Do you trust your hunches?

I have tried to learn to trust my gut responses more and more as I have gotten older. I think there is a lot of truth there.

Absolutely. I think your gut instinct should always be trusted.

I certainly do :)

Yes. That’s why I hate it when people tell me I’m too paranoid. My “paranoia” usually ends up being justified.

Yes. My hunches and gut feelings are too intense to be ignored, anyway. It’s a good thing they’re usually right.

My friend’s niece was 15 and going to prom with this older guy who came by to pick her up. There was no reason for me to not like him, as he was being very polite and acting as any parent would hope, but I got a weird, uneasy feeling about him and I just kinda knew he was bad news. As the niece and he left, I watched them go from the window and I said to my friend, “I don’t trust that kid.”

He ended up taking the niece’s virginity that night, giving her herpes, and then basically dropped her after that. So. Yeah.

Not really. I like logic.

Hunches are a crap shoot…roll the dice on enough hunches and you will get 7’s as well as Snake Eyes. I have yet to see anyone that said yes or no to a hunch and score accordingly any differently closing your eyes and throwing a dart at a dart board. It is all a guess albeit educated since you have one or more other persons involved that can and often have their own ace in the hole to play a card you never saw coming.

It all comes down to do you have the guts to roll the dice and accept all the risk and reward of your decision to roll or put the dice down and walk away.

I have learned that if I don’t, I’ll regret it. My son made some amazing pottery pieces in HS art. At least I think they’re amazing. I’ve had them at work for several months. One evening, as I was leaving, I had a really strong urge to get them out of there and take them home. I started to disregard it…but hesitated…then grabbed them and took them home. There is no way of knowing if they would have disappeared now, but I’ve had feelings like that and disregarded them because, as you said, @awacting, there is really nothing logical about them…but almost invariably I’ve regretted not listening to my inner sense. Almost invariably.

I’ve learned to. I used to be one of those people who didn’t believe the gut was usually right but now I’m a believer, learned the hard way.

Generally speaking, my hunches come at a time when I really don’t want to listen to them in that I wish I was wrong about that guy or this girl or this fling but I never am and it means I’m about to get hurt real soon.

It depends on what it is about. I tend to be an awfulizer so I try to ignore my hunches about things going horribly wrong. I do have a pretty good sense of being in unsafe situations and if my spidey-sense tells me to avoid something or to get the heck out, I listen to it.

@Nullo no…but, wish i had many times. For example, buying Autozone stock when it was 30 bucks a share! grrr…

This TED talk about the “brain” in the gut made me think of this thread, particularly near the middle when he briefly talks about gut feelings and the communication between the two neural systems (big brain, gut brain).

Great link @Xena!