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Conference hydra::dejavu

Title:Psychic Phenomena
Notice:Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:JARETH::PAINTER
Created:Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2143
Total number of notes:41773

1647.0. "Premonitions" by SALEM::MONAHAN () Fri Mar 20 1992 15:32

    This is my first experience writing a note in any conference - although
    I've read quite a few - very interesting file - this "DEJAVU."  I've
    had a couple of strange out of the ordinary experiences happen in my
    life.  Here is one story.  I'll write another some time soon.
    
    When I was about 9 or 10 years old my family was at the beach one day.
    I remember looking up at my dad who was around 34 years of age and
    saying to myself, "Dad will never live to grow old."  The thought just
    struck me out of the blue as I looked at him.  Maybe I just couldn't
    picture him old - he was so full of life & the picture of youth.  I
    held onto that thought - never forgot it.
         
         At age 40 dad bought a cemetary plot for him and mom  and brought
    the family to see it (I thought - How morbid, Dad, you're only 40).
    Dad also had a 10 year life insurance policy out.
         
         I graduated from high school in 1978.  That summer dad became
    ill and was in and out of local hospitals.  The doctors kept telling him
    he only had diverticulitis(or was it diverticulosis?) in other words a
    "sensitive stomach" and to "shed a few pounds" "You'll feel
    better," if you watch what you eat.
         
         In September of that year, I started college.  One Professor of
    Geology said "The only excuse I will tolerate for missing a midterm
    or final is a death in your family."  I remember sitting in that
    classroom wishing he had taken his words back because I knew by then
    that dad had inoperable cancer.
         
         It turned out to be pancreatic cancer and dad died around 6:30 am 
    Oct. 3, 1978, age 42, the morning of my geology midterm.
    That 10 year life insurance policy expired soon after his death, too.
      
         Did dad have a premonition he would die young?  How did I know
    at 9 or 10?  I never forgot that thought I had on the beach that day.
    My mother & brother took dad's death very hard - I somehow didn't only
    because I knew - I just knew as a little girl he wouldn't live to be
    old.
         Since dad has died I have felt his presence only once - I don't
    think I ever will again because it spooked me (only after I realized
    what had happened) and he doesn't want to scare me.  My mom has felt
    dad's presence a few times. - but not in the past several years.
    She had a dream about him, too - exactly one year after he died.
    (Oh well, another story).
                             
    Maureen
     
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1647.1FORTY2::CADWALLADERReaping time has come...Tue Mar 24 1992 12:203
I *knew* you were going to post that! :-)

								- JIM CAD*
1647.2ResponseSALEM::MONAHANWed Mar 25 1992 08:171
    I knew you knew I was going to post that!!
1647.3and then there's thesePOWDML::COSTIGANWed Mar 25 1992 15:3017
    I have experienced "premonitions" in the sense of feeling an intense,
    uncontrollable sadness--in fact, in two instances I found myself crying
    hysterically and not knowing the reason.  In both instances a person
    known to me was dying at the moment I started crying.
    
    More recently, my nine year old daughter who has a fondness for money
    anyway, and I were about to go grocery shopping.  While still at home,
    she said, "Wouldn't it be nice if I got out of the car and found
    $1.00?"   Well, we went to the store and parked, and as she got out,
    sure enough, there was $1.00 on the ground waiting for her.  
    
    I MUCH prefer her premonition to mine---I've thought of having her pick
    the Megabucks numbers.  
    
    Anyway, I cannot explain either phenomenon---mine has not happened
    lately and hers has only occurred once.  
    
1647.4YOSMTE::WILKES_ELThu Apr 16 1992 13:527
    I had an experience many years ago when I met my former husband for the
    first time.  I came home and told my parents that I had met the man I
    was going to marry.  I knew the minute I met him we were going to be
    together.  I was right.  Less than a year later we were married.
    
    Ellen
    
1647.5DSSDEV::GRIFFINPractice random kindness and senseless acts of beautyThu Apr 16 1992 14:2825
    
    I hadn't thought of calling it a premonition until after some events,
    but I did know I would marry my husband before we were that serious. 
    He and I and two other friends were sitting around, taking of things
    philosophical and psychic, and I just kept feeling like Sean was going
    to die young, that I would know him when he died, or that our
    relationship would end when he died.  It used to bother me a whole lot,
    because I didn't want to think of losing him after so little time.
    
    Then we got married.  Part of the vows helped me to clarify this
    feeling: till death do us part.  What I "saw" IS how the relationship
    will end, but it wasn't giving me a useful time frame.  This
    premonition is now a sort of comforting knowledge - I don't worry so
    much about our relationship (not to say I don't give it the effort and
    care it deserves).  But I don't worry about whether I made the "right"
    choice, or if we will change such that the marriage ends.  The
    probabilities still point to "till death do us part".
    
    
    This is a kind of side thing.  I used to drive my mother nuts about
    dating because I didn't go out with many fella's.  I just didn't want
    to because I already "knew" that the relationships wouldn't amount to
    anything.
    
    Beth
1647.6NAC::MANYThu Aug 20 1992 21:5023
    
    3 years ago last monthe my daughter went to visit her dad, (we've been
    divorced 7 years at that time) at work one day I said to a friend,
    I'll either get a letter or a phone call tonight that Chris will not
    be coming home.  When I got home that evening there was a letter
    waiting from Chris stating that she wanted to live with her dad.
    
    And not to long ago, 2 hours before I left work I knew that when I
    got home my roomate would be gone and I would be going home to an 
    empty house, (not totaly empty my cat would be their) sure enough,
    gone.
    
    Now we'll see if this one comes to be.  I was told on the 3rd of this
    month to find another job, not given a time frame yet.  Found out 
    2 weeks ago tomorrow that it would probably be 30 days, but will it
    be 30 days from the 3rd or 30 days from when it comes from Corporate.
    3 days after I was told I said to a very few selective people, I'm not
    going to be with DEC much longer.  I was real bummed out, then it
    passed.   Yesterday the 19th I had the same feeling and said the same
    thing.    We'll see.
    
    A