Too many for comfort. DH has gotten so used to them that he says if we were at the airport and I said, "I don't think we should get on that plane," he'd pick up the carry on luggage and do an about face from the plane, no questions asked. Bear in mind that most of mine involve knowing somone has just died or is going to die soon (and I do have witnesses to verify that I told them of what I thought had happened/was coming) and you can understand why he's a believer. He's seen it too many times.
The odd thing is, there is no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it's just an acquaintance or some famous person that I'm not even a fan of. You'd think it would be a close relative or something, but it usually isn't. Just random. The funniest one is when I was a teenager and was eating at a restaurant with a friend. (What happened to the person/victim isn't funny, but my friend's reaction was.) We were talking about a famous person and I made a very specific remark about what would happen to this person soon, namely being shot. We got in the car, drove home and turned on the TV. Lo and behold, someone had just shot the person. My friend almost had a heart attack and was bug-eyed. She kept asking how I knew and I just told her I had no idea HOW I knew, but that I just knew. And that's how it is.
I kept it to myself for ages, because people either think you're nuts or they expect you to predict things and it just doesn't work like that. I may go a few years without it happening. I finally said something when I realized my sister had similar experiences. She saved our mother's life once because of a dream. I still don't tell many people. Who wants to hear, "Hey guess what? Sometimes I know when people are going to die! How cool is that?" Heck, it still freaks ME out, I can only imagine what it does to others. In college, I did not say, "Hi, I'm _____. My major is _____ and I foresee dead people."
Like someone else said, I don't like it when it happens, but there's nothing to be done about it. When I was much younger, I felt guilty, as if I was somehow CAUSING these things to happen to people since I knew about them ahead of time. As I got older, I realized I had nothing to do with it. My sister likens it to being able to briefly tune into a radio frequency and hear (dream/see) information that most people can't hear and even WE aren't meant to hear. But for a brief few moments, just like when you turned the dial on an old radio and got all that static and squealing, you would occasionally hear a snippet of music or news before it was lost to more static and squealing. She says what we "get" is those snippets....only it's information about what's to come. Some people are just better at picking up the frequency than others. It's as good an explanation as any.
The odd thing is, there is no rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it's just an acquaintance or some famous person that I'm not even a fan of. You'd think it would be a close relative or something, but it usually isn't. Just random. The funniest one is when I was a teenager and was eating at a restaurant with a friend. (What happened to the person/victim isn't funny, but my friend's reaction was.) We were talking about a famous person and I made a very specific remark about what would happen to this person soon, namely being shot. We got in the car, drove home and turned on the TV. Lo and behold, someone had just shot the person. My friend almost had a heart attack and was bug-eyed. She kept asking how I knew and I just told her I had no idea HOW I knew, but that I just knew. And that's how it is.
I kept it to myself for ages, because people either think you're nuts or they expect you to predict things and it just doesn't work like that. I may go a few years without it happening. I finally said something when I realized my sister had similar experiences. She saved our mother's life once because of a dream. I still don't tell many people. Who wants to hear, "Hey guess what? Sometimes I know when people are going to die! How cool is that?" Heck, it still freaks ME out, I can only imagine what it does to others. In college, I did not say, "Hi, I'm _____. My major is _____ and I foresee dead people."
Like someone else said, I don't like it when it happens, but there's nothing to be done about it. When I was much younger, I felt guilty, as if I was somehow CAUSING these things to happen to people since I knew about them ahead of time. As I got older, I realized I had nothing to do with it. My sister likens it to being able to briefly tune into a radio frequency and hear (dream/see) information that most people can't hear and even WE aren't meant to hear. But for a brief few moments, just like when you turned the dial on an old radio and got all that static and squealing, you would occasionally hear a snippet of music or news before it was lost to more static and squealing. She says what we "get" is those snippets....only it's information about what's to come. Some people are just better at picking up the frequency than others. It's as good an explanation as any.