated my best friends dad a number of years ago.

This morning I was awakened by frantic calls from my friends. My best friend tried in vain to get through to me to me to tell me her dad had passed.

My mum just said "You and your dreams" - they always have bearing.

Dreamt since I last posted that a friend would have cancer and 2 are now going through chemo.

Is it premonition or has life become so fragile that it really isn't a shock anymore to hear of death or illness

Tonight in total disarray - for want of a better word

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mishmash · 05/06/2008 00:26

Here I am again.

Last night dreamt my uncle had a brain tumour - he is a retired cardiologist - he treated my best friends dad a number of years ago.

This morning I was awakened by frantic calls from my friends. My best friend tried in vain to get through to me to me to tell me her dad had passed.

My mum just said "You and your dreams" - they always have bearing.

Dreamt since I last posted that a friend would have cancer and 2 are now going through chemo.

Is it premonition or has life become so fragile that it really isn't a shock anymore to hear of death or illness

Tonight in total disarray - for want of a better word

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Greyriverside · 05/06/2008 08:20

Some part of our minds always explores possible (usually bad) outcomes. "what if I did this...", "suppose fred doesn't like his present", "what will I say if....".

It goes on in the background and it's useful up to a point because that's how we evaluate dangers and plan ahead. If we do it too much though it can be depressing. (I've found myself rehearsing a possible argument with someone and feeling bad about it and it never happens in the end)

If you do it a lot then some will certainly come true and it will feel like you saw it coming. In fact though most of them didn't come true, but those you tend not to recall.

If you know a lot of people then some will be sick or in accidents eventually. If it seems like it's happening all around you then sit and make a list of good things that happened recently. New babies? people meeting new partners, getting promoted or whatever.

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