Is it normal i can somewhat predict the future?

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Sooo I'm aware this sounds very stupid, but hey, Imma go right for it anyway!
Also lmao, my friends are aware about this already, so if you see this, hey!

So for a while now I've been having strange predictions that keep turning out to be true. I don't know their predictions or such at the time, in fact I have no idea what they are, I just have a strong feeling about something.

The first time it happened was when I was involved in a big drama situation, I had told my friend I had a feeling something big and bad was going to happen soon, and about a week later it started one of the worst months of my life.

There are other occasions inbetween this, but another incident included the death of Grumpy cat. I was talking to my friend casually about old memes in person one day, and they brought up the cat. I asked "Aren't they dead?" And my friend told me they weren't. I thought nothing of it until I came home and found the recent surge of posts about the cat dying that same day. No I was not at all aware of it before we talked about it.

The last incident, not including a series of other ones, but this one is more notable; Back last year when I was dating my ex boyfriend, he told me about this man who worked at an arcade he went to a lot. I told him I had a very bad feeling about him and to be careful, that was a year ago and recently he broke the law and i believe got arrested for doing something (Forgive me I forget what, and it was over text I was told around a month ago)

Basically now my friends know to trust me about this stuff, but I still wonder about it. Apparently seeing the future and such is supposed to be prominent in my family, so who knows honestly.

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  • [Old Memory]
    4 years ago

    You keep throwing things out there sooner or later you will hit something. It's like females that live together don't have periods that sync up, its just that both females are bound to have their rags near the same time one day.

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    • curious-bunny
      4 years ago

      Yea pretty much

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  • Ellenna
    4 years ago

    Coincidences, google it and also keep a record of how many times you have a strong feeling something is going to happen and then it doesn't. Sorry to tell you, you're just ordinary

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  • LloydAsher
    4 years ago

    One can predict the future only in the context of roughly judging the variables over time and guessing what's most likely going to happen.

    Drunk friends on the stairs with a cardboard box? Probably will try to push themselves in the cardboard box over the edge and fail horribly.

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  • dimwitted
    4 years ago

    Getting a feeling about something and then something happens a month later is coincidence. Certainly not premonition. It's like watching a dog cross the street every day and then saying that dog is gonna get hit one day. And then months or years later the dog gets hit. And you say "see..told ya."

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  • Boojum
    4 years ago

    It's possible you're subconsciously picking up clues about stuff and, by a completely logical process that you're not consciously aware of, anticipating possible future outcomes.

    As far as arcade-man is concerned, my impression is that guys who work in arcades are almost always at least a little sketchy. If you met the guy, you may have subconsciously picked up clues that this particular guy was sketchier than normal, or things your ex mentioned may have led you to this conclusion.

    It's more likely that what you're experiencing is the result of confirmation bias: you remember your predictions that come true, but forget all those that don't. The classic example of this is getting a phone call or text or whatever from someone not long after you've had a passing thought about them. The odds are that you've had momentary thoughts about loads of other people in the same time-frame, but none of them called, so you disregard that, but it seems spooky how one of those people did get in touch.

    You actually cite a good example of this when you mention Grumpy Cat. Okay, so you asked if she wasn't dead already (note: you didn't actually _say_ she would die soon), but I bet that somewhere in the back of your mind was the knowledge that the cat had health issues from birth, since that was public knowledge. Then you find out the cat had died, so that feels spooky. But how many other memes did you mention in that conversation where nothing whatsoever newsworthy has since happened to the people involved?

    An example from my own life: back in the late 1970s, I attended a US Navy school near Virginia Beach for about 18 months, and I lived in the town for some of that time. Last Friday, I happened to come across something that made me think about that period of my life again, I Googled to see what the base was now being used for, and I went on Google Earth to see what the neighbourhood I'd lived in looked like now. A few hours later, news about the mass-shooting there broke. Some people might think that was a spooky premonition, but I know for a fact that I've had regular, fleeting thoughts about Virginia Beach for 40 years now, since it was a significant time in my life. Every time I've thought of VB before, absolutely fuck-all has happened subsequently.

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