I had a vision or something...

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Something spooky, disturbing, and quite unusual for me happened last night.

I was driving with this girl I have been dating in the passenger seat. She was talking and laughing and I was dividing my attention between her and the road, giving most of it to the road.

Anyway, I turned to look at her and saw her laughing and something about the sight gave me a strong overpowering feeling of dread and loss, somewhat like deja vu only much more powerful and with more than a generic ‘I’ve been here before’ feeling. It surprised me so bad I gasped and turned to look away - I’ve heard people say they got strong feelings about people and always assumed it was just the same as when I get an impression of someone or draw a conclusion about them from subconscious mental resources, I never actually experienced something like this where it feels like you are actually sensing something real, outside your normal chain of thought.

She noticed my reaction and asked me what was wrong, I told her nothing, and she says ‘You saw something, right?’ and I asked her 'Did you see it too?" and she said ‘I think I know what you saw.’ I asked her what she thought I saw and she said she wouldn’t tell me. I told her I could probably tell if she was right by telling her what I saw and watching her reaction, and she said I was probably right, but I didn’t want to tell her. She asked me what I saw, and I told her I didn’t want to say, and she told me if it made me sad I didn’t have to tell her, and so I didn’t. We didn’t talk any more about it.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means, if anything. The second-most obvious possibility, to me at least (the most likely being it was just a weird brain misfire that meant nothing), is that I somehow sensed I would become more attached to this woman, probably fall in love, and lose her in some way that really hurts, because that’s kinda what it felt like - the feeling was like losing someone you really love, which was weird because I’m not in love with her, she’s not mine to lose, and I have no reason to believe she’s in any kind of danger.

Well, thought I’d share this with y’all and see if you can give me any input on this weird experience.

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I know I’ve experienced something like that before, although I can’t recall any specific incident. Either I hid it better, or no one was playing particularly close attention to me.

But I didn’t think much of it. I’ve had other perceptual oddities before, so I just assumed it was a random brain thing.

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Yeah, probably just a brain misfire, but it was very scary at the time, especially when she kept asking about what I saw, at first I thought maybe she experienced it too but she probably just caught my reaction to it. I’m still wondering what she thought I saw…

I can see how people can become convinced they have psychic powers…if some random thing like this happened to me and then something happened later that could somehow be related to the moment in my mind, I might think I had seen the future. That’s definitely what it felt like, but she was still OK as of this morning.

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If you’d care to entertain a slightly less conventional explanation…

Given the benefit of a doubt, and ruling out any of the (probable) physical causes, I can think of a few things. Mind you I’m a novice, and haven’t nearly enough experience to be justified in giving any kind of explanation, but… here’s my best shot:

A) What you’re seeing is a vision of the future, either hers or your collective futures.

B) You’re sensitive enough to detect the physical and/or emotional state of others, and what you felt was indicative of her personal state.

C) Assuming that reincarnation is valid, you may have experienced an echo of a past experience.

B is kind of unlikely, considering that she saw something as well… but A or C may relate to what happened… or I may be crazy. :slight_smile:

As you’ve said looking for a physical explanation is the best, as the human mind is far too imaginative for its own good… but I thought I’d introduce a second option.

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*Badtz maybe it was a sort of deja vu. Something about the “scene” may have triggered some kind of connection to another memory, totally unrelated, that connected remotely to a to a feeling about something else rather than bringing back the actual memory.

I’m just thinking that when I dream, it’s like flipping through a well cross-referenced library catalog. Maybe your memory did a similar thing – your brain ended up surfing vaguely related , cross-referenced neurons and referenced an emotion but not the memory.

A friend of mine explained the way she dreams with this example: Her cat was sick, that night she dreamt of a good friend of hers, but her friend looked the way she did 15 years ago (how strange).

In real life, brain did this: Cat’s sick – friend’s cat died – friend’s cat died fifteen 15 years ago – what did friend look like fifteen years ago?..

Perhaps your memory went on a similar trip. The scene reminded you of something (not sure what), which reminded you of something else, which reminded you of something else, which reminded you of something sad (not sure what). And like deja vu, the mental process was so speedy, you don’t really now what your brain was flipping through.

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I’ve had a similar experience, but haven’t classified it as anything but strange. I was also riding in a car with one of my best friends (she was driving), we had switched to an AM radio station that played some of the funniest songs. We were singing along to *Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport * and cracking up to the point of tears.

As she turned down a familiar street (small town, all the streets are pretty much familiar and non-menacing), we simultaneously stopped laughing/singing. I have no idea why I did, other than I had the most awful feeling of dread. She looked at me and asked me “What happened?”, and I could only say I didn’t know but I had a horrible feeling about continuing down the road we were on, and wanted to turn around. She mentioned that the same thoughts had occurred to her (weird feeling about continuing down the road), and turned the car around. We just took another way home, and that was that. No more icky feelings.

I know that road has a section that turns into a single lane while going under a bridge, but that’s really the only thing I can think of that might have held some danger. I’ve never had even a close-call on that road though, and I’ve used it often as it is a short-cut to my brother’s house. There was nothing in the news the next day either. Just strange coincidence I guess.

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I’ve had this happen, but with two other people instead of just one, which made it feel even weirder. I was 13 at the time, and I was going trick or treating with two friends and two little kids, including my seven year old brother. The friend that brought the other little kid had to take her home, so my best friend, my brother and I decided to do a little more tick or treating on our own before we went home.

We went to a few more houses, then started crossing the street towards a perfectly normal looking house. It didn’t even have an decorations up that were spooky. And I stopped dead in the middle of the road (fortunately there were no cars out) because there was something very wrong about the house; somehow there seemed to be a palpable wave of unpleasantness emanating from it. It was very scary.

After a couple of seconds I realized that Chris and Vin hasn’t stopped because I had, since they’d stopped at the same time. Chris and I just looked at each other, and finally Vin piped up " That house is scary." Once the little kid verbalized what we didn’t dare to, we quickly agreed with him and said we’d skip that house. So we walked away and they said they’d stopped because the house scared them too.

As far as I know nothing bad ever happened there, but it was weird. Maybe the people living there were kind, but I still think we were far safer for never having found out one way or the other.