You sound very much like me, I seem to have a habit of thinking things up (or thats how Steve puts it) like i'll think of a person and the phone will ring and it's them. I have also talked up the boiler breaking down in the past which was not fun

When I close my eyes to go to sleep but am not actually asleep I see pictures and they can be just random shapes or sometimes actually scenes. My son does the same thing, he once said "you know them pictures you see that are like dreams but you're not asleep yet, they can be scary sometimes", then I knew it wasn't just me......Steve of course thinks we're both nuts. Sometimes they can be not very nice things I see and because of my habit of thinking things and then they happen I sometimes scare myself and have to get up to clear my head because otherwise i'll panic that i've caused that thing to happen. There is a name for it they are Hypnagognic Hallucinations, it happens with noises and the feeling that the bed is tipping as well.

Also at the beginning of the year when those 3 girls were found in America having been kept captive for a decade. I saw that an internet news report and before reading it I knew the name of the captor and I knew that the police questioned his brother also. I was so convinced that this had already happened and perhaps it was a news rehash before the trial that I started checking the year on the calendar compared to the news report and actually mentioned it to someone a the dog park who said "no they found them yesterday".

Weird or what??? Or perhaps Steve is right and actually I am actually just insane

I think that there is probably a rational explanation in most cases of seeing the future. Something along the lines of unconsciously seeing or hearing of clues about when something is going to happen. For example, if you tend to speak to a friend every couple of weeks, and it's been over a month, with every passing day it's more likely that that friend will call. Add to that an unconscious ability to analyse the circumstances in which you tend to speak (the day, the time, the weather, various news events or tv) and there can be hundreds of highly subtle clues that some people can pick up on (sub-consciously) and then trigger a prediction when the phone rings. It's kind of a "tuning-in" but not necessarily to supernatural things.

You sound like my Steve.....always an explanation and just a coincidence

Even if there is a natural explanation (as opposed to super-natural) it's still an incredible gift in my view. Most people cannot do it. In fact I find it more impressive that someone might be able to suss out future events from the millions of subliminal clues than more mysterious explanations.

I totally get where you are coming from.

I used to suffer terribly with the 'dream and it happens' scenario. A couple of extreme examples - when I was 9 I 'saw' my mother ascending a staircase up into the clouds - the next day (23rd December) she died of a heart attack at the age of 42 in my bedroom with no warning. When I was 13 I 'daydreamed' that my friend had been hit by a car crossing the road outside school. The next day, she was killed crossing the road outside school wearing the same outfit she had on in my dream (no school uniforms).

Regarding the phone thing, this happened when I was quite young - between 8-12 and I would literally 'hear' the phone ringing in my head and know who it was that was calling. These would be friends of my Father, nobody I would know, and not people who regularly called. A few minutes later the phone would ring and it would be that person.

Weird.

Thankfully, as I have got older these 'things' happen less and less.

OMG i'm so sorry that must have been awful, like living it twice and always wondering if something could have been done. I hope my nighttime Hallucinations never come true especially as I have a recurring one that I am trapped with our kids underwater in the car with only a couple of inches of airspace left and no way out, that one always starts a mild panic attack.

I've found the opposite with regards to age, i'm probably worse now than when I was younger. Kids are usually more switched on to the supernatural though, our son when he was about 2 and we'd just moved house kept pointing to a point in his room and saying "Man Mummy Man" one night when I kissed him goodnight and went to leave he started freaking out and screaming for me not to leave because the man comes when I leave!! Steve was out with friends that night and I called him hysterically asking him to come home because Lewis could see a ghost.........you can imagine what Steve said

Me too.... the forum's full of Witches!! Burn them!


Shunter, I wouldn't let that recurring nightmare worry you. Is it fair to say that the "predictive dreams" only happened once before the event occurred, and fairly close to it?

Some weird tales on these pages!!

I would have been burnt some time ago

The hallucinations (as i'm not asleep when I see them) have never come to pass I only fear it because i've talked or thought so many things up in the past. It's more likely I have that as a recurring thought because of my fear of drowning and obviously like all mothers the fear of not being able to save your kids.

So that's how you dig up all that information in response to posts about immigration and Canada; you already know it and have the links all ready to post.

In fact you know it before they asked.

I've had a lot of similar experiences too, I won't list them right now though

Siouxie, the woman in the photo is petting your dog.

Oh go on, it is the haunting thread after all!

I didn't notice that before but it does actually look like a lady reaching down to pet the dog......mental