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Anyway we walked a full external lap of the massive station, had a smoke, talked to some randomers out front of the station and then headed back to the seating area...
... Blood everywhere. One man on the floor being worked on by paramedics. What I assume was the homeless looking man in a police van outside the doors screaming like a demon. Shocked people all around with police taking their statements. Apparently he'd walked in, verbally challenged everyone in the room, and then stabbed the first person to reply to him in their chest.
Still to this day I couldn't tell you what "looked" wrong with the guy, it wasn't an aesthetic thing it was pure gut feeling. The "I told you so" to my girl was pretty satisfying too lol.
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I don’t remember any of this, it’s from my best friend’s POV who watched it all. I said yes and sat in his passenger’s seat. He then said “hey I have [illegal substance] at my friend’s house, it’s in the forest but it shouldn’t take long.”
Apparently I was cool with it, I was so messed up I just agreed to anything.
My friend watched and heard all of this from the sidewalk, she pulled on the door to get me out but it was locked so she started kicking his car with her heavy boots. He got pissed bc it was denting his car so he unlocked the passenger side and she immediately pulled me out and took me home.
I think he was going to kidnap me/do something bad to me. We saw him on the news for stalking hiking trails where a woman went missing and hasn’t been found even now. Thank god for my friend.
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"It's just a gut feeling." Chances are, you've said those words at least once in your life. Maybe you suddenly decided not to take your usual route home, even though it was faster. Perhaps you met someone new and instantly felt like something was a little off. Or maybe you looked at a meal and thought, "Nope, I'm not eating that," without really knowing why. We all experience these moments. Some people call them hunches, others call them instincts, inner wisdom, or simply intuition. Whatever name you give it, the idea is surprisingly similar: it's that strange ability to understand or sense something almost instantly, without sitting down and logically thinking it through.
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One time my parents were over at her&her man's house to get [illegal substances] or whatever. My dad had a weird GTFO feeling and left.
A while later her & her man were on the news for stabbing a couple 20+ times and leaving them in a bathtub. My folks realized they were basically "casing" us and that could have been them.
Interestingly, the term "gut feeling" didn't appear out of nowhere. It actually comes from the idea that our digestive system can influence the way we think and feel. For a long time, scientists believed that the brain was firmly in charge and simply sent instructions down to the rest of the body. But research over the last few decades has revealed something much more fascinating. Your brain and your gut are constantly chatting with each other through an incredibly complex communication network involving nerves, hormones, immune cells, and even the trillions of bacteria living inside your digestive system. In other words, it's not a one-way conversation at all. Your gut has plenty to say, and your brain is listening.
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Our cabin had a wall in the middle separating me and my campers from the other counselor and campers on the other side. There was a door there to access that side.
I woke up in the middle of the night. I thought I could hear the tornado sirens but I wasn’t sure. I suddenly got this AWFUL feeling. I shouted over and over “WAKE UP! SHOES ON!” Those kids moved! And for some reason, I didn’t herd them out our normal door. I shoved them through the middle door, through the other side, and then across to the shelter. We joined all the other campers and waited.
At the all clear, we walked back, looked at our cabin, and froze. A massive tree had crashed through our end of the cabin. Probably half the campers and I would’ve been dead if we’d not left when we did.
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Apparently a damn broke in NY and dumbed 6 feet of water over dozens of miles along this stream.
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I finished the floor and walked up the stairs to the next floor, there were 3 or 4 floors if I remember correctly, with stairwells at each end of the hallways. On the third floor he appeared from the stairwell at the other end of the hall and was still watching me. I finished up and used the stairs closest to me. I started up the next flight of stairs and something told me to stop and not open the door at the top floor and to wait. Sure enough, I could hear the door slam shut from the other end of the hall. I ran double time down all the flights to the outside and dropped the bag because I was so scared. I ran all the way home crying.
I ended up getting in huge trouble for abandoning the route and my friend lost her paper route. No one cared that I was being followed and in fact my grandparents (whom I lived with) told me I was lying and was just lazy. Ah the good ol’ early 90s. No one cared and I was grounded for a really long time.
This gut-brain connection helps explain why emotions often seem to show up physically in our bodies. Think about it. When you're nervous, you might get butterflies in your stomach. When you're anxious, your stomach can suddenly feel upset. And when something feels seriously wrong, you may experience that unmistakable sinking feeling in your gut. That's because your digestive system is constantly sending updates back to your brain, and those signals don't just help with digestion. They also travel to areas of the brain responsible for emotions, mood, attention, memory, and decision-making. In a way, your body sometimes picks up on subtle cues before your conscious mind has fully processed them.
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The hair was standing up on the back of my neck.
Somehow, I knew something was very, very wrong.
It was Leslie Allen Williams. The Whitmore Lake Killer.
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As I was heading to my interview (more of a presentation really), I suddenly became ill and threw up right in the street (I know...yuck). I had no idea what the hell was wrong with me, so I went into a Starbucks to get some water. I called my contact to let them know that we might need to reschedule because I was sick.
Approximately 45 or 50 minutes later, a plane hit the building I was supposed to be presenting in. It was the North Tower. The guy I had just spoken with later died because he didn't get out in time or was too high up.
I think about that day often and the people I knew. A lot of really good people died that day and sometimes I feel guilty. I don't know why I feel guilty, but everything in my life from that point forward was possible because I suddenly felt sick.
Some days life doesn't even feel real. Some days feel borrowed and other days feel loaned -- it is an extremely strange feeling as if there was another equally valid timeline where I did d*e. I can't even put it into words. When a dozen people you knew suddenly d*e from a senseless act, it just makes me feel horribly sick inside. There were times that I felt s******l because I felt like I cheated d***h. I wish I could put the words together to better articulate my feelings.
I can still remember hearing the first tower fall. The wall of smoke and papers and broken bits of offices. It was the most sickening sound I had ever heard. I don't even feel that I ever processed that day completely. To this day, I am terrified of going into tall buildings. At the time, I was probably 4 or 5 blocks away. Nothing in your life will ever prepare you for seeing someone fall and hit the pavement at over 125 miles an hour. It is the most sickening sound you can hear.
Ps: as a side note, I remember EMTs came into the Starbucks for water and the clerk working didn't know what to do and charged the EMTs over a hundred dollars for two or three cases of water. You can look it up, but Starbucks corporate went nuts over it and was very public with apologies afterwards.
Because of this, intuition can occasionally be incredibly useful. It may not predict lottery numbers or tell you the future, but it can sometimes alert you when something deserves your attention. Of course, experts also point out that intuition isn't some magical superpower that works perfectly all the time. Professor Joel Pearson from the School of Psychology, an expert in cognitive neuroscience, developed five practical guidelines for understanding and using intuition more effectively. He calls it the "SMILE" method, and it begins with self-awareness. Before trusting your instincts, it's important to check in with yourself emotionally. If you're feeling extremely happy, stressed, angry, or upset, your emotions may be clouding your judgment.
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When I went back to the ad on marketplace that evening, it was gone. The landlord I emailed never responded back to me. Lesson learned: i shouldn't have gone by myself.
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I looked at my friends like we gotta get the [hell] outta here. He’s gonna go home and come back with another gun. Nobody wanted to leave. I had to threaten to leave them to get them to the car.
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The second idea is mastery. Believe it or not, intuition often develops through experience. The more time we spend doing something, the better our brains become at recognizing patterns and predicting outcomes. Think about a professional chef who can instantly tell that a recipe needs more seasoning, or an experienced driver who senses that another car is about to make an unsafe move. Their intuition didn't appear overnight—it was built through years of learning and repetition. The same applies to almost every skill. Before intuition can guide you effectively, your brain needs enough experience to build those important mental connections.
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Another important distinction is the difference between instinct and intuition. People often use these words interchangeably, but they aren't exactly the same thing. Instinct refers to behaviors we're born with. For example, if you hand a baby a slice of lemon, there's a good chance they'll immediately make a funny face and spit it out. Intuition, on the other hand, is learned. Professor Pearson also warns that cravings and addictions can sometimes disguise themselves as intuition. The urge to check social media, have another drink, or place another bet can feel like a strong internal pull, but that doesn't make it intuition. Sometimes our brains simply want something, and it's important not to confuse those desires with genuine intuitive signals.
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