Do you get many premonitions, and if so, how do you react to them?

I tend to keep them to myself so as not to get suspicious reactions. If it does come out, I mention it to very close family members.

Oh yes.
I had this premonitive dream depicting a global nuclear holocaust with subsequent alien invasion and enslavement of humanity by superior aliens.
Should happen any second now.

I have had the odd dream that has come true the next day, sometimes they are mundane or pleasant things but I have had a few dreams that have come true that haven’t been nice and so i tend to worry every time I have an unpleasant dream.

Every so often I will also have a gut feeling or thought about something and then it will happen.

I try to put all these things down to coincidence and generally don’t tell people. It’s not so etching I enjoy and I do not intend to nurture this ability (if you can call it that). I am sure everyone has these kind of “premonitions”, some more often than others and there must be some scientific theory. I try not to buy into the whole psychic gift thing.

I had one premonition once and it was scarily accurate. 7 January 1989 I woke up and, as I often did, put the TV on to listen to the news, then I dozed off. When I woke again properly, I remembered hearing an article in the news about a plane crash. But strangely, there wasn’t any mention of a plane crash at all for the rest of the day, and I realised I must have dreamed it.

The following day a Boeing 737 crashed onto the M1 motorway in Leicestershire killing 47 people.

I have had some weird things happen that maybe one could call a premonition. When the thoughts come to me I don’t think it is a premonition, but then when it happens, or something happens that has a weird connection to what had popped into my mind I take note.

My aunt has always told me I was psychic. I have had odd psychic like things happen. Mostly, I just think I am open, talk to people a lot, have an analytical mind, and am intuitive, and it adds up to having coincidences happen more often to me than the average person maybe.

I believe in coincidences but not premonitions.

No. I don’t believe in premonitions, fate, and fortune telling.

@downtide Don’t plane crashes happen something like every other day, on average?

@longgone Commercial jets it’s more like 15–20 a year around the world. If you include all planes then its about every second to third day there is a crash I think, or 100 and something a year.

^ Ah. Interesting!

@longgone they probably do, but ones in the UK or significant enough to get on BBC Breakfast Time news are much less frequent.

@longgone I should add some of the jets are fairly small commuter jets. Some jets the world doesn’t hear much about I think. At least in America a small jet flying within Germany for instance might get a mention on our news, but it doubtfully would be dwelled on for more than a day or so. I don’t know how other countries might report it.

@downtide Fair enough!

@JLeslie Same here, yes.