Many people get premonitions, from the ordinary to the life changing. A week before the World Trade Towers were hit, I dreamed I was in one of the towers rushing about looking for an escape. There was a hole in the side and a dizzying drop below. People were rushing about trying to find a way down in the vast building. The dream was vivid, a quality I’ve come to associate with prophetic dreams.
Some premonitions are more ordinary and less emotion-infused. Yesterday morning I was making coffee when a client popped into my mind, someone I haven’t spoken to in years. This thought tells me she is thinking about me and will probably contact me, and sure enough, I get an email today. It tells me that we are receiving thoughts from people long before they actually contact us. I have to wonder if I’m sending something to them too, like healing or a warm embrace.
Everyone including you, is hardwired with the ability to sense the future. So even if you aren’t aware it, you have probably have had intuitive signals coming to you that get mixed in with your other thoughts. The more you become aware of the possibility of having premonitions, the more you will notice them happening to you.
Premonitions are part of our evolutionary advantage. Cornell professor emeritus Daryl Bem, one of the most respected social scientists of his generation, has been studying psychic ability in ordinary people for 20 years. His studies show that the average person does in fact sense the future before it happens. He noticed that men are especially adept at sensing future sexual opportunities and women at sensing future danger. He calls this capacity an evolutionary advantage that has enabled our species to survive. In other words, we might not have made it as a species these 200,000 years without men’s exceptional ability to sense reproductive advantage or women’s ability to sense danger to themselves and their young.
The Difference between true premonitions and anxiety. As security specialist Gavin DeBekker pointed out in his book, the Gift of Fear, when you are really in danger, there is a powerful knowing that fills you and directs you. Signs of resonance will arise in your nervous system, like goosebumps, hairs standing on end, or chills. You will become hyper alert, and you may feel that someone is guiding you through the danger.
The rest of the time, what you are feeling might be unnecessary worry, neurotic fears, or just plain anxiety. Anxiety is energy in your body that has nowhere to go. You’re like a horse in the starting gate. It is not necessarily psychic. More likely it’s an over reaction to something that originated in a trauma years before.
How can you increase your chance of having premonitions? Intuition happens when we are not distracted. If you want to receive those signals more, then work on quieting your mind. You do this by unplugging from the day to day stress. Go into meditation where you are focusing more on your senses. Take a walk or go for a jog or a swim. Try closing your eyes and taking a nice breath right now. Listen to the sounds around you. Feel whatever your hands are touching; feel your feet on the ground; and notice your breath going in and out. You are now listening, via your body’s senses, to the energies of consciousness around you. You now have a heightened awareness of the energies around you.
Your senses are like antenna to the world. The more you practice these moments of presence, the more intuitive you will become. I get the strongest visions when I’ve been on a meditation retreat for several days, or when I sit in meditation before bed. I use meditation to get visions of the future. But this is not the same as premonitions. Reading the future is a conscious process where you focus on a target, i.e., your country at a certain point in time.
Premonitions happen to you. You don’t just create them by meditating on the future. When I get premonitions, I try to react to them with wisdom and perspective. For that I need to be present and calm. Otherwise, I when I feel energies on the horizon, I may react to them fearfully which is not productive. In other words, if I don’t unplug and breathe, then the intuitions I get, will fly through my mind which will then take off like a runaway train.
Symbols that come in visions. Ever since I first started meditating for visions 35 years ago, I noticed that many came in symbols and metaphors. Over time I began to understand the symbols. For example, I see a cactus as a symbol for drought. Last year I was returning to Massachusetts from Europe when I noticed upon waking that I was seeing the cactus. I thought, Mass in having drought. It turned out to be true. I also see fire, rain, stock market graphs going up and down, tears (for public grieving), hearts, and square root signs for market corrections. I also have a set of symbols for reading an individual’s personal future. Carl Jung wrote about the symbols we get in Man and His Symbols. He suggested that we have universal symbols that we all get, cultural symbols particular to our culture, and personal symbols.
If you begin meditating for visions of the future, you are likely to also get a set of symbols. Notice what thoughts you get when the symbols appear, and write it down. You will learn an alphabet of consciousness.
Some people don’t see visions when they meditate on the future. Instead they hear words, or get a thought. Whatever comes into your mind, write it down!
Dreams: I know when I’m having a prophetic dream because it is particularly vivid and doesn’t seem to apply to my life. For example, in April I had a horrible dream of a woman being killed in a terrorist attack. Just the one woman, no one else. I saw her vividly on the ground, with others trying to come to her aid. It was jarring, the vision was ghastly, but I didn’t feel fear for myself. I posted it on my website and a few weeks later a British member of Parliament was viciously murdered in the street. My hope is that I unconsciously sent healing to her in her terrible moment. Perhaps others also felt the event before it happened and also sent soothing thoughts to her. But the reason for my seeing her tragedy is a mystery. We are all connected, so her pain is everyone’s pain.
When we are dreaming, our intuition is not drowned out by everyday noise of people’s thoughts. When we are awake, there is a non stop ticker tape of thinking flowing through our heads, most of it is just junk we expose ourselves to in books, the Internet, and the media.
Most of the dreams we have are about our own lives. When it’s a prophetic dream about the world, it may feel different. You may feel like an observer. But this distinction is tricky since you are part of the world, and even when a dream is just about you, you can experience yourself as an observer. The best way to tell the difference is to keep a dream diary and start checking it over time for accuracy.
If you would like to explore premonitions and other forms of intuition further or discuss your own questions, try this section of our World Predictions Forum.
I felt like I had a premonition many years ago. When news broke of the tsunami in Indonesia that killed over 200,000 people, every detail of my dream flashed before my eyes.
I don’t often dream, and when I do, I usually have a vague recollection the following morning. However I recently woke from a vivid dream and almost made a conscious effort to record every detail in my memory. The dream had a profound impact on me and I wanted to make sure I remembered it incase it was another premonition. I was standing in an almost deserted city, apart from a few people, there were no signs of life. Suddenly one person is sucked into the air, then released to fall back to earth from a great height. The few people on the street all rush to try and catch the falling stranger, but are unable to save them. Some are crushed under the weight of the victim. There is only silence and a flashing festoon sign – ‘February 2020’
I wonder if this has any relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic?? I will never forget this dream…
I have had two premonition dreams. One that came true exactly as I dreamed it, and another that I feel was just like a warning of things to come. The first one, I dreamt that I was at a memorial, with a bunch of people in the area I grew up in, including my ex and his family, who I haven’t seen, thought about or dreamt about, since we broke up. In the dream, we were all in this field next to this dirt road. There were two memorial crosses, and the people in the area I still associated with at the time, were around the crosses. My ex, his family, and an ex friend who’s still friends with my ex, and his family, were all off standing by the vehicles that were parked off to the right of the crosses. Behind us was a tree line leading into woods, and there were power lines above me. In the dream, I knew who’s memorial it was, but not consciously. I didn’t think of the persons name in the dream or who it was, I was just sad it happened. I didn’t wake up knowing who’s memorial it was, I just knew it in the dream. It’s hard to explain. I woke up feeling dread, it felt so real.
For several yrs, I knew i have 6th sense but it was clairvoyance. I never meditate but whatever hidden stuff, i can sense what i should pick based on what i want and i get it easily. I never knew i had premonition till 2019 happened.
Throughout the year, several weird things happened. Several decisions were made that were unusual in my family. Though there were signs of unusual occurrences for months, i got a child out of nowhere.
The most goosebumps that i experienced were the weeks before my father passed away. He kept on giving advice, and 3 days before christmas, i had nightmares on 3 consecutive days on which i cry when i wake up. It was weird because i never had a nightmare in my life till Christmas day, where my dream was calm, but there was a storm on that day. I knew something was going to happen but i was told that it’s going to be okay.Turns out that “okay” isn’t really the “okay” that I had expected.
I thought he’d be saved. Thats why i was calm on that day.
Geez, i didnt know i have premonition. If only i knew, i would had saved him.
So next time if u have one weird stuff, always try to think of why it is happening and take down as many notes as possible. We dont know what will happen next.
I have been having visions since I was a little kid mostly of getting in trouble and stopping it before it happens. I would get sick to my stomach and have stomach pains until I did or didn’t do whatever I saw then the stomach pains and nausea would go away. now I still get premonitions but I don’t get the intense stomach pains that went with it i feel like i am losing my ability to see things the older i get. like a vision i had as little kid of not making it to the age of 16 i saw my life abruptly come to an end bc of a car crash dreams of me dying over and over in a car wreck i am 23 now and i have bad luck. I told my husband it is bc i am a fluke and i am not supposed to be here i have made a huge gash karmically somewhere with my very existence and i feel in my souls that i shouldnt be alive but here i am and i feel like ive screwed up the universe somehow by still being here it is a very wierd feeling plus i was born on friday 13th and the same day Tupac died. Does this have anything to do with my karma and bad luck?
Can I reach out to someone about my dreams without being on social media?
If you post your dream here, it is definitely public. Not facebook, but it is on the wide web. I would suggest you use an alias. If your dream is transpersonal, i.e., not just about you, but about the world, then you could post it in our Forum in the dream thread and get feedback. But be sure to choose an alias if you want to remain anonymous. And be discreet if the dream is about someone else.
You didnt have a premonition about being in the world trade center unless you actually ended up in it for real. [content removed]
Actually Jason, thanks for bringing up your point. There is evidence in science that people can “see” an event before it happens even when they themselves are not going to be in that event. NOTE: If you are going to respond on this site, please be respectful or your post not be posted.)
Hundreds of people had premonitions about the 9/11 in the two weeks before it happened. The Institute for Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, has been conducting experiments in psychic ability for twenty years. They are a respected institute. In the two weeks before 9/11, they were conducting experiments in which they had people reporting their visions into tape recorders while attempting to tune into another person. It was a telepathy experiment. After 9/11, Dr. Dean Radin, the senior scientist, decided to go back and review all of the tapes. He discovered a significant number of visions of planes crashing into buildings and other disaster visions people were having. I had a dream during that period that I was actually in the towers rushing around looking for a way out. I did not know until after the event what I’d been dreaming. We are all connected, Jason, and we can feel the experiences of others before they happen. In other experiments of bonded pairs (people who have close relationships with each other), scientists in Amsterdam and the U.S. (reported by Dean Radin in his book Entangled Minds), did Pet scans of the brains of the bonded pairs who were separated in different rooms. When they suddenly flashed on the lights in one room, the nervous system of the person in the other room instantly reacted. What was interesting to your point that people can’t see the future of something that they themselves are not going to experience, is that these people actually felt the light flash BEFORE it flashed in the other room.
Hi, I just was laying down after work not asleep but very comfortable when I had a vision of a dagger in my upper right torso under my breast bone. A little bit unnerving lol. It was as clear as day and jolted me out of my comfortable rest. Do you think that’s some sort of sign I didn’t feel fear but do feel it’s a sign of some sort.
I had a premonition of my husbands death 4 days before it happened. I was walking down the street and all of the sudden a voice not sure if it was mine or if it was a man or womans, but it was loud and clear and it repeated 3-4 times. He will not make it to 45. He will not make it to 45. His birthday was on February 10th, which was the following week. I received the message on Monday the 3rd and he died unexpectedly that Thursday the 6th. When the voice came to me I told myself stop. stop these thoughts. I even spoke out loud, shaking my head no to stop thinking this. I never said anything to him. I kept it to myself. Should I have warned him.? I feel so guilty. The first thing that came to my mind when I was in the ambulance on our way to the hospital was those stupid thoughts. It freaked me out. I have had other thoughts and visions as well about things happening in the future that have come to fruition. Is this real or coincidence?
I have a stalker that already tried to strangle me and run me off the road a few times, a former customer that had asked me out from a sales job. I have already hold police and crisis and friends and family. Nobody helps. I had to move and I am having what feel like psychic dreams, where there is a weird funny surreal eerie sense to them, one I woke up and went outside to hear talking “She’s been there this whole time?” “yeah”, and I brought out my mom in the dream who told me it was a car radio and I was relieved but she to,d me it was even worst. Then weeks later I woke in the dream to all the lights in my house being on, somebody being in it who had a electrical cord that were planning on killing me with, and when I went to use the phone it was disconnected.
I have day time visions of the police, but they are snippets of police helping some other woman, not me. I want to know how real all this is, as I have had many things come true before but the warnings aren’t complete. For example I had serial dreams of finding my pet dead and eaten outside, 3 months later I found him dead with an owl on him eating him.
My last psychic dream on 2/7/20 my eyes were closed and I heard and felt but couldn’t see, I heard a woman in an apartment the floor above me get dragged from her bed and thrown out a window. I live in a house and wanted to help her but didn’t know how. I didn’t even know how I could verify it. Then 2/16/20 Drew Carrys ex was thrown out of her apartment by a stalker and died. She wasn’t who I heard, but the news kept saying this happens all the time and the only reason this made the news at all was being she was partly famous.
I just wish the police were helping me instead of the other woman, as I asked for their help. I don’t want to be murdered or even attacked again.
This was back in 2001 and I had a very bad dream….I don’t remember the dream, but I called my friend and told her about it and she said that I was crying all upset and kept saying it’s going to change the world. My birthday is Sept 5 and I went to my dad’s house for my birthday and all of a suddenly I couldn’t breath…….like I was being smothered and I didn’t understand it until……9/11! March 2009 II had a dream about my bf’s father passing away in April.and he passed away April 28th 2010…..that’s just a few
I had a dream last night that felt so real. I dreamt that I was deeply connected and attracted to this man. I was in my own body and experiencing from my own perspective, it was such a lovely and vivid dream and not like other dreams I’ve experienced. When I awoke, I immediately felt like it was prophetic and a little nudge or reminder that love, attraction and all that good stuff would indeed come into my life again.
Is it common to have a prophetic dreams about a future love or relationship?
Please help , I keep having visions I receive bits and pieces in which ive been recording. All leading me to believe , I’m going to get shot and killed next week . I see a casket , my face , what I’m wearing. Everythu gThis is not the first time ive had a vision , and all other times I’ve seen myself in a victims place . How will I know if its me or not. I’m sick with worry tho not anxious. What does this mean ? Why must I experience visions happening to myself. I’m thankful for this gift. Yet I’m constantly in fear. Thanks for any fredback
Tiff, I can see why this vision is so disturbing. But don’t think your vision is about you. You have described your past
Visions as empathic visions, and it sounds once again like an empathic vision. Perhaps your role is to send healing and compassion to the victim. Take some time for self soothing and healing. Get grounded with walks or exercise or yoga or meditation. Or take up tai chi. Perhaps when more grounded you will be able to use the vision for good.
Hello. As others have said, I’m glad I found this page. I have had premonitions in the past and they have often come true. They are always waking premonitions and just pop into my head, almost like a vision. I knew when my cousin died before my father told me. I knew my best friend’s son would commit suicide and he did a few weeks later. I knew my oldest stepson would have ALS and die. He was diagnosed a few weeks later and died in six months. I think I reasoned these premonitions away or chalked them up to nurse’s intuition. But the last few weeks I have had three very strong premonitions that say I will not be here next Christmas. And that’s exactly the way they come across: “I will not be here next Christmas”. The last one washed over me so strongly that I had to leave the room. They don’t actually say that I’m going to die but it feels that way and I’m frightened every time I think about next Christmas. I don’t know that anyone can tell me what these premonitions definitively mean but it would help to just talk to someone.
Michaele, Thanks for reaching out. It doesn’t mean you won’t be on the earth. Other than speaking to a therapist or having a one on one reading to explore what might be going on, I would suggest going into our forum and posting in the section we have on premonitions and dreams and see what anyone says. A one on one reading with me isn’t to be taken as therapy but something helpful might come up that will ease your mind. I was given a reading once by an expert reader that I would die or lose my mind 20 years after that reading. Over that twenty years, I began to understand intuition and predictions to the point where I began to see that it was much more like that I’d go through a life change at the point and experience a kind of rebirth. That is what ended out happening. Your premonition is likely a similar message.
Hello I’m just wondering if yr vision came to pass?
Greetings! I have what appear to be dream premonitions. They often are so accurate that I can tell people what their next comment will/ would be, what myself/ others will be wearing, what events will occur, even what song will come on. I also often am visited by recently passed family members (it seems it is most often shortly after they pass). Side note, while typing this message I have gotten goosebumps 6 times in a row! I am not chilled and can’t help but feel it is the energy surrounding me. These dreams started in my mid 20’s and I’m now in my mid 30’s. I’m at peace with the dreams and always try to be hyper aware and observant while dreaming (it may sound strange, but often I am certain I am dreaming in very vivid dreams). Although I have many questions on this subject, my current question is regarding how we react to these situations. If I have a premonition dream in which I take a certain action and am then faced with the very same situation what are your thoughts on changing responses? In short I guess I’m referring to a type of butterfly effect? Do you trust your subconscious actions or if in the moment you feel something is the right or ethical thing to do you choose that option rather than what is dreamt?
In 1957 as a kid in sleep i’saw my self in a golden horse driving north. I saw a line of green trees in a portal I heard my mother’s voice, “your next home will be in east texas.”
In 1972, I saw what would happen in 9/11.
I’m not sure if you can help me but my 20 year old daughter began having visions a year or so ago… at least that’s when she started reporting them. Tonight I found out she is seeing detailed information like license numbers and inmate numbers and names. I don’t know what to do with this information because one vision she had involves a kidnapping and another involves a beating. She is documenting everything but what now? How can we help tune in to things to know how to maybe help with whatever it is she is seeing. There is a long family history on my side of having premonitions but I don’t have them so I don’t know how to help her. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
hey! I have dreams, and other things. I’m just curious is there a group for this kind of thing? A support group? Haha sounds crazy. But I get prophetic dreams, and I receive back energies I send out… and I feel like I sound insane. Ha ? help
Lindsey, We have a forum on this site that is a support group for all things intuitive. There are a few threads on dream interpretation. Just go to the menu on this page and click on FORUM. Then look for a thread in this section: http://jeannemayell.com/community/understanding-prediction-and-consciousness/
Note that anything you read in the forum is not to be construed as professional medical or mental health advice. It is simply a forum for discussion among laypersons.
Hello I’m so glad I came across this page. Hopefully you’re someone tho can relate to me unlike my family whom also think I’m crazy.My Name is Vicki I have been having premonitions since I was a young girl. I don’t like this gift because I always fear danger. I hear a quiet voice that I quietly respond to. A voice telling me whats danger lurking. I’ve had 4 vivid premonitions in the last 25 years that actually happened.One was about the passing of my father and mother whom both passed just as it was told to me.I didn’t cry at either of their funerals because I mourned their passing before it actually happened. I’ve somewhat isolated myself from people not only because they don’t understand but also because if danger is lurking around them I’m aware ahead of time. Or if they have ill intentions towards me or my loved ones its revealed to me. I just want to live a normal life. My understanding of a premonition has always been that its God preparing me for whats going to happen. Yet from the sound of things this isn’t how you interpret a premonition. Lately I’ve begin to share my premonitions with my children and brother before it comes to pass. I trust them and don’t feel judged. I’ve even been called the devil by some relatives. What are your thoughts and how can I stop it in order to live a normal life? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Vicki, in our forum, people share their prophetic dreams regularly. And others comment. NO ONE will laugh at you. We take dreams seriously. Some dreams are personal to them and their families, and some are transpersonal, which means they have significance for all of us.There are different threads on dreams where people share, and there are also threads that are not on dreams but people share their dreams in those threads if they pertain to the subject matter being discussed. You can do a “search” in the forum. I did one for you on “dreams” and got this answer: http://jeannemayell.com/community/?wpfs=Dreams. If you click on it, it will take you to the threads you might be interested in. In order to post, you have to register and get an account. You have to provide your email address so I can be sure you are who you say you are (protects our forum from bots). But you can use an alias and your email information will remain private since we don’t advertise.
Hi there..This is the first time I ran a search on premonitions and came across this article. So glad I read it because maybe I am not alone and I am not crazy like people like my family thinks. Since I was a little girl, I always had this feeling of how things would turn out or what would happen. I could sense what other people feel or what they are going to say and I am right 99% of the time. If I think of someone and think “let me call”, the phone will ring as I’m reaching for it and it’s that person. Now as an adult, this has made an anxious person because I know whats coming and I may not like it. There is also this one person, in particular, a man. When we met, it was like a lighting bolt hit me and he felt the same. We can literally talk to each other without talking. I know how he’s feeling, what he is thinking or if hes thinking of me and never say a word. When we talk we literally say the same thing at the same time. Its so creepy at times. This goes way beyond physical attraction. Is it possible we are connected? And is there a way to direct what I want to sense and not?
So you are gifted with intuitive sense! Most people are hard wired with this gift, but you seem to be extra gifted. Honing and directing your gift is what I teach. It takes practice learning it and finding the way that is best for you. “Telephone telepathy,” which is your ability to tell who is going to be calling on the phone, is the most commonly experienced form of telepathy. There are studies run by a scientist named Rupert Sheldrake on telephone telepathy. If you want to know more, you could start with my class. It started Monday but you can see the recording and join the next Monday. You can read about it here our click on in the menu of every page. Also join our Forum and read the sections that interest you.
Also go on our Forum (see menu item at the top of this page called FORUM and find some threads that fit your issue. Start posting people and see if you get help.
Finally there are as I said many ways to access your intuition and direct it. Here’s one, just one article I wrote about this subject: http://jeannemayell.com/how-to-turn-on-your-intuition-right-now-nine-ways-to-navigate-happily-and-safely-through-life-to-your-hearts-desire/
I have been having this feeling lately. I feel sad that I am leaving this earth. I feel that will die and I cannot explain this feeling. No I feel like I can see I will be hit by a car or something. When I am home, I feel loneliness. I cannot explain how I feel but I feel really really sad for no reason. I do not feel nervous, I am just calm but sad. Please help me understand this feeling. Thank you.
Hi Merissa, I don’t feel you are about to die, but you have said you are sad and depressed, and I strongly urge you to seek the help of a medical professional.
i am unable to tell if i ham having a premonition or plain anxiety. I have booked myself and my family on a 10day cruise. Planned as a special big family holiday. I feel scared and axious whenever the trip pops into my head. Like something bad is going to happen. I am terrified and canot distinguish fear frim intuition. Please advise me.
Usually intuition doesn’t come with anxiety or worry. Rather it comes with a knowing that is more positive even if the knowing is to avoid something. I don’t know you and don’t “read” people online in message boards, so don’t take my response as a reading of you. But I would look deeply into your life and ask if your mother or other caregiver or childhood experience is the true source this fear response rather than what is going to happen in the future. Also have you suffered from anxiety and/or worry much in the past? Anxiety is usually something that happens from past experiences, like trauma, or things you’ve read in the news. Intuition is happening in the present moment – a reading of current energy from your nervous system that feels purposeful rather than jittery.