Have you ever had a 'gut feeling' that ended up being right?

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Found a link on Facebook about gut feelings and it really fascinated me!

When I was younger my mum's boss always gave me the creeps. Absolutely no reason why, he was pleasant enough to us. I just couldn't stand being in the same room for a prolonged amount of time. Years later, he was convicted of having child pornography.

Anyone had similar?

In the 80s we used to regularly pass through Ledbury and get fish and chips from a nice chippy. As I got older (still maybe 8ish years old) my parents used to send me in to get them on my own. I did it a couple of times and then wouldn’t go in on my own as I was scared. Many years later I found out that Fred West’s family had a chip shop in Ledbury during that time...

I believe angels and entities help with little things and maybe sometimes with huge events. There are people who have avoided a huge calamity including death.

Sorry my last reply was meant for @TheFaerieQueene :)

We were in Italy a couple week since ago driving to a specific town my DP wanted to visit I got an overwhelming feeling I didn’t like the place and that we were going to have an accident. Half an hour later in the middle of the town we had a car crash. It’s not the first time I’ve had feelings like this that have then happened. I don’t know what to think tbh

We tend to remember the gut feelings that are a match with reality.

For instance you think of a friend and that friend calls within a few minutes.

What your brain doesn't recall so vividly (because there is no pattern or events don't have close enough to one another) are all the times you thought about the friend and the friend didn't call.

If you kept track of these you'd realise that most of the time your nothing happens.

What would be bizarre and unlucky is that throughout your lifetime, given the thousands of people you think of everyday none of them called you right after you thought of them.

I was overseas once walking along a busy road with two friends. I saw two men on the other side of the road behind us, and had an awful gut feeling and just knew they wanted to rob us. My friends laughed at me, said they were harmless and insisted there was nothing wrong. I felt so strongly I sped up and walked on a distance ahead of my friends. Two minutes later we are being mugged, my friends lost everything but because I had walked off ahead, the muggers barely got to me before cars stopped and they ran off.

I'm a huge believer in trusting your 'gut'.

I highly recommend reading The Gift of Fear - it explains how all the tiny contributing factors which give you that 'gut feeling' are based in psychology and evolutionary science.

Over the years, I've realised my gut feelings are rubbish, and to be ignored. I've had a number of "feelings " about people that have turned out to be wrong (e.g. Not trusting someone when I should have done) and most recently we had an incident where DS3 went missing around our house. He'd been playing out but it was time for him to come in for bed and I was just off to work (nightshift). I had a terrible feeling something awful had happened and I really panicked (am usually very calm) and kept saying to DH "something has happened, I can tell". I was late for work but couldn't leave.
Turned out he'd come in and gone up to the loo to read his Beano but we hadn't seen him come in!

Yep, man at the church Sunday school who made me feel physically sick when he ever approached me. Paedo.

@AFingerofFudge I'd rather your off gut feeling than it being correct!!

When my dd was 1 week old she started to not feed properly ,wasn't drinking lots and cried constantly , when the health visitor came over she said my DD was fine and told me off for giving her some cooled boiled water , she also said she wasn't jaundiced ( she was yellow ) .
2 days later I knew my baby wasn't right and I took her to a&e.... They ran tests and found out she was severely dehydrated and lost 12% of her birth weight and was jaundiced , I spent the next 3 days in the hospital bottle feeding her and she was under the blue lights to get rid of the jaundice ....

I wrote something on another thread on here which might have been deleted.

I definitely believe that some things in our lives like when we die, when we meet people/when people leave our lives happens when it is meant to.

I've had a few experiences where things were fated or happened.

First being recently I was thinking of a guy I was casually seeing 18mnths before out of nowhere. I began suddenly missing him, wondering how he was doing and reminiscing over him and how his life is. A few days later I opened an old app I met him on to see a message from him.

My last boyfriend when I was kissing and cuddling him goodbye I had this overwhelming voice thought in my mind telling me that'll be the last time I saw him. And I just knew that I would never physically see him again and it came true. I remember driving home feeling heartbroken and confused.. Within a week our relationship deteriorated and we split up. And I did have a close bond with him, back last summer I was travelling via taxi to stay at a hotel with a friend and for some reason the taxi driver took me the route I'd go to get to my exes, but I've never been taken that way before (it's not near where I needed to go, it would be the long route through). I suddenly had this strong feeling that he's met someone else and in a relationship, now. Yes he was, that month. They're still together now. I also have this strong feeling that he is going to have a child with the person he's with now, we are both still quite young.. in our early 20's. It's strange the bond we had, or the bond I had to him. I've never felt it before or since with anybody. Just picked up things with him and we had similar likes and beliefs, we could look at each other and know what we felt and I could pick up on what he's thinking etc.

2 family members who had been together the best part of 20 years I picked up that they would split by Christmas just gone. I was sorting through cards for Christmas 2018 the Christmas before to get them cheap and I saw a card saying something like "to a special couple at Christmas". Some voice thought came into my mind telling me they wouldn't be together by Christmas 2018 and I thought that was nonsense they loved each other and had been together so long, were really happy and they did split just before Christmas.

Positiveproton Me too! I knew all 3 of mine would be boys. Nobody told me but I knew.

Once I was driving through an area that I disliked, going into a slightly depressed rural town. As I glanced to the side at some hills on the mid distance a voice in my head said “ you would be very happy living there”, I dismissed it, I wanted to live in a nice area!
Two years later we bought our dream house in a valley amongst those hills , and 17 years later we are still there.
I have to drive Into the depressed town and out again to get to my home, but I like it now, and it’s much less depressed.

My mum got sick and sadly passed away last year while on holiday. She hasn't been on great health all year but got the all clear from her GP and consultant to fly. The morning she and the others were flying out i got this but feeling of "don't get on the plane!!" I couldn't explain why and thought I was just being paranoid anxious about the long haul flight and safety, etc. I didn't mention anything to anyone about it, just wished them a nice holiday.

My mum ended up in and out of hospital for 6 weeks a overseas, eventually ending up on life support, all due to pneumonia she most likely caught on the plane, according to the doctors. She suffered an awful lot physically and mentally in the last few months of her life. I can't change any of that now but I do wonder what would have happened if I'd told her about my feeling. She believed in stuff like that but I think she still would have gotten on the plane as she had been planning the holiday for ages. Who knows.

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I have them with patients all the time. They may seem fine, observations fine etc but there's just SOMETHING and I get this odd feeling in my stomach. The doctors have learned to trust our initiation but everytime we get a new set fresh from med school they are loath to act on things on a gut feeling (which is understandable), but I can't tell you the amount of abdo bleeds and bowel perfs that have been discovered early because I had a feeling.

All the time. Sometimes it really freaks me out!

Last week I was leaving home and heading to local newsagent for soft drinks to stick up our supply at work (my turn!).

Left home. As I got 20m from surgery o decided to go in and collect ds prescription. I had planned, as always, to get it on way home and collect at Tesco at weekend.

This day I just thought I'd use chemist next to newsagents (which I haven't used for 9 years as matter of principle).

I queued for 10 minutes to collect it.

As I drove away, along toad and turned left at parade of shops to pop in I saw car park blocked off and fire crews .......

And a car through the shop window of where I was originally heading

Yes. I also have plenty that don’t end up being right- but I conveniently forget about those!

I was at a t junction. There was a lorry coming towards me. I had a feeling that I need to be in front of that lorry so I pulled out. 2 minutes later I saw in my wing mirror that a tyre had blown. He pulled over and was fine, no drama.

Mine seems pretty tame in comparison to the others on here.

I once awoke suddenly in the middle of the night to find my cute 5 year old dog sat on me just looking at me. I grabbed her two front paws and said "Don't you die, don't you die!!". I then felt overwhelmingly upset so woke my DH and told him and said that we needed to take her to see the vet the next day.
In the morning my DH said she was clearly fine but I insisted that we made an appointment to go after work. We took her to the vet and I told him I wanted her heart checked. The vet patronised me as if I was neurotic but examined her and said she had a very healthy heart with a strong beat. However, he did give us some tablets for her. Totally uncharacteristically for both DH and me, we didn't ask what they were for ( later found they were to open up her blood vessels).

One week later my DH was collecting me on the evening from a day release course along with our usually supremely energetic Cocker Spaniel who went everywhere with us. She could hardly walk and DH said that's how she was when he arrived home, despite her having been fine that morning. We decided to take her to the vets the next morning. However that never happened and she died just after we arrived home. She'd let out a breath so we then weren't sure she was dead so phoned the emergency vet and rushed her there. I gave her the kiss of life which I'd read about in 'The Doglopaedia' the day after the strange incident the previous week but, sadly, the breath we heard was her final one.

The lady vet was upset herself that such a young dog had just died out of the blue. When I told her of our visit a week before she offered a post mortem (which in hindsight I was pleased she did as I would not even have thought of such a thing).

A couple of days later our dog was returned to us and we were told she had the most acute case of Congenital Heart Disease they'd ever seen and that she probably shouldn't have survived birth. Her strong heartbeat was a result of it having to work really hard.

I don't know for certain what I experienced when I woke and told her not to die. In retrospect I believe we either just communicated psychically or telepathically or that the spirit of a loved one no longer here implanted the night-time experience to prepare me for, what was then, the worst experience of my life.

Hello! I've just discovered this forum and love a bit of woo, so thought I would add this. One of the strangest things that's ever happened to me!

Many years ago I was a student travelling with fellow students on a coach to another Uni for a sports afternoon. A group of blokes at the back of the coach decided to buy a bottle of whiskey and raffle it. They had most of the tickets, and presumably thought that meant the rest of us would subsidise their alcoholic trip back from the sports.

We all bought a ticket, including me although I didn't drink whiskey at the time. Bizarrely, as soon as I bought the ticket I absolutely knew I was going to win the raffle. I actually worried about it, because I knew the blokes at the back would be very fed up. I told my friend, sitting next to me, and we waited for the draw.

When the draw came I won the whiskey. Truly, it was bizarre! There must have been more than 50 of us on the coach, and some of them had multiple tickets. Sadly, nothing similar has ever happened to me again, and it's the only time I've ever had that feeling.

Woooo.... but true.