Have you had a premonition that came true?

Many years ago I dreamed that I was following my brother down a steep flight of stone steps in a fairly dark building. He went into a small room at the side of the stairs and suddenly a lot of bars came down from the ceiling and blocked him in. he was trying to get out but couldn't. I woke up and later that day discovered that he had committed suicide.

The day of my daughter’s graduation many years ago, I was in my seat in the large venue and saw in my mind an elderly gentleman fall over walking on the podium. About half an hour later, the exact scene I saw in my head became reality. The very same elderly gentleman toppled right over in front of a huge crowd. I have gut feelings virtually every week and always trust my gut. When I was working in a supermarket, the security guard informed me that as his daughter had just turned nine, he’d changed his hot picks lotto numbers. I warned him it was a bad idea and to play his original number 8 along with the two other numbers. He came to me the next day and said” I really wished I’d listened to you- I lost out on winning quite a few hundred pounds there?”

The night John Lennon got shot, I woke up shortly before 4am, which was unusual for me to wake in the night. Next morning I heard the news and then later realised the 5 hour time difference between us and New York meant that was around the time he died.

(I am a Beatles fan but Paul is my favourite not John, but that has always stuck in my mind as a bit spooky.)

I had the same dream about lottery numbers but when I woke up was trying to understand why my dreamt numbers contained two that could not be birthdays so did not alter my chosen numbers. The numbers in the dream came up and I got four. That will teach me !! The other numbers were birth years.

I dreamt that my husband (a pilot) had phoned me to say a plane had crashed. Later that day we heard a plane had crashed in Cork, killing 6 people. Coincidence?

I dreamt that I had won ERNIE I remember thinking I had to pinch myself so I would know I was awake, which I did. Can you imagine my disappointment when I really woke up finding that I had just dreamt I'd pinched myself??

All the time, it’s weird?

Most of my premonitions occur when I am fully awake, doing something quite ordinary, and not thinking of the person involved.

They have nearly always come in the form of my suddenly feeling that a friend or relation was in some kind of trouble or needed me. If possible I have grabbed the phone and got in touch with the person the feeling was about,

Often there has been something wrong, occasionally I was told everything was all right, only to learn later that it definitely had not been all right.

I have also seen people in places where they swore they had not been. Some time later I would see them in the flesh in that place, or learn that they had been seriously worried at the time I "saw" them.

I have on the other hand had many premonitions that never took place (that I know of, that is).

yes, none of them earth shattering, wish I had more though
One I do remember is when FIL was going to have open heart surgery I had a strong feeling it was going to be postponed, and I said that, and he said that no it would go ahead, he'd been taken off the medication he needed to be taken off. It was postponed - for a week - no premonitions that time. Odd as he lived a hundred miles away, knew nothing about the hospital and he didn't much like me, so no idea why it came to me. But maybe because I was used to being told I was wrong when I was right

Just coincidence. As my father used to say if you think that something is going to happen and it does some say they have had a premonition. Same as when people say things ALWAYS happen in threes - they don't you only remember when they do otherwise it goes out of your brain.

No

Well I knew that Donald Trump would win his first term in office and I placed a large bet. Not sure if that counts as a premonition though.

Years ago now. A friend once rang, as he said hello I knew he was going to tell me his partner had died. He did. There was no reason why I would even think that as she was in her thirties and healthy. It wasn't even that he rang rather than her - we'd known him before he met her, and although we had got to know her too, it was always him who rang.

Yes I've had many over the years, I hate it when I have a bad one but lovebit when it's a happy good one. I can't control them they just suddenly happen.

I was only talking about this yesterday. I was walking to my then boyfriends house from the bus stop about half a mile. It was after work so about 6.30 on an autumn night.
I had to walk down a church pathway from the village. I started the walk and a cyclist was behind me I walked out of the way to let him pass. Suddenly out the blue I had a picture in my mind of him getting off the bike and looking at the back wheel. I walked faster as I approached the cyclist leaned down towards his bike exactly what I had thought he would do. I literally ran a couple of steps and turned around and he was right behind me. I screamed so loud he grabbed his bike and was gone. Three weeks later in the same spot there were two rapes. I never went down the path again.
Every time I drive past that church the night is still fresh in my mind. I have never been interested in anything that can’t be explained but that premonition did happen.

Yes, I have had three strong premonitions ( not dreams) and acted on them, one may have saved my life in fact.
I have no idea why, as they came out of the blue, but were so strong and certain that I couldn’t ignore them.
I don’t usually go in for fanciful thoughts, but there are strange occurrences in life.

I think sometimes we engineer our premonitions.

I had to travel from London to Newcastle for a university interview. The prevvious night I had a very clear dream of arriving at Kings cross, walking up the steps from the tube, looking ahead and seeing the platform where my train should be, complete with sign, but no train and the feeling of horror when I realised I had missed it.

The next day I journeyed to Kings Cross, I came up from the tube to the station on just the stair I had dreamed of, and yes, there was the platform, with the train board up, yes, it was empty - not because I had missed it, but because of the dream I had left home even earlier than I had already planned and the train wasn't due to leave for an hour and a half.

I do get vague premonitions and (far, far less usefully) I am frequently able to predict fashions several years in advance.

I never trust my judgement though and ignore my 'feelings' and kick myself later when I'm right. I'm not at all interested in spiritual stuff or fortune telling/mediums etc so automatically discount it all.

I'm the world's biggest sceptic when it comes to these things, but a few years ago, someone I know was pregnant and posting all the time on Facebook about how she couldn't wait to meet 'her little prince'. About a week before the baby was due, I read one of her posts and knew without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that the baby was going to die - and sure enough, he was stillborn.

I used to drive up a very steep hill to get to work - I had a premonition that I would break down one morning and I did. Of course that could have been because it was an old car and driving up such a steep hill finally got too much for it!

Just the one. I woke up in the middle of the night having dreamt the six winning lottery numbers for the next day. I'd to scrabble in a drawer for pencil and paper and by the time I was writing them down they were fading. I did buy a ticket and got four correct, and the others were near misses. For years after that I kept a pad and pencil on the bedside cabinet, but it's never happened since.

Actually, I'm going to get that pad and pencil out again, just in case!

My late DH and is his sister have both had premonitions which came true. It's quite spooky.

Would you call this a premonition? I was sitting on the sofa one afternoon, occasionally glancing out of the window, when I 'saw' (imagined) a police car pull up on the grass verge in front of our house, and two police officers jump out and head towards the house
It was realistic enough to really shake me, especially with two sons away at university at the time.

That very night, I woke suddenly and went to look out of the bedroom window (not something I normally do), in time to see a police car pull up exactly where I had imagined it, and two police officers get out and start coming down our path.
Then they stopped in their tracks, turned back and went next door instead.
I have never been so shaken yet relieved at the same time!

I suppose that if we lived in a built-up area, police cars pulling up outside might happen quite often, but we don't. It's little more than a hamlet, in a very rural area.

Yes i had a premonition. No it didn't come true

I haven't, but DH has. He has dreams (nightmares) quite often. He doesn't like telling me about them though.
Just before the start of the pandemic, he had awful dreams about sickness and death, and he told me some sort of world wide illness was about to break out.
He was right!