Has anyone experienced ‘hunches’, premonitions, call them what you will -when driving, that have subsequently turned out to be accurate? I have a couple of interesting examples to kick off with, but am a bit reluctant to post them without encouragement as I don’t want to be branded a weirdo, as I reckon I’m fairly normal for most of the time (honest!)
If anyone would like to hear of them, please indicate.
P.
P.S.-No I don't have a pyramid-shaped garage..
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I'd be interested.
Dunno if I have had premonitions as such - I have times when I've seen a car, decided he is going to [insert stupid act] and then watched as he did it, but that's probably years of watching idiots.
As for being a weirdo, some days I think that's a compulsory state in here.
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Thanks for the reply, Mark,- here goes then.
1. Many years ago, as an art student driving a Minivan full of fellow students home from Swansea to Llanelli one winter evening, I reached Loughor and was descending a hill approaching a bend(about 600 yards off)when I suddenly experienced a flash in my vision. I thought it was lightning, but no one else in the car saw it. At the same moment, my foot came off the accelerator, and I coasted to a halt, stalling the engine. Actually I was rather worried at this, and carried on very slowly around the bend, where we had to stop as there had been a head on collision between two cars a few seconds earlier. One car was on its side, wheels still spinning. Could it have been one of the drivers giving a mental shout of 'Oh s***!'as he realised he was about to crash? I don't know, but I've always wondered.
2. Years later, on the A30 near Winterslow. Road works on the brow of a hill, with traffic lights. My lane of traffic was stopped(about three cars ahead of me)with the front car on the brow of the hill facing the oncoming lane. I stopped and put the handbrake on,about ten feet from the car in front. After a few seconds I experienced an overpowering sensation of claustrophobia - I was too close to the car in front. Feeling really silly, I checked my mirror and reversed about thirty feet, and waited. About ten seconds later a car came(far too fast)over the brow of the hill and smack into the first car in the line, knocking it back into the next car.
True accounts, I promise you. Comments or other examples?
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This was discussed at length on a biking site. The consensus was that your natural antennae pick up subconcious signs immediately beforehand, subsequently analysed as 'sixth sense'.
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Yes!
It's commonly known in Biking circles as Spider Sense.
I suspect it's experience rather than ESP but it happens all the time.
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A sort of Toad Sense then?
I can't relate anything quite as dramatic but I'm sure we all get better at spotting the car that's about to do something daft. As Mark says, just years of watching idiots.
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I once told someone the exact time and place his wife's car would be run into by a shopping trolley. And it happened! Does that count? It's a true story, the guy was amazed. I haven't been able to reproduce this 'seeing into the future talent' since.
I think if you fear the worst or as Mark says predict what someone is going to do using your past experience then when it happens you are not Mystic Meg but a half decent driver.
If you happen to see any numbers during your next promintion can you write them down and post them, something like 44, 12, 10 etc... :~)
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not had premonitions when driving but very often get them just before the telephone rings.
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"get them just before the telephone rings"
Me too......weird.
Hurman.......bet you pushed the shopping trolley, you little tinker, you.
I think this is car related, 'cos my pal was getting out of his car outside my house. Many moons ago, age 18/19, I was having a Saturday morning lie-in, when I suddenly awoke from a deep sleep with a violent chest pain. In that woolly waking state, I was convinced I was having a heart attack. A few seconds later, it disapeared as I came to my senses, and I heard a car door slam outside. My pal arriving. Came in for a coffee and left half an hour later, agreeing to meet in pub Saturday night. He didn't turn up that night. Discovered later, his father died after a heart attack, at the precise moment I awoke that morning.
I hid in a cupboard for a month after that!
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Paul
Damn, my secret is out. I never was much good a trolley collecting anyway!!!
I'm glad my wife isn't reading this thread she would never get out of the drive.
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I don't beleive in superstition but: [1]
At 4am on one night I woke up terrified having dreamed about a death mask being stamped on and shattered.
In the morning I found that my Grandmother had died in the night...
Must be a cooincidence but a strange one at that...
[1] Except for the usual hopes of immortality.
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This is some spooky stuff, perfect for these long nights.
When I was in Ibiza a friend & I parked our hire car in town and went for a wander round. When we returned, no car.
We found our way to the local polis and the car was chained up outside as it had been illegally parked. The policeman stamped our papers for an hour or so. He tlooked us up and down before imposing the fine of about £125. Cash only. This was literally within a few pesetas of what we were carrying.
I wonder if the policeman had some kind of special premonition linked to gullible tourists?
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My late wife had loads of premonitions all the time!
Sadly, she died very suddenly of a brain haemorrhage but about a week before she took her wedding ring off (after 15 years) and asked me to wear it around my neck. She said it had started 'irritating' her finger but there was no sign of any rash etc.
Most poignantly, the day before she died, out of the blue she suddenly told me what music she'd like for her funeral !! I was in such a state after the event that I couldn't remember what it was at first but eventually I did and it made the service all the more emotional.
There were many, many other examples over the years and I really believe she had some form of 'gift'.
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I was very badly cut up on a roundabout in Milton Keynes once by a baseball cap type. He was driving like a complete loony, driving way too fast, wrong side of road etc.
I muttered to myself watch it mate or you'll be in the ditch...sure enough three or four roundabouts later he was.
Wishful thinking rather than premonition I think...
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I was very badly cut up on a roundabout in Milton Keynes once by a baseball cap type. He was driving like a complete loony, driving way too fast, wrong side of road etc. I muttered to myself watch it mate or you'll be in the ditch...sure enough three or four roundabouts later he was. Wishful thinking rather than premonition I think...
Can't have been wishful thinking. I regularly wish for the same thing but it's never happened yet.
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Can't have been wishful thinking. I regularly wish for the same thing but it's never happened yet.
Mate, Baby-Spice has a busy schedule!
Shell get round to us in the end...
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not had premonitions when driving but very often get them just before the telephone rings.
I read some research on this and apparently you have the "premonition" after the ring but your brain misunderstands the messages coming in and sets you thinking that the "premonition" came first.
I rmember the article told how they tested the theory, but I've had a bit of a liquid lunch, so I can't remember it.
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Driving on the M3 just at the bit where you need to decide which bit of the M27 you need. This area is a magnet for idiots who haven't read the signs so need to change lanes at the last minute. I'm always cautious there, but this time I suddenly felt like something was going to happen, so slowed right down, but stayed in the outside lane.
Moments later a ladder flew up in the air out of the back of a truck further ahead. It seemed to happen in slow motion, but the ladder flipped twice and landed in the nearside and middle lane. I have no doubt that if I hadn't slowed down it would have hit my car. The road was clear some distance behind me, so hopefully other drivers will have seen the ladder in the road in good time.
That's my one anyway. Shook me up a bit, and I think about it every time I'm on that stretch of road.
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Several years ago, a good friend invited me to the Birmingham motor show, as it was ?his? turn to drive on that occasion. I declined, because of work commitments.
On the night after we would have gone, having fallen asleep easily, I awoke with a start at 01:00, heart pounding, and pouring sweat. I too was convinced of a medical problem.
At work later that same morning, a colleague said ?Have you heard about Andy??
It transpires that he had rolled his car off the M27 near Fareham at exactly the time I awoke, and was now in hospital with neck problems.
A few minutes after the accident, with the car out of sight at the foot of the embankment, another friend from the same close cicle drove past the (non existent from the road) scene, and commented to her Husband ?Isn?t that Andy?s girlfriend on the hard shoulder??.
Of course it was, as they found out having driven a loop to return.
I feel daft admitting it, but I am convinced that the first part at least of this story was not a co-incidence.
/Steve
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In my old flat I used to be fairly good at predicting when somebody had parked in my space, I get very tense within about 5 miles from home. Nine times out of ten i was right
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A few years ago I was travelling on the M4 in the middle of the night on my Motorbike (Suzuki GSX550ESD). I suddenly felt that I should stop on the hard-shoulder. After pulling over I realised that my rear light was not working. No other driver had indicated to me that anything was wrong and I had never stopped like this before or since.
As a Christian I believe it was God who told me to stop.
Jon
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"you have the "premonition" after the ring but your brain misunderstands the messages coming in and sets you thinking that the "premonition" came first."
Yus, Vin, but that doesn't explain how you know who's calling before you answer the phone, especially when said caller hasn't phoned for ages and you're not expecting the call.
I blame global warming................
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Don't get many my self but did get sort of one earlier.
Picked up my phone to call my mum, dialled the number and put the phone to my ear to here her baffled voice instantly without any ring tone. It turned out we had both picked up our phones at the same time and dialled each other, but it must of been so exact that it never even rang!
My mum's had a few premonitions too:
1) She had been Xmas shopping with a friend and was about to leave to come home. Her friend said "I won't be long and I'll leave to come over to yours...might be behind you". She then for some reason looked up and said jokingly "yeah you might see the back of my car coming out the hedge". She set off on her journey only to have an accident involving another car in which hers ended up in a hedge with the back poking out. Her friend couldn't believe it when they come round the corner and seen that. She'd also had a dream days before of an accident in which her car was in a hedge and there was oil running from it down the road. And this was the exact case with hers.
2) She had a dream that my dad was in a car accident with water around the accident site but couldn't find him anywhere in her dream. She never mentioned it or thought anymore of it, then a wk later received a phone call from my dad asking her to pick him up from the hospital only he'd been in an accident. When he later filled her in on the details he said he had crashed and the car went down a 15ft drop into water (stream) and hit a tree. He then injured and disorientated wandered off from the site in which at 1st could not be found. He was a bit spooked when she informed him that she had seen all this in her dream.
She's now hoping one particular dream will come true in which she won £80,000. Fingers crossed!
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Grandparents didn't call in to say they'd got home after Christmas stay...parents voicing concern and at the time l was 4 and quite out of character blurted out "Perhaps they're dead" (got a spontaneous smack for that) turned out they'd had a head on and they were.
Nowadays get stange feelings associated with idly thinking about where the Norfolk s************ team will be today, slow down and lo' next bridge there they are. Get this with police cars as well. (Basically if while l'm driving for whatever reason l wonder about this then l WILL see one within the next 5 miles)
I always get feelings when someone is about to pull out in front etc... and they do, I put this down to my general cynical opinion of the majority of drivers on the road rather than anything 6th sensey
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Wow, that's weird, I just knew I was going to type this.....spooky!
Dan.....
"........idly thinking about where the Norfolk s************ team will be today.......there they are. Get this with police cars as well."
So it's your fault, eh? Stop thinking about them and maybe they'll disappear. Get on with it, young man.......
"I always get feelings when someone is about to pull out in front etc... and they do"
It's called anticipation. Essential for survival.
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Hey l just noticed that shaftey scramera gets asterisks.
Funny
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