premenitions

[answers2424]

im not making a word of this up before i start... ok, i have had 3 premenitions that have all come true in my lifetime. 1) cousin being hit by a car 2) concorde crashing on take off 3) diana being shot (ok, so not completely true, but an element of truth)
all these premenitions came true either a few days after, or a week or so at the most. can someone try and explain to me whats happening!!!???

[rojash]

How many have you had that didn't come true - or don't you count those?

[Gef]

I've just had a premonition that you won't tell us your latest premonitions.

[ll_billym]

Got any happy ones?

[bednobs]

huh? youve had 2 premonitions that have come true in your entire lifetime? That dosent seem very many to me!

[fo3nix]

To add a bit of seriousness to this question, just think about these things:

1) The brain likes to link things up. For example, many times I'll have some random thought one day about some old kids' TV show that hasn't been shown or talked about since the early 90s. And then amazingly a week later, there'll be some documentry or something about that very show, that I knew nothing about! Now, imagine if that documentry hadn't been on. My random thought would have been just that: some random thought, one of many I have. It didn't really mean anything. But because, in some unrelated incident, it gets talked about on TV, that makes my brain think back to the thought I had, and thus I had what some call a preminition.

2) Secondly, as rojash and bednobs are suggesting, the statistics are way against you. I wonder how many random thoughts you've had that have turned out not to have happened, as rojash asks. This links back to my first point. Because they didn't happen, you forget about them and that's that.

And even if you go so far as to believe that the two thoughts you've had that have come true are indeed mystical preminitions of some sort, they aren't too hard to imagine anyway. I mean, for a few years before Diana died, there was not only controversy over her and Dodi's affair, but I also remember her going into a few war-torn places campaigning against landmines. Her death really isn't that unreasonable statistically, if you look at the situtation around her at that time.

Another example would be my preimition a few weeks ago that Steve Irwin would die (I'm making this up). It's really not too unlikely when you remember the stunts that he pulled around crocodiles and poisonous snakes, expert or no expert.

[fo3nix]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#Fields_of _science

[fo3nix]

Oh pants, posted the link on the wrong question. Ignore!

[LazyGun]

Good answer fo3nix.... its a bit like the spooky phone call thing... you know the one... ring ring, oh its you! I was just thinking about you the other day! weird... of course there are loads of times when you think about you, and they dont phone.. the brain just doesnt remember those ones :)

[Loosehead]

Can you tell what tomorrow's lottery numbers are?

[rojash]

Incidentally, you claim you are not making a word of this up, well what about "premenitions"? You made that up!

[sam721]

i understand you completly.....except I get premenitions very frequently. I dreamt John Kennedy Jr.'s death 2 days prior to the incident....didnt dream of him but I saw a plane by the name of Saratoga crash.....the plane is actually called Piper Saratoga. And everytime I dream of losing a tooth,someone I know dies. My most recent premenition was work related. For some reason I had this strong feeling, may have been in a dream, that Kelly my co-worker was going to be the next employee to be secretly evaluated. 1 month later she was.