# Premonition of 9/11 - did anyone you know or yourself have one? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645 "2002-05-12T16:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/1 "2002-05-12T16:14:13Z")
My wife visited the lower Manhattan area and wanted to take a phote of the WTCs. A thought went through her mind, “I want to take a picture of them WHILE THEY ARE STILL HERE.” She dismissed the thought at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/2 "2002-05-12T16:18:44Z")
No premonitions, but I _have_ have countless dreams about being in the WTC before it collapsed, always knowing it was _going_ to collapse. I’m curious if anyone else has had those dreams. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/3 "2002-05-12T16:30:53Z")
It’s not uncommon for me to have dreams about train wrecks, crashing planes, and out of control elevators. When any of these things occur IRL, I don’t consider my dreams to be premonitions. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/4 "2002-05-12T22:26:04Z")
I don’t know if it’s a premonition, but about a month before it happened I was standing on the lawn of the Capitol building talking to a few people about the future of America and I pointed to the Capitol building and said “soon this will all be gone” (I ment the power of Washington in the relatively near future, not the building itself). When September 11th happened I was reading Tom Clancy’s “Executive Orders” in which a plane crashes into the Capitol Building, which was weird enough. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/5 "2002-05-12T23:05:23Z")
Yeah, but 99.8% of them never happen. ---
**Author:** ![spathiphyllum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@spathiphyllum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spathiphyllum)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/6 "2002-05-12T23:09:37Z")
On Sept. 10th, I was having a light-hearted email conversation with my dear friend in NY about why he should move to my part of the US (the midwest). I have always joked about how I want him to move here. During that particular discussion, one of my points was that in the event of a war, the odds are the enemy would attack NYC (and D.C.) sooner than the midwest states. It wasn’t a premonition because obviously I had no expectation that such a thing would happen THE NEXT DAY…but it was an unfortunate coincidence of timing. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/7 "2002-05-13T00:06:23Z")
There’s some guy with sort of longish black hair and a goatee who preaches on the religion network who said, after the fact, that he had predicted the WTC bombings. :rolleyes: I don’t know the guy’s name–he’s always explaining how the world’s going to end in a couple weeks. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/8 "2002-05-13T07:08:25Z")
I don’t believe that a single one of the “clairvoyants” who make the big bucks on TV warned authorities that the hijackings were in the works. ---
**Author:** ![DragonflySparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DragonflySparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonflySparrow)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/9 "2011-04-13T17:47:13Z")
I was 18 years old and newly married in September of '01. About a week before the planes crashed into the World Trade Center Towers, I’d had a horrible dream. (Side-note: I’ve lived on the west coast for most of my life, and at the time, I had no idea that the “Twin Towers” even existed. I’d never even heard of them before 9/11.) Here’s the the dream I had in September of 2001: I was flying above these two towers that looked exactly alike, and they were very tall. I flew by one of the windows near the top and entered into the building through that window. I could see offices and lots of people and papers. I felt a sense of dread as I walked through the cubicles, but the people were just going on with their daily work. I went into one of the closed doors and I could see a huge gathering of people in a nice office. I was so scared and I felt like I really needed to get out of the building but I couldn’t really move. Everyone was just standing there, quiet but shocked, and looking out the window. I looked out the window too at the sky-scraper’s twin. There was smoke coming from the other side, but we didn’t know what the cause was. There was a man at the desk. (He looked like the actor Victor Garber from the movie Titanic who played the Titanic’s architect.) He stood up and said to us all, “This is the beginning of the end”. Even though it doesn’t sound like much on paper, there was SO much emotion running through me as I slept. I had this horrible feeling of terror and it seemed like my life was about to end… like a life/death emergency was about to occur. I startled myself awake because I couldn’t take it anymore… the emotion and adrenaline I was feeling. I was crying so much that my husband had to hold me and comfort me so I’d stop crying. When I had mostly recovered, I wrote the dream down in a notebook with the date on it… Sept. 2nd, 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/10 "2011-04-13T17:59:36Z")
Zombies knew about 9/11! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/11 "2011-04-13T18:01:20Z")
[These people did](http://www.snopes.com/rumors/thecoup.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/12 "2011-04-13T18:07:19Z")
So did [The Lone Gunmen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_%28TV_series%29). > [@](#): > > The plot of the first episode, which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center and blame it on terrorists, thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war. Parallels to the events of 9/11 in this episode are noteworthy, if not uncanny, the episode being aired six months prior to 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/13 "2011-04-13T18:51:34Z")
> [@DragonflySparrow](#): > > I was crying so much that my husband had to hold me and comfort me so I’d stop crying. When I had mostly recovered, I wrote the dream down in a notebook with the date on it… Sept. 2nd, 2001. To bad you didn’t bother trying to warn anyone. You bastard. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/14 "2011-04-13T19:07:37Z")
reported ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/15 "2011-04-13T19:13:46Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > reported Zombies are allowed now, man. Didn’t you get the memo? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/16 "2011-04-13T19:20:33Z")
Apparently not. I’ll be darned. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/17 "2011-04-13T19:48:02Z")
There was a thing in Stephen King’s book “The Stand” which I recently re-read that was talking about how planes that crashed were always emptier than normal statistics would allow for. I wonder if he was just making stuff up, or if there is any truth to any of that. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premonition-of-9-11-did-anyone-you-know-or-yourself-have-one/108645/18 "2011-04-14T03:19:28Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Zombies are allowed now, man. Didn’t you get the memo? Though we do still close them occasionally if they bring up old fights, or, as in this case, it could be a bit confusing to have such an old thread on top of the heap, after nine years. Closing thread.