When was your "gut feeling" actually right?
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Yes, “gut feeling” is a real thing. It’s your intuition, and it’s not a magic power, it’s your brain picking up on very subtle things and warning you.
It’s the primal instinct that protected our ancestors from smildons and cave bears
(Smildons are the Sabretooth cats btw)
I personally feel like it's not our brains, persay. I feel as it's energy, a sense. Sometimes, we can tell even without any evidence.
@@dru8432 Sometimes the higher thinking linguistic zones just can't hear or don't listen to the deep-back lizard brain when it's picking up on patterns (and it's _very good_ at picking up patterns) so it has to send the message somewhere it'll be heard: the gut.
@@dru8432 It is our brains. We have developed intuition to protect ourselves from predators. That's how we've survived as a species for thousands of years.
Y’all if you ever are suspicious of someone be careful you subconscious knows a lot more than you do
Really helpful will save lives
actually 5 actually omg i remember so many of them now
I'm suspicious of everyone. Even honest people. Especially my family.
@@groom_of_the_stool its really not hard for me to tell if someone has bad intentions because i can spot them at a glance if there is even a type of person who would pose a threat
@@groom_of_the_stool for example i was a teenager at the time and i was playing online i was talking to someone who seemed pretty nice and i tried to ignore the off feeling but as we kept talking it kept getting stronger and stronger he asked if we could be friends and i said i dont know and then i asked a friend to be 100% sure i was correct with the gut feeling if they knew anything bad about this person turns out he was a 24 year old narcisistic pedophile man and he was likely looking for a relationship with me and i was only 15 at the time not only that apprently he had sent 18+ photos of himself to a 12 year old girl who was his friends sister i knew something was off at a glance and thats why i ended up trusting that gut instinct and asked a friend about him
For those curious, a gut feeling (intuition) stems from a connection your mind unconsciously makes to past experiences and knowledge. Yes, there is a real psychological base to them as it comes from subconscious thought, and listening to your gut feeling can be valuable given that it is based on patterns your brain recognizes.
I heard it also subconsciously draws from things your mind consciously misses, but your natural senses don’t, such as smell, touch/temperature, hearing, even things you may see but don’t consciously register. Things we could tap into with lots of practice and guidance but have had no need to for survival for hundreds of years due to our own advancements.
It’s been proven we innately know when someone’s brain chemistry is different than average, which seems to affect our pheromones based on what in the brain chemistry has been changed. It’s why animals can sense a creep, or tell if you’re depressed, dying, or the different flavors of neurodivergence and how to act/react accordingly. We’ve just lost the conscious ability to utilize this.
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Yup. This is also unfortunately one of the sources of bigotries, chronic phobias, etc. It's essentially the brain recognizing false patterns based on non-existent or particularly traumatizing events and putting you into fight-or-flight mode as a result.
Somebody might get a bad gut feeling around water in an otherwise completely safe situation because of a traumatic event or a false pattern created by seeing a statistically abnormal amount of water related disasters.
You should trust your gut, but also try and consider why you reacted that way after the fact to ensure you acted that way for the right reasons. It's a survival mechanism after all, it's not really meant to analyze complex social issues or deep rooted traumas.
@pennyforyourthots3400 Nope, bigotry is a learned behavior.
@@violetcwest i actually have trained intuition as well even at a young age mine was pretty strong and it is today and yes always trust your gut if you can you may never know what may be about to happen
I sometimes think of gut feelings as your guardian angel taking the "way to a person's heart is through their stomach" and having to turn it around because the stomach is more often listened to.
That might be true
You are aware of more stuff going on around then your conscience of, kind of like how you’ll hear someone say your name in a loud crowded area but won’t be able to tell what else is being said. More often then not your gut feeling is all that extra information being put together without you being aware of it. I’ve had gut feelings before and after a second I can become more aware of what is causing it proved I’ve had that second or 3. Tree branches falling is something you can figure out after you’re not about to be hit in the head.
Nah, gut instincts are the effects of your brain cataloguing millions upon millions of "normal" interactions with people and then your brain subconsciously picking up on something that is completely abnormal to every other interaction you've had or its similar to a dangerous interaction you've had.
I thought of them as a future version of you making sure you make the right decision.
Like when you wish you could go back in time and make a different choice
Gut feelings are your body communicating information to you that you can't consciously perceive. Like the truck blowing through the intersection, I guarantee it made a sound and a vibration that was too low for the brain to 'hear' but the ears/nerves still felt it. The patient that died, was displaying *something*. The doctor heard/smelled/saw *something* that his brain could not process into a normal sight/smell/sound. It gets translated into a feeling. I suspect feelings of impending doom for heart attack victims and the like are the same thing. The body knows something is very wrong and can only communicate this in a way that the brain interprets as a feeling. Fascinating really.
One time I was out for a walk on a street with a lot of bars and clubs. Suddenly a young woman randomly linked arms with me and started chatting about what "we" were gonna do that night. She glanced behind a few times so I figured out she needed to not be alone. I just continued walking with her while she called a friend who was in a different bar nearby and once we reached it I dropped her off. I provided her protection from someone for a few blocks and off she went. It's messed up that women sometimes have to grab a literal stranger just to feel safe.
There was someone I talked to in between college classes because we’d both wait to be able to enter our classrooms since they were next to each other. One day I’m about to leave campus and see her in the hall. I walk by stop feeling like something is off then turn around and talk to her for a bit maybe 10 minutes, then leave. Don’t see her for a bit the when I do I learn she’d been compete plating ending her life and hadn’t been at school because she’d been in the hospital unharmed. Turns out that 10 minutes of talking stopped her from doing something she might of regretted. The funny part is neither of us could remember the other’s name when we saw each other.
It definitely sucks. I’ve had to do similar… back when I was young and cute anyway. I generally picked the biggest guy or the scariest looking at the bar to talk to, making the creep go away. Believe it or not, it’s usually the biggest or scariest looking guys that are the nicest guys.
I’ve felt safer at a biker club in the ghetto than at a suburban bar where a bunch of 20 somethings frequented.
It is messed up… but it’s also reassuring that they CAN get that help from many strangers. Remember… the strangers are the norm. The predators are not. An extra fraction of faith in humanity
I'm just thinking of all the clueless dudes who don't realise the realities of being a woman (or don't want to) and who would react loudly and visibly in a confused and bewildered manner, thereby alerting the potential creep to her deception. Luckily you weren't one of them
Men too tho
Many years ago on New Year's Eve, my grandmother was on her death bed. Most of the family had gone away for an hour or two to get some food and rest, so the only ones with her at that time were my grandfather, my dad and aunt, and me. My grandfather had mentioned he wanted to speak the priestly blessing over grandma while she was still alive. All of a sudden, I knew, and I said to grandpa: "If you want to speak the blessing over her while she is still alive, you must do it now." He asked "Shouldn't we wait until your mother and the others get here?" to which I responded "No, now!". He recited the blessing by heart and with the last syllable he spoke, she let our her dying breath. Two minutes later, the rest of the family arrived. I stepped out of the room to call my sister, who was living in another country, to tell her grandma had passed away. The phone never rang, but was connected immediately, as my sister somehow also knew and picked up the phone at the exact moment that I called. One side effect of this was that, when my grandfather passed a couple of years later, I knew to speak the blessing over him too, because I knew how much it had meant to him.
im so sorry for your losses
Out of the blue, a friend of my father’s who he had not seen for a bit called him and told him he needed to get his leg checked out. My father’s leg had been a bit painful for the past few days, but he figured he had just pulled something, so he had not done anything about it. With the prompting of his friend, he went to his doctor who ordered testing and he was found to have a massive blood clot in one of deep veins of his thigh. Had it gone to his lungs, it could have killed him.
He asked his friend about it the next time he saw him. The friend just shrugged and said that sometimes he just has dreams about things…
Im sure that happened.
@@mrcroob8563 Dude, I've had this type of feeling multiple times before. They are awesome but suck at the same time.
i keep having a dream where my friend is allergic to glass and it won’t stop but she’s touched glass my mind just won’t stop.
also
one time I(4) was refusing to go to bed, my parents (33) weren’t putting up and eventually i went to sleep. guess what happened when i woke up.
my cat died. Fly high Boom..
@@LegendaryLemonss when i was young and on vacation with family i had a dream where one of my parents was having severe chest pains and i woke up at will and looked around really fast and then i turned over to my other parent and asked what had happened to my other parent and they had informed me that they were in the hospital and that they had had a heart attack they made a full recovery tho
"Driving in Pittsburgh"
Yeah, that will elicite some ominous gut feelings.
lmao
Lmao
I wish I had listened to mine, but when my mom told us we were going on a trip to help her elderly cousin, I got a feeling in my chest that I can beat describe as a black hole opening up. I dismissed it as anxiety. That trip ended up claiming the life of my mother, brother, and niece, stranded my sister, her friend, me, and my baby half way across the country, and rendered my sister's friend's service dog unable to do her job.
I am never dismissing that feeling ever again.
im sorry that happened to you
I’m so sorry for what happened to you. NO ONE should EVER have to go through that
Car crash?
@@gingermcgingin4106 Most likely yea
i'm so sorry this happened to you, this was heartbreaking to read and I hope you're recovering
According to Gavin de Becker it's actually not really the dogs that sense that something is wrong with someone in situations like this. They pick up on the fact that we unconsciously know that something is off about a person and act accordingly, which in turn makes us more aware of that bad feeling that was there all along but that we would otherwise choose to ignore in an attempt to not be rude, but dogs don't have a concept of being rude so they openly express openly what we don't.
I know he says that, but in a lot of stories like these the protagonist is super comfortable and happy with the antagonist and doesn't worry until *_after_* the dog acts up.
It's weird for him to say "dogs don't understand human social cues, they don't know when someone is dangerous. They just understand human social cues and can figure out that we're anxious before we know it ourselves". Like... hm.
I do generally like Gavin de Becker's work though, even his controversial takes like "as the son of a parent who refused to leave their abuser, I don't have any patience for parents who stay with their abusers. you're endangering your child and need to snap TF out of it by any means necessary."
A lot of people think he's very cruel to abuse victims because of his no-nonsense attitude towards them, but I think he's just fed up from his personal experiences.
@@baydiac yea after experiencing trauama the same way i guess he just found it upsetting and annoying to have to hear the same thing that you experienced is happening to other people more and more often then youd hope too hear and you wish everyone would just listen but often when your getting abused you are being manipulated and for some people it can be hard to break free from the manipulation i have been abused emotionally many times online by my friends and it wasnt that easy
@@xOrionNebula2708yeah, I’m not the most familiar with this guy but from what I have seen it just sounds like he’s at his wits end, not with abuse victims, but with the fact that there’s so much horrid stuff happening behind closed doors. I imagine after seeing so many people who’d been emotionally and mentally battered take steps to get out of their situation only to fall back into it would make you feel like your entire life’s work is for nothing, even though you consciously know it’s _not_ nothing.
@@DG_Toti yea and unfortunately this is also another lesson i have learned is that well if it takes too much of a toll on you to hear these stories it may just be better to take breaks from reading them from time to time
Dogs and cats can sense any changes in our heart rates, breathing, and pulse rates. Always listen to them.
I've once had kind of a gut feeling, except it was a dream and a gut feeling. I had a friend who lived in a different continent and she was diagnosed with a brain tumor and needed to have surgery. Well, the day came when she was going to have the surgery, and being far away it was a night time for me. I had trouble falling asleep because I kept thinking of her and wishing she'll be alright. Eventually I fell asleep and had a dream of her. She was walking with someone at a store that sells supplies for her hobby , just browsing and living her normal life. I woke up and the first thought in my head was "she's going to be doing things like this for a long time to come". And I felt a peaceful feeling and knew the surgery had gone well or would go well. And not many days later I learned that the surgery had indeed been a success.
Wow!
i once dreamt about a thing i lost and where it was and tomorrow it was in the exact place as in my dream.
YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS
WE LIVIN' A GOOD LONG LIFE AFTER THIS ONE
i had a couple of dreams like this
im gonna say this one
when i was a kid i was out of my home country and we were in a hotel and at night i had problems sleeping and then when i fell asleep i had a dream that my mom was having serious chestpains and almost at will i woke up and looked at my other parent and asked immediatly what happened to her and then they had informed me that she was in the hospital and had had a heartattack but that she was gonna be okay she made a full recovery
Story 18
OP really is amazing. I didn't expect this story to happen. The fact that OP had a feeling to contact a friend on the exact day they were contemplating to die so they could unintentionally stop it is amazing. I'm so happy they helped their friend.
4:00 same thing with my father. I cried any time he held me as a baby, and as a young child I remember just being afraid of him. I never felt safe and secure around him at all, there was just something in his eyes and voice I never liked. This got worse when I hit my teens and I noticed the way he'd look at any friends I brought over (I am a girl and they were girls) so I started not letting friends come over any more. As a young adult I learned he had a history of going for "young" girls if you get my meaning. I knew my parents had me young (he was 18, my mom was 16) but I didn't know that he actually dated my mom's sister briefly before moving on to my mom. My mom's sister, at that time, was only 13. They all came from terrible home lives so of course they've never really processed these things.
That last story was beautiful and turned into being romantic
and dangerous
I've got a story like this:
I was a bit of a troubled teen, and due to intense arguements that I had with my dad, I was sent to Juvy, and after a while at Juvy, they sent me to a residential behavioral rehab facility for teens. One night, it's hygiene time, followed by pre-lights out quiet time, and I was chilling on my bed. I was just staring at the wall outside my door thinking idly about random things, when I suddenly get a feeling of deja vu, and I tried to shake it off, because that sensation is a semi common experience for me. However, my gut didn't let me just drop it, so I went out and quietly asked one of the techs on 3rd shift that night if he would move his chair down the hall slightly, so that he would be stationed essentially just outside my room. He tried to assure me that I was just being paranoid, but I was insistent, so he decided to humor me. A few minutes later he told me that he had to go to the bathroom, but he was going to have the other tech keep an eye on my room from the end of the hall, about a minute after the tech left for the toilet, another kid from the unit ran into my room and tried to attack me, but the 2nd tech was able to pull the other kid off of me before the other kid got a single hit in, as he had ran down the hall as soon as the other kid left his room a couple doors down the hall from me. After the first tech had returned he jokingly complimented me on my "psychic powers" and after that, due to a rumor on the unit that I was precognizant, I was never attacked again.
I used to work closing for Home Depot. And I can tell if you ever feel unsafe going to your car an employee will always gladly walk you to your vehicle
Ok!
Same thing at grocery stores. They’ve always been accommodating.😊
Apparently that courtesy isn't for employees. A friend of mine had a customer who was being a creep, and she didn't feel safe leaving alone at closing time. Manager said she was being paranoid and she had to go out by herself. The creep was outside waiting and she only got home safe because a customer saw and walked with her to her car. I hate working there
@@Attomic7kitten you are right on the money home depot doesn’t see there employees as people they only see them as a number. If you aren’t spending money you don’t matter
That last story was just wonderful and amazing and just really makes you wish you could be half as lucky as that guy was in that moment
My pretty much non verbal bro sat beside my sick dad and said " daddy heavem" and my Dad dismissed it saying no no I'm OK. I found him passed away 2 hrs later. Sib slept though it all.
As a young woman I stopped at a grocery store late one evening after work. With my purchase in one hand and my car key in the other I approached my car door to get in. For some reason I paused and looked at my car’s rear window. When I did, I saw the reflection of a man approaching me from behind a nearby car. Quick as I could, I scooted around the front of my car, unlocked the passenger door, jumped in and slammed my hand down on the door lock. At that moment I got a chill as I heard him try to open the locked driver’s door, then run away. I’m sure that gut feeling saved me from a robbery … or worse!
In 2020, my dog had a cancerous tumor on his liver. They could have removed it, but he was old and it would be a waste of money (their exact words). Durring my free lunch period, i get this feeling of emptiness and melancholy while eating. When i got home, my parents told me he died right around the time i ate lunch. (11:40-ish). Still makes me feel like he was like, connected to me. I know its weird.
The same thing happened to me. My dog had blood cancer, terminal. She was feeling ill when I left for university, and I immediately knew that was the last moment I'd see her. I felt this incredibly overwhelming wave of sadness when I left campus that day. When I came home and she wasn't there anymore, my parents needn't tell me what had happened.
Not weird at all. It's the connection we have with other living beings. Care and other deep emotions solidify that connection and make it noticeable. The term "hive mind" comes from that but that term does not begin to describe what it actually is.
i had a dream when i was younger (2 weeks before this happened) i had 3 dogs at the time something had happened i had a dream that one of my 3 dogs was wandering in the woods lost and looking for a way to get home and i woke up with immense anxiety and this wasnt usaully an issue but i knew deep down that something bad was gonna happen soon and i told my mother she should put our dogs on a leash she did not listen i remember my anxiety increasing day by day for 2 weeks untill my mother had 2 weeks later informed me that one of my dogs had run away and we never saw her again.....
sure enough the dog that i had had the dream about was the exact dog that went missing
This happened to me when my mother attempted. Around the time the police concluded that she lost consciousness, I got a random very sad and tired feeling and dozed off into a weird sad slumber. Sister took us home a few minutes later and that’s when we found her unconscious. Now, I really don’t like my mother and she is a very toxic person, but she is my mom, so I believe I had a connection or something.
From what I understand gut feelings of something being wrong come from our brains being really good at pattern recognition. If something breaks from expected patterns, we get a bad feeling. Kind of like the uncanny valley but applied to situations.
The unfortunate thing about gut feelings is they can be false flags. They're meant to pick up on when something isn't normal. Sometimes though "not normal" and "dangerous" aren't the same.
This often leads to people getting a bad feeling about marginalized people of various stripes. One of the best examples I can think of is the way a lot of people find autistic people who aren't doing what's called "masking" (purposefully regulating their behaviors to mimic non autistic people) to be creepy because they don't interact the same socially. This can lead to mistreatment and even violence against people that are weird but ultimately harmless.
On the flip side it can lead to a false sense of security if someone doesn't have a bad gut feeling. If a situation doesn't seem unusual someone might not pick up on danger before it's too late.
It's a good idea to be cautious whether or not you have a bad feeling, and if you do have a bad feeling to evaluate why.
Thank you for knowledge!
Absolutely wrong
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You started off right about our brain being able to spot pattern changes ie: when I was about 9 years old I spotted a man driving down a main road and he was a) slowing down, b) staring at me and my friend and c) he did a u turn and then another. I knew by point a) that he was going to do something bad. He pulled over and said he was lost and could we come and look at a map. My idiot friend went over and I had to go and pull her and then myself out of the man’s grasp (he had a knife in the other hand). A few months later, a girl who was the same age and looked like us was abducted, raped and killed and her body thrown in the gutter.
This is just one of too many horrible incidents I’ve been in. Your brain is amazing and you should study how it works to better understand and appreciate what we rather dismissively refer to as ‘intuition’ or our ‘gut feeling’. I’d rather risk being wrong than being dead.
@@mindrolling24 yea better to be wrong
i had a incident similar to 8, i was at a light, my mom in the passenger side, light turns green , she helpfully informs me its green but something in me just couldn't take my foot off the break. a heartbeat later a small delivery truck, bigger than a pickup, smaller than a semi comes blazing through the light, would have hit the passenger side of my car.. i trust that little 'don't do that its danger' voice.. its saved me more than once from other people's issues
As a 🚶🏿♂️that wait a moment tingle has saved my life at least 3 times
I'm a 20+ year can lifer. In 2003 I was staying at the Indian Creek campgrounds in Yellowstone national park. I was sitting at the table eating snacks and reading a book. I got that gut feeling that I never ignore. Nervous, jittery and afraid for seemingly no reason. I gathered my belongings and got back in the van and locked up. Minutes later, 2 park rangers in a jeep past by and quietly warned me not to get out of the van, followed by a bear, and another jeep with park rangers. They were trying to tangle him/her.
Once my husband and I were driving in western Colorado over rural dirt roads. We saw no one and passed no cars so I allowed myself to drive all over the road. There were places where there were steep hills and long runs to coast down and we were just having a good time doing that. All at once I had the feeling that I needed to drive on the far right. I obeyed this voice and a few minutes later a pickup, probably driving 90 mph, flew over the hill driving dead center of the road. Had I ignored that wee voice there would have been a serious and deadly accident.
Huskies are incredibly friendly and sociable dogs. When one starts acting defensive, that's a surefire sign that something is very wrong.
many years ago I was best friends with an older man David, who found out he had cancer. By the time he found out it wasn’t treatable. At the time I worked at the Orchestra in the office, in evenings, and got rides to and from work from a third mutual friend. He would drive together with my friend David who had cancer in the passenger seat, and pick me up each evening.
After he got very ill he was placed into a hospice. My other friend still picked me up from work but alone then.
One night I was late leaving work and my friend was waiting in the car outside longer than planned, and he had dozed off parked there. I came out and it was about 9:20 PM, and I went up to the car to get into the passenger seat, and I stopped in my tracks because suddenly I saw David there in the seat, as if he had come along like he always did before, but how was that even possible? and then he vanished and I was standing there frozen just speechless for a second and while I’m standing there saying nothing, the person in the driver seat looks over, suddenly screams holy F, and opens the car door and gets out all freaked out. Which snapped me out of it. And I said what’s wrong?! and he tells me I just saw David and now he’s gone. And I said oh my god, I saw him too. And I knew that he had passed away. And he had.
I saved us (me, husband & our two cats) from head on collision at highway speed, in our 30 yo tin can thats’s a certain death. We were stuck behind two big trucks and waiting for a chance to overtake them. Husband sees a spot, but something in me yells “NO!” as he starts to shift to a smaller gear and wouldnt you know, small beige sedan came out of nowhere, without their lights on, visible only at the very last second! We were slightly shocked, but got to celebrate Easter with my in-laws and it felt just a little bit sweeter that year.
probably sweeter because you made it out unharmed
I live in a rather sketchy part of town. Once I decided on my way back home from somewhere that I'd just stop at the local small grocery store to pick up a couple of things. I passed two guys in the back of the parking lot, just hanging around. When I drove up, another guy was slouching against the brick wall next to the door. He had his hand in the pocket of his hoodie and looked at the guys in the parking lot. I saw them start my way. I just slammed it into reverse and got out of there as fast as I could. All the hair was standing up on the back of my neck. A couple of days later there was yet another robbery at the FD store next to that store. A clerk was shot. I will never go anywhere around here anymore without my husband, 6'3" with a hair-trigger temper for anyone but me. Even if he had been with me, we still would have left. As a matter of fact, we are leaving this area and this state forever, and never coming back.
went into a local witchcraft/pagan shop when i was first interested in that.
The man at rhe counter gave me the most vile vibe that made me want to turn and run away.
The owner came out and she and I hit it off. The man was her husband.
I became a regular and the husband always gave me the creeps, but i had no conscious reason to place that.
The store was always plagued with missing money and telephone companies trying to claim debts for bills in her name that she didnt make.
One day the husband was found in a ditch with his hands cut off - a gang punishment for theft. That was the day i understood that i should trust my instincts.
If it harms none, do as you will.
I guess her husband didn’t live by the Wiccan Rede. 😊
Lol aren't shops like those supposed to ward idiots and other bad doers like him off with sandalwood? Guess he was immune or something
dogs have great intuition. i had a guy come out the bushes whilst walking my dog and she went absolutely feral. she barked and jumped at him, because he definitely wasnt right. he sprinted off after that.
*that guy who makes tiktoks of jumping out of bushes:*
had one of those fake cable installers once. some guys stole a cable car, and it had uniforms in it. well, they went down a street, saying they were checking connections or something, and i refused to let them on my property. i took pictures of the car and the men as they were at the nabors, then called the provider. when i told them the number on the plate, they told me that had been stolen a week earlyer. they got the truck back, but the guys fled when the cops started to get near... if they didnt have the sirens on they would have caught the guys in the act
Once my grandma felt ill for a whole day, she kept saying something was going to happen and that she felt something wrong. That day was February 26th 2010, a day before the second biggest earthquake Chile has ever had
Not my gut feeling (though I’ve had quite a few) but my dad’s. We were driving on a freeway (I think in Missouri) and we were driving next to a semi. My dad said “something bad is about to happen” and quickly got over so he could pass the semi. Not even a minute later, I watched in my mom’s side mirror as that semi crashed into the car that took our place beside the semi. The sound the crash made haunts me to this day.
I’m not superstitious, but I believe that animals can somehow sense whether a person is good or bad. Dogs especially seem to be able to sense out dangerous individuals.
yes they really can
Actually cats are an even more reliable guide. They generally just cannot do the intimidation thing, although I have heard of a few cats that attacked people.
@@davinasquirrel7672 cats are drawn to me in particular for some reason (like random strange cats will decide that they love me, and one of my cats is downright obsessed with me. She follows me everywhere, sleeps in my arms, and gets upset when I’m not around. She doesn’t do this with anyone else) If what you say is true, than I must be an extremely good person haha
@@hazelgrunts or Cat Law is different than ours, and you fit that warped definition of good
For story 20.... the same sort of thing happened to me, a few weeks ago. I was woken up in the middle of the night by my mom, who told me my dad had a heart attack. There was an ambulance outside, and a bunch of people were going in and out of the house to and from it. My Grandma came to take care of my sister and I, because the doctors said they needed to take my dad to the hospital and my mom was to go. Obviously, my grandma sent my sister and I up to bed a few minutes after my mom left, and just before I drifted off to sleep, I suddenly had my mind-voice (Rare, since I think in pictures and emotions) Say "He's gone, he died, why".
It shouldn't have been him, he was a great guy. But when I woke up, he wasn't there.
I'm so sorry for your loss 😢
Gut feelings are very real. When I was 17, my mother gave birth to my little sister. Three months before her birth, I experienced the flashback of a long repressed memory, from the time of infancy. I couldn't believe it was real, because how would I remember it? I saw myself as an infant being touched. So my sister was born, and straight away, I had a strong gut feeling about her biological father. He was very present in her life but had no feelings towards my mother or anyone else. Watching him interact with my sister was uncanny... He would stare at her for several minutes at a time, grinning and not saying a word. My instincts told me, he was attracted to her and wanted to hurt her. Every time he came around her, I became increasingly concerned for her safety, to the point of having panic attacks regularly.
I expressed my concerns to my mom. She wanted to believe that he wouldn't, but promised to keep an eye on him and not leave him alone with her. Three years pass. I had moved to another state, and one day my mom called me to give the news. My sister was left in his care while everyone was out of the house. Mom came back to find her crying hysterically. He touched her. She told mom exactly what he did to her... and it's disgusting. He hurt that little girl and as much as I tried to protect her, it just wasn't enough. I knew from the day she was born that something was off with him and I was RIGHT to trust my gut feeling. Always, always, trust your instincts, especially when children are involved. Protect your precious babies.
i love how this guy has so much compassion and emotion. makes me happy that people still feel these types of emotions
When I was 18/19 I worked meat and seafood at a grocery store. One time I had a man come up to the counter and I thought something was seriously off and super creepy about him. I helped him out and he was really friendly and I felt horribly guilty for thinking that way about him. Went to my apartment, started watching an investigation discovery show and found out that everyone in my state had access to the sex offender registry and there he was!!! 3 counts of assault against a minor.
Story 22 : I was FORCED to quit a SPECIAL NEEDS art class because another student would NOT respect my boundaries because she thought said boundaries were getting in the way of her being my friend (my main boundary is no one gets closer than an arm’s length away from me… why? so no one is close enough to accidentally kick my cane out from under me causing me to fall - I have CP) the teacher who wanted to help me was scared to because she thought she would lose her job, her boss didn’t even care about what was happening no matter how much I cried when BAGGING her to simply remind the other student WHY I had that boundary and why it was important to respect it and the admin wasn’t aware, at least to my knowledge, of what was going on but my gut says that if he knew, something would have been done
I was about 6 or 7 or 8, but I was playing in the front yard of my home, I went over to the back yard, a to my surprise, there was a was a GUN just sitting there. It looked like one of those hunter rifles, and my yard is quite small, with a small woods-like area at the back, so some could hide there. I immediately ran back inside the house and told my parents, my mom said that she didn't want me to go outside for a bit. The next day, it was gone. I've never heard anything about it ever since.
I don’t buy into true love or fate but that last story felt like both of those things. It’s nice to see people can get nice happy movie endings like that on rare occasion
At least two things. First, I knew at 12 that my "parents" would divorce. I just went to the library and asked for books about that topic. I'm not religious, but I did my version of praying that the divorce wouldn't come before I was 14 and my sibling 10 years old. I also didn't want to get separated from my sibling. It worked. We were both summoned separately to tell the judge about our home life to determine if we would live with mom or "dad". Mom got full custody. I don't see her ex as my social father. A father doesn't beat the mother of his children.
Last week, I got a mild PTSD-attack out of nowhere. Not bad enough for me to need my medication, but stronger than the usual background attacks I get every few days. In the evening, I was on the phone with my mom. I'm living in a dorm, so I only see her once or twice a month. (My passport still thinks I live with her.) He had ordered a book from amazon to me. The mail with the package came somewhat around the time my PTSD hit. It wasn't unusual for him to do stuff like that, but I thought he had stopped sending me stuff.
I had 3 gut feelings that were correct. As a toddler I was deathly afraid of one of my dad’s much older relatives. I would not go near him and hide whenever he entered the room. My dad deployed to Vietnam and we stayed with this guy and his family. My mom ended up having an affair with him, divorced my dad and married the guy. When I was around 11 he started abusing me in any way you can imagine. I finally told my dad a year later and he received full custody. The second one is my great grandmother was in the hospital for a heart attack and I was staying with my great grandfather. I was 20 and helping around the house. One night my great grandmother called to talk to my great grandfather and I just knew I needed to tell her I loved her one last time. She died a few hours later. The last one is a positive story. I was with my best friend and her husband in Atlantic City and she was playing roulette. I told her to put what she had left on 26 ( can’t remember if it was red or black). She won several thousand dollars. We went out and had an amazing dinner, on her, and she bought me a statue I wanted from Ceasers Place.
i hope your mother regretted marrying that man
and by that i mean divorce him and also cut contact after what had happpened at the very least because he wasnt a good person and its a good thing your father took you in
Story 8: I’m from Pittsburgh and had a very similar thing happen to me. My mom was teaching me how to drive, and we approached an intersection to get onto 228. The light turned green, but I had a gut feeling not to go yet. My mom told me to go. I inched forward after a second. Right then, a huge Ford Explorer came speeding down the road, hitting the brakes into the middle of the intersection. My mom and I would’ve been dead had I gone. Pittsburgh drivers suck.
Bloody Ford Trucks! They’re always the culprit!
I teach CDL (bus) drivers and I ALWAYS tell them to wait a full 3 seconds before going on green for exactly this reason.
*Once me and my mom were just walking to a convenience store at night, and while walking we see this man sitting on a bench looking at us weirdly, but we ignored him and we decided to keep walking. When we came back from the convenience and were walking home, we past by the man from earlier and my mom got a weird feeling, she told me to be a little cautious, and I did as she said. Then out of nowhere the man started yelling at us, and my me and mom started running, the man then started chasing us. When we arrived at our building, we called the police. While waiting for the police to come, some guy told us a man who was sitting on a bench, walked over to his car and decided to hit his car and yell at him. And guess what the police didn’t even arrive. If my mom hadn’t told me to be cautious of the man, we would’ve been beaten up.*
I had a not what I think was a gut feeling but, I woke up one day and was like I want to ask my mom to hang with my great grandma on her side. I go downstairs and my mom had just come back from the retirement home, my great grandma had passed away not an hour ago.
You can never be too careful when your gut tells you something is wrong.
Trust the feeling and do whatever you have to do to stay safe.
A familty member had something like this, they were going for a biopsy cuz there was a mole that looked odd, there were two others they insisted needed to be removed, GP said it looked fine, plastic surgeon said it looked fine, but still removes them anyways, the two that looked fine were precancerous
Back in 2020, when the pandemic first started, my cat Tiger wasn't doing very well, but we couldn't get a vet since places were closed. He was about 14 years old, lost most of his teeth, ate a lot less day after day, relieved himself wherever he could, and was losing a ton of weight. Eventually, he had a hard time jumping up on things and didn't have much strength to get up from laying down. One night, he came into my room and laid on my floor, sighing and looking up at me with an expression the looked close to sadness and exhaustion. In my gut, I felt he wasn't going to make it through the night, so I lifted him up and placed him into one of our couch pillows and moved it to under our kitchen table. I told my mom what I felt, and she watched over him during the night since it was late. The next morning, I woke up, and she told me that he passed away hours after I told her about him. He took his last breath at 2:15am on Good Friday, and I knew about it before anyone else did. To this day, I wish I had stayed up and watched over him myself, but at the time, I had a very early start to my workday and couldn't do it myself.. I didn't even say my goodbyes to him, but I wasn't sure if I was right in my feelings or not.. I still regret it to this day..
You did say your goodbyes… by placing him on that pillow for comfort. 🫂
@MsAubrey in a way, I guess I did. It was odd that he came into my room since he doesn't usually wander in on his own without wanting something. Putting him on that pillow was probably the best thing I could do for him, and I'm sure he appreciated the gesture since we had hard wooden floors. They wouldn't have been as comfortable for his last moments..
My dad's mom passed away in august of 2020. Given how much my grandpa loved and cared for her, I got a feeling he wasn't going to last much longer and told my dad as much, trying to prepare him a bit. Sure enough come october my grandpa passed. I hate that my gut feeling was right.
Everytime I've had a gut feelings I've listened. The strongest one I had though was as a teen. I decided to walk home from school that day and go to the library I was almost to the library but got a strong urge, I mean extremely strong urge to go home immediately so I told my friend bye and I needed to go home. Good thing the library was close to my house because right when I walked in my mom was screaming how my grandma was going to die and she did (she had been slowly dying of liver failure for a few years). I'm glad I had that strong urge to go home because I got to say goodbye to the person I loved most in the world.
Not me, but an acquaintance. I don't remember all of the details, and plus, not every detail was given, but it's similar to story 5. Anyways, she was somewhere in public, some store, and she was done and intending to get back in her car and go home. However, when she got out, she noticed a sketchy looking van with one of the side doors open parked next to her car. She immediately knew something wasn't right. So, she went back inside and told the store employees. They proceeded to call the local police (IDK if it was 911 or the non-emergency number), and when the police arrived, the second they pulled into the parking lot, the van from earlier suddenly closed the open side door, started, and drove off. Yea, if someone drives off for seemingly no reason other than the cops coming, that's a big sign that they were up to no good.
My family took care of a lady in a nursing home. As we were walking to her room, we passed another residents room, and I get this vibe that the resident was going to die that day. We go on and return a few days later, come to find out that the lady did end up dying that day.
I have had the gut feeling before. My grandparents got into a car accident when they were leaving our house to go home, they live a state over from us. They left early in the morning. When i woke up that day, i just had a FEELING that something happened, but i didnt know what
I know mine is dumb, and not anywhere near as interesting or eventful as the others, but it almost feels weirder.
One time, a few years ago, i was at the dentist with my sister (i think i was 13?) We had our appointments at the same time, as is common with siblings. On this particular visit, it happened to be one of the visits where they wanted to take pictures of my teeth. My sister had her pictures done first, and i was second. But while they were taking my pictures, a thought poped into my head, 'what if they accidently put the pictures of my teeth, into my sister's file'. Looking back, it was a weird thought. I had no clue that they could save it to the wrong file, or even that they were saved to a file at all. But at the time, i was just like 'yeah, that'd be funny'. But once i went to sit back down, the person who took the pictures, seemed confused, and called someone else over for help. She had put my pictures in my sister's file. I got chills. I just felt so weird after it. I still an confused by that to this day.
For some background I was working a late shift at the store I work at just trying to make the late shift go by faster, a mother and her little baby girl came up to my register and asked if a man who had a forearm tattoo worked here and I said no she then tells me that the man was saying weird and disturbing things about her and her baby. I got her out as fast as I could while her boyfriend and my manager walked her out, seemed like that would be the end of it right? Well, not even 2 minutes later a man with a forearm tattoo came in my lane to check out and I got the worst gut feeling ever, like 'I need to run far away' bad. Could have been a coincidence that man with a forearm tattoo came to my line, but my gut was telling me to get him out of the store as fast as possible, got him out my manager who was behind the entire made sure he left cause I had to go home and watched me get in my car and leave. Not even a day later, I see him on the news getting arrested for SA and kidnapping so yeah listen to your gut feeling guys.
That last story tho 😢 aweee I love when people bond over one thing and then find everything they want and love
I live in a fairly rural area. I tended to go out late at night because there was literally nothing there. Until one night changed my mind on that forever. I saw a figure standing out in a field. I paused thinking it was just my vision being late at night until a few minutes later I looked back over and saw it moved closer. I bolted back to the house. I've never ran like that in my life. No idea what it was to this day, but I never went out late like that again at least not that far from the house.
There's been studies about dogs. one studies i find interesting, a dog would witness three different kind of interactions with their owners. The onwer would need help, 1) the stranger helps, 2) the stranger ignored the owner 3) the stranger was rude to the owner. Then the stranger offered a treat to the dog. The dog was less likely to take the treat if the stranger was rude.
That's really interesting, shows that dogs have a lot more awareness and understanding than a lot of people give them credit for
Story 6: as a nurse I can tell you it’s more frustrating and angry then sad(sadness hits when you take a shower at the end of the day) we try as hard as we can to help and keep you alive. I always say to be a nurse you need to learn instantaneously love ❤️
Story 26, that’s either an immediate shut down of that camp ground, or they revamped it to where the kids weren’t in a tent anymore moving forward.
That last one out of nowhere made me grin like a madman, true or not.
I have two stories from two of my mom's friends.
First friend was out shopping when she stopped and went home. Like, left her cart full of food in the middle of the aisle went home. When she arrived at her house, so saw her husband hovering over their daughter in bed. It turned out he was grooming their daughter for that night, and the mom's gut feeling that something was wrong was the only thing that saved her.
Second story happened only a few years back. Another of my mom's friends, a woman I babysat for, was either cleaning up or doing laundry (I can't remember which) when she found two SD cards in her husband's pajama pants' pocket. Since they were a techy family, she didn't think too much of it, but a gut feeling told her to look at the content on the cards. First card had typical family photos (stuff like birthday parties, family vacations, etc), but the second card had CP of boys the ages of her sons, who were about 7 and 10 at the time. Immediately called the cops and had her husband arrested. After police investigation it (thankfully) turned out that he hadn't touched anyone, but who knows what could have happened if she didn't find those SD cards.
A little over a year ago my dad was struggling with his alcoholism and lost strength and energy. Over a phone call he told me: (my name), I think I'm going to die. I told him: nah, you're not ready, you still have to meet your future grandchildren. A few days later we went to the hospital and found out he had low potasium, vitamine D and cirrhosis(no jaundice,) and he didn't want to be admitted to the hospital so I tried to leave him there, but he said he would get a taxi. So I brought him home. When I left I told him it wasn't to late. A few days later I found him dead, variceal bleed... he knew he was going to die
People tell me I am full of it when I tell them this. While in the Marines, I was deployed to a combat zone as part of a peacekeeping mission. We had standing orders to wear our dog tags to bed. Throughout the entire deployment I hung mine on the corner of my cot, until the night before the terrorist bombing. 0623 the next morning, a flatbed truck carrying 6 tons of plastic explosives pulled inside our headquarters and detonated. I woke up sitting on rubble with w row of bead marks from my tags halfway around my neck
Sorry, I don't quite understand this. Did the dog tags save you? I am not very familiar with the military
I lived in a different state as my parents. Went to visit them one summer. When I left I had a feeling I'd never see my Mom again. She passed away suddenly a couple of months later.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Both my sisters have had something like this.
My older sister caught an older man, like hair was turning gray, looking at her but while she was reading in a bookstore.
My little sister was walking down the street with my older brother when he said to move to the other side of him. This was right before passing a group of teenage boys among whom at least two heads turned.
During my marriage, I slowly grew more than just a little disgusted by my husband. We divorced after eight years and as soon as I left him he began to sexually abuse our daughter. She was barely a year and a half.
I knew the back pain and progressive loss of leg function was more than just a pinched nerve. It was a tumor in my spine. I’m now a T4 paraplegic
For how many years did you have the back pain before knowing it was a tumour?
At 17 I was walking the mall with my group of friends before we split to go to our cars to go to one friend's house for a big dinner and sleepover. I was the only one who parked at the one door so I was alone. It was winter at 5 so already dark for where I live. I saw one guy repeatedly during our shopping but chalked it up to just chance until I got a weird feeling walking out and turned to see he was following me. I tried to act normal and continued to my car with my key now set to stab mode. I felt relieved when I started to close the door but then his hand blocked it.
"Let go" I growled out. I was mostly going by instincts now since I knew from past experiences they worked to keep me safe. Sadly, I knew.
"You should learn when to let go" he said with a haunting smile and pulled at the door.
It wasn't what he meant but I did let go. Blacked out in fear and let my body take over to protect me. When I had calmed down enough to feel in control of my body again he was holding his slashed arm and hand while leaning against the car next that was a space away. I closed the door and shakily drove off.
I stopped in another parking lot, an actually well lit and busy one, before taking in what happened. My house key and myself had blood on it and I called the police to sort that portions out. After my statement and them taking samples I was allowed to go for now. It was around 8 so I called the first of my friends in my contacts and told him what happened before heading home with my mom while my dad took my car home since they had to be present as I was underaged. My friends changed the sleepover to my house and the only reason I think the memory doesn't haunt me is because that night I had 2 friends cuddled up to me in my bed while 3 more laid on the air mattress.
The guy was not caught since I never heard anything again but it doesn't bother me that much now. I have always trusted my instincts about a situation or person and have never been wrong so I know I can keep myself safe. Plus, I have my parents, siblings, and friends who trust my judgement and make sure I am not really alone
it’s written like a book
“Let go” i growled
but it’s weird to think that’s an actual thing, also i hope you’re recovering from trauma like that
I got attacked by onion ninjas towards the end of the last story.
Same
As a neurodivergant person who had to learn to read others, I think it's a lot of unconscious body language on the part of the "aggressors" (using that word as a broad term for this specific convo)
Since we have to learn from scratch what kind of tones and languages neurotypicals take for granted, it's broken down more.
So things like posture, tone, word-choice, lots of tiny moment-to-moment things cue someone subconsciously.
For me I'll also look at placement - do they try and put themselves in front of exits? do people who know the person move to "protect" me from someone?
I've gotten pretty good at it to the point not a lot of people notice the atypical thinking patterns (until I speak XD), but I'm good at picking up jerks and narcicists without much to go on barring a few minutes conversation. It's also weirdly handy for picking out villains in TV shows. I try not to rely solely on these feelings especially for friends wanting to date people, but I've been right just about every time and I voice concerns a lot earlier these days.
Still have one person who gave me such bad vibes I practically fled, and I still haven't heard that they're not ok. But I have nothing to do with them - I expect it to be a news headline one day.
i dont know how good my social skills are but i have a type of autism and people are usaully supprised when i tell them i have autism and yea same its easy for me to pick up on jerks or people who have dark triad traits
I agree. I can do the same. Word choice is a big one to pick up on. Energy is too. Thats the good indicator that will determine if the person is good or not.
@@FoodNVent Word choice person by person. I will go overly stony when I'm mad, but my wordchoice remains the same
@@FoodNVent yea
Shepards and wolfhounds are *great* at reading people, as far as dogs go. I'm fond of Belgian Shepards (which I think more commonly get called malinois or something but I don't know how to spell that) but Aussies sure are damn cute, really interesting coat patterns on some of them. I knew a guy in college whose dad had a huge piece of land up in some hills and kept Irish Wolfhounds. Biggest dogs I've ever seen, and absolute sweethearts to anyone that wasn't a threat. Heard some stories from the dad about the dogs scaring trespassers and poachers half to death - I can imagine
Yeah… Irish Wolfhounds are the largest dog breed on the planet. They’re house horses. 😂
Belgian Malinois are stunning, but MUST be well-trained. Once well-trained, they’re fantastic dogs.
Irish Wolfhounds are 6' tall when standing on their hind legs.
I had a real bad gut feeling before I met an Internet friend for the first time. We had been talking for almost a year and I knew that he was who he said he was (we had video chatted multiple times, he had both Instagram and Facebook since 2014/2015 and the pictures of him matched his age at the time). I just got this super strong gut feeling that I shouldn't go. But I ignored it.
He sexua!!y assaulted me. Since that day, I have never ignored my gut feeling again.
He was who he said he was btw.
I’m so sorry that happened to you. 🫂
i am so sorry that this happened to you and if you ever did want to meet an online friend at some point in the future there are ways to hopefully make it safer for example bring a group of friend's and go meet in a crowded or semi crowded / safe area / place or ask your parents to accompany you make sure you stay close to your friends and parents if your able too
@xOrionNebula1970 thank you. I have met other internet friends after that and I am going to the UK to meet up with another one in October. I am safer now, and I am also older, so I know what to do and how to be safe. I just wish 16 year old me had listened to their gut feeling.
@@Sam1D28 its okay it wasnt your fault and not to be annoying but even tho your older you should still be careful if you are going alone
I told this story before on my community tab of my channel when it happened, but found this story fitting for the topic. So for context, I lived at my parents house not too long but have since moved out and live part-time at a college dorm and part-time at a house I bought with my poly partners, this happened while I lived at my parents house. I had the chore of taking the trashcan to the street and it was late. My parents live in a town that has been dubbed the safest town in our state more than a few times so most of the time I feel safe even when there's a car or stranger acting off, it's usually because they had a bad day or something like that. But this night was different. My parents' house is on the dead end street with quite a few houses surrounding it but it was pitch black mid-daylight savings time, and this old beat up white car pulled up and I was about halfway down my parents' long driveway. I froze, expecting the car to pull in and pull out like they were making a u-turn or just to drive away. it didn't. I got this sense of utter fear and felt as if the driver, despite the tinted windows and it being pitch black outside, was looking right at ME. I'm a young woman and was just out of my teen years when this happened and have a baby face. There was no way this person would be asking me, at that time of night, for something like directions. So, I started backing up and the car SPED off down the street. To this day, I'm convinced I was almost kidnapped and if I got in range of that car's door, I wouldn't be here today.
My friend and I (I, female, 14, her , female, 13) were in the mall. Her mom wanted to get us candy apples and we had to go to the bathroom. We saw this man and he gave off weirdddddd vibes. We took the other way of the mall to get to the bathroom. Then again, we saw him coming out of the bathroom. We left with our apples, and walked through the belks, but it was pouring rain, so my friend and I waited and then I saw him again, but he saw me too and cut behind a wall (like he was walking towards us but out of my view idk how to explain) I grabbed my friend and we ran through the rain to the car. That man was arrested 3 days later for kidnapping and several other disgusting charges,
the last story is very cute.
Just wanted to mention it’s a funny coincidence that the choice of subreddit was related to gut feelings while they play a Spider-Man game.
(Unless the choice was deliberate idk- I just wanted to say it)
Well, one story did specifically mention a “spidey tingle”, so I assume it would’ve been deliberate
I was at NYE park party that was run by the local council of Parramatta and I was around the age of 12. When I got to the park, within an hour I felt really bad feeling about that night. Mum plunked us near the front of the area. Kept telling mum I have a feeling, not just me but also my brother said the same thing. Luckily for our mum gave in when kept we wanted to go. At around 9am family fireworks it went off with some problems, it didn’t go in the air. The 1st few rows people were injured. If we were there we would have been injured.
Edited I maybe wrong about it being NYE it could of been Australia Day
I have a lot of gut feelings. Once got it when my mom was having a heart attack (she died). I’ve also had dreams that came true and one of them was about one of my uncles on my dad’s side. He had a heart attack and I knew he was gonna die because of that dream so I had my dad go see him since I knew my dad would regret it if he didn’t (living in the USA and he had to drive to a different state).
Not sure if I can call this a gut feeling but I asked about one of my teachers in high school that I hadn’t seen recently only to find out that her cancer came back and spread to her brain and killed her shortly before I asked
Story 14: That is almost exactly the story of my 3rd grade social studies teacher, except he was caught before but the charges didn't stick for some reason. He was also just a terrible person in general aside from that, he'd also make fun of my laugh and generally treated the boys of the class terribly too, just in a more "bullying" way rather than an "inappropriate" way. I think he still teaches there, at least he did when a family friend's daughter was in 3rd grade. She was in his class.
His name was Mr. Verba but we all called him "Mr. Perva" because it was well known he was a perv to the girls. The only reason he wasn't one to me is because i sadly wasn't as feminine back then and looked/acted like a boy. He still gave me the creeps and i even witnessed him grabbing one of the girls' shirts and pulling on it so he could look down it. Sadly i didn't understand enough at the time to call attention to it (I'm mentally disabled to an extent and didnt learn about that stuff until i was already an adult). I'm 25 now as well so that story might even be about him.
That last story… ❤
My husband and I had near misses most of our lives. So many coincidences and I’ll leave it at that. He said that I “chased” him until he caught me.
He’s more than 8 years older than me. So, it’s kind of surprising at how many times we were close to coming together and didn’t… kind of like it was meant to be, but only at a specific time in our lives.
Been married for over 15 years now.❤😊
I loved that last story too, and I'm a hardcore computer scientist and yet it still makes me believe in positive faith.
My own story (among many) is that it was a lightly raining day and I was going to check the mail, but I was pondering how wet I would get, but I had this bad feeling. While I was standing at the window looking at the mailbox near the driveway, a bolt of lightning hits the road 5 feet in front of the house. If I hadn't hesitated I would have been a great conductor.
I've also had many MANY instances of deja vu, they got so bad that I started being able to verbally predict what was going to happen next. People say it's your mind catching up to the present, but that doesn't explain how I could tell the future. I also have really vivid dreams that are super realistic, but I didn't remember many of them. I started to keep a dream journal, which made me remember more. Then I had a very real feeling dream and 2 years later it came true exactly as I had dreamed it. Ah, okay so it wasn't deja vu, I just have prophetic dreams that sometimes come true. How nice.
Oh, and I don't believe in the supernatural at all ....... and yet reality keeps trying to prove me wrong.
I was walking down a forest road with my dog. I walk there almost daily, he's off leash, when there's a car I scream "car" and he comes back to heel and I hold his collar, very calm road, can easily not see one car in 30min.
At a crossing I froze and the hairs on my arms and back went up, the feeling of "don't go there" was so intense, so I switched roads and 30seconds later on the main road i was previously on, a car going super fast (much faster than cars usually go here) appeared. I think my instincts saved my dog that day because I probably wouldn't have had the time to call him back and he would have been hit full force.
Dumping someone over the phone is so cowardly. The only reason it should happen is if it’s long distance and you literally can’t see the person.
When I was a teenager, I once woke up before dawn with an urge to watch the sunrise. I had never done this before, never wanted to do this before, so I can’t stress how unusual this was. It was summer vacation and I was a night owl that had never woken early by choice. I also vastly preferred to be indoors, however I went outside and sat on the driveway. The street was empty and quiet. Suddenly a toddler comes running out all alone from the field at the dead end. I stopped her and asked her where her parents were however she was so small, I couldn’t understand her reply. I was just a kid too and I didn’t know what to do so I kept trying to ask her questions. After ten minutes or so a man comes running down the street. He said she was his daughter and they were outside on the next street over. He’d looked away for a minute and she’d taken off. She recognized him and was happy to leave with him. Much later I realized I should have called the police so they could verify that she belonged to him but fortunately there was never a report of a kidnapped or missing child in our area. What was particularly scary about this was that our street was just a short walk away from a major international highway. In the ten minutes I talked to her, she could have ran all the way there. I hope they never let her out of their sight again.
🥰 that last story
That last story was woah oo-oh, the sweetest thing.
To kinda go along with story four:
In 7th grade I was in Latin class with my two friends. One day, an 8th grade boy asked to sit with us. He asked for my number later that day. The next day, I talk with him and I just get this weird feeling about him. He was looking at me kinda weird and was a little too close for comfort. So, I decided to not be friends with him anymore.
Come to find out that he wanted to r word me.
So, yes. That feeling is real.
19:25 i had a similar experience minus the icu. my older cousin and his girlfriend had drug problems and were mixing drugs that couldnt be mixxed, i was at work as a cook and went out side and randomly started thinking about hitting him up to talk as we were both adults at that time. the next day we got the call that he od'd from mixing 2 prescriptions that couldnt be mixed.
That Pre-K teacher story hit me really close to home. When I was a baby, I had a stroke at 10 weeks old. Due to this, my mom decided to hold me back from going to Pre-K by a year since she didn't think I was ready. So by the time I did go to Pre-K I was a 5 year old in a class full of 4 year olds'. And while I was in that Pre-K class, I always got the feeling that my teacher didn't like me, or would single me out amongst the other kids. I got the sense that it might've had something to do with my disability, esp. since I was the only one in my teacher's class that had a disability and I was "coincidentally" the only kid that she seemed to have it out for. Years later, I mention that teacher and the gut feeling she gave me to my mom and my mom tells me that she thought that teacher didn't like me either. My mom even says there was an instance where she was meeting with that teacher and the teacher remarked snidely "I only work with 4 year olds, NOT 5 year olds!" obviously referencing me being a year older when my mom sent me into Pre-K. Needless to say, my mom was livid. I don't really remember much from back then, but that teacher left such an impression on me and not in a good way at all. I just don't understand why these types of people work in childcare and education if they're going to be so disdainful and awful to the kids they're supposed to be teaching and nurturing. Especially towards the kids that have disabilities that they can't control. I'm just saying, but if your going to have little patience and empathy for the kids your supposed to be teaching, disability or no disability, then maybe you shouldn't be a teacher at all.
That last story was the absolute best one to end on. So sweet that it gave me a cavity.
I woke up one day wondering what it was like to break an arm or a leg. later that day i broke my arm. does that count?
That last story has made my year. Thank you OP, thank you Narrator ♡♡
My boyfriend and i had booked a boat in varanasi. In the evening when we were getting on the boat another man got along with the driver and boarded the boat. I had my bells ringing and said my boyfriend to not go but he refused coz he thought i am refusing because of the cost. I had this errie feeling when we were returning as he was driving in the middle of the river while all other boats were near the left docks. He strted to drive the boat towards the right dock which was uninhabited and dark. We confronted the driver to drive towards the other end but he continuously refused to. Finally as more boats came he strted driving near the left end.
I am pretty sure he wanted to rob us and do nasty things. I was so scared and still am today
When I was in High School…there was a 30year old janitor that would always sit down at the bench wearing his shades during lunch time……I always felt something wasn’t right about him even though a lot girls always told me that he was cute. 3 of my guy friends would laugh at me and call me a weirdo for thinking that about someone I that I didn’t know. One Saturday morning, I get a call from one of my guy friends telling me to turn on the tv and go to channel Fox 10 news…..right there on the tv screen was the janitor’s mugshot, he was arrested for getting caught having a romantic relationship with a 16year old student at my school…..dude was about to get married and his finance was pregnant too.
I wasn’t feeling that well one day, felt sick, out of breath and my chest felt tight. I called my boss and went home and started feeling cold. My family thought I was just having a panic attack but I knew I needed to go to the hosptial. I was right I had blood clots in the lungs and I would have likely died if I hadn’t gone in.
SWEET HOLY FUCK-
I have gotten one of these feelings before. When I was a bit younger, my family was going to an ice cream shop to celebrate my brothers birthday. Now the parking lot of this ice cream shop had very small skinny lanes for you to drive down and so backing out a spot was difficult. After we parked and had gotten out, I saw a car was backing out of the spot behind our car. Then I got a bad feeling, like something was about to happen. And then that car began to get closer and closer to our bumper, then my brother and mother took a step to walk behind the car. I had yelled about the car and they both stopped right as the car had hit our bumper where then we’re going to stand. I had accidentally saved my brother and mother from getting squashed. After hitting our car a 16 year old kid came out crying, he had just gotten his driving license the week before, I felt so bad for him. But in the end no one was hurt and our car just had a dent.
One time, when I was 12 years old, I was on my phone, watching CZcams like I do every day and I suddenly had this feeling that I needed to go outside. I eventually did and there was a fire in my backyard. Luckily I found it before it got too out of hand and immediately told my mom. She ran to get the hose and I thought quickly and got the small fire extinguisher meant for kitchen fires. It surprisingly lasted enough to put out the whole fire and we bought a lot more fire extinguishers after that
When i was a kid my dad had this family friend that i didnt like. He never did anything outright to rub me the wrong way, there was just something really "off" about him. The way he spoke and his manerism seemed uncanny... dude felt like a person who didnt really felt normal emotions but rather "imitated" how a normal person would think or feel. His facial expressions always seemed fake, and he was always overly chipper, like in a weird way, almost like he was faking it (think of those women in cults, like the ones in the "keep sweet" documentary)
Last time i saw him was 20 years ago and i recently asked my dad what happened with him. So this guy is now in jail for killing his wife. I knew my gut feeling knew something was wrong about the guy, but i didng expect to be this right.