How I Learned To Trust My Psychic Premonitions

I was just 16 years old when I had my first powerful premonition.

At the time, I didn’t know what to call it. I didn’t have the right words or spiritual understanding to describe the feeling. All I knew was that something inside me, like a quiet inner voice, spoke with a certainty that was not just in my imagination. It felt like a clear knowing.

A close family member had recently become engaged to his long-time girlfriend. They were the perfect couple. They were always together, and they had a lot of potential. It seemed like their love would last forever.

Everyone in our family, including our friends, thought we would be the kind of couple who could overcome any challenge together. Their future was full of possibilities.

One afternoon, he excitedly told me she had passed the exams to join the police force. They had just bought a home together. The future looked great, and there was a lot of potential. I smiled at him, feeling happy for him.

But something didn’t feel right. A soft inner voice whispered: She will leave him for a policeman.

This simple, unexpected thought bothered me, but I pushed it away. Maybe it just me worrying about the stories I had heard about adult relationships that didn’t end well.

Three months later, she left him and started a relationship with a fellow police officer.

I’ll always remember the sadness in his eyes. I felt sad for him as a loved one, but I also felt something else. That experience made me wonder about something that I would think about for many more years. Was that just a coincidence? Or was it something else?

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be revelation ~  Eileen Caddy

Soon after, more such “coincidences” of “knowing stuff” began to happen. These coincidences didn’t feel random.

In 1980, a hairdresser in our neighborhood was rebuilding her new life as a single parent with two children. One day, while she was styling my hair, I found myself blurting out words that surprised even me.

“You’re going to meet a man who’s Scottish,” I said confidently. “A man whose wife has died, who has three children. And he lives only a few streets away.”

I had never met or knew of such a man. There was no logical source for the information I was sharing with her. I just somehow knew it, I just had this instant feeling. It wasn’t based on what my senses told me or what I was thinking logically. It felt like it came from somewhere deep and wise inside me.

A month later, she told me she had met a man who was exactly like my description. She looked at me a funny way and said it was scary to her how accurate the information was.

That moment changed something in me. It made me realize that what I was experiencing was more than just random coincidence or imagination. It was something I couldn’t easily explain, yet something I couldn’t ignore.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know ~ Alexis Carrel

What Are Premonitions, Really?

A premonition is a strong feeling, intuition, or sense that a specific event is going to happen in the future, typically before there is any conscious or logical reason to expect it.

It is often experienced as a “gut feeling,” “hunch,” or “presentiment.” It can manifest as a vague waking feeling, a vivid dream (precognitive dream), or a physical sensation of unease. Sometimes there is a sense of anxiety, dread, or urgency or foreboding  accompanying the though or feeling.

Throughout history, many people have reported premonitions regarding major events:

The Titanic: Numerous passengers reportedly canceled their trips or expressed deep “foreboding” before the ship sailed. Author Morgan Robertson also wrote a novella called Futility 14 years prior, which featured a giant ship named the Titan hitting an iceberg in April.

Abraham Lincoln: Reportedly told his friends about a dream he had days before his assassination, in which he saw a coffin in the White House and was told “the President” had been killed.

Aberfan Disaster (1966): After a landslide in Wales killed 144 people, a psychiatrist collected 76 reports of people (including children who perished) who claimed to have had dreams or visions of the event shortly before it happened.

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives ~ Larry Dossey

From an esoteric perspective, premonitions are seen as impressions from other dimensions. Ancient teachings like Hermeticism say that everything is connected through a universal mind. Eastern philosophies regard intuition as a sixth sense that goes beyond what we can normally perceive.

Science has started to study intuition and precognitive experiences, but it is still careful and cautious about this. Some studies in parapsychology suggest that the body’s natural responses can happen before unexpected things happen, hinting at what researchers call “presentiment.”

Other psychological research has shown that the brain can process information without us realizing it. Sometimes, we have a sudden feeling or “hunch” before we can think about it. Whether this is a sign of psychic ability or just a deep understanding of patterns, it’s still a mystery.

Premonitions make us realize that time may not be as simple as it seems, and that our minds can receive information that isn’t immediately obvious. They ask us to trust our feelings, even when we can’t explain why.

They may not come often, but when they do, they leave a lasting impression. This is a magical wonder worth paying attention to.