Have you had a premonition that came true?

I don't count dreams as premonitions, although I know a lot of people do.

I have had lots of premonitions, some have unhappily come true, some happily did so, and a lot I have forgotten all about.

One of the more amusing, was feeling sick on the way to work for weeks, so when my sister rang to tell me that her elder daughter was expecting, I said "congratulate her, and tell her from now on she copes with her morning sickness herself" I had finished the menopause by that time, so I knew I wasn't pregnant.

Redhead56

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.

I've never had any premonitions of any kind unfortunately as I love all this spooky stuff.
What interests me about this post is the more mundane (Sorry Redhead56) aspect of women's safety in public places. Years ago I had just entered a public wooded common with my dog for his daily walkies and walking down a pathway I also was overtaken by a (robust, young)man on a(robust) bicycle. He also stopped , some distance in front of me, and pulled over and started fiddling with the bike.
I stopped dead instinctively because it seemed a false stop to me , watched for a minute or so ,then I returned(fast) the way I had come so as not to encounter this man.
Not premonition , but instinct. No reports of subsequent rapes as in Redhead 56s interesting and spooky tale, but it makes you think.
If you think you are in danger , ladies, you may well be in danger. Always give yourself the benefit of the doubt.

The one I'll never forget is a dream, not a premonition. I dreamt I was on a date with Dodi Al Fayed. It was a lovely dream with a gingham table cloth in our picnic hamper.

I woke up to find he'd died. I was rather sad. Felt like I knew him.

A couple of dreams I have had that came true, neither very dramatic. The most recent was that I dreamt our shower wouldn't work. The following day we found that the on/off ceiling pull switch wasn't working so we had to get someone out to fix it.

Just this week.
Out of the blue, I suddenly thought of an acquaintance a lot, over Tuesday and early Wednesday. He had been “unwell” and we’d not seen him since early December.
When I went to the cafe where we would meet, he turned up! He had been seriously ill, but was now well enough to come. Joyful reunions all round!
It happens tome a lot.

Hello friends! I’m new here. I joined because today is my youngest child’s 21st birthday, but more about that later. I just want to share a few premonitions I have had that have come true. More like just weird feelings I guess. I wish I could learn how to trust them before they happen. Maybe someone here can help me with this.
The first time it happened I was in Las Vegas. My parents took me there for my 21st birthday. My stepfather took me to a roulette table and gave me chip. He told me to put it on the table wherever I wanted. I put it on the green single circle. He said “well don’t put it there!” I told him something made me want to. He said, “well, okay then” it hit. He said “don’t ever listen to my advice again”.
The next time it happened I was at the Saratoga Racetrack. While flipping through the racebook one of the races stood out to me as well as 3 horses in the race. I had a feeling to play those 3 horses in a box trifecta. I knew nothing about racing really. My friends wanted to leave before that race. I refused and said I HAD to play that race. I placed $2 on the trifecta. One of the horses was a long shot. I won $350. This was in 1992. My husband told me if I ever had that “feeling” again to please bet more than $2. But…. How do you know when the feeling is real?!?!
The third time was in Vegas again. The Willy Wonka machine kept calling to me but every time I wanted to play, there were no empty seats. The last night we were there we were at a different casino from the hotel we were staying at. I saw it from a distance. It seemed to “glow” and call to me. I put $20 in and bet the max bet. I won $400. I have never had a negative or scary premonition, luckily. Now to the story about my son.
My husband and I agreed he would get a vasectomy after I turned 35 as I did not want to get pregnant after then because of the increased risk of birth defects. He is my 3rd child. I conceived him 1 month prior to turning 35. My Daughter fell off a horse and got a compound fracture to her arm a month after I got pregnant. I did not know I was pregnant at the time. I was in the room with her during X-rays and it was a very stressful time. After we got home from the hospital I had severe cramping. I thought it was because I was getting my period, but nope. I was pregnant. I also had a lot of spotting throughout the pregnancy which I never had with my previous pregnancies. He was born healthy. I knew in my heart he was meant to be here. He fought to be here. I know to my core, I “feel” it, that he is going to do something great and important. Also, he was born at 3:21, 21 years ago. I woke up at 3:20 this morning abruptly out of a sound sleep. I then had abdominal pains for several hours that felt like menstrual cramps, even though I have gone through menopause. Very strange. Probably a coincidence, but strange nonetheless. Everyone thinks their children are special, but I have two other kids and there is something different about him. He’s not my favorite child, I don’t have a “favorite” child. I know some people do, but I love and favor them all equally. It’s just a strong feeling I have. Thank you for listening to my story. I have shared with friends and family, but I wanted to share with like minded people who may have experienced the same things I have. I welcome any thoughts or advice.
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In early July 2000 I dreamt that Concorde had crashed - which it did on 25th July.

On 17th July 2006 I joined a local walking group and had several very nice chats with people, one man in particular who made me laugh. At home that evening I heard a voice that said he and I would be very important to each other: we've now been married for 12 years.

Predictive dreams or premonitions..I've had several, all of which came true.

I had a recurring dream that I was going blind.
I knew my son would marry someone who already had a wee boy, even though he absolutely insisted that if he ever did marry (he was a teenager at the time), he'd never contemplate bringing up someone else's child but 24 years later he's doing just that.

I also knew he'd have a daughter, long before he even had a serious partner. I was so sure that I made a quilt for her, bought books and toys and put them away for her arrival. She's 8 months old today.

Sadly I knew I'd find my mother dead but the strange thing about that was the event itself became a premonition.

Mum made nightly 'Goodnight-and-God Bless" phone calls to us and one night, didn't.

About 10:30 (quite later for her) I tried to phone her and it rang and rang.
I asked a friend to ring from a different phone. Same result.
I got my 12 year old son out of bed and we drove to Mums, letting ourselves in with our key.
Mum popped out of her room, 'What on earth are you two doing here at this time of night?"
I collapsed with tears of relief. She was just about to make the 'goodnight' call wheh we arrived.

After calming cups of tea, testing the phone which had no faults, my son and I returned home.
I knew even then, and told him, "this was a rehearsal", so when the same thing happened 4 weeks later, I knew Mum wouldn't be popping her head round the door in surprise.

My son too has very strong premonitions and usually acts on them but he once 'knew' his car was going to be stolen from the Mall carpark as he and friends were going into the complex to see a film.
He regretted not acting on that feeling as his car, his pride and joy, was taken and trashed in some distant area.

I've had a recurring dream about ringing 999 and in each dream there's a different reason why I never get through.

Twice in my real life I've needed to ring the emergency services and each time, though I got through, they didn't turn up.

Now, a future happening and I have no strong feelings about this, just a very, very vivid dream.

I saw what looked like a car number plate - white rectangle with black lettering: "28th August 2021".

I haven't a clue what it means but I may buy a Lotto ticket (something I never do) just in case

I had a premonition of the Abefan disaster in the early hours of the day it happened, but I didn’t know where it was going to happen so couldn’t help. It was so real, I was fighting to pull children out of the mud!

My mother was a terrible worrier (I blame the war!). She always expected the worst to happen, then claimed to have foreseen it, if it did.
She didn’t want my brother to go on a cruiser on the Norfolk Broads with his friends, saying that it was dangerous. Sadly, he slipped on the deck in the dark, banged his head as he fell overboard, and was drowned. My mother insisted that she knew it was going to happen.

As some friends walked into our house, I told them I'd had a dream they'd be moving. t=They laughed and asked where to and I said back to where you came from. Shortly afterwards they moved to house 1 street away from their previous one!
I also suddenly one evening "heard a metallic bang and got a flash of black lines before my eyes. I was wide awake. This turned out to be the exact time when my then fiance in Cyprus (I was in the UK} was thrown into the RAF jail for being drunk and disorderly.
The scariest one is where I suddenly started thinking about my brother and had an urge to write the story of his life on the road as a professional drummer in various bands. This was on my mind for about 3 days and I convinced myself that perhaps it was something I was destined to do and planned to ring him about it. Before I did so though I got a call from my dad, telling me my brother had hung himself, at home, the previous evening. I had dreadful dreams for months afterwards until I had one where I saw his silhouette walking into my house through french doors (which I didn't have!) with really bright sunlight fanning out in rays around him. The dreams stopped after that.
There have been others but one really weird one was about Maddy MCann. For some unknown reason, in the early hours of one morning , my jeweller box which played Brahms Lullaby suddenly started playing. It wasn't even open when I jumped up to stop it. I then glanced out of our window and saw an ambulance parked in the layby opposite, and at the same time I had this thought that Maddy was in the UK in Hebden Bridge (a place I had never heard of so I woke my long suffering hubby and asked if there was such a place!) I know that I had gone to sleep thinking about her because of the news, but still weird. In light of other experiences like this I even contacted the police and told them eventually but via email - I am sure they just binned it as being another crackpot idea but I have never been able to shake it to this day.
I am still waiting for a glass bridge/structure between two skyscrapers to explode (a dream from many years ago now) and when I read that a swimming pool had been built between two high rise buildings recently I was very worried (although in my dream the glass structure was at an angle with the centre of it was narrower that where it joined the buildings, not level.
Hope I haven't bored everyone with my ramblings but good to know I'm not the only one who has episodes of weirdness!

Yes had one today that I would be needed due to a death at the time I had an appointment it as so strong I cancelled my appointment and was needed due to a sudden unexpected death in my circle Not the first time which is why I cancelled

Yes. A few years ago I suddenly has a terrible feeling that my son had been in an accident while travelling back home. I looked at the clock and it was about 2 50 in the afternoon. I had no way of contacting him, but he wasn't due back until the evening, so I was very worried, and the feeling got worse as the time passed. At about 10 pm his boss came to the house to tell me that at about 2.40 the furniture van
they were in had got a punctured tyre. He pulled the van over to the verge and he walked back along the road to put out the hazard signs, while my son was getting the spare tyre out of the van, and a car crashed into the back of the van after running up the ramp. The back of the van was very badly damaged and my son was thrown into a field. The car was stuck inside the furniture and there was a family inside. The lady was driving, her disabled husband was in the passenger seat and son and daughter were in the back seats. As they were trying to reach the car doors an RAF lorry stopped and the airmen were able to start helping and also get in touch with police and ambulances. Unfortunately the man in the car later died in hospital. At the inquest the lady admitted that she had turned around to say something to the children and hadn't seen the signs. My son was very bruised and sore, but fortunately not too badly hurt.

In my life I have had a couple of strong intuitions about people and places which had a flashing red warning sign over them that I ignored. I won't do that again I hope. Older and wiser.

Not exactly premonition, but I've lost count of the number of times my sister and I have sent exactly the same birthday card to family members. I'm in the North East an she's on the Wirral Peninsula so we're nowhere near the same shops.

I often have little premonitions, mostly small ones involving the family, which have happened. I have had a recurring worrying one involving death which I don't take about as it hasn't happened and hopefully won't for a very long time.

The only big premonition which comes to mind is that Malaysian plane which vanished over the sea several years ago. I knew that would happen a couple of days beforehand.

I had a premonition once on holiday about an event so horrific everyone in our group laughed and said that couldn't happen. Two weeks after we arrived home it did actually happen.

My mother had several accurate ones. They were very vivid and different from a dream.

When I was pregnant I had a dream that I would have a ginger girl (this was before you could be told the sex of the baby.) It was so vivid, and of course that is what I had.
I always know when my DB is going to phone. I have 3 DB but he is the only one I get this feeling about. Oh and he does always phone out of the blue.

Redhead, have you written that before somewhere on GN, about the man with the bike on the path.
otherwise i've had a very strange premonition, as it sounds familiar to me.

I've had several, I knew that last time I saw my father would be the last time I would see him alive. He died from a massive heart attack 3 weeks later.

When I was 17, I told my mother that I would be out of work by the weekend, I was made redundant the next day, and no, there was no prior warning that the company was in trouble.

In my mid twenties, I looked out of the window and had a vision of a plane on a motorway. The next day a plane crashed onto the embankment of the M1 at Kegworth.

There have been more...

This was when I was 8,
My father died just after the war, and my mother was just resigned to being a single parent, with no men friends, she didn't get out much.
However, one day I wrote a card with a poem and it's title was 'To My Mother on Her Wedding Day'
I didn't give it to her, then, but a couple of years she told me she was going to get married - so I gave her the card
Weird!

Years ago my DH announced 'Perry Mason has died.' This was a very popular TV show then. When I asked him how he knew as we had watched the TV news together, he didn't know. I could find nothing in the papers about Raymond Burr, the actor who played Perry Mason, having died. Days later there was a news item that Eric Stanley Gardner, the author of the original Perry Mason books, had died on that day.

As a teenager living in my own flat, I dreamt of a fire taking place in a house in the road I had since left but grown up in. I knew the house and the people who lived there. My childhood friends father, who lived across the road went into the burning house. He was trying to save the occupant. I was so shocked when I woke in the morning, I sat on the side of my bed in a daze arriving late for work. Two days later, sitting on the train home from work, I was reading the back of somebody's newspaper and there was the story of the fire and the loss of the life of the occupant and the danger incurred by my childhood friend's father in attempting a rescue. The bedbound occupant had been smoking in bed and fallen asleep.
My future husband thinking I was imaging all this, drove me to the house and it was just as I expected, the windows like blackened eyes. Smoke damaged. Fortunately, I haven't had a repeat. It's not something I ever talk about as it sounds ridiculous but it truly happened. I was 18 years old.

Have had several in the past involving trivial episodes that there was no way I could have known anything about. Only serious one was when my son was going away with friends for a few days, a common event but this particular time I was incredibly anxious really concerned that he wouldn't come back home. He came home and all was fine and then a few weeks later he told me the car he'd been driving was involved in an accident. Don't have them anymore and I'm glad.