Does anybody else just "know"

[Dizzylin]

I have this weird thing where I just know what's going to happen with certain things.

For example every job interview I've had I've known as soon as I've stepped into the building if I'm going to work there.

For years I have driven by a certain road junction and have had a pull to a road that I now live near to and have to use the road to get to my house from that junction.

The night I met my DH I knew we would get married and that we'd be together forever (17 years so far)

Most recently, last week my Mum passed away. It wasn't unexpected but she has been ill for a while. The night she died I looked out of my window, it was a beautiful evening and I thought "Mum is going to go tonight".

It's not something that bothers me, more interests me. Does anybody else get this?

Tbh though, much as I'm great at reading some people and know so much about them before they've told me, other times I've completely been taken in and fooled by people. So intuition isn't infallible.

From wiki. Plenty of sensible explanations for what you experience...

Déjà vu or identifying paramnesia, where people conjure up a false memory of a vision having occurred before the actual event.
Unconscious perception, where people unconsciously infer, from data they have unconsciously learned, that a certain event will probably happen in a certain context. When the event occurs, the former knowledge appears to have been acquired without the aid of recognized channels of information.
Self-fulfilling prophecy and unconscious enactment, where people unconsciously bring about events which they have previously imagined.
Memory biases, where people selectively distort past experiences to match subsequent events.[39] In one experiment, subjects were asked to write down their dreams in a diary. This prevented the selective memory effect, and the dreams no longer seemed accurate about the future.[40]
Coincidence, where apparent instances of precognition in fact arise from the law of large numbers.[41][42]
Retrofitting, which involves after-the-fact matching of an event to an imprecise previous prediction. Retrofitting provides an explanation for the supposed accuracy of Nostradamus's vague prediction. For example, quatrain I:60 states "A ruler born near Italy...He's less a prince than a butcher." The phrase "near Italy" can be construed as covering a very broad range of geography, while no details are provided by Nostradamus regarding the era when this ruler will live. Because of this vagueness, and the flexibility of retrofitting, this quatrain has been interpreted by some as referring to Napoleon, but by others as referring to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, and by others still as a reference to Hitler.[43]

I have had experiences like this on many occasions in my life. Knowing that a particular person or on one occasion a pet was not going to be in my life for long. Knowing the sex of my unborn children and grandchildren. Knowing that I was going to get a particular job, Just a quiet certainty each time.

Nothing earth shattering and yes it could be coincidence and nothing that would lead me to make an particular decision rather than another but when it has happened to you you know it.

Some things of course have the explanations you copied but that doesnt mean there aren't other things that don't.

Could you roll off six numbers between 1 and 59 for me please?

Yes I get this often. No it's not confirmation bias or deja vu. I don't pretend to be psychic or be able to predict lottery numbers, but there is something.
I have too many to list but a few of the bigger ones off the top of my head:
Predicted a car accident we had.
Predicted my mums cancer.
Predicted a friends death.
Knew I would marry my husband.
More than once I've felt something was wrong with our cars before actually knowing. One example recently, my DH was about to take our DC out in one of our cars and I had a real sense of doom and unease. I told him I wasn't sure about him taking that particular car, he couldn't understand why and said it was fine. He went outside and it wouldn't start. Felt immediate relief when he had to take the other car.
I could go on. I've also heard a woman's voice in my ear more than once.

@Newjez

Could you roll off six numbers between 1 and 59 for me please?

I don't k now if you're trying to be funny or missing the point. Not one single poster had said they can predict future events, that would be silly, if you don't understand what the tread is about it obviously isn't a personality trait you have and I can see why you wouldn't get it.

@Dizzylin, you are very similar to me but 'observant' to my 'intuitive':-

www.16personalities.com/articles/energy-intuitive-vs-observant

It might explain why you might not be as good at reading people.

You might be able to heighten your awareness with reiki, energetic healing, meditation, being in nature, etc. but it takes a bit of work. I used to see a really wonderful lady for reiki and a bit of spiritual counselling. I also did Reiki I with her. Unfortunately, she retired. I do still see her occasionally every few years as a friend. We still chat about this stuff and I would say that my awareness has been heighted over a period of about 15 years. It's a slow burn but the more that I acknowledge and accept it the stronger it seems to get.

Yes the 6 numbers thing, we would all be millionaires if we could

@AgeLikeWine

It’s called confirmation bias.

Try testing yourself by predicting next weekend’s PL football scores or lottery numbers & writing them down. See how many you get right. Then you will be able to measure how much you ‘just know’.....

Ha ha, this. No one is psychic, sorry.

I’ve never predicted anything and it’s happened or had dreams that came true etc but I am very perceptive and good at reading people. I get a sense of a person very quickly, I’m not trying even trying to, I certainly don’t mean to.

I can sense a lie and also see through manipulators or narcissistic people - they come across as charming to alot of people at first , I don’t know what it is , just a strong feeling , I don’t say anything because I would just come across as abit of a dick but most of the time, I am proven right.

Yes, I often try to explain it but I end up looking a bit nuts. DP knows and completely trusts what I say to him. I get it mostly around pregnancies which I absolutely hate , I remember the first time it happened we heard someone we knew was pregnant and I was really upset that evening and remember saying to DP "X is going to loose the baby , please don't think I'm a horrible person for saying that" he was a bit taken aback but then a few weeks later it happened and I felt sick with guilt.

Again, it happened with my close friend she had been trying for ages and I had told my DP that she will get pregnant and miscarry but will go on to get pregnant with twins very soon after. 6 weeks after her loss she was pregnant again. Her scan is next week so we will soon find out if there's 2. She's amazing and I really can't wait for her to become a parent.

Yep, sounds familiar, sometimes it's little things like losing stuff, I know I'll find it so am calm but don't know where it is.
Twice I've heard news reports giving very few details if an incident but I know instantly who it is.
A few years ago I heard an almighty bang outside, straight away I knew someone died in that incident, despite not knowing what had actually happened, it was confirmed the next day.
I'm also quite good at navigating myself, rarely get lost for long 😁

I’ve been able to do this all my life.
It may be coincidence or a woo sixth sense.
I remember hiding my school report when I was young because it was so bad and suddenly getting a feeling in the middle of the day that my mum has found it.
I knew I was going to marry dh when I met him.
I had a feeling when I spoke to my aunt that that was the last time I was going to speak to her. She passed away a few days later. It wasn’t expected.
I had a feeling for a while about a cousin, who I’m close to, that they weren’t going to be around much longer and I really worried about it until her husband got a transfer abroad and they left to live across on the other side of the world. I knew nothing about this and it’s not obvious from his industry or anything.
Just lots of things.

Laughing at the couple of people who say that no one is psychic.

Perhaps they should read the full thread. This isn't about claiming to be Mystic Meg!

[quote dooratheexplorer]@Dizzylin, you are very similar to me but 'observant' to my 'intuitive':-

www.16personalities.com/articles/energy-intuitive-vs-observant

It might explain why you might not be as good at reading people.

You might be able to heighten your awareness with reiki, energetic healing, meditation, being in nature, etc. but it takes a bit of work. I used to see a really wonderful lady for reiki and a bit of spiritual counselling. I also did Reiki I with her. Unfortunately, she retired. I do still see her occasionally every few years as a friend. We still chat about this stuff and I would say that my awareness has been heighted over a period of about 15 years. It's a slow burn but the more that I acknowledge and accept it the stronger it seems to get.[/quote]
Ooo thank you. I had started seeing a lady for Reiki before lockdown so I will look into it once things get back to some sort of normally.

Yes, in various forms. I have 'seen' a picture in my head that has come about, this has only happened 4 times in my life. Twice I have 'heard' things that turn out to be true. Have also had dreams that have predicted events. Also get an accurate sense of folk when I meet them, although I reckon this is a mixture of experience and observation. Don't mention it to anyone as I find many people are either disparaging or patronising and anyway, there's no point as I have no explanation for it either...

Yes me!! I do it with people I meet... I always just know whether they will be a significant person in my life.

I knew when I met my dh that I would marry him...and before we got together I had a dream I met his parents and had a glass of wine by the fire at their house (the dream ended up being uncannily similar to their house, which wouldn't be an average style house!)

My parents were going to Spain a good few years ago and I had an awful feeling about it for some reason. The night after they came home I had a dream about a train crash...I then woke to news of a train crash in Santiago (exactly where they had been!)

When I was pregnant I woke up one night to find a "man" standing at my bed...he had no face...I freaked out and started screaming (and obvs woke up my dh) a week later I miscarried and was told the baby had stopped growing at 8weeks 3 days... that was exactly my date the night of my dream!!

I woke up randomly one morning at 6:05 and checked the time...I then feel back to sleep. About an hour later my dm called me to tell me my dgfather had passed away at...6:05!!

When we were viewing a house I walked up the stairs and had a vision of a blonde child sitting on a step that led to the bathroom...(note:I wasn't even pregnant) we bought the house and 3 years later my daughter used to sit on the step ALL the time!!

Once we were abroad waiting on a corner for food and I just got a funny feeling, all of the sound around me went fuzzy and I felt very scared! Within a minute a fight broke out across the street and it ended up in a massive brawl!! We obviously ran for cover!!

I know within seconds whether someone is not a good person. It's weird, it's like I can see it in their eyes. A friend of mine met a guy when we were in college. I didn't like him AT ALL, I took the chance to tell her how I felt. She thought I was nuts...3 weeks later on their SECOND date he hit her!! Why... because she wouldn't go back to his place!! Where I presume he had plans!!

There's TONS more...I always say that I should really try to tap into my senses more but to be honest...the scare me slightly

I'm so glad to know there are a few of us.

Completely agree with keeping it to yourself due to the disparaging and patronising comments!

I get little things like this all the time. I'd be here forever if I wrote them all out, it's a weekly occurrence, but the most impressive was when I won the guess the sex, time of birth, date of birth and weight pool at work on my own child. I was spot on, down to the exact time and exact ounce.

I've had similar experiences to these too. For example I had a recurrent very vivid dream where I was looking out of a high window from a house on top of a hill. I couldn't figure out what this was about until we went house hunting some time later and I realized that the view I had seen in my dream was the view from the bedroom window. We offered on the house and it didn't work out and I felt really miffed because I felt sure that the house was in my future - I can't explain why. A few months later we got a call out of the blue to say that the house was back on the market and we moved in shortly after. I think that I always knew that this would happen because I had seen it, down to very small details that I couldn't have possibly known.

I can't really verbalise this very well but I can sometimes feel what's going to happen. It's frustrating sometimes because things that I 'feel' don't necessarily happen straight away - for example I 'saw' my dark haired daughter and just knew that she was in my future. When my two fair-haried sons were born in quick succession I couldn't figure it out but it was just that she was my third child. She was always coming, I just had to wait a bit longer than I thought.

More recently when my Dad was unwell I just knew that he was going to die. I almost did my grieving ahead of him passing away as I could see it coming.

When I had my DNA done it showed that I have a gene for enhanced empathy and intuition. So there may be slight changes in tone and atmosphere that we are all more likely to pick up on than other people.

That’s why we might sense fights about to happen or unsaid conflicts between people.

I down treasure there was a DNA that showed that trait

Fascinating

www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-finds-that-genes-play-a-role-in-empathy

Yep

I think there is a lot more going on than current science explains. Given our forebears thought world was flat I keep an open mind. Something s can be explained, others I struggle.

I ran out of a pe lesson sobbing for no other reason than I didn't like ball games. At the same time the death certificate for my gran was being signed, a death that had been unexpected.

Another time I got on the bus and decided today I wasn't going to sit in the seat I always did. As we went round the roundabout boulders dropped from a skip in a truck, bounced and smashed through window where I normally sat.

Maybe it is coincidence, but it's happened at other times when there is just a bit instinct something is wrong or you should do something.