#1
We were trying to have a child at the time. Well with our crazy schedules we had one chance on Family day.
The moment we were done, I jumped up, gave her the double finger guns (first time in my life) and said "Bam! You're pregnant. Twin girls, red hair."
Turns out I got everything right except the hair, her Italian genes beat me in that one.
I win for our entire marriage with that prediction.
Edit: Thanks for my first gold. I want to brag to my wife I got gold, but I did not clear posting this with her. So conflicting, gold vs. living.
#2
My wife likes the shrimp and lobster pasta with Parmesean cheese.
They sat her plate down, she got a weird look on her face.
She told me it smelled weird (it smelled normal to me). I straight up asked her if she could be pregnant.
Her eyes got wide as she starts doing some math in her head. We went afterwords and got a pregnancy test.
Sure enough, she didn't even know yet. All because I remember some random tidbit about some foods smelling off to pregnant women.
#3
There’s this thing called intuition. It’s the ability to acquire knowledge without conscious reasoning or an explanation. The ways it can manifest can be various - from gut feeling, inner sensing, to pattern recognition, and so on.
There are many explanations for what exactly intuition is, as at one point or another, it has managed to capture the attention of fields like psychology, philosophy, and others.
#4
#5
Well she ended up cheating on me with him and they started dating after I broke up with her. I like to think I won that argument...
#6
We were having pretty good conversation, but I saw her eyes repeatedly flickering over to his face. Soon after, my bus pulled up, so I smiled and waved goodbye to my friend, and said to the girl "It was great meeting you! I'm sure I'll see you a lot more in the future." She looked puzzled, but smiled and waved back.
They're in a common law marriage now, and getting officially married next year. And they've been valuable friends to my fiance and I for the last 6 years.
Today, we’re not going to discuss every single point made about intuition ever, as it would take way too much time, plus it’s pretty convoluted. Yet, it’s not like we’re not going to talk about it at all; we’re gonna discuss a few things, those that seemed the most interesting.
Some psychologists believe that intuition simply relies on the “powers of pattern-matching”. Basically, it takes into account long-term memories of similar situations and presents them as in-the-moment judgements. A person might not even realize their brain is doing all this, and that’s why they assume it’s their intuition and not memory speaking.
#7
Cue Easter lunch on Saturday and my SIL refuses a glass of wine and everyone guesses she's pregnant. Called it.
#8
I was sitting in biology class in high school when I heard sirens outside and looked outside the window to see an ambulance rushing past. I thought to myself “That’s headed in the direction of my grandma’s house” even though there was a plethora of other streets it could have turned on. Looking back it was only even vaguely heading in that direction. I had the thought because my grandma had a heart attack a year prior. I got word a few hours later that it did in fact head to my grandparents house, only it was for my aunt who was staying with them. She was m******d outside their house by her ex-boyfriend. I’m still not sure why I thought the ambulance was heading there, but being correct sucked.
#9
I f****n knew it.
Disclaimer: I didnt do s**t with John
EDIT: A lot of people have asked the same questions so I figured I'd answer here - John has been demoted from best-friend to no-longer-acknowledged-person-on-earth. I don't know why John did what he did and I likely will never know. However, his actions were a reflection of who he is as a person and have very little to do with me.
Boyfriend and I are still going strong. Its privilege to spend my days with my boyfriend, I hit the jackpot by getting to be in a relationship with him and I wouldn't risk it for anything.
So, it might seem like something you feel, understand without using logic, just a gut feeling, but in reality, it’s still using logic, the kind that stems from deep-seated knowledge, and that’s why it feels like it comes to you naturally.
Yet, as we already acknowledged before, psychology isn’t the only field that delved into what intuition is. When it comes to philosophy, its explanation of intuition is quite intertwined with religion and spirituality, especially in the East.
#10
Me: "3 of his 4 kids are gay?"
Mom: "No. Only one is."
Me: "No. 3 are."
10 years later. One of his children is in a same-s*x marriage and 2 of his kids are living with long time same-s*x partners.
#11
Two weeks later he is talking about how she is pregnant. In my head I'm thinking, "She is going to lose the baby because it isnt real."
Sure enough, he comes in all sad about just over two more weeks later saying she had a miscarriage.
Some time passed and hes complaining about her crazy antics again.
#12
Here, Buddhism puts intuition beyond the conscious mental process, as they explain, conscious thinking cannot necessarily access subconscious information and render it into a communicable form. Essentially, in parts of Zen Buddhism, intuition is viewed as a mental state between the universal mind and one's individual or in other words discriminating mind.
Astrology has a say in how intuition looks, too. They explain that it has 4 types, based on where it comes from – clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, claircognizance.
Whether to believe these things or not is up to you; we’re not here to tell you what to do, we’re just here to shine a light on how intuition is viewed in different fields. Keep in mind that everything we mentioned today is barely scratching the surface – everything goes way deeper, and it’s up to you to read up on it if you’re interested.
#13
F*****g called it.
Yes, they were still signalling left when they made the right turn.
ed : its not it's.
#14
Edit: Just a quick rephrase for clarity.
#15
That show "19 kids and counting"
Over Thanksgiving one year two of my aunts got talking about it and were just *raving* about how amazing they thought it was and what a great family they had. I pretty much said something to the degree of "nope, that's not normal, those kids are essentially raising each other and I guarantee you that something is not right." They completely dismissed me, said I didn't know what I was talking about because I don't watch the show, etc.
When the news eventually broke that one was molesting some of the others I felt so vindicated.
But my absolute favorite moment was the next Thanksgiving where at the dinner table I got to say "So how about that Duggar family huh?"
*Dead* silence from my aunts. But I had a s**t eating grin on my face from ear to ear.
Why did we start talking about intuition in the first place? Well, no matter where one’s intuition comes from, which type it is, or whatever else, it doesn’t change the fact that from time to time, it leads people to have those “I called it” moments in life. Probably most of us have had at least one or a few of them.
Today’s list is made up of people who decided to share about these moments online. After all, most of the time, calling something before it even happens tends to be fairly memorable. So, why not boast about it on the internet, right?
Have you ever had any similar “I called it” moments? Please share your story with us!
#16
Our other friend R got married to a woman he'd been seeing for about 3 years. M and D were talking about it, and they agreed that R would go through a midlife crisis, leave his wife and shack up with someone new after having kids.
This was in 2008. 6 months ago, R texted me saying he'd left his wife and two kids and needed a place to crash. He's met someone else. I told M of this, and he uttered the words 'I called it!'.
#17
Gf plays it off, they’re just friendly blah blah. I told her “less than 30 days she’s gonna confess to you”
Fast forward like 2 weeks, H invited gf over to her dorm to play some Xbox. My gf went over, totally ready to play some Left 4 Dead 2. H was totally ready to play around with my gf’s lady bits.
Gf left feeling embarrassed and confused.
A man can always tell when someone is flirting with their SO, even when they can’t.
#18
Because he was more into the comics at the time, I shrugged it off. Since then, every Macguffin in the movies, down to Thor's Dark World, I jokingly said, "Infinity Stone" to troll him. You can imagine how pissed he's been since Gaurdians.
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