Have you ever had a “gut feeling” and it turning out to be right? What happened?

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I’m sure we all get these gut feelings, and sometimes these gut feelings are right… Has that ever happened to you? What happened? How did things turn out?  My answer : I have anxiety and often overthink a lot, I get gut feelings/gut instincts about certain things. People sometimes brush it off as me being anxious, but it shocks them when my gut feelings were right. For example… My dad went on a fishing trip down to Mexico with my uncle and a family friend yesterday. Right as he left, I was hit with this bad gut feeling instantly. I didn’t even know why, I just felt worried like something bad would happen.  My dad isn’t the youngest guy, he’s 69 years old, but in good health. He caught a massive fish the size of him…  My mom got a text from our family friend saying my dad got really seasick and passed out after he caught the fish . My stomach immediately dropped to the floor when I heard that, because my gut feeling was that something bad would happen, and I was right. Luckily, my dad is doing alright, it was probably a mix of over-exhaustion, heat, rough waters, and dehydration.

dustybiker · Accepted Answer

I’m glad your father is okay. Great instincts!

I get what you mean. I’ve had “a bad feeling” a few times. It’s always been directly related to something big that happens to me moments later, usually an accident. Nothing about anyone else (that would be nice too). Not sure how to explain it.

One time I knew someone was going to pull an illegal uTurn in front of me (I had a green exiting turn light to the right.) I said aloud “They are going to Uie.” Motioning to a car as we approached an intersection. And put my hand above the horn. Three seconds later they did. Freaked the people out who were with me.

As a teen a group of my neighborhood friends were sitting next to a wrought iron mailbox for several min. I had a number of warning “feels” we needed to move (like an itch that needed scratching). I finally spoke up and we moved just inside our street, settling back on the curb. Not a min later a man dropped a cig in his lap and drove his truck completely over the mailbox. It went 70 feet down the hill before it first bounced. He went white when we told him we’d just been sitting next to it.

Another I was in a gas station. Kept thinking of things to do before starting the engine. A strong need to delay. The person I was with was getting really irritated with me. We finally pulled out, without delay we would have been the first in line of the turning lane red light. As is we witnessed a drunk round that corner and slam into the front vehicle. Turned out to be the police chiefs daughter and her husband. The drunk tried to drive away but men with big trucks blocked him in. Then he took off with them chasing him. I doubt he’ll ever have his license back.

My truck alarm fob kept randomly beeping at me (it had a new battery) it had never done that before (nor since those brief moments). It was freaking me out. I had been deciding to go to the bank as a last errand out or leave it to another day. All feelings said “no”, but I went anyway. I was hit by a semi doing 50 moments later.

Always listen to your gut/instinct or whatever that feeling is.

AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

I'm sorry that happened to your father. It's instances like this that cause paranoia and people to live in fear. However, I also see how the brain makes the connection and you can't shake the feeling that you 'know' and will need to do everything you can to then prevent the situations. It's about the push-pull between fear and control. It's pretty much a self-fulfilling prophecy of avoidance with occasional random confirmations.

I think you should listen to your gut (everyone should) when it pertains to trickery, danger, stuff like that. What we call 'gut' is actually the aggregate of all that we know, all that we have experienced. You probably have lots of concerns about lots of things, but you don't remember all the things which never happened, never played out. You remember what confirms. Everything that we do should be mentally present, cognizant (with a little bit of playful spontaneity thrown in there too.) It's these calculations that we do in the autonomic system, running sometimes in the background of our brains without being fully aware, that often save us from danger, emotional pain, what have you. But if we acted on every feeling of concern, we would live a very limited life. I'd just suggest everyone to consider that. At the extreme, this type of thinking turns into agoraphobia - extreme fear of open, public, spaces, and people. I've seen what this does to a person, and to a life.

That being said, yes, I also have 'gut feelings' about situations; though mostly people, individuals (and obviously crowds also need to be read.) And I'm always right when it comes to people, so I beat myself up when I occasionally get coerced into acting against this. It's detrimental to do that, though the other person gets what they want. So be particularly careful about that one.

Fuentes · Accepted Answer

I call this my animal instinct, I read people very easy and by the words they use and am always right about the kind of people are I also have a sharp memory and photographic so I remember every detail, clothing and numbers or name or any words used said before.

I do remember this white van who I saw cruising by my High-school and I went to school across town on the west when I lived on the north cause I was kicked outta my first High-school and when I was walking to the bus stop I saw it again Going up the street I thought it was weird & by the time I got home by 3:00 cause we got out at 2:30 my sisters middle school got out at 3:15 & something told me to go get my sister so I did, I walked down to her middle school & guess what I saw the same white van parked. I said what are the odds he has kids going to school across town but nobodies in his back. I kept looking at him Hella hard and Madd dogging and my stare Is devilish.

He eventually locked eyes with me and he pulled off weirdly & then came back I don't know if he assumed I was undercover or what I was so he pulled back up and said didn't I see you at the other school and I said yup Hella rude, cause I wanted to fight dude cause him talking to me confirmed that gut feeling in my stomach & his demeanor and face read off prison to me, being in the hood you know what convicts often look like, but he wasn't your average felon just a creep, Then he pulled off with no kids once again and I told my sister did you see anyone in that van or any kid walk to it and she said no.

I ended up grabbing his license plate in my head & I told my mom that dude is a creeper and she needs to report it to the police and school resource officer. My mom did and he got caught & we found out he's a child rapist pedophile and isn't even suppose to be around schools & to thank me for noticing.

exitseven · Accepted Answer

glad your father is okay. He did something he will never forget too.

I had a weird feeling that something bad was going to happen. I was going through a lot of turmoil in my life and all of a sudden it felt like maybe things were going to get worse than they already were. I was so creeped out I had to sit in my family room in the dark for a while.

My father had some kind of cardiac event and died suddenly the next day.

melanieeeB · Answer

Always and too often and mostly it turned out me being fucking right.
That's why I don't let myself get fooled and let anyone make me feel like crazy or insecure, when my gut feeling is screaming at me that I do know, without knowing how I know but I know and I know! And I don't care if I don't have a strong argument, I still know that I know lmao

ShaTTeredMasterpeace · Answer

As an overthinker and someone with bad anxiety, I can honestly say that 9 times out of 10 my gut is right. The problem comes from me not following it. I overthink myself out of following my first instincts way to often. It's such a toxic cycle.

JaxiCats · Answer

My gut told me that a girl was flirting with my boyfriend (now ex) and I walked around school with anxiety and this feeling that wouldn’t go away. As my relationship continued this guy started seeing her more and more. My feelings for this guy were dead a month or two before we broke up. I was affected mentally and emotionally after that relationship ended. He destroyed my art that I made cuz he was mad and hurt (I wouldn’t give him his hoodie back cuz I knew he was going to give it to the other girl.) I had moved on emotionally and took an interest in a guy and told him that. He made fun of the guy cuz he was mad even tho we agreed to tell the other if we wanted to part ways or didn’t feel the same. He didn’t know why he was crying after that.

Ever since that relationship I have never fully been able to trust anyone with my emotions this including my family, any new friends I make and my current boyfriend. I’m working on it though. I just hate that my bad exes haunt me sometimes making it hard to trust others.

Blackcosmo · Answer

It's happened a few times but I think I rely on sensory more than intuition since I'm very observant.

For example my teacher walked into the room and I wasn't looking at him but I heard he hadn't said anything like hi! (he usually says that) which was strange. The first thing he said was "open your books to..." and his voice sounded slightly annoyed or mad. So I realized he was pissed and I knew (some of our classmates) did something. I was just waiting in fear for him to start lecturing us and he did that just that in the middle of the lesson.

Youryeodongsaeng · Answer

When I was on Amazon, looking for a slushy mug (it makes slushies in 15 minutes) and it had the word "fakeme" up there and I was hesitant to buy it because of the name. Then I told myself that it's probably not true. I ordered it and it was supposed to arrive by July 22nd of this year. 22nd came and I didn't get my order. Amazon said that my order was running late. I contacted the seller's assistant bot to notify about the situation. The bot suggest I message the seller directly, and so I did. Got a Gmail from Amazon, telling me that the seller I tried to contact is either not with the Amazon store anymore, or they cannot receive any messages from customers. I literally played around with the Amazon app, trying to chat to an actual person. I eventually got there and they contacted the A to Z people in Amazon to request my refund. It makes no sense how Amazon knows the seller will be unavailable, yet they still have the sellers' items still in their store.

SecretsofKB · Answer

I'm glad your dad is doing better! That is always scary!

Yep. At work. Call it "the surge."

Patient that is just doing absolutely terrible and is usually unconscious. All of the sudden, they are up and conscious and have energy that wasn't there when I got them.

I have had this happen twice. I really start to watch them closely. Extra checks between vitals, updating my coworkers, more labs, paging physicians. Might seem excessive, but they tank after. And they tank fast.

It is always sad, because it confuses the family. They think it is all getting better and then the rug is ripped out from underneath them.

Anonymous · Answer

When I was a kid, one of my dads friends would take me and his own daughter to the pools every week for a swimming play date. I started getting a bad feeling about my dads friend but I kept it to myself, until one day during a play date my dads friend decided to join us in the pool. We were all playing tag and his hand brushed along my crotch while I was trying to run away from him in the pool. It made me super upset and I told my dad about it and that I don’t want to do pool play dates anymore. My dad told me he’s sure it was an accident and that I’m overreacting, and that he’s known his friend for over 20 years and he’d never do that on purpose. 10 years go by and dads friend gets arrested for 3 counts of m*lesting underage girls 😐

beebella · Answer

Yeah, when I was about 6, my mom made me go to Catechism class when I had the stomach flu. I begged her to let me stay home because I was worried that I was going to throw up in class, but she made me go anyway and guess what happened... I threw up in the middle of class. 😂

Marshymallow · Answer

Yeah for the most part my gut feeling is usually right. I’ve had a really bad feeling about something happening to someone close to me and I told them to be careful,, few days later they got robbed with a gun pointed at them. This person is usually stubborn person, they said they recalled what I had told them so they just gave up their phone, wallet and jewelries to the robber.

Another was a few days ago. I literally felt sick to my stomach, still tried to force myself to work but I ended up calling in sick. Something bad happened at work that day.

bennies_819 · Answer

I was talking to a guy for 3-4weeks. i started say on his profile he was showing off this muscles and for some reason a heard a voice saying "don't talk to him". in two weeks I learned he was immature, manipulative, emotional manipulative, not able to give emotional support and more! Too many red flags in just two weeks!!! I didn't want to believe it until God keep giving me more signs. he wanted to stop talking to me over cause I didn't say how was his mother was doing with COVID-19. he said he wanted me to show consideration to his mother illness (which I was) by not texting him to GIVE him time with his mother to take care of her. i know that word can be shown through actions as well words. i believe in actions speak louder than words he didn't understand that at all. so I blocked him and stop trying to fix a problem I didn't cause.

Anonymous · Answer

Yeah I do like you I also have anixety and am also just naturally suspicious. Not always that something is wrong. But at times for example I've been driving and a passenger questions why I didn't go at a blind junction or something like that and i didn't because I just knew a car was coming. There was literally nothing indicating there was anither car but just my gut feeling. I get it at all sorts of times not just that it's both very good and well irritating.

If you don't mind my asking how do you manage your anixety? If you don't want to share that's okay I understand completely.

sirderpsalot123 · Answer

I'm glad your dad is ok!

My dad and his friend went to go fishing and I was supposed to go with him but the entire night bIefore I couldn't sleep because something was bothering me. I had no idea what that something was but it kept me up all night, and I ended up not going.

He ended up going with just his freind and they ended up getting into an accident.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

All the time, learned that those feelings are usually right. When they aren't its not that I'm wrong its more that I'm right with the feelings but maybe the wrong person or wrong time.

I can just sense a lot of things.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

I'm glad your dad is doing better. I once was little and had this gut feeling about my dad well that day before he left for work. He ran over his good glasses with the truck well he had to wear the old pair. But he worked as a Steel Worker and controlled the Dolly that lifted steel well that night the pin came out of the Dolly and he was looking up and thank God these guys came over grabbed him or this Dolly would have came down and killed him so I always get gut feelings.

Wubs3000 · Answer

Wholesome answer:
I had a gut feeling that my partner was looking at me and liked me even though I was told they were lesbian from a friend

Turns out like 5 months later they have liked me the whole time and were looking at me so wooo gut.

JPresidente · Answer

I have a gut feeling someone likes me and all the signs are there but in my case, I haven't found out for sure. It's not an ideal situation.

Daniela1982 · Answer

Yeah, I did. I just took some Tums and it was fine. You should always go with your gut feelings. 9 times out of 10 it will be right. I guess you can also call it "women's intuition".

Anonymous · Answer

A 14-year-old cousin’s step father seemed to be spoiling her. He also bought her a really small bikini. I thought it seemed like he was grooming her. I was right.

KatherineJ · Answer

I’m glad your dad is ok! That’s first.

Second, yeah I have. I think it’s more of a self preservation instinct, What happened? Usually nothing, other than not doing whatever it was that I was planning on doing.

Sparkie460 · Answer

I've had gut feelings so many times it's not funny. I'd be typing for hours if I listed every time that I remember, let alone the ones I don't remember.

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