Have you ever had a premonition?

DanTheMan

In 1990 one of my best friends (Mike) was riding in a van with another friend of mine who was driving (Scott). They pulled into the parking lot of a mini-mart that was in a bad part of town, to say the least (people often referred to it as "Uzi Alley"). The reason they pulled in was because they thought they recognized someone in the parking lot. It turned out that it wasn't who they thought it was.

As they backed away, one of the persons standing in the parking lot said "watch who you roll up on next time" or something like that. Scott wasn't happy with that, and lobbed a few choice words back at him. Well, the dude pulls out a gun and shoots at them as they are driving off! The bullet hit Mike at at an angle and got lodged in his temple, causing a flesh wound but nothing more (he was quite lucky). At first Mike didn't realize what had happened. He felt a stinging sensation coming from his temple and instinctively reached his hand up to it. When he pulled his hand back into his sight, he saw that it was covered in blood. So Scott took him to the hospital, where they removed the bullet and kept him overnight.

I was unaware of all this until late in the afternoon the next day, when I received a phone call from this girl Abby that was part of our crowd. The strange thing was, is that all day I had been thinking to myself "something has happened to Mike". At one point I even said it out loud to myself. When Abby called, the news that he had been shot at and was in the hospital came as no surprise.

Mike and I had hung out together so much during our childhood and into early adulthood that it seemed like we were somehow connected to each other, almost like twins or something.. We knew each other so well, it was like we understood each other completely. (We later had a falling out, and then I joined JW's, and we haven't spoken in years).

I have wondered about that incident ever since. How did I know that something bad had happened to him? Has anyone else experienced something like this?

Satanus

While i was getting ready to go to a club, i had a sudden clear picture of me getting a black eye there, at the club. I told myself everything would be ok, and carried on. I was very careful at the club. Had a nice time. Afterward, getting into my truck, i noticed the cops some distance away. I sat there, waiting for them to leave. They left and came back. After a while, they drove up behind my truck. They walked up to my window, the usual stuff, asked me to get out, read me my rights, gave me a breathalizer test. They were real sure they had me, but i was under the limit. Whew! After i stopped shaking, i drove home. Freaky.

SS

heathen

It's the deeeeeeeeeeemonzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .

els

I don't really have premonitions but I do get feelings about people and they're almost always right. I do have dreams that come true. I have dreamed for years about different people in my family holding a very young girl with long shiny blue-black hair, obviously oriental. Now my niece is adopting a baby girl from China. She should have her by New Years. I probably won't see her cause I'm being shunned, but at least I can say I knew about her first. els

Scully

I don't know if the sensations I have could be called premonitions, because they happen simultaneously with the event that I'm sensing. Most often I perceive the experience as a sudden consciousness of the person, and a significant memory associated with that person. It's happened in relation to the deaths of three of my grandparents (one is still living) and the deaths of several friends.

I also get sudden flashes of people I haven't seen or heard from or thought of in a long time, and then suddenly have a contact with them - initiated by them. Latest one happened in the spring when I visited home and passed by the house where my best friends used to live - they were JWs and came to our house for the book study every week. I even pointed out their house to my children. I got very strong sensations - not about my friends (the daughters) - but about their brother. Within a few days, I got an e-mail from my friends' brother (ex-JW now), whom I hadn't seen or heard from in over 20 years.

I don't know what it is, I don't know how I do it. It just happens when it happens.

Love, Scully

Granny Linda

Not like the one you spoke of, but I've experienced the instant of 'knowing.' It spared me anger, digust, contempt, a myriad of emotion because the truth was immediately accepted. And of course it proved true. I like when that happens.

I also believe that those moments of clarity come about because we are paying closer attention to the life around us. We have developed ears to hear; eyes to see. So using that ability at different levels of perception is probably more "normal" then we give credit for. After all, we're supposed to be born sinners that need someone or something else telling us how to connect to spirit; when in fact all we need to do (or so is my opinion), is connect with our own Spirit. After that, we are capable of many things...even premonition. Just works differently for different personalities.

Granny

mamashel

Hey dan, I know the "oozy alley" your referring to, must be the little spot that used to be called Greenbriar huh. (We're from the same city)

I've had feelings like that before, and they scared me, but i cant explain what they are or why it happens. I used to have this senareo play over and over in my head about my first husband getting killed and an officer coming to the house to tell me that he had been killed. He did end up getting killed though, but it was his mother that called and told me what happened. I think because of the lifestyle that he led, drinking and drugs, that is what made me think that something was going to happen to him because of the dangerous life he lead.

Just my thoughts

Shelley

freedom96

This has happened to several people that I know very well. I think this is a perfect example of how there is much more to life than we have been taught. We don't have a clue really about what is out there.

butalbee

yes. The weekend before my grandmother died, I cried and cried all weekend long. I couldn't stop crying, couldn't stop feeling the feeling of loss. It overwhelmed me. My mother called me that monday morning to tell me that grandma died--but somehow I already knew that.

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