I believe in coincidence

One of my friends jokes about me being a skeptical psychic (she believes in that stuff) there are times when I think or dream of something and then it happens or something close enough that it could possibly be what I dreamt/thought. An example neighbour tells me she is pregnant for no reason I think of my cousin who lost a baby at 7months gestation. I don't say anything to the neighbour but she loses her baby (not at 7 months) so was this some sort of psychic event or did my brain rapidly work out that her husband already had a child that was about 10 years old, she and her husband had been together for about 5 years at least (the length of time I had lived next to them) never had she talked about children or having children, (were they trying and it was too painful to talk about) she was not a young woman in terms of child bearing years I would suggest closer to 40 than 30. Did my brain do all of the maths and go there is a high chance she could lose the baby think of your cousin in her 20's perfectly healthy who lost her baby for no known reason. Intuition is simply the brain processing without us realising it. I went to visit family and saw my uncle and thought he is sick. While there were no outward signs there was something off about him something must of been different enough that my brain picked up on it, maybe a smell or the way he was walking/acting. He, in fact, already had the cancer that would kill him but no one, not even he, knew it yet. We also tend to remember the events that happen rather than the ones that don't. I was staying with the above friend and had a dream that her husband was in a car crash. Not an unreasonable dream as he spent most of the day on the road driving from job to job and we were in a big city. When I got up in the morning he had not left for work, do I tell him about my dream, knowing that he and my friend put stock in that stuff, or not? I decided not to. I simply said "take care out there" as he left. He came home and talked of the near miss he had. But he may have had near misses every other day without talking about them or we did not store them in memory as he was home safe and it was a city near misses happen often. Do I remember it because of the link to the dream I had.

Just because you are feeling that something wasn't right must be telling you something.

Same way. But I think there are subtle clues there we aren't looking deep enough into in most cases.

There were many clues the Twin towers were coming down by many different kinds of predictions. No jet plane has ever crash down entire skyscraper in the pass in human history. Plus the third building had not been touched at at, it was all expert demolition bombed on every floor. Impossible an aluminum frame structure plane with a plastic nose would do any damages to heavy graded steel skyscraper.

Has the Government ever lied to you before?

Intuition is a feeling based mostly on past experiences in which you have added your logical views. It varies in many of us because our logic also varies, but a lot of intuition is based also upon repetition. I make jokes on how the phone rang and I immediately thought "this has happened before" but similar things have a lot to do with how we think. Sometimes the inner mechanism is hidden from us.

As a teenager I had a girlfriend that I felt so close to and I could tell through intuition if she was in town that day. I would go to town and there she was babysitting for family. Since I wanted this to happen I saw my intuition as something supernatural or a "power" that I had. Needless to say I only remember the times she was there in town. I do not recall making the trip to find she was not there that day.

In similar fashion if intuition was truly real I would have won the lottery by now. True believers say this has not happened because you cannot "use your power" for gain. WTF? This worked with my girlfriend visits. Well, most of the time.

I use intuition to make decisions and like you, 9/10 times it works, although I'm not sure why. I do trust it however because when I don't listen to it, generally I'm sorry afterwards.

I have to agree with some of the previous posts here . We are taught to see and respond to things in a certain way , but sometimes , the minute things we are picking up on , suggest the situation isn't as it may seem to be on the surface .

I would say that this is experience and biology predisposing you to think in a certain way in given situations.

So when you had a feeling that something was not right, its because you have come across a previous scenario, or were taught of a scenario, that resembled one that you previously came across. Our biology is built for making quick decisions where lots of analysis would not be conducive to survival.

It's why newborn animals, such as lambs, can run quite quickly after birth after being chased by a predator, even though they may never have seen such a predator. Nothing six-sense here though, its just fight or flight in response to danger.

It often also happens at a subconscious levels, whereby we find those with dissimilar genes attractive. Again, no sixth sense, its just our smell receptors activating regions in the brain that provided a survival advantage in the past.

There is often a tendency by people to may more attention to when their intuition was "correct", then when it was not, or where they see patterns when none exists.

And that is how false beliefs form, get passed on generation to generation, and before you know it, rhinos are being hunted for their horns for their supposed aphrodisiac properties, when there are none.

Instinctively feeling something isn’t right, or feeling someone isn’t all that they appear to be, is something we all experience from time. I don’t think it’s supernatural but an intuitive basic human defence mechanism which we need to heed. I don’t know if science can back up this with concrete evidence...perhaps there has been research done on it...I don’t know, but I always follow my instincts and they are very rarely wrong, as you have pointed out to be case in your own experience too.

Intuition/gut instinct/inner voice/6th sense.....I think their all the same thing. I have no clue how or why it works but I have learned to listen to it and it usually leads me down the right path. There have been many a time that I ignored it and paid the price. I am a believer in energy so maybe it's an energy thing?

I don't trust my intuition. If for no other reason than if things backfire I can't blame trusting my intuition over my mind, which I trust far more. (And which has let me down, but hey, at least I can come up with a logical explanation for that.)

I trust my intuition with people and I think I'm right most of the time. Of course, I could be totally wrong and just not know it.

I think it is all about perception ... our senses are trained for a wide range of input... some are better at recognizing some things than others.... most of these perceptions have something to do with the people around us and we can extrapolate outcomes it is pretty easy for some to sniff out a doubt...

I think It.s just a coincidence, It's good to be skeptical,praying doesn't work, if something happens after tthen It's just a coincidence, just like the faith healing on stage, that's a hoax, or I've read about christian's flipping open the bible , and the page that came up, they think it was meant for them or when they a reading the bible and they think god is communicating with them, I have read that there is two sides of the brain and that they communicate with each other, I've heard of animals barking before an earthquake happens, they may have a better scense of the vibratiions of the fault slipping, than humans have. that would be more scientific. Everyone has there own oppinion, but I think It;s just coincidence if something happens after, and not the supernatural.

Trust it usually the mind getting subtle clues

can be just not sinked with them so its best to move on.

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Intuition, hunches, are just thoughts that one has about certain things, science has always defined thoughts. It is no coincidence and as any thought or wish, the probability of something happening is 50/50. Nothing supernatural about thoughts or percentages, dude.