Warnings from the future

[A New Era]

Recently something happened to me. I went out to work out and an eerie feeling started taking over. By the time I got to the gym I felt a clear and real fear of death. I've been in the situation that I believe I know I am going to die, and that was the feeling I was having.

I've had warnings like this several times before, and I knew something bad was about to happen, soon, very soon. I ran out of the gym and got back home. That night, and the morning that followed, something extremely bad in my life happened, something I am struggling with even today and which changed my life situation. It's something that has been a strain on my hapiness and well being for a few months now and I have received nightmares from the incident.

I've had warnings like this before. Before it's either been a vision, like a flash showing the incident, something I've dreamt about, or it's been a clear and crisp feeling of doom. I've seen episodes of me getting to know family members have been in serious accidents and so on. Bad things..

The flashbacks have either been very sad, tragic or scary things, or they have been warnings from me about to become attacked, physically.

Now that I have received so many warnings, I cannot overlook this. The last time it happened I was depressed that night because I knew something was going to happen. I went to sleep and when I woke up, I found out what happened, and it was tragic.

My question is, how could this be? How can this be explained? I don't get it myself. For some reason I don't think it is that strange either. We can send message with our phone or for instance, or messages here on the message board with no problem, so why not with our brains.

Anyways, has this happened to you? And why, what, and who gives out those warnings?

[Pirate Utopian]

Why it's God and he wants you to kill to show you appreciate what he does for you... kill... kill... kill...

[Pogue]

Sounds like you suffer from some form of depression or what not that you need to get checked out.

[#FF0000]

You might want to get checked out by a mental health professional.

[Killfacer]

(edit: was a bit mean)

[Communist Theory]

Oh sorry about that I'll stop sending you WARNINGS FROM THE FUTURE.
:laugh:

[#FF0000]

You're a mental case.

Ahem.

Don't listen to Killfacer. You might not have anything wrong with you at all. Still, you should she a mental health professional, just in case. There's no shame in it.

[Sean]

These just sound like panic attacks mate.

[A New Era]

How can it be panic attacks and depression? I've seen things that are going to happen, and I've also known something is going to happen before tragic things have occured. Needless to say this doesn't happen every time something serious happens, but when it does happens, it is always related to a spesific event in the very near future.

If I just had panic attacks and saw things without it being linked to actual events that happens, yes, your "seek help" "advice" would be proper, but I don't think that is the case when what I see actually happens. Do you see the difference?

[#FF0000]

Boyo. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu)

[A New Era]

Isn't déjà vu caused by some sort of delay in the brain so that the brain confuse past events with events occuring now? There are people who have brain damage, so that they feel that they have experienced everything before. That doesn't properly explain it.

Thing is, a few years ago I dreamt about me walking up to the stairs of our home with a plastic bag in my hand, my step father opened the door, he had a particular expression in his face, and said "xxxnamexxx, your mother has been in a car crash". Then, three months later, I got home from the gymnastics in class, went up the stairs to the door.
My step father opened up the door, he had that expression on his face, and I felt this was familiar. He said the exact same sentence, and I looked down on my right hand, and I was holding a plastic bag with my gym clothes. Then I knew I had been warned.

How can you explain that either by "you have a mental disorder", or deja vu?

[Killfacer]

Isn't déjà vu caused by some sort of delay in the brain so that the brain confuse past events with events occuring now? There are people who have brain damage, so that they feel that they have experienced everything before. That doesn't properly explain it.

Thing is, a few years ago I dreamt about me walking up to the stairs of our home with a plastic bag in my hand, my step father opened the door, he had a particular expression in his face, and said "xxxnamexxx, your mother has been in a car crash". Then, three months later, I got home from the gymnastics in class, went up the stairs to the door.
My step father opened up the door, he had that expression on his face, and I felt this was familiar. He said the exact same sentence, and I looked down on my right hand, and I was holding a plastic bag with my gym clothes. Then I knew I had been warned.

How can you explain that either by "you have a mental disorder", or deja vu?
Oh for fuck sake mate, you can't see the future. You're either deluded or a schizophren. Seek help immediatly.

[Communist Theory]

Haha okay.
When's the revolution coming?

[A New Era]

Constructive posts would be appreciated. I'm neither deluded nor suffering from schizophrenia. Stop playing doctor and give people labels.

And even if you don't believe me, try for a minute. Even if you think I might be lying or being delusional or psychotic, believe my story for a few moments. How do you explain this? And why should someone be given that warning? And by who?

[A New Era]

When's the revolution coming? I've only experienced things beforehand that have affected me or my family or my girlfriend, so how would I know?

The last time, a few months ago, a feeling of doom and fear of death took over everything and I actually thought I was going to get killed. The evening/night progressed and I didn't know why I felt this, after all it had by now gone a few hours and nothing seemed to happen. I started thinking that I've experienced this before, but nothing has happened, so maybe I'm just myself. But by I went to bed 4 AM and woke up 8 AM, it had already happened and it was fucking tragic..

Usually I get that feeling before I am being physically assaulted, but this time it was different. I can't tell the future, and I am confused by the feelings I get. So when I haven't seen anything perfectly clear like in a flash, I don't even know what that signal stems from when I am under it, I just know something bad is going to happen.


Haha okay.

Finding out your mother has been in a car crash is not funny, so fuck you mister.

[#FF0000]

Constructive posts would be appreciated. I'm neither deluded nor suffering from schizophrenia. Stop playing doctor and give people labels.

And even if you don't believe me, try for a minute. Even if you think I might be lying or being delusional or psychotic, believe my story for a few moments. How do you explain this? And why should someone be given that warning? And by who?

First off, Deja Vu is hard to explain. There aren't many empirical studies on it, as it's difficult to recreate in a lab environment for some reason.

And most of the posts here have been constructive. There's nothing wrong with seeing a mental health professional if you might need to.

[Communist Theory]

I've only experienced things beforehand that have affected me or my family or my girlfriend, so how would I know?
Wouldn't a revolution affect the whole world?
And if you are a revolutionary shouldn't it especially affect you?

[A New Era]

I have no idea why I experience these things and I have no control over it, so why should I know why it's only personal incidents with people close to me and myself? I know just as little as you or anyone else. It doesn't happen often either. First time I can recall was when I was about 8 (I was being attacked by another child who punched me in the face), then (IIRC) 13, 16 and my current age, 20.

There has also been times when serious things have happened with other family members, and also my mom, but I haven't gotten feelings of something about to happen, nor any flash about it. So it seems, at least to me, that it happens randomly.

[Sean]

Finding out your mother has been in a car crash is not funny, so fuck you mister.
No it is not, but you're setting yourself up for mockery by demanding that a 95% atheist community recognise your magical powers. The only direction this discussion can head is south. Noone here believes that you are psychic.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

The problem with visions and premonitions is that they are inherently unfalsifiable. Nobody has yet to produce repeatable, measurable results predicting the future using pure inspiration.

Sure, you can say that you saw things happen before in your mind, but how on Earth do you expect to prove it? You don't know your premonitions are true until after the fact, and in such a case how do we tell the difference between you actually seeing the future, and you simply being convinced that this is the case? The human mind has incredible powers of self-delusion - the stuff seen by people on drugs or under some kind of stress (hunger, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, cranial injury, magnetic fields (http://www.slate.com/id/2165004/), damaged optical nerves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet_Syndrome), delerium, poisoning or plain old mental illness) is a testament to that fact.


There has also been times when serious things have happened with other family members, and also my mom, but I haven't gotten feelings of something about to happen, nor any flash about it. So it seems, at least to me, that it happens randomly.

Shouldn't that tell you something? Given the typical human lifespan, one is bound to experience negative emotions or concieve of negative scenarios with no obvious cause. Given also that negative occurrances are also likely to happen in real life, it's simply a matter of chance that the two should coincide given a large enough sample of people (nearly 7 billion).

Now, if you could consistently predict the future with an accuracy greater than provided by chance, then there would be something worth further investigation.

[RedAnarchist]

Recently something happened to me. I went out to work out and an eerie feeling started taking over. By the time I got to the gym I felt a clear and real fear of death. I've been in the situation that I believe I know I am going to die, and that was the feeling I was having.

I've had warnings like this several times before, and I knew something bad was about to happen, soon, very soon. I ran out of the gym and got back home. That night, and the morning that followed, something extremely bad in my life happened, something I am struggling with even today and which changed my life situation. It's something that has been a strain on my hapiness and well being for a few months now and I have received nightmares from the incident.

I've had warnings like this before. Before it's either been a vision, like a flash showing the incident, something I've dreamt about, or it's been a clear and crisp feeling of doom. I've seen episodes of me getting to know family members have been in serious accidents and so on. Bad things..

The flashbacks have either been very sad, tragic or scary things, or they have been warnings from me about to become attacked, physically.

Now that I have received so many warnings, I cannot overlook this. The last time it happened I was depressed that night because I knew something was going to happen. I went to sleep and when I woke up, I found out what happened, and it was tragic.

My question is, how could this be? How can this be explained? I don't get it myself. For some reason I don't think it is that strange either. We can send message with our phone or for instance, or messages here on the message board with no problem, so why not with our brains.

Anyways, has this happened to you? And why, what, and who gives out those warnings?

Are you a very pessimisitic, cup half empty kind of person? If you are, maybe your brain is making up all of these negative scenarios in your subconciousness and for some reason these events happen. If you think about something happening long enough, chances are that that event will indeed happen.

[An archist]

Don't follow advice given by strangers, go to a doctor.

[al8]

New Era, I can relate to how you feel. When I was a New Ager I had similar experiences. I found my 'premonitions' puzzling and intensly interesting. I did not know if they had any practical value or if they could have practical value through later on, perhaps after some kind of training and observation. So I spent alot of my time seeking if that could be the case.
And I can honestly say that I would have been thankful if I would have gotten similar comments, as Noxion and RedAnarchist are giving you now, sooner so I wouldn't have wasted my time with false hope for so long.

Before you jump to conclutions about your experiences please try to have in mind and investigate the myriad of factors people normally don't tend have in mind in regard to these experiences such as; how the memory works, the dangers of comfirmation bias, faulty understanding of chance and lack of statistical overview.

[Oktyabr]

I've had some times where I can remember doing the exact same thing before, but I can't just recall when it was.

I probably do have some brain damage, since you mentioned that that can cause deja vu. A few years ago, I slipped on ice and fell backwards so hard that I blacked out for a second. Also, I think I've stood too close to the microwave when I'm heating food up. After both of those events I think I have either:

A: Brain Cancer (I get throbbing pains in my head at random moments)

or

B: Cracks or minor fractures in my skull (I fell pretty damn hard)

Probably both paranoid crap.

I thought I would just mention that, don't know if that helps.

[Killfacer]

Maybe you have super powers. Standing to close to a microwave you say?

MICROMAN!

[Angry Young Man]

Treat them like dreams. It's nonsense when people say that dreams soothsay, but they can be used to analyse yourself by showing you consequences. So these premonitions are like the ghost of Christmas Future.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

http://www.tbpcontrol.co.uk/TWS/CoverImages_01/014/102/0141020539.jpg

[Mindtoaster]

And by who?

Clearly there is no "who" involved in this, as the "warnings" you speak of our pretty much useless; as it seems you have mostly not been "warned" about what specifically is going to happen, or when.

The one time you did mention being warned of your mothers car crash, you said that the actual event took place three months after the dream. Did this benevolent being giving you warnings expect you to prevent your mother from driving for a completely unspecified amount of time?

I too have had the exact feelings of dread that you have mentioned, often revolving around something happening to my family or close friends. Nothing has ever come of them

The closest "supernatural" experience I can relate to yours is something which frequently happens to me: I will be standing around thinking about some random person, and then they will walk into the room, or pass by me. Also, I'll sometimes be thinking of a location or any kind of random subject and then five minutes later I'll walk by a group of people having a discussion about it.

I could probably theorize about the reasons for these events if I had the time atm.

[Oktyabr]

http://www.tbpcontrol.co.uk/TWS/CoverImages_01/014/102/0141020539.jpg

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

This would work, but I'm not 40 something, I'm not balding, and I haven't even started yet,, rofl

And my name is not Jonathan,

[gorillafuck]

Do you happen to use a real lot of Acid??

[Oktyabr]

Do you happen to use a real lot of Acid??

who me?

[Module]

I woke up in the middle of the night after having a dream where I felt that my grandfather had just died, and I heard people downstairs so I got up - it was not long after we'd arrived in the UK so I still had a bit of jetlag - and Mum was in the kitchen, and she told me that my grandfather had just died.
seriuz

But now I look back on it I probably woke up because I could hear Mum and my grandmother downstairs talking about it, or something like that.
So, as others have said, your little warning was probably just a coincidence, or there is a logical explanation for it.

[Oktyabr]

I woke up in the middle of the night after having a dream where I felt that my grandfather had just died, and I heard people downstairs so I got up - it was not long after we'd arrived in the UK so I still had a bit of jetlag - and Mum was in the kitchen, and she told me that my grandfather had just died.
seriuz

But now I look back on it I probably woke up because I could hear Mum and my grandmother downstairs talking about it, or something like that.
So, as others have said, your little warning was probably just a coincidence, or there is a logical explanation for it.

I've had dreams where I am in the middle of a violent conflict, and a day or two later, there's a bad argument going on between me and other people, or the people around me. Kind of cryptic, I guess.

There have also been times where the setting of the dream is strange and unfamiliar, but later on, I repeat the same physical actions while awake, thus triggering deja vu-like symptoms.

[Killfacer]

oogady boogady to you too.